Caroline hosts Ayana Young, land steward/protector, animating stories of environmental and social justice, deep ecology (“Ecologia profunda”), and land-based restoration through her podcast & radio show For the Wild. For The Wild is a love song to disappearing wild places. (That they may they re-appear!)
For the Wild spirals forth voices from the grassroots, featuring dedicated team-mates at the forefront of environmental, artistic, scientific, political and cultural shift.
From Melanie Younger, who catalyzed the whole thing, with this:
Greetings,I’m writing because it feels like there may be some synergy between For The Wild’s mission, our Founder, Ayana Young’s work, and your podcast/ (radio show!!!) and I wanted to inquire about the possibility for Ayana to join you as a guest on your show.ABOUT FOR THE WILD:For The Wild is a female-led millennial-run, progressive media organization and nonprofit. Our work interweaves tangible land-based restoration, wilderness conservation, storytelling, and education. Our work is a response to the destruction left in the wake of capitalist industry, amplifying voices from the grassroots and featuring thought-leaders at the forefront of environmental, artistic, scientific, political and cultural shift.In addition to our weekly show, we facilitate restoration ecology projects like our 1 Million Redwoods Project, conserve at risk bioregions with initiatives like our Copper River -Bering Coal Conservation Initiative and mobilize community action to defend wild place with initiatives like our Tongass Campaign.For The Wild’s body of work has had over a million listens, with a worldwide reach of over 50,000 listeners each episode. The show is syndicated through the Pacifica Network and the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. Additionally it airs on a number of other independent outlets throughout North America, Europe and New Zealand, including NPR, World Radio Paris and Northern California Public Media. Further, we currently have over 44k Instagram followers and our reach continues to expand rapidly.In case it’s helpful, here’s a link to our press page so you can explore more about our work. Likewise, please visit our podcast page to stream episodes and to learn more about us.ABOUT AYANA:Ayana Young is a podcast and radio personality specializing in intersectional environmental and social justice, deep ecology and land-based restoration. Young has a strong academic background at the intersections of ecology, culture, and spirituality. She was studying at Columbia when the Occupy Wall Street movement began and amid the burgeoning resistance in Zuccotti Park, she co-created the Environmental Working Group.Post-graduation, dividends from her early career allowed Young to conserve 500 acres of coast redwood and salmon habitat in Northern California, where she has been living for over five years. Living for the first years, in a tent with no electricity or running water while she established a homestead, and broke ground on a native species nursery and research center, including the establishment of the 1 Million Redwoods Project, which was acclaimed as the most backed farm project in Kickstarter history.A budding filmmaker, Young is no stranger to the medium having spent her childhood as a prolific working actor, working alongside the likes of Steven Spielberg and Meryl Streep. Young’s debut film, When Old Growth Ends is an ode to the complex interweaving of the irreplaceable Tongass National Forest during its last stand as a distinctly wild place in Southeast Alaska.Learning deeply from the critical dialogue she’s shared with over 100 guests on the For The Wild podcast, including Chris Hedges, Sylvia Earle, Vandana Shiva, Jill Stein, Winona La Duke, Terry Tempest Williams and other thought leaders (including some of the brightest activists, political thinkers, and scientific minds of our time) Ayana approaches her mission with For The Wild with critical thinking and deep reverence.We would love for Ayana to share time with you on your show and I’d be delighted to chat about how we might be able to work together. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. Thanks for all the great work you’re putting out in the world. I hope to hear from you soon!All My Best,
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So, twas a grand show,
both Ayanna and I felt better more combobulated afterwards..
And so many synchronicities pouring in to our field…
What was rising due East when show began,
26+ Cancer – is Ayana’s Sun degree!
“Storm in residential canyon…Emotional renewal…
Civilization’s precariousness with underlying natural forces…”
Truly, now, when the human (political) field is such a swirl,
tis liberating to extend our kinship alliances – beyond the merely human…
There is the waxing Venus Uranus conjunction,
now as Venus is at 0+ Taurus – her realm of Flora Fauna-
image being “a clear mountain stream-
…Their alliance will be exact on March 8th,
with the exact Sun Neptune conjunction, (International Women’s Day)
as Mercury stations and that will be the Full Moon Night
(exact at 1:48 pm est on Monday)
That Full Moon 19+ Virgo (Conjoin Bernie Sander’s Sun a 15+ Virgo)
is one of organizational coherence incarnating into actuality…
Why I love the Jamaican dedication to “not being played.”
Any vituperative polarity is being played…
All polarity feeds dementors, so we have a bag of liberating lightning
to hurl joyfully at any prison to set it free by spiraling…
Is still wild and topsy-turvy…
We turn to our non-human allies…
Wolves and mushrooms, and allies confluencing,
And many news sources, guiding narratives needed.
Let’s all share and dedicate Medicines now…
Much “News” be story prison.
But we have the keys – to let them out…run free,
To animate the story we vote for,
to define the quality of governance required now…
In 2 ish days Jupiter will conjoin the Saturn Pluto degree of their conjunction.
22+ Capricorn
All these vessels of dedicated desire in the Saturn-Pluto dance…
…will be filled with abundant opportunity…
*One Vessel Vow might be:
that our language, metaphor, and story be in accord
with our dedicated hearts (thus getting “two birds stoned on one scone.”)
*Whatever we speak to in another is the part of them
we are inviting to dance with the corresponding part of ourselves.
*Let all natural facts be social strategy metaphors…
(the more we slow water down -with berms etc. – the faster it infiltrates.)
Let us be like slow water, quickly infiltrating.
Slow down to speed up.
May we all be danced into place
where we can do the most good, have the most fun,
and contribute our gifts in a manner of reciprocal blessing!
