Bioneers: Food Justice Podcast
1) Sustainable Solutions Over Centuries | Dune Lankard
Unlike in the lower 48 states, Alaska Natives were not corralled into circumscribed reservations, but rather became incorporated into the Native Claims Settlement Act, making them shareholders of thei...Show More
2) The Color of Sustainability | LaDonna Redmond
LaDonna Redmond tells her very personal story of searching for answers in her struggle with her son's food allergies and finding a need for the African-American voice in the food and farming industry....Show More
3) Seeds The Creator Gave Us | Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke, the renowned indigenous rights leader and two-time Green Party U.S. Vice Presidential candidate highlights the struggles of indigenous peoples to protect their food sovereignty, restore...Show More
4) Millions of Acres: Young Agrarians Needed | Severine v T Fleming
In the next 20 years, farmland ownership will shift on a continental scale—400 million acres, yet 70% of American farmland is owned by people 65 and older. How can we help young, motivated agrarians s...Show More
5) Fighting for Justice for Farmworkers | Lucas Benitez
In this dramatic depiction from the front lines, farmworker organizer Lucas Benitez sheds light on the most unsung heroes of the food system: exploited farm workers. He portrays the protracted road to...Show More
6) Betting the Farm | J.L. Chestnut
The number of Black Farmers has declined dramatically in the last 100 years and the USDA's racist lending practices hastened that decline. J.L. Chestnut, the chief attorney for the Black Farmers class...Show More
7) An Unreasonable Woman: Unreasonableness and Where It Gets You | Diane Wilson
The legendary shrimper and fearless activist Diane Wilson celebrated the release of her action-packed autobiography An Unreasonable Woman, by discussing her civil disobedience against Union Carbide in...Show More
An Unreasonable Woman: Unreasonableness and Where It Gets You | Diane Wilson
16:24 | Mar 22nd, 2016
8) The Real Food Challenge | Anim Steel
Food organizer Anim Steel asks us to imagine a dark holding cell in Ghana and the iron gate through which millions of slaves passed before being forced into the hold of a waiting ship. The gate repres...Show More
9) You Are Where You Eat: Growing Urban Food | Wil Bullock
Access to healthy food reduces the risk of disease. White neighborhoods have, on average, five times as many supermarkets as Black neighborhoods. The Food Project in Boston engages inner-city youth in...Show More
10) Organic and Beyond: Paradigm for a New Food Future | Andrew Kimbrell
One of the most penetrating critics of technological abuses, this leading lawyer-activist for local and sustainable food takes on the destructive and toxic system of industrial agriculture. Author of ...Show More