BILL McKIBBEN on Dampening the Blow of a Spiraling Climate /64

Today we join Bill Mckibben to discuss news from the frontlines of climate chaos and resistance. The discussion centers around the potential fate of modern civilization and the imperative to survive and to restore biodiversity.

Climate ChangeFor The WildFebruary 8, 2018frotline climate change, climate disaster, civilization collapse, biodiversity restoration, species survival, The End of Nature, 350.org, Keystone Pipeline resistance, fossil fuel divestment, Lake ChamplainComment

ANGELO BACA on the Elders of Bears Ears /63

Angelo Baca is a Navajo and Hopi filmmaker, and a PhD candidate, he has created numerous documentaries and collaborative works around such subjects as Indigenous food sovereignty, and Indigenous international repatriation.

Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice Zones, Direct ActionFor The WildFebruary 1, 2018anthropolgy, indigenous international repatriation, indigenous food sovereignty, sacred lands protection, traditional knowledge keepers, documentary film-maker, digital storytelling, Shash Jaa': Bears Ears, Frontline Defense Comments

NALINI NADKARNI on Discovering Forest Canopy Microcosms /62

Called "the queen of canopy research," Nalini Nadkarni explores the rich, vital world found in the tops of trees. Dr. Nadkarni takes us on a journey into the canopies to learn about the spectacular biota of the canopy.

For The Forests, Multispecies JusticeFor The WildDecember 23, 2017canopy research, climbing trees, Costa Rica, Papua New Guinea, Amazon, Pacific Northwest, Big Canopy Database, forest ecosystem, collecting mosses, upper layer canopy, canopy animals, canopy plants Comments

JACQUI PATTERSON on Eco-Justice in the Age of Disasters /61

Jacqui reminds us that we must strategically address the needs of our communities; when we work to uplift those at the bottom - we all rise.

PUA CASE on the Heart of a Mountain /60

Pua’s life path and purpose has led her to become a Kumu Hula… she address the issues and challenges facing sacred places and life ways of the people of Hawaiʻi.

GEORGE MONBIOT on Reinhabiting an Ecological Commons /59

Today we speak with George Monbiot, who studied zoology at Oxford, and has spent his career as a journalist and environmentalist, working with others to defend the natural world.

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.

Colonial Violence, Direct Action, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildNovember 24, 2017Treaty 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

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

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.

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.”

More Than Human Kin, Multispecies JusticeFor The WildOctober 27, 2017ocean 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 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.

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.

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.

Climate Change, Climate Solutions, Design+StrategyFor The WildSeptember 27, 2017Marin 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

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.

Conservation Restoration, For The ForestsFor The WildSeptember 20, 2017forest 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 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

Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildAugust 30, 2017attorney, 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

ALNOOR LADHA on Capitalists and Other Cannibals /49

Alnoor’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking, storytelling, technology and the decentralization of power. He is a founding member and the Executive Director of The Rules (/TR), a global network.

For The WildAugust 13, 2017 Comments

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.

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.

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.

Transition TransformationFor The WildMay 13, 2017Paganism, 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

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.

The Cost of Capitalism, Colonial Violence, Direct Action, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildApril 23, 2017Extractivism, 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

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