Unlearn & Rewild
Environment
This weekly hour-long program is a forum for powerful conversations with the philosophers, scientists, activists, healers, artists and others who are leading the movements to restore our beleaguered planet to its natural balance. The show deals with the most urgent questions facing the next generation of Earth stewards. How do we reverse ecological damages and create a culture of regeneration? How do we confront the psychological challenges of an uncertain future, while healing the age-old wounds of alienation from nature?
Location:
Mendocino, CA
Description:
This weekly hour-long program is a forum for powerful conversations with the philosophers, scientists, activists, healers, artists and others who are leading the movements to restore our beleaguered planet to its natural balance. The show deals with the most urgent questions facing the next generation of Earth stewards. How do we reverse ecological damages and create a culture of regeneration? How do we confront the psychological challenges of an uncertain future, while healing the age-old wounds of alienation from nature?
Language:
English
Website:
http://www.unlearnandrewild.org/
Episodes
InTheField: KASYYAHGEI on the Law of the Land /149
12/13/2019
Duration:01:11:51
LYLA JUNE on Lifting Hearts Off the Ground /147
11/28/2019
Lyla June returns to For The Wild bearing poems that imbue the rigid language of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) with embodied story and prayer. Lyla reminds us that when we yearn to truly speak the language of life, love and healing, we must turn to poetry. Lyla and co-creator Joy De Vito’s collection Lifting Hearts Off the Ground: Declaring Indigenous Rights in Poetry grounds the 46 articles of the UNDRIP in the lived experiences, languages and traditions...
Duration:00:59:59
Reshaping the Landscape of Conservation Media at JACKSON WILD /146
11/27/2019
Journey with us this week to Jackson Wild Summit, an annual convergence of filmmakers, conservationists, scientists and innovators exploring critical conservation and environmental issues. Within this rich overlap, we seek to ask meaningful questions that crack open the dominant paradigm of conservation. As media makers, how can we responsibly tell stories of people and place in service of greater reconnection and mobilization? Where are we failing to show up with integrity and address...
TAMO CAMPOS on Radical Responsibility /146
11/20/2019
This week For The Wild is joined by Tamo Campos, extreme snowboarder, youth facilitator, and filmmaker, to discuss a myriad of topics from warming winters, the outdoor sports industry, community building, fish farming, and many of the stories told in Beyond Boarding’s film, The Radicals. We begin our conversation with Tamo looking at the narrative around outdoor recreation and the privileges many of us hold, as an entry point into how we can change our relationship with the mountains,...
Duration:04:45:22
PAVINI MORAY on Unlocking Eros and Sacred Reciprocity ⌠PART 2⌡ /145
11/13/2019
In Part Two of our conversation with Pavini Moray, we continue to trace the river of eros, sensation, and spirit that flows through our ancestral lineages and portals of the everyday. Turning inwards, we ask what must be animated within the self to show up for the places and beings we love? Beyond this, what intuitive sensibilities and knowledges yearn to be reawakened in order to receive? At the heart of this episode’s inquiry into relationship and reciprocity lie emergent lessons for...
Duration:03:20:58
PAVINI MORAY on Alchemizing Trauma and Ancestral Healing ⌠PART 1⌡ /144
11/8/2019
This week, we are savoring in the delight of slowing down and wading into the generative waters of free-flowing eros, healing, pleasure, and embodiment. In a culture of severance and disconnection, how can we collectively move towards inhabiting our bodies and experiences on Earth in a way that is whole, visceral, and pleasurable? What might the winding path of lineage repair and ancestral reverence offer in the here and now? In this week’s episode, Pavini Moray holds a wide container for...
JADE BEGAY & JULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT on Restorying Power for a Just Transition /143
10/31/2019
Last October, the IPCC reported that we must cut global emissions in half by 2030 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Faced with the enormous task of decarbonizing our economies and radically transforming nearly all systems of life, we must dream into new and ancient futures. At the heart of this calling for transition lies evermore urgent questions of justice: How will power and resources be distributed? Whose voices will be represented and needs prioritized? Join us with Jade Begay...
Duration:05:23:14
JADE BEGAY & JULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT on Restorying Power for a Just Transition /143
10/30/2019
Ayana, Julian, and Jade unpack the Green New Deal policy proposal, explore the creative potential of media and narrative production, and replant the seed of tending community power.
SEFRA ALEXANDRA on Seed Remembrance /142
10/23/2019
Sefra Alexandra is “on the hunt to preserve the biodiversity of our earth,” and with over 90% of vegetable varieties already extinct, safeguarding remaining seeds is serious work. Preserving global seed diversity is both deeply important to maintaining our seed stewarding lineages and offering a means of community and self-facilitated resilience amidst a changing climate. We are honored to have Sefra join For The Wild on this episode as we explore seed as ancient embryo and listen to the...
Duration:03:42:44
ELSA SEBASTIAN on Loving the Last Stands of the Tongass /141
10/16/2019
The Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska is the largest temperate rainforest left in the world and it is under attack. Wrapping around 11,000 miles of coastline, this land is the unceded territory of the Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian peoples and home to precious wild salmon, towering ancient old-growth trees, and endangered wildlife species like the Alexander Archipelago wolf. Stretching 17 million acres, the Tongass holds some of the most pristine and productive estuaries still...
brontë velez on The Necessity of Beauty ⌠PART 2⌡ /140
10/9/2019
This week, in Part Two of our episode with brontë velez, we dive into the capacity for pleasure amidst times of great uncertainty and historical oppression. What does “pleasure in the apocalypse” mean? How might this conversation take on different meanings depending on whether we are talking about climate change as an abstraction versus the current lived experience of planetary uncertainty? As brontë defines it, pleasure is what makes us come alive, so how can we create a culture that is...
Duration:03:46:55
brontë velez on The Pleasurable Surrender of White Supremacy ⌠PART 1⌡ /139
10/2/2019
brontë velez opens this week’s episode inviting us to think about how supremacy’s submission to Earth is an invitation into a more life-affirming world. What does a future look like in which white, human, and patriarchal supremacy surrender their power in an act of pleasure? How does this release manifest and what spaces must we create in order to allow it? How can our own personal play aid us in these times? This week on For The Wild, we explore how playing with submission and domination...
Duration:04:03:03
THE BUREAU of LINGUISTICAL REALITY on Seeding New Language /138
9/25/2019
Places with the richest biodiversity are also home to the greatest diversity of languages left in the world. As these remaining sanctuaries come under threat from climate disaster and resource expansion, we risk losing Indigenous languages that are alive and attuned to their homelands, and contain unparalleled ecological knowledge essential to healing the earth. Meanwhile, for those of us who learned to speak a dominant language like English, our tongues carry the legacy of colonialism,...
Duration:01:14:44
RAJ PATEL on Cheapness in the Age of Capitalism /137
9/18/2019
This week, For The Wild is joined by Raj Patel, co-author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, which traces the historical origins of capitalism and the making of “cheapness.” Jason W. Moore and Raj write, “Cheap is a strategy, a practice, a violence that mobilizes all kinds of work—human and animal, botanical and geological—with as little compensation as possible.” The cheapness that marks our everyday experiences and transactions in a capitalist world isn’t natural or...
Duration:03:45:10
COREY LESK on Warming Winters and Southern Pine Beetle Migration /136
9/11/2019
Across so-called North America, pine forests are rapidly changing as southern pine beetles expand into areas they would have otherwise never known. Our guest this week, Corey Lesk not only explains the phenomena of migrating southern pine beetles and their drastic impact on pine forest communities but also directly links this change as a by-product of our rampant consumerism and capitalist system. The southern pine beetle is often noted as one of the most destructive forest insects, as they...
Duration:03:50:04
PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA on Finding Uncommon Ground /135
9/4/2019
The Isle of Éire (Ireland) is rich with stories held by the land, both ancient and modern, laden with fierce culture and colonial violence. Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama perceives these complex layers of history with acute insights into the lingering impacts of imperialism and sectarianism that have divided Ireland. By acknowledging deeply rooted cultural pain, Pádraig calls for Irish, English, and the rest of us to heal by reckoning with the past and embracing the creative potential...
Duration:01:08:02
RICHIE RESEDA on Dismantling Patriarchy /134
8/28/2019
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Duration:01:03:14
TARA HOUSKA & RUTH BREECH on Divesting from Toxic Capitalism /133
8/21/2019
Climate disaster is unfolding before our eyes every day, and yet banks have poured $1.9 trillion into maintaining and expanding the fossil fuel industry since the Paris Agreement was adopted. These investments prop up a dying trade while destroying our slim chance to stabilize global temperatures at a rise of 1.5°C. Around the world, banks are complicit in funding climate change and violating the rights of Indigenous peoples, humans, and Nature through their direct ties to the most extreme...
Duration:03:36:33
RACHEL HEATON & ROXANNE WHITE on Funding, Fossil Fuels and Femicide /132
8/14/2019
This week’s episode seeks to shed light on the ongoing, urgent crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls or MMIWG that remains largely invisible in public life and mainstream media. In 2016, The National Crime Information Center reported that there were 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls, though the US Department of Justice’s federal missing persons database, NamUs, only logged 116 cases. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention...
Duration:05:03:40