Downloads Listen

Resilience: Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times

Crawford Stanley (Buzz) Holling, Emeritus Eminent Scholar and Professor in Ecological Sciences, University of Florida
Dr. Brian Walker, Honorary Post-retirement Fellow CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra, Australia
Dr. Carl Folke, Editor-in-Chief Ecology and Society, Resilience Alliance, Sweden
Charles Redman, Director, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Will Steffan, Director, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
Dr.Frances Westley, Chair, Social Innovation Generation (SiG), University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

The following conversations were also recorded at the conference, but were not included in the full program.

Dr. Gary J. Martin, Director, The Global Diversity Foundation, Marrakech, Morocco
Katrina Brown, Leader, International Development Research Programme, Tyndall Centre University of East Anglia, U.K.
Dr. Stephen Carpenter, University of Wisconsin
Dr. J. Marty Anderies,Asst. Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
Charles Perrings, Professor of Environmental Economics at Arizona State University

(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)

Listen now

Life in Slo Mo

John de Graaf, National Coordinator, Take Back Your Time

Carl Honoré, author, In Praise of Slowness

Listen now

Who's This Economy For?

Robert Reich, economist, author, commentator

(Please click on the guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)

Listen now

Growing Pains: Organics Come of Age

Blake and Stephanie Alexandre, Alexandre  Family Dairies

Walter Robb,  Co-CEO,Whole Foods

Listen now

Impunity and Accountability in Colombia

Some of these interviews are in Spanish, with live interpretation by Associate Producer Naihma Deady.
Margarita Morales, Vice-President, Association of Victims for Life
Almudena Bernabeu, International Attorney, The Center for Justice and Accountability
Uldy Teresa Jimenez, President, Peace and Justice Tribunal, Superior Court in Bogota
Javier Ciurlizza, Colombia Program Director, International Center for Transitional Justice

We also interviewed Nilson Pinilla Pinilla, who is a member of the Truth Commission and President of the Constitutional Courts, but did not include him in the program. He spoke in detail about the 1985 attack on the Palace of Justice in Colombia.

(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)

Listen now

Saving Sacred Lands

Toby McLeod, Project Director, Sacred Land Film Project, Earth Island Institute

Gathuru Mburu, Director, Institute of Culture and Ecology in Kenya

Silvia Gómez, Consultant for Gaia Amazonas Foundation in Bogota, Colombia

Liz Hoskin, Director, Co-Founder Gaia Foundation

 

(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)

Listen now

Second Chances: Finding Purpose in the Second Half of Life

Angeles Arrien's full interview

(Please click on the guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)

Listen now

Blowin' the Blues Away: The Healing Power of Music

Janiva Magness, blues singer

Brett Claytor, singer/songwriter

(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)

Listen now

Two Grains of Sand

Bill McKibben, founder, 350.org; environmental journalist; author, Deep Economy
Joint Interview with Tensie Whelan, President, Rainforest Alliance, and Michiel Leijnse, Global Brand Manager, Lipton Tea (division of Unilever)

(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)

Listen now

Beauty In Broken Places: The Healing Arts of Lily Yeh

Lily Yeh, founder, Barefoot Artists; co-founder, The Village of Arts and Humanities, Philadelphia

Her entire interview was used in this program. She spoke at the Bioneers gathering in 2009. Her 20 minute speech can be heard by clicking here.

Listen now

Hearts Broken Open

Steve Fugate, love life pioneer

(Click on the guest's name to hear the full, unedited interview)

Listen now

Building Cathedrals: The Slow Work of Social Transformation

Paul Loeb, author, Soul of a Citizen

Joan Blades, Co-Founder of MoveOn.org

(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)

Listen now

International Trade: Free, Fixed, or Fair?

Paul Rice, cofounder and CEO, Transfair
Raymond Kimaro, General Manager, Kilamanjaro Native Cooperative Union; coffee grower
 
(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)
Listen now

From Victims to Victors: Transcending Tragedy

Rev. Annie Kaseketi, minister, Apostolic Church, Zambia
Charlotte Atyam, abducted by Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda in 1998 and kept in
captivity for eight years in Sudan before freeing herself in 2006
Angelina Atyam, co-founder, Concerned Parents Association, dedicated to freeing child soldiers from captivity; mother of Charlotte Atyam
Maragarita Morales, Vice President, Association of Victims for Life, Colombia

Listen now

Heavy Weather

We hear the voices of climate scientist Philip Mote, ecologist Kathleen Sayce, environmental ethicist Kathleen Dean Moore, sustainable farmers in Oregon and Virginia, as well as elected officials in Lewis (WA) and Tillamook (OR) Counties, Metro councilor Rex Burkholder and Portland and Vancouver, WA mayors Sam Adams and Tim Leavitt. Portland's urban naturalist Mike Houck takes us on a tour of the Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge and wetland in the Sellwood district of Portland. Former Lewis County public works director Mark Cook shows us around the suburban sprawl spreading across the Chehalis River floodplain. And Portland State University faculty member Vivek Shandas guides us through the Brooklyn Basin, where Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services is trying to replicate with ecoroofs, curbside and parking lot swales and tree planting, the course and function of a historic creek that flows under the streets of SE Portland on its way to the Willamette River.

Listen now

Winning The Peace: From West Point to War Zones

CPT Mark Boyle, Executive Officer of Honor Guard Company, 4/3 IN, The Old Guard
LT Ronalee Balog, Regional Command East, Resource Manger; 82nd Airborne Division, Afghanistan
Lisa Schirch, Professor of Peacebuilding, Eastern Menonite University
MAJ Rebecca Patterson, Member of the Army Staff; Course Director for Winning the Peace

Listen now

Grow Local, Eat Local: Feeding Our Hunger for Connection (remix)

Jessica Prentice, Food Activist and Author
"Locally Delicious" interview with Ann Anderson and Suzanne Simpson
Patty Cantrell, Entrepreneurial Agricultural Director for the Michigan Land Use Institute
Alisa Smith, Co-Author of 100 Mile Diet: Local Eating for Global Change
Anthony Flaccavento, Creator Appalachian Sustainable Development
(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)

Listen now

Forgiving the Unforgivable: Community Reconciliation in Sierra Leone

Sara Terry, documentary filmmaker;  Founder and Director, The Aftermath Project
Libby Hoffman, Founder and President, Catalyst for Peace;  President, Fambul Tok International
John Caulker, Executive Director, Fambul Tok International, Sierra Leone
Mariama Jumu and Michael Momoh, villagers in Daabu, eastern Sierra Leone

(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview. Mariama and Michael were interviewed with John Caulker.  This interview may be hard to understand for most listeners, due to the quality of the cell phone transmission and the language barrier.)

Listen now

Climate Collision: What Comes After Copenhagen?

Cletus Springer, Director, Department of Sustainable Development, Organization of American States
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
, Chair, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; Executive Director
Tebtebba Convenor, Asia Indigenous Women’s Network
Claire Greensfelder, Deputy Director, International Forum on Globalization
Voices from “Conversations with the Earth” Project from indigenous communities around the world most affected by climate change

(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview. Conversations with the Earth sends you to an external link: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change.)
 

Listen now

Victims No More: Seeking the Middle Way in the Middle East

Amal Jadou, Deputy chief of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) Mission, Washington, D.C.
Haleh Esfandiari, Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Affairs
Rami Khouri, Director, Isaam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut
Moty Cristal, Founder and CEO, Nest Consulting, Negotiation Strategies
Joshua Weiss, Managing Director, The Abraham Path Initiative; Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, Global Negotiation Initiative, Harvard Negotiation Project

(Click on a guest's name to listen to their full unedited interview.)

Listen now