ecology

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was recently stripped of his federal authority to make immigration arrests after repeated complaints that he abuses power and uses racial profiling to target Latinos in his Arizona community. Salvador Reza, U.S. Air Force veteran, community organizer and renowned immigrants rights activist, joins Laura for an exclusive interview on Arpaio's ongoing abuses. Dennis Gilman brings us video footage from an Arpaio raid and from protests in Arizona, where white supremacist groups showed up to support Arpaio's policies.

What does the future hold for organic agriculture? Fred Kirschenmann, a respected leader of the sustainable agriculture movement discusses the history of organic farming. Can organic agriculture survive in our industrial food system, or do we need to make sweeping changes to our whole approach to food production and consumption?

One of the nation's most celebrated writers, naturalist and author of "Refuge; Leap; Red - Passion," "Patience in the Desert and "The Open Space of Democracy," Terry Tempest Williams has long been a passionate and effective activist on behalf of the environment and justice, especially the defense of Southern Utah's stunning red rock deserts, and the resistance to nuclear folly. She once again graces Bioneers with her shining integrity, wry humor, astonishing emotional depth and piercing lucidity as she looks at the state of our democracy and its centrality in restoring our Earth.

Wanjira Mathai is a resonant voice of the New Africa. As the daughter of Wangari Mathai, the founder of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya and a respected figure in government, Wanjira Mathai has taken on the work of vast tree plantings against deforestation and other environmental and community restoration projects that demonstrate some of the largest and most successful ecological and progressive social models in Africa. She approaches the work as an exemplary woman leader in a movement that has been characterized by women's leadership.