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The Black Shoals, Part 1

Airs at: Tue, 12/13/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  For The Wild
  This week For The Wild Podcast presents Part One of a two-part conversation between brontë velez and Dr. Tiffany Lethabo King. Circumferencing Dr. Tiffany Lethabo King’s book The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies, brontë and Tiffany explore sa... Read more

Healing the World's Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web

Airs at: Tue, 12/13/2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  EcoJustice Radio
  The UN has classified at least 40% of the Earth's land as degraded. That figure is estimated to be somewhere between 1 billion, even up to 6 billion hectares of degraded land. Much if not most of this degradation can be attributed to human activity, particularly that of ... Read more

Making sense of the war in Ukraine, with Medea Benjamin

Airs at: Wed, 12/14/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
    Though it's easy for most of us in the United States to not pay close attention to what's happening in Ukraine, the consequences of the war raging there are massive and far-reaching. If you really want to know what led up to the war and what the possiblities are for e... Read more

Keeping Humans in the Loop

Airs at: Fri, 12/09/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  As our world becomes more challenging, can we maintain control of our own future? Threats arise not just from climate change or inventions such as artificial intelligence, but also from our digital aids: algorithms that classify and define our wants, our needs, and our b... Read more

Sorry For The Disruption

Airs at: Thu, 12/08/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Radio Ecoshock
  Truly green energy is not easy. I'ts even harder deep in the Amazon. Trials and tributaries from Dr. Emilio Moran, lead author of "Advancing convergence research: Renewable energy solutions for off-grid communities". Then, sustainability expert Dr. Jem Bendell apologizes... Read more

Reform Moves Ahead In Ireland

Airs at: Wed, 12/07/2022 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Reform Moves Ahead In Ireland. The Republic of Ireland is moving closer to decriminalizing people who use drugs. A motion supporting establishment of a citizen’s assembly on drugs to discuss and propose reforms was approved by the Dáil Éireann ... Read more

The Path to Inner Peace

Airs at: Sun, 12/11/2022 at 8:30am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Pathways
Have you ever wondered about how the concept of karma operates? Subhash Jain is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at The University of Iowa. He was born in India into a family that practiced Jainism, and he continued to do so after ... Read more

Leonard Peltier: Walk to Justice --- Murder-Cartel-State of Indigenous Peoples in Southern Mexico

Airs at: Fri, 12/02/2022 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  American Indian Airwaves
  Part: 1 The Leonard Peltier Walk to Justice, organized by the American Indian Movements Grand Governing Council (AIMGGC), began on September 1st, 2022, from Minneapolis, and concluded 1,100 miles later, on November 13th, 2022, in Washington D.C. with approximately 2,000 ... Read more

Annihilating Caste Systems

Airs at: Fri, 12/02/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  For The Wild
  This week, Ayana is joined by a Dalit American civil rights activist. The Dalit, formerly known as "untouchables", are the people considered to be the lowest stratum of the castes in India.  Thenmozi Soundararajan, in a profound conversation detailing the wounds of cast... Read more

O Heavenly Grid: The Burning Question

Airs at: Thu, 12/01/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Radio Ecoshock
  Our opening prayer O Heaveny Grid is from the Firesign Theatre - dedicated to the late and deceased COP27 climate conference held in Egypt this month. Katrin Ganswindt from the German enviromental group Urgewald reports oil, gas, and coal companies have announced expansi... Read more