Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature

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The Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature is an award-winning 13-part annual radio series.

This series features “the Bioneers” – social and scientific innovators with breakthrough solutions for people and planet. It’s leading-edge – charismatic – provocative – hopeful – timely and timeless. These are ardent voices of brilliant visionaries with both feet on the ground. They span the arc of the human endeavor transforming today’s crises into a future environment of hope. Produced by Bioneers, an internationally acclaimed nonprofit educational organization. Learn more at www.bioneers.org.

Released each July, the 28:30 minute shows are available to stations here at PRX for FREE. Many of our hundreds of U.S. and international stations air the Bioneers series 52 weeks a year by accessing our library of nearly 150 evergreen programs. Some air groups of shows as specials for Earth Day and as part of special fund-drive programming. Learn more at: http://media.bioneers.org/radio-series. Hide full description

This series features “the Bioneers” – social and scientific innovators with breakthrough solutions for people and planet. It’s leading-edge – charismatic – provocative – hopeful – timely and timeless. These are ardent voices of brilliant visionaries with both feet on the ground. They span the arc of the human endeavor transforming today’s crises into a future environment of hope. Produced by Bioneers, an internationally acclaimed nonprofit educational organization. Learn more at www.bioneers.org.Released each July, the 28:30 minute shows are available to stations here at PRX for FREE. Many of our hundreds of U.S. and international stations air the Bioneers series 52 weeks a year by accessing our library of nearly 150 evergreen programs. Some air groups of shows as specials for Earth Day... Show full description


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171 Pieces

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Caption: john a. powell and Angela Glover Blackwell , Credit: Alex Akamine
In this moment of radical transformation, shifting the societal pronoun from “me, me, me” to “we” may be the single most transformational pivot we ...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Amy Cannon
Did you ever ask yourself who in their right mind would invent a convenience to keep food fresh that would one day litter the landscape, wash up on...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Estrella Santiago Perez
With climate-driven disasters becoming the new normal, building resilience is the grail. Communities around the world are developing models created...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Deborah and Roger Fouts
In Western civilization, human beings are considered the exceptional species and uniquely intelligent. Yet science is consistently revealing our in...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Dedan Gills and Belvie Rooks
What’s it like to be in someone else’s skin? What if the color of the skin is different – say, black and white? What might happen when the descenda...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: From left to right: Frank Bibeau, Thomas Linzey, Alexis Bunten and Samantha Skenandore
The Rights of Nature movement launched internationally in 2006 and is growing fast. Driven primarily by tribes and citizen-led communities, more th...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Patrisse Cullors
There are periods when history comes to a boil – when powerful forces of both destruction and creation result in massive social change. In 2020, th...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Thom Hartmann
In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy. In today’s new G...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell and Maurice B.P. Weeks
From local communities and states to federal policy, antitrust movements to dismantle monopolies are challenging the system that can be summed up a...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Karen Washington and Bryant Terry, Credit: Alex Akamine
The influences of Africans and Black Americans on food and agriculture is rooted in ancestral African knowledge and traditions of shared labor, wor...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Demond Drummer, Credit: Alex Akamine
As climate chaos and obscene inequality ravage people and planet, a new generation of visionaries is emerging to demand a bold solution: a Green Ne...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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Calling someone an “animal” means they’re less than human – not worthy of respect, rights, or even of life itself. But in truth -- and in biologica...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Eriel Deranger, Credit: Dylan McLaughlin
As author Michael Pollan observes: “The two biggest crises humanity faces today are tribalism and the environmental crisis. They both involve the o...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Michael Meade
Renowned storyteller, performer, author, activist and scholar Michael Meade weaves threads of timeless wisdom traditions into myths for today’s glo...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: J.P. Harpignies and Jeremy Narby
These days, scientists are starting to talk like shamans and shamans like scientists. So says anthropologist and author Jeremy Narby. And, he says,...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Trathen Heckman
In neighborhoods across the country, citizens are building community resilience – one shovelful and one backyard at a time. Visionary citizen resto...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Sister Simone Campbell
When we allow our hearts to be broken open by hearing the stories of our fellow human beings, we build community and compassion. That is the passio...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Jason F. McLennan, Credit: Alex Akamine Photography
What would it feel like to live in a world where our built environment was as elegant as nature's designs? What if our living and working spaces nu...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Tony Porter
To transform our culture from its focus on dominance and hierarchy to one of connection, empathy and collaboration, it’s vital that we re-envision ...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:30