TREBBE JOHNSON on Bearing Witness to Wounded Places /27

Trebbe Johnson, helps people break through the walls that isolate them from the pain and healing of the Earth. She has been leading vision quests, workshops, and ceremonies worldwide since 1994. She is the founder of Radical Joy for Hard Times

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VANDANA SHIVA on the Emancipation of Seed, Water and Women /26

Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist. A leader in the International Forum on Globalization, Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) in 1993.

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CURT STAGER on the Deep Future of Earth’s Climate /25

An expansive discussion on the climate, past and future: the weight of humanity on natural systems, repercussions of temperature and sea level rise, the future of the amazon, the history of salmon and northwest forests, and more. Curt Stager is an ecologist, paleoclimatologist, and science journalist with a Ph.D. in biology and geology.

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PETER MICHAEL BAUER on the Survival of the Wildest /24

Our very survival in the face of the inevitable collapse of modern civilization, Peter suggests, depends on us remembering ancestral skills and strengthening the native plant populations that sustain us.

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LEILA DARWISH on Grassroots Earth Repair /23

Leila Darwish is a community organizer, author, permaculture designer, educator, urban gardener, and grassroots herbalist with a deep commitment to environmental justice, decolonization, food sovereignty, and to providing accessible and transformative tools for communities

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MARTIN PRECHTEL on Identity and Sacred Rites of Passage /22

Martín Prechtel is a leading thinker whose work, hopes to promote the pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language. Through story, music, ritual and writing, Martín helps people in many lands to retain their diversity while remembering their own sense of place in the daily sacred.

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MILES OLSON on Making a Life in Wild Places /20

Miles has spent the past decade deeply immersed in learning and practicing Earth Skills, while foraging, hunting, gardening and gathering for his livelihood. His experiences have given him a unique perspective on rewilding, radical self-reliance, and the impact of civilization on the natural world.

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TOM WALDO on Fighting For Alaska's Ancient Rainforest /19

Today we will take an in depth look at the Tongass National Forest, the largest of US national forests, it consists of one third of the world’s coastal temperate rainforest ecosystem. Tom Waldo, senior staff attorney with Earth Justice in AK, who has dedicated the last 25 years to defending Alaska’s ancient forests.

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MARY ELLEN HANNIBAL on the Spine of the Continent /18

Today we explore an epic conservation project that encompasses the North American Rockies, and the infinite relationships between the species that inhabit them. Mary Ellen Hannibal is a writer and editor focusing on science and culture. Her book, The Spine of the Continent, is about a social, geographical, and scientific effort to save nature.

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COURTNEY WHITE on Climate Solutions in the Soil /17

Courtney White, formerly a frontline environmental activist and author of Grass, Soil, Hope, is bringing “carbon ranching” to the American Southwest through his work with the Quivira Coalition.

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CLIMBING POETREE on Being Radical Solutionaries /16

Climbing PoeTree is the combined force of two boundary-breaking soul-sisters who have sharpened their art as a tool for transformation. Poets, performance artists, print makers, video and graphic designers, muralists, and new media architects, Alixa and Naima create compelling works for a more just and livable world.

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MARK SHEPARD on Restoration Agriculture /15

Mark Shepard, has created a forest where there once was just degraded Wisconsin farmland, not just any forest, but a mega-permaculture, a 106-acre food production environment. He has also just written the phenomenal book, Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers.

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STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER on Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, Part Two /14

We return with Stephen to explore these questions… What has the role of psychedelics been in human and plant evolution? What is the ecological function of art? How is science changing as it moves out of reductionism? What do the heart, the brain, and the gut have in common?

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STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER on Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, Part One /13

Stephen is the senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian studies, described as a bardic naturalist, he is the award-winning author of 19 books, including The Lost Language of Plants, The Secret Teachings of Plants, and Sacred Plant Medicine.

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JOANNA MACY on the World as Lover and Self /12

Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice in the movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with five decades of activism.

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ALBERT BATES On Where Activism Meets Counterculture /10

Albert Bates has been the director of the Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology since 1984 and the Ecovillage Training Center at the Farm in Tennessee since 1994 where he's taught sustainable design, natural building, permaculture and restoration ecology to students from more that fifty nations.

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PETER McCOY on the Way of the Mycelial Warrior /08

Peter McCoy is the author of new book Radical Mycology. What began as a self-guided passion has developed into a life-long devotion to the fungal kingdom and educating the world about its ability to heal the bodies, minds, and ecosystems.

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