WILD ROOTS

It is clear that "human nature" has evolved into a pattern of misuse, neglect and destruction of the natural world. Human Nature Projects was developed with a mission to re-prioritize our agenda as human beings. Through connection, curiosity, creativity and collaboration we can work together to protect the Earth's amazing biodiversity.

LINKS:
Elliot Connor
Human Nature Projects

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Those who have the authority to enforce noise ordinances are often unsympathetic or unresponsive, making noise ordinances completely ineffective. Join me in a discussion with renowned writer/author David Owen of the effects of noise exposure on the environment and our health.

LINKS:

Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World (BOOK)
David Owen's Biography
David's Latest Works

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We speak about one woman's courageous decision to leave behind an unwholesome industry, deeply embedded in American tradition. As well as her decision to write openly about her experiences.

Laura Jean Schneider reflects on this harmful industry and how the demand it's product, beef and leather, continues to carry damaging consequences for the welfare of animals, human health and our global ecosystems. She considers the industry's morally questionable and often violent culture, connecting it's practices to degrading habitats, threats to native wildlife and much more.

LINKS:
Laura Jean Schneider
LJ’s High Country News Article

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In this episode, we have the great pleasure of speaking with award-winning journalist, Stephen Leahy about the use of neonics, extremely harmful pesticides used in industrialized agriculture.

We discuss how the most widely used pesticides pervasively contaminate our environment, threaten wildlife and put our global food supply at risk.

All of life hangs in the balance upon a greater web. Evidence to our broken web of life hides in plain sight (and sound).

LINKS:
Stephen Leahy
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Humans are not equipped to recognize urban environments as something that makes sense… Basically even though humans may appear adjusted to urbanization, evolutionarily our brains haven’t caught up with more natural or healthy responses to such prevalent environments. To our animal brains, these environments just don't make sense and may actually be harmful for urban dwellers.

In this episode of Wild Roots, we speak with Dr. Ian Frampton, an Exeter University psychologist about these significant findings and what we can do to make sense of our struggling brains.

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This incredible story of resiliency is one that can be learned from worldwide! Akagera National Park has become one of the most renowned ecological recovery stories. Efforts to restore its natural wonders defied the odds and has placed this park in high recognition. Supported by African Parks, Akagera National Park is conservation at its finest.

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In this episode we speak with the organizing director of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) as well as members of their executive committee about the importance of and efforts towards establishing rights of nature laws. Join us in honoring the recognition that Nature too, has rights.

LINKS:
Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)
WildRoots Patreon

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There is something very special hidden beneath our feet... A life-giving component of this planet, too often ignored yet crucial to our existence and survival. In this episode we discuss this amazing life-giving source with renewed reverence with returning guest and author, Paul Bogard. His book "The Ground Beneath Us" reveals to us the hidden truths that lie beneath our feet everyday and truly puts into perspective the multiple threats that kill millions of species that make up this breathing source of life.

The Ground Beneath Us by Paul Bogard

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We speak with Michael Dax, the New Mexico Representative for Defenders of Wildlife in Santa Fe about the Wildlife Corridors Act. Michael was instrumental in helping to pass legislation in the New Mexico Legislature to establish and protect wildlife corridors, and has been deeply involved in legislative efforts to modernize wildlife management in the state.

Before moving to New Mexico, Michael has worked in the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Parks as a trail groomer and tour guide. Michael also earned a master’s degree in environmental history from the University of Montana where he began work on his book, Grizzly West, which focuses on the attempt to reintroduce grizzly bears to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in Montana and Idaho.

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LINKS:
New Mexico’s Wildlife Corridors Act: A path toward success (Rewilding.org article written by Michael Dax)
Support The Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act
Grizzly West (Michael's Book)

Striving towards a model of economics that serves not only human needs, but Nature as well! Donnie Maclurcan holds a PhD in Social Science and is the facilitator of the Post-Growth Institute. Not only is our current system of economics bad for the environment and for the planet, it is bad for people as well. In this episode we discuss his research and vision for a sustainable model of economics in which we all can truly thrive.

Website: Post-Growth Institute
Book: How On Earth
A 90-Minute Practic for Cultivating a Post-Growth Economy

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