We’re entering a new season of our Nature’s Genius podcast series, and the questions are getting even bigger.
Season 2 of Nature's Genius continues our exploration of intelligence inherent in nature. We team up with some of the world’s leading scientists, legal scholars, and innovators to learn how they are reorganizing human systems to integrate and emulate the living ecological systems we all depend on. We’re venturing into more wild and fascinating terrain: plant consciousness, expanding legal rights to more than humans, restoring living systems through dam removal, a model for regenerative food systems centered on raising chickens, biomimicry’s design revolution, and the audacious effort to decode sperm whale communication. |
|
Be the first to find out when new episodes are released! Subscribe to the Bioneers Podcast on your favorite podcast platform. Apple | Spotify | Youtube | Soundcloud | Amazon Music | Castbox | Pocketcast |
|
|
In our first episode, now live, we begin with a provocative question: What if plants are conscious?
Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear from Indigenous leaders, legal scholars, agricultural innovators, marine scientists, and biomimicry trailblazers, all helping us reimagine our place within the sentient symphony of life.
Be sure to subscribe to the Bioneers podcast to get alerts about Nature’s Genius!
Learn more about each episode of Nature’s Genius Season 2 below.
Nature’s Genius was produced by Bioneers in collaboration with Catherine Edwards, an award-winning audio producer and writer with 10+ years of experience creating programs focused on science, health and technology. |
|
NOW LIVE! What if Plants Are Conscious? with Rachael Petersen
Plants make up over 80% of life on Earth. No animal would exist without plants’ ultimate magic trick of turning sunlight into food. Today, scientists are unearthing a wild, weird world of vegetal genius. But how can we truly understand beings so radically different from ourselves? We consider the emerging science of plants from the vantage points of philosophy and ethics, with Harvard scholar Rachael Petersen.
|
|
|
More Than Human Rights with César Rodríguez-Garavito
There is mounting scientific evidence that nature is replete with intelligence, and that diverse earthly organisms have characteristics associated with personhood. Yet in law, while a corporation is considered a person, nature rarely is. What if we expand the anthropocentric boundaries of our systems of laws, rights and responsibilities to encompass ALL living beings? How would this new legal story affect our relationship with our vast other-than-human Earth family? We imagine a planet with rights for all with lawyer César Rodríguez-Garavito.
COMING SOON! |
|
|
Reconnecting the River with Amy Cordalis
Yurok Attorney Amy Cordalis is one of many Indigenous leaders who have fought for the un-damming and healing of the majestic Klamath River Basin, spanning Oregon and California. She tells the story of the decades-long struggle to remove dams that have choked the life flow of the river and severed salmon migratory routes, and how a combination of traditional ecological knowledge, environmental law, and old-fashioned diplomacy helped remove 4 of 6 dams and ushered in a $515 million settlement agreement to restore the river and riparian lands.
COMING SOON! |
|
|
How the Chicken Crossed the Road to Build a Regenerative Food System with Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin
Visionary agricultural innovator Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin unearths a startling natural-world template for building a global movement that puts the chicken at the heart of bioregional food systems. These Poultry-Centered Regenerative Agroforestry farms can both renew the land and ultimately support the hundreds of millions of small farmers who produce 70% of the world’s food.
COMING SOON! |
|
|
How Would Nature Do It? with Janine Benyus
Mother Nature is the ultimate designer. After all, since life first emerged on Earth, she’s had 3.8 billion years of evolutionary R&D to get it right. Biomimicry is the art and science of learning from this ineffable genius: tapping into the patterns of nature to live harmoniously with life’s principles. Janine Benyus, co-founder of the Biomimicry Institute, is known as the “godmother of modern biomimicry.” She shares her journey in this flourishing field of design innovation guided by nature’s genius.
COMING SOON! |
|
|
The Quest to Decode Whale Speak with David Gruber
Talking and listening to other animals is a shared experience across humanity—intuitive to anyone who has ever conversed with their pet. Researchers have struck up conversations with chimps and parrots, and revealed language-like qualities in bee dances and meerkat calls. However, translating other animals’ communication is a formidable endeavor – and there’s the question of whether it really constitutes language. Marine biologist David Gruber and his team at Project CETI, the Cetacean Translation Initiative, are tackling a mind-bending challenge: to crack the code of sperm whale communication.
COMING SOON! |
|
|
| Do you know people who might enjoy reading this? Please share it with them! |
|
|
|
