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Neil Harvey has been an independent radio producer for 20 years.

He is Senior Producer and Host of the award winning radio series Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature which is heard in over 300 communities in the U.S., Canada and abroad. He was editor for the California Indian Radio Project and is now the audio archivist for the California Indian Storytelling Association. He Co-produced the CISA radio special When the Ancestors Whisper . . . Stories From Native California. As Senior Producer for New Dimensions Radio he produced several award winning special series including The Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Monticello Dialogues which feature anticipatory design architect William McDonough, and the 13-hour Deep Ecology For The 21st Century.

Early in his career he produced a number of radio features for NPR’s Morning Edition, was Associate Producer for the nationally distributed series Music From the Hearts of Space, and served as Host and Producer for The Love of Wisdom with Alan Watts. As a sound engineer he has worked in Sweden, Austria, India, Nepal, Mexico and Israel. He works from his home at the feet of the Trinity Alps in a small mountain community in far Northern California. A self described celebrant, his passions include gardening, wine making, painting, poetics and petanques.

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

Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature is now on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles. Airing Mondays (technically Tuesday) at 12:00am during the popular SOMETHING’S HAPPENING with Roy Of Hollywood which airs Monday – Thursday Midnight to 5:30 AM (Technically Midnight Tue-Fri). (more…)