Podcast Episodes

When No News is Bad News: The Struggle to Save Local Journalism

Episode 281

The most critical feedback loop in a democracy is a free press and access to vital information. Yet decades of corporate consolidation allowed giant conglomerates to annihilate local news outlets and…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Raced and Classed: The Journey From Diversity to Equity

What we do to each other, we do to the Earth. To protect our common home, we’re being called upon to bridge our differences to create beloved community and peaceful coexistence. A new generation of v…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Staying Alive: Reconciling Nature, Culture and Gay Rights

Episode 262

As a backlash against LGBTQ rights escalates into an authoritarian crusade, acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby asks how we can still be fighting this battle? As a writer addressing the…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Nature’s Intelligence: Coming Down from the Pedestal

Episode 256

These days, scientists are starting to talk like shamans and shamans are starting to talk like scientists. So says anthropologist and author Jeremy Narby. And, he says, we need to talk about talking …

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Legalizing Nature’s Rights: How Tribal Nations are Leading the Fastest Growing Environmental Movement in History

Episode 258

The Rights of Nature movement launched internationally in 2006 and is growing fast. Driven primarily by tribes and citizen-led communities, more than three dozen cities, townships and counties across…

Published on 3 months ago

Declarations of Interdependence: A Story of Storytelling | Baratunde Thurston

Episode 280

Since time immemorial, storytellers have held an exalted role in human societies, because stories illustrate parables that help us make sense of the world and survive. In this episode, we hitch a rid…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Why Equity is Good for Everyone: Changing the Story, Changing the World | john a. powell & Heather McGhee

Episode 241

How do we change the story of corrosive racial inequity? First, we have to understand the stories we tell ourselves. In this program, racial justice innovators john a. powell and Heather McGhee show …

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

No More Stolen Sisters: Stopping the Abuse and Murder of Native Women and Girls

In this program, powerful Native women leaders reveal the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and describe how they are taking action and building growing movements, including with non-N…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

The Charging Twenties: Now is the Time to Build a Solar-Powered Civilization

Visionary clean energy entrepreneur Danny Kennedy explores the promise and challenges of the epic civilizational transition to renewable energy. Without doubt, the shift has hit the fan, but will we …

Published on 4 months ago

Bioneers presents Future Ecologies: Sea / Garden

We are sharing an episode from our friends at Future Ecologies. Future Ecologies is a podcast exploring our eco-social relationships through stories, science, music, and soundscapes. Every episode is…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago