Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature

In this program, powerful Native women leaders reveal the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and describe how they are taking action and building growing movements, including with non-Native allies.  These stories are shocking, harrowing and heartbreaking. But then again, when your heart breaks, the cracks are where the light shines through. Featuring Morning Star Gali, Ozawa Bineshi Albert, the late Simone Senogles, Kandi White, and Casey Camp Horinek. Resources ⁠The Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women⁠ The Intercept: ⁠A New Film Examines Sexual Violence as a Feature of the Bakken Oil Boom⁠ ⁠Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples: MMIW Initiative⁠ The Mendocino Voice: ⁠Community groups begin painting mural honoring Khadijah Britton and highlighting MMIW in Ukiah⁠ This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the ⁠radio and podcast homepage⁠ to learn more.

In our current U.S. political, economic and social environment, how do we find ways to come together and to believe in a better future?

Terry Tempest Williams is one of the most celebrated and revered American nature writers. She integrates the musicality of a poet with the passion and purpose of an activist. Terry is also an award-winning conservationist, a fierce defender of her beloved Southwestern desert landscapes.  She has authored over 20 books that are translated worldwide. Her most recent book is The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary.  Bioneers co-founder Nina Simons, author of “Nature, Culture and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership,” engaged with Terry at a Bioneers conference in a wide ranging conversation between two old friends. Featuring Terry Tempest Williams, a writer, educator, and environmental activist known for her lyrical and impassioned prose, is the author of over twenty creative nonfiction books. Her work has appeared widely, including in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Progressive, and Orion, and has been translated worldwide. Her most recent book is the The Glorians – Visitations from the Holy Ordinary (spring ’26). Credits Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel Written by: Kenny Ausubel Producer: Teo Grossman Senior Producer and Station Relations: Stephanie Welch Associate Producer and Show Engineer: Emily Harris Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey Production Assistance: Mika Anami Resources TerryTempestWilliams.com The Glorians – Visitations from the Holy Ordinary Terry Tempest Williams: Noticing the Glorians in a Fractured World Erosion and Evolution: Our Undoing is Our Becoming | Bioneers Podcast

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The restoration of beavers offers ancient nature-based solutions to the tangle of challenges bedeviling human civilization