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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The profit-hungry agribusiness empire of the 20th century institutionalized farming practices that continue to degrade soils across the U.S. and gl...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Valerie Kaur
In a world that’s unraveling from climate disruption and gaping inequality, another climate crisis confronts us: the climate of hate and othering. ...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Jessica Neuwirth
Ever since women won the right to vote in 1920, they have been trying to pass an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ensure equality...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Heather McGhee, Credit: Hardy Wilson
By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a ra...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Cheryl Dahle
Aligning business with biology, disruptive design uses systems thinking to create models that show what “good” really looks like. Two winners of th...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Rinku Sen
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 commu...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Monika Bauerlein
Today, there’s a renaissance of independent journalism dedicated to holding power accountable. Political pressures are mounting to break up media m...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Saru Jayaraman, Credit: Alex Akamine
Labor organizer and Founder of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman, takes us inside one of the fiercest labor struggles to challenge a mighty oligarchy: ...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: De'Anthony Jones
Youth movements are rising to restore people and planet. De’Anthony Jones, a former President of the Environmental Students Organization at Sacrame...

  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Manuel Pastor
At the core of our civilizational breakdown is an extractive economy that wastes both nature and people, at the same time it is Hoovering extreme w...

  • Added: May 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Sandra Steingraber
Women’s truths, perspectives and voices have been largely missing from the global conversation, but that is beginning to change as women awaken to ...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Kandi Mossett, Credit: Nikki Richter
Jessica Alva. Khadija Rose Britton. Hanna Harris. Anthonette Christine Cayedito. If you haven't heard of these women, it’s no surprise. They’re fou...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman
In this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the ...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Dr. James Gordon
World-renowned psychiatrist Dr. James S. Gordon of the Center for Mind Body Medicine has trained thousands of teachers globally to advance ancient ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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: 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