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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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: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Eriel Deranger
Although colonial systems of oppression have radically damaged relationships between tribal communities and their traditional lands, a new generati...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: V, formerly known as Eve Ensler, Credit: Nikki Richter
They say love means never having to say you’re sorry. But what if that popular aphorism from the 1960’s is wrong and that love precisely means havi...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Jeannette Armstrong
How do we create peace? What can we learn from indigenous societies who have addressed this profound question over thousands of years? From North A...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Indra Lusero
In this episode, we visit with Leseliey Welch and Indra Lusero, parents and birth justice advocates who are helping lead a movement to create commu...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Dr. Barbara Sattler
Climate disruption is harmful to your health. Dr. Linda Rudolph and Dr. Barbara Sattler are showing how our success or failure as a civilization ma...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Angela Glover Blackwell, Credit: Alex Akamine
In this time of radical upheaval and change, fulfilling the promise of a “more perfect union” in the United States means building a multi-racial de...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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Small farmers around the world are building an agro-ecological revolution based on self-sufficiency, food security, and freedom from fossil fuels a...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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Yurok fisherman and tribal leader Sammy Gensaw and environmental scientist-turned-activist Craig Tucker share the epic story of how Indigenous lead...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Dahkota Brown, Chiitaanibah Johnson, Jayden Lim, and Naelyn Pike, Credit: Bioneers
Native American students face racism throughout their education, from racist mascots to the historical erasure of the American genocide from textbo...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Anna Cummins
After World War II, the U.S. government worked with industry to create a single-use, disposable consumer culture as a way to ensure ongoing market ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Frans DeWaal Speaks at Bioneers 2022, Credit: Alex Akamine
World-renowned primatologist Professor Frans de Waal explores the nature of sex and gender among our cousins the apes, and how gender diversity is ...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Shane Gero speaks at Bioneers 2023, Credit: Alex Akamine
Dr. Shane Gero, a visionary marine biologist, is angling to crack the code of sperm whale communication. His mind-bending research is transforming ...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Rupa Marya, Credit: Nikki Ritcher
We are told that our personal health is our individual responsibility based on our own choices. Yet, the biological truth is that human health is d...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Chad Hanson
Contemporary Western fire science is integrating what Indigenous Peoples discovered over thousands of years of observation, and trial and error: fi...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Atossa Soltani
If the rate of destruction doesn’t change, by the year 2020 most of the Amazon ecosystem – the lungs of the planet - will be destroyed or irreparab...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Will Keepin and Cynthia Brix
What will it take to begin to heal the deep wounds between women and men? What is the role of men in this transformation? Cynthia Brix and Will Ke...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: John Wick
How does a virtue become a vice? How does a basic building block of life turn into a threat to life? And how do you turn that vice back into a virt...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Michael Pollan, Credit: Nikki Richter
A quiet renaissance of serious medical research has once again arisen to study the therapeutic benefits of LSD and other psychedelics, including ov...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Taylor Brorby
As a backlash against LGBTQ rights escalates into an authoritarian crusade, acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby asks how we can still...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:30