Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Surviving Climate Change: Plants, People and Place
How secure is a far-flung global economy - and our food supply - in a time of climate change? Native American historian John Mohawk explores how civilizations have coped with previous earth changes, or have collapsed. Seedsman and author Gary Nabham expresses the power of restoring reciprocal relationships with the foods we eat. Both present compelling perspectives for conserving our collective knowledge of our relationship to plants, and for looking to the local. (10-41)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Nature Heals All Wounds: Spirals, Seashells and Molecular Architecture
In the burgeoning field of biomimicry, Bioneers are designing a technological civilization that harmonizes with nature’s operating instructions. Inventor Jay Harman models the forms and dynamics of water with astounding results. Chemist Paul Anastas is re-inventing "Green Chemistry" that transforms how we make things. Imitating nature is paying off for the economy, people and the planet. (10-40)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Where Angels Fear To Tread - Making Art That Heals the Broken Places
How do we transform a vicious circle into a virtuous circle? How do we move from environmental degradation and the deterioration of human relations to restoration? From war to peace - from hatred to compassion - from isolation to community? How can one person make a crucial difference? Painter and professor Lily Yeh's approach to community healing takes that which is broken and creates something whole and wholly new and beautiful through public art. From Philadelphia to Rwanda, broken places are her canvases. People's stories are the pigments. People's talents and creativity are the tools. At the heart of her work is the transformation of human heart.

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: From Bows and Arrows to Laptops - Marrying Traditional
Knowledge with Web Technology to Save the Amazon Forty years ago when a logging road was blasted deep into the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the outside world discovered the Surui people. Contact with the Western world led to their decimation by disease, warfare and illegal logging and mining. The Surui organized to save themselves and their homeland by electing a young leader to tell their story to the world. (10-38)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Busting the Drug War - The Dawn of Drug Policy Reform
The drug war is a bust, say increasing numbers of law enforcement professionals and politicians. Like Prohibition before it, not only has it failed to achieve its stated goals - it has further led to unaffordable costs, both financial and social. Ethan Nadelmann, founder/director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the nation's leading drug policy reform organization, traces the hidden history of drugs laws, which are intimately connected with racism and the political exploitation of people's fears. He offers a set of practical and effective policy reforms that are now being advocated by a rising tide of former drug warriors.(10-37)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Don't Mourn, Organize - Power and Passion for Environmental Justice and Democracy
Somewhere in a typical American city, a woman wakes up to the noxious odors of a nearby sewage treatment plant. Her daughter carries a rescue inhaler to school. Like hundreds of her neighbors, this woman is sick and tired of being sick and tired. Women and men from vulnerable communities everywhere are rising up to gain equal access to clean water and air, equal environmental enforcement and protection, and equitable land use and planning. Impassioned community organizers Mary Gonzales and Peggy Shepard show us all how successful environmental justice campaigns across the U.S. are raising the voices of people of color and low-income communities and creating a better world for everyone. (10-36)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: From Soap Operas to Avatars - Digital Diplomacy and Making Fiction into Fact
A popular character on a Spanish-language soap opera resonates so deeply with viewers that they become empowered and educated about reproductive health. Avatars in the virtual world called Second Life enable people of all faiths to better understand and respect Islamic culture. A global communications network crosses the digital divide to help women around the world share solutions for improving everyday life. Digital and media entrepreneurs Jensine Larsen and William Ryerson effectively use innovative media for social change. Digital citizen diplomats Joshua S. Fouts and Rita J. King design virtual games that help foster vibrant community and culture in the physical world. They’re all demonstrating the game-changing power of technology to change the world for the better. (10-35)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Reinhabit, Rehydrate, Regenerate - Permaculture Designs for an Enduring Planet
Half of Americans cannot name one component of the water cycle upon which all life depends. Yet water is at the root of every human endeavor - from manufacturing to agriculture, energy production and waste management. No water, no life.
Join master permaculture designers Darren J. Doherty and Brock Dolman for both practical and poetic ways to re-educate earthlings in soil and water literacy. Their practical vision for regenerating ecological integrity and social resiliency prepares us for the challenges of climate change and environmental stress. But above all, they illuminate inspired pathways for restoring nature and people in the re-enchantment of Earth. (10-34)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Planting Buildings - The Living Building
Challenge A living building is like a flower, planted and rooted to its place. It collects its energy from the sun. It harvests its water from the rain. This building does not pollute. It engages actively with the environmental around it. And it's beautiful and inspiring. This is nature's blueprint for building a better world, says visionary architect Jason McLennan. He designed the Living Building Challenge 2.0 to raise the bar on green building: meet or exceed what nature provides. While the standards seem impossibly high, it may be simpler than we imagined. (10-33)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Generation Green - Fulfilling the Promise of Jobs and Justice
Climate change. Energy crisis. Economic collapse. We live in a time of unprecedented global crisis…and opportunity. There’s a monumental amount of work to be done to make the transition to a restored world, yet young people are unemployed at astonishingly high rates. How can we unlock the green economic opportunities that will open the door to doing well by doing good for generation green and generations to come?
Join Apollo Alliance president Jerome Ringo and clean energy leader Billy Parish for a hopeful glimpse into the organizations and programs that will give our children the opportunity to make a living and make a better world. (10-32)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Earth Justice - Corporate Rights vs. The Rights of Nature
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have long been held as the inalienable rights of the American people. Then why is it that "corporate personhood" consistently overrides the legal rights of citizens? And what about the rights of nature? Do rivers, mountains, whales - or ecosystems - have inalienable rights that guarantee their interests? Join innovative environmental attorneys Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil for breakthroughs on the ground that are redefining democracy. In the 21st century, is it time to move from a Declaration of Independence to a Declaration of Interdependence? (10-31)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Sisters in Spirit - Women Transforming the World
History is a tale told by the winners. How then can we reclaim the voices of those who have been historically written out - silenced through the ages? Perhaps as women write "herstory" into history, we'll see clearly the eternal power, brilliance and unique value of women's contributions. Join media innovator Jensine Larsen and feminist historian Sally Roesch Wagner as they share the emerging landscape of an inclusive, sustainable and just society at whose heart is the leadership of women. (10-30)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Why The World Doesn't End - Re-Creation Myths of Nature and Culture
When a culture is disintegrating and the stories everybody believed in no longer fit, it's time to rekindle our connection to ancient wisdom and universal truths. Mythologist, author and storyteller Michael Meade, founder of the Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, reminds us that the word "apocalypse" - which has come to mean the end of the world, actually means an "unveiling." Once we penetrate that veil, it's not the end--but the beginning of a new story--a new beginning to the old story. (10-29)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Becoming a Habitat - Motherhood, Faith and the Environmental Human Rights Movement
We live in a society dependent on toxic chemicals. Today about 287 such chemicals trespass inside the blood of newborns – and inside all of us - without our consent. Despite the odds, ecologist, author and mother Sandra Steingraber is an optimist. She’s betting that the burgeoning global environmental human rights movement will free us from our deadly dependency. She believes our grandchildren will look back on us and marvel that our economy was once dependent on toxic chemicals - and they will think of it as unthinkable. (10-28)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Going Locavore - Urban Food Innovation and Community Transformation
Our misbegotten industrial food system is one of our greatest vulnerabilities. It’s dangerously fossil-fueled, toxic, monocultural and centralized. The real cost of cheap food is very high – to both people and planet. Urban food innovators are designing vibrant new local food economies built on environmental and ecological integrity, sustainability, diversity and equity. Join author Michael Pollan, Fair Food Foundation CEO Oran Hesterman, faith-based change-maker James Ella James and student leader Victoria Carter for a smorgasbord of nourishing morsels from the emerging locavore movement. (10-27)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: The End of Sustainability: The Environment as a Human Right
A healthy environment is not just a biological issue, but a fundamental human right. Acclaimed social entrepreneur and author Paul Hawken proposes that we need to go far beyond "sustainability" as a guiding principle and dare to create a restorative economic system founded in social equality for all. (10-26)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Idigeneity: Becoming Native, Staying Native
What would life be like if we could hear the land as us to be a certain way, a way that leads us and the Earth back to wholeness and health? Native American activists, educators and leaders Jeannette Armstrong, Leslie Gray and Katsi Cook, share an inspiring earth-honoring vision of what it means to »re-indigenize» ourselves (10-25)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Returning to the Roundhouse: Revolution from the Heart of Women
The environment in developing countries of the South has often suffered most, and how these nations relate to the environment from here on is a make-it-or-break-it factor in planetary survival for all of us. Ethiopian visionary Bogaletch Gebre depicts how the interconnecting forces of environment, economy, women, health and ecological technologies are creating a future environment of hope. (10-24)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Restoring Life’s Fabric: The Biological Bottom Line
Is the economy the most important thing? Canadian geneticist, author and television producer David Suzuki, says the economy is just a subset of ecology. Drawing on native wisdom and state-of-the-art science, he vividly demonstrates how we are the environment. By simply remembering that what we do to what surrounds us, we do to ourselves, he suggests how we can restore the fabric of the biosphere. (10-23)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Award winning national and international radio series. "Revolution from the Heart of Nature".
Today: Peace Means Coming Back to the Table: Transforming Urban War Zones
War is a daily reality for many people living in the inner city, and restoring the environment means first restoring people. Aqeela Sherrills from Watts in South Central Los Angeles, brokered the historic peace treaty among the notorious gangs, the Crips and the Bloods, and the model is now spreading across the country and the world. (10-22)