Natural Capitalism and Green Design
by Paul Hawken
read by Michael Toms
Part 1 of the Bioneers series
What would life be like if the monetary value of Gaia's services such as pollination, oxygen production, and soil fertility were taken into account? Paul Hawken, Amory and Hunter Lovins and William McDonough highlight existing methods and emerging solutions which are transforming commerce toward ecological principles.
Working With Nature to Heal Nature
by Kenny Ausubel
read by Michael Toms
Part 1 of the Bioneers series
"The Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature" introduces us to the past half-century's most visionary designers, practitioners and pioneers of sustainable living. Inspired by the philosophies of the Deep Ecology movement, the Bioneers are heroic examples of people living as if nature mattered.
The Original Instructions: It's All Related
by Oren Lyons
read by Michael Toms
Part 1 of the Bioneers series
What were the Original Instructions that tribal communities lived by for the vast majority of human existence? Native leaders Oren Lyons, Rebecca Adamson, Katsi Cook, Melissa Nelson, and writer Malcolm Margolin invoke the Original Instructions.
Climate Change and the Next Industrial Revolution
by Bill McKibben
read by Michael Toms
Part 1 of the Bioneers series
Author and climate change expert Bill McKibben takes us into the unstable future that is already showing itself. Amory Lovins presents inspiring industrial design innovations that are capable of shrinking human impacts on the biosphere by over 90%.
Overview: Bioneers-Creating New Solutions
by Paul Hawken
read by Michael Toms
Part 1.1 of the Bioneers series
Bioneers recognize that technical solutions to the ecological challenges we face must be accomplished by a change of heart.
Genetic Engineering or Genetic Roulette?
by Kenny Ausubel
read by Michael Toms
Part 1.1 of the Bioneers series
What lies behind the fascination to tinker with the building blocks of life? Kenny Ausubel and Andrew Kimbrell shed light on the disturbing genetic engineering debate, and activist Luke Anderson reports from the successful campaign that has derailed the spread of "biological pollution" in Great Britain and Europe.
Bioremediation: In Nature, Everybody Is Somebody's Lunch
by Dan Dagget
read by Michael Toms
Part 1.1 of the Bioneers series
Bioneers Dan Dagget, Paul Stamets, and John Todd show how cows, mushrooms, fungi and "living machines," are being used to restore Superfund sites, "eat" diesel spills and decontaminate soil and water.
World Trade With a Human Face
by Anita Roddick
read by Michael Toms
Part 1.1 of the Bioneers series
Alert to the human rights violations and ecological damage being sown by the "Economization of the Globe," Anita Roddick, David Korten and Kevin Danaher are working not just to slow the corporate limousine down, or change its color to green, but to pull up the pavement it is running on.
Wisdom at the End of a Hoe: Farming as if Biology Mattered
by John Jeavons
read by Michael Toms
Part 1.1 of the Bioneers series
What is it like living at a planet's pace? Is the gardener growing the garden or is the garden transforming the gardener? John Jeavons, Starhawk, Catherine Sneed, Bob Cannard and Penny Livingston point to genuine solutions for farming harmony with the earth.
Wise Women of the Earth: It's All Intelligent
by Nina Simons
read by Michael Toms
Part 1.1 of the Bioneers series
In this program we explore the restoration of the feminine and the feminization of the restoration, with a dance, a Mam'on, a meditation, and a prayer with Nina Simons, Katsi Cook, Starhawk, Terry Tempest Williams, Marta Benevides, and Kirstin Wilson.
Biodynamic Growing: Sacred Cows and Cosmic Science
by Hugh Lovel
read by Michael Toms
Part 1.1 of the Bioneers series
Industrial agriculture is the single most destructive human activity against the environment. Hugh Lovel, Peter Proctor and Fred Kirschenmann present an amazing approach to agriculture, stemming from the ideas of Rudolf Steiner, Founder of Waldorf Education, which grows nutritious foods and restores land and water.
Gaian Wonders of the Co-Evolutionary Dance
by Jeremy Narby, Ph. D.
read by Michael Toms
Part 2 of the Bioneers series
Who needs TV when the waves at the beach are phosphorescing, the fungal internet is pulsing, and the laws of physics are being broken all around us by...water? These Bioneers celebrate the wonders of nature they encounter in their work for the Earth and explore, among other things, "the ocean eye" and variations on a nematode worm.
Environmental Justice – Rising From the Flames
by Terri Swearingen, R. N.
read by Michael Toms
Part 2 of the Bioneers series
From the oil fields in Nigeria to an Ohio school yard downwind from a toxic incinerator, to a Richmond, California community surrounded by industry, these are inspiring stories of tragedy and the heroic victories of everyday people who are standing up to the deadly practices of big business polluters.
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
by Janine M. Benyus
read by Michael Toms
Part 2 of the Bioneers series
Leaders in the fields of agriculture, architecture, the arts, design, physics, engineering, theology, ecology and economics are rediscovering the genius of nature. And it's the genius of nature, they say, that just might save us.
Knowledge From Intimacy: Revaluing the Feminine
by Paula Gunn Allen, Ph. D.
read by Michael Toms
Part 2.1 of the Bioneers series
Here we acknowledge the "sheroic" work of 5 women who represent the millions who, in their work for the Earth, embody the "fierce feminine," feminine qualities they say that are in all of us no matter our gender. They are the qualities most called for in these pivotal times.
Rewilding the Earth: Nurturing the Web of Life
by Dave Foreman
read by Michael Toms
Part 2.1 of the Bioneers series
Ecosystems are collapsing and Dave Foreman is working to return large carnivores, "keystone species," like the wolf and the jaguar to the American West. Native American Dennis Martinez is a restorative ecologist, who would say the true "keystone species" has traditionally been indigenous humans.
Globalization: The Environment and Living Toward the Local
by Jerry Mander
read by Michael Toms
Part 2.1 of the Bioneers series
Every dollar we spend is a vote for or against the Earth. These Bioneers call us to recognize that economics is actually a subset of ecology, not the other way around. Behind most environmental harm is an economic motive, so how do we move from the love of money to the love of life?
Nature and Spirit: It's All Alive
by John Mohawk,
read by Michael Toms
Part 2.1 of the Bioneers series
Can a culture built on the infallibility of the rational mind perceive the sacred? Turtle Clan Seneca, John Mohawk, educator and traditional native farmer, is a Bioneer whose work it is to heal the artificial split between spirit and nature, mind and matter, creation and creator.
Global Green Plan and Urban Design
by Mark Hertsgaard
read by Michael Toms
Part 2.1 of the Bioneers series
Solutions, solutions, solutions. From the Global Green Deal, a comprehensive plan for restoring the Earth, to the inspiring programs and policies of one city that is going green. This program is full of practical strategies to turn eco-centered visions into living realities that deliver jobs and profits.
Honoring the Heritage of Black Farmers on the Land
by J. L. Chestnut
read by Michael Toms
Part 2.1 of the Bioneers series
Black farmers have been leaving the land at three and a-half times the rate of other farmers. It turns out that this loss of black farmers is due less to farming policies and practices than it is to generations of institutional racism. Civil Rights attorney J.L. Chestnut, in a brilliant and emotional speech, tells the story of the successful historic litigation against the USDA on behalf of these farmers.
Tree of Knowledge - Tree of Life: Towards an Agriculture of Relationships
by Joel Salatin
read by Michael Toms
Part 2.1 of the Bioneers series
Agriculture, or industrial farming, as it is practiced today, may be the single most destructive human activity against the Earth that we currently employ. In response, a movement toward Restorative Farming, that looks to nature for its direction, is gaining momentum.
The Duh Principle: Better Safe Than Sorry
by Carolyn Raffensperger
read by Michael Toms
Part 3 of the Bioneers series
Look before you leap. Better safe than sorry. These simple mottos express the heart of the precautionary principle, which acts as a lens for scientific choices, an insurance policy against our own ignorance.
Light at the Edge of the World: Reinventing the Poetry of Diversity
by Wade Davis
read by Michael Toms
Part 3 of the Bioneers series
Author/ethnobotanist/anthropologist Wade Davis has been from Borneo to Tibet to Haiti, from the high Arctic to the Andes and Amazon as an explorer of our planet's wondrous cultural and biological diversity. He has found a fire burning over the Earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom.
Greening Medicine: The Mainstreaming of Herbs
by Tieraona Low Dog, M. D.
read by Michael Toms
Part 3 of the Bioneers series
Herbalism has finally broken through into mainstream medicine. Dr. Tieraona Low Dog, a physician/herbalist is a pioneer of this new paradigm. She questions modern medicine while practicing it, and emphasizes the special relationship that exists between plants and humans, presenting exciting evidence that validates the traditional use of medicines like garlic!
Energy Security: the Growth of Soft Energy
by Hunter Lovins
read by Michael Toms
Part 3 of the Bioneers series
The recent energy crisis in California triggered the worst reflexes of many business and political leaders who clamored for more fossil-fuel power plants and fewer environmental limits. With the September 11th attacks has come the increased recognition that how we make and distribute energy is nearly impossible to protect.
Less Is More: Toward a Zero Discharge Industry
by Diane Wilson
read by Michael Toms
Part 3.1 of the Bioneers series
How about creating an industry that emits no poisons into the environment? Direct action eco-heroine Diane Wilson has used civil disobedience to fight such chemical giants as Union Carbide and DuPont. She tried to sink her shrimp boat on a Formosa Plastics toxic effluent pipe and won a zero discharge agreement.
Soil and Soul the Future of Farming
by Michael Ableman
read by Michael Toms
Part 3.1 of the Bioneers series
What are the hidden costs of agribusiness, with its chemical-dependent megafarms? Poor nutrition is one cost, and physical and mental illness, connected to poor nutrition, are on the rise in the United States.
Nature As Healer: Restoring Life As Community
by Anna Carter
read by Michael Toms
Part 3.1 of the Bioneers series
Anna Marie Carter, the "Seed Lady" of Watts, shares heartful stories of community renewal that have grown from her work building free organic gardens for residents of south central Los Angeles. T. Allen Comp presents his extraordinary work with AMD&ART, a non-profit that has combined public art, environmental improvement and community engagement in treating abandoned mine drainage in Appalachia.
Actual Perils of Genetically Modified Organisms
by Elaine Ingham
read by Michael Toms
Part 3.1 of the Bioneers series
Master soil scientist Elaine Ingham describes a genetically modified organism she discovered in her screening work that, if released, could have devastated global plant life. Writer Michael Pollan probes issues from food safety to the evolutionary significance of the power to genetically modify life, and Peter Montague reports on grassroots political actions that are beginning to render genetic engineering accountable to the public.
Nature and Spirit: It's All Connected
by Michael Lerner
read by Michael Toms
Part 3.1 of the Bioneers series
Global healing requires a spiritual transformation of every aspect of life. Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun Magazine, author/educator Matthew Fox and Joanna Macy, eco-philosopher and scholar of Buddhism speak of the profound interconnectedness of all life and the experience of joy, courage and community we need to engage in the healing of the world.
Daughters of Thoreau: Not Too Well Behaved
by Julia Butterfly Hill
read by Michael Toms
Part 3.1 of the Bioneers series
On his deathbed, Henry David Thoreau said his only regret was that he had been too well behaved. Julia Butterfly Hill, Diane Wilson, and Terri Swearingen, three of the most imaginative, inspiring and courageous direct-action heroines of our era share their experiences and show us how courage and commitment can stop mountains from being moved.
The Wonders of Gaia: Nature Is Symbiotic
by Wade Davis
read by Michael Toms
Part 3.1 of the Bioneers series
Why do a garden if you can put the green organism to work for you in your body? This is one of the mind-bending questions Lynn Margulis, one of the greatest scientists, fertile cross-disciplinary scientific thinkers and educators of our epoch, asks. She, ethnobotanist Wade Davis, and mycologist Paul Stamets weave tales of amazing plant intelligence like the Hat Thrower Mushroom and animals that eat light.
Getting the Real Story: Bypassing Corporate Media
by Peter Montague
read by Michael Toms
Part 3.1 of the Bioneers series
The rise of new communications technologies capable of linking us as never before coincides with an unprecedented bid by the corporate media to monopolize the message. How can media be used to catalyze a national and global conversation about what really matters?