Posts in Multispecies Justice
MERLIN SHELDRAKE on Embodied Entanglements /365
MERLIN SHELDRAKE on Embodied Entanglements /365

“An account of life that doesn't include fungi is an account of life that doesn’t exist.” Our relationship with fungi is non-negotiable. Merlin invites listeners to pay attention to what this relationship means and how it shapes not only our lives, but the entanglement of life across the world.

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Conservation Restoration, Multispecies Justice, More Than Human Kin, Plant Intelligence, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildmerlin, sheldrake, Merlin, Sheldrake, 365, Fungi, Entaglements, MOTH, SPUNComment
KURT RUSSO on a Prayer of Mourning /357
KURT RUSSO on a Prayer of Mourning /357

Kurt shares guided wisdom about the realities of commodification, ecocide, and the capacity of the human soul for intentional cruelty. How we fight against such darkness matters not just for humanity, but for all with whom we share this precious earth. 

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Decolonization, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Shore Ocean CommunitiesFor The Wild357, Miami Seaquarium, Kurt Russo, Tokitae, Sea World, captivity, Southern Resident Orcas, Snake River Dams, Pacific Northwest, Sacred Sea, mother Orca, Tahlequah, tour of grief, Lummi Nation, Salish Sea, endangered marine species, marine ecology, biodiversity loss, marine mammal detention, critical species loss.Comment
KURT RUSSO on the People Under the Sea [ENCORE] /345
KURT RUSSO on the People Under the Sea [ENCORE] /345

We are honored to once again share this episode with you as a profound reminder of the place we share with the qwe 'lhol mechen, their capacity for memory, grief, and love, and the many ways that the Lummi Nation continues to protect, defend, and restore the Salish Sea.

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Decolonization, Multispecies Justice, Shore Ocean CommunitiesFor The WildFor The Wild, 345, Encore, Miami Seaquarium, Kurt Russo, Tokitae, Sea World, captivity, Southern Resident Orcas, Snake River Dams, Pacific Northwest, Sacred Sea, mother Orca, Tahlequah, tour of grief, Lummi Nation, Salish Sea, endangered marine species, marine ecology, biodiversity loss, marine mammal detention, critical species loss, qwe 'lhol mechen, Trans Mountain Pipeline, Sk'aliCh'elh-tenautComment
JENNY ODELL on the Attention Economy [ENCORE] /330
JENNY ODELL on the Attention Economy [ENCORE] /330

We look at how the attention economy takes on a new meaning in the digital age and the anxiety we experience in a consumer-driven society. Jenny Odell shares the brilliance of doing “nothing”, tending to the ecological self, and growing deeper forms of attention through a commitment to bioregionalism.

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Cultural Strategy, Transition Transformation, Design+Strategy, Activism Allyship, Media Art, Multispecies JusticeFor The Wildjenny odell art, jenny odell instagram, jenny odell how to do nothing, attention economy book, attention economy social media, attention economy examples, attention economy quotes, social media addiction, social media and mental health, social media and depression, how to do nothing, social media psychology today, social media anxiety disorder, social media anxiety depression, technology surveillance and privacy, technology surveillance in the USA, technology surveillance algorithms, bird watching, Why Birds Do What They Do, 330, Jenny, jenny, odell, OdellComment
Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on Diverse Expressions of a Living Earth /311
Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on Diverse Expressions of a Living Earth /311

Vandana and Ayana piece apart the threads of our global culture that lead to exploitation and extraction - focusing on the policies of division and distraction that keep us from each other. The divisions that world-leaders focus so much time on are created in order to dominate and exploit the nature on which the earthly community depends.

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Climate Solutions, Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Food Sovereignty, Global South, Globalization, Multispecies Justice, The Cost of CapitalismFor The WildDr. Vandana Shiva, Vandana Shiva, My Life in a Biodiversity of Movements, The Seeds of Vandana Shiva, biodiversity, commons, GMOs, seeds, Navdanya, Earth School, food, earth, life, food sovereignty, Indigenous food sovereignty, diversity, Monsanto, health, peasant movements, farming, farmers movements, gardening, collapse, capitalism, health under capitalism, health under colonialism, climate change, colonialism, vandana, shiva, Vandana, ShivaComment
TUSHA YAKOVLEVA on the Invitation of Invasive Plants /307
TUSHA YAKOVLEVA on the Invitation of Invasive Plants /307

We are challenged to think about our capacity, or willingness, to know invasive plants - Tusha queries listeners, “Do we know their reasons for making home in unfamiliar soils? Or what gifts and responsibilities they carry?” We are left with much to think about in the realm of curiosity and acceptance.

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Climate Change, Climate Solutions, Deep Ecology, Food Sovereignty, Grassroots Herbalism, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Plant IntelligenceFor The WildWeeds, invasive plants, ethnobotany, wild food, food sovereignty, Edible Weeds on Farms, wild edible plants, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Japanese knotweed, Phragmites, botany, Tusha, Yakovleva, tusha Comments
YOALLI RODRIGUEZ on Grief as an Ontological Form of Time /306
YOALLI RODRIGUEZ on Grief as an Ontological Form of Time /306

Yoalli brings us to the Chacahua-Pastoría Lagoons in Oaxaca, Mexico, to investigate deep connections with land, ongoing colonial violence, and the grief that comes alongside loving a place; a heartening conversation about the importance of ecological grief, rage, and sadness.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Indigenous Sovereignty, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Racial Equity Justice, Shore Ocean Communities, Theory Scholarship, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildYoalli Rodriguez, Mestil Yoalli Rodriguez, Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera, Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera, yoalli rodriguez biografia, Yoalli Rodriguez Grieving Geographies, Critical Geography, Anthropology, Chacahua-Pastoría Lagoons, Mexico Lagoons, Yoalli Rodriguez Professor, Yoalli Rodríguez Mexico, Yoalli, yoalli, rodriguez Comment
ANG ROELL on the Relations of the Beehive /301
ANG ROELL on the Relations of the Beehive /301

Ang reveals the complex relations within the hive and the multitude of lessons if we listen rather than impose. Rooting into the rich history of beekeeping and the folk traditions of their ancestors, Ang reminds us of the deeply interconnected world humans and bees share and the reciprocity inherent in right relationship.

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More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Food Sovereignty, Conservation Restoration, Climate Solutions, Climate ChangeFor The WildAng Roell, Apiary And Beekeeping, Ang Roell Radicalize the Hive, Ang Roell Consultant, They Keep Bees, Beekeeper, Mainspring Change Consultants, Ang Roell book, Radicalize the hive manifesto, Ang Roell art, Ang Roell education, Equity consultants, honey bees, the hive, ang, roell, apiaryComment
Dr. CLINT CARROLL on Stewarding Homeland /299
Dr. CLINT CARROLL on Stewarding Homeland /299

Dr. Carroll pushes back against dominant settler histories about Cherokee migrations and relations to homeland and provides insight into what audience members ought to glean from Indigenous philosophies imparting practices of deep reciprocity, responsibility, and relationship to the land and each other.

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Activism Allyship, Climate Change, Climate Solutions, Colonial Violence, Conservation Restoration, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Deep Ecology, Design+Strategy, Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Sovereignty, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Political Ideology, Racial Equity Justice, Radical Imagination, The Cost of Capitalism, Theory Scholarship, Transition TransformationFor The WildDr Clint Carroll Roots of Our Renewal, Dr Clint Carroll, Clint Carroll, Dr Clint Carroll Cherokee Nation, Dr Clint Carroll Boulder, Dr Clint Carroll CU Boulder, Dr Clint Carroll Colorado, Ethnobotany, Cherokee Environmental Governance, Cherokee Nation, Cherokee Environmental Leadership Program, Knowing the Land, Land Education Program, Cherokee Medicine Keepers, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Society for Applied Anthropology, Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change, National Science Foundation, Indian Land Tenure Foundation, Indigenous land education, community-based conservation, Indigenous ethical frameworks, climate change, traditional use plants, wild plants, tribal self-determination, tribal lands, grounded normativity, grounded relationality, ecological knowledge, land conservation, Indigenous wellbeing, natural resource management, settler-colonialism, forced displacement, homeland, Appalachia, Tahlequah, Eastern Band, Northeastern Oklahoma, old settlers, Keetoowah, Buffalo National River, gathering agreements, kinship, Trail of Tears, forced relocation, forced removal, forced migration, settler colonialism, settler colonial violence, white supremacy, racism, Land BackComment
ALEXIS SHOTWELL on Resisting Purity Culture /298
ALEXIS SHOTWELL on Resisting Purity Culture /298

Alexis elucidates that it is only through the messy process of owning up to these broken relations throughout time and seeing how we might participate in and take on culturally appropriate relations of repair, responsibility, friendship, and comradeship in the struggles for liberation that we can survive these times.

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Activism Allyship, Cultural Strategy, Direct Action, Multispecies Justice, Spirituality Theology, Transition Transformation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildpurity culture, white supremacism, complicit locations, implication, imperfection, mistakes, repair, broken relations, repairing relations, resisting purity politics, friendship, comradeship, curiosity, Alexis, Alexis Shotwell, Shotwell Comment
Dr. LARRY WARD on Healing the Colonial Mind /296
Dr. LARRY WARD on Healing the Colonial Mind /296

Covering the neuroscience of trauma, the habit of racism, and various typologies of systemic trauma, Dr. Ward provides insight into how we might consciously choose to activate our neuroplasticity toward justice rather than collectively rewarding our neuroplasticity for violence and oppression.

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Activism Allyship, Climate Solutions, Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Multispecies Justice, Racial Equity Justice, Radical Imagination, Spirituality Theology, Transition TransformationFor The WildDr Larry Ward Americas Racial Trauma, Dr Larry Ward, Larry Ward, Larry Ward books, Ward, Dr Larry Ward the Earth Gate, Dr Larry Ward the Wind Gate, The Lotus Institute, Larry Ward the Lotus Institute, Plum Village, Zen master, Zen activist, Thich Nhat Hanh, disconnection and reconnection, trauma, Earth, energy, habit, mindfulness, collective healing, Buddhist mindfulness, interconnectivity, suffering, karma, racial karma, Americas racial karma, learning, healing, healing trauma, fight or flight, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, spiritual practice, spirituality, enchantment, disenchantment, neurobiology, more than human, apocalypse, dystopia, intergenerational trauma, personal trauma, racism, vulnerability, Buddhism, healing and racism, healing and colonialism, healing intergenerational trauma, neuroscience and Buddhism, history of colonialism, history of slavery, LarryComment
GIULIANA FURCI on the Divine Time of Fungal Evolution [ENCORE] /289
GIULIANA FURCI on the Divine Time of Fungal Evolution [ENCORE] /289

We slow down to acknowledge the beauty and power of fungal decomposition with guest Giuliana Furci who shares a lesson in divine time, the transformation of energy, and the necessity of decomposition.

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More Than Human Kin, Plant Intelligence, For The Forests, Wisdom Keepers, Multispecies Justice, Deep Ecology, Climate Change, Conservation Restoration, Global SouthFor The WildGiuliana Furci, Giuliana Furci wikipedia, fungi foundation, fungi foundation chile, fungi perfecti, fungicide, fungi kingdom, fungi characteristics, fungal decomposition of wood, fungal decomposition, mushrooms climate change, climate change affecting mushrooms, biodiversity loss fungi, climate change and fungi, climate change affecting fungi, history of fungi in medicine, fungicides bad, paul stamets mushroom, paul stamets agarikon, amanita muscaria, agarikon, fungi conservation, mushroom cultivation, mushroom community, radical mycology, mycophilia, mycology society, mycology degree, mycology booksComment
K’ASHEECHTLAA - LOUISE BRADY on Restoring the Sacred [ENCORE] /288
K’ASHEECHTLAA - LOUISE BRADY on Restoring the Sacred [ENCORE] /288

K’asheechtlaa shares the oral history of herring abundance in context to what a typical herring harvest looks like today, industry’s inability to act with reverence, and how Herring Protectors are working to protect the herring and the culture tied to them.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Sovereignty, More Than Human Kin, The Cost of Capitalism, Shore Ocean Communities, Wisdom Keepers, Multispecies Justice, Activism AllyshipFor The WildHerring fish, alaska herring season, alaska herring eggs, alaska herring run, alaska herring fishing, southeast alaska herring fishery, herring in alaska, herring protectors sitka, herring rock water protectors, K’asheechtlaa, Louise Brady, Pacific marine ecosystems, pacific ocean ecosystem food chain, fishery mismanagement, history of herring fishing, sitka sac roe herring fishery, sitka sac roe herring fishery 2021, sitka sac roe, sac roe fishery, Yáa at Wooné, Alaska Board of Fish, alaska board of fishering, alaska board of fish meeting, Sitka Tribe of Alaska herring, subsistence fishing alaska, subsistence fishing examplesComment
RUTH ŁCHAV'AYA K'ISEN MILLER on Relations of Reciprocity [ENCORE] /283
RUTH ŁCHAV'AYA K'ISEN MILLER on Relations of Reciprocity [ENCORE] /283

Ruth shares how tending to the future must center Indigenous values and lifeways and shares the ways in which a just transition can be understood as a cyclical movement inspired by kinship, care, and reciprocity

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Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Direct Action, Transition Transformation, Sacrifice Zones, Multispecies Justice, Radical Imagination, Indigenous Sovereignty, Activism Allyship, Climate Solutions, Climate ChangeFor The WildRuth Łchav'aya K'isen Miller, Ruth Miller Alaska, Bristol Bay Alaska, Bristol Bay Salmon Run, Pebble Mine Alaska, Pebble Mine News, Pebble Mine News 2021, Native Movement, Native Movement staff, Native Movement facebook, Native Movement Alaska, Defend the Sacred Alaska, just transition framework, just transition examples, just transition definition, just transition principles, just transition ak, just transition and climate change, the green new deal, the green new deal 2021, climate change policy, climate change politics, the green new deal definition, a green new deal without growth, climate policy initiative, climate policy jobs, climate policy news, climate policy analysis, UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, UN Youth Climate Summit, colonization in Alaska, Department of the Interior secretary, Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior definition, Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, Deb Haaland Department of the InteriorComment
WOMAN STANDS SHINING (Pat McCabe) on Humanity's Homecoming [ENCORE] /282
WOMAN STANDS SHINING (Pat McCabe) on Humanity's Homecoming [ENCORE] /282

Woman Stands Shining coalesces topics of Indigenous sovereignty, land back, how gender and consent behave in different paradigms, and the vital importance of moving out of modernity’s obsession with intellectualism.

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Decolonization, Wisdom Keepers, Cultural Strategy, Deep Ecology, Multispecies Justice, Transition Transformation, Radical Imagination, Climate Solutions, Design+Strategy, Indigenous SovereigntyFor The WildPat McCabe podcast, Pat McCabe water, Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe), Woman Stands Shining, Lyla June Johnston, Hoop of Life, archetype wound, archetypal wounding, sacred masculinity, sacred femininity, men’s nation, women’s nation, all nations rise, archetype wounded healer, Indigenous sovereignty meaning, Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, Indigenous sovereignty movement, Diné, Navajo, thriving life paradigm, Jeremy Lent, Jeremy Lent web of meaning, Jeremy Lent the patterning instinct, prophecyComment
Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on the Promise of the Commons /280
Dr. VANDANA SHIVA on the Promise of the Commons /280

Dr. Shiva warns that the ruling class operates from a place of fear of any being alive and free on their own terms. We end this conversation with a call to a paradigm shift away from capitalism, control and fear to one of partnership with the earth.

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Climate Solutions, Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Food Sovereignty, Global South, Multispecies Justice, The Cost of CapitalismFor The Wildbiodiversity, commons, GMOs, seeds, seed saving, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Vandana Shiva, Navdanya, Earth School, food, earth, life, food sovereignty, Indigenous food sovereignty, diversity, India, reclaiming, health, Monsanto, Gates, microbiome, toxins, glyphosate, GMO, globalization, late-stage capitalism, peasant movements, farming, farmers movements, gardening, collapse, capitalism, health under capitalism, health under colonialism, climate change, colonialism, Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Indigenous Wisdom, and the Rights of Mother Earth, Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy: A Global Citizens’ Report on the Corporate Control of Technology, Health, and Agriculture, reclaiming the commons bookComment
CORRINA GOULD on Settler Responsibility and Reciprocity [ENCORE] /277
CORRINA GOULD on Settler Responsibility and Reciprocity [ENCORE] /277

Corrina reminds us that Ohlone territory still holds tremendous abundance and that the land can sustain us in a way that would provide for our wellbeing should we choose to really re-examine what it is we need to survive.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, The Cost of Capitalism, Wisdom Keepers, Cultural Strategy, Multispecies Justice, Indigenous Sovereignty, Transition Transformation, Activism Allyship, Conservation RestorationFor The WildCorrina Gould, San Francisco, Ohlone territory, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, land rematriation, land back, Bay Area, Indigenous land trusts, Beth Rose Middleton, Bay Area shellmounds, settler colonial relationships, Indigenous-led stewardship, land tax, non-federally recognized tribes, Nels Nelson, Real Rent Duwamish, Indian People Organizing for Change, Shummi Land Tax, Planting Justice, Junipero Serra, Manna-hatta Fund, Right RelationshipComment
MIKE PHILLIPS on Gray Wolves and the Vitality of Death [ENCORE] /275
MIKE PHILLIPS on Gray Wolves and the Vitality of Death [ENCORE] /275

Ayana and Mike touch on the history of cattle ranching and grazing rights, trophic cascades and the vitality of death, the violent lineages of conservation, and ecological restoration as an antidote to species loss.

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More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Conservation RestorationFor The Wildnational park, restoration, recovery, conservation, Yellowstone National Park, evolution, predators, trophic cascade, gray wolf, extinction, extinction crisis, bison, coyote, American mythology, the West, coexistence, cattle ranching, grazing rights, biological diversity, conservation model, Rocky Mountain Wolf Project, Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund, endangered species, Endangered Species Act, Anthropocene, Song of the Dodo, beyond-human, Rocky Mountains, american plains bison, ecological literacy, Western ColoradoComment
Dr. KATE STAFFORD on What the Whales Hear [ENCORE] /272
Dr. KATE STAFFORD on What the Whales Hear [ENCORE] /272

Along with Dr. Kate Stafford, we listen to the many songs the ocean body sings, asking; how does a warming climate alter the Arctic’s soundscape? Why are the waters of the Arctic becoming louder, and what does this mean for kin like the bowhead?

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Ancient Ice, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Sacrifice Zones, Globalization, Climate Change, The Cost of Capitalism, Shore Ocean CommunitiesFor The WildAcoustic monitory, migratory movements, blue whales, climate change, sea ice decline, subarctic marine mammals, oceanography, University of Washington, bowhead whales, humpback whales, narwhals, belugas, underwater soundscapes, arctic soundscape, global warming, north Atlantic right whales, Susanna Blackwell, Roz Rolland, University of Washington Applied Physica Laboratory, oil spills, Arctic shipping routes, noise pollution, sonar, military sonar, black carbon, More-Than-Human-Kin, More Than Human KinComment