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STEVEN MARTYN on Letting Land Lead /87 Sep 06, 2018

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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 medicine plants. Steven has more than thirty years experience living co-creatively with the Earth, practicing traditional living skills of growing food, building and healing.

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LEAH PENNIMAN on Land Based Liberation /72⌠ENCORE⌡ Aug 30, 2018

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This conversation between Ayana and Leah confronts us with harsh realities of injustice, simultaneously speaking of healing, possibility, and reconciliation. We must acknowledge the current state of our food system. Land and food sovereignty are essential to liberation. By re-evaluating our relationship with land and agency, we can fix the problems of our food system and heal our communities...

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RON FINLEY on Cultivating the Garden of the Mind⌠ENCORE⌡ /79 Aug 23, 2018

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Ron Finley is an artist, farmer and visionary who “envisions a world where gardening is gangsta, where cool kids know their nutrition and where communities embrace the act of growing, knowing and sharing the best of the earth’s fresh-grown food.” In this episode Ron asks us to inquire about our socialization, our indoctrination into a capitalistic system of values that perpetuate unwellness...

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STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER on Plant Intelligence & The Imaginal Realm, Part 2 ⌠ENCORE⌡ /14 Aug 16, 2018

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Stephen Harrod Buhner is the earth speaking on behalf of themselves. He beautifully and scientifically challenges us to give ourselves fully and humbly in our relationships with our more than human elders and kin, he asks us to walk our talk when it comes to unlearning human supremacy and civilized consumptive conditioning through relationship to plants.

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JANINE BENYUS on Redesigning Society Based on Nature ⌠ENCORE⌡ /71 Aug 09, 2018

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In an age of natural exploitation and capitalism, under the westward expansion of the settler colonial mindset, we have veered far off the path of right relations. Severance from seven generations thinking has left a falsehood of limitlessness, and we stand at at a critical crossroads for all life on Earth...

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ROBIN WALL KIMMERER on Indigenous Knowledge for Earth Healing ⌠ENCORE⌡ /35 Aug 02, 2018

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Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation is a mother, scientist and writer, a 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.

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DUNE LANKARD on the Day the Water Died /86 Jul 26, 2018

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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 stealing from the future, and the bad economics of doing so are swiftly coming home to roost in climate change, environmental degradation, and the collapse of resources.

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FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ on Art & Migration Know No Borders/85 Jul 19, 2018

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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 consequence of human migration will only become more pressing, Favianna invites us to explore the freedom in recognizing this beyond the extractive economical box.

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ZAYAAN KHAN on the Place of Sweet Waters, Part 2 /84 Jul 12, 2018

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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 rapidly. Suddenly people become accustomed to the unthinkable —no showering! no laundry!— and they begin to ask, how could we have ever been so wasteful, so indulgent...

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ZAYAAN KHAN on the Place of Sweet Waters, Part 1 /83 Jul 05, 2018

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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 intricacies and connectivity of the landscape, leading to today’s dire drought. Further, we learn how South Africa is still living within the echo chamber of a shockingly repressive colonial system...

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