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Today: Close Encounters of the Biological Kind: Learning from the Locals
Nature bats last, but more importantly, it’s her playing field. Wouldn’t it be wise to learn the ground rules and how to play by them? Join Janine Benyus as she describes her exploration of biomimicry, the art of imitating nature’s evolutionary genius to serve human ends harmlessly.
What can the Namibian beetle teach us about coping with drought? (09-14)

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 Seaweed Rebellion: Saving the Earth by Saving the Oceans
Perhaps we might call it Watershed Earth. We’re made of water, totally dependent on it, yet it in turn depends on us to play our part in a good way. Mother Ocean is the primary regulator of Watershed Earth. But the marine news is heartbreaking. Ocean defenders Michael Stocker, Anne Rowley and David Helvarg illuminate both the peril of noise and plastics pollution and the promise they see in the Seaweed Rebellion to save Mother Ocean, and ourselves. (1308)

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 Fully Human: the Covenant of the Original Instructions
The Original Instructions represent the ancient empirical wisdom of Traditional Ecological Knowledge earned over generations and millennia by people living closely with the land and each other. They also comprise disarmingly simple counsel: be thankful, enjoy life and attend to the inner pollution that results in outer pollution. Indigenous leaders Winona LaDuke, John Trudell and Evon Peter voice these ancient instructions, which hold the keys to our survival as a species in the historic transition to a truly sustainable world. (1208)

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 Golden Rule: Restoring the Earth by Restoring Human Dignity
Could Western civilization’s oldest ethical instructions of the Golden Rule hold acute relevance to our planetary environmental crisis? Could restoring respect for human beings be the key to restoring the health of the planet? Author Paul Hawken has been tracking the rapid proliferation of nonprofit, non-governmental organizations around the world. It boils down to this: Taking care of nature means taking care of people, and taking care of people means taking care of nature. (1108)

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:
Jaguars, Goats and Acequias: Cultivating the Landscape of a Wild Earth
Do you think of the wilderness as something far away? Not in the age of climate change and human population growth. The real wilderness is always underfoot—the complex systems underlying life on Earth that we barely understand. It’s our inheritance, our guardianship to understand traditional and indigenous knowledge of Earth as a vast, cultivated landscape. Land managers such as Miguel Santistevan, Lani Malmberg and Peter Warshall celebrate the fact that we are all gardeners. They reveal brilliant innovations and ancient wisdom for how to get good at it. (10-08)

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today:
Toxic Trespassing: the Inside Story of the Love Canal Uprising
Few people know how a hostage-taking incident transformed a shy housewife from the working-class community near Niagara Falls into one of the founding mothers of the environmental justice movement. Spark-plug community organizer Lois Gibbs traces the electrifying arc that led from sick children to an international rallying cry for human rights. Because, says Gibbs, «It is just not right morally or ethically that somebody with a corporate interest, with a dollar interest, is making a decision each and every day in this country about who lives and who dies.» (0908)

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:
Green-Collar Jobs: Laboring into the Next Economy
Labor leader César Chavez helped ban DDT. Truckers are helping address appalling asthma rates at the filthy port of Los Angeles. And inner-city clergy, not suburbanites, led the latest victory against the big-box Wal Mart stores sprawling over community open space. Unlikely allies? Environmental justice and labor leaders Manuel Pastor, Maria Elena Durazo and Rev. Alexia Salvatierra show us that in a truly sustainable economy, everybody's an environmentalist - and a healthy environment depends on economic justice. (0808)

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Today:
Beyond the Bar Code: The Local Food Revolution
Because industrial agriculture is the single most destructive human activity against the environment, what we put on our collective plate and how we grow our food are going to be among the most decisive factors impacting the fate of the Earth and public health. Few journalists have done more than Michael Pollan to serve up food for thought about our diet and food systems. He reports on the burgeoning worldwide growth of local food economies and a true Green Revolution.
(07-08)

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Today:
Taking Back the Country From the Nation: Finding the Light in the Shadows
We know what’s wrong,» says the iconic Jungian psychotherapist and author James Hillman, «but do we know that knowing what’s wrong is some of what’s wrong?» Has «analysis paralysis» sapped our energy and determination to transform a failing world? Can we cut through the tangle to actually act to make a positive difference? Can we turn our vices into virtues? Though Hillman’s approach may sound paradoxical, his destination is the deeper understanding that leads to real transformation—and to transformative action. (06-08)

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Today:
Digital Democracy: The Cyberworld of Citizen Activism
Garbage in, garbage out, as the early computer innovators remarked about information. A vital free press is the single most important feedback loop in a democracy. New media including especially the Internet have challenged the supremacy of corporate media concentration and junk news. A brave new wave of activists such as Brad Friedman, John Stauber and Joan Blades are using digital media to restore the democratic lifeblood of a people’s media. They’re giving voice to the voiceless, checking and balancing corruption, and providing liberty and access for all.
(05-08)

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Today:
Justice or «Just Us»: Environmental Justice as a Universal Human Right
The current industrial system generates 94 percent waste. It all lands somewhere, often ultimately in our bodies. A society that wastes it resources also wastes its people. Why are low-income communities and communities of color the perennial human sacrifice zones? Courageous environmental justice advocates Clayton Thomas-Müller, Shawna Larson and Maryanne Hitt are successfully rejecting this new form of toxic colonization from Alaska to Appalachia. They tell us we all have a right to clean air, water and land—the right to a healthy environment. (04-08)

Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations.
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A Return to Wholeness: Storytelling as a Healing Art
«The future may depend on our remembering that everything has in it a dream of itself. That the seeds of wholeness and the seeds of needed change are already present in all events and all people and every one of us. That the wholeness of the world can only be restored one heart at a time.» So says doctor and healer Rachel Naomi Remen. She has cultivated a new generation of doctors practicing whole-person medicine, with an unlikely message: Bless others out loud. The wholeness of the world is restored one heart at a time. (03-08)

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Today: Land of the Free: Rekindling Democracy in the Age of Corporate Rule
If we live in a democracy, why does the clout of big business—corporate rights—inevitably trump human rights? And under our property-rights constitution, nature has no rights. That may be changing, according to environmental attorney Thomas Linzey and his community-based clients Fred and Pat Walls. They challenged the rhinoceros in the room—the rights that allow corporations to effectively nullify elections in rural Pennsylvania and override public priorities nationwide. This next American Revolution is demanding the separation of corporations and state.
(VIII 02-08)

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 Kingdom to Kin-dom: Acting As If We Have Relatives
From the microbes to the mammals, all life shares far more in common than what makes us different. In other words, it’s all relatives. If we knew that literally we are water, that we are mushrooms, that we are stardust—instead of shredding the web of life, might we start acting as if we have relatives? Bioneers Brock Dolman, Paul Stamets and Brian Swimme reveal inspiring reflections in the gene pool that show life as a kin-dom, not a kingdom. (VIII 01-08)