These days, scientists are starting to talk like shamans and shamans are starting to talk like scientists. So says anthropologist and author Jeremy Narby. And, he says, we need to talk about talking – because words matter. In this episode, Bioneers Senior Producer J.P. Harpignies speaks with Narby about how the very language and words we use reveal the topography and limits of our worldview, including Western culture’s adamant centuries-long but now increasingly discredited assumption that intelligence is restricted only to human beings.

Yurok fisherman and tribal leader Sammy Gensaw and environmental scientist-turned-activist Craig Tucker share the epic story of how Indigenous leadership and non-Indian allyship made the impossible inevitable: the biggest-ever dam removal and salmon restoration in history. It represented a literal watershed moment; unprecedented co-equal decision-making between the tribes and their historical nemesis – the US government.Once complete in 2024, the project will liberate the Klamath river and several tributaries to once again run free across 400-miles from Oregon through California and into the Pacific Ocean.FeaturingSammy Gensaw (Yurok) is the Founding Director of the Ancestral Guard, Artist, Yurok Language Speaker, Singer, Writer, Cultural/Political/Environmental Activist, Regalia Maker, Mediator, Youth Leader & Fisherman.Craig Tucker has 20+ years of advocacy and activism experience, especially working with tribal members, fishermen and farmers in the Klamath Basin on dam removal, traditional fire management, gold mining, and water policy, and is the founder and Principal of Suits and Signs Consulting.ResourcesIndigenous Forum – Undam the Klamath! How Tribes Led the Largest River Restoration Project in US History | Bioneers 2023Credits Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel Written by: Kenny Ausubel Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris Producer: Teo Grossman This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

In this episode, award-winning lawyer and climate justice organizer Colette Pichon-Battle lays out a bold vision for a new organizing project designed to model bioregional democratic climate action. The aim is to transform the Gulf South and Appalachia away from the lethal matrix of fossil fuel extraction and extractive economics. Instead, the regional vision is for a regenerative future of clean energy democracy, and an equitable, inclusive economy.FeaturingColette Pichon Battle, a generational native of Bayou Liberty, Louisiana, is an award-winning lawyer and prominent climate justice organizer. After 17 years leading the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy, she co-founded Taproot Earth to create connections and power across issues, movements, and geographies.ResourcesColette Pichon Battle – Expanding Our Movements for Climate Justice | Bioneers 2024 KeynoteTaproot EarthCreditsExecutive Producer: Kenny AusubelWritten by: Kenny AusubelSenior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie WelchProgram Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily HarrisProducer: Teo GrossmanHost and Consulting Producer: Neil HarveySongs in this Episode: 'Good Morning New Orleans' by Kermit Ruffins; 'What Goes Around Comes Around' by Rebirth Brass Band, provided by Basin Street Records in New Orleans, LouisianaThis is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.

The podcast dives into the urgent housing crisis, questioning whether housing should be a human right instead of a market commodity. It highlights community struggles against gentrification, showcasing grassroots efforts to reclaim public housing. The conversation draws insights from Vienna's successful housing strategies post-WWI, advocating for transformative policies. Additionally, it emphasizes the role of cooperative models like the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative in fostering community wealth and addressing historical injustices.

In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets that exist in their place. It’s the Kryptonite to the corporate model that extracts wealth from communities. Instead, they’re anchoring capital and resources locally to directly invest in that place and its people - from land to money and finance.We hear from Nicole Ndumele from the Center for American Progress; Mike Strode, from The Kola Nut Collaborative; and Deyanira del Río of the New Economy Project.ResourcesCenter for American ProgressNew Economy ProjectOpen Collective FoundationThe Kola Nut CollaborativeOur Economic Future: Achieving a More Equitable Society by Radically Rethinking Our Guiding Economic Ideas | Bioneers ReaderThis episode is part 1 of a 4-part series exploring how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing their assets, anchoring capital and resources locally to directly invest in that place and its people – from land to money and finance. Explore the full series here.Guest HostLaura Flanders is the host and executive producer of Laura Flanders & Friends, which airs on PBS stations nationwide. She is an Izzy-Award winning independent journalist, a New York Times bestselling author and the recipient of the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Media Center.CreditsThis series is co-produced by Bioneers and Laura Flanders & FriendsLaura Flanders & Friends Producers: Laura Flanders and Abigail HandelProduction Assistance: Jeannie Hopper and David NeumannBioneers Executive Producer: Kenny AusubelSenior Producer: Stephanie WelchProducer: Teo GrossmanHost and Consulting Producer: Neil HarveyProgram Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

Today’s corporate, capitalist economy is radically unequal, ecologically unsustainable, and embedded in recurring boom-and-bust cycles of crisis. Not surprisingly, people are looking for alternatives. What if, instead of tweaking the system to reduce the damage, we reorganized entirely so that both local and national economies produced better outcomes for people, communities and the planet in the first place? That’s the essence of community wealth building, the focus of this episode with guest host Laura Flanders, featuring Democracy Collaborative Distinguished Senior Fellow, Marjorie Kelly; Preston City Council Member, Matthew Brown in the UK; and community wealth building adviser to the Scottish Government, Neil McInroy.This episode is part 2 of a 4-part series exploring how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing their assets, anchoring capital and resources locally to directly invest in that place and its people – from land to money and finance. Explore the full series here.ResourcesDemocracy CollaborativeWealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and The Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's CrisesAction Guide for Advancing Community Wealth Building in the United States | Democracy CollaborativeGar Alperovitz – Replacing Corporate Capitalism: Why We Need a Next System | Bioneers 2018 KeynoteOur Economic Future: Achieving a More Equitable Society by Radically Rethinking Our Guiding Economic Ideas | Bioneers ReaderGuest HostLaura Flanders is the host and executive producer of Laura Flanders & Friends, which airs on PBS stations nationwide. She is an Izzy-Award winning independent journalist, a New York Times bestselling author and the recipient of the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Media Center.CreditsThis series is co-produced by Bioneers and Laura Flanders & FriendsLaura Flanders & Friends Producers: Laura Flanders and Abigail HandelProduction Assistance: Jeannie Hopper and David NeumannBioneers Executive Producer: Kenny AusubelSenior Producer: Stephanie WelchProducer: Teo GrossmanHost and Consulting Producer: Neil HarveyProgram Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris

In this special episode of the Bioneers, guest host Laura Flanders explores “Community Wealth Building,” a model that democratizes the economy, creates more cooperative businesses, better care for communities, and builds wealth for the many, not just the few. This episode features American political economist, historian, and author Gar Alperovitz of the Democracy Collaborative, along with India Pierce Lee about her work with the Collaborative in Cleveland, Ohio; and John McMicken, Executive Director of Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperative Corporation.This episode is part 1 of a 4-part series exploring how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing their assets, anchoring capital and resources locally to directly invest in that place and its people – from land to money and finance. Explore the full series here.Guest HostLaura Flanders is the host and executive producer of Laura Flanders & Friends, which airs on PBS stations nationwide. She is an Izzy-Award winning independent journalist, a New York Times bestselling author and the recipient of the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Media Center.CreditsThis series is co-produced by Bioneers and Laura Flanders & FriendsLaura Flanders & Friends Producers: Laura Flanders and Abigail HandelProduction Assistance: Jeannie Hopper and David NeumannBioneers Executive Producer: Kenny AusubelSenior Producer: Stephanie WelchProducer: Teo GrossmanHost and Consulting Producer: Neil HarveyProgram Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily HarrisResourcesDemocracy CollaborativeEvergreen CooperativesHow to Make a Democratic Economy | Laura Flanders & FriendsAction Guide for Advancing Community Wealth Building in the United States | Democracy CollaborativeGar Alperovitz – Replacing Corporate Capitalism: Why We Need a Next System | Bioneers 2018 KeynoteOur Economic Future: Achieving a More Equitable Society by Radically Rethinking Our Guiding Economic Ideas | Bioneers Reader

Angela Glover Blackwell, a leading social justice advocate and founder of PolicyLink, and john a. powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute, dive deep into the urgent need for a cultural shift from individualism to a collective 'we.' They discuss the vital role of storytelling and joy in advocacy, while unpacking complex dynamics of belonging and identity. From navigating reparations to fostering a truly inclusive democracy, these two visionaries explore the pathways to creating a world where everyone genuinely belongs.

What does it mean to bring the “feminine” forward in leadership from diverse cultural and ethnic perspectives? How might a spectrum of views help us to integrate relational intelligence into all our leadership? This hour long special features poet Noris Binet; Nikki Silvestri, former Executive Director of Green for All and The People's Grocery and Pat McCabe, or Woman Stands Shining, a Navajo teacher working on Indigenous frameworks for gender and all of life.

Ever since women won the right to vote in 1920, women leaders and their allies have sought to pass an Equal Rights Amendment to drive total equality and justice for women into the U.S. Constitution. It did pass in 1972, but fell three states short of ratification. Today’s next wave of the women’s movement might finally make the ERA a reality. Why is Constitutional protection so crucial? Join leading advocates Joan Blades (MomsRising co-founder), attorney Kimberle Crenshaw and Jessica Neuwirth (ERA Coalition President) to learn the true story of what’s at stake and how life would be different and better for women and men.To learn more about Kimberle Crenshaw’s work, visit the African American Policy Forum.  You can follow Joan Blades work at MomsRising, and Living Room Conversations. Follow the progress Jessica Neuwirth and others are making with the ERA Coalition.See related media in our Green New Deal Media Collection.This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage to learn more.