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Restoring Ecosystems
Gary Farmer – A Change Has Gotta Come
Video

Gary Farmer has been a groundbreaking figure in prying open doors for Indigenous contributors to the performing arts. He explores why it is more important than ever for Native people to control their own narratives, in an era in which our collective survival will depend on our learning to put the Earth first. It is time for Turtle Island TV!

Nature, Culture and Spirit
Michael Pollan – A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Video

Michael Pollan, one of the nation’s most influential non-fiction writers and investigative journalists, traces his six-year quest to solve the greatest mystery in nature: how, and why, are we conscious?

Eco-Nomics
Saru Jayaraman – What has Democracy Done For Me Lately? Engaging Working People in the Fight to Save Democracy
Video

Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage, one of the most effective, tireless advocates for working people in the nation, says we can rally many working people to the urgent defense against plundering kleptocratic authoritarianism, but only if we demonstrate to them that democracy is worth saving by making it responsive to their economic struggles.

Justice
The Native American LandBack Movement Reaches Urban America
Podcasts

Corrina Gould (Confederated Villages of Lisjan) is a celebrated activist and a leader of the LandBack Movement in the Bay Area. She has helped forge a model for returning stolen land to Native American Tribes and restoring sacred sites in a revolutionary act of remembrance and resistance against cultural erasure.

Restoring Ecosystems
The Quest to Decode Whale-speak
Podcasts

When members of Project CETI (the Cetacean Translation Initiative) witnessed the birth of a sperm whale, they observed a breathtaking scene of cooperation and communication that few humans have ever seen. The extraordinary experience was a scientific milestone as well as one more strand in the web of sperm whale culture that this innovative project is studying.

Intelligence in Nature
The Orchid’s Deal: Beauty, Deception, and Survival

A closer look at the cranefly orchid reveals how beauty, manipulation, and deep ecological relationships shape the delicate balance of life.

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Restoring Ecosystems
Reconnecting the River
Podcasts

Yurok Attorney Amy Cordalis tells the story of the decades-long struggle to remove dams that have choked the life flow of the Klamath river and severed salmon migratory routes, and how a combination of traditional ecological knowledge, environmental law, and old-fashioned diplomacy helped remove 4 of 6 dams.

Food and Farming
Pesticides Devastate Farmworkers Lives

The Campaign for Organic and Regenerative Agriculture (CORA) is challenging the largest berry grower in the world to transition to organic and eliminate the exposure to toxic pesticides that farmworkers endure with devastating regularity and horrific consequences. CORA is working to phase out agrochemicals starting with restrictions around schools and homes.

Media
To Be Seen by an Octopus: Sy Montgomery on Attention and Kinship

In this conversation with Bioneers, naturalist and author Sy Montgomery reflects on what animals have taught her about attention, empathy, and what it means to live in relationship with the rest of the living world.

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