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Building Healthy Hives with Marla Spivak

Marla Spivak, a bee lover, bee researcher, and MacArthur Genius shows Majora that there's more to the honeybee than honey.

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Reinventing the Farm with Cheryl Rogowski

Cheryl Rogowski, a fourth-generation farmer and the first farmer to win a MacArthur 'Genius' Award, gives us all some food for thought.

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Wes Jackson

For the first half of his career, Wes Jackson was an academic. At 41, he was a tenured professor at California State University, establishing one of...

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Pedro Sanchez

Growing up in Cuba, young Pedro Sanchez's life was all planned out - he was going to follow his father's footsteps, by studying at Cornell and...

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Cheryl Rogowski

Where does our food come from? Since we pay close attention to so many aspects of food in the holiday season, host Majora Carter visits the northern...

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Marla Spivak

When you sit down at your holiday table, thank a bee. A third of the food on your plate is made possible by these pollinators, whose numbers are...

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Carl Safina

Carl Safina fell in love with birds first. As a child, he bred pigeons, and as a young ecologist, he worked to protect wild birds that he called "...

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Baldemar Velásquez

Growing up in a family of migrant farmworkers, Baldemar Velásquez spent his childhood in the fields, planting, weeding, and harvesting crops like...

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Sharon Hanshaw

When Hurricane Katrina hit East Biloxi, Mississippi, it destroyed Sharon Hanshaw’s home and the hairdressing business she had built over a lifetime....

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Wilma Subra

Chemist Wilma Subra has spent her career defending local communities against Louisiana’s powerful oil and gas industry. She received a MacArthur...

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Building Healthy Hives with Marla Spivak

Marla Spivak, a bee lover, bee researcher, and MacArthur Genius shows Majora that there's more to the honeybee than honey.

more download listen

digital short

Reinventing the Farm with Cheryl Rogowski

Cheryl Rogowski, a fourth-generation farmer and the first farmer to win a MacArthur 'Genius' Award, gives us all some food for thought.

more download listen

digital short

Wes Jackson

For the first half of his career, Wes Jackson was an academic. At 41, he was a tenured professor at California State University, establishing one of...

more download listen

digital short

Pedro Sanchez

Growing up in Cuba, young Pedro Sanchez's life was all planned out - he was going to follow his father's footsteps, by studying at Cornell and...

more download listen

digital short

Carl Safina

Carl Safina fell in love with birds first. As a child, he bred pigeons, and as a young ecologist, he worked to protect wild birds that he called "...

more download listen

digital short

Baldemar Velásquez

Growing up in a family of migrant farmworkers, Baldemar Velásquez spent his childhood in the fields, planting, weeding, and harvesting crops like...

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Walking the Walk with John Francis

John Francis spent decades of his life walking across continents, carrying a backpack, a banjo, and a message of respect for the earth. He takes host...

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Seeing Sweet Possibilities in Weeds

Brenda Palms Barber, the force behind a transitional jobs program that employs ex-offendors to make honey, shows Majora the view from her office...

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Conquering Fears in Yosemite

Leaders can emerge in surprising places, as host Majora Carter found out when she went to Yosemite National Park and crawled through a cave with...

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Climbing into the Canopy

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Cheryl Rogowski

Where does our food come from? Since we pay close attention to so many aspects of food in the holiday season, host Majora Carter visits the northern...

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full episode

Marla Spivak

When you sit down at your holiday table, thank a bee. A third of the food on your plate is made possible by these pollinators, whose numbers are...

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full episode

Sharon Hanshaw

When Hurricane Katrina hit East Biloxi, Mississippi, it destroyed Sharon Hanshaw’s home and the hairdressing business she had built over a lifetime....

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full episode

Wilma Subra

Chemist Wilma Subra has spent her career defending local communities against Louisiana’s powerful oil and gas industry. She received a MacArthur...

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full episode

Reimagining a Way of Life

Vietnamese American fisherfolk in the Gulf region are trying to rebuild their lives — opening sustainable farms, gas stations, nail salons, and...

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Nat Turner

For Nat Turner, garden rakes and shovels are tools for transformation. He's transformed an old store in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward into an urban...

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Kyshun Webster

Dr. Kyshun Webster is a man who gets things done. And before that, he was a kid who got things done. Now the founder and executive director of...

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Winona LaDuke

Outspoken, engaging, and unflaggingly dedicated to matters of ecological sustainability, Winona LaDuke introduces host Majora to the pine forests,...

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John Francis

Decades ago, in response to an oil spill off the coast of California, John Francis made a vow to give up riding in motor vehicles, and stepped out on...

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Brenda Palms Barber

Brenda Palms Barber wasn’t always drawn to beekeeping. But her quest to find work for residents of Chicago’s economically disadvantaged North...

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