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Climate Crisis

Can You Hear the Earth Crying?: John Seed on PYP 617

How can we reverse environmental destruction and stop “sawing off the branch we’re sitting on”? Words of clarity and resolve (if not hope).

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We are the Great Turning: Jess Serrante on PYP 610

Do we pretend that everything’s fine, or give in to despair? Or is there a secret, third option?

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No Problem Too Big, Part 2: Touchstones: Dr Richard Hodge on PYP 597

To guide us in a complex world, we need touchstones of value. Indigenous knowledge systems can show us how.

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Is Your Garden Fertilizer an Animal Graveyard? Erin Riley on PYP 568

Erin Riley shares why we need to avoid commercial fertilizer – even most “organic” brands – if we aim to nurture an earth- and people- and animal-friendly home garden.

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How Palm Oil, Colonialism, and Greed Have Endangered the World: Jocelyn Zuckerman on PYP 543

In terms of human suffering and environmental destruction, there’s little that can compare to the global trade in palm oil. Today’s guest takes us on a hard yet vital journey of discovery and understanding.

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The Sounds of Life: Karen Bakker, PhD on PYP 542

Humans aren’t the only beings that talk to each other. Whales, elephants, bees, corals, unhatched turtles, and even plants and fungi use sound waves to connect and coordinate. Can we begin to understand them, and talk back?

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The Inner Work of Age: Dr Connie Zweig on PYP 541

Aging can be a hard ride, as we let go of everything that made us who we are. Or it can be an opportunity for spiritual growth as we drop roles in exchange for connection to our souls.

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Meat without Animals: Paul Shapiro on PYP 523

Humans will not stop eating and mistreating animals until animal-free meat is as delicious, convenient, and inexpensive as animal products. Today’s guest explains how that’s going to happen.

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Loving and Grieving the Bayou: Josh LaJaunie on Navigating Climate Change on PYP 511

Josh LaJaunie talks about his disappearing bayou and the personal heartbreak of climate change.

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The Only Sustainable Form of Wealth: Tyson Yunkaporta on PYP 494

How shall we live, on a boiling planet and enmeshed in a civilization that knows only how to use up and destroy all it encounters? Can we find meaning and healing in the shelter of each other, to bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old?

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