CLAYTON THOMAS-MÜLLER on Disrupting Planetary Destruction /58
CLAYTON THOMAS-MÜLLER on Disrupting Planetary Destruction /58

Join Ayana in conversation with organizer, facilitator, public speaker and writer on Indigenous rights and environmental & economic justice, Clayton Thomas-Müller.

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Colonial Violence, Direct Action, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildTreaty 6, Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, Pukatawagan, Northern Manitoba, traditional territories, Alaska Natives, Native Americans, Stop it at the Source, Tar sands, fossil fuel resistance, land defendersComment
WINONA LaDUKE on the Prophesied Green Path /57
WINONA LaDUKE on the Prophesied Green Path /57

As the Founder and Executive Director of Honor the Earth, Winona is fighting against pipelines while simultaneously creating tangible solutions for oil independence.

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Wisdom Keepers, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice Zones, Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Radical ImaginationFor The WildIngenuity, earth activism, Indigenous sovereignty, environmental activist, pipeline resistance, oil indipendence, economist, writer, orator, Honor the Earth, White Earth Anishinaabe Nation, Osage, Minnesota, Turtle Island Slow Food Association, Anishinaabe land stewards Comments
Dr. SYLVIA EARLE on the Fate of Marine Biodiversity /56
Dr. SYLVIA EARLE on the Fate of Marine Biodiversity /56

This episode we speak with Dr. Sylvia A. Earle, called "Her Deepness" by the New Yorker and the New York Times, "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress, and first "Hero for the Planet" by Time magazine. Dr. Earle is an oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer.

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Multispecies Justice, More Than Human KinFor The WildHer Deepness, Hero for the Planet, oceanographer, explorer, author, lecturer, field research scientist, women aquanauts, Mission Blue, marine protected areas, Hope Spots, rae species, threatened species, endangered species, ocean research, underwater explorationComment
PAUL WATSON on Sea Shepherd's Life-or-Death Direct Action /55
PAUL WATSON on Sea Shepherd's Life-or-Death Direct Action /55

Today’s powerful conversation revolves around the state of our oceans, threats to marine wildlife, Sea Shepherd’s resistance through what Paul Watson calls “aggressive non-violence.”

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More Than Human Kin, Multispecies JusticeFor The Wildocean conservation, marine wildlife conservation, environemntal activist, non-violence, Indigenous hunters, Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Sea Shepherd ships, Whale Wars, Environmental Heroes Comments
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS on Sacred Rage and the Battle for Public Lands /54
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS on Sacred Rage and the Battle for Public Lands /54

Terry Tempest Williams guides us to explore acts of the imagination into our shifts of consciousness and expanding our sense of family to both human and wild. For the identity of Americans, we are facing a welcome and necessary shift towards mindful reverence, active respect, and intentional renewal of our remaining open public spaces.

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Direct Action, Wisdom KeepersFor The WildBear Ears, National Monuments, Utah, Terry Tempest Williams, sacred activism, National Parks, Pubic Liands, Essential Listening, naturalist writing, freedom of speech advocate, The Hour of the Land, memory, family, gender, community, landscape, public lands protection, imagination, wilderness trails Comments
KANDI MOSSETT on the Hidden Costs of Modernity /53
KANDI MOSSETT on the Hidden Costs of Modernity /53

Kandi Mossett (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara – North Dakota) has emerged as a leading voice in the fight to bring visibility to the impacts that climate change and environmental injustice are having on Indigenous communities across North America.

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Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildExtractivism, hydraulic fracturing, tribal lands, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, North Dakota, environmental justice, Indigenous communities, environmental management, Indigenous Environmental Network, extreme energy, just transition, socio-ecologic injustice, Indigenous youth, United Nations Forums, Frontline Defense Comments
CALLA ROSE OSTRANDER and JOHN WICK on Carbon Drawdown in Abrupt Climate Change /52
CALLA ROSE OSTRANDER and JOHN WICK on Carbon Drawdown in Abrupt Climate Change /52

The pace of climate breakdown has greatly outpaced projections, and will continue to accelerate as these tipping points are reached—unless!—there were a secret power we could harness to pull CO2.

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Climate Change, Climate Solutions, Design+StrategyFor The WildMarin Carbon Project, carbon farmer, sustainable land management advocate, carbon sequestration, Nicasio Native Grass Ranch, cliamte action, cliamte drawdown, Earth Economics, Aspen, San Francisco, Rocky Mountain Insititute Comments
JODY HOLMES on Keeping the Great Bear Standing /51
JODY HOLMES on Keeping the Great Bear Standing /51

We are joined by Jody Holmes, primary architect of a historic multi-generational agreement to conserve and sustainably manage the Great Bear Rainforest, one of the largest old growth temperate rainforests on the planet.

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Conservation Restoration, For The ForestsFor The Wildforest defender, Great Bear Rainforest Agreements, old growth temperate rainforest, Rainforest Solutions Project, Ecosystem-Based Management, forest conservation, forest managementComment
THERESA TWO BULLS on Uniting to Reclaim the Black Hills /50
THERESA TWO BULLS on Uniting to Reclaim the Black Hills /50

Theresa Two Bulls is an attorney, prosecutor and politician in the United States and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. In 2004 she was elected to the South Dakota Senate, the first Indigenous woman to be elected to the state legislature

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Sacrifice ZonesFor The Wildattorney, prosecutor, politician, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Indigenous women, Department of Justice, National Congress of American Indians, Unity Concert, Black Hills Initiative, Honor the Treaties, violence against Indigenous women, youth suicide, Buffalo NationComment
JASMINE FUEGO on Social Permaculture and Harnessing the Power of Festival Culture /48
JASMINE FUEGO on Social Permaculture and Harnessing the Power of Festival Culture /48

Ayana speaks with Jasmine Fuego about mobilizing regeneration through harnessing the power of festival culture and social permaculture. Jasmine Fuego is an activist, artist and permaculturist redefining the transformational festival scene.

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Transition TransformationFor The Wildpermaculture, ecology, festival culture, activism, social permaculture, activist, artist, art and action, Permaculture Action Network, layered relationships, community, land, art, music, facilitator, youth mindfulness, entrepreneurship, social transformationComment
CHIEF CALEEN SISK on the Fight for Free and Wild Salmon Rivers /47
CHIEF CALEEN SISK on the Fight for Free and Wild Salmon Rivers /47

We talk with Chief Caleen Sisk, spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu of Northern California, to explore how the forces of industrial society have attempted to tame and exploit living waters, and how these native stewards are facing the ecological predicament that has ensued.

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The Cost of Capitalism, Wisdom Keepers, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Deep Ecology, Direct ActionFor The WildWinnemem Wintu, living waters, Chinook Salmon, Northern California, New Zealand, Maori, McCloud River, California salmon restoration, Human Right to Water, Indigenous sacred sites, spiritual medicine ways, the spirit of water, global warming, tribal lifeways, A Love Song To Cascadia, More-Than-Human-Kin Comments
STARHAWK on the Roots and Shoots of Earth-based Community /46
STARHAWK on the Roots and Shoots of Earth-based Community /46

Starhawk’s call to bring together tools of spiritual empowerment with activism, asks us to critically examine systems of control and domination and our responses to them – including areas where we may be giving our power away unknowingly to so-called authority figures and/or systems and where sources of spiritual power may have been forcibly removed.

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Transition TransformationFor The WildPaganism, Reclaiming, Ritual, Anarchy, Community dynamics, social permaculture, earth-based spirituality, political activism, Integral Studies, carbon sequestering ranching, holistic management, restorative forestry, food forests, perennial systems Comments
ERIEL DERANGER on Radicality Amid Expanding Tar Sands /45
ERIEL DERANGER on Radicality Amid Expanding Tar Sands /45

In this episode we speak with activist Eriel Tchekwie Deranger about the largest industrial project in the world, the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, and strategize about the future of fossil fuel resistance.

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The Cost of Capitalism, Colonial Violence, Direct Action, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildExtractivism, fossil fuel resistance, extractive industry, Indigenous sovereignty, land rights, Boreal forest, carbon sink, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, traditional territory, Indigenous Cliamte Action, Indigenous rights advocate Comments
BREN SMITH on Underwater Food Forests For Ailing Oceans /44
BREN SMITH on Underwater Food Forests For Ailing Oceans /44

Bren Smith of Green Wave is determined to pioneer and popularize a food system that carries marine restoration in its very architecture. Having spent his life on the seas from Newfoundland to Alaska, Bren has witnessed first hand the collapse of global fisheries.

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For The Forests, Multispecies Justice, Climate Solutions, Food Sovereignty, Design+Strategy, Shore Ocean Communities, Conservation RestorationFor The Wildocean farming, marine restoration, Ingenuity, fisheries collapse, vertical 3D ocean farming, carbon sequestration, habitat creation, fisher-folk, reduce consumption, wild fish, sustainable food systems, Green Wave Comments
LYLA JUNE on Resistance and Forgiveness in the Final Years of Patriarchy /43
LYLA JUNE on Resistance and Forgiveness in the Final Years of Patriarchy /43

Lyla June retraces the origins of oppression of European women, men and earth-based cultures through to recent histories of genocide, inter-generational trauma, and the enduring forces that seek to destroy Indigenous women and the earth.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Transition TransformationFor The Wildpoetry, indigenous leadership, musician, poet, Taos, Diné, Tsétsêhéstâhese, Indigenous language, Creator, environmental anthropology, elders knowledge, traditional knowledge, spiritual knowledge, ecological knowledge, paradigm shift Comments
LYLA JUNE on the Endangered Diversity of Language and Life /42
LYLA JUNE on the Endangered Diversity of Language and Life /42

Lyla June was raised in Taos, New Mexico and is a descendent of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages. Her personal mission in life is to grow closer to Creator by learning how to love deeper.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Cultural Strategy, Transition TransformationFor The Wildparadigm shift, musician, poet, Taos, Diné, Tsétsêhéstâhese, Indigenous language, Creator, environmental anthropology, elders knowledge, traditional knowledge, spiritual knowledge, ecological knowledge Comments
STEPHEN JENKINSON on Ancestry and Misanthropy /41
STEPHEN JENKINSON on Ancestry and Misanthropy /41

Stephen Jenkinson is an activist, teacher, author, and farmer. His book Die Wise recently received the Nautilus Book Award. He has a masters degree in theology from Harvard University and a masters degree in social work from the University of Toronto.

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Colonial Violence, Wisdom KeepersFor The Wildancestry, ecophilosophy, indigeneity, Wisdom Keepers, teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer, Orphan Wisdom School, deep living, Die Wise, theology, hospice, palliative care, Griefwalker Comments
NINA SIMONS on the Holistic Endeavor of Shifting Culture /40
NINA SIMONS on the Holistic Endeavor of Shifting Culture /40

Today we are joined by co-founder and president of Bioneers, Nina Simons. Nina takes on some far-reaching questions about organizing for systemic change amid convergent crises.

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Cultural Strategy, Transition Transformation, Radical ImaginationFor The Wildpublic discourse, indigenous leadership, race/class/gender, movement building, climate change, bioneers, Bioneers, social entrepreneur, breakthrough innovations, systemic change, ecological crises, sacrifice, denialism, gender tension, race tension, privilege, empowermentComment
FAITH GEMMILL & PRINCESS LUCAJ on an Arctic Untouched by Oil /39
FAITH GEMMILL & PRINCESS LUCAJ on an Arctic Untouched by Oil /39

Today we’re speaking Faith Gemmill, a Pit River/ Wintu and Neets’ aii Gwich’in Athabascan earth defender from Arctic Village, Alaska. Also joining us is Princess Lucaj. She is the former Executive Director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee and Alaska Director at the Indigenous Leadership Institute.

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Ancient Ice, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice Zones, Colonial Violence, Direct ActionFor The Wildarctic, indigenous activists, oil extraction, wildlife, Arctic Village, Alaska, Gwich’in, earth defender, pocupine caribou, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Native Voices, wildlife protection, Honor the Earth, indigenous activism, wild water wild ice Comments