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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178 Pieces

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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: 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
Caption: Naomi Klein
Climate change is more than an “issue.” According to renowned author and activist Naomi Klein, “It’s a civilizational wake-up call delivered in the...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: John Warner
Nontoxic hair color from the recipes of beetles, and a potential Alzheimer’s cure derived from applying nature’s operating instructions. The world-...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Osprey Orielle Lake
Women-led movements arising around the world herald a profound shift that changes everything. Visionary women leaders Osprey Orielle-Lake, Leila Sa...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Kevin Powell
There is a growing movement to redefine manhood, and to address ways that violence is baked into our cultural expectations of masculinity. Courageo...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
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In this episode, Indigenous scholar and organizer Nick Estes explores how Indigenous land-based and Earth-centered societies are advancing regenera...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Bren Smith, Credit: Hardy Wilson
What if there are ways to sustainably harvest protein and nutritious vegetables from the seas in ways that restore coastlines, local economies, pro...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Fania Davis
Oakland, California, has had the reputation of being one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Then the Restorative Justice movement started...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Zainab Salbi
Globally, women experience some of the harshest challenges in wartime and the climate crisis while simultaneously remaining caretakers to their fam...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Mark Plotkin, Credit: Courtesy Richie / Amazon Conservation Team
As we hurtle into the Sixth Age of Extinctions, we face the cataclysmic loss of half the world’s biological diversity. 80% of the remaining biodive...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Danny Glover
How can we manifest the world we want, and who we want to be? Actor-activist Danny Glover and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, former CEO of Green For All, s...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Will Keepin and Cynthia Brix
Today gender reconciliation is a burgeoning new movement for transformational healing. Gender reconciliation visionaries Pat McCabe, Cynthia Brix, ...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Janine Benyus
The genius of nature’s design, recipes and principles is serving as the inspiration for redesigning human civilization. This Biomimicry revolution ...

  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Pennie Opal Plant
Harm to one is harm to all—and prevention is a question of human survival. From oil refinery accidents in California to the aftermath of the BP oil...

  • Added: May 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Eve Ensler
As the creation story of Judeo-Christian beliefs, the biblical recounting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has long had profound influence aro...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Eve Ensler, Credit: Brigitte Lacombe
As the creation story of Judeo-Christian beliefs, the biblical recounting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has long had profound influence aro...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Jean Shinoda Bolen
Archetypal stories guide our lives in profound and largely unconscious ways. Through reframing classic mythologies, we explore the resurgence of th...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Julian Brave NoiseCat, LaNada War Jack and Clayton Thomas Müller
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. From the historic Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to the fossil fuel fights througho...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:30