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Conscious

There are quintillions of insects in our world. Some are harmful to humans, but most are not. In fact, most insects provide vital ecosystem “services”, such as pollination of food crops and decomposition of animal and other wastes. 
They provide food for other insects and for birds and even humans. They give us silk, wax, and other products and they have inspired us to come up with practical and important inventions. 
This is just some of what entomologist and author Barrett Klein details in his beautifully written and illustrated book, The Insect Epiphany.

Mothering Earth-126-Insect Epiphany

Students will sing about the three different states of water in this hit from the Learning Thru Music: Science Notes library. Included in the download from the Learning Thru Music Teachers Pay Teachers store is the instrumental version of the song along with activities and assessments to further the students' understanding of how water can exist in different states.


Science Notes

The State of Water

This upbeat, country-inspired hit from the Learning Thru Music: Science Notes library will get your students singing and creating dances all the while learning about ecosystems! Differentiate your science instruction about producers, consumers, and decomposers with the music, assessments, and activities that are included in this package from the Learning Thru Music Teachers Pay Teachers store! Also included is the instrumental version of Ecosystem Hoedown along with a genres of music activity package as a bonus! Enjoy!


Ecosystem Hoedown

Today on American Indian Airwaves, tune in and hear William I. Robinson speak on his book, War, Global Capitalism, and Resistance (2024), the systematic militarization against immigrants in the United States, global capitalism’s crisis and how the transnational capitalist class structures predatory mechanisms of settler colonial violence against Mother Earth, Indigenous peoples such as in Palestine, working peoples, and ecological systems as we know it. In addition, tune in to hear about how the legacy of capitalism’s violence through digital technologies are producing cheaper labor (“surplus humanity”), and how the capitalist system forms the basis for the non-renewable resource extractive industries comportment with the Green Economy and Green Capitalism. All this and more on today’s AIA program. 

Guest: 
William Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and International Studies Program at UCSB. He is the author of several books, including War, Global Capitalism, and Resistance (2024), Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022), and The Global Police State (2020), Global Capitalism and the Crises of Humanity (2014) and We Will Not Be Silenced (2017). Robinson joins us for the first part of three-part interview on his brand-new book, Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022). 

Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp

American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.


War, Global Capitalism, and Resistance on Mother Earth

Today on American Indian Airwaves (AIA), listeners will hear our special guest discuss the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), its history and January 2024 modifications along with its implications for Native Americans. In addition, our guest will provide an in-depth analysis about the increased aqua or ocean mining by non-renewable extractive industry companies for rare minerals - as part of the Green Economy – potentially jeopardizing, threatening, and/or destroying Native American sacred sites currently under the ocean. Our guest addresses what this situation means for Native American sacred sites off the coastal shorelines of Indigenous people’s traditional territories?  Are there protections in place for these sacred sites? What happens when private companies encounter these sacred sites, and Native American ancestors, sacred items, and forms of cultural patrimony? What roles does NAGPRA play in these situations or does it? 

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1990 with the intended purposes to protect and return of Native American ancestors, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. By enacting NAGPRA, Congress recognized that Native American ancestors "must at all times be treated with dignity and respect." Congress also acknowledged that Native American ancestors and other cultural items removed from Federal or tribal lands belong to the lineal descendants, Native American nations, and Native Hawaiian organizations. 

Guest:
•	Shannon O’Loughlin is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and serves the Association on American Indian Affairs as its Chief Executive and Attorney. Shannon has been practicing law for more than 24 years and is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. Shannon serves as Vice Chair of the Board at Native Ways Federation, which educates about informed giving to Native-led nonprofits. 

•	She is a former Chief of Staff to the National Indian Gaming Commission, where she assisted in the development and implementation of national gaming policy, and oversaw the agency’s public affairs, technology, compliance and finance divisions. Shannon was appointed by Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Sally Jewell to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Review Committee in 2013; and was appointed by President Barack Obama as the first Native American to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee within the State Department in 2015. 

Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp

American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.


NAGPRA, Protecting Sacred Sites from Ocean Mining in Green Capitalism’s Expanded Violence

"A Debate over Wakes in the Land of 10,000 Lakes"
By J. Besl
Published on Eos.org on 29 August 2025

Audio recording by Emily Dieckman

A Debate over Wakes in the Land of 10,000 Lakes

Welcome to Middle Ground Podcast with Natalie Dreyer where we are taking a deep dive into the controversial and popular topic of CRISPR, a gene editing tool revolutionizing science. I am joined today by special guests Dr. Jamie No, a molecular biologist, and Dr. Emily Phipps, a wildlife biologist.

Middle Ground- Final Podcast Assignment

Many people spend hours on their lawns, running the sprinklers, pouring on the “weed and feed”, driving large riding mowers back and forth and using another noisy machine to makes the edges perfect. Why do we have an obsession with lawns? Have we thought about how lawns and manicured yards do great harm to biodiversity and to the natural ecology of the Earth, and contribute to climate change?

In this program, conservation educator, photographer and author Danae Wolfe challenges us to instead value wilder natural landscapes that support all forms of life. Wolfe’s book is Grass Isn’t Greener, The Everyday Conservationist’s Guide to Bringing Nature to Your Yard.


Mothering Earth-133-Grass Isn't Greener

On Episode 596 of Impact Boom, Ricky Esterquest of Towards Better discusses how social enterprises can create inclusive and thriving communities through establishing meaningful employment pathways, and practical ways to activate local ecosystems, strengthen relationships, and balance impact with business sustainability.

If you are a changemaker wanting to learn actionable steps to grow your organisations or level up your impact, don't miss out on this episode!

If you enjoyed this episode, then check out Episode 579 with Matt Pfahlert on embedding social enterprise education and community asset ownership in rural Australia -> https://bit.ly/4lUbvWy

The team who made this episode happen were:
Host: Indio Myles
Guest(s): Ricky Esterquest
Producer: Indio Myles

We invite you to join our community on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram to stay up to date on the latest social innovation news and resources to help you turn ideas into impact. You'll also find us on all the major podcast streaming platforms, where you can also leave a review and provide feedback.

Episode 596 (2025) Ricky Esterquest On Building Collaborative Regional Communities

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American Indian Airwaves (AIA), an Indigenous public affairs radio porgram and, perhaps, the longest running Native American radio program within both Indigenous and the United States broadcast communication histories. Also, AIA broadcast weekly every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles (http://www.kpfk.org).  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aiacr


American Indian Airwaves is produced in Burntswamp Studios and started broadcasting on March 1st, 1973 on KPFK in order to give Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations a voice about the continuous struggles against Settler Colonialism and imperialism by the occupying and settler societies often referred to as the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Latin and South America countries located therein.

American Indian Airwaves operates as an all-volunteer collective with no corporate sponsorship and no underwriters.

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Impact Boom searches the globe to find the people, stories & inspiration to help you create maximum positive impact.

We interview world-leading social innovators, entrepreneurs, changemakers, designers, educators, thinkers and doers who share Insights, ideas & inspiration. As long as these leaders are focussing their efforts on creating positive social and environmental change, we'll make sure you hear about it.

Dr. Salwa Khan is a media producer and educator with a deep and abiding interest in protecting our Mother Earth.  The podcast program Mothering Earth featured here is her latest effort to spread the word that we all need to mother Earth by learning to live gently and sustainably.

Eos is a leading source for trustworthy news and perspectives about the Earth and space sciences and their impact. Published by the American Geophysical Union.

New tracks tagged #ecosystems