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Busting the Myth of Primate Patriarchy: The Nature of Sex and Gender in Our Ape Relatives | Frans de Waal
World-renowned primatologist Professor Frans de Waal explores the nature of sex and gender among our cousins the apes, and how gender diversity is a …
3 years, 5 months ago
Shamans and Scientists: Changing the Landscape of Power | Mark Plotkin
As we hurtle into the Sixth Age of Extinctions, we face the cataclysmic loss of half the world’s biological diversity. 80% of the remaining biodivers…
3 years, 6 months ago
Who Is an American? Is Our Democracy as Unequal as Our Economy? | Heather McGhee
By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a radi…
3 years, 6 months ago
When Truth Is Dangerous: The Power of Independent Media | Amy Goodman & Monika Bauerlein
Today, there’s a renaissance of independent journalism dedicated to holding power accountable. Political pressures are mounting to break up media mon…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Reluctant Psychonaut: How Psychedelics Changed Michael Pollan’s Mind
A quiet renaissance of serious medical research has once again arisen to study the therapeutic benefits of LSD and other psychedelics, including over…
3 years, 7 months ago
Real Change: The Political Gets Personal | Danny Glover & Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
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, sho…
3 years, 7 months ago
Got Dirt? Get Soil! Ditch the Plow, Cover Up and Grow Diversity
The profit-hungry agribusiness empire of the 20th century institutionalized farming practices that continue to degrade soils across the U.S. and glob…
3 years, 7 months ago
Sharkskin, Hippo Sweat and the Wood-Wide Web: From Flat Earth to Whole Earth Thinking |
The genius of nature’s design, recipes and principles is serving as the inspiration for redesigning human civilization. This Biomimicry revolution is…
3 years, 7 months ago
Laboring for Justice: See No Stranger | Valarie Kaur
In a world that’s unraveling from climate disruption and gaping inequality, another climate crisis confronts us: the climate of hate and othering. Aw…
3 years, 8 months ago
No More Stolen Sisters: Stopping the Abuse and Murder of Native Women and Girls
May 5 will mark National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls.
The date was designated in a 2017 resolution by U.S. Sens. …
3 years, 8 months ago