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Bioneers brings bold innovators with break-through solutions to the airwaves with our eighth annual radio series. “Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature” airs in more than 250 cities in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Ireland and is free to all stations, distributed by WFMT Radio Network.
Upcoming episodes
Not Fate But Choice: Reinventing Fire for the Clean Energy Era May 24, 2013 | 9:30 am
The internationally acclaimed energy and design strategist Amory Lovins shows how by 2050 we can run our energy system with no oil, coal or nuclear power.Read More
Millions of Elders: Biomimicry and How Nature Would Do It May 31, 2013 | 9:30 am
Biomimicry is decoding astonishing treasures from nature’s recipe book that we can mimic for our technological and industrial practices.Read More
Good Jobs, Clean Environment: Both or Neither June 21, 2013 | 9:30 am
The emerging green economy promises to provide large-scale job creation while healing the Earth and building the middle class.Read More
Conspiracy of Ancestors: The Indigeneity Essentials June 28, 2013 | 9:30 am
We’re all indigenous to planet Earth, but we’ve not been acting that way.Read More
Passing Through: Farming Fields of Dreams July 5, 2013 | 9:30 am
Our food and farming systems may top the list of the most destructive abuses of land in history. What needs to change? What models are there to guide us?Read More
Swimming Our Talk: Blue Mind, Ocean Heart July 12, 2013 | 9:30 am
Illuminating the magical underwater world, Jacques Cousteau’s 1960s films and TV show caused a sea change by moving the hearts and minds of tens of millions.Read More
Security by Design: Environmental Security is Homeland Security July 19, 2013 | 9:30 am
The concept of national security is moving beyond bullets, bombs, soldiers and warcraft to encompass the country’s internal resilience, health and environmental sustainability.Read More
Taking a Breath: Healing the Inner Environment July 26, 2013 | 9:30 am
Brain research is revealing astounding insights into the mechanisms of post-traumatic stress and neuroplasticity – the brain’s ability to be rewired and re-trained.Read More
Radical Patriotism: Growing Growers and Seeding Leaders for a Real Food Future August 2, 2013 | 9:30 am
What happens when green turns to grey? Fewer than 5 percent of 2 million American farmers are under 45 years old.Read More
A Fantastic Object: Social Capitalism and the United States of Europe August 9, 2013 | 9:30 am
Despite suffering severe shocks from the 2008 global economic and banking crisis, nations of the European Union have provided the world with a potent new economic species.Read More
Recent episodes
A World That Works For All: Fireflies, Dumpsters, Soft Power and Design Science May 17, 2013 | 9:30 am
The visionary designer and architect R. Buckminster Fuller’s remarkable legacy inspires new generations to create the Design Science Revolution he first called for in the 1960s.Read More
Escaping Control: Linking Gender, Social Movements and Democracy May 10, 2013 | 9:30 am
World-renowned feminist, writer and change-maker Gloria Steinem connects the dots among disparate social movements to reveal the common patterns of oppression that underlie them all.Read More
Working With Nature to Heal Nature: Landscapes of Hope May 3, 2013 | 9:30 am
On this edition of Bioneers, filmmaker-turned-ecological-restorer John Liu shifted from documenting China’s massive environmental and societal upheavals to filming a groundbreaking, large-scale ecosystem restoration cum local economic renewal.Read More
Unembedding the Media: Going where the Silence Is April 26, 2013 | 9:30 am
Today, a mere eight corporations control over 70% of the world's media.Featuring Amy Goodman and Thom Hartmann
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A Sense of Wonder: Ecological Literacy and the Facts of Life April 19, 2013 | 9:30 am
Does our very survival now depend on our ability to understand the facts of life, nature's operating instructions, and how to live by them?Read More
Light at the Crossroads: Environment Meets Social Justice April 12, 2013 | 9:30 am
Because environmental destruction leads to scarcity, and scarcity leads to conflict, restoring the environment is key to peace.Read More
Think Globally, Act Non-Locally: Prayer, Healing and Fertility April 5, 2013 | 9:30 am
Can consciousness change the actual outside physical world at a distance? Dr. Larry Dossey says it can.Read More
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: An Ecology of the Heart March 29, 2013 | 9:30 am
Nine out of ten Americans strongly favor wilderness protection, but Federal policy actually threatens such preservation.Read More
Blue Gold: Who Owns the Rain? March 22, 2013 | 9:30 am
As water tables plummet and a billion of us lack access to clean water, large global corporations are gearing up to charge us for the rain. Changemaker Maude Barlow describes how companies are turning water into a commodity; and we hear from Nancy Price about what people are doing around the world to stop it.Read More
Tattooing the River People, Place and the Art of Diversity March 15, 2013 | 9:30 am
Award-winning painter Judy Baca describes how art can reconnect people to place, revive disappearing history, and repair cultural root systems. While working with at-risk youth to create The Great Wall of Los Angeles, the world's longest mural, Baca realized that restoring a disappeared river also meant restoring disappeared cultures.Read More
Designing the Way Out: Connecting the Drops March 8, 2013 | 9:30 am
Could Los Angeles stop draining water from the Colorado River and become self-sufficient? That's a question that Andy Lipkis and his organization Tree People are tackling in an unprecedented alliance with public works agenciesRead More
All My Relations: Indigenous Vision March 1, 2013 | 9:30 am
In these ecologically dangerous times, many call for a fundamental change of heart if we are to restore vital ecosystems. Oren Lyons, Leslie Gray and the late John Mohawk remind us of the values that sustained people for thousands of years in a balance that supported the land. They offer direction toward nothing less than a value change for survival.Read More
Cultivating Women’s Leadership February 22, 2013 | 9:30 am
Young women across the U.S. are stepping boldly into their power. From the heart of Native American and urban communities, this generation of engaged women is taking leadership beyond old models of hierarchy and self-sacrifice. Vickie Downey, Rha Goddess and Lateefah Simon express the soul and passion at the center of new collaborative, egalitarian approaches to promoting positive social and environmental change.Read More
Bioneers will not be broadcast this week February 15, 2013 | 9:30 am
Due to our Winter Fund Dive, Bioneers will not be broadcast this week. If you'd like to show your financial support for this program, please go to http://www.kkfi.org/donateRead More
Bioneers will not be broadcast this week February 8, 2013 | 9:30 am
Due to our Winter fund drive, Bioneers will not be aired this week or next. If you'd like to show your financial support for this program, you can donate online at http://www.kkfi.org/donate/Read More
A Thing Unseen: The New Superpower of Global Popular Movements February 1, 2013 | 9:30 am
Despite its apparent dominance, is globalization a house of cards? With world opinion against it rising, globalization appears to be unraveling. Maude Barlow describes her experience in Cancun at the WTO Summit; Tom Hayden marks the birth of the next global superpower; and Holly Near invokes the spirit of a rising in the world.Read More
You Are Where You Eat: Trans-farming Urban Food and Growing Community January 25, 2013 | 9:30 am
LaDonna Redmond and Wil Bullock live in communities where 12-year-olds suffer heart attacks, and where it's easier to buy a semi-automatic weapon than an organic tomato. But they are changing that reality, providing access to fresh, healthy foods, and re-establishing the connections between food and community.Read More
Close Encounters of the Biological Kind: Learning from the Locals January 18, 2013 | 9:30 am
Nature bats last, but more importantly, it's her playing field. Wouldn't it be wise to learn the ground rules and how to play by them? Join naturalist Janine Benyus as she describes her exploration of biomimicry, the art of imitating nature's evolutionary genius to serve human ends harmlessly. What can the Namibian beetle teach us about coping with drought?Read More
The End of Sustainability: The Environment as a Human Right January 11, 2013 | 9:30 am
A healthy environment is not just a biological issue, but also a fundamental human right. Acclaimed social entrepreneur and author Paul Hawken proposes that we need to go far beyond "sustainability" as a guiding principle and dare to create a restorative economic system founded in social equity and power for all.Read More
Indigeneity: Becoming Native, Staying Native January 4, 2013 | 9:30 am
What would life be like if we could hear the land ask us to be a certain way, a way that leads us and the Earth back to wholeness and health? Native American activists, educators, and leaders Jeannette Armstrong, Leslie Gray, and Katsi Cook share an inspiring Earth-honoring vision of what it means to "re-indigenize" ourselvesRead More
Returning to the Roundhouse: Revolution from the Heart of Woman December 28, 2012 | 9:30 am
The environment in developing countries of the South has often suffered most, and how these nations relate to the environment from here on is a make-it-or-break-it factor in planetary survival for all of us. Ethiopian visionary Bogaletch Gebre depicts how the interconnecting forces of environment, economy, women, health and ecological technologies are creating a future environment of hope.Read More
Restoring Life’s Fabric: The Biological Bottom Line December 21, 2012 | 9:30 am
Is the economy the most important thing? Canadian geneticist, author, and television producer David Suzuki says the economy is just a subset of ecology. Drawing on native wisdom and state-of-the-art science, he vividly demonstrates that what we do to what surrounds us, we do to ourselves, and suggests how to restore the fabric of the biosphere.Read More
Peace Means Coming Back to the Table: Transforming Urban War Zones December 14, 2012 | 9:30 am
War is a daily reality for many people living in the inner city. Restoring the environment starts by first restoring people. Aqeela Sherrills from Watts in South Central Los Angeles, who brokered the histroic peace treaty between the notorious gangs the Crips and the Bloods, sees that model now spreading across the country and the world.Read More
Race and Place: A Birthright to Creation December 7, 2012 | 9:30 am
It's a fact of life that communities of color and low-income communities suffer the worst environmental damage. Urban planner Greg Watson, physician Martha Arguello, and activist and scholar Carl Anthony show how these communities have found practical ways to reclaimRead More
Who’s in Charge? How Communities are Outlawing Corporate Factory Farming November 30, 2012 | 9:30 am
Why can powerful corporations legally pollute communities and override local decision-making? Attorney Tom Linzey is working to restore democracy by challenging the underlying laws and assumptions that give corporations civil rights without civil responsibilities.Read More
The Art of Relationships From Ecology to Healing November 23, 2012 | 9:30 am
Ecology is the superb art of interdependent relationships. Author and physicist Fritjof Capra, Native American educator Jeannette Armstrong, and medical researcher Jeanne Achterberg describe the complex and interconnected relationships inherent in living systems that can help heal our environment, our societies, and us.Read More
The Trojan Gene Genetic Engineering and the Future of Nature November 16, 2012 | 9:30 am
A handful of profit-driven biotechnology corporations are rewriting the genetic code of the tree of life, radically altering the composition of our food and releasing self-replicating genetic pollution into the natural world. Farmer Percy Schmeiser, technology expert Andrew Kimbrell, and Native American professor and farmer John Mohawk explore the implications of genetic engineering on the food we eat, the farmers who raise our food, the natural world and society.Read More
Organic and Beyond November 9, 2012 | 9:30 am
The biology of farming is complex and requires attentiveness to nature's own ways of doing things and the interdependence of relationships. Author and attorney Andrew Kimbrell is leading the Organic and Beyond Movement - a food revolution that offers health and food security for future generations and rejects the destructive industrial food productions model.Read More
Ecological Design: The Architecture of Nature and Democracy November 2, 2012 | 9:30 am
John Todd, an ecological designer in the field of biomimicry, imitates nature's evolutionary genius to serve human ends harmlessly, using nature's processes as the design for buildings, technologies and practical solutions to environmental devastation. Educator David Orr suggests that true ecological design can take place only in a society willing to ask, "How would nature do it?"Read More
Ecological Medicine: Healing the Planet, Healing Ourselves October 26, 2012 | 9:30 am
Did medicine's separation from nature propel our health care system into its current crisis? Join Dr. Andrew Weil and nurse and health activist Charlotte Brody as they describe how Ecological Medicine reunites the interdependence of medicine and nature, and restores the feminine principle in healing.Read More
The Alphabet vs. the Goddess October 19, 2012 | 9:30 am
How the Technology of Images is Feminizing the Planet and Restoring the EnvironmentRead More
Security By Design: Environmental Security is Homeland Security September 28, 2012 | 9:30 am
The concept of national security is moving beyond bullets, bombs, soldiers and warcraft to encompass the country’s internal resilience, health and environmental sustainability. What’s needed, say two leading environmental visionaries, is the equivalent of a wartime mobilization to create a sustainable planet including a far more decentralized infrastructure.Global energy strategist Amory Lovins and Oberlin College Professor David Orr advocate sustainability as the strategic imperative and foundation for a new national security narrative. The military is starting to agree
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Swimming Our Talk: Blue Mind, Ocean Heart September 21, 2012 | 9:30 am
Illuminating the magical underwater world, Jacques Cousteau’s 1960s films and TV show caused a sea change by moving the hearts and minds of tens of millions. Marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols, ocean advocates Philippe and Alexandra Cousteau, and the Truckee High School Envirolution Club are among the rising tides of passionate innovators making remarkable advances to understand and restore the waters of the world. Their inspiring stories give good reason for hope, including the scientific fact that we have a “blue mind” born in and of the ocean to guide us.Read More
Passing Through: Farming Fields of Dreams September 14, 2012 | 9:30 am
Our food and farming systems may top the list of the most destructive abuses of land in history. What needs to change? What models are there to guide us? Visionary organic farmer, food system entrepreneur and award-winning writer/photographer Michael Ableman reflects on what it will take to restore healthy thriving lands and a functional and equitable food system with access for all. How will we feed the world’s growing population and provide access to healthy food? As locavores know, the answers hit close to home.Read More
Conspiracy of Ancestors: The Indigeneity Essentials August 24, 2012 | 9:30 am
We’re all indigenous to planet Earth, but we’ve not been acting that way. Cultural ecologist, indigenous scholar and activist Dr. Melissa K. Nelson reminds native and non-native peoples alike that we all need to re-indigenize ourselves by learning and practicing nature’s operating instructions and the Original Instructions for how to be a human being.Read More
Good Jobs, Clean Environment: Both or Neither August 17, 2012 | 9:30 am
The emerging green economy promises to provide large-scale job creation while healing the Earth and building the middle class. Roxanne Brown, Assistant Legislative Director for the United Steelworkers and Steering Committee member of the BlueGreen Alliance, describes how this national partnership of major labor unions and environmental organizations is expanding the number and quality of jobs in the green economy.Read More
Millions of Elders: Biomimicry and How nature Would Do it August 10, 2012 | 9:30 am
Millions of Elders: Biomimicry and How nature Would Do itRead More
Not Fate But Choice August 3, 2012 | 9:30 am
The internationally acclaimed energy and design strategist Amory Lovins shows how by 2050 we can run our energy system with no oil, coal or nuclear power. He says we can achieve that vision with clean energy and energy conservation, led by business, without an act of Congress or any new inventions. By making this transition, we can save more than $5 trillion and double the size of the US economy.Read More
A World That Works for All July 27, 2012 | 9:30 am
A World That Works For AllFireflies, Dumpsters, Soft Power and the Design Science Revolution
Sheila Kennedy
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Escaping Control Linking Gender, Social Movements and Democracy July 20, 2012 | 9:30 am
World-renowned feminist, writer and change-maker Gloria Steinem connects the dots among disparate social movements to reveal the common patterns of oppression that underlie them all.Read More
Working With Nature to Heal Nature: Landscapes of Hope July 13, 2012 | 9:30 am
Just like our bodies, nature has a profound capacity for healing and self-repair. Filmmaker-turned-ecological-restorer John Liu shifted from documenting China’s massive environmental and societal upheavals to filming a groundbreaking, large-scale ecosystem restoration cum local economic renewal.Read More
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