🎙️ National Champion Radio | Dr. Eduardo Brondízio
🏅 2025 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
🎖️ Two-time National Champion
📚 Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University Bloomington

What can the Amazon teach us about coexisting with nature—and one another? In this episode, we speak with Dr. Eduardo Brondízio, Brazilian-American anthropologist and 2025 Tyler Prize laureate, about his groundbreaking work on the Amazon as both a vast “urban jungle” and a living laboratory of governance, economics, and ecology.

As a pioneer in coupling Indigenous knowledge with scientific research, Dr. Brondízio shows us how community-led management of forests offers a model for sustainable production and dignified livelihoods. He joins us to explore how trade in açaí and other forest products can drive economic development while preserving ecosystems—and what that means for our collective future.

🏛️ Highlights:

• From Indiana to the Amazon: bridging academic insight and on-the-ground practice

• Rethinking the Amazon as an “urban jungle” shaped by Indigenous cities, markets, and cultures

• How açaí trade exemplifies ethical, community-driven economies

• Lessons in multi-level governance: local autonomy, national policy, global impact

• Why Indigenous stewardship is key to future sustainability

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