HEATHER MILTON-LIGHTENING on Reframing Direct Action /89

Ayana and Heather discuss truth and reconciliation, true ally-ship, the commonality of Trump and Trudeau and reflections from Standing Rock.

Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice Zones, Direct ActionFor The WildSeptember 20, 2018collective memory, Native Youth Movement, truth and reconciliation, ally-ship, Standing Rock, Highway of Tears, stolen land, Canada, cliamte agreements, resource extractionComment

NNIMMO BASSEY on Niger Delta as Sacrifice Zone /88

Our imaginary borders have tainted our relationship to fossil fuel complacence; global warming does not exist inside of borders, species extinction doesn’t follow state lines and blood is on all of our hands. As Nnimmo writes, “we thought it was oil, but it was blood.”

Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice Zones, Global South, GlobalizationFor The WildSeptember 13, 2018Nigeria, global petrol military complex, fossil fuel industry, Oilwatch, imaginary borders, species extinction, planetary cannibalism, plastics, fossil fuel addiction, resource colony, cliamte chaos, ExtractivismComment

STEVEN MARTYN on Letting Land Lead /87

Steven and Ayana explore the ideas of co-creative integrated polyculture, living reciprocally with the land, autonomous evolution of nature, invasive species, and the origins of our food and medicine plants.

Plant Intelligence, Conservation RestorationFor The WildSeptember 6, 2018artist, farmer, wildcrafter, builder, plant identification, co-creation, integrated polyculture, invasive species, plant origins, medicinal plants, Sacred Gardener, Earth Wisdom, traditional living skills Comments

LEAH PENNIMAN on Land Based Liberation /72⌠ENCORE⌡

Leah confronts us with the harsh realities of injustice by two voices that simultaneously speak of healing, possibility, and reconciliation

Colonial Violence, Food Sovereignty, Racial Equity JusticeFor The WildAugust 30, 2018end racism, food system justice, Soul Fire Farm, regeneration, grassroots activism, agroecology, Afro-Ecology, ecological transformation, social justice, environmental justice, sacred land, sacred relationshipsComment

RON FINLEY on Cultivating the Garden of the Mind⌠ENCORE⌡ /79

Together with Rob, we explore what it could look like to move beyond the “build it and they will come mentality” towards a more inclusive “let’s build it together” paradigm of collectives and cooperation.

STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER on Plant Intelligence & The Imaginal Realm, Part 2 ⌠ENCORE⌡ /14

Buhner is the earth speaking on behalf of themselves. He beautifully and scientifically challenges us to give ourselves fully and humbly in our relationships with our more than human elders and kin, he asks us to walk our talk when it comes to unlearning human supremacy and civilized consumptive conditioning through relationship to plants.

Plant Intelligence, Wisdom KeepersFor The WildAugust 16, 2018psychedlics, plant evolution, sacred plant medicine, indipendent scholar, polymath, non-rational, medicinal plants, herbalism, bacterial ecology, resistance dynamics; ecology, psychotherapy; human psychology; biological self-organization; nonlinearity; Gaian nonlinearity, self-organization, contemplative spirituality, contemplative animism, transcultural epistemologyComment

JANINE BENYUS on Redesigning Society Based on Nature ⌠ENCORE⌡ /71

With Janine, we delve into biomimicry and what it might look like to be in alignment with the flow of life. Wondering what success looks like beyond our children, beyond our children’s children, but to the entire web of inextricably linked beings– seven generations beyond this very moment.

Climate Change, Design+StrategyFor The WildAugust 9, 2018deep time, biomimicry, reductionist science, hyper individualism, cannibalistic systems, life systems, life-giving systems, regeneration, nature intelligence, natural systems Comments

ROBIN WALL KIMMERER on Indigenous Knowledge for Earth Healing ⌠ENCORE⌡ /35

Dr. Kimmerer is active in efforts to broaden access to environmental science training for Indigenous students, and to introduce the benefits of traditional ecological knowledge to the scientific community, in a way that respects and protects indigenous knowledge.

Plant Intelligence, Deep Ecology, Wisdom KeepersFor The WildAugust 2, 2018indigenous knowledge, scientific knowledge, cross-cultural knowledge, forestry, plant restoration, Gathering Moss, Braiding Sweetgrass, climate change resilience, ecology research, SUNY, traditional ecological knowledge, Citizen Band Potawatomi, Right Relationship, Essential ListeningComment

DUNE LANKARD on the Day the Water Died /86

Dune’s determination to take on lawsuits, with visionary alternatives to the status quo, has made the wildest possibilities of conservation happen in Alaska. He has turned cultural corners from the forced corporatization of native people’s relationship to their water, tree, and fish kin.

Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Racial Equity Justice, Transition TransformationFor The WildJuly 26, 2018disaster, conservation, environmental degradation, resource collapse, Exxon Valdez spill, Cordova, Alaska, Indigenous resource management, fossil fuels, environmental economics, A Love Song To Cascadia, Extractivism Comment

FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ on Art & Migration Know No Borders/85

The effects of our collective greed are coming to a head at this time. What are we going to do in this time? What is the role of art now? Favianna stands in the heat of this fire and guides us to explore the intersection between culture, economy, climate change and pleasure activism.

Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Racial Equity Justice, Transition Transformation, Media ArtFor The WildJuly 19, 2018transdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, art interventions, migratory culture, migration, economic inequality, gender justice, ecology, mass incarceration, immigration crisis, political instabilityComment

ZAYAAN KHAN on the Place of Sweet Waters, Part 2 /84

We meet with Zayaan Khan to discuss water scarcity in South Africa and a point of no return at which culture can change rapidly. Suddenly people become accustomed to the unthinkable —no showering! no laundry!— and they begin to ask, how could we have ever been so wasteful, so indulgent?

Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Decolonization, Global SouthFor The WildJuly 12, 2018thresholds, resilient systems, diversity, collapse, Adaptive Cycle, South Africa, climax state, available energy, natural disasters, capitalism, wild water wild iceComment

ZAYAAN KHAN on the Place of Sweet Waters, Part 1 /83

With Zayaan, we trace the ways that the white colonization of South Africa not only destroyed the complexities of the human-to-land relationship, but also continues to ignore the intricacies and connectivity of the landscape and how South Africa is still living within the echo chamber of a shockingly repressive colonial system

Decolonization, Global South, Colonial Violence, The Cost of CapitalismFor The WildJuly 5, 2018thresholds, resilient systems, diversity, collapse, Adaptive Cycle, South Africa, climax state, available energy, natural disasters, capitalism, wild water wild ice Comment

STEPHEN JENKINSON on Closing Time /82

Stephen joins us to discuss how the debts of generations past have accrued to us, but not the wisdom. Our inheritance of obligation, of reciprocity, has been broken and we are left with what is dying, but without any understanding of how to be with it.

Wisdom KeepersFor The WildJune 28, 2018Etymologically, elderhood, addiction, ancestry, death culture, permaculture principles, conciousness, language, reciprocity, Wisdom KeepersComment

ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN on Emergent Strategy⌠ENCORE⌡/68

At the heart of adrienne marie brown’s, Emergent Strategy, is moving towards life and learning from the wisdom of nature to drive our social movements. Emergent Strategy asks of us to think about spirituality and transformative justice central to the resilient future we are imagining together.

Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Transition TransformationFor The WildJune 21, 2018resilient future, conflict, horizontal hostility, social justice movements, Detroit, black liberation, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, generative somatics, Slow Study 1Comment

JACINDA MACK on the Planetary Cost of Luxury /81

What is responsible mining? Is there such a thing? How do we restructure our dominant culture’s view of what is considered valuable? Jacinda Mack wholeheartedly leads the way to ignite the fire in people’s hearts around this critical topic of responsible mining, rooted in seven generations thinking.

TOM GOLDTOOTH on Climate Change Capitalism /80

Tom calls on indigenous peoples to have a critical analysis of where we are going, where we will be in fifty years, when the youth of today will be elders. How can our emotional, psychological, and our spiritual strategies impact a healing process that can ensure a just transition?

Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Wisdom Keepers, Indigenous SovereigntyFor The WildJune 7, 2018Indigenous rights leader, Diné, Dakota, Indigenous Environmental Network, Bioneers Conference Indigenous Forum, healthy indigenous communities, traditional knowldge, environmental knowledge, Drumbeat for Mother Earth, just transition, critical voices, environmental justiceComment

RON FINLEY on Cultivating the Garden of the Mind /79

Meet Ron Finley, an artist, designer and a South LA “gangsta” gardener who made the change he wanted to see in his own neighborhood. Together, we learn about how people power and community agitation can facilitate change. As more communities organize to shape their own lives, hope spreads like a seed on the wind.

ALEXANDRA MORTON on the Virulence of Farmed Salmon /78

The greatest threat imposed by enclosed salmon farms are the diseases they foster and spread to our precious remaining wild salmon. Join us with expert Alexandra Morton to better comprehend the viruses perpetuated by this destructive aquaculture practice.

More Than Human Kin, The Cost of Capitalism, Multispecies Justice, Globalization, Food SovereigntyFor The WildMay 24, 2018Salmon farming, Pacific coast, British Columbia, diseased salmon, wild salmon, aquaculture, Piscine reovirus, salmon virus, Norway, A Love Song To CascadiaComment

IAN McALLISTER on Ferocious Conservation for the Last Wild Wolves /77

This conversation with Ian is a call to rekindle and reclaim our relationship as humble companions. Where roads have not been built, nor forests plowed and paved over, the wolves are able to experience a freedom from the slaughter brought to them by the first colonial settlers to Turtle Island, who also brought with them an insidious path of destruction that has precipitated the destruction of all our wild kin and the genocide of Indigenous Peoples.

ULRICH EICHELMANN on Saving The Blue Heart of Europe /76

Ulrich is a German ecologist and conservationist who worked for the World Wildlife Fund Austria for more than 17 years until 2007, being primarily concerned with river conservation and restoration. He has been campaigning internationally against the construction of hydropower plants, such as dams along the Danube.

The Cost of Capitalism, Multispecies Justice, Conservation RestorationFor The WildMay 10, 2018wild water wild ice, Germany, Austria, ecologist, conservationist, river conservation, river restoration, Danube, Ilisu Dam, film-making, Climate Crimes, River Watch Comments

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