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“We can’t lose sight of the fact that we need each other, especially because we don’t have precisely the same experiences, feelings, or words.”
As...
- Added: Dec 09, 2021
- Length: 06:47
This week on World Ocean Radio: new systems thinking offers alternatives to failing structures and behaviors. As food, energy and water are the thr...
- Added: Dec 07, 2021
- Length: 05:07
“There is an urgency to save our time from becoming the cost of business.”
Raqs Media Collective’s trio-logue binds economics to climate change, e...
- Added: Dec 02, 2021
- Length: 11:10
“Resistance, and the fight for freedom are still sacred for us. We must not lose our last hope or abandon our dreams. And we want you not to lose y...
- Added: Nov 25, 2021
- Length: 04:51
“Resistance, and the fight for freedom are still sacred for us. We must not lose our last hope or abandon our dreams. And we want you not to lose y...
- Added: Nov 25, 2021
- Length: 04:31
This week on World Ocean Radio we're discussing energy present and energy future, and the ways that alternative energy technologies are changing th...
- Added: Nov 24, 2021
- Length: 05:19
“[O]urs was a struggle not to take power. But to dismantle power altogether. We made presidency an empty seat, a void, a space never to be acquired...
- Added: Nov 18, 2021
- Length: 11:46
This week on World Ocean Radio we're defining "backwash" as the movement of water for filtration, for desalination, and for clearing of debris and ...
- Added: Nov 16, 2021
- Length: 04:58
“A healthy ecosystem is a multitude of life forces. So love yourself. Be fulfilled in your meadow flower-ness, your mossiness, your grassiness, you...
- Added: Nov 11, 2021
- Length: 06:31
“Not too long ago, humans and nonhumans lived in co-dependency. We intuited, breathed, and created together. Their offspring was mine and my offspr...
- Added: Nov 04, 2021
- Length: 03:51
“Not too long ago, humans and nonhumans lived in co-dependency. We intuited, breathed, and created together. Their offspring was mine and my offspr...
- Added: Nov 04, 2021
- Length: 03:37
“I’m scared. I’m fragile, weak, and scared.”
Roy Dib smokes, checks Instagram, and looks out onto the Mediterranean while delivering a pensive mon...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 07:36
“How do our cells become oriented to justice?”
Dancer and activist Emily Johnson invites us to embody justice through song, dance, and vibration....
- Added: Oct 21, 2021
- Length: 08:51
“This body is a shelter, / of networking, of systems, / which give a complete life / and responsibilities / beyond culture, classes, and language.”...
- Added: Oct 14, 2021
- Length: 04:23
Without mitigation of consumption and illegal fishing, we face a global crisis of protein supply to feed a growing world population. Over the next ...
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 05:14
“Never let go of your authentic self, even if it must be in hiding for now. Protect it like a lit match in the wind. Don’t let fear blow it out.”
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- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 06:21
“Today we see that the past is the future, and what once was will be once again.”
Stimson offers a powerful call-and-response to John F. Kennedy’s...
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 08:22
According to the US Geological Survey, 70% of the available freshwater worldwide is used for irrigation. Industrial agriculture and modern irrigati...
- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 05:18
“Only we, the people together, can inhabit the world differently. We are not united by the illusion of saving the world but defending life, binding...
- Added: Sep 23, 2021
- Length: 08:43
“Only we, the people together, can inhabit the world differently. We are not united by the illusion of saving the world but defending life, binding...
- Added: Sep 23, 2021
- Length: 08:57
Intense weather events are calling attention to not just local but worldwide water crises caused by climate. Coastal inundation, community disrupti...
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 05:17
"MacArthur 'genius award'winning landscape designer Kate Orff believes that gray infrastructure, like levees and flood gates and sea walls, can on...
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 03:30
“Is it my greed? Is it my greed that propels me to behave like this? How do I learn to share?
Is it my fear? Is it my fear that propels me to behav...
- Added: Sep 20, 2021
- Length: 09:53
“Do you even know what you want to want?”
Jacob takes us on a looping and circuitous path through self-care and empowerment rhetoric. “Own it!” “Y...
- Added: Sep 09, 2021
- Length: 03:16
The Supreme Court decision to ignore the inhumane aspects of the Texas Abortion law reminds us to look to the places where human connection is val...
- Added: Sep 03, 2021
- Length: 08:17