Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Bioneers
The Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature is an award-winning series featuring breakthrough solutions for people and planet. The greatest social and scientific innovators of our time celebrate the genius of nature and human ingenuity. The kaleidoscopic scope covers biomimicry, ecological design, social and racial justice, women’s leadership, ecological medicine, indigenous knowledge, spirituality and psychology. It’s leading-edge, hopeful, charismatic, provocative, timely and timeless – like nothing you’ve heard before.
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Sep 1, 2014 • 28min
Cosmomimicry: We’re The Universe Mattering - David McConville | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)
“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do, then how would I be and what would I do?” asked visionary designer Buckminster Fuller. Buckminster Fuller Institute Board President David McConville says our view of the universe profoundly shapes our future as a species, and it’s changing radically.
Aug 25, 2014 • 28min
Mending the Earth: One Team and Everybody Wins - Tom Goldtooth, Anishnabe Winona LaDuke, Ilarion Merculief and The White Buffalo Souldier | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)
The way we see the world creates the world. If a new way of seeing is needed, what might that look like? Indigenous leaders Dakota-Dine Tom Goldtooth, Anishnabe Winona LaDuke, Aleut Ilarion Merculief and The White Buffalo Souldiers conjure a new paradigm that begins with a change of heart.
Aug 18, 2014 • 28min
Shapeshifting Detroit: Overcoming Drive-By Economics - Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Lottie Spady and Sister Gloria Rivera | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)
The citizens of Detroit are challenging the failed policies that have long favored corporate wealth over the well being of city residents. Leading change-makers Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Lottie Spady and Sister Gloria Rivera are seeding community resilience with one of the most robust urban agricultural movements in the U.S., while contradicting the manipulative media narratives that justify oppression.
Aug 11, 2014 • 28min
Don’t Fence Me In: Linked Landscapes, Citizen Science And Wild Nature - Justin Brashares And Mary Ellen Hannibal | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)
As lion populations crash in Africa, baboon numbers explode. Associate Professor of Ecology and Conservation Justin Brashares illuminates how to stem the cascading harms of nature out of balance. Visionary author Mary Ellen Hannibal recounts inspiring stories of citizen scientists restoring health to “the spine of the continent” from Alaska to Mexico by connecting nature back to itself.
Aug 4, 2014 • 28min
The Sophia Century: When Women Come Into Co-Equal Partnership - Osprey Orielle-Lake, Leila Salazar, and Lynne Twist | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)
Women-led movements arising around the world herald a profound shift that changes everything. Visionary women leaders Osprey Orielle-Lake, Leila Salazar and Lynne Twist report on the women leading the clean energy revolution in Africa, defending the Amazonian rainforest, and making peace in Liberia.
Jun 30, 2014 • 28min
100% Renewables: Late and Fast - Billy Parish and Marco Krapels | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)
Governments and businesses are recognizing climate chaos as the threat multiplier from hell. The answer is not business as usual. How about crowdfunding and democratizing investment in clean energy? Young change-maker turned clean energy entrepreneur Billy Parish, founder of Mosaic, and banker Marco Krapels, co-founder of The Solutions Project, say 100% renewable energy is both possible and imperative.
Jun 23, 2014 • 28min
Real Change: The Political Gets Personal - Danny Glover and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)
How can we manifest the world we want, and who we want to be? Actor-activist Danny Glover and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, former CEO of Green For All, show how one sure path to resilience is to build community and social movements. That requires learning how to reach out across our differences – and it gets really personal.
Jun 16, 2014 • 28min
Hanging On: Treetop Truths in Disruptive Times - Nalini Nadkarni | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)
Queen of the forest canopy” Nalini Nadkarni is riding a new current of innovative scientists uncovering previously unexplored wonders in the forest canopy. Her imaginative passion supersedes the boundaries of science to inspire and enlist people from all walks of life, transforming the truth of trees into environmental and social healing.
Jun 16, 2014 • 28min
Hanging On: Treetop Truths in Disruptive Times - Nalini Nadkarni | Bioneers Radio Series XIV (2014)
Queen of the forest canopy” Nalini Nadkarni is riding a new current of innovative scientists uncovering previously unexplored wonders in the forest canopy. Her imaginative passion supersedes the boundaries of science to inspire and enlist people from all walks of life, transforming the truth of trees into environmental and social healing.
Nov 13, 2013 • 28min
Church Without a Roof: Keeping the Faith with Creation Care - Fletcher Harper, Sally Bingham, and G.L. Hodge | Bioneers Radio Series XIII (2013)
For millennia, prophets, mystics and poets have illuminated the oneness of all life. Today biology is confirming that we are genetic kin with the entire diversity of life. Episcopal Reverends Fletcher Harper and Sally Bingham and Baptist Church Administrator G.L. Hodge preach the gospel of Creation Care that more and more faith communities are embracing in a historic shift.
