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Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature won a Gold World Medal for Environmental Program at the 2009 New York Festivals Awards for the program “Justice or “Just Us”: Environmental Justice as a Universal Human Right“.

For 52 years the New York Festivals Radio Programming and Promotions Awards has recognized The World’s Best Work in radio broadcasting.

Each year they receive entries from radio stations, networks and independent producers from over 30 countries. International radio experts from stations and companies donate their time to the judging process. The GrandJury™ is comprised of top level industry professionals from 5 continents and over 25 countries.

Bioneers brings bold innovators with breakthrough solutions to the airwaves with our eighth annual radio series. Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature airs in more than 250 cities in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Ireland and is free to all stations, distributed by WFMT Radio Network.

Also, two of our SPECIALS were recognized:

• PRISONS IN CRISIS: A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN CALIFORNIA was a finalist for Social Issues/Current Events
• Coming Home:The Return of the Alutiiq Masks was a Finalist for Culture & Arts

Marc Joel Levitt is the Host/Creative Director of the nationally award winning, 12 year old radio show, Action Speaks!: Underappreciated Dates That Changed America, a topic driven panel based radio show taped at downtown Providence, R.I.’s community art space AS 220.  Originally broadcast on Providence’s NPR affiliate, WRNI, the programs are now heard on over 100 stations across the country.

The goal of Action Speaks is to use less appreciated moments in United States history as points of departure for discussions around their context and contemporary implications. Another goal for Action Speaks is to make these cross-disciplinary discussions available to a general public.

Marc is a writer, storyteller, educator, radio host, TV host, filmmaker and land use activist living in Wakefield, RI and NYC. He has won awards for his story recordings, for work in his unique musical/narrative historical storytelling style, for his work in radio and for his work in the arts and in the humanities.

A 1971 graduate of Cornell University, Marc has also created the nationally recognized Charles Fortes Elementary School Museum-in-a-School Project and the educational philosophy called Site Specific Education.
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