Podcasts by For The Wild

MAYA KHOSLA on What the Forest Holds /313 from 2022-11-16T11:00

What can the forest teach us of grief, of joy, of humanity? This week, poet and scientist Maya Khosla invites listeners into the forests of Northern California to find deep reverence for the pow...

SOPHIE STRAND on Myths as Maps /312 from 2022-11-09T11:00

In this winding and lucid conversation, guest Sophie Strand invites us to investigate our relationality, to embrace rot and decay, to welcome our demons to the dinner table, and to prepare for u...

DR. VANDANA SHIVA on Diverse Expressions of a Living Earth /311 from 2022-11-02T11:00

In this episode centered around global consciousness and rooted local action, returning guest Dr. Vandana Shiva reminds us of the power of commitment in the fight for the Earth. Reflecting on he...

DORI MIDNIGHT on Spinning Webs of Support /310 from 2022-10-27T11:00

“With a prayer to imagine beyond the current structures and systems, and kind of weave ourselves into, and be wrapped inside of, the invisible cloak that is interdependence, that is mutual aid, tha...

ISMAIL LOURIDO ALI, J.D. on Post-Prohibition Realities /309 from 2022-10-19T11:00

It’s undeniable that right now we are in a rapidly changing and complex relationship with the consumption, production, and reality of drugs, substances, and medicines, and their usage. This week, g...

SLOW STUDY: Bayo Akomolafe's We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks! from 2022-10-14T12:00

This Slow Study Course is a series of lectures and practice prompts from Bayo Akomolafe's 2021 edition of "We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks!" wherein 1000+ people gather...

LARK ELODEA on Appalachians Against Pipelines /308 from 2022-10-12T11:00

The Mountain Valley Pipeline, which runs through West Virginia to Virginia is on the verge of completion following intense legislative and legal battles. This episode reminds us of the danger in th...

TUSHA YAKOVLEVA on the Invitation of Invasive Plants /307 from 2022-10-05T11:00

This week guest Tusha Yakovleva calls on us to remember our millennium-old relationship with weedy beings and the gifts of wild and invasive plants. It’s estimated that worldwide spending on invasi...

YOALLI RODRIGUEZ on Grief as an Ontological Form of Time /306 from 2022-09-28T11:00

This week, guest Yoalli Rodriguez brings us to the Chacahua-Pastoría Lagoons in Oaxaca, Mexico, to investigate deep connections with land, ongoing colonial violence, and the grief that comes alongs...

ANTONIA ESTELA PÉREZ on Uncovering Plant-Human Intimacy /305 from 2022-09-21T11:00

Breathing in the joy and lessons of the plant life surrounding us, Ayana and guest Antonia Estela Pérez share an enriching conversation on the power and magic of coming to know the world around ...

Dr. MIMI KHÚC on Claiming Unwellness /304 from 2022-09-14T11:00

Guided by her curated work Open In Emergency (a “hybrid book project” including a Tarot Deck and a “hacked” DSM), Dr. Mimi Khúc and Ayana share in a deep conversation touching on mental health, col...

Dr. BRETT STORY on How We Belong to Each Other /303 from 2022-09-07T11:00

This week, Ayana is joined by filmmaker and author Dr. Brett Story. Together, they ponder justice, accountability, and interconnection in a complex and rapidly changing world. In this intellectual ...

CLAUDIA SERRATO on Earth-Centric Gastronomy /302 from 2022-08-31T11:00

This week, guest Dr. Claudia Serrato opens our minds to the sensual, political, and vital nature of our relationship to food. Our bodies are a landscape in their own right and with Indigenous femin...

ANG ROELL on the Relations of the Beehive /301 from 2022-08-24T11:00

How might we steward relationships of generosity, see beehives beyond the human-imposed gaze? This week, guest Ang Roell leads us to better understand bees and our entangled relationship to them. B...

Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Coming Alive to Other Senses /300 from 2022-08-17T11:00

“The fugitive is the figure of the Anthropocene, a political invitation to unlearn ‘mastery,’ to fall to the Earth, to learn how to commune with soil… In a sense, the fugitive answers the question ...

Dr. CLINT CARROLL on Stewarding Homeland /299 from 2022-08-10T11:00

In this new episode of For The Wild podcast, Ayana and guest Dr. Clint Carroll, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, discuss the mobility of Cherokee ethical frameworks as they are applied to environm...

Dr. JAMAICA HEOLIMELEIKALANI OSARIO on Reclaiming Aloha /297 from 2022-07-27T11:00

Dr. LARRY WARD on Healing the Colonial Mind /296 from 2022-07-20T11:00

In this episode of For The Wild podcast, we plumb into racial karma and healing systemic trauma in the American context with guest Dr. Larry Ward. Covering the neuroscience of trauma, the habit of ...

KYLE WHYTE on the Colonial Genesis of Climate Change [ENCORE] /295 from 2022-07-13T11:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Dr. Kyle Whyte originally aired in January of 2020. The United States has more miles of pipeline than any other country in the world. Pipeline con...

Dr. MAX LIBOIRON on Reorienting Within a World of Plastic [ENCORE] /294 from 2022-07-06T11:00

LINDA BLACK ELK on What Endures After Pandemic [ENCORE] /293 from 2022-06-29T04:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Linda Black Elk originally aired in April of 2020. On this week’s episode, we speak to Linda Black Elk on traditional medicine, community wellness...

RICHIE RESEDA on Dismantling Patriarchy [ENCORE] /292 from 2022-06-22T11:00

ROWEN M WHITE on Seed Rematriation and Fertile Resistance [ENCORE] /291 from 2022-06-15T11:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Rowen White originally aired in July of 2020. Across Turtle Island, seeds have long been passed down through the generations — accompanied by cere...

TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE on the Power of Humility [ENCORE] /290 from 2022-06-08T11:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Tiokasin Ghosthorse originally aired in June of 2021. If we need the Earth, does the Earth need us? This week on the podcast we dive deep into the...

GIULIANA FURCI on the Divine Time of Fungal Evolution [ENCORE] /289 from 2022-06-01T11:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Giuliana Furci originally aired in June of 2021. So often fungi are pitched as being at the forefront of innovation, whether being used to create ...

K’ASHEECHTLAA - LOUISE BRADY on Restoring the Sacred [ENCORE] /288 from 2022-05-25T11:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with K’asheechtlaa (Louise Brady) originally aired in April of 2021. Many of us have access to more choices than we ever thought imaginable, in fact, i...

InTheField: NUSKMATA (Jacinda Mack) on the Gold Rush That Never Ended [ENCORE] /287 from 2022-05-18T06:47

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Nuskmata (Jacinda Mack) originally aired in February of 2020. From roller coaster rides at Disney World to museums dotting the Pacific Northwest, ...

ALOK on Unruly Beauty [ENCORE] /286 from 2022-05-11T11:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with ALOK, originally aired in August of 2021.“I validate the idea that survival is the ultimate act of creation in a world that has reduced us to fasc...

Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times [ENCORE] /285 from 2022-05-04T11:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, originally aired in January of 2020. Our hearts and minds are set to work by the urgent eco-social crises of this time. Caught...

Dr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance [ENCORE] /284 from 2022-04-27T18:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Dr. Kim TallBear originally aired in February of 2020. Intimacy and sexuality is the soil that gives rise to creativity, pleasure and regeneration...

RUTH ŁCHAV'AYA K'ISEN MILLER on Relations of Reciprocity [ENCORE] /283 from 2022-04-20T18:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Ruth Łchav’aya K’isen Miller, originally aired in September of 2021. “If this new green economy continues to perpetuate the same ethos that resour...

WOMAN STANDS SHINING (Pat McCabe) on Humanity's Homecoming [ENCORE] /282 from 2022-04-13T18:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe), originally aired in September of 2021. In the fast-paced movement of today’s media, it’s easy to become entangl...

PRENTIS HEMPHILL on Choosing Belonging [ENCORE] /281 from 2022-04-06T18:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Prentis Hemphill, originally aired in July of 2021. “There's no magical return. We're not all going to return to an unblemished time in history, a...

Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on the Promise of the Commons /280 from 2022-03-30T18:00

In this episode of For the Wild, Ayana and returning guest Dr. Vandana Shiva discuss the crumbling of the colonial paradigm and the promise of re-commoning the commons for our collective future. Si...

SII-AM HAMILTON on Respect-Based Futures [ENCORE] /279 from 2022-03-23T18:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Sii-am Hamilton, originally aired in November of 2020. In this powerful conversation with land defender Sii-am Hamilton, we are invited to discuss...

adrienne maree brown on Writing Our Future /278 from 2022-03-18T18:00

What does a just climate future look like? In this bonus episode Ayana and guest adrienne maree brown discuss Imagine 2200, Fix’s climate-fiction contest, which recognizes stories that envision the...

CORRINA GOULD on Settler Responsibility and Reciprocity [ENCORE] /277 from 2022-03-16T18:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Corinna Gould, originally aired in November of 2020. Prior to settler development and extraction, the landscapes and lifeways of Ohlone territory ...

ELLA NOAH BANCROFT on the Intelligence of Our Intimacy [ENCORE] /276 from 2022-03-09T13:30

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Ella Noah Bancroft, originally aired in March of 2021. “We forget that so much is given freely, that this world is meant to be enjoyed.” We heed t...

MIKE PHILLIPS on Gray Wolves and the Vitality of Death [ENCORE] /275 from 2022-03-02T18:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Mike Phillips which originally aired in January of 2020. Not long ago, packs of gray wolves roamed freely across so-called North America from the ...

BRONTË VELEZ on the Necessity of Beauty, Part 2 [ENCORE] /274 from 2022-02-23T19:30

This week we are rebroadcasting part two of our interview with brontë velez (they/them), originally aired in October of 2019. We dive into the capacity for pleasure amidst times of great uncertaint...

BRONTË VELEZ on the Pleasurable Surrender of White Supremacy, Part 1 [ENCORE]/273 from 2022-02-16T19:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with brontë velez, originally aired in October of 2019. brontë velez opens this week’s episode inviting us to think about how submission to Earth is an...

Dr. KATE STAFFORD on What the Whales Hear [ENCORE] /272 from 2022-02-09T19:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Dr. Kate Stafford, originally aired in September of 2020. The bowhead whale can live up to 200 years old, meaning that the bowhead whales of today...

CHRIS HEDGES on Deflating the Ruling Elite through Civil Disobedience [ENCORE] /271 from 2022-02-02T19:00

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Chris Hedges, originally aired in June of 2019. All too often our conversations around the consolidation of wealth and power in America blindly fi...

MICHAEL MEADE on Cultivating Mythic Imagination [ENCORE] /270 from 2022-01-26T16:15

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Michael Meade, originally aired in June of 2019. The crises of cosmological, mythological and psychological disconnection from nature, from oursel...

DONNA HARAWAY on Staying with the Trouble [ENCORE] /269 from 2022-01-19T19:30

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Donna Haraway, originally aired in August of 2019. Since her 1985 essay, “A Cyborg Manifesto,” scholar Donna Haraway has transformed how theorists...

VIJAY PRASHAD on Capitalism’s Erosion of Morality [ENCORE] /268 from 2022-01-12T16:47

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Vijay Prashad, originally aired in February of 2021. Emboldened by the rapid development of technology, a cultural ethos of rugged individualism, ...

TRICIA HERSEY on Rest as Resistance [ENCORE] /267 from 2022-01-05T18:53

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Tricia Hersey of the Nap Ministry, originally aired in June of 2020. With a historical analysis of slavery and plantation labor, this week’s episo...

CHIARA FRANCESCA on Embodied Care /266 from 2021-12-29T19:15

In this week’s episode, we ground ourselves in our embodied reality with guest Chiara Francesca, who invites us to explore what it means to be aware of our bodies and the way that they feel in this...

SHA’MIRA COVINGTON on Healing the Fashion Industrial Complex /265 from 2021-12-22T19:15

In the world of fashion and design, it’s becoming increasingly common to hear about businesses that are sustainable in their use of material; using biofabricated textiles, measuring their water usa...

BATHSHEBA DEMUTH on a More-Than-Human History /264 from 2021-12-15T19:15

How might a bowhead whale tell the history of the Arctic? Grounding us in a history of the Bering Strait that listens deeply to ecology and the more-than-human, Bathsheba Demuth invites us to expan...

MARCELLA KROLL on the Magic of Neurodiverse Futurisms /263 from 2021-12-08T19:15

All too often that which exists beyond the realms of intellect and rationality are deemed unworthy, unreal, and even demonized by the overculture. However, there is tremendous power held by magical...

Dr. PATRICIA KAISHIAN on Queer Mycology /262 from 2021-12-01T20:00

Dr. Patricia Kaishian encourages us to think of mycology as a revolutionary and political practice. Diving into queer mycology, we see the ways that fungi challenge binaries of gender, family struc...

ANTONIO LÓPEZ on the Colonization of Our Attention /261 from 2021-11-24T19:43

Most of us are familiar with the environmental impacts of our physical technology, like the e-waste generated from cell phones or the minerals required to run our laptops, but have you ever wondere...

NIRIA ALICIA on Pockets of Joy in the Resistance /260 from 2021-11-17T17:00

Niria Alicia guides us to think about ancestral instruction, precious purpose, rituals for liberation, and what it means to be human in this time.

Dr. RUPA MARYA and RAJ PATEL on Deep Medicine /259 from 2021-11-10T19:15

Dr. Rupa Marya and Raj Patel discuss the biological impacts of oppressive social structures. We are left with the resounding reminder that inflammation is an indicator that we must change our colle...

KERRY KNUDSEN on Lichen and Life after Capitalism [ENCORE] /258 from 2021-11-03T18:41

Kerry spans the dreamiest of worlds, from the surreal and psychedelic presence of lichens to the magic of creating life post-capitalism.

CHRIS ZIMMER on a River Ethic /257 from 2021-10-27T18:30

As the ocean warms and grows more hostile, the icy waters of the Taku river have served as refuge for salmon and an abundance of more-than-human kin. Howev...

SAMUEL GENSAW III on the Restorative Revolution /256 from 2021-10-20T18:30

The abundance of the Klamath River has been severely restricted since the late 1700s by way of mining, logging, and damming. Once home to the third-largest salmon run in the lower 48, now Northern ...

DALLAS GOLDTOOTH on Responding to Toxic Masculinity [ENCORE] /255 from 2021-10-13T18:18

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Dallas Goldtooth, originally aired in December of 2018. Dallas Goldtooth joins Ayana in a conversation around toxic masculinity, accountability, a...

JOSEFINA SKERK on Sámi Lifeways /254 from 2021-10-06T18:45

When one thinks about iron, copper, and gold mining, Sweden is not the first place that comes to mind, but in the past few years the country has granted roughly 500 mining exploration permits as it...

VALARIE KAUR on the Ancient Call to Love /253 from 2021-09-29T14:35

“What might happen if we saw a migrant child at the border as our own daughter? Or George Floyd gasping for breath as our own brother? Or Brianna as sister? Or the Asian American women slaughtered ...

RUTH ?CHAV'AYA K'ISEN MILLER on Relations of Reciprocity /252 from 2021-09-27T18:39

In this magnetic conversation, Ruth and Ayana consider where a politics of love can breathe, radical softness, mindsets of abundance, climate justice advocacy, and the steps we can take to create s...

WOMAN STANDS SHINING (Pat McCabe) on Humanity's Homecoming /251 from 2021-09-17T15:26

In the fast-paced movement of today’s media, it’s easy to become entangled in narratives of extinction, loss, a lack of time, and a tremendous amount of misanthropy. However, when we pause to look ...

THEA RIOFRANCOS on Planetary Perspectives of Green Energy /250 from 2021-09-08T18:45

When we hear about the Green New Deal, it is almost always in context to policy and business within the United States. The urgent push for an energy transition away from fossil fuels often obscures...

LIL MILAGRO HENRIQUEZ-CORNEJO on Climate Resilience Rooted in Ancestry /249 from 2021-09-01T18:45

In order to limit global temperature from exceeding a 1.5°C increase, we need to cut global emissions by 45% in the next 10 years. However, recent reports indicate that if our current global pledge...

QUEEN QUET on the Survival of Sea Island Wisdom [ENCORE] /248 from 2021-08-25T18:45

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Queen Quet, originally aired in November of 2018. The Anthropocene tells the story of compounding injustice towards people and planet. It tells th...

ANDREA BALLESTERO on a Future History of Water /247 from 2021-08-18T18:45

The ubiquity of water is demonstrated in almost everything we come into contact with. It’s responsible for everyday objects like blue jeans, bread, and coffee, it rushes through pipes below our fee...

GUY RITANI and TOAD ANDREW DELL on Queering Permaculture /246 from 2021-08-11T18:45

Environmental and ecological sustainability movements have often negated their complicity in white supremacy, heteronormativity, patriarchy, and capitalism, citing that their pursuits and causes ar...

ALOK on Unruly Beauty /245 from 2021-08-04T18:45

“I validate the idea that survival is the ultimate act of creation in a world that has reduced us to fascist arithmetic, of being a quantitative statistic, not a human soul. So we still found a way...

PRENTIS HEMPHILL on Choosing Belonging /244 from 2021-07-28T18:45

“There's no magical return. We're not all going to return to an unblemished time in history, and if we know that...what do we have to do? Who needs to have conversation with whom? Who needs to heal...

Dr. MICHAEL LUJAN BEVACQUA on Guåhan’s Sovereignty Amidst Climate Change /243 from 2021-07-21T18:45

This week on the podcast we begin our conversation with Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua by discussing Guåhan’s incredibly layered history, as well as the CHamoru history that predates any colonial narra...

STEFANIE BRENDL on Being Humbled by Sharks /242 from 2021-07-14T18:45

We begin this week with reverence for sharks as kin that have inhabited Earth’s waters for 450 million years, an existence that even predates trees. These apex predators embody a deep resilience an...

PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA on Finding Uncommon Ground [ENCORE] /241 from 2021-07-07T18:45

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Pádraig Ó Tuama, originally aired in September of 2019. The Isle of Éire (Ireland) is rich with stories held by the land, both ancient and modern,...

X? IS X? ?AA and MAIA WIKLER on Indigenous Sovereignty at Fairy Creek Blockade /240 from 2021-06-30T18:45

British Columbia’s government has claimed that over 20% of “their” forests still contain old-growth, but a recent independent study found only 2.7% could truly be classified as such. Despite the re...

GIULIANA FURCI on the Divine Time of Fungal Evolution /239 from 2021-06-23T18:45

So often fungi are pitched as being at the forefront of innovation, whether being used to create vegan leather, pharmaceuticals, or being incorporated into various biotechnology products, but this ...

AMYROSE FOLL on Free Food for Liberation /238 from 2021-06-16T18:45

This year approximately 42 million people will experience food insecurity in the United States, a perverse number when put in context to the surplus of food many of us have access to. In this week’...

TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE on the Power of Humility /237 from 2021-06-09T18:30

If we need the Earth, does the Earth need us? This week on the podcast we dive deep into the relationship amongst ourselves and the Earth with guest Tiokasin Ghosthorse. We begin our conversation b...

HELENA NORBERG-HODGE on the Violence of Globalization /236 from 2021-06-02T18:45

Through the support of ever-growing subsidies, trade deals, and taxes global corporations have ballooned, creating a highly violent, exploitative, and absurd global trade system. So absurd, that of...

TYSON YUNKAPORTA on Unbranding Our Mind /235 from 2021-05-26T18:45

Struggling to change actual conditions, many have settled for changing the perceptions of the world around us. On this week’s episode, guest Tyson Yunkaporta begins by sharing the connections betwe...

BANI AMOR on Tourism and the Colonial Project /234 from 2021-05-19T18:45

On this week’s episode, we observe the impacts of common narratives of escape and place and how those narratives underscore exploitative tourism. Bani Amor guides us through an exploration of how t...

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS on Sacred Rage and the Battle for Public Lands [Encore] /233 from 2021-05-12T18:45

This week’s encore episode, originally broadcast in October of 2017, invites insight into renewed relational understanding of home, sacred rage, and protecting the breathing spaces of public lands....

GOPAL DAYANENI on the Exploitation of Soil and Story /232 from 2021-05-07T19:00

Will we “undo” or “solve” climate change? Could we still create a livable world if the answer to the previous question is no? Could we create an even more just world than the one we’ve been living ...

MAX WILBERT on Renewable Energy’s Sacrifice Zones, Part One /232 from 2021-04-28T20:45

Within Paiute and Shoshone lands in so-called Nevada exists a quiet habitat teeming with life. Thacker Pass is home to rare desert wildflowers, bighorn sheep, old-growth sagebrush, sage grouse, pro...

JORDAN MARIE BRINGS THREE WHITE HORSES DANIEL on Running in Prayer /231 from 2021-04-21T18:45

Mainstream media has gradually begun to recognize the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S) epidemic across North America, but only after constant attention ...

K’ASHEECHTLAA - LOUISE BRADY on restoring the Sacred /230 from 2021-04-14T20:45

Many of us have access to more choices than we ever thought imaginable, in fact, it is quite easy to find ourselves amidst an abundance of products, eating foods cultivated across the world, or sel...

DEVRA L. DAVIS on 5G and the Cause for Concern /229 from 2021-04-07T18:45

When asked about implementing 5G in 2019, Brussels’ Environment Minister, Celine Fremault was quoted saying “the people of Brussels are not guinea pigs whose health I can sell at a profit. We canno...

Dr. CHANDA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN on the Night Sky and Liberation Discourse /228 from 2021-03-31T18:45

Humans have often turned to the night sky for both practical matters, like direction and orientation, as well as philosophical matters, like making sense of our place in the world and communicating...

NKEM NDEFO on the Body as Compass /227 from 2021-03-24T18:45

CAROLINA RUBIO MACWRIGHT on the Intersections of Immigration, Assimilation, and Earth Based Wisdom /226 from 2021-03-17T18:45

In 2018 former Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, what we didn’t know was that beginning in 2017 the Trump administration ran a...

ENRIQUE SALMÓN on Moral Landscapes Amidst Changing Ecologies /225 from 2021-03-10T19:45

We are often reminded of the tremendous amount of loss that transpires every day on this Earth; loss of language, biodiversity, and ancestral knowledge. In response, it’s understandable that many o...

ELLA NOAH BANCROFT on the Intelligence of Our Intimacy /224 from 2021-03-03T19:45

“We forget that so much is given freely, that this world is meant to be enjoyed.” This week, we heed this powerful reminder by guest Ella Noah Bancroft. As our belief systems have become entwined w...

QUEER NATURE on Reclaiming Wild Safe Space /223 ?ENCORE? from 2021-02-24T20:45

How can queerness guide us as we move through this liminal time period? How can queer ecology radically change our way of knowing? This week’s episode, initially aired in December of 2018, acknowle...

JENNY ODELL on the Attention Economy /222 from 2021-02-17T19:45

Our attention has operated as currency for the past couple of decades, but with the invasiveness of social media and technology, our ability to exit and enter the attention economy has been severel...

DAVID HOLMGREN on a Quiet Boycott /221 from 2021-02-10T19:45

As so-called powerful “industrial civilizations” continue to decline into dysfunction, unable to care for the vast majority, the call to localize, reinvest...

VIJAY PRASHAD on Capitalism’s Erosion of Morality /220 from 2021-02-03T19:45

Emboldened by the rapid development of technology, a cultural ethos of rugged individualism, globalization, and the monopolization of our media, the era of efficiency in the so-called Global North ...

Homebound: Personal Preparedness in Advance with Reverend M. KALANI SOUZA /166 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

For The Wild presents Homebound as an offering of curated episodes from the archives intended to share perspective and guidance in the midst of a time of tremendous uncertainty and possibility. I...

Dr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance /157 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Intimacy and sexuality is the soil that gives rise to creativity, pleasure and regeneration of new life. As mainstream understandings of sex, marriage, and family shift, Dr. Kim TallBear highlights...

JADE BEGAY & JULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT on Restorying Power for a Just Transition /143 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Last October, the IPCC reported that we must cut global emissions in half by 2030 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Faced with the enormous task of decarbonizing our economies and radically ...

PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA on Finding Uncommon Ground /135 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Isle of Éire (Ireland) is rich with stories held by the land, both ancient and modern, laden with fierce culture and colonial violence. Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama perceives these compl...

MICHAEL MARTINEZ on Transforming Waste Relations /121 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

A burgeoning national food movement asks us to think critically about where our food comes from, and yet rarely do we consider where our food actually ends up. Shocking statistics on food waste rev...

ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN on Emergent Strategy⌠ENCORE⌡/68 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

At the heart of 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 transform...

SYLVIA EARLE on the Fate of Marine Biodiversity /56 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

“It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, there has been more change than during all preceding human history put together.” This episode we speak with Dr. Sylvia ...

JASMINE FUEGO on Social Permaculture and Harnessing the Power of Festival Culture/48 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ahead of their joint appearances at the forthcoming Global Eclipse Gathering in Oregon, Ayana speaks with Jasmine Fuego about mobilizing regeneration through harnessing the power of festival cultur...

CLIMBING POETREE on being Radical Solutionaries /16 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Climbing PoeTree is the combined force of two boundary-breaking soul-sisters who have sharpened their art as a tool for popular education, community organizing, and personal transformation. Poets, ...

NALINI NADKARNI On Discovering Forest Canopy Microcosms⌠ENCORE⌡/215 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Called "the queen of canopy research," Nalini Nadkarni explores the rich, vital world found in the tops of trees. Dr. Nadkarni has spent two decades climbing the trees of Costa Rica, Papua New Guin...

FAITH GEMMILL & PRINCESS LUCAJ on an Arctic Untouched by Oil [ENCORE] /196 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This week, the U.S. Department of the Interior formally opened up Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, an unprecedented decision that threatens Gwich’in lifeways and sa...

Dr. CUTCHA RISLING BALDY on Land Return and Revitalization /219 from 2021-01-27T20:00

In the United States, land ownership is dishonorable no matter how you frame it. For example, 60% of land in the U.S. is owned privately and 30% is owned by the federal government, comparatively tr...

TOM BUTLER on the Complexities of Large-Scale Conservation /218 from 2021-01-20T19:20:25

Currently, less than 15% of terrestrial land exists in some form of protected area, the percentage of marine protected areas is significantly lower. It’s undeniable that protecting some of the last...

CAROL RUCKDESCHEL on Keeping Cumberland Island Wild /217 from 2021-01-13T20:23:06

Cumberland Island is one of Georgia’s most biologically diverse barrier islands, with its maritime forests, coastal beaches, and salt marshes providing a habitat for many endangered kin, in additio...

OLÚFÉMI O. TÁÍWÒ on Climate Colonialism and Reparations /216 from 2021-01-06T20:41:47

After the 15th century, only five countries in the world had not been colonized by European empires in some form or another. Today we see how the policies, strategies, and technologies intended to ...

NALINI NADKARNI On Discovering Forest Canopy Microcosms /215 ?ENCORE? from 2020-12-30T21:00

Called "the queen of canopy research," Nalini Nadkarni explores the rich, vital world found in the tops of trees. Dr. Nadkarni has spent two decades climbing the trees of Costa Rica, Papua New Guin...

SEVERINE VON TSCHARNER FLEMING on the Commons to Which We Belong /214 from 2020-12-23T20:00

How do we navigate the settler desire to own land? How can our understanding of the commons invite us into collective commitment to caring for the land & staving of speculative land privatization? ...

CAMILLE DEFRENNE on Forest Symbiosis /213 from 2020-12-16T19:57:44

Camille Defrenne shares about the role of mother trees in forest regeneration, how mycorrhizal networks are faring, and the ramifications of large scale reforestation and afforestation efforts when...

Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on Becoming Untameable /212 from 2020-12-09T19:51:55

Dr. Vandana Shiva shares how we are being set up to become accessories to the digital world and how we can reclaim our intellectual freedom and sovereignty from the hands of digital dictatorship de...

HARSHA WALIA on Dismantling Imagined, Militarized, and Colonial Borders /211 from 2020-12-02T19:46:12

We talk with guest Harsha Walia on why it is imperative to rid the concept of legal/illegal personhood in movements for the climate and environment.

Dr. SAMUEL RAMSEY on Bee Population in Peril /210 from 2020-11-25T19:46:25

Dr. Ramsey shares how climate change impacts the nutritional quality of pollen and how human design and development has strengthened and spread spread parasitic mites to the disadvantage of bees gl...

SII-AM HAMILTON on Respect-Based Futures /209 from 2020-11-18T20:06:22

In this powerful conversation with land defender Sii-am Hamilton, we discuss ways forward that recognize that Indigenous communities have been practicing creative resistance against colonialism & c...

CORRINA GOULD on Settler Responsibility and Reciprocity /208 from 2020-11-11T19:47:59

Corrina Gould reminds us that Ohlone territory still holds tremendous abundance and that the land can sustain us in a way that would provide for our wellbeing should we choose to really re-examine ...

JOANNA MACY on the World As Lover And Self ?ENCORE?/207 from 2020-11-04T21:15:03

In this quintessential For The Wild episode, initially released in January of 2015, Ayana speaks to eco-philosopher, author, teacher, and scholar, Joanna Macy. As we find ourselves alive in this ti...

ASTRA TAYLOR on Voting, Democracy, and People Power /206 from 2020-10-28T18:40:23

We explore the messy and difficult endeavor that is democracy, why voter suppression has become so rampant, the anti-democratic nature of debt, and more. Astra Taylor reminds us that “elections mat...

VANESSA CAVANAGH, RACHAEL CAVANAGH,&DEB SWAN on Ancestral Fire Regimes /205 from 2020-10-21T18:40:45

It’s been almost a year since the 2019 wildfires across Australia began. We recall harrowing images of burnt orange skies, vast swaths of scorched forest, and our beloved kin searching for shelter...

Dr. NATASHA MYERS on Growing the Planthroposcene /204 from 2020-10-14T18:30:10

Dr. Natasha Myers cultivates a body of thought and practice that prioritizes the intertwined relationship between plants and people, aptly referred to as the Planthroposcene. She leads us to a worl...

Dr. HELEN CALDICOTT on Nuclear Narcissism /203 from 2020-10-07T19:00

Dr. Caldicott, discusses the environmental and health impacts of the nuclear fuel cycle We explore the health ramifications of nuclear power reactors and the “industrial vandalism” that occurs at t...

Dr. JOHN FRANCIS on What Grows In Silence /202 from 2020-09-30T18:46:12

Dr. Francis shares his journey including his vow of silence that lasted 17 years, and the profound impact that silence and slowing down can have.

SHANNON SERVICE on Slavery at Sea /201 from 2020-09-23T19:14:14

Investigative reporter and producer Shannon Service, joins us to discuss the cycle of abuse within the Thai fishing trade alongside the larger systemic issues that drive such exploitation.

REBECCA BURGESS on Soil to Soil Fiber Systems /200 from 2020-09-16T19:00

Rebecca Burgess, shares how regional and regenerative slow fashion is possible. We explore the rise of industrialized fashion and its global impact, we learn about the history and harm of synthetic...

STEPHEN JENKINSON on Closing Time [ENCORE] /199 from 2020-09-09T21:30:13

This week we’ll be hearing from Stephen Jenkinson whose wisdom on the cycle of life and elderhood offers so much that makes the ancient in us sit up and listen.

Dr. KATE STAFFORD on What the Whales Hear /198 from 2020-09-02T19:01:40

Familiar with the physical changes Earth is undergoing due to climate change, we less often think about the auditory changes happening all around us. Dr. Stafford has spent years listening to the s...

GINA RAE LA CERVA on Wild Foods and Our Web of Relations /197 from 2020-08-26T19:01:07

Gina Rae La Cerva, prompts us to think about how wild foods are a common heritage that connects us to time and place, reminding us that eating is an act of survival, love, and connectivity. We trac...

ANAYVETTE MARTINEZ on the Brilliance of the Radical Monarchs /195 from 2020-08-05T19:00

Anayvette shares the inspiration and impact of the Radical Monarchs, who exemplify the difference between service and justice, the importance of bringing youth into social justice movements at an e...

JAHAWI BERTOLLI on Remembering Kenya’s Coasts /194 from 2020-07-29T19:00

Jahawi Bertolli takes us underwater to learn about Kenya’s coastal ecosystems and biodiversity, including a tremendous seafaring culture and folklore as well as changing seascapes due to warming wa...

ROWEN M WHITE on Seed Rematriation and Fertile Resistance /193 from 2020-07-22T20:23:44

Through eras of colonization and acculturation, we’ve seen the consolidation of seeds into a handful of corporations and the production of a soulless industrial food landscape. Rowen White shares h...

BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE on Creative Decolonization in a Global Village ?ENCORE?/192 from 2020-07-16T20:44:02

“Keep your nose on the joy trail, share what you can share when you can share it, don’t be afraid to take a bath and take a nap and don’t burn out!” In this heartening encore episode of For The Wil...

Lama ROD OWENS on Liberatory Rage /191 from 2020-07-08T18:58:31

Lama Rod Owens supports us in navigating the changing of worlds we are experiencing. In recognizing these moments of great turning - our work is to tend to our grief and massage our trauma, as tumu...

ANJALI NATH UPADHYAY, M.A.² on Radical Unlearning /190 from 2020-07-03T15:04:05

Anjali shares how in order to truly support liberatory work and movements, we must unlearn. Beginning with how and where we should source or knowledge, we discuss the problem with passive consumpti...

JACKIE WANG on Carceral Capitalism /189 from 2020-06-24T19:10:08

In conversation with Jackie Wang, we explore the pervasiveness of debt, our temporal and spatial understandings of prisons, and the technological dimensions of surveillance and incarceration. We di...

DeeplyRooted: Honoring our Ancestors and the Earth with LEAH PENNIMAN /188 from 2020-06-23T16:45:10

Leah Penniman guides us through an adaptation of a Haitian prayer from her maternal lineage that honors the forces of nature and our ancestors. Leah’s gracious offering invites us to open ourselves...

MARIAME KABA on Moving Past Punishment [ENCORE] /187 from 2020-06-17T19:05:04

Mariame Kaba joins us for an expansive conversation on Transformative Justice, community accountability, criminalization of survivors, and freedom on the horizon. When we engage with these issues a...

"The Well" by brontë velez /186 from 2020-06-15T19:23:31

Through their work, brontë reminds us that “Black wellness is the antithesis to state violence” (Mark Anthony Johnson) and during these times of great transformation and tension, we must prioritize...

TRICIA HERSEY on Rest as Resistance /185 from 2020-06-08T19:53:11

With a historical analysis of slavery and plantation labor, this week’s episode prompts us, at this critical time, to consider what is stolen from those among us who cannot rest under white suprema...

Homebound: Embodying the Revolution with brontë velez /184 from 2020-05-22T12:00

brontë, a dear friend of For The Wild, poetically guides us through an expansive exploration of critical ecology, radical imagination, and decomposition as rebellion. brontë encourages us to examin...

CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ on Habitat Threshold /183 from 2020-05-20T19:59:32

Craig shares the history of his homeland of Gua?han, a place often rendered invisible as an unincorporated territory. We ask Craig about the ongoing militarization of the Pacific and what militaris...

Homebound: The Roots and Shoots of Earth-based Community with STARHAWK /182 from 2020-05-15T12:00

This week we’re reissuing this magical conversation with Starhawk, one of the most respected voices in modern Earth-based spirituality, that originally aired in 2017. A veteran of progressive movem...

MARCIA BJORNERUD on Finding Humility in Our Geologic Past /181 from 2020-05-13T19:00:27

Marcia Bjornerud discusses the notion of “timefulness” and healing our relationship with time including events of the geologic past, and recognizing change as constant, and the brilliant complexity...

Homebound: Transforming Toxic Movement Culture with THE WILDFIRE PROJECT /180 from 2020-05-08T16:15

If we want to create a world where we thrive, we are going to have to get involved with our communities and come together. This is often easier said than done in a hyper-individualistic society. We...

LAUREN REGAN on Grey Intelligence and Environmental Activism /179 from 2020-05-06T18:52:43

Lauren discusses the necessity defense in context to the climate crisis, as well as “critical energy infrastructure” felonies, how the oil and gas industry subverts democracy, digital surveillance ...

Homebound: Confronting Crisis with Divine Dignity with ANDREW HARVEY /178 from 2020-05-01T12:00

Andrew Harvey believes that we have before us the possibility of using crisis to empower ourselves, and each other. Embracing an uncertain future, he urges us to support leaders who are inspired, c...

TEJU ADISA-FARRAR on Remapping Our World /177 from 2020-04-29T18:59:41

On this week’s episode, we explore the importance of place and placemaking with guest Teju Adisa-Farrar. We discuss how gentrification originates through the calculated and supremacist devaluation ...

DeeplyRooted: “And God is the Water” with LYLA JUNE /176 from 2020-04-27T12:00

This week, Lyla June gifts us with a poem that rides with the rushing current of Creation and beckons us to wade into the ever-moving stream of life. Allow Lyla’s poem to wash over you, to uplift y...

Homebound: Eco-Justice in the Age of Disasters with JACQUI PATTERSON /175 from 2020-04-24T12:00

Today we are re-listening to our conversation with Jacqui Patterson, originally aired in 2017. We’re bringing this episode back from the archives because over the past couple of weeks, we have seen...

ANTONIA JUHASZ on the New Age of Big Oil /174 from 2020-04-22T19:16:05

Drawing from Antonia’s extensive breadth of knowledge, this episode explores the history of our national fossil fuel sector and discusses the rise of residential drilling, the Bakken oil fields Nor...

DeeplyRooted: Remembering Back into Ourselves with KAILEA FREDERICK /173 from 2020-04-20T12:00

Kailea offers a this experiential reading woven with simple movements to reawaken our inseparable connection to all of Creation, honoring mothers and caregivers who give of themselves so generously...

Homebound: Capitalists and Other Cannibals with ALNOOR LADHA /172 from 2020-04-17T12:00

This conversation with Alnoor invites us into a guided conversation on neoliberal capitalism, the global economic system and how we can work ourselves out of it. We offer this episode during a time...

LINDA BLACK ELK on What Endures After Pandemic /171 from 2020-04-15T19:00:06

We are witnessing the rapid expansion of a pandemic, the decline of the global economy, the incredible power of community, and the shameful behavior that is a symptom of a capital-driven society. L...

DeeplyRooted: Declaring Interdependence with MILLA PRINCE /170 from 2020-04-13T12:00

Milla Prince transports us on an embodied journey away from anxiety, and back into deeper knowledge of our ancient and integral place within the Web of Life. Milla invites us to root ourselves thro...

Homebound: Decentralizing the Power of Healing with Dr. RUPA MARYA /169 from 2020-04-10T12:00

Initially aired in January of 2020, this episode reminds us that the blatant neglect for people’s wellbeing amidst this global pandemic is not coincidence or negligence, it is the result of a globa...

ESTRELLA SANTIAGO PÉREZ on the Importance of Community Sovereignty /168 from 2020-04-08T19:00:27

Estrella Santiago Pérez discusses Borinquén grassroots action and community sovereignty amidst climate crisis. Common understanding of Puerto Rico exists in a dichotomy, either defined by lush reso...

DeeplyRooted: Black Mary-Olivering with brontë velez /167 from 2020-04-06T12:00

brontë velez transports us through revolutionary prayer. We hope brontë’s incantation ignites your creativity and fills up your inner well with joy, strength and peace. May we learn from the mushro...

JILL WEITZ on Salmon Beyond Borders /165 from 2020-04-01T19:13:59

The Taku, Stikine, and Unuk Rivers are three of the largest salmon producing rivers that originate in so-called BC and flow into SE Alaska. In a climate of weakened environmental regulations, a gol...

KENRIC McDOWELL on Designing with Cosmo-Ecological Intelligence /164 from 2020-03-25T19:00:09

We join Kenric in conversation to discuss the cultural genesis and impacts of machine learning and technological advancement, the implications of anthropocentrism in design. Kenric also covers topi...

LAYLA K. FEGHALI on Borderless Remembrance /163 from 2020-03-18T18:59:12

KURT RUSSO on the People Under the Sea?ENCORE? /162 from 2020-03-11T19:59:48

This week we are rebroadcasting our episode with Kurt Russo on the People Under the Sea, originally aired in October of 2018. Kurt and Ayana’s conversation explores the powerful memory held by Sout...

KURT RUSSO on the People Under the Sea?ENCORE? /162 from 2020-03-11T19:59:48

This week we are rebroadcasting our episode with Kurt Russo on the People Under the Sea, originally aired in October of 2018. Kurt and Ayana’s conversation explores the powerful memory held by Sout...

JESSE WOLF HARDIN on Rewilding the Self /161 from 2020-03-04T20:01:07

Jesse Wolf Hardin discusses folk herbalism as a green portal and agent of holistic wellness, the visceral personalities of place, tending unique bioregional cultures and ecologies, the potency of g...

InTheField: NUSKMATA (Jacinda Mack) on the Gold Rush That Never Ended /160 from 2020-02-26T21:18:50

Uplifting the untold story of mining, this episode braids together the history of the Gold Rush and colonization in B.C., the state of salmon, the practice of free, prior, and informed consent, dir...

ERIEL TCHEKWIE DERANGER on Solidarity with Unist'ot'en ?ENCORE? /159 from 2020-02-19T21:00:32

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, initially released in February of 2019. In light of the second invasion by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on February ...

CHRISTIAN SCHWARZ on the Sublime World of Fungi /158 from 2020-02-12T20:00:10

This discussion with Christian discusses fungal diversity, the global mushroom market, migration patterns, and invasive versus native fungi. We also look at the reality that the Earth is poised to ...

Dr. MAX LIBOIRON on Reorienting Within a World of Plastic /156 from 2020-01-29T20:03:13

Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times /155 from 2020-01-22T21:18:55

We are invited by this week’s guest, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, to pause and abandon solutionism, step back from the project of progress, and dance into a different set of questions: What does the Anthrop...

KYLE WHYTE on the Colonial Genesis of Climate Change /154 from 2020-01-15T20:01:50

Ayana and Kyle discuss Kyle’s body of work on dystopia and fantasy in climate justice, the reproduction of settler structures, Indigenous science, vulnerability discourses, and “decolonizing allysh...

Dr. RUPA MARYA on Decentralizing the Power of Healing /153 from 2020-01-08T21:01:50

This expansive conversation touches on Dr. Marya’s work to decolonize medicine, the pervasiveness of medical debt, the need for medical reparations, and the fruitfulness of community-based medicine...

MIKE PHILLIPS on Gray Wolves and the Vitality of Death /152 from 2020-01-03T20:01:10

Ayana and Mike’s conversation touches on the history of cattle ranching and grazing rights, trophic cascades and the vitality of death, the violent lineages of conservation, and ecological restorat...

MARIAME KABA on Moving Past Punishment /151 from 2019-12-27T18:09:17

We are joined by Mariame Kaba for an expansive conversation on Transformative Justice, community accountability, criminalization of survivors, & freedom on the horizon. Mariame addresses punishment...

Dr. SUZANNE PIERRE on Reshaping a Siloed Science /150 from 2019-12-18T20:01:11

InTheField: KASYYAHGEI on the Law of the Land /149 from 2019-12-13T19:03:59

InTheField: WANDA KASHUDOHA CULP on Rooted Lifeways of the Tongass /148 from 2019-12-06T11:20:16

LYLA JUNE on Lifting Hearts Off the Ground /147 from 2019-11-28T20:27:21

In honor of Truthsgiving, join us as we meditate upon the true spirit of giving. Lyla and Ayana unravel the great potential held within the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and we...

Reshaping the Landscape of Conservation Media at JACKSON WILD /146 from 2019-11-27T20:00:10

Tune into this episode to hear Ayana’s conversations with six storytellers who are shifting the landscape of conservation from behind their cameras, bold media strategies, and work in the field: T...

PAVINI MORAY on Unlocking Eros and Sacred Reciprocity ?PART 2? /145 from 2019-11-13T21:04:45

In Part Two of our conversation with Pavini Moray, we continue to trace the river of eros, sensation, and spirit that flows through our ancestral lineages and portals of the everyday. Turning inwar...

PAVINI MORAY on Alchemizing Trauma and Ancestral Healing ?PART 1? /144 from 2019-11-08T21:00:16

This week, we are savoring in the delight of slowing down and wading into the generative waters of free-flowing eros, healing, pleasure, and embodiment. In a culture of severance and disconnection,...

SEFRA ALEXANDRA on Seed Remembrance /142 from 2019-10-23T19:00:03

Sefra discusses the current loss of seed diversity, the culture of seed saving, the importance of diversity in the global food supply, the grave impacts of seed relief on local agro-economic system...

ELSA SEBASTIAN on Loving the Last Stands of the Tongass /141 from 2019-10-16T20:58:47

Described by many as a sacrifice zone and subsidized timber colony of the US, Prince of Wales Island is one of the most heavily logged areas of the Tongass; there are over 2,500 miles of logging ro...

BRONTË VELEZ on the Necessity of Beauty ?PART 2? /140 from 2019-10-10T00:27:15

This week, in Part Two of our episode with brontë velez, we dive into the capacity for pleasure amidst times of great uncertainty and historical oppression. What does “pleasure in the apocalypse” m...

BRONTË VELEZ on the Pleasurable Surrender of White Supremacy ?PART 1? /139 from 2019-10-02T22:41:49

brontë velez opens this week’s episode inviting us to think about how supremacy’s submission to Earth is an invitation into a more life-affirming world. What does a future look like in which white,...

THE BUREAU of LINGUISTICAL REALITY on Seeding New Language /138 from 2019-09-25T19:00:05

Heidi, Alicia and Ayana break through the limits imposed by dominant languages, and invite radical freedom of expression to enrich our unique identities, experiences, our relationships with each ot...

RAJ PATEL on Cheapness in the Age of Capitalism /137 from 2019-09-18T19:19:03

Raj and Ayana discuss cheapness in relation to the prison industrial complex, the invisibility of domestic labor and care work, the fallacies of fair trade, and the enclosure of the commons. As the...

COREY LESK on Warming Winters and Southern Pine Beetle Migration /136 from 2019-09-11T19:01:15

Ayana and Corey discuss the implications of southern pine beetle expansion, how forest structures will shift, the threat to native biodiversity, the importance of cold winters, and how, ultimately,...

RICHIE RESEDA on Dismantling Patriarchy /134 from 2019-08-28T19:00:32

TARA HOUSKA&RUTH BREECH on Divesting from Toxic Capitalism /133 from 2019-08-21T19:00:10

This episode discusses man camps, resistance movements, the banking system and corporatocracy. Through strategy and story, we learn how to target the heart of petro-capitalism with our dollars, and...

RACHEL HEATON&ROXANNE WHITE on Funding, Fossil Fuels and Femicide /132 from 2019-08-14T19:02:31

Rachel and Roxanne share their experiences from the frontlines of resistance and call out the patriarchy and settler colonialism that underpins how we navigate issues of land, money, and resource e...

DONNA HARAWAY on Staying with the Trouble /131 from 2019-08-07T19:01:20

Ayana and Donna’s conversation explores topics like the reclamation of truth and “situated knowledge,” the importance of mourning with others, the etymology of “Anthropocene,” the place of forgiven...

PUA CASE on the Heart of a Mountain ?ENCORE? /130 from 2019-07-31T21:00:45

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Pua Case, initially aired in December of 2017. In the past two and a half weeks we have seen the powerful swelling of protectors across the globe ...

CINTA KAIPAT on the Militarization of Pågan and Defending Island Sovereignty /129 from 2019-07-24T19:01:04

We join Cinta Kaipat to learn how the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth, are impacted by militarization.

Collective Liberation&Communal Gathering at LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE /128 from 2019-07-17T19:02:18

This conversation explores the nature of festival culture and our inherent desire for community. You will also hear some of our favorite presentations covering topics like creativity, collective li...

KURT RUSSO on the People Under the Sea ?ENCORE? /127 from 2019-07-10T21:00:05

Last summer, the world watched as mother Orca, Tahlequah, carried her dead calf on a “tour of grief” for more than 1,000 miles over a 17-day period. The Lummi Nation of the Salish Sea believes that...

LYLA JUNE on Resistance and Forgiveness in the Final Years of Patriarchy ?ENCORE? /126 from 2019-07-03T21:01:44

In this transformative encore interview, Lyla June retraces the origins of oppression of European women, men and earth-based cultures through to recent histories of genocide, inter-generational tra...

EXTINCTION REBELLION on Mobilizing Mass Dissent /125 from 2019-06-26T19:08:25

Ayana speaks to these three key members of ER about creating high-priority changes through nonviolent civil disobedience and economic disruption, while working with citizen’s assembly. They explore...

MICHAEL MEADE on Cultivating Mythic Imagination /124 from 2019-06-19T21:34:57

Michael and Ayana discuss topics such as the power of creative imagination and youth, the danger of hyper-individualism, pretentious heroism, and the obsession with newness. Michael explores the re...

ROB GREENFIELD on Confronting Convenience /123 from 2019-06-12T19:23:19

Rob and Ayana reflec on growing food and foraging, reimagining wealth and de-monetizing your life, how to hold and move through hypocrisy, and the importance of addressing intersectionality and str...

CHRIS HEDGES on Deflating the Ruling Elite through Civil Disobedience /122 from 2019-06-05T19:51:52

Chris discusses wealth inequality, deindustrialization and the rise of the gig economy, the birth of fascism and Christian fundamentalism, and the fusion of corporate and government power under the...

Dr. MARY EVELYN TUCKER on Cosmological Re-inheritance /120 from 2019-05-22T18:59:17

Ayana and Mary Evelyn explore how spiritual traditions can respond to environmental crisis, why it is so valuable to understand the emergence of the early universe as we navigate the Anthropocene, ...

JOHN A. POWELL on Institutions of Othering and Radical Belonging /119 from 2019-05-15T19:00:10

This week’s conversation between john and Ayana explores the frameworks of “othering and belonging” and "targeted universalism," as well as ideologies of supremacy, global dislocation, rethinking c...

Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on the Emancipation of Seed, Water and Women ?ENCORE? /118 from 2019-05-08T21:17:56

In honor and anticipation of Lightning in a Bottle 2019, For The Wild is encoring one of our favorite episodes from the archive, “Vandana Shiva on the Emancipation of Seed, Water, and Women.” This ...

JAMES BALOG on The Human Element /117 from 2019-05-01T19:15:08

James candidly speaks of the simultaneous beauty and horror of documenting the Anthropocene, the complicity of industries like the arts and entertainment in contributing to fossil fuel emissions, a...

KERRY KNUDSEN on Lichen and Life after Capitalism /116 from 2019-04-24T18:26:49

Kerry and Ayana discuss the fragility of lichens in changing climates, what our understanding of lichens reveals about our value systems, the invaluable work of citizen scientists, the limitations ...

ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN on Pleasure as Birthright /115 from 2019-04-17T16:41:14

This captivating conversation explores how the denial of pleasure contributes to our own oppression, how radical honesty and kindness can transform our relationships, moving through the limitations...

Dr. DAVID WAGNER on the Ever Indispensable Insect /114 from 2019-04-10T18:26:26

Ayana and Dr. Wagner discuss insects as biological controls, insect decline in relation to political and economic destabilization, how cultural understandings of insects influence the field of ento...

ANDREA CROSTA on the World of Wildlife Crime /113 from 2019-04-03T18:49:03

Ayana and Andrea discuss a myriad of topics ranging from the importance of an intelligence-led approach to combating wildlife crime, how wildlife crime impacts local and global economies, the geog...

DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER on Replanting the Global Forest ?ENCORE?/32 & 33 from 2019-03-27T18:55:14

This week on the podcast we present an Encore episode of a staff favorite from the For The Wild archives.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a one-woman force of regeneration of the biosphere! A b...

CHARLES EISENSTEIN&IAN MACKENZIE on the Age of Transition /112 from 2019-03-20T20:14:07

Charles Eisenstein and Ian MacKenzie join Ayana to discuss what features are inherently built into this money system, how economics does not have to be a merciless system, the importance of univers...

Dr. M JACKSON on the Teachings of Glacial Beings /111 from 2019-03-13T18:53:08

In this conversation with Ayana and Dr. Jackson, we learn how glacial retreat is impacting communities, the connection between extractive tourism, extractive science, and glaciers, why it matters t...

THE WILDFIRE PROJECT on Transforming Toxic Movement Culture /110 from 2019-03-06T21:58:56

Whether or not you are directly engaged in movement building or are an organizer, this is an episode you will not want to miss. Joshua, BJ, and Michael weave strategy on handling disappointment and...

ADA RECINOS on Corporate Destabilization and Local Resiliency in El Salvador /109 from 2019-02-27T19:51:03

This powerful conversation spans many topics, from the deep wounds of violence and war to the pertinence of moving beyond sensational rhetoric around caravans and the border wall. Ada reminds us th...

Intersectional Justice in Film and Media at SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL?ON LOCATION? /108 from 2019-02-22T00:33:05

In January 2019, For The Wild was honored to attend the annual Sundance Film Festival, facilitating our social justice and environmental film, press junket liaising with filmmakers and other amazin...

Intersectional Justice in Film and Media at SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL?ON LOCATION? /108 from 2019-02-22T00:33:05

In January 2019, For The Wild was honored to attend the annual Sundance Film Festival, facilitating our social justice and environmental film, press junket liaising with filmmakers and other amazin...

ERIEL TCHEKWIE DERANGER on Solidarity with Unist'ot'en /107 from 2019-02-13T19:20:49

Eriel articulates how narratives that surround the developments at Unist’ot’en Camp show how colonization has deeply warped our perspective on who gets labeled the heroes and villains. While the st...

Dr. CARLOS NOBRE on the Shifting Future of the Amazon /106 from 2019-02-06T19:19:59

Dr. Nobre clarifies the complexities surrounding the driving factors of deforestation and savannization. Additionally, Ayana and Dr. Nobre discuss the margins of safety that must be implemented, th...

SUBHANKAR BANERJEE on Defending Arctic Alaska /105 from 2019-01-30T19:05:36

Subhankar calls us to find our connection with the Near North while clarifying many misconceptions about the current status of the Refuge and the history of extraction in Alaska.

CAMILA THORNDIKE on Carbon Pricing /104 from 2019-01-23T20:43:51

Join Ayana this week in conversation with Camila Thorndike as we learn how the tax code can address societal ills, the difference between cap and trade and carbon tax, how policy arrangements refle...

Dr. WILLIAM LAURANCE on the Uncertain Future of Giant Trees /103 from 2019-01-16T19:11:48

Join Ayana and Dr. Laurance in conversation about the future of old growth forests, the many impacts of climate destabilization and drought, the dangers of positive feedback, and how infrastructure...

ROOTS OF LABOR BIRTH COLLECTIVE on Decolonizing Birth /102 from 2019-01-09T19:22:19

Join us in conversation as we dedicate this week to exploring ancestral legacies around birthing, how we can invest in reproductive rights outside of the current hetero-patriarchal capitalist white...

QUEER NATURE on Reclaiming Wild Safe Space /101 from 2018-12-20T19:53:11

Join Ayana in conversation with So and Pinar as they explore how tracking and trailing answer the call of our ancestral bodies and the land, what deep intimacy with the more than human world looks ...

FOR THE WILD: An Anthology of the Anthropocene /100 from 2018-12-13T20:38:54

We’ve been combing through the archives and crafting this very special episode for the community that has rallied around us these past few years. Today’s episode highlights some of the many convers...

DALLAS GOLDTOOTH on Responding to Toxic Masculinity /99 from 2018-12-06T18:51:54

Toxic masculinity, settler colonialism, and white supremacy are impelling us to a point of no return. If you are coming to this conversation as an environmental advocate, understand that in order t...

JOHN SEED on Deep Ecological Identity /98 from 2018-11-29T19:42:09

Join us as Ayana and John explore topics of ecological identity, embodied wisdom, moving beyond the individual, the tenets of Deep Ecology, and the Rainforest Information Centre’s recent work in Ec...

Dr. CHAD HANSON on the Myths&Misinformation of Wildland Fires /97 from 2018-11-15T20:08:34

Join us to learn about what happens in a post fire habitat, why fire is an ecological treasure, not a disaster, how significantly climate change will impact wildfires, and why both politicians and ...

Reverand M. KALANI SOUZA on Personal Preparedness in Advance /96 from 2018-11-08T20:46:15

This week we interview Reverend M. Kalani Souza, a gifted storyteller, singer, songwriter, musician, performer, poet, philosopher, priest, political satirist, and peacemaker. Join us in conversatio...

QUEEN QUET on the Survival of Sea Island Wisdom /95 from 2018-11-01T18:09:20

Queen Quet and the Gullah/Geechee nation are an exemplary vision of resilience in an age of deterioration, holding on to spirit and hope amidst. Facing the onslaught of colonial terrorism towards b...

KEVIN SCHNEIDER on Legal Liberation for More Than Human Kin /94 from 2018-10-25T18:38:28

Since 2013, the Nonhuman Rights Project has filed lawsuits on behalf of non-human animals in captivity – including four chimpanzees and three elephants, so far – seeking a writ of habeas corpus. T...

Dr. BIRUTÉ MARY GALDIKAS on Orangutan Refugees in Their Own Land /93 from 2018-10-18T18:55:23

This week we are joined by Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas, a globally renowned anthropologist, conservationist, and orangutan researcher. She has been researching and working with wild and wild-born ex-c...

BEN GOLDFARB on Beaver's Complex Inter-Weavings /92 from 2018-10-11T18:59:30

Ben Goldfarb is an independent environmental journalist based in Spokane, Washington, whose writing has appeared in publications such as Mother Jones, Science, The Guardian, and High Country News. ...

KURT RUSSO on the People Under the Sea/91 from 2018-10-04T19:46:52

Dr. Russo and the Lummi people believe that Tahlequah carried her baby on the tour of grief because she knows we are watching. The display of her dead offspring in this way was an intentional act–...

ELIZABETH FOURNIER on a Green Afterlife /90 from 2018-09-27T17:21:37

Elizabeth Fournier, affectionately called ‘The Green Reaper,’ is the author of The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial.

HEATHER MILTON-LIGHTENING on Reframing Direct Action /89 from 2018-09-20T18:31

Heather Milton-Lightening has seventeen years of organizing experience from local issues to international campaigns. Among other topics, Ayana and Heather discuss truth and reconciliation, true all...

NNIMMO BASSEY on Niger Delta as Sacrifice Zone /88 from 2018-09-14T01:48:41

This week’s conversation is with Nnimmo Bassey, an inspirationally committed Nigerian activist, who is fighting the global petrol military complex to reveal the full ecological and human horrors of...

STEVEN MARTYN on Letting Land Lead /87 from 2018-09-07T01:25:27

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 medici...

LEAH PENNIMAN on Land Based Liberation /72?ENCORE? from 2018-08-30T16:20:40

This conversation between Ayana and Leah is beyond inspiring, it confronts us with the harsh realities of injustice by two voices that simultaneously speak of healing, possibility, and reconci...

LEAH PENNIMAN on Land Based Liberation /72?ENCORE? from 2018-08-30T16:20:40

This conversation between Ayana and Leah is beyond inspiring, it confronts us with the harsh realities of injustice by two voices that simultaneously speak of healing, possibility, and reconci...

RON FINLEY on Cultivating the Garden of the Mind?ENCORE? /79 from 2018-08-23T22:04:26

“All of us humans need the same thing. I ask the question around the world, what is the single most important thing to your life? People say, “love, god, kids, my wife, my cats,” but .000% say oxyg...

RON FINLEY on Cultivating the Garden of the Mind?ENCORE? /79 from 2018-08-23T22:04:26

“All of us humans need the same thing. I ask the question around the world, what is the single most important thing to your life? People say, “love, god, kids, my wife, my cats,” but .000% say oxyg...

STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER on Plant Intelligence & The Imaginal Realm, Part 2 ?ENCORE? /14 from 2018-08-16T21:02:43

This week’s encore episode opens up a plethora of curiosities around human's relationship to art, creation and mind altering substances.

An evergreen classic chosen by Research Director, M...

JANINE BENYUS on Redesigning Society Based on Nature ?ENCORE? /71 from 2018-08-09T21:01:42

This week we are excited to feature an encore episode chosen by our dear Podcast Editor and Producer Andrew Storrs. Biomimicry asks us to look at nature’s blueprint for a game plan. High speed tra...

ROBIN WALL KIMMERER on Indigenous Knowledge for Earth Healing ?ENCORE? /35 from 2018-08-02T21:51:18

Dr. Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, writer, member of the Citizen Band Potawatomi, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forest...

DUNE LANKARD on the Day the Water Died /86 from 2018-07-26T20:18:20

Dune Lankard has made a living demonstration of resource conservation over exploitation as better economics ~ to continue to catch fish means preserving what gives fish life. We cannot continue ste...

FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ on Art&Migration Know No Borders/85 from 2018-07-19T19:56:16

Favianna invites us to explore the wisdom of nature and Earth relations as a lens through which to envision an alternative to the current immigration crisis. As climate change advances, the consequ...

ZAYAAN KHAN on the Place of Sweet Waters, Part 2 /84 from 2018-07-12T16:21:26

This week we are rejoined by Zayaan Khan to discuss water scarcity in South Africa. Local communities are experiencing a threshold being reached; a point of no return at which culture can change ra...

ZAYAAN KHAN on the Place of Sweet Waters, Part 1 /83 from 2018-07-05T13:50:18

Through discussion 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...

STEPHEN JENKINSON on Closing Time /82 from 2018-06-28T22:13:10

We are living through a time when there are more people, more creatures, more plants, more cultures, dying than ever before. The debts of generations past have accrued to us, but not the wisdom. Ou...

ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN on Emergent Strategy?ENCORE?/68 from 2018-06-21T21:54:07

At the heart of 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 transform...

JACINDA MACK on the Planetary Cost of Luxury /81 from 2018-06-14T20:46:49

Jacinda Mack, leader of First Nations Women Advocating Responsible Mining is a mother, water protector and Indigenous woman striving to promote environmentally sound mining exploration and developm...

TOM GOLDTOOTH on Climate Change Capitalism /80 from 2018-06-07T18:13:37

This week on For The Wild podcast we are joined by Tom Goldtooth, an Indigenous rights leader in the climate and environmental justice movement. He advocates for building healthy and sustainable In...

RON FINLEY on Cultivating the Garden of the Mind /79 from 2018-05-31T19:23:43

This week, we speak with 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 an...

ALEXANDRA MORTON on the Virulence of Farmed Salmon /78 from 2018-05-24T18:25:42

This week’s episode centers around the devastating impacts of salmon farming on the Pacific coast of British Columbia. This week’s guest, Alexandra Morton, is an expert in salmon farming and the v...

IAN McALLISTER on Ferocious Conservation for the Last Wild Wolves /77 from 2018-05-17T17:58:31

This week we’re joined by Ian McAllister, co-founder and Executive Director of Pacific Wild, a non-profit located in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest. McAllister is committed to defending wil...

ULRICH EICHELMANN on Saving The Blue Heart of Europe /76 from 2018-05-10T19:54:24

Ulrich is a German ecologist and conservationist who has been living in Vienna, Austria for 29 years. He worked for the World Wildlife Fund Austria for more than 17 years until 2007, being primaril...

MALIK YAKINI on a Food Sovereign Future in Detroit /75 from 2018-05-03T19:42:49

Malik Kenyatta Yakini is an activist and educator who is committed to freedom and justice for humanity. Yakini is co-founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Netw...

JUREK LUBINSKI on Protecting Europe's Last Primeval Forest /74 from 2018-04-26T16:11:11

Jurek is one of the activists camped out with Camp of the Forest-a non-hierarchic, grassroots, no-logo camp based on equality. Theirs is a movement for everyone: “It’s not a movement of some radica...

JEREMY LENT on Depatterning Wetiko /73 from 2018-04-19T15:57:37

This week’s interview is with Jeremy Lent, an author whose writings investigate the patterns of thought that have led our civilization to its current crisis of sustainability. His book, The Pattern...

LEAH PENNIMAN on Land Based Liberation /72 from 2018-04-12T03:28:40

This week we are honored to host activist, farmer and educator, Leah Penniman. Leah lives in steadfast dedication to her mission of weaving the vast and vital threads of honoring heritage, building...

JANINE BENYUS on Redesigning Society Based on Nature /71 from 2018-04-05T18:28:02

DAVID SHEARER on Last-Ditch Climate Ingenuity /70 from 2018-03-23T03:38:16

The advent of modern technology within deeply misguided institutions and cultures has accelerated the near-demise of the biosphere. Our guest, Dr. David Shearer, argues that coupled with a deep awa...

RUE MAPP on Nature as the Great Equalizer /69 from 2018-03-15T13:15:12

Rue Mapp is pioneering a movement of equity and justice in the outdoor recreation and environmental movement. Outdoor Afro has become the nation’s leading network that celebrates and inspires Afric...

ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN on Emergent Strategy /68 from 2018-03-08T11:30:29

At the heart of what brown calls Emergent Strategy, is moving towards life and learning from the wisdom of nature to drive our social movements. Emergent Strategy asks us to think about spiritualit...

PETER WOHLLEBEN on the Hidden Life of Trees /67 from 2018-03-01T13:33:53

Drawing on groundbreaking new discoveries, Peter Wohlleben studies the social life of trees, how they rely on one another and build communities. A tree can be only as strong as the forest that surr...

MIRIAM HORN on Conserving Common Ground in America's Divided Heartland /66 from 2018-02-23T20:20:12

Miriam Horn has worked at the Environmental Defense Fund since 2004. She is the author of three books: Rebels in White Gloves, the New York Times bestselling Earth: the Sequel: The Race to Reinvent...

BRONTË VELEZ on Embodying the Revolution /65 from 2018-02-15T23:47:23

This week’s journey on For The Wild is with the mesmerizing visionary leader brontë velez who poetically guides us through an exploration of critical ecology, radical imagination and decomposition ...

BILL McKIBBEN on Dampening the Blow of a Spiraling Climate /64 from 2018-02-08T09:26:30

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 surviv...

ANGELO BACA on the Elders of Bears Ears /63 from 2018-02-01T14:45:02

Angelo Baca is a Navajo and Hopi filmmaker, and a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at NYU. A graduate of the Native Voices Program at the University of Washington, he has created numerou...

NALINI NADKARNI on Discovering Forest Canopy Microcosms /62 from 2017-12-23T09:34:34

Called "the queen of canopy research," Nalini Nadkarni explores the rich, vital world found in the tops of trees. Dr. Nadkarni has spent two decades climbing the trees of Costa Rica, Papua New Guin...

JACQUI PATTERSON on Eco-Justice in the Age of Disasters /61 from 2017-12-18T00:12:06

Jacqueline Patterson is the Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program. Since 2007 Patterson has served as coordinator & co-founder of Women of Color United. Jacqui Patterson h...

PUA CASE on the Heart of a Mountain /60 from 2017-12-09T23:24:31

Pualani Case, born and raised on the Island of Hawai’i surrounded by the high mountains of Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, Hualalai and Kohala, the fresh waters of Kohakohau and Waikoloa and the plains of Wa...

GEORGE MONBIOT on Reinhabiting an Ecological Commons /59 from 2017-12-01T17:24:15

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. His celebrated Gua...

CLAYTON THOMAS-MÜLLER on Disrupting Planetary Destruction /58 from 2017-11-24T16:31:31

This week, join Ayana in conversation with organizer, facilitator, public speaker and writer on Indigenous rights and environmental & economic justice, Clayton Thomas-Müller. As a member of the Tre...

WINONA LaDUKE on the Prophesied Green Path /57 from 2017-11-16T05:13:14

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

Dr. SYLVIA EARLE on the Fate of Marine Biodiversity /56 from 2017-11-10T10:15:04

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 m...

PAUL WATSON on Sea Shepherd's Life-or-Death Direct Action /55 from 2017-10-27T19:33:13

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”, political dyna...

TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS on Sacred Rage and the Battle for Public Lands /54 from 2017-10-20T18:32:39

This week on For The Wild we speak with Terry Tempest Williams. Williams is a prolific writer who speaks out on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom...

KANDI MOSSETT on the Hidden Costs of Modernity /53 from 2017-10-05T00:42:48

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 ...

CALLA ROSE OSTRANDER and JOHN WICK on Carbon Drawdown in Abrupt Climate Change /52 from 2017-09-27T12:44:29

We’re joined today by two people whose mission is to realize the potential of plants and soil communities to restore our future. John Wick and Call Rose Ostrander.

JODY HOLMES on Keeping the Great Bear Standing /51 from 2017-09-20T08:08:41

The decades-long struggle over British Columbia's coastal rainforests culminated in an extraordinary conservation, social justice, and Indigenous rights victory: a historic multi-generational agree...

THERESA TWO BULLS on Uniting to Reclaim the Black Hills /50 from 2017-08-30T22:52:31

Theresa Two Bulls is an attorney, prosecutor and politician in the United States and the Oglala Sioux Tribe.

ALNOOR LADHA on Capitalists and Other Cannibals /49 from 2017-08-14T01:43:28

Alnoor Ladha's discusses neoliberal capitalism, the global economic system and how we can work ourselves out of it.

CHIEF CALEEN SISK on the Fight for Free and Wild Salmon Rivers /47 from 2017-06-28T19:42:09

Ayana is joined by Chief Caleen Sisk, spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe of Northern California, to explore how the forces of industrial society have attempted to tame and exploit living ...

STARHAWK on the Roots and Shoots of Earth-based Community /46 from 2017-05-13T18:21:56

Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality, and a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion. She is a veteran of progressive movement...

ERIEL DERANGER on Radicality Amid Expanding Tar Sands /45 from 2017-04-23T23:13:45

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

BREN SMITH on Underwater Food Forests For Ailing Oceans /44 from 2017-03-27T04:09:38

Having spent his life on the seas from Newfoundland to Alaska, Bren Smith has witnessed the collapse of global fisheries. Over the last decade and a half, he has developed methods of vertical 3D oc...

LYLA JUNE on Resistance and Forgiveness in the Final Years of Patriarchy /43 from 2017-03-14T23:08:41

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...

LYLA JUNE on the Endangered Diversity of Language and Life /42 from 2017-03-10T19:14:15

Lyla June is a musician, public speaker and internationally recognized performance poet. Descended from Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages, her personal mission in life is to gro...

STEPHEN JENKINSON on Ancestry and Misanthropy /41 from 2016-12-08T21:46:25

Stephen Jenkinson is an activist, teacher, author, and farmer, with a masters degree in theology from Harvard University and a masters degree in social work from the University of Toronto. Formerly...

NINA SIMONS on the Holistic Endeavor of Shifting Culture /40 from 2016-10-11T23:01:27

Today we are joined by the co-founder and president of Bioneers, Nina Simons, an award winning social entrepreneur and visionary thinker.

FAITH GEMMILL&PRINCESS LUCAJ on an Arctic Untouched by Oil /39 from 2016-09-18T03:10:31

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...

PETER McCOY on Fungi for Personal and Planetary Healing /38 from 2016-08-18T23:47:07

Today, the conversation with Radical Mycology’s Peter McCoy probes onward, as we invoke the powers of fungi in Earth healing and the integration of human societies into our delicate and compromised...

PETER McCOY on Fungi and the Birth of the Modern Psyche /37 from 2016-07-20T23:48:16

We welcome back Peter McCoy, who leads us through the earliest evidence of the fungal “queendom” in the development of culture and human intelligence, and shows how understanding fungal biology and...

MONIQUE VERDIN&CHERRI FOYTLIN on the Gulf Coast’s Unsound Future /36 from 2016-07-05T23:48:02

We look deep into the challenges faced by frontline Indigenous activists in the Mississippi Delta with Monique Michelle Verdin, creator of the film My Louisiana Love and Cherri Foytlin, author of "...

ROBIN WALL KIMMERER on Indigenous Knowledge for Earth Healing /35 from 2016-05-14T00:11:32

Dr. Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, writer, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY, and the founding Di...

JILL STEIN on the Fertile Grounds for Revolution /34 from 2016-04-21T04:42:25

Jill Stein is the Green Party’s 2016 candidate for President of the United States.

DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER on Replanting the Global Forest, Part Two /33 from 2016-04-04T06:52:59

Learn more about Diana's amazing upcoming film "The Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees" at http://dianasjourney.com

DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER on Replanting the Global Forest, Part One /32 from 2016-03-11T02:32:33

Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a one-woman force of regeneration of the biosphere! A botanist, medical biochemist and self-defined "renegade scientist," she brings together ethnobotany, horticulture, s...

ROSEMARY GLADSTAR on Uniting Plant Savers /31 from 2016-02-23T21:17:37

Rosemary Gladstar is a pioneer in the herbal movement and has been called the 'godmother of American Herbalism'.

ANDREW HARVEY on Confronting Crisis with Divine Dignity /30 from 2016-01-27T09:06:58

Andrew Harvey is Founder Director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises ...

BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE on Creative Decolonization in a Global Village /29 from 2015-11-15T05:04:46

Musician and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie discusses creativity in an age of commodification, being indigenous in a global village, demythologizing the power elites, and more!

ELIZABETH KOLBERT on the Coming Age of Loneliness /28 from 2015-09-30T12:43:28

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for the NEW YORKER, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change, and most recently The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, which...

TREBBE JOHNSON on Bearing Witness to Wounded Places /27 from 2015-09-13T14:54:05

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

VANDANA SHIVA on the Emancipation of Seed, Water and Women /26 from 2015-08-29T03:34:20

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) ...

CURT STAGER on the Deep Future of Earth’s Climate /25 from 2015-08-15T03:24:55

Curt Stager is an ecologist, paleoclimatologist, and science journalist with a Ph.D. in biology and geology from Duke University (1985). 

PETER MICHAEL BAUER on the Survival of the Wildest /24 from 2015-07-25T00:56:40

Peter is the founder and Executive Director of Rewild Portland, a local non-profit that creates cultural and environmental resilience through the education of earth-based arts, traditions, and tech...

LEILA DARWISH on Grassroots Earth Repair /23 from 2015-06-27T12:22:31

Leila Darwish is a community organizer, author, permaculture designer, educator, urban gardener, and grassroots herbalist with a deep commitment to environmental justice, decolonization, food sover...

MARTIN PRECHTEL on Identity and Sacred Rites of Passage /22 from 2015-06-13T02:19:43

Martín Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer and teacher whose work, both written and oral, hopes to promote the subtlety, irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language.

DERRICK JENSEN on Civilization and Creating a Culture of Resistance /21 from 2015-05-30T03:34:03

Civilization took millennia to congeal, and in the last few hundred it has really accelerated its world take over. The health of the world’s plant and animal species has inversely plummeted, where ...

MILES OLSON on Making a Life in Wild Places /20 from 2015-05-15T13:54:48

Miles Olson, 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...

TOM WALDO on Fighting For Alaska's Ancient Rainforest /19 from 2015-05-01T21:12:48

Tom Waldo is senior staff attorney with Earth Justice in Alaska, who has dedicated the last 25 years to defending Alaska’s ancient forests and other urgent causes.

MARY ELLEN HANNIBAL on the Spine of the Continent /18 from 2015-04-17T22:57:11

Mary Ellen Hannibal is a Bay Area writer and editor focusing on science and culture. Hannibal’s book The Spine of the Continent is about a social, geographical, and scientific effort to save nature...

MARY ELLEN HANNIBAL on the Spine of the Continent /18 from 2015-04-17T15:57:11

Mary Ellen Hannibal is a Bay Area writer and editor focusing on science and culture. Hannibal’s book The Spine of the Continent is about a social, geographical, and scientific effort to save nature...

COURTNEY WHITE on Climate Solutions in the Soil /17 from 2015-03-27T22:01:43

Courtney White, formerly a frontline environmental activist and author of Grass, Soil, Hope, is tapping extraordinary potential by bringing “carbon ranching” to the American Southwest through his w...

MARK SHEPARD on Restoration Agriculture /15 from 2015-03-07T00:32:58

Restoration agriculture pioneer Mark Shepard, created a forest where there once was just degraded Wisconsin farmland. He has just written a phenomenal book entitled Restoration Agriculture: Real-Wo...

STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER on Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, Part Two /14 from 2015-02-27T23:05:42

A continuation of last week's conversation with Stephen, we explore questions like: What has the role of psychedelics been in human and plant evolution? What is the ecological function of art? How ...

STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER on Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, Part One /13 from 2015-02-20T16:22:10

This week’s interview is a mosaic of mind-shattering insights from Earth-poet-philosopher Stephen Harrod Buhner. Stephen is the senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian studies, and is the aw...

JOANNA MACY on the World as Lover and Self /12 from 2015-01-31T04:13:11

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 scholars...

MATTHEW WOOD on the History and Fate of Herbalism /11 from 2015-01-23T19:55:51

Matthew Wood has been a practicing herbalist since 1982. He has been an active practitioner of traditional Western herbalism and has helped tens of thousands of clients over the years.

ALBERT BATES On Where Activism Meets Counterculture /10 from 2015-01-10T02:49:35

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 has taught s...

XANDRIA WILLIAMS on Curing Cancer with Food /09 from 2015-01-02T21:43

Xandria began her career as a geochemist, but turned to biochemistry and the study of nutrition, naturopathy, homeopathy, and herbal medicine. She has written hundreds of articles, 15 books, appear...

PETER McCOY on the Way of the Mycelial Warrior /08 from 2014-12-11T10:29:16

In 2006, Peter co-founded the Radical Mycology project with a focus on teaching the simplest and most effective methods of mushroom cultivation for the purposes of food sovereignty, medicine produc...

WILL HARLAN on the Wild Woman of Cumberland Island /07 from 2014-12-11T10:27:16

Today we will have a rare glimpse into one of the last remaining wild places in the Eastern United States, Cumberland Island, a 18 mile long island just off the coast of Southern Georgia, a semi-tr...

MATTHEW FOX on Deep Ecology Through the Eyes of a Mystic /06 from 2014-12-08T05:28:19

Matthew Fox might well be the most creative, the most comprehensive, and the most challenging religious-spiritual teacher in America. We discuss deep ecology as a spiritual practice that must be pu...

Dr. CAROLINE FRASER on Rewilding the World /05 from 2014-11-30T07:53:48

Dr. Caroline Fraser, has written the first definitive account of a visionary campaign to confront ecological crises, entitled Rewilding the World, Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution.

TOBY HEMENWAY on Permaculture for Nomads /04 from 2014-11-30T06:50:17

Toby Hemenway is the author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, which for the last eight years has been the best-selling permaculture book in the world. Toby has been an adjunct p...

CHARLES EISENSTEIN on Foundations of Earth Activism /03 from 2014-10-02T04:34:13

Eisenstein graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy. He is the author of Sacred Economics, The Ascent of Humanity, and most recently, A More Beautiful Worl...

DR. SUSAN MURPHY ROSHI on Zen&the Planetary Emergency /02 from 2014-10-01T06:38:19

Dr. Susan Murphy Roshi is a writer, radio producer and film director, film professor, as well as the founding teacher of Zen Open Circle in Sydney Australia.

LINDA TUCKER on White Lions in Mythology and Nature /01 from 2014-10-01T05:01:16

Linda Tucker, an ecological activist, grew up in South Africa during Apartheid and attended the Universities of Cape Town in South Africa and Cambridge in the United Kingdom. In 2002, she founded t...