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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Batteries Made From Plants?: Virginia Klausmeier on PYP 490
Can plant-based batteries combat planetary overheating and help save the world? Today’s guest is betting yes.
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Civil Disobedience, Groundwater, and Defending a Living Planet: Skye-Anne Tschoepe on PYP 488
Skye-Anne Tschoepe is an environmental scientist and activist who’s not afraid of getting arrested for her beliefs. Here’s her story.
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