For The Wild

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 magazine. Dr. Earle is an oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer. She has experience as a field research scientist, government official, and director for corporate and nonprofit organizations. Support the show

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 dynamics and the tensions between subsistence hunters and conservationists...Support the show

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 of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice.Support the show

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 Indigenous communities across North America.Support the show

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.Support the show

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 agreement to conserve and sustainably manage the Great Bear Rainforest, one of the largest old growth temperate rainforests on the planet. We are joined by Jody Holmes, primary architect of this agreement.Support the show

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

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

Jasmine Fuego is an activist, artist and permaculturist redefining the transformational festival scene by bridging the gap between art and action. Support the show

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 waters, and how Indigenous stewards are facing the subsequent ecological predicament. Support the show

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 movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. Support the show

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 resistance. Support the show

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 ocean farming and is determined to pioneer and popularize a food system that carries marine restoration in its architecture. Support the show

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 destroy Indigenous women and the earth. Support the show

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 grow closer to Creator by learning how to love deeper.Support the show

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 a program director at a major Canadian hospital and medical-school assistant professor, Jenkinson is now a sought-after workshop leader, speaker, and consultant to palliative care and hospice organizations. He is the founder of the Orphan Wisdom School and the subject of the documentary film Griefwalker. Support the show

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

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 Director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee and Alaska Director at the Indigenous Leadership Institute. Support the show

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. Support the show

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 mycelial webs can steer our social experiments. Support the show