Reviving Biological and Cultural Diversity
The following podcast is brought to you courtesy of A World of Possibilities and The Mainstream Media Project.
The mechanistic world view that has dominated Western thinking has much to learn from healthy, well-balanced biological systems, as well as from indigenous cultures that have a symbiotic relationship with their environment. This weeks show was recorded at a major international conference on biocultural diversity held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in April 2008.
Guests:
Rick Step, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, US
Tero Mustonen, and Vyacheslav Shadrin, The Snowchange Cooperative, Finland; Head, Yukaghir Elders Council
Gary Paul Napham, Founder, Renewing Americas Food Traditions, Southwest Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, US
Alejandro Argumendo, Founding Member and Co-Chair, Call of the Earth Steering Committee, Cusco, Peru
Eleanor Sterling, Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, US
Jules Pretty, Professor of Environment and Society, University of Essex, UK
(Click on a guest’s name to listen to their full unedited interview.)
Credits:
Host: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer: Gregg McVicar
Associate Producers: Naihma Deady, Matt Fidler
Production Engineer: Michael Schwartz
Field Engineers: Jon Kalish, Neil Harvey
Music in this program: open – “Cry of the Forest” by Cha-das-ska-dum Which-ta-lum – Soundings of the Planet; “Flametop Green” by Daniel Lanois – Anti Records; “A United Earth I” by Alan Stivell and Yousou N’Dour – Putamayo World Music; “The Sound is Fading” by Robbie Robertson – Capitol Records; “@ Ley” by Gjallarhorn – Vindauga Music Ltd.; “Juju In Those Strings (Big Mind Ambient Remix” by Eccodek – Festival Distribution Inc.
Funding: The Christensen Fund
Duration: 55:00 minutes
