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WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT?Climate influencers, organizers, education 👩🏻🏫, and Texas, with Alexia LeclercqAlexia Leclercq is a face of the youth climate movement — something that, as we discussed, is a tricky thing to be.She is a grassroots environmental justice organizer and scholar in Austin, Texas. Alexia is also co-founder of the Colorado River Conservancy and of Start:Empowerment, an education non-profit that provides students and teachers with an immersive climate justice curriculum. She’s led campaigns at the international and local levels to phase out fossil fuels, fight for clean water, and so much more — and she’s still in her mid-20s!In this conversation, we talk abo...2025-06-1157 min
WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT?EPA, IRA, WTF 🤬, with Gina McCarthyFor this live event at the WBUR Festival, Gina McCarthy and I discussed the EPA, the IRA, what’s at stake for us all... and, why we must never, ever pave paradise.Gina led the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President Obama, was president of NRDC, and then, under President Biden, became the first ever National Climate Advisor, setting up a climate team in the White House.Perhaps Gina’s crowning achievement was her work on the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Congress passed this landmark bill in 2022, which allocated about $400 billion to the clean energy tran...2025-06-0446 min
Ayana and Mya: MMTMEyes Wide Open Sabrina Carpenter AlbumIn this episode of 'Music, Movies, TV, and More,' I (Ayana reviews Sabrina Carpenter's debut album, 'Eyes Wide Open', released: April 14, 2015.
Sabrina was so young when this album came out. Despite Sabrina not connecting to the album anymore, it's a great debut album.
In this episode I share my top six favorite tracks: including 'Eyes Wide Open,' 'Darling I'm A Mess,' etc. I then discuss each song's lyrics and how I feel about them. Snippets are included, and ends with a poem "Permission To Breathe” By, Zach Ripley and the song of the...2024-08-0707 min
Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum CareNourishing Community Healing through Simplicity, Intuition and Herbalism with Ayana MuhammadThis talk explores how community healing can be nourished through simplicity, intuition and herbalism. Guest Ayana Muhammad shares her journey from birth companion to community healer focusing on postpartum care. She discusses how even from a young age she was drawn to caregiving, and found various ways to support others through massage therapy and herbal remedies.
Ayana emphasizes how the small acts of self-care, like going outside, breathing and making tea can make a big difference. Through slowing down our nervous system we can center ourselves and intuitively know how to proceed. She applies...2024-03-2732 min
Just Keep Swimming with Ayana MaryottAspects of my Childhood and Hyper-IndependenceIn so many different ways, our childhood often shapes us into who we are today. Listen and learn to what I believe caused me to become hyper-independent at such a young age, and how I continue to see it in myself at almost 23 years old.2024-03-1025 min
The Young Archers PodcastEpisode 2 - Ayana ButtAyana is a very good barebow recurve archer. Noah and Ayana talk about how she got into archery, her archery journey, and talk a bit about compound and barebow differences.2024-01-2528 min
To Be Heard PodcastTake Your Next Step of Faith with CJ MilacciHappy #ToBeHeardTuesday, listeners!
You and I are in for a treat for today's episode...
Joining me on the podcast today is award-winning author, CJ Milacci!
CJ writes stories for teens and young adults with heart-pounding action and hope. As the podcast host for Read Clean YA with CJ and the genius behind the Talionis series—which includes Recruit of Talionis and Fugitive of Talionis—she loves talking about books and the deeper themes woven into the pages of each novel. She’s passionate about crafting stories of good overcoming evil, finding hope in the midst of see...2024-01-0957 min
YA Book ChatAuthor Interview: Ayana Gray (Beasts of Prey/Ruin/War)Today I am chatting with NY Times Best Selling author Ayana Gray! Ayana and I will be chatting about her Beasts of Prey trilogy. We discuss all three books in the trilogy; Beasts of Prey, Beasts of Ruin, and the final book in the series (which publishes on January 16, 2024), Beasts of War. Take a listen as Ayana and I chat about the storyline of each book, her writing style, challenges she's faced in writing the series, the inclusion of African culture and history in each book, the characters, Ayana's world building, and more! ...2024-01-0848 min
Asked By AyanaShannon Leyko on finding flexible work in motherhoodShannon Leyko (@shannonleyko) is on the show today! She's an author and ghostwriter, previously served as Miss New York, and has three young children. Shannon has a fascinating career journey, and we discuss how becoming a mother changed her view of work. We talk about how society often pits at-home and working parents against each other and how to break out of that mindset. Connect with her below:InstagramBlogBook2023-08-2337 min
To Be Heard PodcastSingle and Secure with Grace ValentineHappy Valentine’s Day, listeners! We’re in for a special treat for today’s #ToBeHeardTuesday because I have the ONE & ONLY Grace Valentine joining me to talk about…SINGLENESS!
That’s right!
ALL THE SINGLE LADIES—This one is for you.
Grace is the four-time author of Is It Just Me?, Am I Enough?, What Will They Think?, and To the Girl Looking for More: 90 Devotions to Help You Ditch the Lies, Love Yourself, and Live Big for God, which is available for pre-order now! Her novel What Will They Think? has hit #1 in Top Christian Young Adult Best Sellers shor...2023-02-1435 min
Mississippi Speaks : A Community ConversationMS Speaks: Legacy of the Lash
Panelist Bios
Ellen Reddy
Ellen Reddy has been the Executive Director for Nollie Jenkins Family for twenty-five plus years. She is responsible for conducting the day-to-day activities including financial, administrative, and programmatic work of a community-based organization that develops grassroots leaders, community organizers, parents, and students and other members of the African American community in Holmes County.
Kameisha Smith
Kameisha Smith, from Lexington, MS, is the Youth Program Coordinator for Nollie Jenkins Family Center. She is known for her vision, passion, and dedication to improving the lives of you...2022-11-1743 min
Ayana Explains It AllAyana Explains Why Young People Need a Tool KitIf you're on your way out the door to college (or looking for a refill on your "things you should know" mental folder), don't go before you've heard these "7 Hard Truths" that may make you a better human or hate being a grown up altogether. Put them in a box labeled "TOOLS" and use them as often as needed, which is everyday. Unlike your game console these tools won't break before the warranty is up. Music by Skilsel at Pixabay.com. Inspired by "8 Hard to Swallow Pills" by TherapyWithMaggieLPC at Instagram.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://pod...2022-07-191h 29
Ayana Explains It AllAyana Explains Why Young People Need a Tool KitIf you're on your way out the door to college (or looking for a refill on your "things you should know" mental folder), don't go before you've heard these "7 Hard Truths" that may make you a better human or hate being a grown up altogether. Put them in a box labeled "TOOLS" and use them as often as needed, which is everyday. Unlike your game console these tools won't break before the warranty is up.
Music by Skilsel at Pixabay.com.
Inspired by "8 Hard to Swallow Pills" by TherapyWithMaggieLPC at Instagram.com.2022-07-191h 29
Ayana Explains It AllAyana Explains Why Young People Need a Tool KitIf you're on your way out the door to college (or looking for a refill on your "things you should know" mental folder), don't go before you've heard these "7 Hard Truths" that may make you a better human or hate being a grown up altogether. Put them in a box labeled "TOOLS" and use them as often as needed, which is everyday. Unlike your game console these tools won't break before the warranty is up. Music by Skilsel at Pixabay.com. Inspired by "8 Hard to Swallow Pills" by TherapyWithMaggieLPC at Instagram.com. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The...2022-07-191h 31
Ayana Explains It AllThe One Where Ayana Explains The Gender Wage Gap and Equal Pay"Young girl, you'll be a woman soon, and then have a job where you're paid only 88 cents to the dollar of a man" or however the song goes. Women in the United States earn less money than men and strictly because we're women, and though Equal Pay Day has come and gone, equal pay is not a thing in the United States and many factors inform this injustice. And who has it worse than anyone? Well, join me as I deep dive into the US gender wage gap and find out the dirty details of this American injustice; learn why...2022-03-211h 24
Ayana Explains It AllThe One Where Ayana Explains The Gender Wage Gap and Equal Pay"Young girl, you'll be a woman soon, and then have a job where you're paid only 88 cents to the dollar of a man" or however the song goes. Women in the United States earn less money than men and strictly because we're women, and though Equal Pay Day has come and gone, equal pay is not a thing in the United States and many factors inform this injustice. And who has it worse than anyone? Well, join me as I deep dive into the US gender wage gap and find out the dirty details of this American injustice; learn why equ...2022-03-211h 25
Ayana Explains It AllThe One Where Ayana Explains The Gender Wage Gap and Equal Pay"Young girl, you'll be a woman soon, and then have a job where you're paid only 88 cents to the dollar of a man" or however the song goes. Women in the United States earn less money than men and strictly because we're women, and though Equal Pay Day has come and gone, equal pay is not a thing in the United States and many factors inform this injustice. And who has it worse than anyone? Well, join me as I deep dive into the US gender wage gap and find out the dirty details of this American injustice; learn why equ...2022-03-211h 24
Scripture Alone Podcast/Episode 43 No Young Pastors in Mekane Yesus, Why?What is the Role is the role of pastors here?2022-02-2445 min
Scripture Alone Podcast/Episode 35 No Young Pastors in EECMY, in Addis Ababa, why?Shortage of pastors, a worrying factor?2022-02-1945 min
Phone In a FriendTrailerWe all know the need to pick up the phone and confide in that go-to friend. Phone In a Friend Podcast captures authentic conversation between two friends about the highs and lows of navigating Christianity as young women in a society driven by pop-culture. Charlese and Ayana phone each other weekly to get candid as they discuss dating, identity, social matters and life! All are welcome to tune in as these ladies share their experiences and advice for young Christians. This walk with God ain’t easy! And we aren't meant to do it alone. Come get in on so...2022-01-0801 min
GreatHER Purpose PodcastBET's Trap Queen, Ayana Bean- Purpose Despite Mistakes Ayana Bean whose life is chronicled on the American Gangster: Trap Queens series on BET. Ayana Bean travels the world telling her story in hopes of making a difference and helping young women and girls with similar backgrounds not go down the path she did.Boston, MA native Ayana Bean has lead a life worthy of a movie, with a preview of her story being shared through her episode of Black Entertainment Television’s reboot of the highly acclaimed American Gangster series. Her hustle spanned from the streets of Boston to the entire country as she became a v...2021-09-2437 minAsked By AyanaLisa Respers France on covering all things pop culture for CNNToday, I’m joined by the one and only Lisa Respers France. She’s a longtime journalist who has worked at CNN for over a decade as a senior entertainment writer. She’s the queen of all things pop culture and graciously agreed to share her journey to her dream job with me. We talk about how she became a writer (the story involves Oprah!), her most memorable celebrity encounters, her tips for young journalists, and how she bravely decided to write about her dad’s battle with COVID.Follow her on Instagram: instagram.com/lisafranceTwitte...2021-09-0150 min
Voices of EsalenAyana Young: For the WildAyana Young is a protector of wild nature and host of the podcast For the Wild - an interview-based show that examines and champions intersectional environmental and social justice, deep ecology, and land-based restoration. Topics include the Future History of Water, Queering Permaculture, Unruly Beauty, the Divine Time of Fungal Evolution, the Violence of Globalization, and much more. Together we talked about capitalisim, her involvement with the early stages of Occupy Wall Street, why she lives off the grid and how exactly that works with being an activist and media producer, the manner in which she curates her guests and c...2021-08-191h 07
Café with MonicaBreaking Toxic Money Habits & Mindset with Ayana Campbell SmithHow’s your relationship with money? Do you find yourself overspending? Trying to start a budget but having no financial boundaries? This episode is meant for you! Today’s guest is debt-free money coach Ayana. Ayana shares her insights in how to make your relationship with money better, how to quit overspending, how to bring up conversation about money, the challenges to become debt free, and understanding toxic emotional spending cycles. This episode is jam packed with tangible tools to start healing your relationship with money and set healthier money habits. More abo...2021-05-1225 min
The Salisha Show-Where Broadway Meets CultureThe INSPIRING AYANA MAJOR BEYFrom theater, film, commercial, and voiceover actress, Ayana Major Bey is an INSPIRATION. Black Hair in the Big Leagues was born in part due to Ayana's influence. Always on a grind, always leveling up, Ayana Major Bey cares for her curls like nobody's business, and this episode will make you feel like you are truly one of the girls! Listen to her podcast: THE ARTIST PIVOT.Follow Ayana on www.ayanabey.com or on IG @ayanambey!Follow host, Salisha Thomas @salishathomas or at www.salishathomas.com.Show Notes:...2021-04-2259 min
The Salisha Show-Where Broadway Meets CultureBHBL: The INSPIRING AYANA MAJOR BEYFrom theater, film, commercial, and voiceover actress, Ayana Major Bey is an INSPIRATION. Black Hair in the Big Leagues was born in part due to Ayana's influence. Always on a grind, always leveling up, Ayana Major Bey cares for her curls like nobody's business, and this episode will make you feel like you are truly one of the girls! Listen to her podcast: THE ARTIST PIVOT.Follow Ayana on www.ayanabey.com or on IG @ayanambey!Follow host, Salisha Thomas @salishathomas or at www.salishathomas.com.Show Notes:Recorded a week before the election results, election/news talk is important...2021-04-2254 min
The Writing on My Mind PodcastPlaying the Game of Graduate School (with Dr. Ayana Martin)In today's episode, I speak to Dr. Ayana Martin about everything from advocating for yourself, using mental health counseling to get unstuck, and dealing with imposter syndrome.Ayana Martin, PhD completed her degree in Molecular Medicine and Translational Science at Wake Forest University. While in grad school, Ayana served as the President of the Black Graduate Student Association, the graduate representative of the Student Wellness Center, and led membership recruitment for the Winston Salem Urban League Young Professionals. Ayana went on to pursue a career in scientific communication and is currently a Clinical Educator Liaison in Rheumatology...2020-12-141h 04
Holistic Nature of UsHolistic Nature of Us: meet Ayana YoungAyana Young is deeply concerned about environmental issues, including social justice, ecology, and land-based restoration. She has been the force behind a native species nursery and research center, including the establishment of the 1 Million Redwoods Project, and the film when When Old Growth Ends. Ayana is a podcast host on “For the Wild,” a weekly show featuring thought-leaders at the forefront of an environmental, artistic, scientific, political, and cultural shift.
Join us for discussions about her projects and how nature is teaching her and her team to have patience, slow down, and immerse within the community of plants.2020-07-0634 min
Holistic Nature of UsPodcast: Meet Ayana Young, Activist, Radio and Podcast HostAyana Young is deeply concerned about environmental issues including social justice, ecology, and land-based restoration. She has been the force behind a native species nursery and research center including the establishment of the 1 Million Redwoods Project, the film when Old Growth Forests Die.2020-05-1934 min
Staying Home with Josh FoxMay 12, 2020: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Tommie SunshineToday Josh talks to marine biologist and founder of Ocean Collectiv Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. Plus musical guest Tommie Sunshine!2020-05-1344 min
The Writer's HavenA Beautiful Excursion: Author Ayana GrayYoung Adult author Ayana Gray has a lot to offer in our latest episode. Take a listen to our conversation on traveling abroad and the power of lost voices within black history. Ayana also has helpful resources ranging from podcasts to writer contests that will help anyone get started on their own journey.
Connect with Ayana:
Twitter: @Ayana Gray
Instagram: @ayanagray_
Author Website: www.ayanagray.com
2020-04-2941 min
The Think Piece PodcastGratitude and Commitment with Ayana YoungThis week, I am thrilled to be talking with Ayana Young. Ayana is a lover and protector of wildness on earth, especially the temperate rainforest of the west coast. She is a steward for the future and works on many land-based restoration and protection projects under the umbrella For the Wild. You might be familiar with her incredibly popular podcast with the same name. Her work is deeply spiritual, necessarily practical, and absolutely inspiring, and all of that comes through in our interview.In today’s episode, we talk about gratitude and joy during a time of tre...2020-04-2353 min
HearthspeakDeepening our Love for the Wild with Ayana YoungAyana shares her story of coming into place based connection, her love of the wild and deep gratitude and commitment to being in integrity with this life. She honors some of her teachers, both human and other than human, and emphasizes the importance of sinking into deep rest, feeling into ourselves and following our passions through becoming effective earth stewards and whatever we are in service to. Ayana shares more about her newest project with For the Wild and the necessity of creative community response in trying times. We hope that you enjoy this rich episode. Ayana...2020-04-1757 min
Wild HomeDeepening our Love for the Wild with Ayana YoungAyana shares her story of coming into place based connection, her love of the wild and deep gratitude and commitment to being in integrity with this life. She honors some of her teachers, both human and other than human, and emphasizes the importance of sinking into deep rest, feeling into ourselves and following our passions through becoming effective earth stewards and whatever we are in service to. Ayana shares more about her newest project with For the Wild and the necessity of creative community response in trying times. We hope that you enjoy this rich episode. Ayana...2020-04-1757 min
Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa MariaEnvironmental Justice w/ Ayana YoungIn this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by the founder, executive director, and host of For the Wild, Ayana Young. They talk about her mission to effect ecological change through conservation efforts, advocacy, and storytelling, all through the lens of intersectional social and environmental justice.2020-04-131h 09
Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa MariaEnvironmental Justice w/ Ayana YoungIn this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by the founder, executive director, and host of For the Wild, Ayana Young. They talk about her mission to effect ecological change through conservation efforts, advocacy, and storytelling, all through the lens of intersectional social and environmental justice.2020-04-131h 06
Hippie Haven Podcast: How To Live A Harmonious LifeUsing Environmental Activism to Keep the Earth Wild with Ayana YoungEvery Wednesday on the Hippie Haven podcast, learn how to live harmoniously with yourself, others & the planet. We talk about all things hippie, including eating vegan, reducing your trash, starting an ethical business, eco-activism, gardening, beekeeping, tiny house living, and so much more.My guest today is Ayana Young, a podcast and radio personality specializing in intersectional environmental and social justice, deep ecology and land-based restoration with an undergraduate degree from Loyola Marymount University, including a double major in art history and theology and a minor in philosophy as well as education through Columbia university and ecology...2020-04-0800 min
Belonging: Conversations about rites of passage, meaningful community, and seasonal living56. Hope in the Age of the Anthropocene with Ayana YoungI'm thrilled to bring you a conversation with Ayana Young, a fierce warrior for the earth and fellow podcaster. I have learned so much from Ayana over the years about what it means to be alive in the Anthropocene (the Age of Man) and how to find hope in action. Ayana specializes in intersectional environmental and social justice, deep ecology and land-based restoration, and was a co-founder of the Environmental Working Group.Together Ayana and I talk about how she lives her life today in the woods of northern California and her commitment to a new way of being in...2020-04-0655 min
Regenerative SkillsFrom Manhattan to the Redwood Forest. An inner journey of rewilding, with Ayana Young of “For the Wild”In this ongoing series on homesteading I’ve talked to a lot of people who’ve given us really practical information on how to make the transition to a more self-sufficient way of life and connect with nature in the process. We’ve explored how to start businesses on your land, grow and produce your own food, as well as forage for wild food and medicine. In this episode we’ll take a look at the softer side of the homesteading lifestyle in talking about the inner transformations and the feelings connected to rewilding and reconnecting to the land. For this per...2020-04-0354 min
Cultivating PlaceFOR THE WILD With Ayana Young, THE EARTH IN HER HANDS series #5While we head into another month under social distancing and self-isolation restrictions in order to flatten the curve of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, we close out our women’s history month interview conversation with Ayana Young founder and host a For The Wild Podcast and Projects. Her work and words remind us we are never in fact alone. Join us!
Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place.
We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow ev...2020-04-0259 minCultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenFOR THE WILD With Ayana Young, THE EARTH IN HER HANDS series #5While we head into another month under social distancing and self-isolation restrictions in order to flatten the curve of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, we close out our women’s history month interview conversation with Ayana Young founder and host a For The Wild Podcast and Projects. Her work and words remind us we are never in fact alone. Join us!
Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place.
We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow ev...2020-04-0259 min
Feed Your Wild- Intuitive Healing, Akashic Records, Astrology for Healers, Holistic HealingThe Medicine of Grief for Radical Change with Ayana YoungIf you have been feeling a sense of overwhelm, fear, anxiety, loss, paralysis, and grief for some time... in light of ecological crisis, destruction of the natural world, and especially amidst Coronavirus pandemic, you are not alone. This grounding yet inspiring conversation is for you. We are speaking with Ayana Young, host of the For The Wild podcast, an anthology of the Anthropocene; focused on land based protection, co-liberation and intersectional storytelling rooted in a paradigm shift from human supremacy towards deep ecology. In this heart-felt interview, we talk about the transformative power of collective an...2020-03-301h 07
Earth to HumansEOC 196: Ayana Young, For the WildTurn down the lights, pour yourself a beverage, and tune your ears to the smooth offerings of Ayana Young, host and author of the podcast and book, For the Wild. Ayana visits with Matthew Podolsky about how she got started in activism going all the way back to her childhood poetry. Ayana is no stranger to speaking truth to power. A graduate of the Occupy movement, she went on to live the camper life, traveling at home and abroad in a quest to understand this crazy world just a bit better. To read about her b...2020-03-251h 02
Medicine Stories64. When We Slow Down, Earth Heals - Ayana YoungAs Slowness Medicine is being experienced by the collective consciousness on an unprecedented scale, we can more clearly than ever see that the frenetic pace of the human species under endless growth capitalism is the root cause of global ecosystem disruption (one consequence of which is the emergence and lightning fast spread of novel viral pathogens). From newly clear canal water in Venice to dolphins swimming closer than usual to Italy’s coast to record breaking breathable air in China, let’s embrace this opportunity to pause consciously, learn deeply, and critically rethink our approach to the many threats that...2020-03-2000 min
Medicine Stories64. When We Slow Down, Earth Heals - Ayana YoungAs Slowness Medicine is being experienced by the collective consciousness on an unprecedented scale, we can more clearly than ever see that the frenetic pace of the human species under endless growth capitalism is the root cause of global ecosystem disruption (one consequence of which is the emergence and lightning fast spread of novel viral pathogens). From newly clear canal water in Venice to dolphins swimming closer than usual to Italy’s coast to record breaking breathable air in China, let’s embrace this opportunity to pause consciously, learn deeply, and critically rethink our approach to the many threats that...2020-03-201h 41
BeProvided Conservation Radio PodcastAyana Young: Host of For the Wild Our most recent podcast is with Ayana Young, founder and host of the popular podcast, For The Wild. Ayana is a lover and protector of wild nature. She teaches us about empowered earth stewardship and leads biodiversity enhancement workshops. Ayana will discuss her experience with falling in love with old growth forests and the creation of her film, When Old Growth Ends. Please check it out here...https://forthewild.world/when-old-growth-ends. (In this episode we discuss the threat of the Tongass National Forest. Last year the forest Service announced that the preferred action of the...2020-03-1856 min
Rising Women LeadersSacred Conservation & Love For the Wild with Ayana YoungThis conversation gave me chills. Ayana Young is a deeply inspired woman, connected to the Earth, the soil, the plants and the animals. She is also host of the For the Wild podcast, and specializes in intersectional environmental and social justice, deep ecology and land-based restoration. If you’ve been feeling the grief of this planet, wondering what you can do while so much destruction is happening, this conversation is for you. In this episode we discussed: How Ayana was led to environmental and conservation work The 1 million Redwoods pro...2020-03-1352 min
Earth Repair RadioEpisode 028 - Ayana Young: Raining Redwoods, Pandemic PeaceAyana Young shares her planetary perspective on climate change, Redwood forests, and the Coronavirus pandemic. We talk about her "MIllion Redwoods" project, where she is working to preserve and propagate the biodiversity of the old growth Redwood forest. We then journey into the soul of the Coronavirus pandemic, where Ayana has some words of reality from her wide and Earth connected perspective.
Ayana's links: https://forthewild.world/
Ayana Young Full Bio:
Ayana Young is a podcast and radio personality specializing in intersectional environmental and social justice, deep ecology and land-based restoration. Graduating summa cum laude with an undergraduate degree from...2020-03-1300 min
The Sustainable Jungle Podcast50 · AYANA YOUNG · FOR THE WILD, AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE ANTHROPOCENEAyana Young is a podcast and radio personality specializing in intersectional environmental and social justice, deep ecology and land-based restoration. Graduating summa cum laude with an undergraduate degree from Loyola Marymount University including a double major in Art History and Theology and a minor in Philosophy, as well as education through Columbia University in Ecology and Eastern Religions and Restoration Ecology at the University of Victoria, Young has a strong academic background at the intersections of ecology, culture, and spirituality. She was studying at Columbia when the Occupy Wall Street movement began and amid the burgeoning resistance in Zuccotti...2020-03-051h 04
Art Works PodcastAyana WorkmanFor a young actor, only four years out of the conservatory, Ayana Workman has amassed an impressive resume, including: Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (at the public Theater in NYC and the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington DC), Perdita in Winter’s Tale (again at the Public) and Banquo in MacBeth at the Lucille Lortel Theater in NYC. But frankly, these roles seem like a walk in the park compared to her next play Everybody by MacArthur Fellow Branden Jacobs-Jenkins which opened the season at DC’s Shakespeare Theater Company. In Everybody, which based on the 15th century morality play...2019-12-0429 min
Soul Soil: Where Agriculture and Spirit Intersect with Brooke Kornegay010, Ayana Young: Unlearn and Rewild We are in a unique time in human history. We can order an item from around the world and receive it at our doorstep in a few days. We can live our entire lives indoors. We can exist without interacting with other humans. Unfortunately, this separation from each other and from Nature makes it easier than ever to exploit and destroy nature for our own purposes. The good news is...we are actually in a position to salvage what few wild areas still exist on the planet. There is however, an expiration date on that offer. Ayana Y...2019-11-1249 min
Almost 30Ayana Young on Climate Change + How We Can Reconnect with and Save Mother EarthOur relationship with Mother Earth, and the need for even the smallest of actions to protect her, is our focus in today’s podcast with Ayana Young. She is the founder of the nonprofit For The Wild which now encompasses the 1 Million Redwoods reforestation project, For the Wild podcast, and a new spinoff series birthed from a preservation campaign around the Tongass National Forest. Ayana’s journey as an advocate and protector of our Earth began when she was studying Ecology at Columbia University. She eventually dropped out to become a full time political organizer. She intertwined the environmental conce...2019-06-271h 42
ParadigmsAyana For the Wild – Eljuri New CD “Resiste”Ayana Young is one of the founders of the For the Wild Collective. Ayana talks about rewilding and unlearning as part of living sustainably. By spending less time with electronics and the trappings of modern life, and by spending more time with living things like plants and animals, especially outside, you set in motion an organic process of rewilding. You can do it too!
Eljuri has released a new collection of liberation music called Resiste Baruch talks with Eljuri about what she’s up to, her political work and inspirations, and her music. The world is facing a r...2019-05-1359 min
ParadigmsAyana For the Wild – Eljuri New CD "Resiste"Ayana Young is one of the founders of the For the Wild Collective. Ayana talks about rewilding and unlearning as part of living sustainably. By spending less time with electronics and the trappings of modern life, and by spending more … More ...2019-05-1359 min
My Voice with Dara & Friends#61: Beautiful, 13, and BrownI sip water in this episode with some beautiful young ladies about being 13 and having brown skin in today's society. How do we as a community began to give them a path to travel that allows them to flourish.My daughter, Tirzah, accompanied by her two best friends Ever & Arrington, share some intimate details about their journey. They were honest & fun and made a hard conversation easy, with wit and freshness.Please SHARE, LIKE, RATE, & COMMENT.FOLLOW ME ON IG @ (MyVoicePodcast) https://www.instagram.com/myvoicepodcast/Facebook @ (MyVoicePodcast) https://www.facebook.com/myvoicepodcastMy Daughter also has her own IG @ (Tirzah...2019-02-2559 min
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration100) Humbling modernity while dreaming up a truly sustainable future with For The Wild's Ayana YoungWhat does it mean that a lot of our current efforts to 'go green' could just be facades or short term solutions that might create another set of unintended problems? How do we deal with the loneliness and rage that might come from having woken up to a lot of our systemic issues which a lot of people around us might still not see? Our guest on this episode is Ayana Young, a lover and protector of wild nature and the host of For the Wild podcast. Today, she teaches empowered earth stewardship, leads biodiversity en...2018-12-2051 min
My Home Planet PodcastAyana Young-Messages From The MountainsFrom having never held a seed in her hand to now planting 1 million trees-For The Wild founder Ayana Young’s life has certainly evolved.In this episode of MHP this restoration ecologist shares her story-from a suburban, Orange County upbringing to tent living in her beloved forest. On the way she’s gathered on Wall Street and travelled to the ‘safest’ place on earth.Ayana speaks of her greatest love affair. She explains what she thinks is the real ask should be in environmental campaigning and how a forest miracle was responsible for the remarkable 1 Million Redwoods...2018-03-201h 00My Home Planet PodcastAyana Young-Messages From The MountainsFrom having never held a seed in her hand to now planting 1 million trees-For The Wild founder Ayana Young’s life has certainly evolved.In this episode of MHP this restoration ecologist shares her story-from a suburban, Orange County upbringing to tent living in her beloved forest. On the way she’s gathered on Wall Street and travelled to the ‘safest’ place on earth.Ayana speaks of her greatest love affair. She explains what she thinks is the real ask should be in environmental campaigning and how a forest miracle was responsible for the remarkable 1 Million Redwoods...2018-03-2000 min
Radical Remembrance: Conversations on Being Human (formerly Ladies Who Lead)E084 Ayana Young - For the Wild: Education Through ConservationAyana Young (@for.the.wild / www.forthewild.world) shares with us her journey from the privilege of the OC to tending raw land in the Northern California Redwoods. She speaks to her journey becoming an empowered earth steward, leading biodiversity enhancement workshops and facilitating educational panels across North America. We talk sacred rage, being wild, our love of the redwoods and so much more. Ayana is a lover and protector of wild nature. She is the founder of Sisters Bonded in Action and For The Wild, a Research Foundation who share the same name with the podcast she hosts. To...2017-12-111h 05
Humans On The Loop50 - Ayana Young (Ecological Activism & Living For The Wild)Ayana Young didn’t even go camping until she was 25. Now she lives in a cabin she built herself in the redwoods of Northern California and manages a 477-acre native species nursery wilderness rehabilitation project (as well as an amazing podcast). This week’s episode is a candid, personal discussion about how awakening to our participation in nature is the key to both our survival and our spiritual salvation…https://forthewild.world/https://www.instagram.com/for.the.wild/ For The Wild is currently raising money to plant ONE MILLION redwoods: htt...2017-12-061h 34
Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and FriendsAyana Young on Creative Stewardship, Grieving With the Earth, and Running Towards Your Passion [Episode 90]Ayana Young is a lover and protector of wild nature who teaches about empowered earth stewardship, leads biodiversity enhancement workshops, and facilitates panels across North America. In this episode we talk about: Why it is so necessary right now to allow yourself to feel this intensely heartbreaking time, as someone who loves the earth Why […]2017-11-231h 06
FOR THE WILDFaith Gemmill & Princess Lucaj on an Arctic Untouched by Oil
Photo: Ayana Young
Today we’re speaking Faith Gemmill, a Pit River/ Wintu and Neets’ aii Gwich’in Athabascan earth defender from Arctic Village, Alaska. She is a campaign organizer for REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands). Faith has worked on behalf of the Gwich’in Nation for over ten years as a representative, public spokesperson and Gwich’in Steering Committee staff to address the potential human health and cultural impacts of proposed oil development in the birthplace and nursery of the Porcupine Caribou Herd in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Faith continues...2016-09-181h 01
FOR THE WILDPeter McCoy on Fungi for Personal and Planetary Healing
Photo: Ayana Young
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 biosphere. We begin with cutting-edge uses of fungi for personalized medicine, which promises sweeping advances in healthcare and natural healing. We surmise the potentials and the limitations of myco-remediation in confronting industrial agriculture, logging, oceanic plastics, and other major pollution. We’ll also discuss the imperative to preserve fungal diversity and the methods of creating local spore and culture banks. Despite being side...2016-08-1900 minFOR THE WILDPeter McCoy on Fungi and the Birth of the Modern Psyche, Part 1
Today we welcome back Peter McCoy, who speaks on behalf of the fungi, the most overlooked and misrepresented organisms in the web of life. Peter 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 mycelial webs can steer our social experiments. Peter is an original founder of Radical Mycology, a grassroots organization and movement that teaches the skills needed to work with mushrooms and other fungi for personal, societal, and ecological resilience. Peter is the lead cultivation expert for the Amazon Mycorenewal Project and...2016-07-2110h 00FOR THE WILDMonique Verdin and Cherri Foytlin on the Gulf Coast’s Unsound Future
Rare mature cypress trees are still logged for mulch, and most will not grow back.
Today we will look deep into the challenges faced by frontline indigenous activists in one of America’s most vibrant, and imperiled, regions, the Mississippi Delta. Monique Michelle Verdin is a native daughter of southeast Louisiana and the creator of the film My Louisiana Love. Her intimate documentation of the Deltas’ indigenous Houma nation exposes the complex interconnectedness of environment, economics, culture, climate and change. Cherri Foytlin is a Cherokee and Dine journalist, and mother of six who lives in south Louisiana. She...2016-07-0658 minFOR THE WILDRobin Wall Kimmerer on Indigenous Knowledge for Earth Healing
Sweetgrass (Hierochloe odorata)
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 Forestry in Syracuse, NY, and the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. The Center’s mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. Her research interests include the role of traditional ecological knowledge in ecological restoration and building resilience for climate change. In collaboration with tribal partners, she an...2016-05-1458 minFOR THE WILDJill Stein on the Fertile Grounds for Revolution
Photo by Cheryl Dunn, 2011
The first season of this program has explored our ecological predicament from the vantage of activism, science, indigenous knowledge, and eco-psychology, and we have brainstormed and dreamed about how to move towards a regenerative future as an Earth community. The window we must pass through to escape a total unraveling of the climate and biodiversity is so small that we must focus all our creative powers on hitting that target, no matter how radical the changes we must make in our societies and ourselves. The other part of the message is that we...2016-04-2158 minFOR THE WILDDiana Beresford-Kroeger on Replanting the Global Forest, Part 2
Painting by March Young
A delightful meander into the deep knowledge of the forest! How do trees communicate with one another and act for the common good? Why are oceans utterly dependent on healthy forests? How would a regenerative society meet its resource needs? What do children know that their parents have forgotten? 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, spirituality and alternative medicine to reveal a path toward better stewardship of the natural world. Orphaned in Ireland in her...2016-04-0458 minFOR THE WILDDiana Beresford-Kroeger on Replanting the Global Forest, Part 1
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, spirituality and alternative medicine to reveal a path toward better stewardship of the natural world. Orphaned in Ireland in her youth, Diana was educated by elders who instructed her in the Brehon knowledge of plants and nature. Told she was the last child of ancient Ireland and told to one day bring this knowledge to a troubled future, Diana has done exactly that. Her Bioplan is an ambitious plan encouraging ordinary people to develop a...2016-03-1158 minFOR THE WILDRosemary Gladstar on Uniting Plant Savers
Goldenseal (Hydrastis Canadensis)
Come fall in love with plants, not just as teachers and healers, but as powerful partners in land stewardship and renewal. Rosemary Gladstar joins us to discuss her activism in protecting and restoring medicinal plants and their habitats. She is a pioneer in the herbal movement and has been called the 'godmother of American Herbalism'. She began over 35 years ago developing herbal formulas in her shop, Rosemary's Garden in Sonoma County, California. She is the founder of the California School of Herbal Studies, the oldest running herb school in the United States, and is...2016-02-2158 minFOR THE WILDANDREW HARVEY on Confronting Crisis with Divine Dignity
As we stand in awe before biotic and societal collapse, Andrew Harvey gives us a map of mystical teachings to help us navigate the dark night of the soul and to emerge as empowered Earth defenders. 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 by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability. Sacred Activism is a transforming force of compassion-in-action that is born of a fusion of...2016-01-2700 minFOR THE WILDBUFFY SAINTE-MARIE on Creative Decolonization in a Global Village
"Neon Hula" -Digital art by Buffy Sainte-Marie
Today we are speaking with the legendary artist, educator and political activist Buffy Sainte-Marie. Buffy was born to Cree parents on the Piapot Cree Reservation in Saskatchewan, Canada. She was orphaned as an infant and moved to Massachusetts, where she would later get her degree in Eastern Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. In the early Sixties, Buffy played the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village, where her music was so well received that her career skyrocketed to international fame soon thereafter. Almost 50 years after the release of her first album,* It’s...2015-11-1500 minFOR THE WILDELIZABETH KOLBERT on the Coming Age of Loneliness
Irrigated fields in Texas.
In the race to name this new bizarre geologic era, "Anthropocene" seems to have stuck the most. Some people are cautious to embrace a name meaning the age of humans, as it can be latched onto by industry and used as a justification for the murder of the planet. More descriptive, cautionary names have been suggested, too. Michael Soule suggested the Catastrophozoic Era. Other contenders include Homogenocene, the Age of Homogeneity, Mixocene, the Age of Slime, and the most resonant to me, coined by EO Wilson, Eremocene, the Age of Loneliness. With the...2015-09-3058 minFOR THE WILDTREBBE JOHNSON on Bearing Witness to Wounded Places
Photo by TJ Watt of the Ancient Forest Alliance. Website (new tab)
There are virtually no places left that have not been logged, mined, tilled, paved, overfished, overhunted, irradiated, drilled, bombed, or built to the sky. As public discourse swirls around how to meet our material needs as we approach the limits of growth, there is another conversation going on about how to give back and make offerings of beauty amid the plunder. As Albert Einstein said, we can’t solve our problems with the same thinking that created them. Hyper-rational linear thinking alone cannot impassion us to...2015-09-1358 minFOR THE WILDVANDANA SHIVA on the Emancipation of Seed, Water and Women
Does wild nature have a place in the future of farms and human society? How close to the edge of genetic unraveling will we come before stopping biotech pollution and safeguarding seed diversity? 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) in 1993. Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy, she is the author of many books, including Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply *and Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge...2015-08-2900 minFOR THE WILDCURT STAGER on the Deep Future of Earth’s Climate
An expansive discussion on the climate, past and future: the weight of humanity on natural systems, repercussions of temperature and sea level rise, the future of the amazon, the history of salmon and northwest forests, and more. Curt Stager is an ecologist, paleoclimatologist, and science journalist with a Ph.D. in biology and geology from Duke University. Stager blends the long-term perspective of a climate historian and multidisciplinary outlook of a biologist-geologist with the communication skills of a lifelong teacher and writer. He has published over three dozen peer-reviewed articles in major journals and has written extensively for general au...2015-08-1500 minFOR THE WILDPETER MICHAEL BAUER on the Survival of the Wildest
Just as returning wolves to their former territories benefits all other creatures, humans—also apex predators—have an ecological role to play. Our very survival in the face of the inevitable collapse of modern civilization, Peter suggests, depends on us remembering ancestral skills and strengthening the native plant populations that sustain us. 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 technologies. 2015-07-2558 minFOR THE WILDLEILA DARWISH on Grassroots Earth Repair
Leila Darwish is a community organizer, author, permaculture designer, educator, urban gardener, and grassroots herbalist with a deep commitment to environmental justice, decolonization, food sovereignty, and to providing accessible and transformative tools for communities dealing with toxic contamination of their land and drinking water.
Over the last decade, she has worked as a grassroots bioremediation instructor for different environmental organizations and community groups in Alberta, BC and the USA on campaigns such as tar sands, fracking, nuclear energy, coal, climate justice, water protection, and more. We will be discussing her book from New Society Publishers entitled “Earth Repair: A Gra...2015-06-2758 minFOR THE WILDMARTIN PRETCHEL on on Identity and Sacred Rites of Passage
A master of eloquence and innovative language, 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. With a Pueblo upbringing, life took him from New Mexico to the village of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. There becoming a full village member of the Tzutujil Mayan population, he eventually served as a principal in that body of village leaders responsible for instructing the young people in the meanings of their ancient stories through the rituals of adult rights of passage. Once a...2015-06-1300 minFOR THE WILDMARTIN PRETCHEL on on Identity and Sacred Rites of PassageA master of eloquence and innovative language, 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. As a half blood Native American with a Pueblo Indian upbringing, his life took him from New Mexico to the village of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. There becoming a full village member of the Tzutujil Mayan population, he eventually served as a principal in that body of village leaders responsible for instructing the young people in the meanings of their ancient stories through the r...2015-06-1300 minFOR THE WILDDERRICK JENSEN on Civilization and Creating a Culture of Resistance
Civilization took millennia to congeal, and in the last few hundred it has really accelerated its world takeover. The health of the world’s plant and animal communities have inversely plummeted, where now species extinctions are in the hundreds per day, and the wounded remnants of ecosystems are finally succumbing to desertification, which is evident across over two-thirds of the planet. Joining us today to help us interpret these patterns of history, and how to break them, is author Derrick Jensen. Philosopher, teacher, and radical activist Derrick Jensen has authored over twenty books and is the best-known voice of th...2015-05-3000 minFOR THE WILDMILES OLSON on Making a Life in Wild PlacesToday, we are talking with the eloquent young visionary Miles Olson, who is living an ongoing experiment in rewilding. Miles 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 unique perspective on rewilding, radical self-reliance, and the impact of civilization on the natural world. Miles offers a candid discussion into the social and technological drivers of our separation from nature. We muse about collapse scenarios, and revel in thoughts of the beautiful mess of the ensuing wildness.2015-05-1558 minFOR THE WILDMILES OLSON on Making a Life in Wild Places
Today, we are talking with the eloquent young visionary Miles Olson, who is living an ongoing experiment in rewilding. Miles 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 unique perspective on rewilding, radical self-reliance, and the impact of civilization on the natural world. Miles offers a candid discussion into the social and technological drivers of our separation from nature. We muse about collapse scenarios, and revel in thoughts of the beautiful mess of the ensuing wildness.2015-05-1558 minFOR THE WILDTOM WALDO on Fighting For Alaska's Ancient Rainforest
Today we will take an in depth look at the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, which has been called the “crown jewel” of Americas forests. The largest of US national forests, it consists of one third of the world’s coastal temperate rainforest ecosystem, which only occurs in three percent of Earths landmass. The Tongass has already had nearly half of its very large old growth trees cut down due to a process known as high-grading—where loggers remove the oldest and largest trees from the forest. These trees are often essential to the ecosystem, simply because they are so l...2015-05-0100 minFOR THE WILDMARY ELLEN HANNIBAL on the Spine of the Continent
Today we explore an epic nature conservation project that encompasses the great North American Rockies, and we examine the infinite delicate relationships between the species that inhabit them. 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 along the Rocky Mountains. A “thoroughly satisfying gem,” The Spine of the Continent chronicles landscapes, people, critters, and issues along the Spine. A former book review and travel editor, Hannibal is Chair of the California Book Awards. She wa...2015-04-1800 minFOR THE WILDCOURTNEY WHITE on Climate Solutions in the Soil
Carbon has become synonymous with “the problem,” but all terrestrial life is based on carbon, and figuring out the carbon cycle is a prerequisite to taking effective climate action. As a continuation of our exploration of restoration agriculture with Mark Shepard, we discuss grassland ecosystems and their capacity to pull massive amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and back into the ground—representing a real, promising solution to our planetary crisis. Globally, 99% of grasslands are drought-stricken, overgrazed, and weakened by exotic species invasions. With some subtle adjustments to cattle management and some basic awareness of the carbon cycle, we can...2015-03-2758 minFOR THE WILDCLIMBING POETREE on being Radical Solutionaries
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, performance artists, print makers, video and graphic designers, muralists, and new media architects, Alixa and Naima create compelling works at the service of their vision for a more just and livable world. They just published a breathtaking poetry anthology, available at climbingpoetree.com. They tells us about their valient projects and experiences in art-activism, and then get into the juiciness of vision-work, the future of human society, and their advice to budding "...2015-03-1400 minFOR THE WILDMARK SHEPARD on Restoration Agriculture
Many of the topics we cover on this program either deal with the complex and difficult situation humanity has awoken to find itself in, or the growing pool of solutions being proposed. Few authors are able to span both areas as deftly as our guest today. We’re taking a journey into the deep wells of knowledge of restoration agriculture pioneer Mark Shepard, who has created a forest where there once was just degraded Wisconsin farmland, not just any forest, but a mega-permaculture, a 106-acre food production environment. He has just written a phenomenal book entitled Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Pe...2015-03-0758 minFOR THE WILDSTEPHEN HARROD BUHNER on Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, Part 2
The conversation from last week continues. What has the role of psychedelics been in human and plant evolution? What is the ecological function of art? How is science changing as it moves out of reductionism? What do the heart, the brain, and the gut have in common? Stephen Harrod Buhner is the senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian studies, described as a bardic naturalist, he is the award-winning author of 19 books, including The Lost Language of Plants, The Secret Teachings of Plants, and Sacred Plant Medicine. His most recent book is Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm. Before...2015-02-2858 minFOR THE WILDSTEPHEN HARROD BUHNER on Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm
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, described as a bardic naturalist, he is the award-winning author of 19 books, including The lost Language of Plants, The Secret Teachings of Plants, and Sacred Plant Medicine. His most recent book is Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm. Before retiring from the road in 2013, he taught for more than 30 years throughout North America and Europe. He lives in Silver City New Mexico. 2015-02-2000 minFOR THE WILDJOANNA MACY on the World As Lover and Self
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 scholarship with five decades of activism. Her group methods, known as the Work That Reconnects, helps people transform despair and apathy, in the face of overwhelming social and ecological crises, into constructive, collaborative action. It brings a new way of seeing the world, as our larger living body, freeing us from the assumptions and attitudes that now threaten the continuity of life on Earth. She offers her wisdom for remaining...2015-01-3158 minFOR THE WILDMATTHEW WOOD on the History and Fate of Herbalism
We are in the company of Matthew Wood, author and herbalist of thirty years speaking to us on age-old plant medicine usages, the crucial task of upholding the habitat of plant communities, and much more. In a period when many authors and lecturers are merely "arm chair herbalists" who offer theories and opinions based on book learning, and others have turned to the exotic traditions of India or China, he has been an active practitioner of traditional Western herbalism. He has helped tens of thousands of clients over the years, with many difficult health problems. While Matthew believes in...2015-01-2458 minFOR THE WILDALBERT BATES On Where Activism Meets Counterculture
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 sustainable design, natural building, permaculture and restoration ecology to students from more that fifty nations. Albert regales us with his charisma, discussing the miracle of biochar, which can trap carbon while building soil and reversing desertification. We tie carbon farming into the wider climate movement and talk about breaking the cycle of climate denial. Albert goes everywhere from the nuclear reality to the importance of celebration amid the madness.2015-01-1058 minFOR THE WILDXANDRIA WILLIAMS on Curing Cancer With Food
Become a better steward of your inner environment! Naturopath Xandria Williams demystifies the spectre of cancer, the most insidious "disease of civilization," and recommends a menu and lifestyle for its treatment and prevention, with lots of juicy details. 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, and appears frequently on television and radio. Xandria lectures extensively at natural therapy colleges and conferences. She practices in London.2015-01-0258 minFOR THE WILDPETER McCOY on the Way of the Mycelial Warrior
Peter McCoy is the main author of the new book Radical Mycology. What began as a self-guided passion in his younger years has since developed into a life-long devotion to the fungal kingdom and educating the world about its ability to heal the bodies, minds, and ecosystems of the planet. 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 production, community-scale remediation, and resilient living.2014-12-1158 minFOR THE WILDWILL HARLAN on the Wild Woman of Cumberland Island
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-tropical eden of endangered wildlife and pristine ancient forests that has been protected as a wilderness area since 1982. In addition to loggerhead turtles and wild horses, it is home to Carol Ruckdeschel, subject of the new biography Untamed: the wildest woman in America and the fight for Cumberland Island. Today we are speaking with the author of that book, Will Harlan, the editor in chief...2014-12-1158 minFOR THE WILDMATTHEW FOX on Deep Ecology Through the Eyes of a Mystic
Matthew Fox might well be the most creative, the most comprehensive, surely the most challenging religious-spiritual teacher in America. He has been renewing the ancient mystical tradition of Creation Spirituality, founding the University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, which incorporates Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Sufi, Native American, goddess, Hindu traditions as well as ecology, social justice, feminist theory and art. Fox’s effort to reawaken the West to its own mystical tradition has included revivifying awareness of Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Thomas Aquinas and the Cosmic Christ tradition, as well as interacting with contemporary scientists who are also mystics. He...2014-12-1100 minFOR THE WILDDR. CAROLINE FRASER on Rewilding the World
Our guest today, 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. Breathtaking in scope and ambition, rewilding aims to save species by restoring habitats, reviving migration corridors, and brokering peace between people and predators. Traveling with wildlife biologists and conservationists, Caroline reports on the vast projects that are turning Europe's former Iron Curtain into a greenbelt, creating transfrontier Peace Parks to renew elephant routes throughout Africa, and linking protected areas from the Yukon to Mexico and beyond.2014-12-1158 minFOR THE WILDTOBY HEMENWAY on Permaculture for Nomads
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 professor at Portland State University, Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, and has taught over sixty permaculture design courses. He has presented lectures and workshops at major sustainability conferences such as Bioneers, SolFest, and EcoFarm, and at Duke University, Tufts University, University of Minnesota, University of Delaware and many other educational venues. We discuss the broader social context of food, the ecological problems of civilization, the joys of...2014-12-1100 minFOR THE WILDCHARLES EISENSTEIN on Foundations of Earth Activism
Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. His viral short films and essays online have established him as a genre-defying social philosopher and countercultural intellectual. He is one of the leading voices of the progressive movement and according to Publishers Weekly, he ”will be noted in antiquity as one of the seminal and pioneering storytellers of this new world." 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 Mo...2014-12-1158 min