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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183 Pieces

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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: Severine von Tscharner Fleming
In the next 20 years, farmland ownership in the U.S. will shift on a continental scale—400 million acres. Yet 70% of American farmland is owned by ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:28
Caption: Ben Knight
A new wave of technologies designed to regenerate people, planet and democracy is emerging in ingenious ways. Designers are creating online softwar...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: David McConville
“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do, then how would I be and what would I do?” asked visio...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Jane Goodall
It has been 50 years since Dr. Jane, as she’s affectionately known, began her intensive solitary studies of chimp behavior In Africa’s Gombe Nation...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Shailja Patel
Shailja Patel's unique artistry is a provocative smash up of genres. She's a slam poetry champion and star of her award-winning, one-woman play “Mi...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: john a. powell
From nature’s viewpoint, people are one species. Categories such as race, class, nation, religion and even many gender roles are human constructs. ...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Ilarion "Larry" Merculieff
The way we see the world creates the world. If a new way of seeing is needed, what might that look like? Indigenous leaders Dakota-Dine Tom Goldtoo...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Dayna Baumeister
Biomimicry is decoding astonishing treasures from nature’s recipe book that we can mimic for our technological and industrial practices. Biomimicry...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Aqeela Sherrills
Wounded warriors have walked through fire. They carry the scars forever, yet many have somehow managed to heal even the most horrific of their emot...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Dekila Chungyalpa
Religion is the oldest, most compelling moral framework for social action. As director of World Wildlife Fund’s Sacred Earth Program, Buddhist Deki...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Joanna Macy
Deep Ecology extends an inalienable right to life to all beings. Yet as the naturalist Aldo Leopold observed, “One of the penalties of an ecologica...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Eriel Deranger
From the Canadian tar sands to the oil and natural gas fields of North America and the Amazon jungle, Indigenous peoples of the North and South are...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:31
Caption: Peter Warshall
Do you think of the wilderness as something far away? Not in the age of climate change and human population growth. The real wilderness is always u...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Kimberle Crenshaw (foreground) with Eve Ensler
When Donald Trump rode a wave of white anxiety into the White House, it was part of a backlash to the Obama presidency, one that revealed an increa...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
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Today in the fossil fuel-induced age of escalating climate disruption, the joker in the deck is the climate imperative to transition rapidly off fo...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:30