Revolution from the Heart of Nature: Radio Series V
Part 1: 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 naturalist 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? Buy It!
Part 2: You Are Where You Eat: Trans-farming Urban Food and Growing Community
LaDonna Redmond and Wil Bullock live in communities where 12-year-olds suffer heart attacks, and where it's easier to buy a semi-automatic weapon than an organic tomato. But they are changing that reality, providing access to fresh, healthy foods, and re-establishing the connections between food and community. Buy It!
Part 3: A Thing Unseen: The New Superpower of Global Popular Movements
Despite its apparent dominance, is globalization a house of cards? With world opinion against it rising, globalization appears to be unraveling. Maude Barlow describes her experience in Cancun at the WTO Summit; Tom Hayden marks the birth of the next global superpower; and Holly Near invokes the spirit of a rising in the world. Buy It!
Part 4: The Next Wave of Women and Power: Cultivating Women's Leadership
Young women across the U.S. are stepping boldly into their power. From the heart of Native American and urban communities, this generation of engaged women is taking leadership beyond old models of hierarchy and self-sacrifice. Vickie Downey, Rha Goddess and Lateefah Simon express the soul and passion at the center of new collaborative, egalitarian approaches to promoting positive social and environmental change. Buy It!
Part 5: All My Relations: Indigenous Vision
In these ecologically dangerous times, many call for a fundamental change of heart if we are to restore vital ecosystems. Oren Lyons, Leslie Gray and John Mohawk remind us of the values that sustained people for thousands of years in a balance that supported the land. They offer direction toward nothing less than a value change for survival. Buy It!
Part 6: Connecting the Drops (Designing the Way Out)
Could Los Angeles stop draining water from the Colorado River and become self-sufficient? That's a question that Andy Lipkis and his organization Tree People are tackling in an unprecedented alliance with public works agencies. Their work proves that the more we learn about how ecosystems operate, the more sustainably we can design our cities. Buy It!
Part 7: Tattooing the River: People, Place and the Art of Diversity
Award-winning painter Judy Baca describes how art can reconnect people to place, revive disappearing history, and repair cultural root systems. While working with at-risk youth to create The Great Wall of Los Angeles, the world's longest mural, Baca realized that restoring a disappeared river also meant restoring disappeared cultures. Buy It!
Part 8: Blue Gold: Who Owns the Rain?
As water tables plummet and a billion of us lack access to clean water, large global corporations are gearing up to charge us for the rain. Changemaker Maude Barlow describes how companies are turning water into a commodity; and we hear from Nancy Price about what people are doing around the world to stop it. Buy It!
Part 9: Seeing the Forest for the Trees: An Ecology of the Heart
Nine out of ten Americans strongly favor wilderness protection, but federal policy actually threatens such preservation. In her decades of work at the U.S. Forest Service, Gloria Flora faced threats and harassment as she tried to protect the forest commons. She tells us that in order to sustain landscapes, we need to sustain ourselves, and in order to sustain ourselves, we need to sustain landscapes. Buy It!
Part 10: Think Globally, Act Non-Locally: Prayer, Healing and Fertility
Can consciousness change the actual outside physical world at a distance? Dr. Larry Dossey says it can. He describes how major scientific studies are revealing the healing power of intercessory prayer and distant intentionality. The revolutionary environmental implications of these studies in the field of medicine are just beginning to be understood. Buy It!
Part 11: Light at the Crossroads: Environment Meets Social Justice
Environmental destruction leads to scarcity and scarcity leads to conflict, so restoring the environment is key to peace. Yet those working for the environment and those working for social justice have not linked arms until recently. Van Jones invites us to bring down the social walls that we ourselves have built, and work together to counter the timeworn strategy of divide and conquer that benefits ruling elites. Buy It!
Part 12: A Sense of Wonder: Ecological Literacy and the Facts of Life
Does our very survival now depend on our ability to understand the facts of life - nature's operating instructions - and how to live by them? Join the Center for Ecoliteracy's Fritjof Capra, Zenobia Barlow and Esther Cook to learn how experiential, participatory education in the environment is revolutionizing education from kindergarten through high school through an education of the heart. Buy It!
Part 13: Unembedding the Media: Going Where the Silence Is
Today, a mere eight corporations control over 70 percent of the world's media. Journalist and radio broadcaster Thom Hartmann reminds us that until recently the media were part of the commons, protected by government for the public good. Executive producer and host of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman says that how the media uses the public airwaves is up to us. Buy It!
