Resistance Radio

Joan Maloof, Professor Emeritus of biology and environmental studies at Salisbury University, founded the Old-Growth Forest Network to preserve, protect and promote the country's few remaining stands of old-growth forest. She spends her time lecturing, writing, visiting forests, assisting private landowners, and supporting local groups trying to protect community forests from development. She is the author of four books about trees and forests.

George Wuerthner. He is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild. Today we talk about arctic grayling.

Michael Kellett is executive director of the New England nonprofit organization, RESTORE: The North Woods, which he co-founded in 1992. He has been involved in national park, wilderness, public land, and endangered species issues for more than 30 years. In 1994, he developed the proposal for a 3.2-million-acre Maine Woods National Park, which laid the groundwork for the 2016 designation by President Obama of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. In Massachusetts, he has worked to protect Walden Woods and Henry David Thoreau's birthplace, and helped to develop legislation introduced in 2019, which would protect state conservation lands from logging and other development.

Jeff Gibbs, is the director, writer, and producer of “Planet of the Humans" and was co-producer of “Bowling for Columbine” and “Fahrenheit 9/11.” He was born in Flint, Michigan.

G.A. Bradshaw is the founder and director of the Kerulos Center for Nonviolence (www.kerulos.org). She holds doctorate degrees in ecology and psychology and a master’s in geophysics and is the author of Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity (Yale University Press, 2009) and Carnivore Minds: Who these Fearsome Animals Really Are (Yale University Press, 2017). Her new book is Talking With Bears: Conversations With Charlie Russel (Rocky Mountain Books).

Caitlin Roper is a feminist activist, writer and PhD candidate. She is also campaigns manager for Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, a grassroots campaigning movement challenging the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls in media, advertising and popular culture.

Boris Forkel is a radical environmentalist, social rights activist and subsistence farmer. With the books he publishes with his small press BabylonApocalypse he wants to inspire and encourage dissidents to break through an increasingly narrow public discourse and spread the seeds of decisive resistance and radical social change.

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and the author of more than ninety technical papers and fourteen books, including Science Set Free. After studying at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, he worked in Hyderabad, India, as principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, and lived for two years in the Benedictine ashram of Father Bede Grifï¬ ths. From 2005 to 2010, he was director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Dartington, Devon, UK. He lives in London with his wife Jill Purce, with whom he has two sons. His new book is Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work. His website is Sheldrake.org

Rebecca Wildbear is a river and soul guide who helps people tune in to the mysteries that live within the Earth community, dreams, and their own wild Nature, so they may live a life of creative service. She has been a guide with Animas Valley Institute since 2006 and is author of the forthcoming book, Playing & Praying: Soul Stories to Inspire Personal & Planetary Transformation. She also created Wild Yoga, a practice of worship, veneration, and advocacy for Earth.

Rom Whitaker was born in New York City and came to India when he was seven. He is a herpetologist with hundreds of publications and co-founder of the Madras Snake Park, Andaman and Nicobar Environment Trust (ANET), and the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust. In 1984 Whitaker won a Rolex Award for Enterprise for starting a snake venom Cooperative for Irula tribals and again in 2008 for his efforts to create a network of rainforest research stations throughout India. In 2005 he was the winner of a Whitley Award to found the Agumbe Rainforest Research Station in Karnataka, for the study of King Cobras and their habitat. To spread his messages Whitaker has made 30 documentaries for channels such as Nat Geo, BBC and Animal Planet and a children's feature film. For his work in wildlife conservation, he received the Government of India's Padma Shri Award in 2018.