Best Tempest Collective Podcasts (2025)

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None of Your Business: Claiming Our Digital Privacy Rights, Reclaiming Democracy 30:15

13h ago30:15

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We plug into the real world Matrix – the digital Wild West of surveillance capitalism that dominates this Age of Information. Behind it is the unholy alliance between Big Tech and Big Brother. Privacy is the first casualty and democracy dies with it. Our guide is Cindy Cohn, director of Electronic Frontier Foundation, with her decades of experience…

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The Rising Anti-Monopoly Movement: Overcoming Economic Tyranny 30:15

8d ago30:15

30:15

Today, three to five giant corporations control up to 80% of almost every industry and marketplace. These monopolies depress wages, exploit workers, and decimate small businesses. Stacy Mitchell from the Institute for Local Self Reliance has been a leader in a growing anti-monopoly movement with a broad political base. Can this emerging movement – …

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Democracy v. Plutocracy: Breaking Up is Hard to Do 30:15

13d ago30:15

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From local communities and states to federal policy, antitrust movements to dismantle monopolies are challenging the system that can be summed up as: Make Feudalism Great Again. Although breaking up is hard to do, we’ve broken up monopolies before. In this second of our two-part program, we join Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell and Maurice BP-Weeks to…

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Democracy v. Plutocracy: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime 30:15

21d ago30:15

30:15

In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy that goes back to the very founding of the United States. The extreme concentration of corporate power and the prevalence of monopoly are indeed inarguable. If the solution is once again to throw the tea in the harbor, w…

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Who Is an American? Is Our Democracy as Unequal as Our Economy? 29:20

29d ago29:20

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By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a radical spike in hate crimes. In times of massive disruption and economic stress, what Carl Jung called the “shadow side of the psyche” comes into play: the pronounced psychological tendency in the collect…

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A Conversation with David Rothenberg 51:00

1M ago51:00

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Dive into a conversation between Bioneers senior producer J.P. Harpignies and David Rothenberg. David is a musician, composer, author, naturalist, philosopher, and an independent publisher. He’s been a unique and fascinating explorer of humanity’s connections to the natural world for more than four decades. ⁠Watch the video version of this conversa…

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When No News is Bad News: The Struggle to Save Local Journalism 30:15

1M ago30:15

30:15

The most critical feedback loop in a democracy is a free press and access to vital information. Yet decades of corporate consolidation allowed giant conglomerates to annihilate local news outlets and predatory hedge funds are leaving news deserts in their wake. In 2025, a fifth of people in the U.S. live with little or no access to local news and t…

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Raced and Classed: The Journey From Diversity to Equity 29:36

2M ago29:36

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What we do to each other, we do to the Earth. To protect our common home, we’re being called upon to bridge our differences to create beloved community and peaceful coexistence. A new generation of visionary change-makers is reframing the race conversation, and designing new tools to transform our unconscious biases and create justice. With: Racial…

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Staying Alive: Reconciling Nature, Culture and Gay Rights 30:15

2M ago30:15

30:15

As a backlash against LGBTQ rights escalates into an authoritarian crusade, acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby asks how we can still be fighting this battle? As a writer addressing the fossil fuel industry’s acceleration in the midst of climate chaos, Taylor is forced to choose between the existential crises of the assaults on nature…

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Nature’s Intelligence: Coming Down from the Pedestal 30:15

2M ago30:15

30:15

These days, scientists are starting to talk like shamans and shamans are starting to talk like scientists. So says anthropologist and author Jeremy Narby. And, he says, we need to talk about talking – because words matter. In this episode, Bioneers Senior Producer J.P. Harpignies speaks with Narby about how the very language and words we use reveal…

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Legalizing Nature’s Rights: How Tribal Nations are Leading the Fastest Growing Environmental Movement in History 30:15

2M ago30:15

30:15

The Rights of Nature movement launched internationally in 2006 and is growing fast. Driven primarily by tribes and citizen-led communities, more than three dozen cities, townships and counties across the U.S. have adopted such laws to create legally enforceable rights for ecosystems to exist, flourish, regenerate and evolve. Native American attorne…

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Declarations of Interdependence: A Story of Storytelling | Baratunde Thurston 30:15

3M ago30:15

30:15

Since time immemorial, storytellers have held an exalted role in human societies, because stories illustrate parables that help us make sense of the world and survive. In this episode, we hitch a ride with comedian, writer, futurist, technologist, and storyteller Baratunde Thurston. At this perilous existential threshold that will determine the fat…

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Why Equity is Good for Everyone: Changing the Story, Changing the World | john a. powell & Heather McGhee 29:58

3M ago29:58

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How do we change the story of corrosive racial inequity? First, we have to understand the stories we tell ourselves. In this program, racial justice innovators john a. powell and Heather McGhee show how empathy, honesty and the recognition of our common humanity can change the story to bridge the racial divides tearing humanity and the Earth apart.…

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No More Stolen Sisters: Stopping the Abuse and Murder of Native Women and Girls 29:15

3M ago29:15

29:15

In this program, powerful Native women leaders reveal the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and describe how they are taking action and building growing movements, including with non-Native allies. These stories are shocking, harrowing and heartbreaking. But then again, when your heart breaks, the cracks are where the light shines th…

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In honor of May Day 14:33

3M ago14:33

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By Tempest Collective

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Within and without? 12:43

3M ago12:43

12:43

By Tempest Collective

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The Charging Twenties: Now is the Time to Build a Solar-Powered Civilization 30:15

3M ago30:15

30:15

Visionary clean energy entrepreneur Danny Kennedy explores the promise and challenges of the epic civilizational transition to renewable energy. Without doubt, the shift has hit the fan, but will we make the transition in time to avert complete climate breakdown? Danny Kennedy says we can – and the real heroes will be millions of clean energy entre…

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Reflection on the January 1, 2025 Pasadena Rose Parade 10:42

3M ago10:42

10:42

By Tempest Collective

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We need to do this together 23:05

4M ago23:05

23:05

By Tempest Collective

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Lessons from the Quebec Amazon union campaign 22:19

4M ago22:19

22:19

By Tempest Collective

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Bioneers presents Future Ecologies: Sea / Garden 1:01:32

4M ago1:01:32

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We are sharing an episode from our friends at Future Ecologies. Future Ecologies is a podcast exploring our eco-social relationships through stories, science, music, and soundscapes. Every episode is an invitation to see the world in a new light — weaving together narrative and interviews with expert knowledge holders. We will be back next week wit…

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Union days, sweepin’ the clouds away 23:32

4M ago23:32

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By Tempest Collective

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Targeted Scholars, Targeted Institutions 1:49

4M ago1:49

1:49

By Tempest Collective

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Ukrainian anarchists fighting imperialism and building mutual aid in wartime 16:32

4M ago16:32

16:32

By Tempest Collective

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Radical Transparency: Mapping the Earth from the Ground to the Cloud 28:45

4M ago28:45

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New, democratized access to powerful analytical and mapping tools is transforming our understanding of the natural world – and with it, our ability to meaningfully conserve, protect and restore our collective home – the biosphere. In this program, we explore the boundless possibilities of digital maps and platforms with Rebecca Moore, visionary fou…

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For revolutionaries, the period must be defined by the international fight against the far right 29:22

4M ago29:22

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By Tempest Collective

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Free, Free Mahmoud Khalil! 17:55

4M ago17:55

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By Tempest Collective

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What is Trumpism now? 11:33

4M ago11:33

11:33

By Tempest Collective

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Urban Forests: A Nature-Based Solution to Climate Breakdown and Inequality 29:44

4M ago29:44

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Visionary urban planners and community organizers recognize that effectively addressing the climate crisis requires drawing down carbon out of the atmosphere and sequestering it back where it belongs in natural systems. Urban forestry is a nature-based solution that simultaneously addresses the parallel crises of climate change and wealth inequalit…

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The Nature of Language and the Language of Nature 32:23

5M ago32:23

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Over 7,000 languages are spoken around the world. Each one reflects a rich ecosystem of ideas - seeds that grow into a multitude of worldviews. Today, many of these immeasurably precious knowledge systems are endangered - often spoken by just a handful of people. We hear from two Indigenous language champions, Jeannette Armstrong and Rowen White. T…

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Ukraine solidarity under the Trump administration 6:54

5M ago6:54

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By Tempest Collective

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Scholasticide at the American Historical Association 11:47

5M ago11:47

11:47

By Tempest Collective

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So-called axis of resistance 33:25

5M ago33:25

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By Tempest Collective

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Beaver Believers: How to Restore Planet Water 29:36

5M ago29:36

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In this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the restoration of beavers offers ancient nature-based solutions to the tangle of challenges bedeviling human civilization. Droughts, floods, soil erosion, climate change, biodiversity loss – you name it, an…

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Seeing the Forest for the Trees 32:11

5M ago32:11

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We trek into the ancient old-growth forest where the trees reveal an ecological parable: A forest is a mightily interwoven community of diverse life that runs on symbiosis. With: Doctors Suzanne Simard and Teresa Ryan, ecologists whose work has helped reveal an elaborate tapestry of kinship, cooperation and mutual aid. This is an episode of Nature’…

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Immigrants Are Leaders in Our Class Struggle 13:54

5M ago13:54

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By Tempest Collective

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Imperial poison in Russian politics 19:37

5M ago19:37

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By Tempest Collective

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Solidarity with Professor Joseph Daher 4:00

5M ago4:00

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By Tempest Collective

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A review of Palestine and Marxism 18:23

5M ago18:23

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By Tempest Collective

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Campus policing today 16:43

5M ago16:43

16:43

By Tempest Collective

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Nature's Genius: A Bioneers Podcast Series 3:19

5M ago3:19

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Nature’s Genius is a Bioneers podcast series exploring how the sentient symphony of life holds the solutions we need to balance human civilization with living systems. For all the talk about the Age of Information, what we’re really entering is the Age of Nature. As we face the reality that, as humans, we have the capacity to destroy the conditions…

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The Universe Beneath Our Feet: Mapping the Mycelial Web of Life 33:05

5M ago33:05

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Imagine an underground web of mind-boggling complexity, a bustling cosmopolis beneath your feet. Quadrillions of miles of tiny threads in the soil pulsate with real-time messages, trade vital nutrients, and form life-giving symbiotic partnerships. This is the mysterious realm of fungi. Acclaimed visionary biologists Toby Kiers and Merlin Sheldrake …

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What Does Water Want? 30:00

5M ago30:00

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Water makes life possible. From the tiniest bacteria to the tallest tree, every living thing relies on this irreplaceable substance. Erica Gies, author of “Water Always Wins,” explores water’s unique role in the web of life, and how we might repair and reshape our relationship with it. Rather than telling water what to do, maybe we should start by …

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Deep Listening: Whale Culture, Interspecies Communication, and Knowing Your Place 30:15

6M ago30:15

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Dr. Shane Gero, a visionary marine biologist, is angling to crack the code of sperm whale communication. His mind-bending research is transforming what we thought we knew about these ancient leviathans. It’s calling on us to embrace the reality that perhaps we’ve long suspected: Sperm whales are living meaningful, intelligent and complex lives whos…

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Black Food: Liberation, Food Justice and Stewardship | Karen Washington & Bryant Terry 30:15

6M ago30:15

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The influences of Africans and Black Americans on food and agriculture is rooted in ancestral African knowledge and traditions of shared labor, worker co-ops and botanical polycultures. In this episode, we hear from Karen Washington and Bryant Terry on how Black Food culture is weaving the threads of a rich African agricultural heritage with the li…

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Re-Weaving the Web of Belonging 30:15

6M ago30:15

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As author Michael Pollan observes: “The two biggest crises humanity faces today are tribalism and the environmental crisis. They both involve the objectifying of the other – whether that other is nature or other people.” How do we re-weave that web of relationships, and focus on our likenesses rather than our differences? In this program, racial ju…

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Saving Nature Means Saving Ourselves | Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant 30:15

6M ago30:15

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Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant shares her personal odyssey as a wildlife ecologist, conservation biologist and co-host of the famed TV nature show “Wild Kingdom.” As a scientist dedicated to protecting and conserving the diversity of the web of life, she reminds us that, as human beings, we are part of nature. It’s all connected, and it’s high time to bring ab…

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DSA never recovered from Bowman 11:57

7M ago11:57

11:57

By Tempest Collective

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Social Medicine: Restoring Public Health by Changing Society | Dr. Rupa Marya 30:15

7M ago30:15

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We are told that our personal health is our individual responsibility based on our own choices. Yet, the biological truth is that human health is dependent upon the health of nature’s ecosystems and our social structures. Decisions that negatively affect these larger systems and eventually affect us are made without our consent as citizens and, oft…

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Designing for a Regenerative Future: What’s Love Got to Do with It? | Jason F. McLennan 30:15

7M ago30:15

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What would it feel like to live in a world where our built environment was as elegant as nature's designs? What if our living and working spaces nurtured our human communities and quality of life? Architect and designer Jason F. McLennan takes the revolution from the heart of nature and the human heart into our built environment. He is shifting the…

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