True Privilege is Growing Up in a Low-Trauma Environment: Momma Kai Sanders on PYP 566
Momma Kai returns to the podcast to share her vision for a world without poverty or homelessness.
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Kindness as a Strategy for Revolutionary Change: Teju Ravilochan on PYP 565
Is there real, revolutionary power in kindness and compassion in a “might-makes-right” world? Here’s a story that will blow your mind.
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Helping the Unhoused – and Homeless – Move From Poverty to Prosperity: Momma Kai Sanders on PYP 562
How can we end homelessness? Unhoused activist and visionary Momma Kai shares her experiences and solutions.
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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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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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Building Multi-Faith Community Through Music: James Pollard Jr. and Harold Messinger on PYP 486
Can music bridge the gaps that divide communities? Can we sing and play together and rediscover our common humanity and deep caring for one another? Cantor Harold Messinger and James Pollard Jr. have been conducting a music “Faith Gumbo” in Philadelphia for the past 13 years. I hope their bright spirits and loving hearts will inspire you.
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Hurricane Ida – appeal for immediate funds by Josh LaJaunie: PYP 480
Sick to Fit coauthor Josh LaJaunie and his family are trying to help their friends, neighbors, and community – many of whom have lost everything, and have no access to food and water, fuel, electricity, or transportation.
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A World in Which We All Belong: Teju Ravilochan on PYP 467
Teju Ravilochan is an entrepreneur who sees problems and envisions grand communal solutions. From the Unreasonable Institute (now Uncharted.org), which he founded, to GatherFor.org, a community based mutual aid accelerator borne from the pandemic), he brings people together to solve problems and explore possibilities.
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Civilization as a Self-Terminating Algorithm: Tyson Yunkaporta on PYP 436
Tyson Yunkaporta is an Australian Aboriginal artist, philosopher, and researcher who lectures on Indigenous Knowledge at Deakin University in Melbourne. He’s also the author of Sand Talk, a book that has influenced my thinking more profoundly than any other.
Basically, Yunkaporta turns the lens of anthropology around and puts Western civilization under the microscope, showing us how insane and unsustainable the entire project is.
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How Our Communities Can Get Healthy at Last:
Eric Adams on PYP 432
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, Healthy at Last. Part family memoir, part political mission statement, part science review, part self-help book, and part cookbook, this is a celebration of the possibilities of health for the American people in general, and the Black community in particular.…
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