Radio Radio Series Series 10 X Jerome Ringo
Mari Margil
Darren Doherty
Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui
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“You see, making art in destitute place
is like making fire in the dead cold night of winter. It gives out warmth, gives out
light, gives direction and rekindles hope.
We nurture our environment, and you begin to change people.” –Lily Yeh, Barefoot Artists
Show List for Series 10 of “The Bioneers” This award-winning 13-part series of half-hour shows features the “bioneers” – social and scientific innovators with breakthrough solutions for people and planet. Dynamic – charismatic – provocative – hopeful. These are the ardent voices of our most brilliant visionaries with both feet on the ground. They span the rich arc of human endeavor and transformation toward a future environment of hope. Join over 320 markets worldwide reaching passionate and loyal listeners. Produced by Bioneers, an internationally acclaimed nonprofit educational organization.
“In Europe, few people are aware that there exists a vivid scene of environmental activist in America. BIONEERS provides important information which is hard to collect in the old world. “-Radio LoRa Zurich
James Ella James
Faith-Based Change-Maker
Show List for Series 10 of “The Bioneers”
Going Locavore: Urban Food Innovation and Community Transformation (01-10) Our misbegotten industrial food system is one of our greatest vulnerabilities. It’s dangerously fossil-fueled, toxic, monocultural and centralized. The real cost of cheap food is very high – to both people and planet. Urban food innovators are designing vibrant new local food economies built on environmental and ecological integrity, sustainability, diversity and equity. Join author Michael Pollan, Fair Food Foundation CEO Oran Hesterman, faith-based change-maker James Ella James and student leader Victoria Carter for a smorgasbord of nourishing morsels from the emerging locavore movement. Becoming a Habitat: Motherhood, Faith and the Environmental Human Rights Movement (02-10) We live in a society dependent on toxic chemicals. Today about 287 such chemicals trespass inside the blood of newborns – and inside all of us - without our consent. Despite the odds, ecologist, author and mother Sandra Steingraber is an optimist. She’s betting that the burgeoning global environmental human rights movement will free us from our deadly dependency. She believes our grandchildren will look back on us and marvel that our economy was once dependent on toxic chemicals - and they will think of it as unthinkable. Why The World Doesn’t End: Re-Creation Myths of Nature and Culture (03-10) When a culture is disintegrating and the stories everybody believed in no longer fit, it’s time to rekindle our connection to ancient wisdom and universal truths. Mythologist, author and storyteller Michael Meade, founder of the Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, reminds us that the word “apocalypse” - which has come to mean the end of the world-actually means an “unveiling.” Once we penetrate that veil, it’s not the end - but the beginning of a new story – or a new beginning to the old story.
“This environmental human rights movement will take up with equal fervor the task of divorcing our economy from its current dependencies on chemical toxicants that are known to trespass inside our bodies without our consent, thus violating our security of person.” -Sandra Steingraber
Jensine Larsen
Founder, World Pulse
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Sisters in Spirit: Women Transforming the World (04-10) History is a tale told by the winners. How then can we reclaim the voices of those who have been historically written out - silenced through the ages? Perhaps as women write “herstory” into history, we’ll see clearly the eternal power, brilliance and unique value of women’s contributions. Join media innovator Jensine Larsen and feminist historian Sally Roesch Wagner as they share the emerging landscape of an inclusive, sustainable and just society at whose heart is the leadership of women. Earth Justice: Corporate Rights vs. The Rights of Nature (05-10) Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness have long been held as the inalienable rights of the American people. Then why is it that “corporate personhood” consistently overrides the legal rights of citizens? And what about the rights of nature? Do rivers, mountains, whales – or ecosystems - have inalienable rights that guarantee their interests? Join innovative environmental attorneys Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil for breakthroughs on the ground that are redefining democracy. In the 21st century, is it time to move from a Declaration of Independence to a Declaration of Interdependence? Generation Green: Fulfilling the Promise of Jobs and Justice (06-10) Climate change. Energy crisis. Economic collapse. We live in a time of unprecedented global crisis…and opportunity. There’s a monumental amount of work to be done to make the transition to a restored world, yet young people are unemployed at astonishingly high rates. How can we unlock the green economic opportunities that will open the door to doing well by doing good for generation green and generations to come? Join Apollo Alliance president Jerome Ringo and clean energy leader Billy Parish for a hopeful glimpse into the organizations and programs that will give our children the opportunity to make a living and make a better world.
“Bioneers makes a positive difference because the program introduces us to new ideas being put into practice. We then feel that the dominant paradigm is changing and our planet is breathing a sigh of relief.” -2BayFM Byron Bay New South Wales Australia Community Radio
Brock Dolman
Master Permaculture Designer
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Planting Buildings: The Living Building Challenge (07-10) A living building is like a flower, planted and rooted to its place. It collects its energy from the sun. It harvests its water from the rain. This building does not pollute. It engages actively with the environment around it. And it’s beautiful and inspiring. This is nature’s blueprint for building a better world, says visionary architect Jason McLennan. He designed the Living Building Challenge 2.0 to raise the bar on green building: Meet or exceed what nature provides. While the standards seem impossibly high, it may be simpler than we imagined. Reinhabit, Rehydrate, Regenerate: Permaculture Designs for an Enduring Planet (08-10) Half of Americans cannot name one component of the water cycle upon which all life depends. Yet water is at the root of every human endeavor - from manufacturing to agriculture, energy production and waste management. No water, no life. Join master permaculture designers Darren J. Doherty and Brock Dolman for both practical and poetic ways to re-educate earthlings in soil and water literacy. Their vision for regenerating ecological integrity and social resiliency prepares us for the challenges of climate change and environmental stress. But above all, they illuminate inspired pathways for restoring nature and people in the re-enchantment of Earth. From Soap Operas to Avatars: Digital Diplomacy and Making Fiction into Fact (09-10) Imagine this: A popular character on a Spanish-language soap opera resonates so deeply with viewers that they become empowered and educated about literacy. Avatars in the virtual world called Second Life enable people of all faiths to better understand and respect Islamic culture. Digital and media entrepreneurs Josh Silver and William Ryerson effectively use innovative media for social change. Digital citizen diplomats Joshua S. Fouts and Rita J. King design virtual games that help foster vibrant community and culture in the physical world. They’re all demonstrating the game-changing power of technology to change the world for the better.
Rebecca Moore
Google Earth Outreach Manager
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Don’t Mourn, Organize: Power and Passion for Environmental Justice and Democracy (10-10) Somewhere in a typical American city, a woman wakes up to the noxious odors of a nearby sewage treatment plant. Her daughter carries a rescue inhaler to school. Like hundreds of her neighbors, this woman is sick and tired of being sick and tired. Women and men from vulnerable communities everywhere are rising up to gain equal access to clean water and air, equal environmental enforcement and protection, and equitable land use and planning. Impassioned community organizers Mary Gonzales and Peggy Shepard show us all how successful environmental justice campaigns across the U.S. are raising the voices of people of color and low-income communities and creating a better world for everyone. Busting the Drug War: The Dawn of Drug Policy Reform (11-10) The drug war is a bust, say increasing numbers of law enforcement professionals and politicians. Like Prohibition before it, not only has it failed to achieve its stated goals - it has further led to unaffordable costs, both financial and social. Ethan Nadelmann, founder/director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the nation’s leading drug policy reform organization, traces the hidden history of drugs laws, which are intimately connected with racism and the political exploitation of people’s fears. He offers a set of practical and effective policy reforms that are now being advocated by a rising tide of former drug warriors. From Bows and Arrows to Laptops: Marrying Traditional Knowledge with Web Technology to Save the Amazon (12-10) Forty years ago when a logging road was blasted deep into the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the outside world first encountered the Surui people. Contact with the Western world led to their decimation by disease, warfare and illegal logging and mining. The Surui organized to save themselves and their homeland by electing a young leader to tell their story to the world. Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui traveled from the Amazon rainforest to the Google-plex to ask for help to bring his people back from the brink of extinction and save their precious rainforest. The collaboration with Google Earth Outreach manager Rebecca Moore has helped map a next world that marries the best of tradition and conservation with the cutting edge of high technology. Translation by Vasco van Roosmalen, Amazon Conservation Team.
Mary Gonzales
Director of the Gamaliel Foundation
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Where Angels Fear To Tread: Making Art That Heals the Broken Places (13-10) How do we transform a vicious circle into a virtuous circle? How do we move from environmental degradation and the deterioration of human relations to restoration? From war to peace - from hatred to compassion - from isolation to community? How can one person make a crucial difference? Painter and professor Lily Yeh’s approach to community healing takes that which is broken and creates something whole and wholly new and beautiful through public art. From Philadelphia to Rwanda, broken places are her canvases. People’s stories are the pigments. People’s talents and creativity are the tools. At the heart of her work is the transformation of human heart.
“We need to wean this American food system off its heavy twentieth-century diet of fossil fuels and put it back on a diet of contemporary sunshine. We need to support visionary farmers who can exploit the power of polyculture to harness sunlight and produce lots of food on small amounts of land.” -Michael Pollan, author
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