Resistance Radio: Recent Episodes
Progressive Radio Network
interviews by Derrick Jensen of a broad spectrum of activists building a culture of resistance and defending the wild.
Marily Woodhouse is a 5th generation Californian, born and grew up in the Bay Area. She’s lived in the Battle Creek watershed since 1989, but spent time in the summers at her grandmother's cabin in Butte Meadows to the south, so has a lifelong experience of the area. She started Battle Creek Alliance in 2008 and Defiance Canyon Raptor Rescue in 2016.
Deanna Meyer is a long time environmental activist. She is on the
board of Deep Green Resistance, and is the founder and president of
Prairie Protection Colorado. Deanna lives in the Pike National Forest
and is currently working on a ballot measure that Coloradans will be
voting on in November with an organization Cats Aren't Trophies. This
measure will end all hunting of Colorado's bobcats, mountain lions, and lynx.
Richard Olson is Director of the Berea Urban Farm (Berea KY), an educational market garden with the mission to increase local food security and build community through urban agriculture. He previously was a member of the faculty at Berea College teaching courses in sustainability, ecological design and environmental justice, and managed research programs on the effects of air pollution on Western forests at the US Environmental Protection Agency lab in Corvallis Oregon. He has degrees in biology, ecology, and agronomy, and personal experience in small-scale farming and horse logging.
Borislav Prodanovic is a theologian, icon painter, artist, and musician from Serbia. He studied at the Orthodox Theological Institute in Belgrade, Serbia, and at the Protestant Theological Seminary in Novi Sad, Serbia, where he received his bachelor's and M.A. degree in Theology. His research interest and vision concern Orthodox theology and praxis in contemporary times. He has been especially interested in dialectical relations, tensions and constitutive dialogues between Orthodoxy and Feminist and Liberation theologies. Currently he conducts a PhD research on clergy sexual abuse in the Serbian Orthodox Church at the Free University of Amsterdam
Randy Robbins is an award winning wildlife and landscape photographer specializing in using remote cameras to capture intimate portraits of rare and elusive wildlife. The research Randy puts into his subjects and their behaviors has made him a sought after voice in advocating for their conservation. In 2019 Randy was recognized on the California Senate floor as the California Wildlife Photographer of the Year. In 2021 Randy captured one of the first close-up, high resolution photographs of a wild gray wolf ever taken in California, a species in the early stages of re-introducing itself to the state a century after being eradicated. Randy's work has been widely published and recognized in several national and international contests and venues, most recently as the first "highly commended" image ever taken with a cell phone to be recognized in the prestigious international Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest hosted by the Natural History Museum of London. His current focus is the Sierra Nevada Red Fox, a critically threatened endemic subspecies of fox existing in only a few alpine environments at high elevation in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades.
Vaishnavi Sundar is a filmmaker from the south of India; through her films, she advocates for the rights of women and girls worldwide. Her previous film was a 4 part documentary called Dysphoric which is available on YouTube to watch. Her latest film is called Behind The Looking Glass - a documentary about the experiences of women whose partners ‘transitioned.’
Dr. Chad Hanson is a research ecologist with the John Muir Project, and is the author of the book, "Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate"
Junior Walk is a thirty-four year old anti-coal mining activist from southern West Virginia. Since 2009 Junior has been on the front lines of the fight against mountaintop removal in his community. He has been involved in the use of a diversity of tactics over the years, from getting arrested doing direct action work, to lobbying in D.C., to gathering scientific data and providing standing for lawsuits. These days Junior has had great success in monitoring the coal mine operations in his community to find problems that will end up costing a coal company some money. Junior’s work is supported by the nonprofit Coal River Mountain Watch, to learn more about his work visit CRMW.net
Maria Powell, co-founder of the Madison Environmental Justice Organization (MEJO) and author of Poisoning Paradise: An Environmental History of Madison and other posthumous writings recently published on the People's Environmental History of Madison website, was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin and grew up next to the polluted waters of the Fox River. In 1998, Maria and her family moved to Madison, where Maria earned her PhD in environmental studies and communication and, more importantly, spent more than 20 years fighting for environmental justice in her community. In 2023, she was recognized with the Bill Iwen Environmental Justice Award. Maria passed away in November 2023.
Jim Powell is a longtime community organizer and environmental activist based in Wisconsin. He has worked for Citizens for a Better Environment and the Wisconsin Stewardship Network, as well as co-founding the Midwest Environmental Justice Organization in Madison with his late wife, Maria, and others. He worked for years as a community organizer developing neighborhood capacity, protecting land from development, editing and publishing a community newspaper and building a local alternative political party, Progressive Dane (County). He is co-author with Maria Powell of "Invisible People, Invisible Risks: How Scientific Assessments of Environmental Health Risks Overlook Minorities and How Commmunity Participation Can Make Them Visible," published by MIT Press.
Paul Johnson is a west-coast based independent filmmaker and broadcast journalist. He has been making films on many topics for more than two decades. He is a former White House reporter for Canadian television and Beijing correspondent. He is also director of Last of the Ancient Rainforests: The Emotional Connection to Trees, a new feature film. His most recent film, recently released, is Bears in our Backyard, about how to better coexist with black bears.
Dr Stefan Eberhard is a cave scientist, explorer and photographer. He did his PhD on the hydrology and ecology of caves in southwest Western Australia. Stefan loves wild and natural landscapes, and one of his favourite places is the vast Nullarbor Plain on the southern edge of the Australian continent. He first visited the Nullarbor as a young cave diver more than 40 years ago and has returned many times since to research, explore and document the Nullarbor’s extraordinary cave systems.
Bronwen Eberhard’s life and work is in Changing Narratives. Daring to be curious and seeking clarity around old ways of knowing and doing. Exploring and inviting intentionality in new ways of being and valuing.
Kim Russell has started and coached lacrosse teams for girls and women at every level - youth through international. Her nickname, "The Hippie Love Coach" - was given to her by former players. She is currently the Head Women's Lacrosse Coach & Director of National Teams for the US Virgin Islands and an appointed member of The Women in Sport Commission for World Lacrosse. Kim was removed from her job as Head Women's Lacrosse Coach at Oberlin College last fall. She was, in her own words, "Burned at the Stake" after re-posting a post on her Instagram story in 2022 that congratulated Emma Weyant, the REAL WOMAN winner of the 500 Freestyle (When Leah Thomas, a male was given the gold medal in the 2022 NCAA 500 yd freestyle):
https://www.iwf.org/female-athlete-stories/kim-russell/
Kim now spends most of her time traveling around the country advocating for girls and women as an ambassador for the Independent Women's Forum. Kim is also the mother of four adult children, Maddie (29), Sam (27), Anna (24) and Charlie (19).
For twenty years, Zack Porter has worked tirelessly to safeguard and restore wild ecosystems across the US, from the Cascades, to the Northern Rockies, to New England. In 2020, along with a dedicated group of forest and climate activists, Zack co-founded Standing Trees to protect and restore forests on New England's public lands, and today he is proud to be the organization's first Executive Director. When he's not working for wild places out of his home base in Montpelier, VT, you'll find him exploring wildlands near and far with his family.
Stephany Seay has been working in service to the last wild buffalo for over 20 years. Born in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and raised in Virginia, Stephany learned about the continued war against wild buffalo in 1996 and has been advocating for them ever since. In response to their struggle, she moved to Montana on New Year’s Day 2004, where she became the media coordinator for Buffalo Field Campaign, with whom she parted ways after 18 years of service over philosophical differences. Stephany has nearly 20 years of experience standing with the buffalo, is an avid wildlife photographer, backcountry skier, and horsewoman. She is a member of Deep Green Resistance, and co-founder of Roam Free Nation. Stephany trusts that the buffalo have called us not just to help defend them, but to help us save us from ourselves from the unsustainable and selfish creation of industrial civilization.
Deanna Meyer is a long time environmental activist. She is on the board of Deep Green Resistance, and is the founder and president of Prairie Protection Colorado. Deanna lives in the Pike National Forest and is currently working with Ecointegrity Alliance to raise awareness about the wholesale massacre of trees and habitat throughout the National Forests.
Carolyn Shafer has been working with PARA since shortly after it was formed in 2011, initially on the board of directors, including Board President, then as Mission Coordinator (ED). She has a wealth of knowledge about the special nature of the Patagonia Mountains and the battle to protect the water, air and wildlife of this special area. Carolyn has a background in business management. She also owned a mine claim where she extracted turquoise for jewelry - she's the type of miner the 1872 Mining Law was designed for.
Joni Clark Stellar moved to Patagonia in 2022, after 4 years moving around the Southwest in my RV after losing everything in the Paradise Fire of 2018. With a background in environmental nonprofit work, Joni offered to help PARA. She has served on the PARA board for a year, and also helps with communications and fundraising.
Dr. Lisa Quattrocki Knight. After graduating from Stanford University, she earned an MD/PhD from Yale. Her PhD was in basic neuroscience. She then completed a medical internship at Massachusetts General Hospital and her adult psychiatry residency at McLean Hospital. She has been affiliated with Harvard Medical School since 1994 and spent one year as a visiting scholar at the University College of London. She has three daughters and cares deeply about the world in which they will raise their own children. She recognizes that our sense of well-being benefits from feeling connected to the natural world, especially the ocean. We cannot afford to spoil the few remaining natural habitats left on this planet. As a result, she has co-founded a grassroots organization to protect the ocean and the biodiverse life it sustains from industrialization.
Constance Gee resides in Westport, MA where she has worked on behalf of animals and barrier beach protection for years. She first found out about the planned development of the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf by offshore wind in Feb 2021, and has been working in active opposition ever since. She joined Green Oceans when it was founded in the fall of that same year. She is also a member of Save Right Whales Coalition, an umbrella group under which a dozen offshore wind opposition groups from NC to Maine have come together to support one another and share information. She and two other colleagues have recently founded a new group, Protect Our Westport Waters (POWW). POWW aims to stop Vineyard Wind from bringing the high-voltage cabling from one of its projects onshore at a local beach and through the entire length of Westport.
Before Katie Singer began questioning our techno-sphere, she wrote a novel about four generations of mothers and daughters and several books about natural family planning. Her 2014 book, An Electronic Silent Spring, reports on how electromagnetic radiation emitted by telecom devices and infrastructure impact wildlife and public health. She’s currently finishing Mapping Our Technosphere. This book starts with a photo essay about the mining, water use, energy use, toxic waste, worker hazards and fire hazards involved in manufacturing, operating and discarding utilities, the Internet, solar and wind power and electric vehicles. She publishes regularly at KatieSinger.substack.com.
Dr. Chad Hanson is a research ecologist with the John Muir Project, and is the author of the book, "Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate"
Jeff Gibbs is a lifelong environmentalist, writer, and filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced the 2020 film Planet of the Humans with an audience of over 20 million. Jeff was a producer for the Academy Award-winning Bowling for Columbine, the top box office documentary of all time Fahrenheit 9/11, the anti-whaling film At the Edge of the World, and the Dixie Chicks’ Shut Up and Sing. Jeff is working on a new book and film, and his Substack is Planet of Delusions.
Nathan Hutchinson is an artist, now writer living in Boulder, Colorado , dedicated his life study to nature, both physical and soulful, our place here with Earth which has seemingly been lost, and how we might reintegrate ourselves . He believes that art, of whatever genre can, and perhaps even is a tool or method by which we achieve this reintroduction to Nature. His book Evergreen is a somewhat culmination of work in this field of thought.
Founder and executive director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Osprey Orielle Lake works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future. She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Osprey’s writing about climate justice, relationships with nature, women in leadership, and other topics has been featured in many publications.
Felice Pace was born on January 10th 1947 into the working class
Italian Community in South Philadelphia. He holds a BA in Economics
from Yale U., an MA in Education from Montclair State University and
a life-time California teaching credential. He has worked as a
teacher/educator, laborer, Outward Bound instructor, social services
administrator and for Native American tribes. For fifteen years
during the 80s and 90s Felice worked for and led the Klamath Forest
Alliance as Program Coordinator and Executive Director. During that
time he played a major role in the campaign to protect Northwest and
Northern California Ancient Forests, including participation as a
speaker at President Clinton's Forest Conference. Currently Felice
engages as an independent Klamath River, Scott River, clean water and
streamflow activist and pursues a number of writing project. Felice
blogs on Klamath River issues at www.KlamBlog.org. He has lived in
Northwest California's Klamath River Basin since 1975 and currently
resides at Klamath Glen near the mouth of the Klamath River.
Susan A. Masino is a neuroscientist and a professor of applied
science at Trinity College. Her research is focused on promoting
brain health and on the critical role of self-sustaining,
climate-regulating ecosystems, particularly natural forests, to
support local and global wellbeing. She is a coauthor on a recent
regional report titled "Wildlands in New England: Past, Present and
Future," and on the seminal paper on proforestation, i.e. growing
existing forests, as an essential and cost-effective strategy for
long-term ecological and human health.
Laura Lecuona studied Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She’s an editor and translator specializing in memoirs, young adult fiction and social sciences. As a popularizer of feminism, she is a regular lecturer and writer. She’s Mexico’s country contact for Women’s Declaration International, and the author of Gender Identity: Lies and Dangers (Spinifex Press, 2024).
Paul Tyson is an independent scholar and an Honorary Senior Fellow with the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, at the University of Queensland, in Australia. He has academic qualifications in philosophy, theology, and sociology, and likes to mix them all up when trying to understand how strange the ordinary features of our contemporary way of life are. Three of his biggest intellectual heroes are Plato, Kierkegaard, and Ellul. Over the past few years he has been writing in the science and religion domain, which has resulted in the 2022 book 'A Christian Theology of Science' the 2021 book 'Theology and Climate Change' and the 2019 book 'Seven Brief Lessons on Magic'.
Dr. Robert Knight is the founder of the Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to supporting science and education necessary for restoration and wise management of Florida’s artesian springs. Dr. Knight is an environmental scientist with more than 40 years of professional experience, including detailed ecological studies at many of Florida’s large artesian springs. He is former adjunct professor at the University of Florida Dept. of Environmental Engineering and Sciences where he taught graduate level classes on the ecology of Florida’s springs.
As Director of the Florida Springs Institute, Dr. Knight is active on research and restoration efforts at the Santa Fe River Springs, Kings Bay/Crystal River springs, Ichetucknee Springs, Rainbow Springs, Wakulla Springs, Homosassa Springs, Glen Springs, springs of the Suwannee River, Wekiva River springs, Volusia Blue Spring, and Silver Springs. Dr. Knight is also an advisor to springs advocacy groups throughout north Florida that help to educate local governmental officials about improved groundwater management and springs protection. Dr. Knight is author of Silenced Springs – Moving from Tragedy to Hope.
David Nickell is a a retired professor of philosophy and sociology and a former resident of what is now Land Between the Lakes. He was the sixth generation on their farm there, which was a land grant from the Revolutionary War. TVA forced nearly a thousand families out for the LBL project. He lives on his maternal grandparent's farm now, which is about 20 miles north of LBL, still on the peninsula between the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers.
Tiffany Justice is a wife and mom of four school-aged children. After serving four years on the School Board of the School District of Indian River County, Florida, she cofounded Moms for Liberty, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization fighting for the survival of America by unifying, educating, and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government. Founded in January of 2021, Moms for Liberty currently has 275 chapters in 44 states with over 115,000 active members.
Keith Harmon Snow is a writer, photographer and naturalist. This is his third program with me focused on rare cats of the world. In 1993 he exposed a high-level racket in Japan involving trade in endangered species. Today we talk about tigers.
Eric Balken grew up in Salt Lake City, building a connection to Utah’s mountains, rivers, and deserts at a young age. In his youth, Eric volunteered with local non-profits gaining experience in public land surveys, membership outreach, and grassroots organizing. Eric has been deeply involved with Colorado River policy for the past decade, helping spearhead multiple research and advocacy initiatives at GCI. Eric has a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies and Geography from the University of Utah and serves as an advisory on the Future of the Colorado Group
Joaquín Hortal is a biogeographer and community
ecologist working at the Museo Nacional de
Ciencias Naturales (Natural History Museum) of
the Spanish Scientific Council in Madrid. He also
collaborates with the Centre for Ecology,
Evolution and Environmental Changes of the
University of Lisbon, and the Department of
Ecology of the Federal University of Goiás in
Brazil, and Before he worked at the University of
the Azores, University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London.
He studies the effects of current and past
environmental conditions and ecological processes
on the geographic patterns of biodiversity, the
role of species niche and ecological interactions
in the organization of biological communities in
time and space, and the use and misuse of
biodiversity big data. He works with mosses, seed
plants, vertebrates and insects, and has been
studying the ecology and biogeography of dung beetles for more than 25 years.
Davis Mounger is the codirector of Tennessee Heartwood, a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to the protection and promotion of Tennessee's public lands. He has worked on public lands issues since the 1990's. He currently teaches high school and occasionally conducts forest watch workshops
Andy Kerr (andykerr@andykerr.net) is the Czar of The Larch Company (www.andykerr.net ) and consults on environmental and conservation issues. The Larch Company is a for-profit non-membership conservation organization that represents the interests of humans yet born and species that cannot talk. Kerr started is professional conservation career during the Ford Administration. He is best known for his two decades with the Oregon Wild (then Oregon Natural Resources Council), the organization best known for having brought you the northern spotted owl. Kerr began his conservation career during the Ford Administration. Through 2019, Kerr has been closely involved in with the establishment or expansion of 47 Wilderness Areas and 57 Wild and Scenic Rivers, 13 congressionally legislated special management areas, 15 Oregon Scenic Waterways, and one proclaimed national monument (and later expanded). He has testified before congressional committees on several occasions.
Graham Linehan was born in Dublin. He is the mastermind behind beloved sitcoms Father Ted, The IT Crowd, Black Books and Motherland. His Substack is dedicated to monitoring the extremes of gender identity ideology and he also co-hosts the highly successful weekly YouTube show The Mess We’re In, which has garnered a remarkable 1.5 million views in just three years.
For more than a quarter century, Dr Eirich has lived with rescued wild animals, using her degrees in biology and psychology to explore the potential relationships we can have with other species. She founded the field of Reconnection Ecology as an approach to solving our current ecological crises. Her latest book is Whispers From the Wild: An Invitation: Stores from the rescued wild animals of Earth Fire Institute.
Stephanie Winn is the host of You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist podcast, Associate Producer of NO WAY BACK: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care, and a Senior Fellow at Do No Harm. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Oregon, she treats adults and couples, with an emphasis on serving detransitioners and ROGD parents. She also offers consultations for those seeking to improve their understanding of gender issues or their communication skills. Follow Stephanie on X at @sometherapist. Follow NO WAY BACK on X @2022affirmation and on Instagram @affirmationgeneration.
Keith Harmon Snow is a writer, photographer and naturalist. This is his second program with me focused on rare cats of the world. In 1993 he exposed a high-level racket in Japan involving trade in endangered species. Today we talk about the endangered wildcats of Japan.
Deanna Meyer is a long time environmental activist. She is on the board of Deep Green Resistance, and is the founder and president of Prairie Protection Colorado. Deanna lives in the Pike National Forest and is currently working with a coalition to ban the trophy hunting of Colorado’s mountain lions, bobcats, and lynx.
Neil Kiernan is the host of V-RADIO and an activist going back to the Occupy Wall Street movement. His audience is made up of people from both the right and the left. He would describe his political leanings as a left-leaning independent who voted for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020. Today we talk about some of what has gone wrong with the left.
Bob Watson grew up in a small town in NE Iowa, Strawberry Point. He worked on farms as a kid growing up, including in one of the first chicken confinements in NE Iowa when he was 12 or 13 years old. The last 35 years he was employed in the wastewater industry in Iowa, and has been an environmental activist mostly concerned with the industrial row crop, feedlot, and confinement modern model of agriculture. Bob co-authored the book, Hog Confinements and Human Health: the intersection of science, morals, and law.
Andy Mahler first became involved in forest protection efforts in 1985 after encountering Forest Service clearcuts in the Hoosier National Forest near his southern Indiana home.
As President of Protect Our Woods, a local grassroots forest protection organization he helped found, he led efforts to protect the Hoosier from off-road vehicle trails, clearcuts, and oil and gas leasing. In 1991 he founded Heartwood, a cooperative regional forest protection network that used legal challenges and other means to stop logging on the national forests in the heartland hardwood region.
In his community in Orange County, Indiana, Andy led efforts to start the Lost River Market and Deli, a member owned, natural foods grocery in Paoli, Indiana, and Orange County HomeGrown which operates a very popular local farmers market. Andy hosts weekly music jams at both locations.
He and his wife, Linda Lee own a rustic and eclectic farm and lodge called the Lazy Black Bear surrounded by the Hoosier National Forest in the rolling hills of southern Indiana where they raise, rehabilitate and release orphaned possums and other critters.
Today we talk about cicadas.
Bill Finch is the founding director of the Paint Rock Forest Research Center in the Cumberland Plateau region of northeast Alabama. He has worked to conserve Southeastern biodiversity for more than 40 years, as an award-wining writer and editor, as conservation director of the Nature Conservancy in Alabama, and as director of Mobile Botanical Gardens. He continues to write a weekly column on gardens and natural history and has a weekly radio show. His book, Longleaf Far as the Eye Can See, was developed with his partner, Beth, and is now in its fourth printing.
Chris Vaughn is an activist living in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan. After learning of the proposal to develop a copper sulfide mine in the heart of a thriving eco-tourism area right next to both Lake Superior and Porcupine Mountains State Park he launched the website www.ProtectThePorkies.com , as well as the accompanying petition, found at www.change.org/ProtectThePorkies .
Greg King is an award-winning journalist and activist credited with spearheading the movement to protect Headwaters Forest, in Humboldt County, California. King initiated the “redwood wars” following the notorious 1985 takeover of the venerable Pacific Lumber Company by the Houston energy and real estate conglomerate Maxxam. Greg King has spent decades researching redwood logging and preservation efforts. King’s articles and photographs have appeared in The Sun, Sierra, Smithsonian, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, the Portland Oregonian, the Sacramento Bee, Mother Jones and other publications. In 2016 the Environmental Protection Information Center presented King with its annual Sempervirens Lifetime Achievement Award. King lives in Humboldt County. Today we talk about his book The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals and Real Estate in the California Redwoods.
Lierre Keith and Melinda Hughes. Lierre Keith has been a radical feminist for 40 years. She is the author of seven books, including The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, which has been called “the most important ecological book of this generation.” She is coauthor, with Derrick Jensen and Max Wilbert, of Bright Green Lies:How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It. She lives in northern California with giant trees and giant dogs. She’s also been arrested six times for acts of political resistance.
Melinda Hughes is a lifelong leftist and activist. She is a volunteer with Women's Declaration International USA and is committed to the struggle to win or win back women's sex-based rights.
Otis Scops is trained as an electronics and chemical process engineer. He worked as a developer of tailor-made electronics and computer hard- and software and as a renewable energy systems consultant. Over the last 25 years, his interest shifted from mainly technology to ecology and sociology and towards true sustainability. He increasingly puts his acquired knowledge into practice with low-tech, organic gardening and a focus on the basics of life.
Michael Kellett is executive director of the New England nonprofit organization, RESTORE: The North Woods, which he co-founded in 1992. He has been involved in national park, wilderness, public land, and endangered species issues for more than 30 years. In 1994, he developed the proposal for a 3.2-million-acre Maine Woods National Park, which laid the groundwork for the 2016 designation by President Obama of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. In Massachusetts, he has worked to protect Walden Woods and Henry David Thoreau’s birthplace, and helped to develop legislation introduced in 2019, which would protect state conservation lands from logging and other development
Andy Mahler first became involved in forest protection efforts in 1985 after encountering Forest Service clearcuts in the Hoosier National Forest near his southern Indiana home.
As President of Protect Our Woods, a local grassroots forest protection organization he helped found, he led efforts to protect the Hoosier from off-road vehicle trails, clearcuts, and oil and gas leasing. In 1991 he founded Heartwood, a cooperative regional forest protection network that used legal challenges and other means to stop logging on the national forests in the heartland hardwood region.
In his community in Orange County, Indiana, Andy led efforts to start the Lost River Market and Deli, a member owned, natural foods grocery in Paoli, Indiana, and Orange County HomeGrown which operates a very popular local farmers market. Andy hosts weekly music jams at both locations.
He and his wife, Linda Lee own a rustic and eclectic farm and lodge called the Lazy Black Bear surrounded by the Hoosier National Forest in the rolling hills of southern Indiana where they raise, rehabilitate and release orphaned possums and other critters.
Jakob Shockey is a human, father and husband. He works primarily with beavers and people, focusing on the restoration of complex natural processes and relationships that create and maintain resilient habitat and its wildlife. Jakob co-founded and leads Project Beaver, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering humans to partner with beavers and value their works. He also sings to himself, loves flying kites and can’t spell.
John B. Wallace is a retired public land manager for the City of Carbondale at Cedar Lake and an environmental educator at Southern Illinois University’s Touch of Nature Environmental Center. He is a founding member and president of the Shawnee Chapter of the Illinois Audubon Society and a founding member of Shawnee Forest Defense and the Shawnee Park and Climate Alliance. He has been a forest activist working to protect the Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois for more than three decades.
Darcia Narvaez is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Educational Research Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Born in Minnesota, she grew up living around the world as a bilingual/bicultural Puerto Rican-German American but calls Earth her home. Her earlier careers include professional musician, business owner, classroom music teacher, classroom Spanish teacher, and seminarian, among other things. In her academic career, she employs a lifespan, interdisciplinary approach to studying evolved morality, child development and human flourishing, integrating anthropology, neuroscience, clinical, developmental, evolutionary and educational sciences. She hosts EvolvedNest.org and is president of KindredWorld.org. See her 6-minute movie: http://www.BreakingTheCycleFilm.org.
She has numerous publications, including books such as Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing and the 2022, Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth, and the forthcoming, The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities. A recent book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom won the 2015 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association and the 2017 Expanded Reason Award.
Joaquín Hortal is a biogeographer and community ecologist working at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Natural History Museum) of the Spanish Scientific Council in Madrid. He also collaborates with the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes of the University of Lisbon, and the Department of Ecology of the Federal University of Goiás in Brazil, and Before he worked at the University of the Azores, University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London. He studies the effects of current and past environmental conditions and ecological processes on the geographic patterns of biodiversity, the role of species niche and ecological interactions in the organization of biological communities in time and space, and the use and misuse of biodiversity big data. He works with mosses, seed plants, vertebrates and insects, and has been studying the ecology and biogeography of dung beetles for more than 25 years.
Dr Chris Rynn is a Forensic Craniofacial Anthropologist (which is essentially an expert in the anatomy of skulls and faces, and the interrelationships between the two), who assists international police in human identification from skeletal remains (and helps museums to bring characters from the ancient past 'to life') by digitally sculpting faces on skulls.
Brenna Galdenzi is the President and co-founder of Protect Our Wildlife, Vermont’s largest wildlife protection non-profit organization whose mission is: “Working to make Vermont a more humane place for wildlife.” Protect Our Wildlife led the effort in Vermont to ban coyote killing contests in 2018 and wanton waste in 2022. They're currently leading efforts to ban recreational trapping and hounding, as well as advocating for peaceful coexistence with black bears and other wildlife.
Kajsa Ekis Ekman is the author of four books, among them Being and Being Bought, and Stolen Spring, on the eurocrisis seen from Athens, journalist and critic at Sweden's major daily Aftonbladet, lectures internationally on surrogacy, prostitution, capitalism and geopolitics. Founder of Swedish network Feminist No to Surrogacy, and Sweden's only worker's diary journal Arbetarbloggen. just returned from the International Forum on Human Rights in Buenos Aires where I spoke on women and reproduction among other issues. Her most recent book is On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts About the New Definition of Woman.
She lives in Sweden.
Keith Harmon Snow is a writer, photographer and naturalist. Abandoning his career in the aerospace & defense sector in 1989, he set off to see the wild world as portrayed in National Geographic propaganda. The result led him to cycle across India, Africa, Madagascar and Mongolia, climb some very high mountains, raft hundreds of miles through war-torn Congo and down the Zambezi. He is the 2009 Regent's Lecturer in Law & Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, recognized for over a decade of work on war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. He has a 9 year old son, and he is developing a retreat center living off-grid on a remote island in Maine.
Vaishnavi Sundar is a self-taught filmmaker, writer and feminist activist from Chennai, India. She’s been making films from 2013 and they are all centred around women’s lives and experiences. Her previous film was a 4 part documentary called Dysphoric which is available on YouTube to watch. Her upcoming film is called Behind the Looking Glass - a documentary logging the experiences of women whose partners ‘transitioned’ - and she’s seeking funds to complete it.
Julia Barnes is an award winning documentary filmmaker. She is the director of Sea of Life and Bright Green Lies. Her current work focuses on opposing deep sea mining. She is co-founder of Deep Sea Defenders, found at deepseadefenders.org
Bonnie Brady is executive director of the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association. She lives in Montauk, NY, with her husband, a commercial fisherman, and their two daughters. Today we talk about harms caused by offshore wind energy facilities.
Dr Warren Hern is a physician and epidemiologist who has a private medical practice in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in women’s healthcare. But he has studied the issue of the effects of human activities on local and global ecosystems for over fifty years. Among his observations is that the human species seriously affects all ecosystems and habitats in which it is located; and the human species now has all the major characteristics of a malignant process on the planet.
This has come about because humans have culture, and cultural adaptations that have become malignant maladaptations that threaten the survival of not only human species, but many other species on the planet. His new book, Homo Ecophagus, a Deep Diagnosis to Save the Earth, is a presentation of this idea in detail. The comparison with cancer is a diagnosis not an analogy. Homo Ecophagus is Dr. Hern's new name for our species. It means “the man who devours the ecosystem.
David Mattson grew up in western South Dakota and escaped to the wilds of the northern Rockies during his late teens. He studied large carnivores for most of his professional life--grizzly bears in Yellowstone and mountain lions in the Southwest--and was an educator at Yale and MIT during a later professional incarnation. After retiring in 2013 he joined his wife Louisa Willcox in advocating for wild lands and wild carnivores. David has been instrumental in keeping grizzly bears protected, either through science or advocacy, for the last 20 years.
Deanna Meyer is a long time environmental activist. She is on the board of Deep Green Resistance, and is the founder and president of Prairie Protection Colorado. Deanna lives in the Pike National Forest and is currently working to expose the lies and detrimental policies of the Forest Service and their plans to destroy public land forests up and down the Front Range of Colorado and throughout the West.
Joshua Wright dropped out of high school to become an activist when he was 14 years old. He’s a Forest Defender based out of Washington state and has just released his film “Eden’s Last Chance,” which documents his journey into radical radical environmentalism.”
LC A Conversation with the Creator of the Bio-Scalar EESystem Technolgy with Dr. Sandra Rose Michael, DNM, PhD, DCSJ
A Conversation with the Creator of the Bio-Scalar EESystem Technology with Dr. Sandra Rose Michael, DNM, PhD, DCSJ
Deena Metzger. a writer and feminist and ecological thinker has published over 19 books, and has been teaching writing for over fifty years. La Negra y Blanca won the Oakland PEN Literature Award. Her penultimate novel, A Rain of Night Birds,focuses on two climatologist, one Native, who confront what they know and what they learn from the land and the cosmos.And earlier novel, The novel, The Other Hand, is an epistolary novel addressed to Cardinal Lustiger, by the protagonist, a cosmologist, who states that the Holocaust and the Bomb are the two Koans of the Twentieth Century. In La Vieja: A Journal of Fire, her latest novel, La Vieja takes up residence in a fire lookout in the Sierras, watching for fires and crossing the borders between time and space, human and animal. She originated the genre, the Literature of Restoration, to promote spirit based, earth-based writing free of the seeds of extinction and climate collapse. She lives at the end of the road in the Santa Monica mountains, with Coyote, Bobcat, Mountain Lion, Squirrel, Owl, Raven and more on land she and the community have designated as a sanctuary for all beings, and regularly meets with African Elephants in the wild. deenametzger.net.
Michael Kellett is executive director of the New England nonprofit organization, RESTORE: The North Woods, which he co-founded in 1992. He has been involved in national park, wilderness, public land, and endangered species issues for more than 30 years. In 1994, he developed the proposal for a 3.2-million-acre Maine Woods National Park, which laid the groundwork for the 2016 designation by President Obama of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. In Massachusetts, he has worked to protect Walden Woods and Henry David Thoreau’s birthplace, and helped to develop legislation introduced in 2019, which would protect state conservation lands from logging and other development
Rebecca Wildbear, MS, E-RYT 500, is the author of Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration, & Advocacy for the Earth. She is the creator of a yoga practice called Wild Yoga, which empowers individuals to tune in to the mysteries that live within the earth community, dreams, and their wild nature so they can live a life of creative service. She has been leading Wild Yoga programs since 2007 and also guides other nature and soul programs through Animas Valley Institute. Visit her online at www.rebeccawildbear.com.
Richard W. Halsey loves sharing the magic of Nature, especially when it comes to chaparral, California's most extensive native plant community. He started teaching natural history as a 16-year-old volunteer naturalist at the El Dorado Nature Center in Long Beach, California, enjoyed learning about biology and anthropology in college, then taught high school biology, chemistry, and physics for two decades, leading his students on dozens of wilderness experiences to discover the preciousness of life. Since founding and directing the California Chaparral Institute in 2004, Richard has written a handful of research papers, a couple books, a fair number of editorials, and has given hundreds of presentations, all concerning chaparral ecology and the importance of reestablishing our connection with Nature
Joan Maloof, Ph.D., works to educate others regarding the extent and condition of our forests, and to encourage their preservation. She founded an organization with the goal of creating a network of protected forests across the US; that organization, the Old-Growth Forest Network, now has thousands of supporters and over 185 forests in 32 states ( www.OldGrowthForest.net). Maloof is a professor emeritus at Salisbury University where she taught Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies. She is the author of numerous research articles and five books. Her new book is Nature’s Temples: A Natural History of Old Growth Forests.
Chris Matera is a civil engineer, and the founder of Massachusetts Forest Watch, which works to protect forests everywhere, but with a greater focus on protecting Northeastern Public Forests From Logging.
Paul Webb began his career at a famous zoo that specialised in captive breeding programs for rare species. After eight years left with the conviction that captive breeding has no role to play in the conservation of species or habitat. Worked for the ruling family of a Gulf State for many years, turning half the country into a wildlife reserve, and looking after the largest herd of Arabian Oryx in the world, which was by then extinct in the wild. Organised and funded numerous projects all over the world to preserve the rare flora and fauna and participated in field work to secure the habitat of numerous species. Under the name AP Wolf produced a book on the wildlife and environment of the region for the ruling family. Spent four years in the remote and forbidden zones of the southern Maldives writing and producing a book on the environment for the President's Office of the Maldives. Now a full-time writer and researcher specialising in the conservation of habitat and wildlife, having recently published my latest work 'The Second Level of Extinction - Wildlife, Conservation and the Myth of Captive Breeding in Zoos.'
George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild.
Sarah Bowen is an animal chaplain and a co-founder of Compassion Consortium the first interfaith, interspiritual, and interspecies community for people who care about and advocate for animals and the planet where she leads the Animal Chaplaincy Training program. She companions animals through death, creates sacred memorial rituals, counsels humans grieving animal loss, and advocates for exploited and endangered species in both religious and secular contexts. Sarah is a columnist on animal/human relationships for Spirituality & Health magazine, and her work has been featured at the United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week and the Compassion Arts Festival, as well as in a wide range of spirituality media. Her latest book is Sacred Sendoffs from Monkfish Publishing.
Melinda Tankard Reist ( www.melindatankardreist.com) is an author, speaker, media commentator, blogger and advocate for young people. She is best known for her work addressing sexualisation, objectification, harms of pornography, sexual exploitation, trafficking and violence against women. Melinda is author/editor of seven books including Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls (Spinifex Press, 2009), Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global pornography industry (Spinifex Press, 2011, co-edited with Dr Abigail Bray) and Prostitution Narratives: Stories of survival in the sex trade (Spinifex Press, co-edited with Dr Caroline Norma). An opinion writer, Melinda has appeared on ABC’s Q&A and The Gruen Sessions as well as many other TV and radio programs. Melinda is co-founder of the grassroots campaigning movement, Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, exposing corporations, advertisers and marketers who objectify women and sexualise girls to sell products and services. An Ambassador for World Vision Australia, Compassion Australia, HagarNZ and the youth mentoring body the Raise Foundation, Melinda is also Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Culture and Ethics, Notre Dame University, Sydney. Melinda is named in the Who’s Who of Australian Women and the World Who’s Who of Women. Her most recent book is He Chose Porn Over Me.
Paul Johnson is a west-coast based independent filmmaker and broadcast journalist. He has been making films on many topics for more than two decades. He is a former White House reporter for Canadian television and Beijing correspondent. He is also director of Last of the Ancient Rainforests: The Emotional Connection to Trees, a new feature film. The working title for his new film is Bears in our Backyard, about how to better coexist with black bears.
Genevieve Gluck is a co-founder and regular contributor to feminist news publication Reduxx. She and Anna Slatz launched Reduxx in January 2022 to address issues relating to safeguarding and the rights of women and children. Since that time, Reduxx has published over 500 articles, several of which have gone on to be translated and distributed internationally. Reduxx is entirely funded with the support of readers
Bathsheba Demuth is a writer and environmental historian specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. Her interest in northern places and cultures began when she was 18 and moved to the village of Old Crow in the Yukon, where she trained huskies for several years. From the archive to the dog sled, she is interested in how the histories of people, ideas, and ecologies intersect. In addition to her prize-winning book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait,her writing has appeared in publications from The American Historical Reviewto The New Yorkerand The Best American Science and Nature Writing.She is currently the Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University.
George Wuerthne is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild.
Paul Webb began his career at a famous zoo that specialised in captive breeding programs for rare species. After eight years left with the conviction that captive breeding has no role to play in the conservation of species or habitat. Worked for the ruling family of a Gulf State for many years, turning half the country into a wildlife reserve, and looking after the largest herd of Arabian Oryx in the world, which was by then extinct in the wild. Organised and funded numerous projects all over the world to preserve the rare flora and fauna and participated in field work to secure the habitat of numerous species. Under the name AP Wolf produced a book on the wildlife and environment of the region for the ruling family. Spent four years in the remote and forbidden zones of the southern Maldives writing and producing a book on the environment for the President's Office of the Maldives. Now a full-time writer and researcher specialising in the conservation of habitat and wildlife, having recently published his latest work 'The Second Level of Extinction - Wildlife, Conservation and the Myth of Captive Breeding in Zoos' and is presently working on a volume about the Black-Footed ferret captive breeding and reintroduction scheme by the USFWS.'
Stephany Seay is the co-founder of Roam Free Nation, a Montana-based wildlife advocacy group that focuses on the last continuously wild buffalo, the Yellowstone herds. She has been working in service to the last wild buffalo for over 20 years. Born in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and raised in Virginia, Stephany learned about the continued war against wild buffalo in 1996 and has been advocating for them ever since. In response to their struggle, she moved to Montana on New Year’s Day 2004, where she became the media coordinator for Buffalo Field Campaign, with whom she parted ways after 18 years of service over philosophical differences. Stephany has nearly 20 years of experience standing with the buffalo, is an avid wildlife photographer, backcountry skier, and horsewoman. She is also a member of Deep Green Resistance.Stephany trusts that the buffalo have called us not just to help defend them, but to help us save us from ourselves from the unsustainable and selfish creation of industrial civilization.
Deena Metzger, a writer and feminist and ecological thinker has published over 19 books, and has been teaching writing for over fifty years. La Negra y Blanca won the Oakland PEN Literature Award. Her penultimate novel, A Rain of Night Birds,focuses on two climatologist, one Native, who confront what they know and what they learn from the land and the cosmos.And earlier novel, The novel, The Other Hand, is an epistolary novel addressed to Cardinal Lustiger, by the protagonist, a cosmologist, who states that the Holocaust and the Bomb are the two Koans of the Twentieth Century. In La Vieja: A Journal of Fire, her latest novel, La Vieja takes up residence in a fire lookout in the Sierras, watching for fires and crossing the borders between time and space, human and animal. She originated the genre, the Literature of Restoration, to promote spirit based, earth-based writing free of the seeds of extinction and climate collapse. She lives at the end of the road in the Santa Monica mountains, with Coyote, Bobcat, Mountain Lion, Squirrel, Owl, Raven and more on land she and the community have designated as a sanctuary for all beings, and regularly meets with African Elephants in the wild. deenametzger.net.
George Wuerthner. He is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild.
Sheila Jeffreys is a radical feminist writer and activist who has worked mainly against male violence and for lesbian feminism. She joined her first Women’s Liberation Movement group in the UK in 1973. In 1991, she moved to Australia to teach at the University of Melbourne where she is now a Professorial Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences. She moved back to the UK in 2015. She is the author of twelve books on issues such as the history of sexuality, lesbian feminism, prostitution, gay men’s politics, beauty practices, the threat of patriarchal religion to women’s rights, and the politics of transgenderism. Her latest book is Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women’s Subordination.
Sarah Bowen is an animal chaplain and a co-founder of Compassion Consortium the first interfaith, interspiritual, and interspecies community for people who care about and advocate for animals and the planet where she leads the Animal Chaplaincy Training program. She companions animals through death, creates sacred memorial rituals, counsels humans grieving animal loss, and advocates for exploited and endangered species in both religious and secular contexts. Sarah is a columnist on animal/human relationships for Spirituality & Health magazine, and her work has been featured at the United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week and the Compassion Arts Festival, as well as in a wide range of spirituality media. Her latest book is Sacred Sendoffs from Monkfish Publishing.
Mr. Menno is a 46-year-old Dutch gay man who creates satirical YouTube videos and songs that explore the absurdities and dangers of the current gender identity craze. Ricky Gervais recently posted one of Menno’s videos to his 5 million Facebook followers, and called it ‘Brilliant’ on Twitter.
Bruce S. Post, a 1969 Norwich graduate, has worked for several members of the Vermont and other congressional delegations. He was Chief of Staff for U.S. Rep. John B. Anderson during Anderson’s 1980 presidential campaign and also served as a researcher and speechwriter for U.S. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey in the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries. As Vermont Governor Richard Snelling’s Director of Planning and Research, Bruce developed a comprehensive perspective on multiple issues facing Vermont.
He now writes and lectures on Vermont’s environmental history. He is the creator of the Mountain Manifesto -- http://mountainmanifesto.org -- and his article “The Road to Paradise, Lost: The Defeat of the Green Mountain Parkway,” appeared in the Bennington Museum’s Walloomsack Review. His two-part series “History of Vermont Environmentalism” was published in the Review’s Spring and Autumn, 2017, editions. He also wrote on environmental problems in the former Soviet Union for the Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS Review, and the New York Times published his letter on the effects of oil extraction in western North Dakota.
Esther Figueroa Ph.D, is a Jamaican independent film maker, writer, educator and linguist with over thirty five years of media productions including television programming, documentaries, educational videos, multimedia and feature film. Her activist filmmaking gives voice to those outside of mainstream media and focuses on the perpetuation of local and indigenous knowledge and cultures, the environment, social injustice, and community empowerment. Figueroa’s films are screened and televised all over the world and taught at numerous universities. They include Jamaica for Sale (2009), the award-winning feature documentary about tourism and unsustainable development. Her latest feature documentary Fly Me To The Moon (2019) is about modernity and the global aluminum industry. She created and co-hosted GEFF 2020, the first online film festival focused on global extraction. Her environmental novel Limbo (2013), was a finalist in the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards for Multi-cultural Fiction. October 26 to 30 will be GEFF 2022.
Deena Metzger. a writer and feminist and ecological thinker has published over 19 books, and has been teaching writing for over fifty years. La Negra y Blanca won the Oakland PEN Literature Award. Her penultimate novel, A Rain of Night Birds, focuses on two climatologist, one Native, who confront what they know and what they learn from the land and the cosmos.And earlier novel, The novel, The Other Hand, is an epistolary novel addressed to Cardinal Lustiger, by the protagonist, a cosmologist, who states that the Holocaust and the Bomb are the two Koans of the Twentieth Century. In La Vieja: A Journal of Fire, her latest novel, La Vieja takes up residence in a fire lookout in the Sierras, watching for fires and crossing the borders between time and space, human and animal. She originated the genre, the Literature of Restoration, to promote spirit based, earth-based writing free of the seeds of extinction and climate collapse. She lives at the end of the road in the Santa Monica mountains, with Coyote, Bobcat, Mountain Lion, Squirrel, Owl, Raven and more on land she and the community have designated as a sanctuary for all beings, and regularly meets with African Elephants in the wild. deenametzger.net.
Caitlin Roper is a feminist activist, writer and PhD candidate. She is also campaigns manager for Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, a grassroots campaigning movement challenging the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls in media, advertising and popular culture.
Frank Forencich is a biocentric guy trying to make a go of it in an anthropocentric culture. He's studied human biology, martial art, and traveled to Africa to experience the human ancestral environment. He's the author of several books about health and the human predicament including "The Sapience Curriculum" and "Beware False Tigers."
Paul Webb began his career at a famous zoo that specialized in captive breeding programs for rare species. After eight years left with the conviction that captive breeding has no role to play in the conservation of species or habitat. Worked for the ruling family of a Gulf State for many years, turning half the country into a wildlife reserve, and looking after the largest herd of Arabian Oryx in the world, which was by then extinct in the wild. Organized and funded numerous projects all over the world to preserve the rare flora and fauna and participated in field work to secure the habitat of numerous species. Produced a book on the wildlife and environment of the region for the ruling family. Spent four years in the remote and forbidden zones of the southern Maldives writing and producing a book on the environment for the President's Office of the Maldives. Now a full-time writer and researcher specializing in the conservation of habitat and wildlife, having recently published my latest work 'The Second Level of Extinction - Wildlife, Conservation and the Myth of Captive Breeding in Zoos' and am presently working on a volume about the Black-Footed ferret captive breeding and reintroduction scheme by the USFWS.'
George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. Today we talk about the proposed Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act.
Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Sean Rabin has worked as a cook, script reader, copy-editor, freelance journalist and librarian. He has lived in Ireland, Italy, London and New York, and now resides in Sydney, Australia. His debut novel Wood Green (Giramondo) was shortlisted for The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2017 and The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2016 and was also longlisted for the ALS Gold Medal. It was published in the UK by Dodo Ink in 2016.
Darcia Narvaez is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA). She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Educational Research Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She studies moral development and human flourishing from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating anthropology, neuroscience, clinical, developmental and educational sciences. She has published hundreds of papers and over 20 books including the multi-award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom. She serves as president of KindredWorld.org and hosts the webpage EvolvedNest.org.
Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), aka Don Trent Jacobs, self-identifies as Irish/Cherokee, but follows the spiritual path of the Oglala Lakota as a made-relative of and Sun Dancer with the Medicine Horse tiospaya. He lived and worked on the Pine Ridge Reservation a Director of Education at Oglala Lakota College. Currently at Fielding Graduate University’s School of Leadership Studies, he has authored 21 books and numerous other publications on applications of our original Nature-based worldview. AERO selected him as one of 27 visionaries in education and he is the recipient of the Martin Springer Institute moral courage award for his activism. He lives with his artist wife in Mexico where he surfs, plays handball, rides horses and plays gypsy jazz on the keyboard.
Michael Kellett is executive director of the New England nonprofit organization, RESTORE: The North Woods, which he co-founded in 1992. He has been involved in national park, wilderness, public land, and endangered species issues for more than 30 years. In 1994, he developed the proposal for a 3.2-million-acre Maine Woods National Park, which laid the groundwork for the 2016 designation by President Obama of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. In Massachusetts, he has worked to protect Walden Woods and Henry David Thoreau's birthplace, and helped to develop legislation introduced in 2019, which would protect state conservation lands from logging and other development.
I've always been a nature lover. Living on Nantucket, the beloved, critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whales have been part of my life, as it is for all those who live on the island. I became aware in 2019, of a proposal to transform one of the whales' last nursery and feeding sites, into the nation's first, largest in the world offshore wind array, of 1,400 turbines. I became alarmed to learn the developers were given a special permit to interfere with the whales' basic behaviors when necessary during construction. Our government permitting agencies also intend to use this first array as a "test bed" on our whales and ecosystem, to establish regulation of the industry going forward. I formed Cape and Islands Wildlife Conservation Alliance, to spread awareness and engage those who wish to stop the projects, until adequate studies and steps are in place before construction, to save these magnificent whales from extinction."
Lisa Linowes resides in rural New Hampshire and has been a leading figure in the wind energy debate for nearly two decades. She serves as Executive Director for the Windaction Group, a national advocacy focused on the impact and policy issues associated with industrial wind energy development. Lisa has testified before Congress on environmental issues, and she has held elected and volunteer positions in community planning and land negotiation.
Bruce S. Post, a 1969 Norwich graduate, has worked for several members of the Vermont and other congressional delegations. He was Chief of Staff for U.S. Rep. John B. Anderson during Anderson’s 1980 presidential campaign and also served as a researcher and speechwriter for U.S. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey in the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries. As Vermont Governor Richard Snelling’s Director of Planning and Research, Bruce developed a comprehensive perspective on multiple issues facing Vermont. He now writes and lectures on Vermont’s environmental history. He is the creator of the Mountain Manifesto -- http://mountainmanifesto.org -- and his article “The Road to Paradise, Lost: The Defeat of the Green Mountain Parkway,” appeared in the Bennington Museum’s Walloomsack Review. His two-part series “History of Vermont Environmentalism” was published in the Review’s Spring and Autumn, 2017, editions. He also wrote on environmental problems in the former Soviet Union for the Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS Review, and the New York Times published his letter on the effects of oil extraction in western North Dakota. Bruce served on the Vermont State Board of Libraries for eleven years, including nine years as Chair. He also was on the board of Rokeby Museum and on the Green Mountain Club’s history and archives committee.
Julia Barnes is an award winning documentary filmmaker. She is the director of Sea of Life and Bright Green Lies. Her current work focuses on opposing deep sea mining.
Paul Webb began career at a famous zoo that specialised in captive breeding programs for rare species. After eight years left with the conviction that captive breeding has no role to play in the conservation of species or habitat. Worked for the ruling family of a Gulf State for many years, turning half the country into a wildlife reserve, and looking after the largest herd of Arabian Oryx in the world, which was by then extinct in the wild. Organised and funded numerous projects all over the world to preserve the rare flora and fauna and participated in field work to secure the habitat of numerous species. Produced a book on the wildlife and environment of the region for the ruling family. Spent four years in the remote and forbidden zones of the southern Maldives writing and producing a book on the environment for the President's Office of the Maldives. Now a full-time writer and researcher specialising in the conservation of habitat and wildlife, having recently published my latest work 'The Second Level of Extinction - Wildlife, Conservation and the Myth of Captive Breeding in Zoos' and am presently working on a volume about the Black-Footed ferret captive breeding and reintroduction scheme by the USFWS.'
Paul Cienfuegos is a national leader in the Community Rights movement, which works to dismantle corporate constitutional so-called “rights” and assert the people's inherent right to govern themselves. He has been leading workshops across the US since 1995. David Barsamian's internationally syndicated show 'Alternative Radio' has broadcast five of his speeches. Launched in October 2017, Paul is the founding director of Community Rights US. Paul has just published his first book, titled, How Dare We? Courageous Practices to Reclaim Our Power as Citizens. He lives in Portland, Oregon. More info at www.communityrights.us.
Michael Webber is a motion picture producer/director who spent much of his early career producing scripted, theatrical films released by studios such as 20th Century Fox and Lionsgate. In 2010, Webber departed from the world of fiction films to pursue his passion project, a ground-breaking cine ma-verite documentary about the underground exotic pet trade in the US titled, The Elephant in the Living Room. The film would go on to win 5 Best Documentary Awards, earning its place among the top-rated films of the year and releasing as the #1 Independent Film in the US. Webber was awarded the coveted Genesis Award from the Humane Society of the United States for his contribution to animal welfare in his motion picture work. He has been featured guest on countless television and radio talk shows, including appearances The Today show, ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly New, and Nightline. His work was also the subject of an ABC 20/20 special. His most recent documentary is a continuation of his investigative work into exotic animal trafficking in the US, but from an angle that nobody saw coming. Titled, The Conservation Game, Webber’s new film blows the lid off America’s most beloved television conservationists, exposing their secret connections to the exotic animal trade and their decades long ruse on the American public. The film started off its world premiere with a bang, winning a Social Justice Award and has movie critics drawing comparisons to Blackfish. According to Variety, the film has recently scored a raft of international film sales and is just now releasing in the US after a limited theatrical run.
Frank Forencich is a biocentric guy trying to make a go of it in an anthropocentric culture. He's studied human biology, martial art, and traveled to Africa to experience the human ancestral environment. He's the author of several books about health and the human predicament including "The Sapience Curriculum" and "Beware False Tigers."
Genevieve Gluck is a feminist essayist and researcher who in recent years has primarily been looking at the influence of pornography on gender identity. She hosts the podcast Women’s Voices, and has written for Feminist Current and Graham Linehan’s blog, and on substack: genevievegluck.substack.com
Tipakson Manpati is from northeast Thailand. She is a researcher on the Mekong River and its tributary environment.
Paul Johnson is a west-coast based independent filmmaker and broadcast journalist. He has been making films on many topics for more than two decades. He is a former White House reporter for Canadian television and Beijing correspondent. He is also director of Last of the Ancient Rainforests: The Emotional Connection to Trees, a new feature film.
Carolyn Emms is a founding member of Rainforest Reserves Australia, based in Lake Barrine Far North Queensland, which she manages alongside a small group of passionate conservationists with different skill sets, including on-the-ground habitat restoration experts. Here Rainforest Reserves operates the Tablelands Cassowary Rehabilitation Facility in partnership with the Department of Environment and Science caring for orphaned and injured cassowaries, rehabilitating them until they are ready for release into the wild. She is also passionate about revegetation and with the help of her team has planted over 100,000 native trees to create two wildlife corridors, allowing wildlife to continue seed dispersal and expanding their habitat.
Anastasia Klose has recently joined Rainforest Reserves Australia as a researcher, copywriter and website designer to support their work. She is a contemporary artist who is now refocusing her passion on wilderness conservation.
Julia Barnes is an award winning documentary filmmaker. She is the director of Sea of Life and Bright Green Lies. Her current work focuses on opposing deep sea mining.
George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild.
Annette Smith of Danby, Vermont has been working to stop inappropriate development and the destruction of the earth in Vermont since 1999 when she co-founded Vermonters for a Clean Environment to stop a gas power plant and pipeline project. Working with Vermonters throughout the state, she has successfully stopped destructive wind and solar, extractive industries, and industrial facilities from further damaging Vermont. Wind developers tried to shut her down (up?) by filing a complaint with the Vermont Attorney General’s office that led to a criminal investigation, after which she was named Vermonter of the Year by the Burlington Free Press. A litigious solar developer is currently attempting to gain access to her emails in a Federal court case.
MICHAEL LEVITIN is a journalist and co-founding editor of The Occupied Wall Street Journal. He started as a reporter covering the Cochabamba Water War in 2000 for the English language newspaper Bolivian Times. He earned his master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and later worked as a freelance correspondent in Barcelona and Berlin covering politics, culture and climate change. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Financial Times, Newsweek, Time and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. His debut novel, Disposable Man, was published in 2019. He teaches journalism at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives with his partner and daughter.
Robin Winkler was a commercial lawyer until 2001 when after having read some books, been diagnosed with a life threatening illness and time to reflect, flipped to the social and environmental justice side, gave up USA citizenship and founded Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association,Taiwan. Since that time he has been mostly involved in trying to understand: how to stop the decimation of different strains of humans, other species and beings, and transcendence. Favorite authors include Paul Shepard, Rachel Carson, Derrick Jensen, Peter Kropotkin and Vandana Shiva.
Beth Lowe is a mother of two living in the Midwest. She is a signatory to WDI's Declaration on Women's Sex Based Rights, a member of the TERF Collective, and a parent who is fed up with gender ideology and is fighting back against the damage to our children.
Thistle Pettersen is a Singer/Songwriter and Feminist Newscaster living and working in Madison, WI. She has been harassed by misogynists in her city for years for expressing her woman-centered feminist views. She is a founding member of WLRN, Women's Liberation Radio News and she recently released a new album of original music called Spinning & Weaving
Lierre Keith has been a radical feminist for 40 years. She is the author of seven books, including The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, which has been called "the most important ecological book of this generation." She is coauthor, with Derrick Jensen and Max Wilbert, of Bright Green Lies:How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It She lives in northern California with giant trees and giant dogs. She's also been arrested six times for acts of political resistance.
Tony Povilitis is a wildlife biologist, conservation activist, and founder of Life Net Nature, a "mom and pop" nonprofit devoted to wildlife research, voluntarism, and advocacy. For more than a half century, Tony has witnessed ongoing destruction of wildlife and nature in numerous countries. His conclusion: Efforts to mitigate human impacts have fundamentally failed. The only sane way forward is to vastly scale down humanity's exploitation of nature, consumption, and population. His book "Slipping through our hands, imperiled wildlife of the Greater San Juans" appeared in 2000. Tony has spent a good part of his professional career working to study and protect the Andean Deer called the Huemul.
Barbara Durkin of Massachusetts is a former VP of an international hair care company, a Realtor, a licensed general contractor, & a small biz owner who vacations where offshore Cape Wind was proposed in 2001. She was then solely concerned about negative aesthetics of an industrial scale wind project, the project blight the areas’ National Historic Landmarks, the views of Nantucket Sound from Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Island being spoiled. But, after conducting 17 yrs of independent research on offshore wind, Barbara is well-versed on a multitude of untenable risks and adverse impacts associated with it,and they extend well beyond aesthetics.
Jerry Mander is the author of many books, including the books Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, and In the Absence of the Sacred, considered by many environmental activists to be two of the most important books of the late 20th century.
Renee Gerlich is a feminist anarchist from New Zealand whose writing appears on her blog, reneejg.net, as well as Feminist Current, Savage Minds, and the 2021 anthology Spinning and Weaving. Her talk "Transgenderism, Neoliberalism and Rape Culture" can be found on YouTube. Visit dragoncloudpress.com for her recently published Brief Complete Herstory series, an illustrated history of the world from the Big Bang to neoliberalism.
Michelle Lute is a conservation scientist and advocate with fifteen years’ experience in biodiversity conservation on public and private lands around the globe. Dr Lute is the National Carnivore Conservation Manager for Project Coyote, whose mission is to promote compassionate conservation through science, advocacy and education.
Karen Breslin is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for US Senate from Colorado. She is an attorney, university professor of political science, former policy advisor for the National Park Service’s Intermountain Region and former journalist. As a public interest attorney, Breslin has represented community, environmental and animal-protection organizations seeking to defend the natural world. Breslin holds a B.A. in journalism and political science from Metropolitan State University of Denver, an M.A. in political science from the University of Colorado Denver, and a J.D. from the Sturm College of Law at University of Denver
Dr Holly Johnson's career in the field of violence against women began as a government researcher and evolved into criminology professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada. Her primary research interests focused on criminal justice and social responses to sexual violence, intimate partner violence and partner homicide, and on the methodological challenges to measuring the nature and prevalence of these experiences. While in the federal government, she was principal investigator of Statistics Canada's first national survey on violence against women and a coordinator of the International Violence Against Women Survey. Dr Johnson was also involved in many other national and international networks aimed at refining research tools, preventing violence against women, and improving interventions and responses to these crimes. At the international level, Dr Johnson served as expert advisor to several UN groups working to develop accurate indicators on violence against women. In her local community, Dr Johnson held membership in the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women, worked with the Ottawa Police Service to improve their response to crimes of violence against women, and worked with the University of Ottawa to address sexual violence on campus.
Frank Forencich is a biocentric guy trying to make a go of it in an anthropocentric culture. He's studied human biology, martial art, and traveled to Africa to experience the human ancestral environment. He's the author of several books about health and the human predicament including "The Sapience Curriculum" and the soon-to-be released "Beware False Tigers."
George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild.
Davoud Gerami. A cosmopolite by nature, Davoud is a filmmaker and visual artist with an MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. His experience with the cinematic medium spans over two decades and has taken him to the four corners of the planet. His area of interest is the condition of human, as well as all the wide and interdisciplinary territories this subject covers; include Social Justice, Internationalism, the Environment, and the Culture Industry.
George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. This interview is about differences between wild and free buffalo on one hand, and fenced buffalo on the other.
Esther Figueroa Ph.D, is a Jamaican independent film maker, writer, educator and linguist with over thirty five years of media productions including television programming, documentaries, educational videos, multimedia and feature film. Her activist filmmaking gives voice to those outside of mainstream media and focuses on the perpetuation of local and indigenous knowledge and cultures, the environment, social injustice, and community empowerment. Figueroa’s films are screened and televised all over the world and taught at numerous universities. They include Jamaica for Sale (2009), the award-winning feature documentary about tourism and unsustainable development. Her latest feature documentary Fly Me To The Moon (2019) is about modernity and the global aluminum industry. She recently created and co-hosted GEFF 2020, the first online film festival focused on global extraction. Her environmental novel Limbo (2013), was a finalist in the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards for Multi-cultural Fiction.
Simon Bramwell is a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, a climate-activist group dedicated to the belief that real change will only come through mass civil disobedience. He is a bushcraft instructor who is looking after his terminally ill mother. Ian Bray is also an Extinction Rebellion Co-founder, and is a father of two, Quaker, and a salvage and repair worker.
Paul Cienfuegos is a national leader in the Community Rights movement, which works to dismantle corporate constitutional so-called “rights” and assert the people's inherent right to govern themselves. He has been leading workshops across the US since 1995. David Barsamian's internationally syndicated show 'Alternative Radio' has broadcast five of his speeches. Launched in October 2017, Paul is the founding director of Community Rights US. He lives in Portland, Oregon. More info at www.communityrights.us.
Mark Janeczko is an environmental enthusiast who had a 30-plus year career working as an environmental specialist on water quality and pollution issues. He holds a degree in conservation and wildlife management and served with Americorps as a ranger with the U.S. Forest Service. He continues to dedicate his life to a healthy and diverse planet. Diane Miller has tried to live her life as close to the land as possible. During the decade when she lived in an off the grid cabin in the woods, she learned from the plants and animals about the power of our actions, and sometimes, nonactions. She is a communication professor who encourages her students to question dominant narratives, expose logical fallacies, and advocate for interests beyond their own. Mark and Diane live at the edge of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Skylar Wilson is a wilderness guide, eco-activist, and ceremonial facilitator with over twenty years of experience facilitating connections within the more-than-human world. Skylar is the cofounding director of the Order of the Sacred Earth and author of the book: Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Vision of Love and Action with Matthew Fox and Jennifer Berit Listug.
He leads Earth-based, participatory, peer-to-peer ceremonies and mentoring programs for teens and adults, including a Soul Initiation group for men and the Cosmic Mass. Email: skylarwilson@gmail.com or visit: www.orderofthesacredearth.org.
Peter is a 61 year old family physician (also known as a General Practitioner) in the United Kingdom. He has a conventional family and work life, but has been contemplating what he might do if our present comfortable way of life were to come to an end. He is therefore learning to grow some of his own food, and is combining his interests in medicine, gardening and history by re-inventing plant based anesthetics, in the hope that one day, this knowledge might be useful to someone. Listeners are reminded that they shouldn't try this at home. His blog can be found at toxicplantsblog.blogspot.com.
Keli Hendricks is the Ranching with Wildlife Coordinator for Project Coyote. Keli and her husband Dean live and work on a cattle ranch in Sonoma County where Dean has managed the cow/calf operation for over 25 years. Keli is a long-time volunteer with Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue where she fosters orphaned wildlife, and she also serves as the VP of Little Trooper Ranch, a non-profit animal rescue.
Max Wilbert is a writer, organizer, and wilderness guide. A third-generation dissident, he came of age in a family of anti-war and undoing racism activists in post-WTO Seattle. He is the editor-in-chief of the Deep Green Resistance News Service. His latest book is the Bright Green Lies. His first book, an essay collection called We Choose to Speak, was released in 2018. He lives in Oregon. Today we talk about actions against a proposed lithium mine in Nevada.
Justin McAffee produced his first short film Great Basin Water Protectors, about an indigenous people’s prayer run and a water pipeline that threatened a large area of rural Nevada. He is currently working on a film series, Desert Apocalypse, about the assault on the Mojave and Great Basin in Nevada, one of the largest intact ecosystems in the lower 48 states. He resides in Nuwuvi, occupied Southern Paiute lands in Southern Nevada.
Amie Ichikawa was formerly incarcerated in California. She recently founded the nonprofit organization Woman II Woman inc. This organization was originally created as a resource hub for reentry services but has become much more after California’s SB132 “The Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act” which has allowed gender self ID in prisons creating an unbelievable violation of human rights.
Ralph Bloemers has been working on forest fire and climate issues for about 25 years. His work focuses on communities in Oregon, Washington, and California. He has spent thousands of hours in burned landscapes, documenting wildlife and forest regeneration. He’s a documentary filmmaker, environmental lawyer, and advocate for living with fire on the land.