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Table of Contents 2020 Climate Leadership Call To Action Welcome 1 Schedule Overview and Session Locations 2 State of the World Forum 6 Scientists worldwide are making a dire warning: Pre- and Post-Conference Seminars 7 We have ten years at best to avert runaway climate Helpful Information 10 change that threatens human civilization itself. Greening Bioneers 11 Daily Schedule 12 Bioneers is allying with the newly forming Climate Bioneers Store 21 Leadership for Climate Prosperity campaign launched Moving Image Festival 22 Intermezzo 24 by the State of the World Forum in August in Brazil

Other Happenings 25 (See p. 6). We need to make an 80% reduction in CO2 Booksignings 26 output by 2020. Radio Series 26 Web Tools 27 As Lester Brown, Amory Lovins, Bioneers and other Food and Farming 28 Youth Unity 30 experts have been showing for years, we can meet Beaming Bioneers Satellite Conferences 32 this ambitious goal with existing technologies. Women’s Leadership 34 Indigenous Tent 35 It is not a technological issue. It is a political issue. Membership 36 Music and Perfomance 37 Educators Network 38 State of the World Forum President Jim Garrison will Presenter Biographies 39 be premiering the US Climate Leadership campaign Carbon Offsets Policy 52 at the Bioneers Conference and holding meetings to Organic Valley Sponsor Feature 53 engage with the bioneers to support and participate Supporters 54 in the campaign, leading toward the historic Forum Sponsors, Media Partners and Partners 56 in Washington DC in February. Exhibitors 58 Exhibitors Booth Locations and Exhibit Hall Map 60 Ad-Style Acknowledgments 62 Please join us. The world is at stake. Conference Staff, Artists, Performers and In-Kind Thanks 71 and Bioneers Board of Directors and Staff 72 Kenny Ausubel Nina Simons Event Maps inside back cover

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1607 Paseo de Peralta, Suite 3 Santa Fe, NM 87501 • 877.BIONEER • www.bioneers.org - 1 - Welcome to Bioneers

Greetings, and a warm welcome to the 20th anniversary Bioneers gathering. Thank you for your participation and contributions to this network of networks of visionary innovators with breakthrough solutions to restore people and planet.

When we first began 20 years ago, about 200 people attended, which seemed huge. This weekend, between the main San Rafael event and the 19 Beaming Bioneers local satellite gatherings across the nation, upwards of 10,000 people will participate.

The world has turned. For the first time, there’s unprecedented receptivity globally. Some of the work and ideas we’ve been highlighting for two decades are entering the mainstream.

Yet it’s one minute to midnight regarding the dire necessity to change directions im- mediately on a global scale. The good news is that the solutions are largely present, and where we don’t know what to do, we know what directions to head in.

Recognizing the urgency to spread these ideas rapidly and widely, we’re working year ‘round to expand access to these pivotal concepts, voices and strategies. For more on Dear Bioneers Conference Participants: our various approaches to reach increasingly larger audiences including through media, students, educators and women and through localization and policy efforts domestically I extend my warmest welcome and grati- and internationally, please refer to pages 6, 26-27, 32-34 and 38. tude to each of you. Thank you for the great work you’re doing for the mission we We’re especially honored to hold the second annual Indigenous Forum, organized by all share of restoring people and planet. our esteemed partners The Cultural Conservancy and the Indigenous Environmental Our conference production team and I Network. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is finally being recognized for the work hard to provide a wonderful ex- profound empirical, biocultural and spiritual wisdom gained by First Peoples and traditional perience for you during our important cultures for millennia, knowledge that is crucial to improving our resiliency in this time time together. We take your feedback of such immense transformation. seriously, so please fill out an evaluation form. We’re always learning and improving Bioneers has also begun to get more connected globally, and we’re honored to host and welcome your insights. many international speakers and attendees. We have much to learn from social and scientific innovators outside the US, and we’re delighted for them to convey news If you’re inspired by what you learn here, abroad of the breakthroughs happening here. Check out our first DVD Spanish trans- I encourage you to visit the Bioneers store and bring home media materials lations of 2008 plenaries, too. to spread the work more widely. We know how urgent the need in the world We hope you have a rich, productive experience during this fertile window of is to rapidly educate many millions learning, discovery, inspiration and real practical knowledge. The Bioneers community more about the real solutions within is unique. We’re here to network, collaborate and celebrate - and above all to our grasp. change the world together. Please feel free to find me and share Chief Oren Lyons posed the question last year of how we educate six billion people your thoughts about the conference really fast. When the Iroquois leadership does not have the answer to a problem, or your story. Part of my pleasure is to meet you personally. he said, they put it out to the people. Together, we will figure it out. I give my deep thanks to you on behalf With our love, respect and gratitude on behalf of all of us at Bioneers, of all of us at Bioneers for choosing to be with us and making change together at this urgent moment of rich opportunity. Kenny Ausubel Nina Simons Jill P. van Nortwick

CEO + Founder President + Co-Founder Executive Director

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Introduction by Kenny Ausubel MICHAEL POLLAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2009 In Defense of Food: The Omnivore’s Solution 9a m –5p m

The Center for Ecoliteracy Presents: SESSIONS Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability 2:45–4:15p m Showcase Theater, Marin Center Forever Young: Marin Agricultural Institute and Marin The Omnivore’s Dilemma for Youth Agricultural Land Trust Present: VMA The Omnivore’s Discovery: A Local Food Community in Action Land Is Life: Indigenous Peoples Meet in front of the Marin Center’s Respond to Climate Change Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium (VMA) Main Tent

Education For Action in the Terms of Market Engagement: Breakthrough Age of Climate Change: Business Strategies for Sustainability How Higher Education Can Lead Restoration John Mohawk Tent In and Out of the Classroom Embassy Suites Hotel, Ballroom Transforming Higher Education for the Age of Climate Change Rachel Carson Tent

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009 Rehydration Revolution: Hydrological and Carbon Farming Musical performance by Kai Eckhardt Showcase Theater PLENARIES Across Differences: The Real 9a m –1p m Value of Social Diversity in the Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium (VMA) Manzanita and in the Main Tent via simulcast Changing the Story: Using Media Traditional Welcome by Chairman for Social Transformation of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, Corte Madera Greg Sarris Headlines! Art Inspired Opening remarks by Co-founders by Breaking Environmental News Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons Santa Rosa

Introduction by Arty Mangan, Bioneers Herb Walk with Sage LaPena-Peconom food and farming program director Meet at the Sun Stage BROCK DOLMAN Basins of Relations: A Reverential Council Circle: interactive, Rehydration Revolution open and egalitarian forum Council Tent Introduction by Liz Cunningham, Bioneers youth and conference project manager 4:30p m

KARI FULTON MIF screening Youth Redefining Environmentalism, in the Showcase Theater Reclaiming our Futures Food Inc. and The People’s Grocery

Intermission SESSIONS 4:30–6p m Introduction by Kenny Ausubel JACK HIDARY Re-Envisioning Leadership From Small Steps to the Energy Revolution VMA

Introduction by Dune Lankard, Alaskan Traditional Holistic Healing indigenous social entrepreneur and Modalities for Women of all Ages Bioneers board member Main Tent SARAH JAMES Indigenous Peoples and Climate Geodesic/Synergetic/Dymaxion Trimtabs: Change: Report from the Arctic The Buckminster Fuller Challenge! John Mohawk Tent Performance by Sally Roesch Wagner

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Localization: The Pathway Introduction by Nina Simons to Living Economies LILY YEH Rachel Carson Tent The Rwanda Healing Project: Bringing Hope through Art and Creative Action Sacred Waters: Renewing the Blood of Mother Earth Performance by Shailja Patel Indigenous Tent Introduction by Nina Simons Busting the Drug War: JENSINE LARSEN The Dawning Era of Drug Policy Reform The Electric Pulse of Women Manzanita Transforming Our World Re-Weaving the Web of Life: Intermission Conserving Global Biodiversity Corte Madera MARIN COUNTY AWARD Presented by Charles McGlashan Building a Green Agenda for Racial and and Jim Farley Economic Justice Movements in the Bay Area Santa Rosa Introduction by Kenny Ausubel ARTURO SANDOVAL Social Media Changing the Axis: Drawing from Mexican and Autodesk Atrium Latin American Cultures to Create a Sustainable Future Council Circle: interactive, open and egalitarian forum Introduction by Kenny Ausubel Council Tent DR. ANDREW WEIL Environmental Health, EVENING Environmental Medicine 7p m

MIF screening SESSIONS in the Rachel Carson Tent 2:45–4:15p m A Sea Change and Witness to Hiroshima The Living Building Challenge:

Youth Film Event Can You Match Nature’s Design Elegance? in the John Mohawk Tent VMA Students of Consequence African Bushmeat Expedition Imagine That! The Power of Creativity and and Vida Verde Nature Education Imagination to Create Social and Environmental Change 7:30p m Main Tent

MIF screening in the Showcase Theater The Blue Revolution: Restoring Watersheds in Cities The Yes Men Fix the World and Communities John Mohawk Tent

Shattering Stereotypes: Empowering SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2009 Youth to Create Positive Change Rachel Carson Tent Musical performance by Kai Eckhardt Native Media and Cultural Revitalization PLENARIES Indigenous Tent 9a m –1p m in the Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium (VMA) Mother Jones Presents: Morph or Die— and in the Main Tent via simulcast The Transformation of Journalism and Media Showcase Theater Opening Remarks by Jim Garrison, president of State of the World Forum Breakthrough Communities: How Multi-Racial Coalitions Are Clip from Hidden Beauty introduced Building Transformative Leadership by filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg for Sustainability and Justice Manzanita Introduction by Bryony Schwan, executive director, Biomimicry Institute JASON MCLENNAN Living Buildings: The Future of Architecture

- 2 - - 3 - www.bioneers.org Schedule Overview A Conversation about Integrative Medicine, EVENING Environmental Health and 6:30p m the Transformation of Health Care Seed Exchange Corte Madera Food Pavilion

Dreaming New Mexico: 6:30p m Reconciling Human and Natural Systems MIF screening Santa Rosa in the Manzanita Dirt! The Movie Herb Walk with Autumn Summers Meet at the Sun Stage 7:30p m Food and Farming Banquet Council Circle: interactive, and Tribute to Organic Valley open and egalitarian forum Embassy Suites Ballroom (Special tickets required.) Council Tent 7:30p m p m 4:30 MIF screening MIF screening in the Showcase Theater in the Showcase Theater Earth Days and Origins Children of the Amazon and Silent Snow 8–9:30p m SESSIONS AN EVENING WITH DR. ANDREW WEIL AND CAROLINE W. CASEY 4:30–6p m Trickster Medicine: Death—Sex—Money— Global Water Sustainability Challenges: Power—Pragmatic Mysticism—Democratic Animism… How Would Biomimicry (Nature) Solve Them? and more! VMA VMA (Separate admission required. Purchase tickets at the registration kiosk.)

8p m –m i d n i g h t Ayahuasca, Anthropology and Activism: Plants, Live Music & Dance Party Politics and Systems of Knowledge Exhibit Hall Main Tent

Blackstone Ranch Institute Presents: From Convening to Coordinated Action – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2009 The Path to Transformational Change John Mohawk Tent Musical performance by Kai Eckhardt

Farming With Nature: Looking to the Land for Guidance PLENARIES Rachel Carson Tent 9a m –1p m in the Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium (VMA) and in the Main Tent via simulcast Green Economy Innovations in Native Lands Indigenous Tent Opening remarks by Co-founder Nina Simons Educasting: Education for Innovation Introduction by Nina Simons Manzanita JOANNA MACY The Hidden Promise of Our Dark Age: Discovering Our UnEarthing the Story: The Power Wisdom, Strength and Beauty in the Midst of Crisis of Women and Media Corte Madera Introduction by Thomas Linzey, executive director of the Community From Jaguars to White Spirit Bears: Environmental Defense Fund Conserving Imperiled Wildlands MARI MARGIL Santa Rosa Who Speaks for the Trees? Driving Nature’s Rights into Law Social Media Autodesk Atrium Introduction by Rebecca Moore, founder of Google Earth Outreach Council Circle: interactive, CHIEF ALMIR NARAYAMOGA SURUI open and egalitarian forum Biocultural Conservation in the Amazon: Council Tent How an Amazon Tribe Has Combined Traditional Knowledge With Science and Technology to Save Its Rainforests and Its People

www.bioneers.org - 4 - - 5 - Schedule Overview Intermission SESSIONS 4:30–6p m Introduction by Kate Gordon, co-director of the national Apollo Alliance A Dialogue About Sustainability from Two JEROME RINGO Cultures: Modern Systems Thinking The Color Of Green: The Next Inconvenient Truth and Indigenous Wisdom VMA Performance by Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company When Less is More: Rethinking Our Relationships to Time and Money Introduction by Kenny Ausubel Main Tent ANNIE LEONARD The Story of Stuff Tag, You’re I.T.:Information Technology Innovations Closing: Melanie DeMore John Mohawk Tent SESSIONS Democracy Schools and the Rights of Nature 2:45–4:15p m Rachel Carson Tent

Collective Healing: Transforming Indigenous Philanthropy: Trauma and Despair Expanding Funding for First Peoples VMA Indigenous Tent

The Forest and the Trees – and the People: Becoming Resilient Change Agents Saving Rainforest Biocultural Diversity Manzanita Main Tent Inner Transformation and Engagement Awakening the Dreamer for Environmental and Social Justice John Mohawk Tent Corte Madera

Raising Their Voices! Youth Using New Media Breaking Gridlock: Greening and Decentralizing to Amplify Their Causes State and Regional Energy Systems Rachel Carson Tent Santa Rosa

Protecting Sacred Landscapes, Native Plants, Indigenous Mapping with Google Earth Foods and Medicines Novato/Larkspur Indigenous Tent Council Circle: interactive, Shades of Gray: Is the Economy open and egalitarian forum Really Turning Green? Council Tent Showcase Theater 6:15p m Democracy Breaks Out: Envisioning CLOSING CIRCLE the Spokane Revolution Hosted by Cultivating Women’s Manzanita Leadership ‘09 Ocamora Alumni Sun Stage Fair Food: Building a Fair and Sustainable Food System with Faith, Politics and Music Corte Madera

Visualizing Your Cause in Google Earth Novato/Larkspur MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2009

9a m –5p m Herb Walk with Kami McBride Democracy School Intensive Meet at the Sun Stage Presented by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) Council Circle: interactive, Embassy Suites Hotel open and egalitarian forum Council Tent Natural Magic: Permaculture Workshop and Biodiversity Gardens Tour 4:30p m Occidental Arts and Ecology Center MIF screening Meet in front of Embassy Suites Hotel at 7:30a m . in the Showcase Theater Buses depart for the tour promptly at 8a m . A Sense of Wonder and Lessons from Rachel Carson

- 4 - - 5 - www.bioneers.org STATE OF THE WORLD The 2020 Climate Leadership for Climate Prosperity Campaign A Call To Mobilization On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Bioneers, I want to honor Kenny and Nina, the Bioneers organization and all of you “bioneers” for this magnificent achievement. I also challenge Bioneers to dedicate the next ten years to helping lead the world in taking Climate Leadership for Climate Prosperity.

Bioneers is among the world’s leading networks that can help lead us through the central contradiction paralyzing efforts on global warming today. That contradiction is between what our scientists are warning about the accelerating crisis of global warming and what our governments are actually doing about it.

When Dr. Rajendra Pachauri accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Panel on Climate Change, he said, "If there's no action before 2012, that's too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment."

In the face of this rapidly escalating peril, our governments are negotiating as if we have another 40 years to solve the problem. This illusion is at the heart of the Copenhagen negotiations – reducing carbon emissions by 80% by 2050, which allows business-as-usual for another 15-20 years. Even more troubling, according to a recent MIT study, is the fact that, even if all the governments completely fulfill their current promises, OC 2 levels will have reached over 600 ppm by 2050 while global temperatures will have risen at least 4°C. This is irreversibly catastrophic. At stake is civilization as we know it.

The urgency of global warming is such that we can no longer wait for our governments to lead. Climate Leadership must come from civil society and from all sectors and citizens, including local and regional governments, business and leaders from all disciplines, peoples and walks of life.

This make-it-or-break-it reality is the reason State of the World Forum, Bioneers and a coalition of groups worldwide are coming together around the Forum’s 2020 Climate Leadership for Climate Prosperity Campaign, at the heart of which are two essential goals:

1. Our strategic goal is “2050 by 2020”. The Copenhagen negotiations – reducing carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 -- must be achieved by 2020. We have ten years to meaningfully address global warming or it is too late.

2. One operational goal is to help provide roadmaps, Rapid Response Teams and best practices and processes that address practical areas for action for achieving an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2020 while establishing sustainable, prosperous and equitable societies and communities.

We will focus on this challenge at a State of the World Forum in Washington DC Feb. 28 – March 3, 2010, with help from Bioneers. We hope you can join us for: “Beyond Copenhagen – Mobilizing Climate Leadership for Climate Prosperity.”

Our 2020 Climate Leadership for Climate Prosperity Campaign is designed to catalyze this leadership. Our Washington Forum is designed to gather many specialists and activists ready to build 2020 plans of action. As the bioneers know, we already largely know what needs to be done, and we know it can be done using existing technologies. What’s most needed now is leadership – your leadership.

Our first major success came in August in Brazil where a national 2020 Climate Leadership mobilization is taking place, helping spark the beginnings of social change models at large scales.

A principal actor in this mobilization is Globo TV, which controls 80% of the Brazilian media market and is the fourth-largest media company in the world. It has initiated a prime-time nationwide ad campaign about global warming to support our 2020 Climate Leadership Campaign. Globo TV is developing these ads completely at its own expense and is committed to continuing the campaign over the next several years to make the global warming issue a presidential election issue in October 2010, stop the clear-cutting of the Amazon, and educate and mobilize the Brazilian public to make lifestyle changes. This mobilization is unprecedented and marks the first time anywhere in the world that a major media company has decided to begin educating an entire nation about global warming and exercise climate leadership.

Now three federal ministries, as well as several national associations, states and cities including Rio de Janeiro are joining our 2020 Campaign, as are a number of industrial federations. All are eager to work with our proposed Rapid Response Teams.

We can learn from this stunningly bold example, get involved, and help catalyze similar models worldwide. We cannot wait for the national governments to act. Among other strategies, we are setting up a Fund to enable Rapid Response Teams to work with cities, states and institutions embracing the 2020 goals. They will work with local leaders in carbon assessment, 2020 strategy formation, and implementing the plans in ways that generate climate prosperity.

This is one area in which the Bioneers network can help lead the way. There is exceptional talent, practical know-how and real-world experience within the Bioneers networks when it comes to innovative solutions and practical models. The State of the World Forum invites you to engage with forming our Rapid Response Teams, which will begin to be assembled at the Washington Forum.

Please join State of the World Forum and Bioneers in Washington to plan a 2020 Climate Leadership for Climate Prosperity future.

Please also look for me at the Bioneers conference to discuss how you can support or participate in the campaign.

To register: www.worldforum.org Jim Garrison, President, State of the World Forum

www.bioneers.org - 6 - - 7 - PRE-CONFERENCE seminars Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Center for Ecoliteracy Presents: Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability Join us for this special one-day intensive about the hopeful and vital • Lively discussions and dialogue about successful practitioners’ experi- movement to prepare young people for living sustainably. ence in leadership and systems change in schooling for sustainability.

Featuring pioneering educators from across the nation, this event • Workshops with leaders of noted sustainability education organiza- will offer insight into the practices of leadership that cultivate con- tions, including Jaimie Cloud of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability ditions for lasting systemic change in schools. Education (New York), Matt Dubel of Shelburne Farms’ Sustainable Schools Project (Vermont), and Louise Cadwell of Cadwell Collabora- Inspired by the Center for Ecoliteracy’s 2009 book, Smart by Na- tive: Sustainability Education and School Design (Missouri). ture: Schooling for Sustainability, this intensive is designed for educators, activists, parents, youth and others interested in greening • Presentations of findings from the Center for Ecoliteracy’s recent schools, integrating the natural world into teaching and learning, nationwide research on schools that are rethinking curricula; help- improving school food systems and campus operations, and pro- ing children discover the wonders of nature; restoring rural land- moting sustainable practices in local communities. scapes and creating city habitats; designing safe, energy-efficient and healthy schools; and transforming themselves into model com- The day will feature: munities for learning the skills of sustainable living. • Keynotes by outstanding speakers, including Fritjof Capra, eminent systems thinker, co-founder and board chair of the Center for Eco- The Center for Ecoliteracy is a pioneer in the schooling for sustain- literacy; and Lucinda Lee Katz, head of school of Marin Country ability movement. Based on nearly 20 years of research and expe- Day School, former director of the University of Chicago Labora- rience with hundreds of schools, the Center offers books, teaching tory Schools, and recipient of the 2009 National Association of guides and other publications; professional development seminars Independent Schools Diversity Leadership Award. and institutes; consulting and coaching services; and technical assistance. Learn more at www.ecoliteracy.org

Location: Showcase Theater - Marin Center

Marin Agricultural Institute and Marin Agricultural Land Trust Present: The Omnivore’s Discovery: A Local Food Community in Action Join the Marin Agricultural Institute and Marin Agricultural Land Sponsored by: Trust for a tour of the 26-year-old Marin Civic Center Farmers Mar- • Marin Agricultural Institute (MAI), MFM’s sister organization, dedi- ket, where local farmers and ranchers thrive, thanks to this vibrant cated to growing a healthy local food system and a thriving local direct marketing opportunity. Then, head west to visit three local economy. family farms: the Dolcini Ranch, Chileno Valley Ranch and the Tresch www.marinagriculturalinstitute.org Dairy. We will learn about each farmer’s growing practices and phi- losophies. We’ll deepen our understanding of where locally grown • Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), the first land trust in the U.S. produce and humanely raised milk and meat really come from, as to focus on farmland preservation. A model for agricultural land well as how it takes a community of farmers, agricultural institutions, preservation efforts across the nation, it has permanently protect- government agencies and eaters to make a local food system grow. ed 40,500 acres and 63 family farms and ranches. www.malt.org Featuring: • Marin Farmers Markets (MFM), representing over 450 local farm- Location/Time/Itinerary/Lunch/Cost: ers, specialty food purveyors and artisans; managing seven farmers • Morning Tour of the Thursday Civic Center Farmers Market, Marin markets including the third largest in California at the Marin Civic Veteran’s Auditorium Parking Lot, San Rafael, CA. The tour will start Center. www.marinfarmersmarkets.org promptly at 9a m . You’re welcome to treat yourself to breakfast at the market beforehand (lattés, fresh croissants, etc. are available). • Constance Washburn, education director at Marin Agricultural Land The market opens at 8a m . Trust (MALT). www.malt.org • Field trip to tour the Dolcini Ranch & County Line Harvest, • The Dolcini Ranch, owned by the same family for nearly a century, Chileno Valley Ranch and Tresch Dairy. where Doug Dolcini raises beef cattle, while his sister Kitty Dolcini operates a small nursery and David Retsky of County Line Harvest • A delicious locally grown lunch will be provided and enjoyed on leases 26 acres to grow organic vegetables. the ranch.

• Chileno Valley Ranch, a 600-acre grass-fed beef ranch, where Mike Location: Program begins promptly at 9a m . and Sally Gale have diversified their production to include organic Meet in front of the Marin Center’s Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium apples, tomatoes and free-range eggs. www.chilenobnb.com (VMA).

• Tresch Dairy, in the hands of the Tresch family since they emigrated from Switzerland in the 1870s. Kathy and Don Tresch supply organic milk to the Straus Family Creamery in Marshall.

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EDUCATION for ACTION in the AGE of CLIMATE CHANGE: How Higher Education Can Lead Restoration In and Out of the Classroom

Co-sponsored by: • Second Nature, which has worked with more than 500 colleges • Larry Eisenberg and universities to help make sustainability fundamental to every Executive Director for Facilities Planning and Development for the aspect of higher education Los Angeles Community College District, the nation's biggest

• The California Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC), which unites • Matthew St. Clair students, campuses, and campaigns across California to transform the first SustainabilityM anager for the University of California's Office the state's educational systems into models of sustainability of the President, supporting sustainability efforts across the 10-campus UC system, and member of the board of directors of AASHE • The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), an association of colleges and universities that Lunch: 12:30-2p m are working to create a sustainable future 2-5:30p m In both of the afternoon's breakout sessions, participants will be PROGRAM SCHEDULE: encouraged to focus on creating real, concrete, tangible next steps 9a m -12:30p m with their cohorts. Host/MC: Julian Keniry Senior Director of Campus and Community Leadership at the Na- 2-3:15p m : 4 Facilitated Discussions tional Wildlife Federation Four simultaneous, separate groups will each tackle a distinct the- matic area. These highly participatory sessions will allow us to dis- • Plenary Talks (20 minutes each) 9-11a m cuss existing solutions, promising models, and new ideas for meet- These plenary talks will help frame the gravity and urgency of the ing our challenges in more depth. challenges we face and ask us to face some tough questions as university stakeholders, setting the stage for the afternoon's brain- • Rebuilding the Momentum to Develop, Expand and Spread storming sessions. Environmental Curricula throughout the higher educational system. Led/Facilitated by Julian Keniry Speakers: • David Orr • Dimensions of Leadership from Town/Gown to Societal and Eco-literacy pioneer; Senior Adviser to the President, Oberlin College; Global. How can colleges and universities lead in and with their com- author of Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse munities? How can colleges prepare students to become tomorrow's green leaders? • Jessy Tolkan Led/Facilitated by Second Nature's Michelle Dyer, Executive Director for the Energy Action Coalition, a coalition of assisted by Barbara Koneval 50 leading youth organizations throughout the US and Canada • Education for Action: How to Mobilize Student and Civic Energy, • Anthony Cortese including through project-based learning, service learning, and ac- Founder of Second Nature tivism. What is the role of student-led initiatives? Led/Facilitated by Crystal Durham of CSSC • Kari Fulton National Campus Campaign Coordinator for the Environmental • Higher Education for the Green Economy at all Levels, from Justice and Climate Change Initiative advanced research to community colleges. Led/Facilitated by AASHE Fellow Andres Edwards • James Buizer Global leader in climate change science; Science Policy Advisor to • 3:30-3:50p m : A report back to the whole group offering snapshot the President, ASU, and Executive Director for Strategic Institu- summaries of the 4 discussions: one representative from each of tional Advancement, Office of the President the discussion groups, 5 minutes each.

Coffee break 11-11:15a m 3:50-5:05p m : Peer to Peer Sessions: We will break up into smaller groups based on our university affili- • Morning Plenary Panel: 11:15a m -12:30p m ations (students, staff, faculty, community members, alumni) to talk This panel will showcase groundbreaking, gamechanging, transfor- about what we can do in our particular roles (as students, as staff, mative solutions emerging in a university setting that can help us as alumni, as faculty, as administrators) to support the necessary deal with the enormous collective challenges we face as a society. work universities must now undertake.

with: • 5:10-5:30p m : Closing Comments: Julian Keniry • Crystal Durham Executive Director of the California Student Sustainability Coalition • Informal networking (CSSC) (MC/participant) Location: Embassy Suites Hotel • Michelle Dyer Vice President of Second Nature

www.bioneers.org - 8 - - 9 - Pre-CONFERENCE seminars Post-CONFERENCE seminars Monday, October 19, 2009

Democracy School Presented by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)

For decades, people across the US have organized themselves to Thomas Linzey, executive director and co-founder of CELDF, assist- block corporate assaults against their communities. While those ef- ed in the drafting of the Rights of Nature provisions for Ecuador’s forts have led to some increased regulation of the adverse environ- constitution, and is a co-author of Be the Change: How To Get What mental impacts caused by those corporations, these efforts have You Want In Your Community on the work of CELDF. failed to fundamentally challenge the legal authority that enables corporations to override community decision-making. While we Mari Margil, associate director of CELDF, who assisted in the draft- see community after community fight to stop a factory farm, Wal- ing of the Rights of Nature provisions for Ecuador’s constitution Mart or mining operation, under our system of law they don’t have and is involved in CELDF’s groundbreaking organizing efforts in the power to say “No.” Communities always ask “Why?” Through Spokane, Washington. the Democracy Schools we work with communities to answer and address that fundamental question. Location: Embassy Suites Hotel

The Democracy School Intensive will feature an in-depth examination of our existing structure of law, a review of past movements’ struggles to challenge and change unjust law, and how those histories are now being applied in local communities. Founded in 2003, over 180 Democracy Schools have now been held in 24 states, graduating nearly 3,000 participants including local elected officials, grassroots activists, attorneys, funders and community members.

• CELDF assisted in the drafting of Rights of Nature provisions for Ecuador’s new constitution, making Ecuador the first country in the world to recognize the inalienable rights of ecosystems and natural communities.

• Over 110 communities in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Maine and Virginia have adopted CELDF-drafted ordinances, which ban corporations from activities including factory farming, sludging and mining.

• Over a dozen communities have adopted CELDF-drafted ordinances which recognize Rights of Nature.

Instructors:

Natural Magic: Permaculture Workshop and Biodiversity Gardens Tour at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center

A magical field trip to a legendary permaculture community! Come by a group of biologists, horticulturists, educators, activists and art- see what a truly restorative, sustainable, land-based community ists seeking innovative and practical approaches to pressing environ- looks like. mental and economic crises. Much of the Center’s work addresses the challenges of creating democratic communities that are eco- Join us on an eye-opening workshop and tour of the Occidental logically, economically and culturally sustainable in an increasingly Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) and its renowned 80-acre or- privatized and corporatized economy and culture. OAEC’s pro- ganic farm and wildlands preserve in western Sonoma County. grams combine research, demonstration, education and organizing to develop collaborative, community-based strategies for positive Brock Dolman and selected OAEC staff will lead us through the social change and effective environmental stewardship. 35-year-old biointensive organic gardens and orchards, showing and explaining their: solar PV and hot water systems; micro-hydro For more info: www.oaec.org and/or www.oaecwater.org energy set-up; innovative stormwater, roof water harvesting and graywater systems; chicken tractors; milk goats; and eco-forestry, Location: Program begins at Embassy Suites Hotel. Meet in front of fire management and erosion control techniques; and lots more. the hotel at 7:30a m . Buses depart for the tour promptly at 8a m . They will also discuss the model of their residential intentional Organic lunch created on-site using OAEC and local farm produce community (Sowing Circle LLC.) is included

The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) is a nonprofit organizing and education center and organic farm founded in 1994

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FRAGRANCES: In deference to the sensitivity of those around you, we ask that you please Cool Crew and Onsite Staff refrain from wearing perfumes, aftershaves, and other strongly scented fragrances – this includes use of essential oils. The core Bioneers staff consists of 24 dedicated individuals. 24 – including Nina Simons RECORDING AND FILMING: NO AUDIOTAPING, VIDEOTAPING OR FILMING IS and Kenny Ausubel. So how do we create PERMITTED WITHOUT EXPRESS PERMISSION FROM THE PRODUCERS. To obtain this amazing and thought provoking experi- permission in the form of a special press pass, you must check in at the press table in the tent adjacent to the Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium. No filming will be permitted on the fairgrounds ence year after year with only 24 people? without a press pass. Trust us, we don’t do it alone.

CONFERENCE INFORMATION BOOTH + MESSAGE CENTERS are located on the Throughout the event, you will see many grounds between the Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium and the Registration Tent. Ask there for people with badges that say Cool Crew. assistance with directions, workshop locations or messages. There is also a bulletin board where The Cool Crew is one of the best re- messages can be posted in the north hallway of the Exhibit Hall. sources an event planner could ever want —a dedicated crew of folks who exchange LOST AND FOUND articles can be turned in and subsequently claimed at the Bioneers eight hours of their time for participation Office in the ExhibitH all building. The office is located across from theM anzanita Room at the at the event. north end of the Exhibit Hall hallway. Bioneers is not responsible for any lost or stolen items.

PROGRAM CHANGES: Any changes in the program, e.g., location or presenter cancellations, Every year, we receive well over a thousand will be posted at the Conference Information Booth, Registration Tables and in the Exhibit Hall requests for work exchange applications. at the Bioneers Store. From this group of applicants, we carefully select 200 individuals to help out in various IF YOU’RE HAVING DIFFICULTY DECIDING among workshops, you may move between positions—from assisting with food service, them, but please be as quiet as possible in transition. Remember, most sessions will be available to being room hosts, to helping out in the on CD for purchase at the Bioneers Store in the Exhibit Hall. Bioneers Store, to putting out the chairs in the tents and countless other tasks in between. MEALS: Lunch will be served on the fairgrounds at 1p m . Pre-purchased lunches will be served buffet-style in the Food Pavilion – follow signs from the main auditorium. If you have not pre- We also have the invaluable assistance of purchased your meals, there will be vendors selling food throughout the event (including Lydia’s the Onsite Staff. This group of 32 individuals Organics, serving vegan and raw foods) in the tents adjacent to the Food Pavilion. Pre-purchased is the backbone of the production team. dinner will be served in the Exhibit Hall on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 6p m . Food vendors will continue to serve food items in the outdoor tents until 8p m , except for Sunday, when ser- Members of the Onsite Staff come from vice will end at 7p m . Ingredients are organic and locally sourced whenever possible. all over the country to lend their services to Bioneers. Many take time off from their RIDESHARE AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: Need a ride or room to share? Check the full time employment to work at the con- bulletin board in the north hallway of the Exhibit Hall. ference. Referred to as Crew Chiefs, these folks act as point persons for the different LAFAYETTE BOOK STORE: An onsite bookstore, including an exceptional selection of Bion- areas on the grounds – from registration eers and Bioneers-related reading and video, is located in the Exhibit Hall, and will be open dur- at the conference, to the tents on the fair- ing conference hours. Your purchase supports a local, community-based independent bookseller, grounds, to the conference spaces at Em- as well as the Bioneers (a percentage of Lafayette Book Store profits will benefit Bioneers). bassy Suites. Crew Chiefs help direct and BOOKSIGNINGS: Don’t miss the opportunity to purchase a personally autographed book support the Cool Crew members working from your favorite bioneer. See the author booksigning schedule on page 26. in their area.

EVALUATIONS: We want your constructive feedback and to hear how Bioneers has impacted Bioneers is blessed that many of our Cool your life in tangible ways. Please fill out the evaluation form while your impressions are fresh and Crew and Onsite Staff members return drop it off at either the Bioneers Store in the Exhibit Hall or the Registration Tent. year after year. Through the hard work and dedication of these two groups, we are able EARN CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS (CEU’S) for attending the Bioneers Con- to create the experience known as the ference. Bioneers has partnered with Dominican University(www.dominican.edu) as well as the Bioneers Conference. Institute for Holistic Healing Studies (www.sfsu.edu/ ~ihhs) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and the SFSU School of Nursing to provide Continuing Education Units for educators and nurses. Payment is by check only. Nurses, please provide your RN Lic. #. Certificates will be mailed following the conference. You must register onsite before attending plenary sessions or workshops, and attend the entirety of any plenary or workshop in order to receive credit. For more information and to register, visit the Continuing Education Units booth near Bioneers Conference Registration.

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Every year before the conference, Bioneers planners meet with staff from the Conserva- tion Corps of North Bay (CCNB) and the Ecology Center of Berkeley to address the challenge: how can Bioneers host an event that is high impact in terms of experience and low impact in terms of waste? Our goal is Zero Waste, the concept that all of our discards become new products, compost, or feedstock, – a similar cycle to what you find in natural ecosystems. Every Bioneers conference is an opportunity to move closer to that goal. Through the participation of CCNB, Ecology Center of Berkeley and your efforts, we were able to divert 78% of our waste from the landfill in 2008.

What else are we doing? Our resource recovery stations, staffed with CCNB members, route bottles, cans, paper, food waste, and compostable utensils into compost and recycling bins. Our food vendors offer compostable utensils and we provide water stations for conference participants as an alternative to disposable plastic bottles. This year, the Bioneers branded ChicoBag is made from 99% recycled content by weight and can carry up to 40 lbs. Each bag is made from seven plastic bottles.

In 2006, Bioneers began sourcing locally grown food from the farmers and producers of Marin Farmers Markets (MFM) and Marin Agricultural Institute (MAI) for our annual Bioneers Conference through their © Lesley Marker Farm to Fork Distribution program (www. marinfarmersmarkets.org). Since then, Bion- from their three weekly markets. Finding vi- corps. Corpsmembers address critical needs eers’ commitment to sourcing locally grown able, affordable, and truly “green” alternatives in the community through reducing fire and food has grown exponentially to $14,000 of to plastic packaging is a big challenge. Visit flood hazards, constructing and maintaining product from 31 local farms and eight spe- the Ecology Center (www.ecologycenter.org) trails, restoring riparian and wildlife habitat, cialty food purveyors in 2008. The fruits, veg- table, located in front of their giant recycling collecting recyclable materials and providing etables, farmstead cheese, honey, meats, and truck on the lawn, to learn more about com- environmental education to school children. specialty prepared foods from MFM’s farmers postable bags, alternatives to plastic, and the CCNB now provides recycling services for and specialty food purveyors travel, on av- various policies and bills that some cities are small and large scale special events in both erage, less than 150 miles, helping Bioneers implementing to ban plastic bags or incentiv- Marin and Sonoma Counties and is a key part- achieve its goal of creating a more ecologically ize the recycling of bottles. ner in working with the Marin County Fair to sound food system. make it the “greenest county fair on earth.” Conservation Corps North Bay’s (www.con- Our partners on the greening committee servationcorpsnorthbay.org) mission is to de- This past year, CCNB and its partners, Col- are actively involved in ambitious projects of velop youth to thrive and become leaders in lege of Marin and UC Cooperative Extension, their own. This spring, the Berkeley Farmers a global community where natural resources established the Indian Valley Organic Farm & Markets (a program of the Ecology Center) are conserved and the future is certain, strong Garden, a 5.8-acre certified organic education became the first farmers’ market in the na- and sustainable. Founded in 1982, CCNB is farm and garden located at College of Marin’s tion to eliminate all plastic bags and packaging the nation’s first local nonprofit conservation Indian Valley campus.

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Introduction by Dune Lankard, Alaskan indigenous social Transforming Higher Education entrepreneur and Bioneers board member for the Age of Climate Change FRIDAY SARAH JAMES How can we fundamentally re-design our in- Indigenous Peoples and Climate stitutions of higher learning to act as leaders Musical performance by Kai Eckhardt Change: Report from the Arctic of sustainability and equip new generations to The revered Gwich’in Elder from Alaska, who usher in a greener future? With: two of the has won many awards for her work to protect nation’s most influential Ecoliteracy vision- PLENARIES the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil aries of higher education, David Orr, senior drilling, including the Goldman Environmen- 9a m –1p m adviser to the president of Oberlin College, tal Prize, depicts how her people are being and Anthony Cortese, founder of Second severely impacted on the front lines of rapid Nature; Julian Keniry, senior director, Campus Traditional Welcome to his people’s ancestral climate change, and how they are responding. lands by Chairman Greg Sarris of Federated and Community Leadership, National Wildlife Indians of Graton Rancheria, Coast Miwok/ Federation; and Crystal Durham, executive director of the California Student Sustainabil- Southern Pomo Nations Introduction by Kenny Ausubel ity Coalition. Moderated by Steven Swig, co- MICHAEL POLLAN founder and president emeritus of Presidio Opening remarks by Kenny Ausubel and In Defense of Food: World College. Nina Simons, Bioneers founders and producers The Omnivore’s Solution Welcome to Beaming Bioneers satellite sites The leading American thinker about our relationship to food, author of such seminal clas- Rehydration Revolution: Introduction by Arty Mangan, sics as In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Hydrological and Carbon Farming Bioneers food and farming program director The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Water and carbon are two of life’s most es- BROCK DOLMAN Desire, explores what the industrialization of sential elements, but managed improperly Basins of Relations: A Reverential food and agriculture has meant for our health they can destroy the land. “Keyline” design is Rehydration Revolution and happiness as eaters. He surveys the land- a cutting-edge system that harvests and dis- Permaculturist and watershed wizard Brock scape of the growing national movement to tributes water more evenly for greater fertil- Dolman shows how the future lifeboat we’ll redesign the food system. ity, increased root growth and much higher need is shaped exactly like our local water- carbon sequestration. With: Brock Dolman, shed. He wields his dazzling poetics to tell us Occidental Arts and Ecology Center’s master how we can engage with the spirit of Planet permaculturalist and land management and Water, create water-literate human settle- FRIDAY AFTERNOON watershed expert; and Darren Doherty, re- ment patterns, and regenerate ecological in- 2:45–4:15p m nowned Australian permaculturist, a leading tegrity and social resiliency to prepare for the global expert on innovative “broadacre” agri- climate changes ahead. Forever Young: The Omnivore’s cultural systems. Dilemma for Youth To celebrate the release of a young reader’s ad- Introduction by Liz Cunningham, Bioneers youth aptation of his classic book The Omnivore’s Di- and conference project manager lemma, Michael Pollan joins young food culture KARI FULTON change-makers for a lively exploration of how Quick Interest Key Youth Redefining Environmentalism, young people are working to create an equita- Reclaiming our Futures ble food system. With: Tim Galarneau, food sys- This inspiring Brower Youth Award winner tems education and research program specialist and national campus campaign coordinator for the University of California; Gerardo Marin, for the Environmental Justice and Climate co-manager, Farm Fresh Choice of the Ecol- Change Initiative describes how the Youth ogy Center Berkeley; Maya Salsedo, 16, national Climate Movement is creating a more unified youth organizer for Rooted in Community and inclusive environmental movement for (RIC); and young ‘Rethinkers’ from Kids Rethink the 21st century. New Orleans Schools.

INTERMISSION Across Differences: The Real Value of Social Diversity Beyond political correctness, what are the real Introduction by Kenny Ausubel benefits and challenges of integrating diverse JACK HIDARY perspectives? Nature indicates that diversity From Small Steps to the confers resilience—how might we improve Energy Revolution how we include and integrate many kinds How do we move rapidly from 1% solar and of people and viewpoints? Hosted by Akaya wind energy in the US to 50%? To 100%? Is Windwood, CEO of Rockwood Leadership this just a fantasy? One of the nation’s lead- Institute. With: Sally Roesch Wagner, executive ing technology entrepreneurs, co-founder of director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation SmartTransportation.org and chairman of and a leading expert in women’s rights his- AmericansforCleanEnergy.org, explains what tory; Kari Fulton, national campus campaign we have to do politically, economically and so- coordinator for the Environmental Justice cially to realize that necessary revolution. and Climate Change Initiative; Patricia Berne, co-founder/director of Sins Invalid; Zenobia Barlow, executive director of the Center for Performance by Sally Roesch Wagner Ecoliteracy; and Sarah Crowell, program development director of Oakland’s Destiny Arts

Center.

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Land Is Life: Indigenous Peoples sharing their knowledge of the news stories Building a Green Agenda for Racial Respond to Climate Change and offering suggestions about how to con- and Economic Justice Movements Hosted by Land is Life. Indigenous peoples vey them. Hosted by artist/author curator in the Bay Area are on the front lines of climate change ef- Linda Weintraub. With leading eco-artists: Convened by the Movement Generation Jus- fects, often living in regions being impacted Susan Leibovitz Steinman, Anne Katrin tice and Ecology Project. A broad spectrum most heavily right now. What strategies are Spiess, Doug Buis, Susanne Cockrell, Te d of local racial, economic and environmental they adopting? Hosted by Brian Keane, direc- Purves, and Wowhaus (Scott Constable justice organizers has been exploring how to

tor of Land Is Life, an international indigenous- and Ene Osteraas-Constable). “green” the struggle against poverty and struc- led organization that works to promote and tural oppression while building a coherent protect the rights of indigenous peoples. With: front to demand equity in government and Sarah James, Gwich’in Alaskan indigenous el- Herb Walk “green jobs” programs. Panelists will share ex- der and leader; Alejandro Argumedo, Quech- with Sage LaPena-Peconom amples of successful cross-issue, cross-com- ua from Peru, coordinator of the Indigenous Sage is a clinical medical herbalist and ethno- munity partnerships. With: Dana Ginn Paredes, Peoples Climate Change Assessment Project; botanist specializing in both Native American organizing director of Asian Communities for Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the In- and Western herbalism. She started her train- Reproductive Justice; Alicia Garza, organiz- digenous Environmental Network; and Chief ing at age seven with medicine people from er with People Organizing to Win Employ- Oren Lyons, global indigenous leader, Onon- her tribe, the Northern Wintu, and has been ment Rights; Mimi Ho, program director of daga Council of Chiefs, Onondaga Nation, teaching about California native plants for Asian Pacific Environment Network; and Nile Haudenosaunee and Bioneers board member. over twenty years in a wide range of settings. Malloy, program director of Communities for

a Better Environment.

Terms of Market Engagement: Break- Council Circle Traditional Holistic Healing through Business Strategies for Come sit in circle with other members of the Modalities for Women of all Ages Sustainability Bioneers community. You’re invited to con- Ancestral healing and revitalization traditions While “business as usual” has been failing us nect, share thoughts, raise questions, express based on an understanding of humans com- badly, imaginative entrepreneurs and private feelings or simply listen and be. This interac- posed of body, mind and spirit and integral parts sector forces are emerging as key players to tive and egalitarian forum is a place for you of nature and the cosmos, offer some of civiliza- leapfrog to a restoration economy. What are to bear witness, hear one another and be tion’s most sophisticated approaches to human some game-changing business-based sustain- heard. It is a place where all of who you are health. Dr. Maoshing Ni of The Tao of Wellness, ability strategies? With: Jack Hidary, visionary will be welcomed. one of the nation’s leading practitioners of entrepreneur (chronicled in Tom Friedman’s Chinese Traditional Medicine, and Northern Hot, Flat and Crowded); Tom Van Dyck, senior Wintu herbalist Sage LaPena-Peconom share their vice-president of SRI Wealth Management Social Media insights into women’s health. Moderated at Royal Bank of Canada, longtime leader in in the Autodesk Atrium (see p.27 for details) by journalist, poet and TV writer/producer socially responsible investing and Bioneers Anneke Campbell. board member; Dune Lankard, Alaska Native American social entrepreneur and Ashoka Fel- FRIDAY AFTERNOON low. Moderated by Mark Sommer, executive 4:30–6p m Busting the Drug War: The Dawning director of The Mainstream Media Project. Era of Drug Policy Reform MIF screening Ethan Nadelmann, founder-director of the Food, Inc. and The People’s Grocery Drug Policy Alliance, the nation’s leading drug Changing the Story: Using Media Showcase Theater policy reform organization, is the most im- for Social Transformation portant scholar and activist in the struggle to Innovators share success stories in break- change our destructive drug laws. He shares his through uses of media as well as ways of Geodesic/Synergetic/ vision of how finally to end one of the most reaching mass audiences to create social Dymaxion Trimtabs: ruinously expensive, harmful and failed policies change. Hosted by Jeremy Kagan, award- The Buckminster Fuller Challenge! in human history. Introduced by Bioneers associ-

winning film and TV director/writer/producer. Hosted by the Buckminster Fuller Institute. ate producer, J.P. Harpignies. With: William Ryerson, president of the Popu- The Buckminster Fuller Challenge, launched in lation Media Center and Population Institute, 2007, is an annual global design competition on using popular Latin TV soaps (telenovelas) whose $100,000 prize supports the develop- Re-Envisioning Leadership to promote reproductive health and other is- ment and implementation of a bold, visionary, Given our collective need to encourage and sues; and Joshua Fouts and Rita King, creators tangible initiative that has significant potential mentor emerging leaders, how are we re- of Understanding Islam Through Virtual Worlds, to help solve humanity’s most pressing prob- inventing leadership in ways that are more real, on how virtual worlds can enable cross-cul- lems. Learn about the prize’s Bucky-inspired just, adaptable and enduring? How are we creat- tural dialogue and a respectful understanding design criteria, goals and impacts with: BFI ing conditions for that new leadership to emerge

of Islamic culture. executive director Elizabeth Thompson; John in healthy, abundant and authentic ways? Hosted To d d , the prize’s first winner, visionary bio- by Akaya Windwood, CEO of Rockwood Lead- mimic and ecological design elder; Greg Wat- ership Institute. With: Eve Cowen, founder and Headlines! Art Inspired by Breaking son, senior advisor for clean energy technol- executive director of The Future Leaders Insti- Environmental News ogy for the Massachusetts Executive Office of tute; angel Kyodo williams, Zen Buddhist teacher, In this interactive, timely and dramatic art Energy & Environmental Affairs and Bioneers author, co-founder of the Seasons Fund; David experiment, seven eco-artists present an in- board member; and Ryan Chin, the project Mann, Windcall Resident Program Alumnus and process, imagined work of art inspired by a lead for the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge past member of Windcall Selection Committee;

breaking environmental news story. Sharing Winner, Sustainable Personal Mobility/Mobility and Bioneers’ Nina Simons. their visions and responses, they model how on Demand. to transform their inspirations into artworks with sketches and plans. Audience members participate in the artists’ creative process by

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Re-Weaving the Web of Life: Sacred Waters: Renewing the blood Conserving Global Biodiversity of mother earth Amplified by the onset of climate chaos, Water, as one of the most essential elements Saturday global biodiversity is experiencing epochal of life, is valued for its power, medicine, and Musical performance by Kai Eckhardt extinctions that compromise the integrity of usefulness to all life forms. Native American the web of life itself. How can we save what’s water specialists will share their work to pro- left and reverse the trend? With: Chris Andrews, tect and restore the sanctity of waterways, the chief of public engagement and director of the blood of Mother Earth, from bays and lakes PLENARIES 9a m – 1p m Steinhart Aquarium, California Academy of Sci- to rivers and oceans. Moderated by Melissa ences; Oscar Moctezuma, revered conserva- Nelson (Anishinaabe/Métis), The Cultural Con- tion elder and director of Naturalia, Mexico’s servancy, and American Indian Studies, San Opening Remarks by Jim Garrison, president of premier biodiversity conservation organization; Francisco State. With: Josephine Mandamin State of the World Forum and Alejandro Argumedo, Quechua from Peru, (Anishinaabe), Mother Earth Water Walk; Ann potato diversity master instrumental in creating Marie Sayers (Mutsun Ohlone), Indian Canyon Clip from Hidden Beauty introduced by Cuzco’s famed “Potato Park.” Moderated by Nation; Marlowe Sam (Okanagan/Wenatchee), filmmakerLouie Schwartzberg Jeffrey Campbell, director of grant making of the En’Owkin Centre; and Darlene Sanderson, Christensen Fund. (Cree), Indigenous World Forum on Water Introduction by Bryony Schwan, and Peace. executive director, Biomimicry Institute JASON MCLENNAN Localization The Pathway Living Buildings-The Future to Living Economies Social Media of Architecture Responding to the challenges of climate in the Autodesk Atrium (see p.27 for details) This leading figure in the global green architec- change, resource depletion and a failed fi- ture movement challenges us to imagine and nancial system, a dynamic, fast-growing move- demand buildings that operate as elegantly ment has arisen to transition from an econ- FRIDAY EVENING and efficiently as the living structures nature omy dominated by multinationals to local, 7–9p m creates. As CEO of Cascadia Green Building living economies that produce basic needs at Council, author of the Living Building Challenge home while working in harmony with nature. MIF screening and co-creator of Pharos (the most advanced Leading lights of this movement share their A Sea Change and Witness to Hiroshima building material rating system in North strategies. Hosted by Judy Wicks, co-founder Rachel Carson Tent America), he shows breathtaking examples and chair of the nationwide Business Alliance for from the worldwide challenge underway to Local Living Economies (BALLE); BALLE’s new Youth Film Event design buildings that meet or exceed nature’s executive director; and Jennifer Gray, founder Students of Consequence: African Bushmeat ecosystem services. and president of Transition US and a pioneer of Expedition and Vida Verde Nature Education the UK’s Transition Towns movement. John Mohawk Tent Introduction by Nina Simons LILY YEH 7:30p m The Rwanda Healing Project: Council Circle Bringing Hope through Art Come sit in circle with other members of the MIF screening and Creative Action Bioneers community. The Yes Men Fix the World This internationally celebrated artist works to Showcase Theater bring the transformative power of art to impoverished and war-torn communities around the world to foster community empowerment,

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Remembering Thomas Berry (1914-2009)

“The universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive Eventually he grew to become perhaps the first historian the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and “geologian” of the entire Earth and of the Universe and the trees put it in theirs. We can read the story of the itself, and may have come closer than anyone else to begin- universe in the trees. Everything tells the story of the universe... ning to provide a new story for Western Civilization, a new If you do not know the story...you do not know yourself; you do cosmology that could provide humanity with a worldview, not know anything.” Thomas Berry which would honor its relationship to the Earth, to evolution and to all life as we enter our new emerging ecological Bioneers mourns the passing and celebrates the legacy or “ecozoic” age. His many books, including such seminal of one of the most important and influential thinkers of classics as: The Religions of India; The Dream of the Earth; The our era. The “eco-theologian” or “Earth scholar” Thomas Universe Story; and The Great Work: Our Way into the Future; Berry was a true visionary who, in the lineage of Teilhard de will be read for generations to come. Chardin, took the very best of the Christian tradition and wedded it firmly to modern science and a profound eco- We honor the memory of this great soul and applaud consciousness to create a compelling new creation story the Universe for its capacity to produce such brilliance for our evolving civilization and universe. in human form.

A leading cultural historian of European and Asian civiliza- J.P. Harpignies, Associate Producer and Special Projects tions in his early career, with a deep lifelong respect for and Manager, Bioneers interest in indigenous worldviews, Berry had both a remark- ably broad, all-encompassing intellect and a passionate heart.

improve the physical environment, promote Introduction by Kenny Ausubel SATURDAY AFTERNOON economic development and preserve indig- ARTURO SANDOVAL 2:45–4:15p m enous art and culture. She portrays a heart- Changing the Axis: breakingly beautiful project (described in Drawing from Mexican and Dreaming New Mexico: Reconciling Terry Tempest Williams’ latest book Find- Latin American Cultures to Human and Natural Systems ing Beauty in a Broken World) exemplifying Create a Sustainable Future Dreaming the future can create the future. how art can begin to heal the environment The Euro-American ethic which has dominat- Envisioning a sustainable world is the neces- as well as the hearts and minds of trauma- ed the cultural and economic landscape of the sary first step toward realizing it. What would tized people. Americas for hundreds of years has had some a regional “food-shed” economy that’s based positive effects on the Western Hemisphere, on local jobs, healthy food, social equity, elimi- but its total domination of the commons has nating hunger and restoring the environment Performance by Shailja Patel also stifled equally valuable ethics that existed look like? Dreaming New Mexico (DNM), a prior to the emergence of the US One of Bioneers project, has created a future Local- New Mexico’s most prominent civic leaders ized Food Shed map to facilitate transforma- Introduction by Nina Simons explores how we can find a balance between tion at the state level. With: Peter Warshall, JENSINE LARSEN these older and newer attitudes to land and world-renowned biodiversity expert and The Electric Pulse of Women life in order to create a viable future for us all. DNM project co-director; Arturo Sandoval, Transforming Our World a deeply respected Hispano elder on justice Across the Earth, courageous women lead- and environmental issues, founder of the Cen- ers from rural villages to corporate suites Introduction by Kenny Ausubel ter of Southwest Culture; and Arty Mangan, are connecting to solve global problems. The DR. ANDREW WEIL Bioneers Food and Farming director. Moder- visionary founder of World Pulse, a global Environmental Health, ated by Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers founder and media source covering world issues through Environmental Medicine DNM co-director. women’s eyes, shares her journey building an Human health and environmental health are interactive global media enterprise to unleash inextricably interconnected, yet the education the power of women’s voices, and shows how and training of doctors and health profession- Dreaming New Mexico, we can participate in this ongoing revolution. als largely ignore the subject. America’s most a Bioneers project, was selected prominent “Integrative” MD and medical re- for second place by the prestigious former says in his new book on reinventing 2009 Buckminster Fuller INTERMISSION the American health care system that it’s im- Challenge Award. perative to mobilize the health-care commu- (http://challenge.bfi.org/winner_2009) nity as an ally in the environmental movement. MARIN COUNTY AWARD The alliance could overcome the influence of Charles McGlashan of the Marin County vested interests that still block the legislative The Living Building Challenge: Board of Supervisors and Jim Farley, direc- and policy changes we need to protect the Can You Match Nature’s tor of Marin’s Cultural and Visitors’ Servic- health of people and planet. Design Elegance? es, will present a Resolution honoring the Green building visionary Jason McLennan influence Bioneers has had on the county’s portrays breakthrough examples of green green innovations. building best practices in response to the Challenge. He illustrates how the Living Build- ing Challenge rating system works as well as how leading-edge projects are rising to the

- 14 - - 15 - www.bioneers.org Saturday • October 17 standard. He probes the financial and code er in rural Appalachia. With: Andy Lipkis, re- provocative discussion of Native media and barriers toward achieving new levels of high nowned founder and president of Los Angeles’ their role in perpetuating indigenous oral tra- performance, and illuminates what we must TreePeople; and T. Allan Comp, director of the ditions and creating new forms of expression. do to overcome such impediments. Appalachian Coal Country Watershed Team, Moderator: Melissa Nelson (Anishinaabe/Mé- a joint initiative of the Office of Surface Min- tis), The Cultural Conservancy, American Indi- ing and AmeriCorps/VISTA. Moderated by an Studies, San Francisco State. With: L. Frank Imagine That! Betsy Damon, innovative artist, water res- (Tongva/Ajachmem), Advocates for Indigenous The Power of Creativity and torationist and founder of Keepers of the California Language Survival; Joanne Campbell

Imagination to Create Social Waters. (Coast Miwok), Language Program, Federated and Environmental Change Indians of Graton Rancheria; and China Ching What is the role of art and creativity in creat- (Hawaiian), digital storyteller and trainer. ing individual, cultural and ecological transfor- Mother Jones Presents: Morph mation? How might we best nurture, inspire or Die—The Transformation and ignite it across our society? How might we of Journalism and Media Council Circle restore it to a place of primary value? Hosted As newspapers go bankrupt and news organi- Come sit in circle with other members of the by Sarah Crowell, program development di- zations morph or die in the face of digital me- Bioneers community. rector of Oakland’s Destiny Arts Youth Per- dia, how are progressive media organizations formance Company. With: world-renowned transforming? How can investigative reporting radical theologian and author Matthew Fox; and social change media adapt successfully? SATURDAY AFTERNOON Lily Yeh, acclaimed activist and artist; Elizabeth With: Annie Leonard, whose Story of Stuff has 4:30p m –6p m Murray, author, artist, garden designer and in- been seen by millions online all over the world; ternationally-recognized creativity teacher; and Josh Silver, co-founder and executive director MIF screening Javier Santos, a youth member of Destiny Arts. of the Free Press, the largest media reform Children of the Amazon and Silent Snow Showcase Theater organization in the US; and Ken Rother, president and COO of the pre-eminent online environmental information hub, the invaluable Shattering Stereotypes: TreeHugger. Hosted by Mother Jones and its Global Water Sustainability Empowering Youth to Create publisher Jay Harris. Challenges: How Would Positive Change Biomimicry (Nature) Solve Them? The young constitute the most dynamic part Compounded by climate change, overused of any population and have always been a ma- Breakthrough Communities: How world water resources will increasingly deter- jor driver of social change throughout human Multi-Racial Coalitions Are Building mine the livability of the planet. How would history. How can we break through prevalent Transformative Leadership for biomimicry – innovation inspired by nature— negative stereotypes about youth and sup- Sustainability and Justice solve this challenge? Hosted by Bryony Schwan, port today’s younger generations to engage Come hear inspiring success stories from the The Biomimicry Institute’s executive director, in becoming powerful, positive change-agents in front lines. New emerging multi-racial coali- who will highlight the latest in biomimicry their communities? Come decode these stereo- tions are working to achieve social justice and technologies to purify, store and transport types and help build a coalition of young activ- environmental progress around the country water to communities around the world. ists that will give adults a brand new perception (as detailed in the new book Breakthrough With: Sean Dempsey, chief development offi- about the power that youth wield. Join Califor- Communities and its companion PBS series). cer of Floating Island International LLC, which nia youth leaders from Roots & Shoots, and Hosted by legendary environmental justice models nature’s floating wetlands for water other youth leaders from Destiny Arts Youth pioneer Carl Anthony and M. Paloma Pavel, purification; and Dr. David Hammond, co- Performance Center, and Literacy for Environ- founder of Earth House, working on health, founder and principal of GO2 Water, an en- mental Justice. justice, education and sustainable develop- vironmental solutions company with patented, ment issues worldwide. With: Mary Gonzales, commercially-proven processes for treating founder of the Gamaliel Foundation; Assistant wastewater and recovering bioenergy, nutrients A Conversation about Integrative Professor Martina Martsnoka of Occidental and water for reuse while operating within a Medicine, Environmental Health College’s Urban and Environmental Policy In- carbon-negative ecological footprint. and the Transformation stitute; and Peggy Shepard, renowned Harlem, of Health Care NYC-based environmental justice leader and UnEarthing the Story: What would authentic health-care reform executive director of WEACT. look like? How can we integrate healing and The Power of Women and Media Integrative Medicine with sustainable environ- As women’s voices become better represent- mental and economic frameworks? Hosted Herb Walk with Autumn Summers ed as publishers, editors, bloggers and report- by environmental health visionary Michael Autumn has 20 years’ experience in herbal- ers in more mainstream media outlets—how Lerner, founder of the world-renowned Com- ism, teaches at the California School of Herbal are they affecting the shape and nature of monweal Institute. With: Susan Braun, Com- Studies and throughout the Bay Area and journalism in this transformative time? Host- monweal director, former CEO of the Susan manages Bayer Farm Community Garden. ed by Charlotte Brody, national field director,

G. Komen Breast Cancer Fund; Sharyle Patton, Safer States, Washington DC and Bioneers director of Commonweal Bio-monitoring board member. With: Jensine Larsen, inter- Resource Center; and renowned integrative national women’s media entrepreneur and Monika Bauerlein medicine pioneer Russell Jaffe, MD. Native Media and advocate; , Mother Jones’ co- Cultural Revitalization editor; Jamilah King, associate editor of Wire- Communications media are powerful tools for TapMag.org and Stacy Malkan co-founder of

The Blue Revolution: Restoring Wa- education and social change. Indigenous com- the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. tersheds in Cities and Communities munities are increasingly using audio/video Two visionary innovators in systemic ap- recording and other forms of multimedia to proaches to organizing communities around record their histories, knowledge and prac- their watersheds share their experiences and tices for their own purposes. Join indigenous strategies: one in a major urban area, the oth- media-makers and language advocates in this

www.bioneers.org - 16 - - 17 - saturday • October 17 Ayahuasca, Anthropology and Farming With Nature: Looking to SATURDAY EVENING Activism: Plants, Politics and the Land for Guidance 6:30–8p m Systems of Knowledge Master restorative farmer Bob Cannard, leg- Jeremy Narby, the Switzerland-based anthropol- endary for his iconoclastic innovations, riffs on MIF screening ogist, long-time Amazonian indigenous rights ac- a plant’s-eye view of soil fertility practices that Dirt! The Movie tivist and author of groundbreaking classics such deliver optimum nutrition for people, plants Manzanita Room as The Cosmic Serpent and Intelligence in Nature, and soil. This ingenious eco-farmer, a main delves into the resistance of indigenous peoples supplier of both produce and vision to in the Amazon, his experiences among them Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse, shares his clear- 6:30p m as an activist and researcher, the worldviews of eyed empirical wisdom and free-wheeling Seed Exchange shamanism and of modern science, the human imagination that yield beyond-organic crops Food Pavilion relationship to plants, and the profound intelli- and lands. Exchange genetic materials with other bion- gence that permeates the entire biosphere. In- eers! Help conserve biodiversity and maintain troduced by Bioneers associate producer open-source and democratic access to the J.P. Harpignies. From Jaguars to White Spirit Bears: living treasure of seeds by trading or getting Conserving Imperiled Wildlands open-pollinated seeds to plant. Be a back- Courageous guardians of the wild are employ- yard biodiversity guardian! Don’t miss this Blackstone Ranch Institute ing innovative strategies to save our planet’s incredibly popular event. Presents: From Convening to last great ecosystems and biodiversity, from Coordinated Action: The Path northern boreal forests containing white to Transformational Change spirit bears to the desert and mountain cor- 7:30p m Environmental and social problems require ridors of Northern Mexico and the American Food and Farming Banquet and transformational solutions, but the only thing Southwest where jaguars roam. Hosted by Mike Tribute to Organic Valley harder than planning for transformation is ac- Brune, executive director of Rainforest Action Embasy Suites Ballroom tually achieving it. This don’t-miss session on Network (RAN). With: Oscar Moctezuma, direc- At a dinner honoring Organic Valley, the mis- movement building will present real-world tor of Naturalia, premier Mexican conservation sion-driven leader in organics and exemplary examples of practices that have proven effec- organization; and Tzeporah Berman, heroine of cooperative of family farmer-owners, network tive at producing such change across cultures Canadian forest protection and co-founder of with the Bioneers food and farming commu- and at a large scale, and will provide pointers ForestEthics. nity while enjoying a local and organic dinner on how to move our movements, organiza- designed by chef and author Bryant Terry. tions, coalitions and networks from shared (separate admission required) intention, through coordinated action to real- Green Economy innovations world results. Hosted by John Richardson, ex- in native lands ecutive director of Blackstone Ranch Institute. This session will provide an overview of the 7:30-9:30p m With: Ron Hubert, director of the Sustainable green economy in Indian Country, with spe- MIF screening Cities Program at the Center for Sustainable cific examples of projects happening on the Earth Days and Origins Environments at the University of Northern local, tribal, and national levels. Panelists will Showcase Theater Arizona; and Scott Spann, founder and strate- discuss what “green jobs” specifically mean gist for Innate Strategies who helped develop for Indigenous Peoples, and the challenges

the successful RE-AMP strategy. and opportunities this creates for the larger 8p m –midnight green economy and green energy movement. Moderator: Jihan Gearon (Dine’), Native En- Educasting: Education ergy and Climate Campaign, Indigenous En- Live Music & Dance Party for Innovation vironmental Network. With: Kandi Mossett Dance the night away to Live Music by LoCura Hosted by Mark Sommer, internationally syn- (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikira), Tribal Energy Action & the ‘gaiatronic grooves’ of DJ Dragonfly. dicated radio host and executive director of Coalition Campus Climate Challenge Project, A World of Possibilities and Connexus. Edu- Indigenous Environmental Network; Wahleah casting is a leading-edge response to the digi- Johns (Dine’), Navajo Green Jobs/Black Mesa 8–9:30p m tization of education and the need to extend Water Coalition; and PennElys Goodshield education into real-world problem solving. It (Anishinabe), Sustainable Nations Develop- uses a multi-mix of audio, video and print ma- ment Project. AN EVENING WITH CAROLINE W. CASEY terials as long-term educational resources via AND DR. ANDREW WEIL the web. Each module is accompanied by an Trickster Medicine interactive study guide as curriculum support Social Media Death—Sex—Money—Power— that teaches skills essential to effective innova- in the Autodesk Atrium (see p.27 for details) Pragmatic Mysticism—Democratic tion. Adaptable for many contexts beyond the Animism…and more! classroom, Educasting enables users to apply By the power of Trickster Medicine, brewed ingenuity to solve problems through collab- Council Circle this night, let’s compost the rubble of Em- orative projects in the real world. With: Robin Come sit in circle with other members of the pire to grow the garden of reverent ingenuity. Pagliuco, Educasting director, Connexus; James Bioneers community. (Separate admission required. Purchase tickets Durchslag, executive director of the Main- at the registration kiosk in front of the VMA. Cost stream Media Project; and Kristin Smith, Con- is $10 for conference attendees and $30 for nexus Educasting curriculum developer. general public. No one will be allowed into the

event without a ticket.)

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Introduction by Kate Gordon, co-director of the national Apollo Alliance SUNDAY AFTERNOON 2:45–4:15p m Sunday JEROME RINGO The Color Of Green: Raising Their Voices! Youth Using Musical performance by Kai Eckhardt The Next Inconvenient Truth New Media to Amplify Their Causes Nearly $116 billion will be spent over the A large swath of diverse youth has recently be- next two years developing clean fuels, mod- come far more politically awakened and fired PLENARIES ernizing rail transit, pursuing energy efficiency up, and as perhaps the most technology-savvy 9a m –1p m and developing electric vehicles. One of the among us, they’re taking full advantage of all nation’s foremost environmental leaders says the new forms of media available. Learn how Opening remarks by Nina Simons, we must ensure that the jobs created in that they’ve been successful at building collective Bioneers co-founder and president effort are good jobs available to all Americans. voices through new media outlets. Hosted His perspective comes from originally work- by Shadia Fayne Wood, 2004 Brower Youth ing as a petrochemical worker in Louisiana’s Award Winner and new media director of Introduction by Nina Simons “cancer alley” for 20 years, to becoming chair- Fired Up Media!. With: Alec Loorz, founder man of the National Wildlife Federation (the JOANNA MACY of Kids vs. Global Warming, youth leader The Hidden Promise of Our Dark Age: first African-American to head a major con- for Alliance for Climate Education; Shelby Discovering Our Wisdom, Strength servation organization), and now president of Ray & Alberta Nells, Outta Your Backpack and Beauty in the Midst of Crisis the groundbreaking Apollo Alliance. Media; and Jordan Howard, Los Angeles If we can free ourselves from the delusions Green Ambassadors. and dependencies bred by the “industrial growth society,” something wonderful can Performance by Destiny Arts Youth happen. One of the great activists and spiri- Performance Company The Forest and the Trees – and tual teachers of our era brings a hopeful mes- the People: Saving Rainforest sage: If we manage to steer clear of panic, we Biocultural Diversity may well find, at last, the wild power of our Introduction by Kenny Ausubel Hosted by Amazon Conservation Team ANNIE LEONARD creativity and solidarity. (ACT). Rainforests are perhaps the planet’s The Story of Stuff greatest treasures, repositories of the vast A key part of the American dream is centered biological diversity and some of the oldest Introduction by Thomas Linzey, executive director of the on accumulating ever more, and better, stuff. cultures. They serve as immense carbon sinks, Community Environmental Defense Fund Yet all the stuff in our lives is taking an enor- oxygen factories and global climate stabilizers. MARI MARGIL mous toll on the environment, public health, Their loss would devastate life on Earth, and Who speaks for the Trees? equity, personal happiness and even our sense key to saving them is to support their indig- Driving Nature’s Rights into Law of citizenship and democracy. Acclaimed enous peoples. With: Vasco van Roosmalen, The associate director of the Community filmmaker and Internet phenomenon Annie ACT’s Brazil representative; Chief Almir, Surui Environmental Defense Fund (CELDF) de- Leonard exposes the often hidden costs and tribal leader; and Jeremy Narby, anthropolo- scribes the inspiring, groundbreaking work provides a hopeful vision for moving beyond gist, longtime indigenous rights activist and she and CELDF are doing to recognize Rights the age of Stuff. of Nature in law in both the US and Ecuador, Amazon representative for Nouvelle Planète. which recently became the world’s first na- Closing Music by Melanie DeMore Moderated by Oken Wilson, executive direc- tion to enshrine such rights in its constitution. tor of the Christensen Fund.

Introduction by Rebecca Moore, founder of Google Earth Outreach CHIEF ALMIR NARAYAMOGA SURUI Biocultural Conservation in the Amazon: How an Amazon Tribe Has Combined Traditional Knowledge With Science and Technology to Save Its Rainforests and Its People Chief Almir, 32, a tribal chief, environmentalist and political activist, portrays his and his people’s struggles to survive by protecting their culture and rainforest since they made First Contact with the Western world in 1969. He surveys the history of the Amazon, its situ- ation today and the unusual partnership he forged with Google to use Google Earth’s high-tech tools to help his Surui people tell their story and protect their forests and culture.

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Democracy Breaks Out: Envisioning food system. In this experiential session we Sustainable Livelihoods (ANDES); Sarah James the Spokane Revolution will meet activists from around the country (Gwich’in), Gwich’in Steering Committee; and Something remarkable is happening in Spo- who are redesigning our foodsheds based on Matthew Leivas, Sr. (Chemehuevi), Salt Song

kane, Washington. Informed by the Democ- sustainability, equity, diversity, resilience and Trail Project. racy School movement (and Bioneers), a ecology, and who use faith, politics, rhythm broad-based grassroots coalition called Envi- and hiphop to convey the message. Hosted sion Spokane is working to bring local em- by Oran B. Hesterman, president and CEO Council Circle powerment, more social justice and sustain- of Fair Food Network. With James Ella James, Come sit in circle with other members of the able economic initiatives into law with a new long-time Oakland-based, faith-based activist; Bioneers community. City Charter embedding the rights of nature VooDo Fe’, NYC clothing designer and hiphop and community rights over corporate artist; and Fair Food Network’s Jean Chora- rights. With: Jim Sheehan, Spokane civic zyczewski, an Ann Arbor-based percussionist. SUNDAY AFTERNOON p m leader, public-interest attorney and found- 4:30–6 er of the Center for Justice; Thomas Linzey, co-founder and executive director for the Inner Transformation and Community Environmental Legal Defense Awakening the Dreamer Engagement for Environmental Fund (CELDF); Breean Beggs, Center for Presented by Pachamama Alliance and Social Justice Justice; Jennifer M. Hall, executive director, The purpose of the Awakening the Dreamer As we stand at the precipice of mass extinc- Main Market; and Dave Sanders, Envision Symposium is to bring forth an environmen- tions, climate crises and economic collapse, as

Spokane community coordinator. tally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially well as growing global poverty and injustice, just human presence on Earth. The Sympo- can we build our spirituality on ecological sium has been presented on six continents foundations? Can we find strength and resil- Shades of Gray: Is the Economy in 30+ countries in at least five languages. It ience in our activism from a spiritual anchor? Really Turning Green? combines powerful video, group interaction Moderated by M. Paloma Pavel, founder of The message that clean energy policy can cre- and personal reflection to reveal the deep Earth House, and Carl Anthony, renowned en- ate good jobs was central to the 2008 Presi- connections among seemingly separate issues. vironmental justice leader; With Joanna Macy, dential campaign and to the stimulus debate. It inspires and re-inspires people at all de- Buddhist scholar and activist; john a. powell, How much progress have we made toward grees of commitment to act ever more deep- Ohio State law professor and a director of realizing the dream? Some of the nation’s sav- ly and it articulates a context within which a the Tides Foundation; and Brian Swimme, pro- viest green economy leaders candidly exam- new range of collaboration is possible for fessor at California Institute of Integral Studies.

ine victories, problems and most important, us all. The power of the symposium opens next steps. Hosted by Kate Gordon, co-director potent possibilities for movement-building. of the national Apollo Alliance. With: Gillian With: Jon Symes, outreach director at The

Caldwell, campaign director of the national cli- Pachamama Alliance. A Dialogue about Sustainability mate change activist group, 1Sky; Jerome from Two Cultures: Modern Systems Ringo, Apollo Alliance president; Phaedra Thinking and Indigenous Wisdom Ellis-Lamkins, CEO of Green For All; and Herb Walk with Kami McBride For the last 10 years, the Center for Ecolit- Billy Parish, founder of the Climate Cam- Kami explores herbal medicine as a relation- eracy (CEL) has applied systems thinking and paign and co-founder/coordinator of En- ship with the Earth and our bodies, and as a an ecological conceptual framework to de-

ergy Action Coalition. way of life. She has taught herbal medicine velop a model of education for sustainable liv- and women’s health since 1988, including at ing based on ideas articulated by indigenous the University of California Nursing School wisdom keeper Jeannette Armstrong and sys- Collective Healing: and Stanford Hospital. tems theorist and physicist Fritjof Capra. In a Transforming Trauma and Despair dialogue moderated by CEL executive direc- The seriousness of our ecological and so- tor Zenobia Barlow, these two gifted authors cial crises often fill us with fear and despair. Visualizing Your Cause and thinkers engage in a joint exploration of Yet facing and working with difficult emo- in Google Earth sustainability and the nature of life from two tions is precisely what can heal us, increase Learn how to visualize your cause in Google very different perspectives: the modern scien- our resilience and help us navigate through Earth, to enhance your work and reach out tific worldview of ecology and systems theory, the massive transformations underway. Four to the world. Led by the Google Earth Out- and the lived experience of an indigenous highly diverse pioneers of community-based reach team. Bring your laptop or team up society that has sustained itself on a finite re-

healing modalities describe powerful pro- with someone who’s got one. source base for millennia. cesses for transforming grief and trauma into a profound connection to the Earth. Hosted by Laura Loescher, leadership coach, philan- Protecting Sacred Landscapes, When Less is More: Rethinking Our thropic advisor and director of Aepoch Fund. Native Plants, Foods, and Medicines Relationships to Time and Money With: Joanna Macy, legendary activist and Bud- Indigenous lands and sacred landscapes are One upside of this economic upheaval is a re- dhist teacher; Staci Haines, a leading activist/ the foundation of native life and culture. They examination of what really matters. Explore the educator on child sexual abuse and somatic provide the plants, foods, and medicines need- abundant benefits of reclaiming your time and approaches to recovery from trauma; and ed for the continuance of life. These lands and the profound healing capacities of practicing a Sobonfu Somé, Dagara healer and teacher their biodiversity are under constant threat life of generosity. Hosted by Charlotte Brody, na- from Burkina Faso. of exploitation and pollution. Come listen to tional field director, Safer States, Washington DC. prominent native leaders speak about their With: John de Graaf, award-winning filmmaker, profound relationship to the plant people author, national coordinator of the annual Take Fair Food: Building a Fair and and their efforts to protect and safeguard tra- Back Your Time Day, and a leading figure in the Sustainable Food System with ditional lands, foods, and medicines. Modera- battle against overwork and over-consumption; Faith, Politics and Music tor: Clayton Thomas-Müller (Cree), Indigenous and Nipun Mehta, founder of CharityFocus, a Lack of access to fresh, healthy and sustain- Environmental Network. With: Donna House volunteer-driven organization that provides free ably grown food in historically excluded com- (Navajo), ethnobotanist; Alejandro Argumedo web-based solutions for nonprofits worldwide munities is a major symptom of our broken (Quechua), Quechua-Aymara Association for and acts as an incubator of “gift-economy” proj-

- 18 - - 19 - www.bioneers.org Sunday • October 18 orter/Bioneers photo credit: Tim P photo credit: ects ranging from web services to film produc- and stress with new generative patterns: Indigenous Philanthropy: tion, magazines and restaurants. “future-fitting” ourselves from the inside out. Expanding Funding for First Peoples This experiential workshop presents power- Indigenous nonprofit organizations in the Democracy Schools and ful practices we can use to overcome stress North and Global South continue to address the Rights of Nature and evolve to our fullest potential. Hosted by challenges that push indigenous communi- The Democracy School Movement demon- Nina Rothschild Utne, former chair and CEO ties to the edge of economic, cultural and strates that to successfully block corporate as- of Utne magazine. With: Deborah Rozman of political extinction. US indigenous organiza- saults on our communities, we can’t ultimately HeartMath LLC, a pioneer in cutting-edge ap- tions receive less than one quarter of 1% of prevail if we fight issue by issue. We have to proaches to stress and emotional management; all funds contributed by philanthropy. Inter- transform the core legal principles that gov- and Staci Haines, leading activist/educator on national funding is not any better. Join speak- ern us. Leaders of this cutting-edge grassroots child sexual abuse and somatic approaches to ers of indigenous-based foundations and movement share exciting developments both recovery from trauma. indigenous initiatives in a discussion about in the US and Ecuador that begin to enshrine how foundations and donors could address in law the fundamental and inalienable Rights these funding disparities. Moderated by: To m of Nature. With: Thomas Linzey, co-founder Breaking Gridlock: Greening and “Mato Awanyankapi” Goldtooth (Dine’/Dakota) and executive director for the Community Decentralizing State and Regional Indigenous Environmental Network Mining Environmental Legal Defense Fund; Mari Margil, Energy Systems Mini-Grant Initiative, Honor the Earth Fund. associate director, CELDF; and Shannon Biggs, Much of the most progressive change in en- With: Dune Lankard (Eyak/Athabascan), FIRE director of the Local Green Economy pro- ergy systems is occurring at the local and re- Fund; Jonathon Freeman (Choctaw/Mexica), gram at Global Exchange and co-author of gional levels. How are states and cities moving Seventh Generation Fund; Evelyn Arce-White

Building the Green Economy. to renewables while gaining greater resilience, (Chibcha/Colombian), International Funders efficiency and political-economic power by for Indigenous Peoples, Akwesasne Territories; moving toward getting off the Big Grid alto- Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (Igorot/Philippines), chair Tag, You’re I.T.: Information gether? With: Rick Reed, founder of RE-AMP, of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Technology Innovations a powerful seven-state Midwest clean energy Issues; and Ken Wilson, The Chistensen Fund. I.T. is enabling powerful social change through network; Anna Marie Rondon, a Dine (Na- distributed networks, and simultaneously the vajo) from Gallup, New Mexico who has 30 tech itself is finally getting greener. Explore years’ experience in social and environmen- 4:30p m the leading edges of both technology and so- tal justice struggles and now works with the MIF screening cial technology. With: Michael Leifer, cultural New Mexico-based New Energy Economy; A Sense of Wonder and Lessons from Carson anthropologist and founder of the award- and John Fogarty, MD, New Energy Economy’s Showcase Theater winning firm Guerilla PR, author of Green executive director, founding board member of Social Currency; Anna Jaeger, co-director of the national climate action group 1Sky, and na- the Green Tech Initiative of Tech Soup Global, tional board member of Physicians for Social Council Circle Come sit in circle with other members of the the technology place for nonprofits; and Responsibility. Louie Schwartzberg, time-lapse nature film- Bioneers community. maker extraordinaire whose movies reveal scientific and aesthetic wonders, including the Indigenous Mapping forthcoming Hidden Beauty for DisneyNature. with Google Earth 6:15p m Moderated by Jeremy Kagan, renowned film- This special session is for indigenous participants. Closing Circle Hosted by Cultivating Women’s Leadership maker, teacher and change-maker. Learn how to build a cultural and natural atlas of your people and land to share with ’09 Ocamora Alumni the world in Google Earth. Workshop led Becoming Resilient Change Agents by the Google Earth Outreach team. Bring How can we find the inner resources to re- your laptop or team up with someone who’s spond to the disorienting changes we face? got one. One path is to replace old habits of trauma

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Join Bay Area radio talk show host Deborah Linsday, along with award-winning filmmakers and leading edge innovators, to celebrate the Festival’s 10th anniversary with screenings and discussions on issues that ignite dialogue and inspire action.

Friday, October 16 at 4:30p m pose and healing through his advocacy for from profiteering after Hurricane Katrina Showcase Theater atomic survivors, opposing nuclear weap- to the disaster in Bhopal. A smash hit from ons, and preserving the horseshoe crab. the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, see why Food, Inc. Naomi Klein calls their book “A combina- Food, Inc. exposes our nation’s food indus- In Person: Filmmaker Kathy Sloane tion of devastatingly intelligent critique with try and the highly mechanized underbelly slapstick hilarity. You are holding in your that’s been hidden from the American Friday, October 16 at 7p m hands the next breakthrough book on consumer with the consent of our gov- YOUTH FILM EVENT, John Mohawk Tent globalization.” ernment’s regulatory agencies. This often Students of Consequence: puts profit ahead of consumer health, African Bushmeat Expedition In Person: Peter Phillips, Professor Sociology at along with the livelihood of the Ameri- Inspired by the work of Dr. Jane Goodall, Sonoma State University and Director of Project can farmer, the safety of workers and our Dr. Jay Vavra and his students from High Censored and Ben Frymer, Assistant Professor So- own environment. Featuring interviews ciology at Sonoma State University and incoming Tech High in San Diego lived with 3 differ- Director of Project Censored with Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and ent Tanzanian tribes. During this time they Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma). interviewed key anti-poaching and wildlife officials in an attempt to curb illegal wildlife Saturday, October 17 at 4:30p m In Person: Michael Pollan, Carolie Sly; Education Showcase Theater Program Director of the Center for Ecoliteracy and trade in Africa while demonstrating an Ildi Carlile Cummins of the Community Alliance of empowering out-of-the-box approach Family Farmers. to education. Shown with: Shown with: The People’s Grocery Vida Verde Nature Education The Global Oneness Project presents this Vida Verde is a nonprofit that promotes 8-minute portrait of the People’s Grocery educational equity by providing free over- in West Oakland, California as they attempt night learning experiences for students who to create a healthy alternative to the abun- don’t otherwise get the opportunity. dance of fast food restaurants and liquor Children of the Amazon stores in the neighborhood. In person: Shawn Sears: Co-Founder; Executive Di- This award-winning documentary follows rector and Instructor, Laura Sears; Co-Founder and filmmaker Denise Zmekhol into the Amazon In Person: Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Director of Development at Vida Verde, and Tim in search of the indigenous Surui and Negar- Executive Director of the Global Oneness Project Ward; Program Director and Grants Manager at the Vida Verde Nature Education ote children she photographed fifteen years ago. Her journey tells the story of activists like Friday, October 16 at 7p m Chico Mendes who risked their lives to forge Rachel Carson Tent Friday, October 16 at 7:30p m an alliance between indigenous people and Showcase Theater the exploitive rubber tappers. Shown with a A Sea Change short video about Surui Chief Almir and his A Sea Change follows retired educator and remarkable partnership with Google Earth concerned grandfather Sven Huseby back Outreach Founder Rebecca Moore to use to stunning ancestral sites (Norway, Alaska technology to protect the rainforest and its the Pacific Northwest) where he finds First Peoples. cutting-edge ocean research underway. His journey of self-discovery brings adventure, In person: Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui, Rebecca surprise and revelation to the hard science Moore, Vasco van Roosmalen; Director of the Amazon of acidification. Conservation Team, and Denise Zmekhol

In person: Angela Alston, Outreach Coordinator Shown with:

Shown with: The Yes Men Fix the World Silent Snow The Yes Men, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Two girls examine the incomprehensible en- Witness to Hiroshima Bonanno, infiltrate the world of big busi- vironmental damage that is poisoning their Keiji Tsuchiya, survivor of the dropping of ness disguised as captains of industry and heritage, Greenland, and the only home the atomic bomb, uses watercolors and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight the their ancestors have known for thousands graphic storytelling to describe what he ways that corporate greed are destroying of years. witnessed on that fatal day. As a result, Mr. the planet. In their second film, they’ve set Tsuchiya has directed his life toward pur- their sights on a range of manmade disasters,

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Saturday, October 17 at 6:30p m Saturday, October 17 at 7:30p m Sunday, October 18 at 4:30p m Manzanita Room Showcase Theater Showcase Theater

A Sense of Wonder Veteran stage and screen actress Kaiulani Lee portrays Rachel Carson in her final years recounting the attacks by the chemical industry, the government and the press, while reliving her struggle to communicate her message to Congress and the American people. Filmed at Carson’s home on the coast of Maine by Oscar winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler, A Sense of Wonder is based on Lee’s one woman play that has © Common Ground M edia been touring all over the world, and first Dirt! The Movie Earth Days premiered at Bioneers in 1997. It was also Premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Fes- Premiered as the closing night selection of the recent subject of Bill Moyer’s weekly tival and inspired by William Bryant Logan’s the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Earth Days program on PBS. acclaimed book Dirt, the Ecstatic Skin of the recounts the history of the environmental Earth, directors Bill Benenson and Gene movement beginning nearly four decades ago In person: Writer/Actress Kaiulani Lee Rosow use an array of animation, vignettes, through the first Earth Day in the 1970s and and personal accounts from farmers, physi- continuing on despite intractable obstacles Shown with: cists, children, anthropologists, and many in the 1980s. Told through the eyes of nine Bioneers luminaries to learn about dirt— very different subjects, including previous Lessons from Carson Contemporary environmentalist leaders where it comes from, how we regard (or Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall and reflect on Rachel Carson’s influence on disregard) it, the way it has become endan- former Congressman Pete McCloskey, Earth the environmental movement, featuring gered, and what we can do about it. Days is a visually stunning, highly engrossing, author/scientist David Suzuki, and former globe-spanning chronicle of watershed events Secretary of State, Stewart Udall. and consciousness-changing realizations that prompted a new global awareness. Directed by Robert Stone.

In Person: Jeremy Kagan, award-winning film and TV producer-writer-director, teacher, and change-maker

Shown with: Origins Master time-lapse nature filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg will show his 6-minute film showing breathtaking aerial images of mountains, geysers and other natural wonders.

In Person: Louie Schwartzberg

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Art That Matters: Social Justice Ecoart In the Exhibition Hall Ecoart Gallery Corridor FRIDAY This year Bioneers is happy to be working f r i d a y in t h e m o v e m e n t a n d c o u n c i l t e n t again with the Women Environmental 2:30p m –6p m Artists Directory. For 2009 WEAD is pro- Council Circle - connect, listen, share, be and bear witness ducing an exhibit show entitled “From the Facilitated by: Classroom to Community” featuring art Sharon Shay Sloan, Marlowe Sam, Lynne Iser, Rabbi Mordechai Liebling from students and faculty that addresses environmental and social justice issues. 6:30–7:30p m Works will be chosen from students (both Movement TBD men and women) enrolled in national environmental art education programs. WEAD is a 13-year-old artist organization that focuses on women's unique perspectives, to collaborate internationally to further the field of, and the understanding of, ecological SATURDAY and social justice art. This art exhibition s a t u r d a y in t h e m o v e m e n t a n d c o u n c i l t e n t will present student creative works that 2:30–6p m address environmental and social justice Council Circle - connect, listen, share, be and bear witness issues, from eco art or community art Facilitated by: education programs around the country. Sharon Shay Sloan, Marlowe Sam, Lynne Iser, Rabbi Mordechai Liebling The exhibition will include both indoor, framed pieces as well as outdoor sculptures. 6:30–7:30p m Artists Undetermined at press time. Movement TBD Produced especially for Bioneers 2009 by Women Environmental Artists Directory (WEAD) www.weadartists.org

SUNDAY judges/curators: s u n d a y in t h e m o v e m e n t a n d c o u n c i l t e n t Sharon Siskin, Community Artist, activist, instructor, Goddard 2:30–6p m College, California College Arts and Crafts, Berkeley City College, JFK Council Circle - connect, listen, share, be and bear witness University, WEAD Board member Facilitated by: Beverly Naidus, Artist, author, activist and educator, University Sharon Shay Sloan, Marlowe Sam, Lynne Iser, Rabbi Mordechai Liebling of Washington, Tacoma Roberto D. Aponte, director of events and program management, Bioneers Andrée Thompson, eco artist/activist/instructor, Laney College, WEAD board member

“Face to Face - Strange Catch” Fairgrounds Art Exhibit Artist Wendy Domster returns to San Rafael to create a sculptural installation in celebration of the annual Bioneers Conference. Utilizing the Bioneers spirit and collective as her creative catalyst and inspiration, Wendy’s vision becomes shared reality as she tries once again to answer the question, “What will it take to improve and heal our relationship with the natural world?”

She continues to focus on promoting

Capoeira Demonstrations Capoeira is a Brazilian art that combines martial as well as respect for others and community. every day, 1-2:30p m arts, dance, and acrobatics into a challenging Capoeira Mandinga of Marin, led by Mestra on lawn by the pond and exciting art form. It expands awareness, Sorriso, offers classes in Fairfax and San Rafael. With Capoeira Mandinga of Marin challenges you physically, teaches self-respect, For information call 415.488.1988.

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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science”. — Einstein awareness to increase our perception of struggle for climate justice. CWE is based the world around us by reclaiming and re- on respectful partnerships between an using elements in nature as well as recycled, indigenous-led organization (Land is Life) and NEUTRALIZER: The CO Neutralizing Sapling Adoption Program manufactured objects. award-winning experts in participatory video 2 By Anne-Katrin Spiess with Jamie Morra (InsightShare), journalism (Project Word), and This year’s installation is titled “Face to photography and audio (Nicolas Villaume). Face - Strange Catch” and is based on This installation provides the op- meeting adversity, and the comfort level we Rwanda Photo Exhibit portunity for attendees to offset tolerate when we are vulnerable. Exhibit Hall Hallway Chris Noble the carbon emissions they pro- www.noblefoto.com duced by traveling to and from A native of Buffalo, New York, Wendy holds a Fine Arts degree from Alfred University. This exhibit includes a series of portraits the conference. You are invited to She is a 20–year veteran firefighter and re- of the people of Rugerero, a genocide adopt one or more tree saplings, sides in Santa Cruz, California. survivor's village in Rwanda where Lily Yeh which, through the course of their and her Barefoot Artists organization have life span will help to offset the car- ADDITONAL ART INSTALLATIONS been working to restore hope and dignity. Appreciation and gratitude goes to the following: A selection of the images accompanied bon toll incurred. Conversations with the Earth Exhibit an excerpt from Terry Tempest William's Indigenous Forum latest book Finding Beauty in a Broken Please stop by the CO Neutralizer World, in the September/October issue 2 www.conversationsearth.org both located across from the regis- of Orion Magazine. The exhibit is part of the long-term global tration tents. campaign to raise awareness about the Carbon Cube Project impacts of climate change and imposed Fairgrounds mitigation measures on indigenous peo- Conceptualized by Kevin Buckland, 350.org ples, as well as to highlight the critical role www.climagechangesart.org Earth: How Much Longer? of indigenous knowledge in adapting to The Carbon Cube Project a participatory climate change. Exhibit Hall community art project about communicat- Peregrine O’Gormley ing the scale of climate change. Each cube www.peregrineogormley.com/gallery.htm Conversations with the Earth (CWE) is can be used to educate about the volume an indigenous-led multimedia campaign This sculpture is a life size human figure of CO2 emission produced or saved by ev- that, through strengthening indigenous eryday activities carved of western red cedar. It depicts a voices in the global climate change discourse, mother earth figure bending over backwards empowers indigenous peoples in their to uphold the weight of humanity.

Council Circle each session time, every afternoon in the Council Tent

Come sit in circle with other members of the Bioneers community. You’re invited to connect, share thoughts, raise questions, express feelings, or simply listen and be. This interactive and egalitarian forum in the council/movement tent is a place for you to bear witness, hear one another and be heard. It is a place where all of who you are will be welcomed.

Council Facilitators: Rabbi Mordechai Liebling Lynne Iser Sharon Shay Sloan Marlowe Sam

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See a plenary or attend a session that especially inspired you? Just learn J.P. Harpignies Political Ecosystems about a new book by a presenter that you can’t wait to get? Check here for booksignings all weekend long, located in the Lafayette Book store Col. Ann Wright Dissent: Voices of Conscience in the Exhibit Hall. Andrew Weil Why our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future

FRIDAY 4:30p m 1:30p m Matthew Fox Natural Grace and The Hidden Spirituality of Men Michael Pollan The Omnivore’s Dilemna and In Defense of Food 6:15p m Greg Sarris Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream and Grand Avenue Jeremy Narby Intelligence in Nature and The Cosmic Serpent

4:30p m David Orr Down to the Wire SUNDAY

Michael Stone Smart by Nature 1:30p m Joanna Macy Widening Circles 6:15p m J.P. Harpignies Delusions of Normality: 4:30p m Sanity, Drugs, Sex, and Money and Beliefs in America Gillian Caldwell Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism Maoshing Ni Secrets of Longevity: Hundreds of Ways to Live to be 100 Anneke Campbell Be the Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community Judy Wicks White Dog Café Cookbook 6:15p m Thomas Linzey Be the Change: SATURDAY How to Get What You Want in Your Community

1:30p m Deborah Rozman Transforming Stress Lily Yeh Works of Heart Fritjof Capra Science of Leonardo Radio Series

Now in its ninth year, this 13-part annual series features the compelling voices of the leading scientific and social innovators of our time. Each The Bioneers was the 2009 winner program highlights visionary solutions for restoring the Earth and human of the World Gold Medal at the communities. Also available this year, a new one-hour special, They Don’t prestigious New York festivals and Call Her Mother Earth for Nothing: Women Re-imagining the World. two Silver Communicator Awards IS YOUR STATION CARRYING THE BIONEERS RADIO SHOW? of Distinction. The Bioneers Radio Show is now heard around the world including:

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© Phil Earley BIONEERS.ORG 2.0 CONNECT WITH OTHER BIONEERS SOCIAL MEDIA It’s been a big twelve months online for It’s been over a year since Bioneers launched Social media (team blogging, Twitter customer Bioneers, as we continue to make more efficient our online social space, www.connect.bion- service, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, Youtube, etc.) use of the internet, the world’s greatest organiz- eers.org. We’ve seen our community grow, enables an organization to transparently coming tool. We’ve made two large steps forward with regular news and updates, sharp discus- municate with consumers, influencers, govern- this year. First, we launched a fully updated sions, and ideas and inspiration from around mental agencies, groups, clubs and associations main website (www.bioneers.org) that is the world. There is space for you and your in real time to make real impact. At this panel, much easier for our visitors to navigate and story as well! you can hear, learn and directly ask questions our staff to keep current. Second, we started a from influential social media executives shar- new Bioneers blog where we can communicate You can also follow Bioneers on Facebook ing their insights. the news and events that celebrate finding (www.facebook.com/bioneers) and Twitter (@bioneers). solutions through nature (www.bioneers.org/ This session will provide you with some of key blog). Check in regularly for updates on the tools to become a catalyst of change. issues that matter to us, including ecological medicine, biomimicry, local living, and Friday and Saturday, 4:30–6p m in women’s leadership. the Autodesk Atrium

GOOGLE EARTH OUTREACH: MAPPING SOLUTIONS TO A POSITIVE FUTURE A special hands-on training for activists and public-interest advocates on the use of Google Earth technology and applications for the common good. Led by Rebecca Moore and the Google Earth Outreach team. Google Earth is a unique and free tool providing everyday citizens access to deeply interactive visualization of our planet. Today Google Earth Outreach is collaborating worldwide with a wide spectrum of NGOs, leading academic institutions, indigenous peoples and leaders from all walks of life: stopping climate change by reducing carbon emissions, halting mountaintop removal, saving forests, conserving the world’s oceans and serving environmental justice and human rights.

This session provides hands-on training with Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Sketchup and a suite of other applications that are free, user-friendly, and just might make the difference you need to be compelling online. This unique opportunity with the Google Earth Out- reach team helps provide the training you need to create visualizations, which will inspire change and make a decisive impact. For a sneak peek at some tutorials and case studies, visit http:// earth.google.com/outreach.

Visualizing Your Cause in Google Earth Indigenous Mapping with Google Earth Sunday, 2:45-4:15p m in the Novato/Larkspur Room, Embassy Sunday, 4:30-6p m in the Novato/Larkspur Room, Embassy Suites. This session is open to the general audience. . Suites. This session is for Indigenous attendees

Bring a laptop with you and get hands-on training in Google Earth. If you don’t have a laptop, you can team up with someone who does.

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Michael Pollan (FRIDAY morning plenary - In Defense of Food: The Omnivore’s Solution) is a great storyteller. He tells us the tales of the journey of life-force through all the kingdoms: plant, animal and human (in more banal terms it’s referred to as the food system). He shines light on the battles between creative, respectful culture that honors life-force, and exploitive culture that degrades it. It’s our very own cliffhanger. Who will emerge triumphant?

Carbon and water play staring roles in all life’s stories. Rehydration Revolution: Hydrological and Carbon Farming (FRIDAY 2:45p m with Brock Dolman and Darren Doherty, Showcase Theater) presents a cutting edge model of on-farm water management and carbon sequestration that

© Jan Mangan creates resilience to drought, increases soil fertility and reduces C02 emissions. Dreams, Seeds and Carbon Dreams are the unfulfilled struggles and aspirations of the individual and collective unconscious. I had a dream that God was a Black woman Vision is the beginning of consciously manifesting our dreams. Dreaming New Mexico (SATURDAY planting a garden on a green lawn in 2:45p m with Arturo Sandoval, Peter Warshall, Arty Mangan moderated by Kenny Ausubel, front of a great white house. She rolled Santa Rosa) is helping to build a renewable energy system, and a healthy, local food economy up her sleeves and chased the pesticide by graphically mapping the current reality and the potential for a healthy and sustainable future merchants from that sacred space and at the state level. shouted, “Take these things away and stop making my Mother’s home a place of exploitation.”

As we gather in larger numbers each year, and recharge our creative, activist spirits, we dare, in the face of daunting challenges, to dream, not just to dream but to create and manifest those dreams into a healthy life-affirming reality. Janine Benyus reminds us “life creates conditions conducive to life”. May that be our underlying value, our criteria, our mission, our new reality as we move forward into the inchoate future.

Arty Mangan, Bioneers Food and Farming Program Director

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Part agro–artist, part experimental scientist, part permaculturist with a biodynamic sensibility Bob Cannard (SATURDAY 4:30p m - Farming with Nature, Corte Madera) defies description. So let me just say, as more than one chef has noted, he grows great tasting food, and he does so in a highly unconventional, ecologically sophisticated manner.

In every seed there is a story and a dream. The story of all the people who for uncountable generations have stewarded and co-evolved with life-force at its most essential level, and which embodies the dream of future abundance. Join us at the Seed Exchange (SATURDAY 6:30p m , Food Pavilion) to share adapted, non-hybrid, non-GMO, open-pollinated seeds and help play an important role in preserving biodiversity.

Food and Farming dinner (SATURDAY 7:30p m , Embassy Suites Ballroom): Join us in honoring the pioneering leader in organic and cooperative enterprise, Organic Valley. The dinner will feature a local food menu designed by chef/author Bryant Terry. This event is sponsored by RSF Social Finance with generous donations from Frey Vineyards, New Belgium Brewery and Organic Valley. (special tickets must be purchased for the dinner).

Creative culture can be experienced first hand at the workshop Fair Food (SUNDAY 2:45p m , Corte Madera) presented by an eclectic array of urban food activists (James Ella James, VooDo Fe’, Jean Chorazyczewski, moderated by Dr. Oran B. Hesterman) who use faith, music and politics to tell their story of healthy food for underserved communities.

For more information on food and farming issues: www.bioneers.org/foodandfarming © Jan Mangan/Bioneers In every seed there is a story and a dream

- 28 - - 29 - www.bioneers.org YOUTH UNITY “Unity amongst youth comes with the acknowledgment of the communities, the realities we come from and the humility to respect the change we can all contribute. It's an energy that inspires...” – 2008 Youth Attendee most! The three listed in the schedule above reflect intergenerational programming that Tea Time with the 2009 Brower Youth Award was intentionally programmed with young Winners Sunday, 4:30-6p m people in mind. Come join us for afternoon tea at the Youth Unity Area with the 2009 winners of the Brower Youth Awards! Learn about the proj- Youth Project Space – Everyday, 4:30-6p m ects of this year’s winners, as well as how you Each day, you are welcome to participate in might be able to qualify as a nominee or get informal workshops created and facilitated by more involved! If you’re a local youth, don’t organizations that work with youth every day. forget to sign up to attend this year’s 2009 Each activity has a different focus based on Brower Youth Award ceremony on Tuesday Oct. Welcome to Bioneers 2009! The Youth Pro- your own interests. Feel free to try a new one 20th at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco! gram this year has a series of intergeneration- each day! Activities include: music, media, arts al workshops, hands-on activities, and social • Eco- Arts Activism Mentoring from the Bioneers Community – events with the intention of creating an in- • Food Systems: Farming and Agriculture- what teresting and rewarding experience. We hope ongoing in Youth Unity Area is our Real Food Challenge? Stop by the Youth Unity Area and find out that you’ll enjoy yourself while taking advan- • Climate Education•-Hands-on solutions with tage of this opportunity to learn, meet people, how you can contribute a resource to the the Green Ambassadors youth community at Bioneers! This will be an share your own knowledge, and find inspira- • Council Practice tion to make positive changes in the world. interactive ongoing activity throughout the weekend. Take a moment to reflect on your intentions Youth Mixer & Moving Image Film Festival – for the weekend, check out the youth unity Friday, 6–9p m area to get oriented, take a deep breath, and Music, ice cream, and an inspiring film… Now have fun! Special Thanks to all our that’s our idea of a perfect evening! Come by Facilitators and Partners - Liz Cunningham, the John Mohawk Tent to eat locally sourced Art in Action – www.artinactionworld.org Youth and Conference Project Manager ice cream, while mingling with your new friends and allies. Stick around for a series of Alliance for Climate Education – www.climateeducation.org Morning Circle – Everyday, 8:45a m short films created by young people that will Destiny Arts Performance Company – www.destinyarts.org Each morning at 8:45am, join the Youth Pro- surely light a fire in your heart and soul. Green Ambassadors – www.greenambassadors.org gram staff, facilitators, and youth participants • Friday night films include: “Students of Conse- on the lawn of the Youth Unity Area for an Grind for the Green – www.grindforthegreen.com quence: African Bushmeat Expedition” and a Kids vs Global Warming – www.kids-vs-global-warming.org opening circle to welcome the day. selection from Vida Verde Nature Education. • Music provided by DJ Ellen Real Food Challenge – www.realfoodchallenge.org Plenary Speakers – Everyday, 9a m -1p m • Ice cream generously donated by Fairfax Silence the Violence – www.bayareasilencetheviolence.org Some of the most influential speakers in Scoop featuring Straus Organics the world come to Bioneers. Each day from Aaron Ableman – www.communitreemovement.org 9-1pm, you have an opportunity to listen and Youth Open Mic: “Reflections from theV oices reflect on these plenary speakers. Though Arty Mangan – Bioneers Food & Farming Director of Youth” – Sunday, 1:30–2:30p m not ‘required’, we highly suggest attending all Sign up in the Youth Interactive Trailer to par- Bryant Terry – Author, Chef five each morning. If you need a break, grab ticipate. We encourage you to come up with Carmel Snow Dunlap a paintbrush, or take a seat to watch inspira- a poem, spoken word piece, or a written or Ellen Choy – DJ Ellen tional videos in our Youth Inspiring Trailer. sung reflection of your experience at Bion- Ilana Stein – Bioneers Youth Program Intern eers. What has moved you? What speaker in- Kevin Buckland – www.climatechangesart.org Ongoing Art – Everyday, Facilitated Art Projects spired you to think of your own community? 9-11a m What do you want the Bioneers community Gerardo Marin – Farm Fresh Choice Art is essential in our life as it serves as form to know about the struggles and benefits to Sharon Sloan – Council Facilitator of self-expression and communication. This being a youth? This is your time. Make your Tom & Debra Weistar – www.findingthegood.org year’s activities reflect a wide-range of inter- voice heard. ests from participatory art, to eco-art activ- Tonu & Koa Eagleton ism, to creating recycled fashion. Come on by All our friends at 350.org and contribute however you’d like. (Activity facilitators will be available every day from SILENCE THE VIOLENCE TURF UNITY 9am-11am- Additional Times will be posted is a movement to bring peace to in the Youth Interactive Trailer) Oakland’s streets through music and Finding the Good... through story! *Not to miss! Kari Fulton, 2008 Brower Youth Award activism – this group of young people has Curious what story the youth are Winner speaks Friday in the Plenary Sessions! been attending the Bioneers Conference telling through use of their cameras and recording equipment? Find out Workshops – Everyday, Session I: 2:45-4:15p m , for the past five years.P lease acknowledge Session II: 4:30-6p m more at www.findingthegood.org There are about nine different workshops to their work by visiting choose from each day, during each session. www.bayareasilencetheviolence.org Take some time to look over the programming and decide which one interests you

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photo credit: Tim Porter/Bioneers YOUTH SCHEDULE 2009 (all activities occur in the Youth Unity Area unless otherwise specified) FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

8:45–9a m Morning Circle 8:45–9a m Morning Circle 8:45–9a m Morning Circle

9-11a m Ongoing Art – Cube Project, 9-11a m Ongoing Art – Cube Proj- 9-11a m Ongoing Art – Cube Proj- Marine Rubber Stamp Project, 350 ect, Marine Rubber Stamp Project, ect, Marine Rubber Stamp Project, Reasons Patch Project 350 Reasons Patch Project 350 Reasons Patch Project 9a m -1p m Plenary Speakers 9a m -1p m Plenary Speakers 9a m -1p m Plenary Speakers 1-2:30p m Games and Activities on 1-2:30p m Games and Activities on 1-1:45p m Destiny Arts Performance the lawn the lawn on the Sun Stage 2:45-4:15p m WORKSHOP: 2:45-4:15p m WORKSHOP: 1:45-2:45p m “Reflections from the Omnivore’s Dilemma for Youth in Shattering Stereotypes of Youth in Voices of Youth” on the Sun Stage the VMA the Rachel Carson Tent 2:45-4:15p m WORKSHOP: 4:30-6p m Youth Project Space Open 4:30-6p m Youth Project Space Open Raising Their Voices, Youth in Media & Hands-on Activities & Hands-on Activities in the Rachel Carson Tent 6-7p m Youth Mixer- DJ & Ice Cream 6-8p m Free Time 4:30-6p m Youth Project Space Open in the John Mohawk Tent & Hands-on Activities 8-midnight Saturday Night Dance in the 7-9p m Youth Moving Image Film Exhibit Hall (open to entire Bioneers Community) 6-7p m Bioneers Closing on the Sun Festival in the John Mohawk Tent Stage

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A Network Of Community Conferences BEAMING BIONEERS How Does It Work? speakers. Local conferences are organized As you experience the Bioneers Conference Beaming Bioneers satellite conferences by partner institutions and organizations in this year, keep in mind that you are connect- are a culmination of a year-long process, each community, and are provided with the ed to thousands of other people who are including a network training that takes guidance and support of Bioneers. exploring the innovative work of bioneers place each year. Representatives from each right in their own communities. This year, we location attend to connect, share ideas In addition to our 19 Beaming Bioneers are honored to partner with 19 communi- and develop goals and strategies for the Partners, we are also pleased to be partnering ties to produce local Bioneers Conferences upcoming year. During the conference, San this year with the North American Associa- in towns and cities around the country. By Rafael, California, with each localized Bion- tion of Environmental Education, which will linking internationally-renowned speakers eers conference, is connected through the be featuring a live satellite feed from the with local topics and experts on the ground, live satellite broadcast of the featured ple- Bioneers Conference on Friday and Saturday Beaming Bioneers satellite conferences nary speakers each day. In these towns and during its annual environmental education inspire a potent ‘global-local’ approach to- cities, local workshops, speakers and activi- conference, taking place in Wichita, Kansas. wards solving local and regional problems. ties complement the nationally broadcast 2008 Beaming Bioneers Satellite Conference Locations Anchorage, Alaska School (Science, Technology, Engineering, Logan, Utah The 6th Bioneers in Alaska: Creating Sustainable Math). This year’s event will take place at the *November 13 and November 20 – 21 Communities Conference is located at the Cleveland Convention Center and Cleveland The 6th Annual Utah Bioneers Conference: University of Alaska at Anchorage and orga- State University. Reclaiming Our Heritage - Sustainable Cache nized by Bioneers in Alaska, a project of the www.bioneerscleveland.org Valley is again taking place on the campus of Alaska Center for Appropriate Technology. Contact: Nancy King Smith Utah State University and is organized by a www.sustainak.org [email protected] community-based network of leaders. Contact: Mark Masteller 216.523.7330 http://extension.usu.edu/bioneers [email protected] Contact: Jim Goodwin 907.373.0909 Detroit, Michigan [email protected] The 5th Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Confer- 435.757.2352 Boulder, Colorado ence is taking place on the campus of Marygrove The 7th Annual Colorado Bioneers Confer- College and is organized by a community-based Los Angeles ence is produced by the University of Colora- network of leaders. This is the first Beaming Bioneers event in do Environmental Center in collaboration with www.glbd.org Los Angeles and is being brought to L.A. in numerous partner organizations. The event is Contact: Gloria Rivera, IHM, partnership with The Downtown Indepen- taking place on the campus of the University [email protected] dent Theater, The Electric Lodge, Evolution of Colorado at Boulder. 313.843.0802 Jewels and Project Butterfly. The event will http://ecenter.colorado.edu/bioneers take place at the Downtown Independent Contact: CU Environmental Center, Houston, Texas Theater in the heart of Los Angeles. [email protected] The 7th Annual Texas Bioneers Conference, or- www.projectbutterfly.org 303.492.8308 ganized by the Blackwood Educational Land In- Contact: D Miller stitute, is taking place at the Discovery Green [email protected] Bozeman, Montana Park in Houston. 213.709.6696 The 7th Annual Northern Rockies Bioneers www.blackwoodland.org/bioneers Conference, organized by the Bioregional Out- Contact: Cath Conlon, Blackwood Land Institute, Louisville, Kentucky Reach Network (BORN), will again take place [email protected] Louisville is holding its first ever Beaming at the Emerson Cultural Center in the heart 713.768.3422 Bioneers event. The event is being produced of Bozeman. by a collaboration of local individuals and or- www.bornnetwork.org Ithaca, New York ganizations, and presented by the University of Contact: Lori Foster, BORN, Ithaca will be hosting its first-ever Beaming Louisville Center for Environmental Education [email protected] Bioneers event. The event is a collaboration at the Rauch Planetarium on the UofL campus. 406.586.3426 between Sustainable Tompkins, Ithaca College, http://bb2009.org/ and other local non-profits. Contact: Ben Evans Cleveland, Ohio www.wemakeourfuture.org [email protected] *November 5 – 7 Contact: Gay Nicholson 917.657.7253 The 3rd Annual Great Lakes Bioneers in Cleve- [email protected] land Conference is organized with a local com- 607.533.7312 Madison, Wisconsin munity network in partnership with the Levin *November 12–13 College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State Madison will be holding its first-ever Beaming University and Cleveland’s MC2 STEM High Bioneers event. From Here to There…Bringing Bioneers to Wisconsin is being co-coordinated by Sustain Dane and the BioPharmaceutical

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Technology Center Institute (BTCI) in collabo- Portland, Maine Traverse City, Michigan ration with numerous community partners. Kindle: A Northern New England Bioneers The 8th Great Lakes Bioneers Conference Designed to rethink sustainable mobility and to Conference on the University of Southern is located on the campus of Northwestern catalyze new networks throughout the state, the Maine’s campus in Portland is presented by the Michigan College hosted by SEEDS and the conference will be held at BTCI, located in Fitch- Muskie School of Public Service in partnership Neahtawanta Center. Traverse City was one burg, within the Madison Metropolitan Area. with Kaleidoscope, a mission-driven, values- of the first cities to host a beaming event in www.btci.org based social enterprise. 2001 and we are excited to have them return Contact: Karin Borgh www.kindledinme.com for their 8th straight year. [email protected] Contact: Eben Metivier www.glbconference.org 608.277.2508 [email protected] Contact: Tara Ward www.sustaindane.org 207.749.3520 [email protected] Contact: Kristen Joiner 800.220.1415 [email protected] Salt Lake City, Utah 608.819.0689 *November 6 – 8 Turlock, California Utah Bioneers in Salt Lake City Conference – The 3rd Annual Central Valley Bioneers Con- Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota Sustainability: Bringing It All Home is hosted ference is hosted and organized by California *October 24 – 25 by the Westminster College Environmental State University at Stanislaus. The 4th Annual Northland Bioneers Conference Center and takes place on the campus of www.csustan.edu/CHSS/CSF/bioneers is organized by Northland Sustainable Solutions Westminster College. Contact: Dave Colnic, CSU-Stanislaus, and will be taking place on the campus of www.westminstercollege.edu/bioneers [email protected] University of Minnesota. Contact: Westminster College 209.667.3520 www.nbconference.org Environmental Center Contact: Emily Barker [email protected] [email protected] 801.832.3300 *Please note that the four conferences indicated 612.247.0781 by a * are taking place on weekends following the Santa Fe, New Mexico main conference dates. New Bedford, Massachusetts The Center for Contemporary Arts [CCA], in *October 22 – 25 collaboration with LAND/ART, New Energy For more information, go to The 5th Annual Bioneers by the Bay: Connect- Economy, Bioneers, and the American Institute www.bioneers.org/beaming or contact one of the ing for Change Conference is presented by the of Architects, presents Mapping a Green Future, local organizers listed above. To learn how you can Marion Institute in the historic downtown of an exhibition exploring a world that is energy bring Bioneers to your community and become a New Bedford, Massachusetts. independent through clean renewable energy Beaming Bioneers Partner, e-mail www.connectingforchange.org and working toward sustainable technologies [email protected]. Contact: Desa Van Laarhoven, Marion Institute, as well as drawing attention to the absurdity [email protected] of some of the ways in which we currently live. 508.748.0816 Mapping a Green Future shows the challenges New Mexico faces in creating a clean and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania sustainable future, and further investigates its Pittsburgh will be holding its first-ever Bioneers unique position to advance alternative energy event. The event is being produced by Pitts- policy in the United States. burgh’s Urban Ecology Collaborative and will www.ccasantafe.org be held at The Pittsburgh Project, a community Contact: Jason Silverman and youth-focused campus. [email protected] www.3riversbioneers.org 505.982.1338 Contact: Maureen Copeland [email protected] 412.334.2072

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Bioneers Women’s Leadership exists to inspire, strengthen and connect women leaders to liberate their own greater capacity and vision to effect healing and restorative change in their communities and organizations, while celebrating and reclaiming those human capacities relegated to the ‘feminine’ within us all.

The program features innovative and diverse women leaders at the conference, produces and disseminates media featuring leadership voices that are inclusive, healthy, collaborative, sustainable and effective, and convenes Cultivating Women’s Leadership experiential trainings.

“I came away with a renewed sense of passion for my purpose in this world and a clearer vision of how women in leadership can create a new paradigm of social justice and change.” – CWL Participant

Directed by Nina Simons, president and cofounder of Bioneers, the program reveals how women are reinventing the leadership landscape, and is unique in featuring and being oriented for women across a diverse spectrum of disciplines, issues, ages, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds.

Bioneers Women’s Leadership encourages women to • clarify and strengthen each woman’s sense of purpose, the source of authentic leadership, • lead in ways that are motivated by love and informed by inner awareness, • embrace the differences women bring to leadership, • reclaim and value lost or abandoned parts of themselves, for integrated wholeness, • connect authentically with other women for reflection, support and capacity-building, • strengthen our abilities to collaborate and cooperate by connecting across differences, and • cultivate their own leadership as a practice, ongoing.

Specifically, the program: • Features diverse women’s stories as models - through conference programming, radio shows, books, audio and DVD sets •Is publishing a book: Moonrise: Leading from the Inside Out, Women, Purpose & Power, due out in 2010 from Inner Traditions •Produces Cultivating Women’s Leadership residential trainings, in collaboration with Rockwood leadership trainer Toby Herzlich •Sustains social networking sites to encourage women to connect online.

Cultivating Women’s Leadership trainings offer tools and practices and an experience of the power of connecting in authentic alliance. The trainings focus on developing inner rigor, compassion and discernment, and greater choice and skillfulness about the stories we tell our selves and each other. For information on upcoming trainings or to join the program’s e-communications list, please contact Felicia Marohn, at [email protected]

“I highly recommend this retreat as a way to access your deepest knowing about your power as a woman leader, to encourage and enhance your natural strengths, and to challenge you to reach past what you think is possible for yourself and your work.” – CWL participant

www.bioneers.org - 34 - - 35 - indigenous forum © Jennifer Esperanza/Bioneers Bioneers’ Indigenous Forum goals include: • Providing a networking space and sanctuary for Indigenous participants.

• Educating the global community as to the key issues and resiliency First Peoples are developing to address cultural survival, human rights, land and biodiversity preservation, sacred lands, and incorporating indigenous science. Bioneers has been committed to fostering Instructions”) a priority area of unique impor- • Providing a space for in-depth explorations connection, cross-pollination and collabora- tance. Since the inception of Bioneers, it has of “Indigeneity” and “Re-Indigenization” in an tion by bringing together diverse people and been deeply influenced by indigenous thinking, invitational format that encourages all people projects. Along with this commitment of and has prominently featured indigenous pre- to re-evaluate their relationship to the sacred- supporting diversity, Bioneers has embraced senters and voices. ness of Mother Earth. the sharing of Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge • Supporting all peoples to examine the his- and wisdom within its programs and confer- Within this context, in the 2008 Bioneers tory of colonization within their own roots. ences. Along with Indigenous leadership on Conference, TCC and IEN partnered with People need to look from within their own the Bioneers’ board of directors, Bioneers Bioneers to successfully produce a pilot cultures, not from native cultures. There needs has developed a partnership with The Cul- project featuring an Indigenous Tent, located to be understanding and respect for the intel- tural Conservancy (TCC), a local/regional central to the conference, that provided lectual property rights and cultural privacy of Indigenous nonprofit organization and the Indigenous workshops and cultural activities Indigenous Peoples and our knowledge. Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), a in a forum that brought over 50 indigenous national/international Indigenous network. leaders, families and activists participating in • Helping attract greater support for Bioneers’ TCC is a research, education and advocacy the conference. indigenous programs, and for Indigenous organization dedicated to the preservation work, people and projects in general. and revitalization of indigenous cultures and For this second year, this Indigenous program- their ancestral lands. IEN is a network of in- ming has been re-named the “Indigenous Fo- Melissa Nelson (Anishinaabe/Métis) digenous communities and staff organizers rum” and includes native workshops in the The Cultural Conservancy, building sustainable indigenous communities Indigenous Tent, workshops in other confer- www.nativeland.org and protecting the human and environmen- ence venues, a special multimedia exhibit on 415.561.6594 tal rights of Indigenous Peoples. TCC and IEN Indigenous responses to climate change, and Tom Goldtooth (Diné/Dakota), recognize that Bioneers considers the dissemi- other cultural activities. Indigenous Environmental Network, nation of Indigenous knowledge (“The Original www.ienearth.org 218.751.4967

CONVERSATIONS WITH THE EARTH EXHIBIT The exhibit is part of the long-term global campaign to raise awareness about the impacts of climate change and imposed mitigation measures on Indigenous Peoples, as well as to highlight the critical role of indigenous knowledge in adapting to climate change.

Conversations with the Earth (CWE) is an indigenous-led multimedia campaign that, through strengthening indigenous voices in the global climate change discourse, empowers Indigenous Peoples in their struggle for climate justice. CWE is based on respectful partnerships between an indigenous-led organization Land is Life and award-winning experts in participatory video (InsightShare), journalism (Project Word), and photography and audio (Nicolas Villaume).

We are grateful to Bioneers for providing us with a space to present “a work in progress” and gather your feedback before the official exhibition launch at the Copenhagen global climate talks in December.

Come and engage in stories from indigenous communities living on the frontline of climate change in Cameroon, Brazil, Kenya, Peru, Ethiopia, Philippines, Panama, the Arctic...and add your voice!

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Why become a Bioneers Member? * Bioneers members contribute physically and financially to a growing network of change-makers. * Bioneers members have access to a wealth of environmental and social justice resources, news and tools. * Bioneers members are supported in their efforts to educate their communities and inspire change. * Bioneers members can connect with each other via our website forums and blogs, providing an opportunity to share ideas, stories and events.

“I’m a Bioneers member to keep connected, Give the Gift of Bioneers Are you looking for a birthday or hol- to contribute and just because I love it!” iday gift that makes a difference? Give - Mark Roberts, Bioneers Member, San Francisco, CA a Bioneers gift membership to friends, co-workers or family! Sign them up at any level and share solutions and hope. Join, Renew, Donate Join, renew or donate at the Bioneers Store in the Exhibit Hall, and get a $10 For more information, off coupon for your next purchase. You can also mail the attached envelope or please contact [email protected] visit www.bioneers.org. Thank you for your support! or call 877.BIONEER.

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www.bioneers.org - 36 - - 37 - MUSIC and PERFORMANCE photo credit:Tim Porter/Bioneers Fairgrounds Sun Stage – Emcee’d by Betty Biodiesel FRIDAY 1-2p m - Tyler Matthew Smith 6-7:30p m - Becky White & the Secret Mission SATURDAY 1-2p m - California HoneyDrops 8p m -midnight - Annual Saturday Night Dance with live music by LoCura and DJ Dragonfly SUNDAY 1p m -1:30p m - Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company 1:30p m -2:30p m - “Reflections from the Voices of Youth” - an Open Mic 6:15p m - Bioneers Closing Ceremony Hosted by Cultivating Women’s Leadership ‘09 Ocamora Alumni 6:45-7:30p m - Naomi & the Curteous Rudeboys Zac Matthews and Aaron Redner of Hot Buttered Rum at Bioneers 2008

Tyler Matthew Smith — Friday, 1–2:30p m Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company — Sunday, 1–1:30p m www.tylermatthewsmith.com www.destinyarts.org

Becky White & the Secret Mission — Friday, 6–7:30p m Naomi & The Courteous Rudeboys — Sunday, 6:30–7:30p m www.beckywhitemusic.org http://www.myspace.com/naomiandthecourteousrudeboys

California HoneyDrops — Saturday, 1-2:30p m DANCE IT OUT! www.cahoneydrops.com Spain, Cuba, Jamaica, California: Locura . . . one word: madness. Sepa- rated into two, lo cura: it cures it. Two words found within one, the Drumming Processional: Loyd Family Players — Saturday 7:30–8p m cure within the madness. The idea that beauty and love can blossom www.theloydfamilyplayers.com from chaos, bringing dreams to life where another world is possible. A remedy found in the craziness of this life, allowing the possibility LoCura - Live Music at Saturday Night Dance — Saturday 8–10p m for change. Through their music LoCura hopes to provide a catalyst www.myspace.com/locuramusica for transformation and healing.

DJ Dragonfly — Saturday 10p m –midnight www.groovegarden.com

Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium Performers Greg Sarris FRIDAY opening www.gratonrancheria.com Kai Eckhardt FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY www.kaizone.com

Sally Roesch Wagner FRIDAY www.matildajoslyngage.org Shailja Patel FRIDAY, SATURDAY www.shailja.com Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company SUNDAY www.destinyarts.org Melanie DeMore SUNDAY CLOSING www.melaniedemore.com

Check Lafayette Book Store in the Exhibit Hall for CDs and other available merchandise from this year’s performers.

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VIDEO AND AUDIO MATERIALS A growing number of classes across the country have realized the value of using content from the national Bioneers Conference as a way to deepen in-class discussions. The youth- ful generation of new leaders is hungry for inspiring and insightful thinkers to complement the rigorous demands of academia.

RECOMMENDED CONTENT: • DVDs & CDs of current and past plenary speakers & workshops • Award-Winning Radio Series • Bioneers Book Series Ecological Literacy: Educating our Children for a Sustainable World Nature’s Operating Systems: The True Biotechnologies Ecological Medicine: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves

CONNECT HERE AND NOW Teachers, put an Apple Sticker on your Badge to identify yourself as a teacher (so the rest of us can find you!). Pick up stickers at the registration tent. photo credit: Jennifer Esperanza/Bioneers Jennifer photo credit:

Classrooms and campuses across the coun- BRING YOUR CLASS TO A EDUCATORS MEET-UP try are inspiring young thinkers year-round by BIONEERS CONFERENCE Bring your dinner, and meet up with other connecting to Bioneers through our Educa- A great way to inspire a group of young peo- educators at the conference on Friday eve- tors Network. Online at connect.bioneers. ple is to bring them to the national confer- ning from 6:30-8p m in the Manzanita Room. org/group/education you will find a place to ence or a Beaming Bioneers Conference near Hosted by the Alliance for Climate Education connect to other educators, share curricula you. All conferences offer educational and stu- (ACE) and with other educators through- and practical solutions for motivating and dent discounts as well as Continuing Educa- out the year online at connect.bioneers.org/ moving a new generation of bioneers to tion Units. Using the Bioneers video content group/education. take action. and book series in your classroom helps to provide students with a year-round connec- ACE performs 45-60 minute interactive as- For the second year in a row, we’re partnering tion to Bioneers. sembly presentations for high school students with the Center for Ecoliteracy to offer a full- that explain global warming and its effect on day seminar on Eco-Schools, which took place PROFESSIONAL CREDIT our planet, while offering solutions to combat on Thursday. October15. Additionally, we’re it. Their program is scientifically based, inter- excited about a new collaborative partnership CEUs are available for conference attendees through partnerships with Dominican Univer- active, and energizing. This networking event between 2ndNature, the California Student should not be missed, as ACE will bring the Sustainability Coalition, the Association for the sity and San Francisco State University. Visit the CEU booth near the entrance to the VMA. same enthusiasm and inspiration to the edu- Advancement of Higher Education, and the cator community at Bioneers! Energy Action Coalition, whom all participated and produced a full-day intensive on how higher education can lead restoration.

Almir Narayamoga Surui, 32, an en- award-winning weekly Good Times, in Santa Cruz, Monika Bauerlein is editor of the vironmentalist, political activist and California. Greg’s awards include two for Best Fea- San Francisco-based Mother Jones, a tribal chief, has been fighting to save ture Story from the California Newspapers Publishers 31-year-old investigative magazine both his Surui tribe and the Ama- Association. (www.gregarcher.com) widely recognized as one of the zon rainforest for more than 15 most respected and influential pro- years. His efforts are credited with Alejandro Argumedo, a Quechuan agronomist from gressive publications in the country. helping to bring his tribe back from the brink of ex- Peru actively working for the recognition of Indige- Prior to working at Mother Jones, Monika had years of tinction. His opposition to logging, mining, agricultural nous peoples’ rights at the U.N., is the director of the experience in environmental journalism, reporting for and other development interests in favor of more Quechua-Aymara Association for Sustainable Liveli- a wide variety of newspapers and public radio pro- sustainable ventures in western Brazil has made him hoods (ANDES) based in Cusco, Peru, which works grams. (www.motherjones.com) the target of death threats and violence. to protect indigenous knowledge and associated genetic resources. He is also the founder of the Indig- Breean Beggs, an attorney who has Angela Alston, the outreach coordi- enous Peoples Biodiversity Network, a member of handled groundbreaking cases in nator for the film A Sea Change, the World Commission on Protected Areas, and vice- the areas of free speech, police mis- showing at the Moving Image Festi- chair of Indigenous Affairs for the IUCN’s Commis- conduct and jail conditions, is the val, is herself a maker of short sion on Environment, Economics and Social Policy. chief catalyst at the Center for Jus- films, including the award- winning tice, a non-profit public interest law Reclaiming Water. She is a member Jeannette Armstrong, a member of firm in Spokane, Washington. The Center is dedicated of D-Word, an electronic community of documen- the Okanagan Syilx Nation, is a Ca- to furthering justice for those with limited resources. tary filmmakers, and New York Women in Film and TV, nadian author and artist and execu- Its litigation focuses on governmental accountability, and was formerly the technical director of Democracy tive director of the En’owkin Cen- environmental health and the restoration of civil Now! Angela, who attended the National Black Pro- tre (the culture, language and arts rights. (www.cforjustice.org) gramming Consortium New Media Institute, also for- education institution of the Oka- merly served as public affairs coordinator for Cornish nagan Nation) as well as an assistant professor of Bill Benenson, the co-director of College of the Arts. Indigenous Studies at the University of British Co- the documentary Dirt! The Movie, is lumbia Okanagan. She is also a member of the National a long-time film producer/director Christopher Andrews, the former Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge sub-committee whose previous body of work in- associate executive director of the of the Committee On the Status of Endangered cludes the documentaries The Mar- California Academy of Sciences, is Wildlife in Canada, and has received a number of ginal Way and Diamond Rivers, and currently the chief of public engage- honorary doctorates and awards, including EcoTrust the critically acclaimed narrative Mister Johnson, as ment and director of the Steinhart USA’s Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership. well as involvement in a number of Hollywood proj- Aquarium, California Academy of (www.enowkincentre.ca) ects (Boulevard Nights, Under the Volcano, The Lightship, A Sciences. He has done extensive fieldwork in fresh- Walk on the Moon, Pumping Iron, etc.). Bill served in the water and coastal habitats in Europe, the US, the Ca- Kenny Ausubel, the CEO and Peace Corps in Brazil in the late 1960s, and is active in ribbean, Africa, and South and Central America. His founder of Bioneers, is an award- The Frances and Benjamin Benenson Foundation previous positions have included developing the Mas- winning journalist, filmmaker, so- (which supports a wide range of educational, social ter Plan for the London Zoo, chairing the IUCN’s cial entrepreneur and author and environmental organizations), the Violence Policy Freshwater Fish Specialist Group and developing ma- whose books include The Bioneers: Center, the NRDC, Bioneers, Rainforest Action Net- jor aquariums in Maryland and South Carolina. Declarations of Interdependence; work (RAN) and Ploughshares. and When Healing Becomes a Crime: The Amazing Carl Anthony, a former executive Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Laurie Benenson, the debut pro- director of the Earth Island Institute, Alternative Therapies. He is the executive producer ducer of Dirt! The Movie (based on has worked as deputy director of and co-writer of the award-winning Bioneers radio William Bryant Logan’s book Dirt, the community and resource de- series Revolution From the Heart of Nature; acted as a The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth), is a partment unit at the Ford Founda- central advisor to Leonardo DiCaprio’s feature writer, editor and journalist who tion and chair of the Bay Area Alli- documentary The 11th Hour; and is the co-project founded Movieline Magazine in ance for Sustainable Development. He has long been a director of Bioneers’ Dreaming New Mexico proj- 1985 and went on to write about film and television renowned environmental leader and one of the seminal ect, which just won Runner-up in the prestigious for The New York Times. Laurie is also an environmental founders of the environmental justice movement. 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. Kenny also co- activist who is on the action forum of the National founded Seeds of Change, a national biodiversity Resources Defense Council (NRDC), is involved with Evelyn Arce-White, of Chibcha organic seed company, and founded Inner Tan Pro- Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and Conservation (Colombian-American) descent, ductions, a feature film development company. International, among other environmental groups, and serves as executive director for (www.bioneers.org) has written a screenplay about the iconic environ- International Funders for Indige- mentalist Rachel Carson. nous Peoples. She has been work- Zenobia Barlow, a co-founder of ing for IFIP since 2002 and is also the Center for Ecoliteracy, has led Tzeporah Berman, formerly with the secretary and vice president of its board. Eve- the Center’s grant-making, educa- Greenpeace International, is an lyn’s academic background is in Education. She has a tional, and publishing programs since award-winning forest conservation Master of Art in Teaching degree from Cornell. its inception. A leader in creating and climate activist. The co-founder (www.internationalfunders.org) models of schooling for sustainability, of ForestEthics, she played a semi- she has designed strategies for applying ecological and nal role in campaigns to protect Greg Archer is a San Francisco Bay indigenous understanding in K-12 education, including Clayoquot Sound, the Great Bear Rainforest, and Area-based, award-winning writer the Food Systems Project, Rethinking School Lunch Chilean and boreal forests, contributing to the pro- who covers film, television, art, and Smart by Nature. Co-editor of two books: Eco- tection of over 66 million acres. Tzeporah is the theater, health and environmental logical Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable founder and executive director of the new Canadian issues. His work has been featured World and Ecoliteracy: Mapping the Terrain, Zenobia is citizens initiative, PowerUP Canada, working for stron- in O, The Advocate, Bust, i-D, Delight also a widely-traveled documentary photographer. ger laws to address global warming and the creation of Magazine, Common Ground, Satellite DIRECT, the Syd- (www.ecoliteracy.org) a zero carbon economy and green jobs in Canada. ney Morning Herald, The Monterey Herald and other (www.forestethics.org and www.powerupcanada.ca) publications. He is also the editor-in-chief of the

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Patty Berne, is co-founder and di- for the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, Jeffrey Campbell, director of grant- rector of Sins Invalid, an incubator the executive director of a Planned Parenthood affili- making for The Christensen Fund, for cutting-edge disabled artists. ate in North Carolina, and the coordinator of the Caro- has spent most of his life in South She is a longtime activist whose lina Brown Lung Association. (www.saferchemicals.org) Asia. An experienced multi-lingual background of diverse advocacy grantmaker who has specialized in includes work for immigrants, com- Michael Brune, the executive direc- partnering with indigenous and munity organizing within the Haitian diaspora, sup- tor of Rainforest Action Network, tribal communities worldwide, he spent 17 years at port for Guatemalan democratic movements, work has shaped RAN’s campaign strate- the Ford Foundation working in India, Nepal and In- with incarcerated youth, advocating for LGBTQI and gies since 1998, resulting in more donesia, ultimately becoming a senior program offi- disability rights perspectives concerning reproduc- than a dozen landmark commit- cer in the New York Office. He is also a noted expert tive/genetic technologies, and mental health support ments from America’s largest cor- on international and national forestry issues, a natu- to survivors of violence. She currently chairs the board porations including Citi, Goldman Sachs, Bank of ralist, a poet, and an accomplished musician in of San Francisco Women Against Rape (www.sfwar.org) America, Kinko’s, Boise, and Lowe’s. Brune provides both South Asian traditional and contemporary im- and is the 2009 recipient of the Empress I Jose Sarria the vision and energy to fuel RAN’s current efforts to provisational forms who currently records with the Award for Uncommon Leadership in the field of LG- promote freedom from oil, responsible forestry, clean band Orchestra naïF. (www.christensenfund.org) BTQI and disability rights. (www.sinsinvalid.org) energy and sustainable agriculture with innovative media campaigns, grassroots action, and sophisticated Joanne Campbell, of Sonoma County Pomo and Coast Shannon Biggs, formerly with the International Fo- corporate negotiations. (www.ran.org) Miwok ancestry, has served on the tribal council of rum on Globalization and a lecturer at SF State, is the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria for nine the director of the Local Green Economy Program at Doug Buis is an artist and teacher years. Joanne’s two personal priorities in working with Global Exchange and co-author of Building the Green currently based in Kamloops, Brit- the tribe are restoring the tribe’s traditional languages Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots. Shannon ish Columbia, after 7 years in and preserving and perpetuating the art of basketry. also teaches rights-based organizing at weekend-long Southern California. His work ex- Democracy Schools, developed by the Community plores issues of landscape through Bob Cannard is a master organic Environmental Legal Defense Fund in 23 states around installation, video, mechanical and gardener, teacher and consultant, the country, and speaks across the nation on the pow- liquid kinetics, photography, hand-crafted virtual real- skilled in numerous restorative er of grassroots activism to create systemic change. ity, fictional characters and writing. He recently ex- farming practices who grows some (www.globalexchange.org) amined the striking similarities and radical differ- of the finest produce anywhere, ences between the landscapes of the Los Angeles and has long been a supplier for James L. Buizer, the science policy advisor to Arizo- area and Southern B.C. Doug is also an avid kayaker, Chez Panisse and other progressive restaurants. na State’s president, as well as a professor in ASU’s cyclist and snowboarder. School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Plan- Fritjof Capra, a physicist and sys- ning focusing on institutional adaptations to climate Louise Boyd Cadwell, the co-found- tems theorist, is a founding direc- change, was formerly the executive director of ASU’s er of the sustainability education tor of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Office of Sustainability Initiatives, which launched a and school design consulting firm Berkeley, California, and is on the School of Sustainability in 2006, the first of its kind in Cadwell Collaborative, is an educa- faculty of Schumacher College, an the world. Previously he served as director of the Cli- tion consultant with 30 years expe- international center for ecological mate and Societal Interactions Office at the National rience in child development, cur- studies in England. He frequently gives management Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) riculum design, arts and environmental education, and seminars for top executives, and is the author of five and was active in the Nobel Peace Prize-winning In- organizational learning. A noted expert on the Italian bestsellers: The Tao of Physics, The Turning Point, Un- tergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Mr. Buizer Reggio Emilia and the British Integrated Day education- common Wisdom, The Web of Life, and The Hidden sits on numerous prestigious boards and councils al approaches, she works with schools in the U.S. and Connections. His most recent book is The Science of nationally and internationally. abroad and is the author of several books, including: Leonardo. (www.ecoliteracy.org, www.fritjofcapra.net) Bringing Reggio Emilia Home: An Innovative Approach to Susan Braun, the executive director Early Childhood Education. (www.cadwellcollaborative.com) Ildi Carlisle-Cummins, the farm-to- of Commonweal, was previously school program director at Com- executive director of The American Gillian Caldwell is the campaign di- munity Alliance with Family Farm- Society of Clinical Oncology Can- rector for 1Sky, a national campaign ers (CAFF), is deeply involved in cer Foundation, the president and to pass strong and effective clean food systems change work in Cali- CEO of the CURE Media Group, energy legislation in the United fornia Central Coast communities, president and CEO of the Susan G. Komen Breast States. A filmmaker and attorney participating in health collaboratives, food policy Cancer Foundation, and worked at Bristol-Myers with thirty years experience advo- groups and working closely with local growers. Ildi is Squibb and the Center for Economic Studies in Med- cating for social justice in the U.S. and around the also president of the board of Life Lab Science Pro- icine. Ms. Braun has served on boards or committees world, Gillian most recently served as executive di- gram, a Santa Cruz leader in school garden develop- for several organizations, including the American Soci- rector of WITNESS, which uses the power of video ment. In previous work with CAFF and Second Har- ety for Breast Disease, World Society of Breast Health, to expose human rights abuses. She is the co-editor vest Food Bank, she compiled a Food Security Guide Americorps NCCC, Intercultural Cancer Council, and and author of Video for Change: A Guide to Advocacy and for the Central Coast, which listed local farms, anti- the ASCEND Foundation. (www.commonweal.org) Activism. (www.1sky.org) hunger and nutrition agencies. (www.caff.org)

Charlotte Brody is the national Anneke Campbell was born and raised in The Nether- Caroline W. Casey is the creator- field director for Safer Chemicals, lands and emigrated to America when she was 17. She weaver-of-context of “The Visionary Healthy Families, a new national has worked as a midwife, practical nurse, yoga teacher, Activist Show” on Pacifica Radio sta- campaign calling for stronger fed- college teacher of English literature and composition, tions KPFA in the Bay Area and eral standards on toxic chemicals. poet and scriptwriter. Her first novel, Mary of Belling- KPFK in Los Angeles (also web and Formerly director of programs for ham, was published in 2004. Her most recent book, podcast). She has created the online Green For All, and before that executive director of co-written with Thomas Linzey is: Be The Change: How Compassionate Trickster Experimental Juju Mystery the renowned health and environmental research in- to Get What You Want in Your Community. Anneke is also School, and is the author of Making the Gods Work For stitute Commonweal, Charlotte was also a founder editing a collection with Bioneers co-founder Nina You and the forthcoming: Coyote Network News-The and executive director of the international coalition Simons of women contributors to Bioneers. Compassionate Trickster’s Guide to Serious Fun (because “If Health Care Without Harm, an organizing director we’re not having fun - we’re just not serious enough.”) (www.coyotenetworknews.net)

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Ryan Chin is the project lead for the 2009 Buckmin- T. Allan Comp was named a Na- editor of Take Back Your Time. John has also worked ster Fuller Challenge winner, Sustainable Personal tional River Hero by River Net- with KCTS-TV, the Seattle PBS affiliate, for 23 years Mobility/Mobility on Demand. A fourth-year Ph.D. stu- work this spring, the first federal as an independent producer of television documen- dent at the MIT Media laboratory in the Smart Cities employee ever so named. He works taries, and is the recipient of more than 100 awards, research group, he is working on building the car of at the Department of the Interior, including for his work on the PBS specials Running Out the future – a foldable, stackable, sharable, electric, Office of Surface Mining, where he of Time, Affluenza, Beyond Organic, and most recently two-passenger city vehicle that rethinks urban mobil- initiated and now manages two teams of OSM/VISTA Silent Killer: The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger, ity. In 2007 Chin lead a team of Media Lab students in Volunteers - over 100 college-trained, year-long posi- and Buyer, Be Fair. the creation of the RoboScooter – a lightweight elections making a real difference in some of America’s tric folding scooter designed as a clean, green mobility most challenging communities and environments. Hon- Melanie DeMore, a singer-songwriter who performs solution for today’s crowded cities, and co-founded the ored by national awards from multiple sources, Allan African American traditional folk ballads and spiritu- MIT Smart Customization group. brings a multidisciplinary perspective and innovative als as well as her own original music, has toured ex- collaboration to his work with Appalachian coal towns tensively and leads vocal workshops for professional Bessie Dvora China Leipakumakan- and Western hardrock mining communities. choirs, community groups, prisoners, schools and iokalani Ching (aka China Ching), of youth organizations throughout the US, Canada and Native Hawaiian ancestry, has Anthony Cortese, one of the nation’s longtime, path New Zealand. The artistic director/conductor of the taught video production and digital breaking leaders in greening higher education, is pres- Oakland Community Children’s Choir who serves on storytelling across the U.S. and in ident and co-founder (with Senator John Kerry and the board of Oakland’s Destiny Arts, Melanie has con- Africa, with a particular emphasis Teresa Heinz) of Second Nature, a nonprofit work- tributed her voice to many progressive causes, including on using media technologies and storytelling for so- ing to make healthy, just and sustainable action a first the Middle East Children’s Alliance), SpeakOut!, and The cial and community change. China was a founding principle of higher education. He is a co-organizer of Institute for Social and Cultural Change. She was also member of Third World Majority, a new media train- the American College & University Presidents Climate a founding member of the Grammy-nominated vocal ing and production resource center, where she was Commitment, co-founder of the Association for the ensemble Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir. the director of Circle of Voices, a Native-specific Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, and (www.melaniedemore.com) training program. Her academic background was in a consultant on institutionalizing sustainability principles Hispanic Studies and in Oral History, with an MA and programs. (www.secondnature.org) Sean P. Dempsey, formerly an international sales rep- from Columbia. resentative for the semiconductor firm BPS Technol- Eve P. Cowen is the founder and ogy Inc., is the chief development officer of Floating Jean Chorazyczewski is the direc- executive director of The Future Isand LLC, a subsidiary of the invention firm, Foun- tor of operations at Fair Food Net- Leaders Institute (FLI), committed tainhead LLC. Floating Island uses Biomimicry prin- work, where she manages all as- to developing productive, contrib- ciples to create “BioHaven” floating islands that help pects of daily operations and uting citizens and healthy schools restore aquatic ecosystems, remove pollutants, and communication and provides lead- and communities. The Future Lead- enhance overall water quality. As of 2008, well over ership on organizational growth ers Institute (FLI)’s award-winning Passion-to-Ac- 3000 of these islands had left the company’s Montana and process. Influenced by her childhood backyard tion™ curriculum has helped over 350 low-income facility for waterways in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New garden in Detroit, Jean is an activist for healthy, fresh high school students throughout the Bay Area pursue Zealand, Singapore, UK, Korea and Europe. and locally-grown food. She is also a musician and their dreams. (www.thefli.org) percussionist in the Ann Arbor area who enjoys Darren J. Doherty, an Australian, drumming with local musicians, facilitating drum cir- Sarah Crowell, currently the program development has extensive experience across cles and playing a variety of musical instruments. director at Destiny Arts Center, has been with that the world in Permaculture project (www.fairfoodnetwork.org) vital organization for eighteen years, first as the per- design, development and manage- forming arts director and artistic director of its youth ment and is a leading pioneer in Jaimie P. Cloud is the founder and president of the performance company, then as executive director, and “broadacre” agricultural systems. A Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education in New now has returned to programming and artistic direc- registered teacher of The Permaculture Institute as York City, a leading generator of sustainability curri- tion. Sarah danced with modern, jazz and dance/theater well as a certified whole farm planner, Keyline™ de- cula and educational materials worldwide. Ms. Cloud companies in Boston and the Bay Area starting in 1984, signer, and accredited permaculture trainer (APT™), writes and teaches extensively and serves on several including with Impulse Jazz Dance Company and the Darren has been involved in the design, development boards and advisory committees, including as chair of Dance Brigade, and has performed both nationally and and management of over 1200 projects across 5 con- Communities for Learning, on planning committees internationally. (www.destinyarts.org) tinents, ranging from ±110,000-acre ranches in Aus- for the North American Association for Environmen- tralia and the Americas to “eco-villages” in Tasmania, to tal Education (NAAEE) and the National Associa- Betsy Damon, an environmental R&D agro-forestry & education projects in Viet Nam. tion of Independent Schools (NAIS) as well as on activist and award-winning artist (www.permaculture.biz) the editorial board of the International Journal of specializing in water restoration, Education for Sustainable Development. (www.sus- remediation and education, is the Brock Dolman, a founding member tainabilityed.org) founder of Keepers of the Waters, and resident of the Sowing Circle a not-for-profit foundation. In 1998 LLC, an intentional community in Susanne Cockrell is an artist who works in perfor- she completed (with many U.S. and Chinese part- the Sonoma County hamlet of Oc- mance, film, installation and concept driven public ners) the now-famous Living Water Garden in cidental, California, is the Occiden- projects. Her work has appeared at the Hirschorn Chengdu, China, the first inner-city ecological park in tal Arts and Ecology Center’s WA- Museum, Black Maria Film Festivals, Semena De Cine the world with water as its theme. Her latest project TER (Watershed Advocacy Training Education & Experimental Madrid, Kellogg Art Museum and Tbilisi is reSources: Saving Living Systems, a grassroots Research) Institute director and co-directs OAEC’s Art Caucuses. An associate professor at the California project to micro-map water sources and cultures Permaculture Design and Wildlands Biodiversity pro- College of Art, she co-created Temescal Amity Works, and implement sustainable water/energy practic- grams. Brock’s extensive cross-disciplinary experi- an on-going Oakland neighborhood art project that es. (www.keepersofthewaters.org) ence ranges from the study of wildlife biology, native includes a storefront crop-sharing program¬–the Big California botany and watershed ecology to the prac- Backyard. (www.amityworks.org) John de Graaf, national coordinator of the annual tices of habitat restoration, community watershed “Take Back Your Time Day” (www.timeday.org) and education, and ecological literacy activism to engen- a frequent speaker on issues of overwork and over- der societal transformation. (www.oaec.org) consumption in America, is the co-author of the bestselling Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic, and

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Matt Dubel is the sustainable schools project coordi- Larry Eisenberg is the executive director for facili- Friends of Creation Spirituality, as well as the cre- nator for Shelburne Farms, a non-profit environ- ties planning and development for the Los Angeles ator of The Cosmic Mass, which mixes contempo- mental education organization based in Vermont. Community College District (LACCD), the largest rary art and musical forms with the Western litur- A former classroom teacher with experience community college district in the U.S. He is currently gical tradition. working with students from pre-school through implementing a $5.7 billion construction/renovation graduate school, Matt coaches schools in using program characterized by its commitment to sustain- Jonathon Freeman (Choctaw/Chichimeca) is the pro- sustainability as an integrating theme to connect cur- ability, making it one of the largest current sustain- gram director of the Seventh Generation Fund for In- riculum, campus practices, and community engagement. able development programs in the world. Larry has a dian Development. He also developed and organized (www.shelburnefarms.org) long history of facilities management in universities the Native Youth Cultural Exchange, a grassroots and local and state governments and serves on the youth leadership program, and is a fledgling carver Crystal Durham is the executive sustainability advisory committees of the American and a struggling runner. (www.7genfund.org) director of the California Student College and University Presidents Climate Com- Sustainability Coalition. As a UCLA mitment, the Association for the Advancement of Kari Fulton, the national campus student and recent graduate, Crys- Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), and The campaign coordinator for the Envi- tal helped to catalyze sustainability National Association of College and University Bud- ronmental Justice and Climate efforts across the campus and par- get Officers. (laccd.edu) Change Initiative, has become a pi- ticipated in the evolution of the system-wide UC oneer organizer working to mobi- Policy on Sustainable Practices. She became executive Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, the new chief lize youth of color around issues of director of CSSC in 2007, and has spent the last two executive officer of the organiza- campus sustainability and climate justice. She was a years working to grow the organization into a thriv- tion founded by Van Jones, Green 2008 recipient of Earth Island Institute’s Brower Youth ing statewide network. For All, was previously head of the Award and the Damu Smith Power of One Young Pro- South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council fessional Award (Deep South Center For Environmen- Michelle Dyer is the vice president of Second Nature, and Working Partnerships USA. She tal Justice at Dillard University). A graduate of Howard a pioneering organization with a mission to make has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s most University, Fulton acts as a mentor for other youth sustainability the foundation of all aspects of higher accomplished activists on behalf of working families. leaders and as a spokesperson for the Energy Action education. Michelle has over fifteen years’ experience (www.greenforall.org) Coalition, and is currently a senior fellow with Young in management consulting and project management People For the American Way (YP4) and a member of in the energy, health, higher education and enter- John Fogarty, MD, the director of the 2009 YP4 Leadership Academy. (www.ejcc.org) tainment industries, and is active in several orga- New Energy Economy in New nizations, including the Society for Organizational Mexico, was a founding board Tim Galarneau, is a food systems education and re- Learning, the Green Schools Alliance, and the City member of the national climate ac- search program specialist at UC’s Center for Agro- of Gloucester (MA) Clean Energy Commission. tivist organization 1Sky, and cur- ecology and Sustainable Food Systems, focusing on (www.secondnature.org) rently serves on the national board farm-to-institution, higher education, and local food of Physicians for Social Responsibility. An assistant movements. He also serves as the UCSC Food Sys- Kai Eckhardt is a renowned musical professor in the School of Public Health at the Uni- tems Working Group coordinator; advisor to cam- figure. A Liberian/German bassist, versity of New Mexico, he has worked as a physician pus farm-to college efforts for the California Student his illustrious three-decade career with the Indian Health Service in Navajo and Pueblo Sustainability Coalition; advisory board member with has seen him collaborate with many communities for more than ten years. Dr. Fogarty has the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability of our era’s greatest musicians. been awarded the prestigious Lannan Cultural Freedom in Higher Education; and on the national coordinating Currently a professor at the Jazz Fellowship for his work protecting Navajo communities team for the Real Food Challenge, working to shift food School Institute in Berkeley, California, Kai teaches from uranium mining. (www.1skynewmexico.org) procurement and consumption in colleges and univer- workshops worldwide, and is also very active in social sities toward greater sustainability. (casfs.ucsc.edu) justice and environmental issues. He has helped put Joshua S. Fouts is chief global strate- together benefits for the homeless, rallies for green col- gist of Dancing Ink Productions, a Alicia Garza, a Bay Area activist who has been work- lar jobs, poetry projects featuring socially conscious company that develops business ing as an organizer with local communities of color messages and is a proud member of Greenforall.org. strategy, immersive narrative and for racial and economic justice for the past 7 years, is (www.kaizone.com) mixed-media/mixed-reality content, the co-executive director of People Organized to Win games, and events for a new global Employment Rights (POWER) and also serves on the Andres Edwards is an educator, au- culture and economy in the imagination age. His pri- board of The School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL) in thor, media designer and environ- mary focus is on working with organizations to de- Oakland, California. (www.peopleorganized.org) mental systems consultant who velop quality game and virtual world narratives that founded EduTracks in 1998. He has help foster vibrant community and culture in the Jihan Gearon, a Diné (Navajo) and served as producer, exhibit devel- physical world. He is recognized as the world’s leading African American from Fort Defi- oper, and consultant for projects in expert on Digital Diplomacy. His most recent project, ance, Navajo reservation, Arizona, natural history, biodiversity and sustainable commu- Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds (co-di- leads the Indigenous Environmen- nity in Northern California, Florida, Missouri, Alaska, rected with Rita J. King) uses virtual worlds to enable tal Network’s Energy and Climate Illinois, Washington D.C., Taejon, Korea and Kerala, people to better understand Islamic culture. (www. Program, which works to build the India and developed communication strategies for dancinginkproductions.com) capacity of communities throughout the U.S. and The Natural Step. Permaculture certified and a LEED Canada who are impacted by energy development Accredited Professional, Andres holds a BA in Geog- Matthew Fox, Ph.D., a former member of the Do- and climate change. She is a graduate of Stanford Uni- raphy and English from the University of Colorado; an minican Order (for 34 years) famously expulsed by versity with a Bachelors of Science in Earth Systems MPS in Media Studies from NYU’s Interactive Tele- Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict) for doctrinal and a focus in Energy Science and Technology. communication’s Program and an MA from New Col- differences, is one of the most renowned religious lege of California, Santa Rosa. He is the author of The reformers and innovators of our era. The author of Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift; and 28 books including Original Blessing and most recently, co-author of Tibet: Enduring Spirit, Exploited Land. A New Reformation, he is the founder of the Univer- (www.edutracks.com) sity of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, California, founder/president of the non-profit organization

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Tom B.K. Goldtooth is the execu- Staci Haines, the founder and executive director of Oran Hesterman is the inaugural tive director of the Indigenous En- Generation Five, whose mission is to end the sexual president and CEO of the Fair vironmental Network, headquar- abuse of children within five generations, has been Food Foundation. A national leader tered at Bemidji, Minnesota. A social working on this issue since 1985 and is the author of in sustainable agriculture and food change activist within the Native The Survivor’s Guide to Sex, which presents a somatic systems, he has published more American community for over 30 approach to recovery from sexual trauma. She is a than 400 reports and articles, years, he has become an environmental and econom- leading expert and trainer in the field of Somatics, played an essential role in the establishment of the ic justice leader, locally, regionally, nationally and inter- specializing in working with trauma, and leads cours- Michigan Food Policy Council, and led the Sustainable nationally. Tom recently co-produced an award win- es training practitioners, therapists and social change Agriculture and Food Systems Funders group. Prior ning documentary film, Drumbeat For Mother Earth, activists in this work. (www.generationfive.org) to coming to the Fair Food Foundation, Oran worked which addresses the affects of bioaccumulative chemicals at the Kellogg Foundation for 12 years nurturing na- on indigenous peoples. He is active with many environ- Jennifer M. Hall, is a leading local tional and international food system projects, partner- mental and social justice organizations besides IEN. and national food activist based in ships and collaborations. He previously taught in the (www.ienearth.org) Spokane, Washington. She is a driv- Crop and Soil Sciences Department at Michigan State. ing force working to open Spo- Mary Gonzales is the western terri- kane’s Main Market Co-op in Fall Jack D. Hidary, after studying phi- tory director for the Gamaliel 2009, a leader of the Slow Food losophy and neuroscience at Co- Foundation, an institute that seeks Spokane River Convivium, co-chair of Slow Food’s lumbia University, became a suc- to build faith-based organizations in National Ark of Taste Committee, and an appointed cessful entrepreneur in the finance the U.S., Great Britain and South member of the USDA National Organic Standards and technology sectors. He later Africa. With nearly 30 years’ orga- Board. (www.community-building.org) co-founded SmartTransportation. nizing experience, she has helped create many regional org, a nationwide organization dedicated to encour- faith and value based community organizations in Cali- David Hammond is an environ- aging clean technology in the transportation sector, fornia and Hawaii. Mary also conducts leadership train- mental chemist with a broad inter- which has, among other achievements, led a coalition ing events within the Gamaliel network and for several disciplinary background in chemical to establish thousands of hybrid taxis in New York and national religious and educational institutions. ecology, biomimicry, natural prod- other cities. He also currently serves on the advisory (www.gamaliel.org) ucts chemistry, sustainable agricul- board to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory ture, sustainable wastewater treat- and is board chair of AmericansforCleanEnergy.org. PennElys GoodShield is the founder ment, product innovation, and international of Sustainable Nations, a Native-led community development. He is co-founder of GO2 Donna House (Diné), who currently assists Native sustainable community develop- Water, which designs biomimetic wastewater treat- American community-based organizations in pro- ment organization, and currently ment systems, and of a non-profit called Altertec that tecting traditional eco-cultural assets from adverse serves as its director. The organiza- teaches permaculture in Guatemala. He has also con- development, is a botanical consultant specializing in tion has hosted trainings for Native sulted on biomimicry at companies such as Nike and traditional ecological knowledge research and envi- peoples in renewable energy, natural building, biologi- IDEO, helping them innovate and problem-solve by ronmental policy. House designed the landscape for cally based wastewater treatment, plant medicine, and learning from nature. (www.go2water.net) the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American food sovereignty, and has lead energy installations and Indian in Washington, D. C. and worked with conser- the construction of composting toilets, straw bale J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers co-produc- vation organizations and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife homes, and a straw-bale/adobe traditional medicine er since 1990, was formerly a pro- Service Recovery Team for Endangered Plants. clinic. It also provides support and assistance for a gram director at the New York range of other Native peoples’ projects. Open Center and founder/co-pro- Jordan Howard, 17, is a youth lead- ducer of the Eco-Metropolis con- er in the Green Ambassadors pro- Kate Gordon, former co-director ference in NYC. A consultant, con- gram at the Environmental Charter of the national Apollo Alliance and ference producer, copy-editor and writer, he is the High School in Lawndale, California, now a senior policy advisor there author of three books: Political Ecosystems, Double He- and an environmental activist. Her as well as vice president for energy lix Hubris, and most recently, Delusions of Normality, as activism has included directing an policy at American Progress, is na- well as the editor of the collection Visionary Plant Con- award-winning student film that educates people of tionally recognized for her work on sciousness and associate editor of the first two Bion- all ages on how to “go green” and organizing students the intersection of clean energy and economic devel- eers books: Ecological Medicine and Nature’s Operating to work in the “Rise Above Plastics” campaign, which opment policy. She has a long history of working on Instructions. JP also taught t’ai chi chuan in Brooklyn, raises awareness about the harms of disposable plastics. economic justice, labor, corporate tax and rural NY, for nearly 25 years. (www.echsonline.org) economic development issues. A former litigator at Trial Lawyers for Public Justice in Oakland, Califor- Jay Harris is the publisher of the Ron Hubert, the director of the Sustainable Cities nia, she is a primary or co-author on most of Apol- San Francisco-based, award-win- Program at the Center for Sustainable Environments lo’s major reports, including “The New Apollo Pro- ning, muckraking investigative mag- at the University of Northern Arizona, consults for gram,” “Green-Collar Jobs in America’s Cities,” azine, Mother Jones, and president a variety of businesses and organizations around the “Greener Pathways,” and the “New Energy” series. of its non-profit parent, the Foun- country on sustainability challenges, the dynamics of (www.apolloalliance.org) dation for National Progress. The systemic change, and organizational development. He 2007 opening of its Washington, D.C., bureau has has a long-lasting engagement in the nonprofit world, Jennifer Gray is the co-founder and helped make MotherJones.com an innovative player in including sitting on several boards. His background president of Transition U.S., and a online news as well. Jay is also founder and co-chair of includes a few years as a partner at the management- pioneer of the Transition Town the coordinating group of The Media Consortium, a consulting firm Deloitte Touche, specializing in tele- movement in the UK, having set up network of independent and progressive news orga- communications, and stints in banking, real estate and the second Transition Town after nizations. He serves on the boards of The Bulletin of running a school. Totnes. An environmental activist, the Atomic Scientists and the First Amendment Coali- entrepreneur, writer, artist, educator and single moth- tion and on the advisory board of Free Speech. er, she has a graduate degree in Ecological Education (www.motherjones.com) and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Mythological Studies. She is passionately committed to restoring/ re-storying Earth’s balance. (www.transitionus.org)

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Lynne Iser was the founding executive director of Wahleah Johns, (Salt clan born for Red Bottom Peo- nation’s first national report cards on higher educa- the Spiritual Eldering Institute and is currently an ad- ple) from the Navajo (Dine) tribe in northern Ari- tion sustainability, and a fellowship program, webinar vocate, facilitator and presenter for Creating Elder zona, is from the community of Forest Lake, one of series, videos, webcasts and publications, including Communities. Her passion is to create communities several communities atop the Black Mesa. A passion- Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the where elders are valued and contributing members ate advocate for indigenous peoples’ rights, environ- Turn of the 21st Century; Green Investment, Green Return: sharing their wisdom and life experience for the mental justice and restorative justice, she is the How Practical Conservation Projects Save Millions on benefit of all. co-director of the Black Mesa Water Coalition, America’s Campuses; and Higher Education in a Warming with which she has been involved since its inception. World: The Business Case for Climate Leadership on Campus. Anna Jaeger is the co-director of (www.blackmesawatercoalition.org) (www.nwf.org/campusecology) the GreenTech Initiative at the renowned nonprofit TechSoup Glob- Jeremy Kagan is an internationally Ian Kim, MBA, is director of the Green-Collar Jobs al. She brings 15 years of technical recognized, award-winning (includ- Campaign at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. leadership and management skills ing Emmy and Cable ACE awards) He advocates for policies in Oakland and statewide to help shape and guide TechSoup director/writer/producer of feature in California to create “green-collar” jobs, especially Global’s new endeavor, which aims to promote and films and television. His credits infor low-income young adults and those with barriers support environmental responsibility in the social clude the 10-part TV series - the to employment. Ian is also a co-convenor of Oak- benefit sector. Ms Jaeger previously held positions in ACLU Freedom Files, and feature films: Heroes, The Big Fix, land Mayor Ron Dellum’s Green Economy Task IT consulting, medical research and human services, The Chosen, The Journey of Natty Gann, Katherine: The Force, and served as Vice-Chair of the Oakland and is also the treasurer of the board of directors for Making of an American Revolutionary, Conspiracy: The Trial Oil Independence by 2020 Task Force.(www.ella- Tradeswomen, Inc. (www.tradeswomen.org), a Califor- of the Chicago 8, Roswell, and Crown Heights. Jeremy is a bakercenter.org) nia nonprofit. (www.techsoupglobal.org/greentech) tenured film professor at USC where he recently created the Change Making Media Lab and has been Jamilah King is the associate editor Russell Jaffe, MD, is a renowned making advocacy videos for The Democracy School, of WireTap, an independent news early pioneer of “integrative medi- The Doe Fund and Bioneers. He has also served as and culture web magazine that fea- cine.” A former molecular biolo- artistic director of the Sundance Institute and is the tures content by young people gist/pathologist at the NIH in the author of Directors Close Up. (cmml.usc.edu) from diverse backgrounds. She 1970s and an expert on nutrition, mentors young journalists, citizen he was the founding chairman of Lucinda Lee Katz, a nationally renowned educator, reporters and bloggers, and provides a platform for the Scientific Committee of the American Holistic currently heads the Marin Country Day School out- activists, social entrepreneurs and artists from across Medical Association and designed one of the first side of San Francisco. She has worked in Chicago’s the country. Jamilah’s writing focuses on race, politics, courses on using Eastern medical strategies in West- schools. She helped to develop an early education music and issues affecting young communities of col- ern medicine. He has won many awards for his life- program, directing the University of Chicago Labora- or. She’s also worked as a union organizer in Oakland time contributions to clinical medicine, biochemistry, tory Schools; and served as the the first Chinese bi- and the Bronx, and her writing has appeared in Pop and immunology, methodology and integrative health lingual teacher in San Francisco public schools; helping Politics, TheNation.com, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and policy, and currently serves on tasks forces that are bring bilingual education to the nation’s schools; and ColorLines magazine. (www.wiretapmag.org) modeling evidence based, affordable, effective, lead seminal research in mathematics teaching, cur- sustainable healthcare. riculum development, and family and cultural studies. Rita J. King, an award-winning inves- Her board service includes the Klingenstein Center tigative photojournalist, business James Ella James, a retired manager at Columbia University, NAIS, Prevent Child Abuse, strategist, artist, entrepreneur and and auditor for the Oakland region Chicago Children’s Museum, and the Chinese Ameri- immersive narrative architect, is of the U. S. Postal Service, with ex- can Service League. (www.mcds.org) the CEO and creative director of tensive experience in financial and Dancing Ink Productions. Her com- real estate management, served on Brian Keane is the co-founder and pany develops business strategy, immersive narrative the boards of American Baptist director of Land is Life, an interna- and mixed-media/mixed-reality content, games, con- Churches (ABC) of the West, ABC/USA, the Ameri- tional network of over 20 indige- ferences and other events for a new global culture can Baptist Historical Society, Women in Community nous communities and organiza- and economy in the Imagination Age. She is also a Service and the National Council of Negro Women. tions in 16 countries, which has a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in In- She is also a founding member of the Berkeley Public long history of achievements in the ternational Affairs, where she recently co-directed, with Education Foundation, serves as secretary of the worldwide struggle for indigenous rights. Keane has Joshua S. Fouts, the Understanding Islam through Virtual California Council of Churches and is a member and been active for 20 years in efforts to improve indige- Worlds project. (www.dancinginkproductions.com) deacon at McGee Avenue Baptist Church in Oakland. nous access to international policy-making processes, preserve threatened ecosystems, and protect human Barbara Koneval is Second Nature’s program associate Sarah James, a Gwich’in elder from rights; and to help indigenous communities preserve for education and outreach for the American College Arctic Village, Alaska, is the board their lifeways, maintain their sacred traditions, speak and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. She chair and a spokesperson for the their own languages and care for their ancestral has an MBA in Sustainable Business and eight years’ Gwich’in Steering Committee, and homelands. He is the co-author of Future of the Western experience working with sustainability organizations has educated people around the Amazon: Threats From Hydrocarbon Projects and Policy Solu- including the Natural Step Network. She currently acts world about the porcupine-caribou tions, published by PLoS ONE, the international, peer- as a curriculum development advisor for the North- herd and the importance of protecting the Arctic Na- reviewed online science journal. (www.landislife.org) west Earth Institute. (www.secondnature.org) tional Wildlife Refuge, known as “the Sacred Place where Life Begins”, from oil exploration and drilling. Julian Keniry, a pathfinder in sustain- Dune Lankard, a native Athabaskan She has received many awards, including the presti- ability in higher education for over Eyak from the Copper River Delta gious Goldman Environmental Prize, the National 20 years, co-founded the National of Alaska, was a commercial fisher- Conservation Land Trust Award and the Ecotrust Wildlife Federation’s Cool-It! Pro- man in Prince William Sound when Award for Indigenous Leadership. gram in 1989 (which later became the Exxon Valdez disaster trans- Campus Ecology), the Energy Ac- formed him into an activist and tion Coalition, and the Higher Education Associations’ social entrepreneur, dedicating his life to protecting Sustainability Consortium. Her numerous landmark human rights, the environment and sustainable solu- initiatives include the annual national Chill Out Com- tions. Still a commercial and subsistence fisherman, petition on campus solutions to global warming, the Dune was selected by Time magazine as one of its

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“Heroes of the Planet” and is a co-founder of the phase of his life, Leifer co-founded and directed Erin Deborah Lindsay is the host of Tomorrow Matters, a Eyak Preservation Council, the Native Conservancy Brockovitch’s Cancer411.org, a nonprofit dedicated to radio program on California’s KRXA 540AM, the first Land Trust, the FIRE Fund and the RED OIL Network helping cancer patients and their families get the infor- “green certified radio station” in the central coast (Resisting Environmental Degradation of Indigenous mation they need. (www.influenceXchange.com) region. She is also a sustainability coach and national Lands). (www.redzone.org) public speaker who encourages community action for Matthew Leivas, Sr., is a former tribal chairman and a sustainable future. Deborah also organizes and facil- Sage LaPena-Peconom is a medical currently serves on the tribal council of the Cheme- itates community discussion groups that seek to ex- herbalist, ethnobotanist, lecturer, huevi tribe (a branch of the Southern Paiute who plore solutions and foster leadership while promoting teacher, and gardener specializing in have been continuous occupants of the Mojave Des- awareness of how to lower our environmental foot- both Native American and Western ert for thousands of years). He is a traditional farmer, print. She was recently elected to the city council in herbal traditions. She started her singer, cultural keeper and environmental activist. Pacific Grove, CA. herbal education at age seven, Matthew works closely with the Native American working with local medicine people from her tribe, Land Conservancy and the Cultural Conservancy. He Thomas Linzey, an organizer and at- the Northern Wintu (California), and others from and his work have been featured in many films, and torney, is co-founder of the Com- neighboring tribes, and has been a life-long participant he is the co-founder and co-director of the Salt Song munity Environmental Legal De- in their ceremonial and cultural activities. She has Trail Project. fense Fund, a nonprofit providing been teaching the ethnobotany of California native free and affordable legal services to plants for over twenty years, and leads plant walks Annie Leonard has worked on in- grassroots groups and municipal throughout the state. ternational environmental health governments and seeking creative legal strategies for and sustainability issues for over democratic control over corporations, especially in Jensine Larsen, formerly a freelance two decades, including with GAIA, agriculture. Linzey has run as an independent for PA journalist covering indigenous Health Care without Harm, Essen- state attorney general, and serves as an advisor to movements in South America and tial Action, and Greenpeace Inter- Envision Spokane, an organization seeking to drive a Southeast Asia, is the founder of national. She has traveled to over 30 countries to in- Community Bill of Rights into the Spokane city char- World Pulse Media. This global me- vestigate the factories where stuff is produced and ter. He is a resident lecturer for the “Democracy dia source covers world issues the dumps where it is disposed. She is the writer and Schools” weekend seminars held across the U.S. that through women’s eyes, and its flagship, World Pulse host of the internet film, The Story of Stuff, viewed by seek to provoke critical thinking about the role of magazine, as well as the interactive website over 6 million people around the world since its corporations, and is a frequent lecturer to groups PulseWire.net, enables women worldwide to speak launch in December 2007. Annie currently coordi- and municipal governments across the country. for themselves and to connect to solve global problems. nates the nonprofit Story of Stuff Project, based in (www.celdf.org) (www.worldpulse.com) Berkeley, and is working on additional films, organizing projects, and an upcoming The Story of Stuff book. Andy Lipkis is president of Tree- Kaiulani Lee, an actress with over (www.storyofstuff.org) People, which he founded in 1973, a 35 years’ experience in theatre, guiding light for the global citizen film, and television, has starred in Joana Leonido is a Los Angeles- forestry movement. For over 35 over a dozen plays and has been based environmental and social jus- years Lipkis’ leadership has helped nominated for the Drama Desk tice activist who is a youth leader make Los Angeles a testing ground Award on Broadway. She won the of the California branch of Roots & for visionary, community-based efforts seeking urban OBIE award for outstanding achievement off-Broad- Shoots, a program of the Jane environmental health and sustainability, including way. Kaiulani has devoted her life to bringing quality Goodall Institute that is a youth- spearheading integrated watershed management ap- theater to communities across the country. Her play driven, global network of more than 8,000 groups in proaches that apply forests’ natural infrastructure about Rachel Carson, A Sense of Wonder, now made almost 100 countries in which youth of all ages en- services in cities. He helped create L.A.’s curbside re- into a feature that is being shown at the Moving Image gage in service learning projects that promote care cycling program and the L.A. Conservation Corps. Festival, has been touring the world for 16 years and has and concern for animals, the environment and the hu- His most recent work is with Green L.A., a collabora- been the centerpiece for regional and national confer- man community. Joana is also a youth delegate of tion of 60 mainstream and environmental justice ences on journalism, education and the environment. World Vision’s Youth Empowerment Project. (www. groups. He also serves on many boards, and in 2007 rootsandshoots.org) Mayor Villaraigosa asked him to help craft L.A.’s Cli- Susan Leibovitz Steinman, one of mate Change Mitigation Plan. (www.treepeople.org) the nation’s most respected eco- Michael Lerner, one of the nation’s artists, has worked for 20+ years leading, longtime visionaries in re- Laura Loescher is currently the ex- with underserved communities to forming healthcare, is president and ecutive director of Aepoch Fund, create collaborative eco-artworks co-founder of Commonweal, the which supports artists, healers, ac- that revitalize natural and cultural renowned health and environmen- tivists and movements engaged in landscapes. Her most current project is “Urban De- tal research institute in Bolinas, transforming ecological, cultural, fense”, a permaculture urban “orchard forest” whose California. He is also co-founder of the Commonweal economic, and social conditions so shape mimics the U.S. Pentagon, at the Schuykill Center Cancer Help Program, the New School at Common- that all people and the planet can thrive. Laura was for Environmental Education in Philadelphia. Susan also weal, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, the co-founder and former director of Changemak- writes, curates, lectures, and is the editor/co-founder of and the influential coalition Health Care Without Harm. ers, a foundation promoting community-based philan- WEAD, the Women Environmental Artists Directory. (www.commonweal.org) thropy. She is also a leadership coach and philanthrop- (www.steinmanstudio.com) ic/investment advisor to individuals who are devoting Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, the executive vice presi- their lives and resources to inner and outer healing Michael Leifer, a cultural anthropologist, leads Influ- dent of Jewish Funds for Justice, is active in several and transformation. (www.aepoch.org) enceXchange (formerly Guerliia PR), an award-win- faith-based organizations working for peace, justice ning, non-traditional advertising agency that special- and environmental sustainability. He has been activ- Alec Loorz, now 15, founded Kids izes in social media and word- of-mouth marketing ist working to combine a spiritual and political ap- vs Global Warming when he was 13 campaigns. He is the author of Green Social Currency proach to social transformation for 40 years. (www. and has spoken to over 12,000 and one of the founding fathers of EcoDads.org, a net- jewishjustice.org) people with a global warming pre- work of environmentally minded fathers. In an earlier sentation he created especially for youth. He is currently the youth leader for the Alliance for Climate Education, reaching

- 44 - - 45 - www.bioneers.org Biographies Biographies high school students through schools, and is current- laborating with John Mohawk and the Iroquois White Voodo Fe’ Mathelier, born and ly the youngest trained presenter in the U.S. of Al Corn Project and working with The Federation of raised in Brooklyn, NY, is a multi- Gore’s Inconvenient Truth. (www.climateeducation.org; Southern Cooperatives’ African American farmers in media artist in the fields of music, www.kids-vs-global-warming.com) the South. A board member of the Ecological Farming painting, fashion design, graphic de- Association, he was a member of the GE Subcommittee sign and jewelry. As a musician and Oren Lyons, the Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, On- that achieved a precautionary moratorium on growing songwriter, Voodo has recorded ondaga Council of Chiefs of the Hau de no sau nee, genetically engineered crops in Santa Cruz County. songs for film and television and performed with the helped establish the United Nations Working Group (www.bioneers.org) band Phoenix And The Shadow. As a fashion and on Indigenous Populations in 1982. He has been very graphic designer he has designed for Calvin Klein, active defending indigenous rights in U.N. forums David Mann, who has 30 years’ ex- Avirex and G-Unit, and has designed the New Jersey around the world, and is a principal figure in the Tra- perience in grassroots and political Nets Uniforms. Voodo is currently working on the ditional Circle of Indian Elders, a council of traditional organizing and organizational devel- opening of Voodo Fe’ Culture, a lifestyles brand that grassroots leaders of North American Indian nations. opment, is currently the Minneapo- will tie all his media talents under one umbrella. For many a professor of American Studies at SUNY lis-based associate director of the Buffalo 35 years, where he directed the Native Amer- Grassroots Policy Project, which Martha Matsuoka, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in ican Studies Program, Oren co-edited Exiled in the works with community organizations on movement the Urban and Environmental Policy Department at Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations, and the U.S. building strategies. Previously, Dave was a founder and Occidental College, where she teaches courses and Constitution with the late John Mohawk, and publishes executive director of the Minnesota Alliance for Pro- does research on environmental justice, community Daybreak, a national Native American magazine. gressive Action, a statewide coalition. He is an alumni development, organizing, and regional economic de- of the Windcall Residency Program and helped launch velopment. She is the co-author of This Could Be The Joanna Macy, a renowned Buddhist the second generation of this program, the Windcall Start Of Something Big: Regional Equity Organizing And teacher, eco-philosopher, systems Institute, dedicated to helping organizers in social, The Future Of Metropolitan America and is active with theorist, and scholar, is a longtime economic and environmental justice movements many progressive organizations, including: GREEN LA, activist in the peace, justice and avoid burnout and ultimately strengthen and renew the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), CI- ecology movements. Her wide- themselves and their organizations through its resi- PHER and the East Asia-U.S.- Puerto Rico Women’s ranging work spans Eastern and dency program, dialogues and continuing education. Network Against Militarism. Western thought and seeks to bring to human con- (www.grassrootspolicy.org) sciousness the perspectives of other life forms, as Kami McBride is a teacher of herb- well as those of past and future generations. Joanna’s L. Frank Manriquez (Tongva/Ajach- alism who has helped thousands of experiential group work, known to activists around mem), a Native California Indian people learn to use herbal medi- the world as The Work That Reconnects, seeks to con- artist, tribal scholar, cartoonist, lan- cines in their daily lives in ways that vey the extraordinary opportunity of being alive now guage advocate, and self-described are healthy, safe and fun. Her mis- to serve the survival of life on Earth. Joanna’s many “decolonizationist,” has exhibited sion is to help revive the art of seminal books include: Despair and Personal Power in her artwork (paintings, sculpture, home herbal care, creating self-reliance, sustainable the Nuclear Age; Dharma and Development; Thinking weavings, cartoons, regalia) in museums and galleries wellness practices and revitalizing our relationship Like a Mountain; Coming Back to Life: Practices to locally, nationally, and internationally. L. Frank is the with the plant world. Kami is the author of 105 Ways Reconnect Our Lives, Our World; Widening Circles; co-founder of Advocates for Indigenous California to Celebrate Menstruation. (www.livingawareness.com) and, most recently, World as Lover, World as Self. Language Survival and serves on the board of The (www.joannamacy.net) Cultural Conservancy. She is the author of two books, Jason McLennan, CEO of the Cas- Acorn Soup and First Families: A Photographic History of cadia Green Building Council, the Nile Malloy, an Oakland, California-based activist California Indians, both published by Heyday Books. Pacific Northwest’s leading green committed to social, economic, and ecological jus- building and sustainable develop- tice, is currently program director for Communities Mari Margil, with a background in ment organization, is the creator of for a Better Environment and recently served as the public policy and urban planning, is the Living Building Challenge, co- Freedom from Oil campaigner at Rainforest Action the associate director for the Com- creator of Pharos (the most advanced building mate- Network. He also has a wide-ranging teaching back- munity Environmental Legal De- rial rating system in North America), and founder/ ground, including in New College of California’s Ac- fense Fund (a nonprofit providing CEO of Ecotone Publishing. He is the author of The tivism and Social Change Program. (www.cbecal.org) legal services to grassroots groups Ecological Engineer and The Philosophy of Sustainable and municipal governments and seeking creative legal Design, currently used as a textbook in over 40 universi- Grandmother Josephine Mandamin of the Wikwe- strategies for democratic control over corporations) ties internationally. He is a former principal at BNIM mikong Unceded Nation (in the northeastern sec- where she conducts grassroots organizing, public ed- Architects, one of the pioneering firms in the green tion of Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada), is the ucation, media outreach, and leads the organization’s design movement in the US. (www.cascadiagbc.org) co-creator of the “Mother Earth Water Walk”, which fundraising efforts. In 2008, she traveled to Ecuador has involved her walking around the five Great Lakes where she assisted the country’s constitutional assem- Nipun Mehta is the founder of along with many supporters to raise awareness about bly on the re-writing of their constitution. Previously, CharityFocus, a volunteer-driven the dire condition of the region’s waters, the crucial Mari was the director of corporate transformation for organization started in 1999 to in- political and spiritual issues surrounding our society’s Corporate Ethics International. (www.celdf.org) spire young IT professionals to relationship to water, and the special role women play provide free web-based solutions in the protection of the waters. Gerardo Marin, co-manager at Farm for nonprofit organizations world- Fresh Choice at the Ecology Center wide. Having served thousands of nonprofits without Arty Mangan, the food and farming in Berkeley, California, coordinates any overhead, CharityFocus has now become an incu- program director for Bioneers, food justice programs that work bator of “gift-economy” projects ranging from web started working with farmers in with urban teens in low-income services to a film production company to a print 1978 as a partner in Live Juice, a communities of color in Berkeley to magazine to a restaurant. From a membership base of local, organic apple juice company develop equitable food systems and help our society 250,000, it attracts millions of global viewers to its in Santa Cruz, CA. A former head shift to sustainability. (www.ecologycenter.org) websites. (www.charityfocus.org) of fruit sourcing at Odwalla dealing with farmers in the U.S., Mexico and Costa Rica, he joined Bioneers in 1998 to lead the Restorative Development Initia- tive, producing ecological agricultural workshops, col-

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Oscar Moctezuma Orozco, the Jeremy Narby, Ph. D., is an anthro- David W. Orr, professor of Environ- general director of the Mexican pologist, activist and author. Since mental Studies and senior adviser conservation organization Natura- 1989, he has been working for the to the president at Oberlin Col- lia, A.C., oversees its field projects, NGO Nouvelle Planète, backing lege, is an award-winning scholar including two private reserves in initiatives by and for the indigenous and leader in the sustainability Northwest Mexico and efforts to peoples of Amazonia, including land movement, renowned for his pio- protect the northernmost population of jaguars, pre- titling, bilingual education, sustainable resource use, neering work on environmental literacy and ecologi- serve prairie dogs, and restore the Mexican wolf. He preservation of plant knowledge and environmental cal design. He is the author of: Down to the Wire; The has been a leading conservationist for the last 25 monitoring of petroleum companies. Jeremy is the Last Refuge; The Nature of Design; Earth in Mind; and years, and is an active member of numerous Mexican author of several books, including The Cosmic Serpent Ecological Literacy; and co-editor of The Global Predica- and international conservation organizations, including and Intelligence in Nature, and co-edited the collection ment and The Campus and Environmental Responsibility. the National Consultative Committee for the Recovery Shamans Through Time with Francis Huxley. At Oberlin, he directed a collaboration of students, of the Mexican Wolf, the Northern Jaguar Project and staff and some of the world’s most innovative de- the Wildlands Project. (www.naturalia.org.mx) Kai Neander is a California and na- signers and architects to build a state-of-the-art tional youth leader with the Jane green building, the Environmental Studies Center. Rebecca Moore, a computer scientist and longtime Goodall Institute’s Youth Leader- (www.oberlin.edu/envs/) software professional, conceived and now manages the ship Initiative, Roots & Shoots. He Google Earth Outreach program which supports non- has worked in environmental com- Robin Pagliuco, the managing direc- profits, communities and indigenous peoples around munity organizing and activism in his tor and educasting coordinator for the world in applying Google’s mapping tools to press- Northern California community for ten years. At an Connexus Communications, a non- ing problems in areas such as environmental conser- early age Kai decided that the problems facing the world profit public education organiza- vation, human rights, cultural preservation and creating are too big to be left to one generation, and he contin- tion, brings years of experience in a sustainable society. Her personal work using Google ues to work for environmental justice and human rights education, event coordination, and Earth was instrumental in stopping a plan (www.sier- around the world. (www.rootsandshoots.org) administrative and project management to the task. raclub.org/sierra/200709/google.asp) to log more than Fluent in Spanish, she has lived and worked in Belize, a thousand acres of redwoods in her Santa Cruz Moun- Alberta Nells, 19 is a Navajo (Wandering People Clan, Ecuador and Spain. (www.aworldofpossibilities.org) tain community. (earth.google.com/outreach) born for Salt Clan) leader in the group Youth of the Peaks, which mobilized young people to oppose the Dana Ginn Paredes has worked as Kandi Mossett, of Mandan, Hidatsa development of the Arizona Snowbowl Ski Resort a field organizer, trainer, and na- and Arikara ancestry, is a North that would have desecrated the San Francisco Peaks, tional program director for over 12 Dakota-based organizer for the In- held sacred by over 13 Native American Nations. years. In 2003 she joined Asian digenous Environmental Network Alberta organized demonstrations and marches to Communities for Reproductive Jus- and the Energy Action coalition’s protect this and other sacred sites from develop- tice (ACRJ), where she has led re- Tribal Campus Climate Challenge ment. At only 16, she received the Martin Springer search to advance comprehensive sex education pol- (TCCC), a project involving (so far) over 30 tribal Institute Moral Courage Award at Northern icy in California, electoral campaigns for reproductive colleges across Canada and the US, to leverage the Arizona University and the Brower Youth Award. justice, the development of ACRJ’s youth and worker power of young indigenous people to organize for (www.savethepeaks.org) organizing projects, and its climate justice initiative. clean energy policies at their schools and in their (www.reproductivejustice.org) communities. Kandi holds a masters’ degree in Envi- Melissa K. Nelson, Ph.D. (Anishi- ronmental Management from the University of North naabe/Métis [Turtle Mountain Billy Parish co-founder of the Energy Action Coali- Dakota’s Earth Systems Science and Policy Program. Chippewa]), is a cultural ecologist, tion, brought together over 50 diverse, youth-led scholar-activist, writer, media-mak- organizations into the Campus Climate Challenge, a er, and a professor of American In- campaign to catalyze the transition to a clean energy Elizabeth Murray is an author, artist, dian Studies at San Francisco State. economy. A 2004 Brower Youth Award winner, 2005 garden designer and teacher, whose Since 1993 she has served as president and executive Rolling Stone magazine “Climate Hero,” Mother Jones work is inspired by her commit- director of The Cultural Conservancy, a Native Amer- magazine “Student Activist of the Year” in 06, and ment to creativity, nature, spirit and ican nonprofit dedicated to the preservation and revi- now an Ashoka Fellow and Prime Mover Fellow, Billy sustainability. She has been involved talization of indigenous cultures and their ancestral currently consults for Green for All, 1Sky, Energy Ac- in a wide range of projects—from lands. Nelson is also a Switzer environmental fellow and tion Coalition and the Black Mesa Water Coalition helping restore Monet’s Gardens in Giverny, France, has served on the boards of numerous organizations, on national political strategy and green job creation. and photographing them for 25 years, to working in including Bioneers. She is the co-founder/director of (www.climatechallenge.org), the Amazon rainforest helping groups of indigenous the Indigenous Forum at Bioneers and is the editor of young people paint and create the first book in their the anthology: Original Instructions-Indigenous Teachings Shailja Patel, a multiple-award-win- own language. (www.elizabethmurray.com) For A Sustainable Future. (www.earthdiver.org) ning Kenyan poet, artist and activist, has appeared in venues ranging Ethan Nadelmann is the founder Dr. Maoshing Ni is a doctor of Chi- from NYC’s Lincoln Center to and executive director of the Drug nese medicine, bestselling author Durban’s Poetry Africa Festival. She Policy Alliance, the leading organi- and an authority in anti-aging medi- premiered her one-woman show zation in the United States promot- cine. Dr. Mao (as his patients know “Migritude” at the World Social Forum in Nairobi, ing alternatives to the war on drugs. him) co-founded Tao of Wellness in then toured with it globally. Patel, a 2009 African guest Nadelmann, who taught politics Santa Monica, California, where he writer at the prestigious Nordic Africa Institute in and public affairs at Princeton University from 1987 practices acupuncture and Chinese medicine with his Uppsala, Sweden, also works with Kenyans for Peace, to 1994, formed the DPA, which advocates for drug brother and a team of associates. He is also co-found- Truth and Justice to empower grassroots Kenyan ac- policies grounded in science, compassion, health and er and chancellor of Yo San University of Traditional tivists. (www.shailja.com) human rights, in 2000. He is widely recognized as one Chinese Medicine in Los Angeles and the author of of the foremost scholars and experts on drug policy 12 books including: the authoritative translation of Sharyle Patton, the director of the Commonweal issues in the world, and this nation’s leading activist to the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine; the recently Health and Environment Program in Bolinas, CA, also reform our drug laws. (www.drugpolicy.org) published Second Spring: Hundreds of Natural Secrets to directs the Commonweal Biomonitoring Resource Revitalize and Regenerate at Any Age; and the bestselling Center and is director of special projects for the Col- Secrets of Longevity. (www.taoofwellness.com) laborative on Health and Environment, a network that

- 46 - - 47 - www.bioneers.org Biographies Biographies raises the level of awareness about possible linkages Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the university’s Col- tion working for more than 20 years in Louisiana’s between environmental threats and health outcomes. lege of Law. Previously, he founded the Institute on petrochemical industry and seeing the impacts on his Patton was Northern co-chair of and continues to be Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota; was fellow workers and on adjoining (mostly poor and active in the International Persistent Organic Pollut- national legal director of the ACLU; lived and worked black) communities’ health. He became a union activ- ants (POPs) Network, a network of over 300 groups in India and Africa; co-founded the Poverty & Race ist, an environmental justice advocate and eventually around the globe who engage in UN negotiations on Research Action Council; and taught at numerous chair of the board of the National Wildlife Federation, toxic chemical regulation and participated in creat- law schools including Harvard and Columbia. (www. the first African-American to head a major conserva- ing the Stockholm Convention, a legally binding UN kirwaninstitute.org) tion organization. Jerome was also the only black treaty restricting the use of POPs chemicals. Patton American delegate at the 1998 Global Warming Trea- also serves as chair of the technical working group Ted Purves is an artist and curator who investigates ty Negotiations in Kyoto. (www.apolloalliance.org) for biomonitoring for the California Health Tracking the practice of art in the world, including issues of lo- Program. (www.commonweal.org) calism, democratic participation and innovative shifts Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, the execu- in the position of the audience. He is an assistant pro- tive director of the Matilda Joslyn M. Paloma Pavel, president of Earth fessor of social practices at California College of the Gage Foundation, is one of the first House, Inc., an Oakland-based cen- Arts and author of What We Want Is Free: Generos- women to receive a doctorate for ter for international environmental ity and Exchange in Recent Art. He co-created Temes- work in women’s studies and a and social justice, is an expert in cal Amity Works, an on-going Oakland neighborhood founder of one of the country’s first economic sustainability and urban art project that includes a storefront crop-sharing women’s studies programs. The author of numerous issues, as well as a professor, inter- program–the Big Backyard. (www.amityworks.org) books and articles, she appeared as an expert in the national consultant, scholar, activist, performer, and Ken Burns documentary “Not for Ourselves Alone: The the co-author of the immensely popular “viral” piece, Shelby Ray (Navajo) is the youth coordinator of Outta Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.” Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty. Former- Yer Backpack Media Collective, a community video (www.matildajoslyngage.org) ly with the Sustainable Metropolitan Communities program coordinated by Indigenous Action Media Initiative at the Ford Foundation, and trained at the and Native Movement that distributes portable media Anna Marie Rondon, a Dine (Na- London School of Economics and Harvard, she is the kits and trains members in video production. Ray’s re- vajo) activist based in Gallup and editor of Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and sponsibilities include mentorship, outreach and fund- Chichitah, New Mexico, has 30 Justice in the Next American Metropolis. Pavel (who raising. Her own video, Marble Gangsta, premiered at years’ experience in community speaks Japanese, French and Spanish) has worked on the 2006 Southwest Native American Film and Video planning and development, grant social and environmental justice efforts in South Af- Festival. Ray is also a member of Youth of the Peaks, writing, social and environmental rica, Cambodia, Japan, and most recently, Costa Rica. part of the Save the Peaks organization, formed in op- justice issues and veterans’ health. She is one of the (www.breakthroughcommunities.info) position to the expansion of the Arizona Snowbowl leaders of the Navajo Green Economy Coalition and ski resort. the New Mexico Green Collaborative. She also Peter Phillips, a professor of sociol- helped launch the Navajo Nation Renewable Energy ogy at Sonoma State University, is Rick Reed is a senior advisor to the Garfield Founda- Task Force in 1995 and served as the co-coordinator the director of Project Censored, tion, leading its collaborative clean energy project, RE- of the Renewable Energy in Indian Country Confer- whose mission is to teach students AMP, a community of 14 foundations and 90 NGOs ence in Mesa Verde, CO. and the public about the role of a using system-mapping and shared learning to align free press and to “tell the news that their clean energy strategies across eight states in Gene Rosow, the co-director of didn’t make the news and why.” Phillips, who has pub- the upper Midwest. Thanks, in large part, to RE-AMP’s the documentary Dirt! The Movie lished thirteen editions of Censored: Media Democracy activities, in late 2007 governors throughout the U.S. (based on William Bryant Logan’s in Action, also writes pieces for independent media na- heartland committed themselves to reducing global book Dirt, The Ecstatic Skin of the tionwide in dozens of publications, newspapers and warming pollution from their states by 80% over the Earth), has written, produced and websites and frequently speaks on media censorship next 40 years. With a background in organic farm- directed more than 20 documenta- and various socio-political issues on many independent ing and molecular biology, Rick has been working ries including: Doctora (for Channel 4 in England), radio and TV talks shows. (www.projectcensored.org) in the fields of philanthropy and sustainability for Routes of Rhythm with Harry Belafonte (for PBS), and nearly 20 years. (www.reamp.org) Knights (for Canal+France). His feature film credits Michael Pollan, a contributing writ- include the family film Zeus and Roxanne (for MGM), er to the New York Times Magazine John Richardson is the executive among others. In addition to a Ph.D in history, Gene and the recipient of numerous director of the Blackstone Ranch relishes his year of post-graduate work in ecology, journalistic awards, served for Institute in Taos, New Mexico, biochemistry, cellular physiology and parisitology. many years as executive editor of whose mission is to support cross- Harper’s Magazine and is now a sector strategic dialogues on a vari- Ken Rother is the president and COO of TreeHugger. professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at ety of environmental fronts that He has been involved in the Internet since the early UC Berkeley. He is the nation’s most influential and lead to important social innovation. For many years 90’s when he co-founded Mountain Lake Software in important thinker and writer on food and agriculture, John was a troubleshooter for the United Nations Toronto Canada, which helped some of Canada’s larg- the author of many seminal, award-winning, bestsell- Childrens’ Fund, focusing on conflict countries around est financial institutions take their first steps onto the ing books, including, most recently In Defense of Food: the world. He has also been a professor of international worldwide web. His interest in the environment dates An Eater’s Manifesto, and previously: The Omnivore’s Di- politics at the University of New Mexico, written about back to his first summer job leading low impact canoe lemma: A Natural History of Four Meals; The Botany of De- travel and politics for a variety of national publications, trips in northern Quebec. (www.treehugger.com) sire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World; A Place of My Own; and and was a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in central Africa Second Nature. (www.michaelpollan.com) in the late 1970s. (www.blackstoneinstitute.com) Nina Rothschild Utne, the former CEO of Utne Reader and a founding john a. powell is an internationally Jerome Ringo is the president of member of the Headwaters Fund, recognized authority in the areas the Apollo Alliance, the highly influ- the City of Lakes Waldorf School, of civil rights, civil liberties, struc- ential vanguard coalition of labor, UnReasonable Women for the tural racism, ethnicity, housing, pov- business, environmental, and com- Earth, and Code Pink, has a new erty and democracy. He is current- munity leaders working to catalyze venture named Futurefit, focused on sustainable living ly executive director of the Kirwan a clean energy revolution and put on all levels. Futurefit addresses not only our mate- Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio millions of Americans to work in high-quality, “green- rial and design inefficiencies, but also our personal State and holds the Gregory H. Williams Chair in collar” jobs. Ringo got firsthand experience of pollu-

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fears and anxieties and dysfunctional interpersonal community coordinator and also oversees renova- groups. Bryony, who has served on many boards relationships to help us holistically examine how we tion of community building additions assuring com- of activist organizations, currently serves on the can evolve more consciously. munity connection and sustainable growth. (www. board of Greenpeace USA, and co-produces a community-building.org) weekly feminist radio show on Montana Public Deborah Rozman has 30 years’ ex- Radio. (www.biomimicryinstitute.org), perience as a business executive, Darlene Sanderson (Cree), Ph.D., has deeply re- serial entrepreneur, psychologist, searched indigenous teachings about the spiritual Louie Schwartzberg is an award- author, and educator. The founding dimensions of water, and has developed a thirteen- winning cinematographer and di- executive director of the non-prof- week curriculum, Traditional Perspectives on Water: rector whose career spans more it Institute of HeartMath since How Can Elders’ Teachings Be Applied Today for Fu- than three decades. In 1997, he 1990, she has also been executive vice president of ture Generations? Ms. Sanderson, a former cardiol- founded BlackLight Films, a produc- HeartMath LLC, and founding director/president/co- ogy nurse and children’s health specialist, has been tion company specializing in theat- CEO (with Doc Childre) of Quantum Intech. Prior to very active in indigenous participation in many inter- rical and IMAX films, HD and TV programming. Cur- her work at HeartMath she was the EVP of the bio- national conclaves: the World Council of Religious rently, he is in production on a nature documentary, tech firm Biogenics, Inc.. She is also co-author (with and Spiritual Leaders; the World Indigenous Peoples’ Hidden Beauty, which will be released worldwide un- Doc Childre) of HeartMath’s Transforming series: Conference on Education; The Global Peace Initiative der Walt Disney Pictures’ new production banner, Transforming Stress, Transforming Anxiety, Transforming of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders; the Third Disneynature. Louie is a member of the DGA and Anger and Transforming Depression, and a key spokes- World Water Forum; and the UN Permanent Forum Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. person for HeartMath’s work on heart intelligence. on Indigenous Issues, especially its caucuses on water. (www.blacklightfilms.com) (www.heartmath.com) Arturo Sandoval has been active in Laura Sears is the co-founder and William Ryerson, president of the community, cultural, environmental director of development at Vida Population Media Center and the and civil rights efforts in New Mex- Verde, a California nonprofit that Population Institute, has worked to ico and across the United States promotes educational equity by promote reproductive health for for nearly 40 years. Sandoval is providing free, overnight environ- 38 years, and has been a pathfinder president and founder of VOCES, mental learning experiences for in- in the innovative use of popular Inc., a communications and organizational develop- ner-city students who wouldn’t otherwise get the op- media formats to reach people around the world and ment firm with headquarters in Albuquerque and portunity. Laura, who grew up in rural Kentucky, joined educate them about reproductive choices. His earlier with offices in Chihuahua, México. He also founded Teach For America in ‘99 and was a high school special jobs have included: director of the Population Insti- the Center of Southwest Culture Inc. in 1991 to help education teacher for two years before co-founding tute’s Youth and Student Division; positions with the develop healthy indigenous and Latino communities Vida Verde in 2001. A short film about their program Planned Parenthood chapters of Southeastern Penn- through economic, educational and cultural work. will be shown at the Moving Image Festival as part of a sylvania and of Northern New England; and executive (www.vocesinc.com) special youth film event. (www.vveducation.org) vice president of Population Communications Inter- national. (www.populationmedia.org) Javier Santos, 18, is an Oakland, California-based dancer, Shawn Sears is the co-founder and actor and spoken-word poetry exponent who has per- executive director of Vida Verde, a Maya Salsedo, from Santa Cruz, CA, found her call- formed widely on the West Coast. Javier also teaches California nonprofit that promotes ing as a community activist at a young age, writing dance to minority and underprivileged youth. educational equity by providing and receiving her first grant at age twelve. She first free, overnight environmental became interested in Food Justice issues working Greg Sarris, currently a professor of creative writ- learning experiences for inner-city on a youth empowerment farm and now works ing and literature at Loyola Marymount University, is students who wouldn’t otherwise get the opportuni- as youth coordinator for Rooted In Community. the tribal chairman of the Federated Indians of the ty. Raised in Minnesota, Shawn taught 4th grade in the (www.rootedincommunity.org) Graton Rancheria, which Greg succesfully worked to Mississippi Delta for two years (1999-2001) in under- establish as a federally recognized American Indian funded public schools before moving to California Marlowe Sam, a member of the nation. He has served six terms as elected chairman. and co-founding Vida Verde Nature Education. A Colville Confederated Tribe, is a fa- Greg is also a noted writer whose novel Grand Avenue short film about the program will be shown at the cilitator of the Four Societies Pro- was made into an HBO miniseries, which Greg wrote Moving Image Festival as part of a special youth film cess Method, a traditional form of and executive produced with Robert Redford. Greg event. (www.vveducation.org) community conflict resolution and holds a Ph.D from Stanford. (www.gratonrancheria.org) collective transformation that he Jim Sheehan, after twenty years as a public defender in has helped lead with a variety of social change organi- Ann Marie Sayers (Mutsun Ohlone) is the chair- Washington State, founded the Center For Justice, a zations. Marlowe has served as an advisory board woman of the Indian Canyon Nation and director of non-profit law firm in Spokane specializing in environ- member for the Pacific Cultural Conservancy; acted the Costanoan Indian Research Center, Inc. She is the mental law, civil rights, governmental accountability, as a primary mediator in several tribal and other con- traditional caretaker of Indian Canyon, the only sov- and helping people without recourses or influence. flicts; and been an advisor in such areas as traditional ereign Indian lands in central coastal California. Ann Jim has also been spearheading the opening of spaces forest resource use and traditional men’s healing pro- Marie is a recognized local, national, and international for progressive nonprofits in Spokane: the Commu- grams. A participant in the indigenous caucus at the California Indian leader focusing on environmental nity Building in 2001, followed by the LEED platinum World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan, in 2003, he is protection, repatriation, and religious freedom. IF certified Saranac Building in 2007, and the upcoming currently a doctoral student at the University of BC- Main Market. Included in these sites are community Okanagan with a focus on Indigenous Water Rights. Bryony Schwan, the Zimbabwe- radio and TV stations, a state of the art childcare born executive director of the Bio- facility, a fair trade store and soon, a food co-op. Dave Sanders, active in social and mimicry Institute, has traveled (www.cforjustice.org) environmental causes since the late around the world to work on elim- 1960’s, is a certified mediator, gen- inating toxic chemicals. She also Peggy Shepard, one of the nation’s eral contractor and community ac- founded or co-founded several great pioneers in the Environmen- tivist in Spokane, Washington. He is non-profits, including Women’sV oices for the Earth, tal Justice movement, is executive a key figure in Spokane’s Commu- the Women’s Institute for Leadership Development director and co-founder of WE nity Building LLC initiative, having served as the gen- in Women (WILD Women), the Young Women’s Out- ACT (West Harlem Environmental eral contractor on renovation of the first two com- door Leadership Project, and Coming Clean, a na- Action), founded in 1988 to build munity buildings in the project. He currently serves as tional alliance of health and environmental community power to fight environmental racism and

- 48 - - 49 - www.bioneers.org Biographies Biographies improve environmental health, policy and protection tion, a high school for at-risk youth, was a professor Autumn Summers, a “plant geek” in communities of color. A former journalist and dem- at San Francisco State, and served as a public school since childhood, has studied herbal- ocratic district leader, she received the Jane Jacobs teacher in Davis and Napa, California. Carolie earned ism and ethnobotany for the last 20 Medal from the Rockefeller Foundation in 2008 for a doctoral degree in science education from the UC, years and has a special kinship for Lifetime Achievement and the 10th Annual Heinz Berkeley. She has authored and co-authored several the plants, seaweeds and mush- Award For the Environment. (www.weact.org) books and articles, including the award-winning Cali- rooms of Northern California. She fornia State Environmental Education Guide and the has guest-hosted KPFA’s Herbal Highway show, co- Josh Silver, the co-founder and ex- Center for Ecoliteracy’s Big Ideas: Linking Food, Culture, organized free community herb festivals and been a ecutive director of Free Press, the Health, and the Environment. (www.ecoliteracy.org) medicine maker at KW Botanicals. Currently she leading national media policy re- teaches edible and medicinal plant classes at the Cali- form organization, oversees all its Kristin Smith, an educator and cur- fornia School of Herbal Studies and throughout the programs, campaigns, fundraising riculum designer whose academic Bay Area and manages Bayer Farm Community and special projects. Josh speaks interests include metacognitive Garden for the non-profit organization LandPaths. and publishes widely on media and technology issues. theory, learning styles, and person- (www.cshs.com) His previous jobs have included campaign manager ality type as it relates to learning, is for the successful Clean Elections ballot initiative in a professor of English at City Col- Steven L. Swig, an attorney, is co- Arizona, director of development for the cultural arm lege of San Francisco. Previously she worked with the founder and president emeritus of of the Smithsonian, and director of an international North Carolina Community College system in Dur- Presidio World College, a business youth exchange program. Josh blogs regularly at The ham and Wilmington, N.C. school granting an MBA degree in Huffington Post. (www.freepress.net) sustainable management. He serves Sobonfu Somé, a Dagara from as chairman of the board of both Nina Simons, the president and co- Burkina Faso whose name means the Swig Company, a multifaceted real estate firm, founder of Bioneers, has had a long “keeper of the rituals,” is a leading and Mary Green Enterprises, a men’s furnishings and career pioneering innovative social exponent of African traditional wis- women’s lingerie design and manufacturing company. marketing strategies for successful dom who travels the world to share Steven serves on wide range of boards, including: The ventures that have worked to ad- the rich spiritual life and culture of American Conservatory Theater, The American Hi- vance progressive values and cul- her people, as well as to raise funds for clean water malayan Foundation, The American Jewish Commit- tural change, including as president of Seeds of projects and schools in Africa. She is the founder of tee, The Solar Electric Light Fund, Americans for Change and as director of strategic marketing for Wisdom Spring, Inc., an organization dedicated to the Cures Foundation (Stem Cells, The Stephen Stills Odwalla. Nina also works on women’s leadership and preservation and sharing of indigenous wisdom, and is Foundation, The American Associates of Ben Gurion restoring the ‘feminine’ to a balanced place in our cul- the author of The Spirit of Intimacy, Welcoming Spirit University and the Tech Museum of Innovation. ture: in 2006, she began offering Cultivating Women’s Home and Falling out of Grace. (www.sobonfu.com) Leadership, a workshop for diverse women with the Brian Swimme, a professor of cos- passion and capacity to effect progressive change; in Mark Sommer, executive director mology at the California Institute 2002, she produced a retreat for women leaders called of The Mainstream Media Project, is of Integral Studies and author, with UnReasonable Women for the Earth, which served as an author, independent journalist, Thomas Berry, of the highly influen- an incubator, resulting in the formation of CodePink: and internationally syndicated col- tial The Universe Story, is a mathe- Women for Peace. Nina also serves on the board of umnist (in 100 countries) who has matical cosmologist and the author the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California. written several books and hundreds of four books on cosmology, evolution and religion. (www.bioneers.org) of articles on national and international issues for ma- Featured in the 1991 BBC TV series Soul of the Uni- jor U.S. and foreign newspapers. An award-winning radio verse with such scientists as Stephen Hawking and Ilya Sharon Shay Sloan has worked as a host, his syndicated show, “A World of Possibilities,” Prigogine, Swimme is also the producer of the inter- leader in community organizing, highlights innovative solutions to longstanding societal nationally popular DVD series Canticle to the Cosmos. youth empowerment and project challenges. (www.mainstream-media.net) management for the past 13 years, Jon Symes is the outreach director for the Pachama- including with U.N. projects in Scott Spann is founder and strate- ma Alliance, a US- based nonprofit that works to as- Mexico, the International Sea Turtle gist for Innate Strategies, a firm that sist Amazonian rainforest peoples in defending their Society, and in Victoria, B.C. on youth-driven urban works with leaders to solve com- lands and cultures and to educate the rest of the agriculture initiatives. She is also a wilderness guide; plex, multi-stakeholder business world about the value of standing rainforests and of counselor; artist; percussionist; film, video and theater and social problems. Scott’s work Amazonian indigenous worldviews. Jon helped devel- director; and event producer. She is a founding mem- integrates his background in busi- op the Alliance’s unique educational symposium, the ber of the Bioneers Youth Advisory Council and is ness, psychotherapy and system dynamics and in- Awakening the Dreamer Initiative, and has taken it to currently the Native Oceans Project Manager for cludes designing and launching the successful RE-AMP China, Malaysia, Ghana, South Africa and other places Ocean Revolution. climate protection collaboration, projects on social throughout the world. (www.pachamama.org) injustice in Guatemala and the U.S., as well as global Kathy Sloane is a photographer strategic projects for companies like Apple and HP. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is the found- whose work has long documented er and executive director of the the music and multicultural/multi- Anne-Katrin Spiess, an artist work- Tebtebba Foundation, an indigenous ethnic richness of the San Francisco ing in the field of “Land Art,” cre- people’s policy research center Bay area. She is the director and ates site-specific temporary instal- based in the Philippines. She is a de- co-producer of Witness to Hiroshi- lations in wide-open, solitary and velopment consultant and indige- ma, her first film, which has been nominated for ‘ex- remote landscapes such as deserts nous activist working with many NGOs, U.N. bodies cellence in short film making’ at the Asian American and prairies, and her works are in- and organizations that promote social awareness and International Film Festival in New York, and for the creasingly addressing and calling attention to environ- the rights of indigenous peoples and women. She is an ‘best short documentary’ jury prize at the Woods mental issues. She is the founder and publisher of expert for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Hole film festival in Massachusetts. “LAND” (Landscape, Art and Design), an online journal Rights and the chairperson-rapporteur of the Voluntary for environmental art (www.landviews.org). (www.in- Fund for Indigenous Populations. (www.tebtebba.org) Carolie Sly, the education program director at natestrategies.com) (www.annekatrin.info) the Center for Ecoliteracy, has long experience in schooling for sustainability. She founded ReGenera-

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Clayton Thomas-Müller, of the ously at Piper Jaffray & Company and also co-founded about their program will be shown at the Moving Im- Mathais Colomb Cree Nation in Progressive Asset Management and the As You Sow age Festival as part of a special youth film event. Northern Manitoba, Canada, is an Foundation. Thomas serves on many boards (in- (www.vveducation.org) activist for Indigenous self-determi- cluding Bioneers) and is closely involved with sev- nation and environmental justice. eral organizations, including E2, Vote Solar, Rainfor- Peter Warshall is a world-renowned water steward, He is the oil campaign organizer for est Action Network, Earthrights International, biodiversity and wildlife specialist, research scientist, the Indigenous Environmental Network. He works SVN, Engage, and the Ella Baker Center. (www.rbc. conservationist and environmental activist. His multi- across Alaska, Canada and the lower 48 states of the com/environment/index.html) faceted areas of expertise include natural history, natu- US with grassroots indigenous communities to de- ral resource management, conservation biology, envi- fend the sacredness of mother earth against transna- Vasco van Roosmalen, raised in a ronmental impact analysis, and conflict resolution and tional oil corporations. Clayton finds many ways to Maroon village in Suriname, the consensus building among divergent interest groups. contribute to the movement of his peoples. For his rainforests of French Guyana and Peter’s rich life has included a stint as a Fulbright Scholar efforts, Clayton has been recognized by Utne maga- the Brazilian Amazon, has lived and studying in Paris with Claude Lévi-Strauss, working for zine as one of the “Top 30 Under 30” activists in the worked in tropical South America the U.N., USAID and other organizations in eleven Af- United States. He serves on the board of Bioneers. for most of his life. With a back- rican nations, working with the Tohono O’odham and (www.ienearth.org) ground in environmental and political sciences, he has Apache people of Arizona, and advising corporations coordinated the mapping of 18 million acres of indig- and municipal governments. He also edited the legend- Elizabeth Thompson currently serves as the execu- enous lands in collaboration with the Brazilian gov- ary, highly influential publication Whole Earth from tive director of The Buckminster Fuller Institute and ernment and 20 indigenous communities. Currently, 1996 until it ceased publication, and is the co project founding director of The Buckminster Fuller Chal- Mr. van Roosmalen is assistant vice-president of the director of Bioneers’ Dreaming New Mexico initiative. lenge, an annual design competition which awards an- Amazon Conservation Team and director of ACT (www.dreamingnewmexico.org) nually a $100,000 prize to an integrated solution ad- Brasil, and coordinates a multi-disciplinary team dressing humanity’s most pressing problems. Elizabeth working on strengthening indigenous communities and Greg Watson is senior advisor for has a long track record helping create, disseminate their ability to manage and protect their biodiversity. Clean Energy Technology within and broker leading edge ideas, people, and networks the Massachusetts Executive Office of communities across disciplinary boundaries and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, a produc- of Energy and Environmental Af- media platforms in the worlds of sustainability, global er, director, musician and composer, fairs and vice president for sustain- change activism, art, experimental performance, con- is currently the executive director able development with the Massa- sciousness studies, information technology, and whole of the Global Oneness Project, a chusetts Technology Collaborative. Greg’s long life of systems design. (www.bfi.org) nonprofit media organization com- exemplary, cutting-edge public service has included mitted to exploring our greater serving as executive director of Boston’s Dudley John Todd, one of the world’s legendary elders of eco- human potential through film. Since founding the Street Neighborhood Initiative, director of educa- logical design and engineering, is a research professor Project in 2005, he has directed and produced 26 tional programs for Second Nature, director of The in the School of Natural Resources and a fellow of short films that have been widely distributed online Nature Conservancy’s Eastern Regional Office, com- the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the and aired on LINK TV, PBS and Current TV among missioner of the Massachusetts Department of Food University of Vermont. He is also the founder and others. Prior to his work in media Emmanuel was a and Agriculture and executive director of the legend- president of Ocean Arks International, a non-profit critically acclaimed jazz bassist and composer per- ary New Alchemy Institute. (www.masstech.org) research and education organization, and the found- forming and recording with many accomplished Jazz er/chairman of Todd Ecological, Inc., an international musicians. (www.globalonenessproject.org) Andrew Weil M.D., the nation’s most design, engineering and natural resource planning firm renowned proponent of a more based in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The author of Jay Vavra, Ph.D., a biology teacher at holistic approach to medicine, is di- over two hundred scientific, technical and popular San Diego’s pioneering charter rector of the Arizona Center for In- articles and seven books, he was the winner of the school, High Tech High (HTH), has tegrative Medicine at the University first International Buckminster Fuller Challenge, a a doctorate in Marine Biology and of Arizona (the leading effort in the prize for the best idea to help save humanity and the experience working in biotechnol- world to develop a comprehensive curriculum in in- planet, in 2008. (www.oceanarks.org) ogy and as an environmental con- tegrative medicine), and is also a clinical professor of sultant. At HTH, he conducts original research with Medicine and a professor of Public Health there. He is Jessy Tolkan is the executive director of the Energy his students, who have published four books on vari- the author of many scientific and popular articles and Action Coalition, an alliance of 50 leading youth or- ous aspects of urban ecology in San Diego Bay, and of 10 books, including The Natural Mind; Health and ganizations throughout the US and Canada that seeks most recently have taken their conservation biology Healing; Natural Health, Natural Medicine; the interna- to leverage the power of young people to organize abroad to tackle the African bushmeat crisis, intro- tional bestsellers Spontaneous Healing, and Eight Weeks at colleges and high schools, and in communities to ducing novel approaches of species identification to Optimum Health, and most recently, Eating Well for build models of a clean energy future. Among Jessy’s to wildlife officials. The award-winning film Stu- Optimum Health; and Healthy Aging. Dr. Weil also, many achievements, she was a state director for the dents of Consequences chronicles the work of among many other endeavors, appears on PBS spe- New Voters Project which helped register over 130,000 Vavra and his students. cials, writes a monthly newsletter, maintains a popular young voters, and she helped organize the largest youth website (www.drweil.com), and writes a syndicated gathering on global warming in U.S. history, POWER Tim Ward is the program and newspaper column. (www.drweil.com) SHIFT 2007, which culminated with a massive lobby- grants manager at Vida Verde, a ing day focused on global warming in the U.S. Congress. California nonprofit that promotes Linda Weintraub is an artist, cura- (www.energyactioncoalition.org) educational equity by providing tor, educator, writer, and founder of free, overnight environmental Artnow Publications. Her books Thomas Van Dyck, a major figure in learning experiences for inner-city include the series Avant-Guardians: the field of Socially Responsible In- students who wouldn’t otherwise get the opportu- Texlets in Ecology and Art; In The Mak- vesting since 1983, has played a key nity. A graduate of the Environmental Studies Depart- ing: Creative Options for Contempo- role in some of the most important ment at UC Santa Cruz, he has been an activist for rary Artists; and Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for environmental activist shareholder ten years with a focus on California forest and farm- Art’s Meaning in Contemporary Society. Weintraub campaigns of our time. Currently a ing issues and has 7 years’ experience working in en- served as a professor of Emerging Arts at Oberlin senior vice president with the SRI Wealth Manage- vironmental education as a naturalist, wilderness College from 2000-2003 and lectures frequently on ment Group at RBC Wealth Management (one of the leader, camp nurse, and program director. A short film contemporary art and its intersection with ecology. country’s leading SRI consulting teams), he was previ- (www.lindaweintraub.com)

- 50 - - 51 - www.bioneers.org Biographies Judy Wicks is founder of Philadel- mental Justice Climate Change Initiative as the young- of community building through the arts. In 2004, Yeh phia’s 26-year-old White Dog Cafe est Campus Climate Challenge Coordinator in the pursued her work internationally, founding Barefoot and a national leader in the local, Energy Action Coalition. (www.shadiafayne.com) Artists, Inc., to bring the transformative power of art to living economies movement. She is impoverished communities around the globe through co-founder and chair of the nation- Wowhaus, the team of Scott Constable and Ene participatory, multifaceted projects that foster commu- wide Business Alliance for Local Osteraas-Constable, has created for over a decade nity empowerment, improve the physical environment, Living Economies (BALLE), and founder/board mem- public works that operate at the interstices of art and promote economic development and preserve indige- ber of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater design. Its works include permanent and temporary nous art and culture. (www.barefootartists.org) Philadelphia. Judy has won numerous awards, includ- public art, furniture, architecture and environmental ing the James Beard Foundation’s Humanitarian of the design that all seek to explore the social underpin- Denise Zmekhol, the director of Year, Inc. Magazine’s 25 Favorite Entreprenuers, and nings of “ordinary” forms and the social networks Children of the Amazon, studied the Philadelphia Sustainability Award for Lifetime that sustain and foster community and innovation. journalism in Brazil and completed Achievement. (www.judywicks.com) Wowhaus projects seek to connect communities her studies in photography, film and to their current ecological and societal realities to broadcasting at San Francisco State. Rev. angel Kyodo williams, a nationally renowned strengthen the mutually beneficial potential of each. Her earlier work includes being as- “maverick spiritual teacher” and advisor, is the found- (www.thewowhaus.com) sociate producer of the acclaimed documentary Land- er of urbanPEACE and its Center for Transforma- scape of Memories and co-producing/co-directing Digital tive Change, which seeks to apply inner awareness Lily Yeh is an internationally celebrat- Journey, an Emmy Award-winning public TV series ex- practice to broad-based social change and to build “a ed artist whose work has taken her ploring emerging technologies in their social, envi- presence-centered social justice movement” as the to communities throughout the ronmental and cultural contexts. In addition to her foundation for personal freedom, a just society and world. As founder and executive film work, she is a photographer who famously the healing of divisions of race, class, faith and politics. director of the Village of Arts and shot the last photographs of the rubber tapper and (www.angelkyodowilliams.com) Humanities in North Philadelphia renowned environmental activist Chico Mendes from 1968 to 2004, she helped create a national model before his assassination. Dr. Ken Wilson is executive director of The Christensen Fund, a groundbreaking international foundation supporting indigenous innovations and partnerships towards Carbon Offsets Policy Statement maintaining the resilience of cultural and biological diversity. Born in Africa, he trained Many people have asked us why Bioneers, which has worked so hard to “green” as an ecologist and an anthropologist and worked our conference on all levels, is not offering “carbon offsets” for those attending with indigenous NGOs on woodland and water man- the event. As you may know, carbon offsets are mechanisms by which individuals, agement throughout Africa before beginning an aca- companies or governments pay a small fee to “offset” their own greenhouse gas demic career at Oxford and serving nine years with the Ford Foundation. He has worked throughout the world. emissions, especially from transportation, such as flying to Bioneers. They have (www.christensenfund.org) become fairly widespread and are ideally meant to help fund alternative energy projects. The idea of achieving a “carbon neutral” lifestyle is, of course, deeply ap- Akaya Windwood is president of the Rockwood pealing to all of us. Leadership Institute. Having spent over 40 years as an activist working for change, she is committed to We at Bioneers have looked intensely into this question and are very conflicted about it. social and economic justice and to building a compel- There has been a lot of passionate debate about it in our community. The path of least ling vision for effectiveness and collaboration within the nonprofit and social benefit sectors. A long-time resistance would be just to go ahead and offer an offset option. We strongly consid- resident of the Bay Area, she loves the richness of ered it, but in the end we still have too many qualms about the whole concept. living and working with diversity, and is committed to joy, laughter and healthy, safe communities. We worry that the current market in offsets is far more symbolic than a real solu- (www.rockwoodleadership.org) tion; that offsets can offer an illusion that one is not polluting, and thereby discourage substantive lifestyle changes and perhaps even increase pollution; that they might Shadia Wood, currently new media also lessen the political pressure on governments to strictly regulate polluters; that director for Fired Up Media, began her activism as an advocate for jus- the market is still insufficiently regulated to guarantee that “greenwashing” is not oc- tice and the environment at age curring; or that dubious “alternative” energy projects, such as destructive hydroelectric seven, in a campaign to pass state dams or tree plantings of invasive species, are being counted as offsets. legislation to address the lethal cancer clusters in her community. In recognition of We have allies who are involved in offsets, and we respect those who use them. her efforts, she received the Yoshiyama Award from This is not an easy call, and we realize all solutions are imperfect. We may change the Hitachi Foundation and the Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. As a teenager Shadia our position in subsequent years, if we come to feel our most serious concerns can be helped draft the Official Global Youth Energy Policy allayed. But, for now, after much research, debate and soul-searching, we have decided to Statement at the World Summit on Sustainable De- wait. We do, however, encourage all of us to save energy in whatever ways we can, and velopment and the Environmental Justice Youth Plat- to work hard in all domains to achieve a carbon-neutral global economy. form at the Second National People of Color Summit. At nineteen, Shadia started working for the Environ-

www.bioneers.org - 52 - - 53 - Biographies THANK YOU sectors. Of course since everything’s inter- grasses, the cows reaped multiple benefits. dependent, more new science uncovers the So did the farmers, eaters, and the atmo- fact that organically managed cropland has sphere. Pasturing cows and feeding them the single greatest potential to sequester as nature intended makes sense for animal carbon – 40% - of all options available, and health, for human health with elevated when you add in forest and pasture, the po- levels of Omega-3 and CLA fatty acids in tential to remove all the excess carbon in our dairy products, and for the health of the atmosphere! our Mother Earth with less methane (cow burps) going into the atmosphere! Although the climate conversation has long focused on developing enduring so- As if how we do what we do weren’t satis- lutions in the energy sector, Worldwatch fying enough, we have the ultimate pleasure Institute President Christopher Flavin says in knowing that our loving stewardship of that land use is equally important. “The land and animal alike is manifested in a The farmer-owners and staff of Organic bottom line is that innovations in agricul- truly nourishing gallon of goodness. When Valley are honored once again to join ture provide the best opportunity to re- our citizen-partners enjoy any of our Or- hands, hearts and minds with Bioneers to move carbon from the atmosphere.” At ganic Valley and Organic Prairie products, cooperate in facilitating “change for good” more than 1,300 farms strong represent- the value of our care in organic agricultural at this amazing gathering dedicated to a ing nearly 10% of all certified organic farms production is passed along to them in ele- healthy and sustainable future for our col- nationwide, we certainly get that. vated nutrient density of the food, avoided lective Home. personal and planetary impacts associated To counter the outcry over the fact that with the use of antibiotics, synthetic pesti- We feel a deep connection with this gath- milk production produces methane, a po- cides and nitrogen fertilizers, and in helping ering, as it represents the same inspira- tent contributor to climate change, stud- reduce the carbon footprint of the foods tional and innovative spirit our founding ies were undertaken to determine if it is from farm to table. farmers drew upon when forming our possible to reduce the amount of methane cooperative back in 1988, and the same cows produce. Interestingly, when cows At Bioneers 2009, we look forward to energy we call on as we look forward to- were taken off corn and soy-based rations greeting old friends, making new ones, and day. Organic farming and doing business and given instead a diet high in natural wishing health, wisdom and a more sus- cooperatively are both ancient models, but Omega-3 sources, such as alfalfa, flax and tainable future for us all. it took a group of visionary farmer pioneers to put the two together as a way to do business sustainably by integrating the synergies inherent in organic agriculture— everything is connected—into every level of our cooperative.

While some of the practices of farming organically are as old as, well, dirt, we are also blessed in many partnerships, which are showing us how to harness the benefits of cutting-edge science to help us make a good old thing even better! Organic agriculture is the most respectful way to take sustenance from the earth, and it is exciting to see that hard science has begun to justify our suppositions. In the race to mitigate climate change, it is increasingly evident that organic agriculture will play a pivotal role.

More than 30% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are linked to agriculture and land use, rivaling the combined emissions of the transportation and industry © 2009 Carrie Branovan for Organic Valley

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THANK YOU! With heartfelt gratitude, we acknowledge the generosity of our supporters. The following is a list of donors and members whose contributions and pledges totaled $100 or more between September15, 2008 and September15, 2009. Your financial gifts, grants and memberships, as well as your time, energy and actions, allow and encourage us to focus our attention and work on communicating solutions, educating more individuals, and connecting and mobilizing communities into action. We regret not having sufficient room to list all of our members and contributors here—please know that we appreciate every single gift.

We welcome donations of all sizes. If you would like to make a contribution now, and help Bioneers reach our challenge grant goals, please use the gift envelope included in this book. Contributions can also be made securely online at www.bioneers.org. Collective Heritage Institute/Bioneers is a tax-exempt, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and financial contributions of all sizes are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. To discuss a gift or grant, please contact Peter Mattair, Vice President for Advancement, at 505-986-0366, ext. 116 or [email protected]. Again, thank you.

$25,000 + Helen M. Cooluris Boggess Family Foundation of The Serious Nonsense Fund of Anonymous (4) John Densmore The Community Foundation Vanguard Charitable Annenberg Foundation Leonardo DiCaprio Fund of Serving Boulder County Endowment Program Blackstone Ranch Institute The California Community Jeffrey Bronfman Austin Hill Shaw Joan S. Blaine Foundation Ms. Mary Bonnie Brooks Christopher Shea Peter & Mimi Buckley Brian & Bina Garfield Brownrigg Charitable Trust Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange The Christensen Fund Polly Howells Lucinda Buck Ewing Jody Snyder Civil Society Institute MAC Fund of The Pittsburgh Cynthia Carmouche Szekely Family Foundation Common Future Fund of RSF Foundation Carolyn Cavalier Rosenberg, Third Way Institute, a Project of Social Finance New Hampshire Charitable Stanford Rosenberg & Media The Tides Center The Charles Engelhard Foundation Research Associates Lynn Thoré Foundation Riki Ott Allan Crandell Job van Weelden Faraway Foundation Panta Rhea Foundation Jennie Curtis Marco Vangelisti The Flow Fund Circle Betsy & Jack Rix Dancing Swimmer Scott & Elizabeth Wachenheim Foundation for Marjorie Roswell Burke Denman Eleanor Walther Global Community James D. Scheinfeld Family George Donart Zoe Weil Betsy Gordon Foundation Foundation DeeAnn Downing Kappy Wells Discretionary Garfield Foundation Slow Money Institute Fleischaker Women’s Fund of the Stewart R. Mott Kalliopeia Foundation Linda & Katrin Spiess Legacy Fund Charitable Trust Kaplan Family Fund of RSF Sunshine Fund of The James J. Gallagher Family Legacy Barbara & Chris Wilson Social Finance Community Foundation of the Community Founda- Your True Nature Judith Anne Kaplan Fund of Serving Boulder County tion of New Jersey RSF Social Finance Woodcock #3 Foundation Art Gardenswartz & $500 + Katz Family Foundation Sonya Priestly Mary Calder Rower Kathleen McIntire $5,000 + Tracy Gary Catalyst Fund of the Liberty David Milliken & Laura Ellis Anonymous Carol Gunby Hill Foundation New Mexico Community Arntz Family Foundation Highfield Foundation Gigi Coyle & Win Phelps Foundation Cynda Collins Arsenault Jeremy Kagan & Rolanda Derderian The Park Foundation The Clements Foundation, Inc. Anneke Campbell Patricia DeWitt Ms. Nancy G. Schaub Compton Foundation, Inc. Nancy Kurtz Mira El & Fred Lewis James L. Sheehan Fund at Inland Harriett Crosby Julie Langhorne & Ann Figueredo Northwest Community The Fred Gellert Peter Schlenzka Margo Fraser Fund of the Foundation Family Foundation Barbara Lewis Marin Community Foundation Tides Foundation Livingry Fund of Theresa Marquez The Funding Exchange Underdog Fund of Tides Foundation, Claudia & Thomas Meyers Lucy Gever-Conroy Tides Foundation on the recommendation Directors’ Discretionary Fund Robert Jones of Gay Dillingham & of the Jessie Smith Noyes Kristin & Earl Lasher $10,000 + Andrew Ungerleider Foundation Paul Marcus & Katherine Juda Anonymous (3) Lynnaea Lumbard & Otto Palmer Mariel Nanasi AEPOCH Richard Paine Mark Parnes Evelyn Newell Scott Beeman & New Priorities Foundation Terris Pauls Carolyn North Susanne Watkins Bonnie Raitt Regina Phelps Frances & Benjamin Benenson $1,000+ Catherine Raphael Susan & Louis Preston Foundation, Inc. Anonymous (2) Dorine Real & Lee Tepper Claire Savage The Barbara Bosson Michael Baldwin Richard & Barbara Sachs Senn David Schaller Charitable Fund of The The Banky-Larocque Foundation at the Marilyn Seckler & Ted Ore California Community Foundation Seattle Foundation Duane Sherwood Foundation Barry Benjamin Jack Sawyer Nina Simons Susan Nora Clark & Molly Blackwell Margaret Schink Linda Sloan Alex G. Karras Donna Smith

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Mark Squire Victoria Dreifuss James Madden & Melissa Frost Catherine Salveson Mae Stadler Peggy Duvette Claire Maitre Scott Sampson Molly Stranahan David Eggleton Lou Marchi Total Erin Sanborn Geoffrey & Robin Strawbridge The Eichorn Family Recycling Institute Santa Rosa Community Market The Thanksgiving Fund of Linda Ellinor Michael Maki Susan Schmidt The American Erin English Casey Mallinckrodt David Schonbrunn Endowment Foundation Environmental Health Network Elaine Mann Barbara Scott Marsha Torkelson David Ergo Will Marsh Charles Scull & Julia Weaver Thomas Van Dyck Lisa Everett Lynn Maser Kay B. Sharp Cynthia West Evolution Jewels Bryce Mathern Marcus Sheffer The Womadix Fund Jean Farmer Mattlin Foundation Martha Siebe Jim Fournier Emily McCormack Greg Simmons $100 + David Fox Herb McDonald Bill & Carol Smallwood Anonymous Karen Franseen Tessa McDonald Susan Smile John Andrews Charlie Freas Sylvia McLaughlin Susan Smile, for Nicole Smile Adelina Arámburo Friends of the Eel River Chad Medcroft Colleen Smith Rita Archibald Fundación Terra Frank Menagh & Mary Quillin Gibbs & Catherine Smith Melissa Aronson Julie Garvey Microsoft Giving Campaign Sergei Smirnoff, Jr. & Scott Atthowe & Christopher & Nancy Gibbs Kimberly Miller Nancy Milliken Patricia Thomas Lila & George Girvin Paul Morgan Valerie Sobel Anne Ausubel Lisa Gladstone & Kathy Richter Virginia Mudd Diane Solomon Avalon Springs Lynn Goodman-Francois Elizabeth Murray South Mountain Company James T. & Lyn Avery Gail Graham Deborah Mytels Foundation Susan Balbas Marilyn Granger Arlene Naschke Susan Stansbury & Rose Baldwin Bonnie & John Gray Network for Good Cedric de la Beaujardiere Jahn Ballard & Ghislaine Gery Mary Gray Linda Neumaier Ana & Jon Stayton BALLE George Greer & Requa Tolbert Margaret Newell Carolyne Stayton Karen Barnett Thomas & Karen Gritzka Sara Nichols Tara Sterling Hathaway Barry Bruce & Cindy Grossman Nutiva Allen Stockbridge Teresa Barth Josie Hadden Bu Nygrens Daniel Stoecker Mekayla Beaver Jay Harman & Susan O’Connor Elizabeth Trahan Berry Janet Beazlie Francesca Bertone Tierney O’Dea Douglas Trainor Diana Beliard Katherine Harrington Leslie O’Meara Carol Tunell BioPharmaceutical Technology Judy Helfand Occidental Arts & Kristin Turcotte Center Institute Virginia Hilker Ecology Center David & Marietta Vogel Joan Blaine, in name Holland Development Group Georgia Otterson Jacob Voit of Lily Stroud Michael Horschorn & Vergilia Paasche Dakin Kyra & Neil Wagner Sheila Blake Jimena Martinez Sorrel Page Rick & Alane Weber Galen Bodenhausen InJoy Productions, Inc. Matthew Page Margaret Weimer Corey Brause Lynne Iser David Paradise Claudia Weiss Elizabeth Brent Jacobs Debrauwere LLP Susan Payne John & Linda Wetherby Liza Brickey Crystal Jensen Hunter Payne & White Dog Café Sue Brightheart Georgeann Johnson Andrea Herz-Payne Judith Wicks Joan Brooks Baker Jane & Sam Josephs Donald Pearson Lorraine Williams Susan Brown Keepers of the Water Wayne Pendley Jim & Hope Williams Paul Carey Jennifer Keller Susan Perley Yvette Williams Van Aggelen Janet & Christopher Carr Jack & Sara A. Keller Elaine Phillips Mary Willis Sharon Cassidy Lauren & Andrew Keller Malcom Phinney Barbara Winkler Ginger Chadwick Anne Kessler Penelope Porch Sandra Witbeck James Chapman Gail Kimmel Lolita Porter Richard Wolfe Doug & Ann Christensen Russell Kimsoc Portfolio 21 Mary Woltz Linda Christenson Elizabeth King Posada Natura Retreat/ Peter Wood Terry Church Katharine King Eco Era Reserve The Worm Ladies John Clem Bonnie & Lee Kirkpatrick Roger Pritchard of Charlestown Community Building, LLC Eleanor Kneibler Quixote Foundation, Inc. Celia Zaentz Stuart Conway John A. Knox, Jr. Will Raap Cynthia Zamzow Corporate Accountability Kevan Krasnoff Joellen Raderstorf Brook Zobrist International Jack & Jane Kroll Diane Rafferty Susanne Croft Debra Lane Regenerative Design Institute We also thank these conference Michael Cuddy Allison Laskey Helen Reid sponsors: As You Sow, Café Mam, Paul Cultrera Susan Leger Ferraro Charles Renfroe ChicoBag, Clifbar, Eclectic Institute, Oceánah D’amore Lynda LeMole Eleanore Richards Free Range Studios, GreenerPrinter, Martin Dehmler Pernilla Lillarose The Rodale Institute Lafayette Book Store, Maggie’s Harriet Denison Lily Marie Livingston Normandy Rose Functional Organics, New Belgium Kathy Denison LMN Architects Stephen Rose & Barbara Zaring Brewery, Organic Valley Family of Cathleen Dorinson Laura Loescher The Rosebud Agency Farms, Portfolio 21, RSF Social Finance Patricia Dorn Sara Lovell Hallie Rugheimer and Salesforce.

- 54 - - 55 - www.bioneers.org Sponsors & Media Partners SPONSORS Eclectic Institute ing cooperative in 1988. With a vastly www.eclecticherb.com superior capacity for sequestering car- As You Sow Eclectic Institute was founded in 1982. bon, the organically managed soils of www.asyousow.org The company name honors, and works our 1,300+ farmer-members’ pastures As You Sow is dedicated to, among to continue the legacy of the Eclectic and fields are on the cutting edge of other causes, the protection of the en- physicians of America’s Golden Age of helping to reverse global warming while vironment, the promotion of human Botanical Medicine, 1836-1937. Eclectic producing the delicious organic foods health, the improvement of worker and is committed to working with nature’s that are nourishing our families, future consumer rights, environmental educa- healing power in the preparation of bo- generations, and the interconnected tion and corporate responsibility. tanical products, which nutritionally en- web of life on Earth. hance total health and well-being.

Café Mam Portfolio 21 cafemam.com GreenerPrinter www.portfolio21.com Café Mam (say “mom”) is 100% organ- www.greenerprinter.com Portfolio 21 is a global equity mutual ic and Fair Trade Certified shade-grown, GreenerPrinter is a certified green busi- fund investing in companies designing European grade, Arabica coffee. Café ness that prints business cards, market- ecologically superior products, using re- Mam is grown by Mayan descent ing collateral, and more using only renewable energy, and developing efficient farmers on their own small farms in cycled paper and vegetable-based inks. production methods. Portfolio 21 com- Chiapas, Mexico. We offset all carbon emissions from panies seek to prosper in the 21st shipping & operations. Century by recognizing environmental sustainability as a fundamental ChicoBag human challenge and a tremendous www.chicobag.com New Belgium Brewery business opportunity. The ChicoBag Vita rePETe™ is made of http://www.newbelgium.com/ 99% recycled materials with 73% from Some of New Belgium’s core values post consumer content. This reusable include: Remembering that we are in- RSF Social Finance bag is made from 11 recycled plas- credibly lucky to create something fine www.rsfsocialfinance.org tic water bottles! Perfect for taking to that enhances people’s lives while sur- RSF Social Finance is a nonprofit finan- the farmers market or beach, the Vita passing our consumers’ expectations. cial services organization dedicated to rePETe™ is a fashionable way to make Producing world-class beers. Promot- transforming the way the world works an environmental statement. ing beer culture and the responsible with money. Inspired by the work of enjoyment of beer. Kindling social, Rudolf Steiner, RSF offers investing, environmental and cultural change as lending, and giving services that foster Clif Bar a business role model. Environmental social and spiritual renewal. In partner- www.clifbar.com stewardship: Honoring nature at ev- ship with our investors and donors, RSF At Clif Bar & Company, we’re commit- ery turn of the business. has made approximately $200 million ted to people’s health and the envi- in loans and $90 million in grants since ronment. We want to makes sure the 1984 to for-profit and nonprofit social way we do business helps sustain the Organic Valley Family of Farms enterprises working in the areas of Food natural resources and communities that www.organicvalley.coop & Agriculture, Education & the Arts, we depend on. That’s why we’re work- The Earth’s most healthful, delicious, and Ecological Stewardship. Underlying ing to reduce our ecological footprint and sustainable foods are made when all our work is a spirited conversation in everything we do, from the field to local family-farmers work in harmony about the role that money can play in the final product. C’mon by our booth with nature. That’s how this farmer- the development of humanity. at Bioneers to sample our latest natural owned co-op produces organic milk, and organic snacks. cheese, butter, eggs, juice, soy beverag- es, produce and organic meat! Working with nature is what inspired our original seven farmers to form an organic farm-

www.bioneers.org - 56 - - 57 - Sponsors & Media Partners Salesforce investigative reporting that asks tough tend their circle, work with like-minded www.salesforce.com questions and gives you real answers. individuals, and spread the work of Bi- Salesforce.com is the leader in CRM and Mother Jones is uncensored, irreverent oneers, a group that truly is inspiring a cloud computing. The Salesforce Foun- —and obligated only to our readers. shift in the ways we live. dation supports nonprofits worldwide through volunteerism, grant giving, and CRM license donations. Get Salesforce OnEarth Pacific Sun CRM for better donor contact manage- www.onearth.org www.pacificsun.com ment and powerful nonprofit fundraising. OnEarth, an independent publication The Pacific Sun has served the commu- of the Natural Resources Defense nity with insightful writing about Marin’s Council is an award-winning environ- most exciting people, ideas and hap- mental magazine, explores politics, na- penings for over 40 years. We are an MEDIA PARTNERS ture, wildlife, culture, science, health, the independent, progressive voice in the challenges that confront our planet, and county which communicates with its CSRwire the solutions that promise to heal and readers through lively, high-quality writ- http://csrwire.com/ protect it. ing in a unique, compelling package fo- CSRwire is the leading source of corpo- cused on Marin’s people, rate social responsibility and sustainabil- issues and events. ity news, reports and information. CSR- TreeHugger wire members are companies, agencies www.treehugger.com and organizations interested in com- TreeHugger.com was founded in 2004 municating their corporate citizenship, with the goal of driving sustainability sustainability, and socially responsible mainstream. Today TreeHugger’s mission initiatives to a global audience through is more urgent than ever. We strive to the CSRwire syndication network and drive awareness and reversal of current News Alerts. CSRwire content covers environmental issues, and also show issues of diversity, philanthropy, socially that a better world – one where the responsible investing, environment, hu- values, goals, and needs of businesses, man rights, workplace issues, business governments, individuals, and ecosys- ethics, community development and tems are aligned – is possible. After all, corporate governance. everyone is an environmentalist: Who doesn’t want clean air and water and healthy food? Green Lifestyles on Planet Paradise www.greenplanetparadise.com Green Lifestyles’ mission is to be a bridge PARTNERS of education and a window of inspiration to transform the planet to a GREEN Maggie’s Organics Planet Paradise. www.maggiesorganics.com Maggie’s Organics was founded in 1992 on the premise that all workers should Mother Jones be treated ethically and that clothing www.motherjones.com could be functional, beautiful, affordable Mother Jones is an independent, non- and constructed from environmentally profit magazine dedicated to bringing sustainable materials. When Bioneers you smart, fearless journalism. Winner asked Maggie’s Organics to manage and of five NationalM agazine Awards, MoJo fulfill their “gear” (tees, etc,), they were is committed to gutsy, no-holds-barred thrilled, as it is a way for them to ex-

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Al-Kemi Avalon Springs Earth Solutions www.al-kemi.com www.AvalonSprings.org www.earthsolutions.com Spagyric & Alchemical herb & mineral extracts Avalon Springs is a living learning environment for body, spirit, soul and planet. Visit our booth for a new generative culture, a developing hot for a sample! springs eco-retreat, ecovillage, and a venue for Elixir Café empowered people to have conversations www.theinnershaman.com that matter. Our Vibrational Healing Elixirs are Alchemical Alliance for Climate Education Creations composed of Organic Wholeplant www.climateeducation.org Extracts, Herbal Infusions, Homeopathy, Flow- ACE (Alliance for Climate Education) visits BALLE er & Gemstone Essences: Oral Sublinguals, high schools to deliver live, multi-media pre- www.livingeconomies.org Botanical Cordials, Mantra/Angelic Mists, Lo- sentations to educate and engage youth with tions, Shamanic and Lavender Products. science-based climate education as well as tangible solutions. Bear Wallow Herbs www.bearwallowherbs.com FLOW Foods, LLC Off-the-grid in remote mountains by Salm- www.flowfoodschocolatl.com ALTERNIA on River and Marble Mountains Wilderness, Chocolatl is a powerful, unique blend of we are forming a holistic community Northern California. Handmade Organic health-building, rejuvenating & energizing su- www.alternia.org Herbal Medicine Tinctures and Salves. Home- perfoods. Our chocolates are inspired by the Alternia, a holistic intentional community grown and Wildcrafted Herbs. Bestseller— ancient healing and ceremonial uses of choco- building an eco-village north of San Francis- Herbal Medicine First Aid Kit! late dating back thousands of years in Mayan co by alternative energy and Permaculture & Aztec cultures. principles. Biopro Technology www.emfprotect.info Friends of the Eel River Animals Asia Foundation Electro Magnetic Radiation: Living Safely in www.eelriver.org www.animalsasia.org the Wireless World. Learn about one of the Friends of the Eel River’s mission is to restore The Animals Asia Foundation works in both greatest health threats of the 21st century— the Eel River and all her tributaries to a natu- China and Vietnam to rescue highly endan- electromagnetic radiation. What can you do ral state of abundance, wild and free. Work- gered Asiatic black bears, also know as moon to protect yourself and your family from this ing with water issues on the north coast from bears, from the bile trade. silent killer? EMF Protection products that Marin to Humboldt Counties. protect and mitigate the effect of EMF.

Aprovecho Girton Capital Management, Inc. www.aprovecho.net Botanical Preservation Corps. www.girtoncapital.com Aprovecho is a nonprofit research and educa- www.botanicalpreservationcorps.com Girton Capital Management, Inc. is a re- tion center located outside of Cottage Grove, BPC is dedicated to the preservation and search-oriented registered investment ad- Oregon. Our 40-acre rural campus is the evolution of human relations with the botani- viser dedicated to helping our clients achieve classroom for our ongoing educational pro- cal realm. Organic and sustainably wildcrafted their financial, social and environmental goals grams. At Aprovecho you will experience live exotic herbs. Ethnobotanical books, record- through friendly and professional service. working examples of Appropriate Technology, ings from BPC seminars. Plants and seeds. Sustainable Forestry, Organic Agriculture, Per- Global Oneness Project maculture, and the interconnectedness that is www.globalonenessproject.org shared by these systems and with the land. California Coastal Commission The Global Oneness Project is exploring how www.coastal.ca.gov the radically simple notion of interconnected- The California Coastal Commission works ness can be lived in our increasingly complex AstroGraph Software with local governments and other organiza- world. Since 2006, we’ve been traveling the www.astrograph.com tions to protect public beach access, wetlands, globe gathering stories from creative and AstroGraph Software is the provider of wildlife on land and in the sea, water quality, courageous people who base their lives TimePassages Software – a powerful, pro- scenic vistas and coastal tourism. and work on the understanding that we fessional astrology software sophisticated bear great responsibility for each other enough for experts, yet user-friendly enough and our shared world. for beginners. Correctsit CORRECTSIT by nada chair has created the ultimate back support for sitting in varied po- Goddard College sitions on the ground or in a chair www.goddard.edu Goddard College is located in Plainfield, Ver- mont offering low residency programs with BA, BFAW, MA and MFAW degrees.

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Gorgeous GoddessWear Klean Kanteen Multiple Threads Women’s garments “so beautiful and feminine, www.kleankanteen.com www.multiplethreads.org you feel like a Goddess wearing them!

Living Awareness Institute NepalesePaper.com Healing Hands alcochanshealinghands.com www.livingawareness.com www.NepalesePaper.com massage & bodywork Kami McBride teaches experiential herbal programs focused on sustainable wellness practices and revitalizing our relationship with New Society Publishers Herbs AmericaMaca Magic & the plant world. Her work is centered in reviv- www.newsociety.com Amazon Therapeutic Laboratories ing the art of home use of herbal medicine. Our mission is to publish books that contrib- www.herbs-america.com ute in fundamental ways to building an eco- Herbs America brings you Maca Magic and logically sustainable and just society, and to do Amazon Therapeutic Laboratories. We spe- Lotus Gallery so with the least possible impact on the envi- cialize in over 120 species of medicinal herbs, www.lotusgallerynepal.com ronment in a manner that models that vision. tea’s, formulas, extracts, and capsules. Our Lotus Gallery is a fine art gallery specializing in products are from sustainably harvested or contemporary art from Nepal and Tibet, and organically grown botanicals. We work di- is committed to aiding Tibetan artists and de- The New York Times rectly with the herb growers, elderly shamans veloping new avenues to expose their art. www.ontheavenuemarketing.com and medical clinics to create an international Visit our booth to receive The New York market for indigenous medicines and new su- Times home delivery service at 50% off, plus per foods. Mary’s Gone Crackers a gift with subscription. www.marysgonecrackers.com Mary’s Gone Crackers is committed to manu- Holos Institute facturing the best tasting wheat-free and glu- Northern Sun Merchandising www.holosinstitute.net ten-free baked goods using the highest quality, www.northernsun.com organically grown ingredients. for 30 years, we have been selling social- political, peace and environmental messages Huichol Indian Art on shirts, stickers, buttons and more. Often Shamanic visionary art from Mexico express- The Mayan Connection humorous, rarely dull. Have propaganda—will ing the Huichol Indian spirit world. Created www.mayanconnection.com mail order. by pressing glass beads or colored yarn into a Fair trade, hand made beautiful women ap- beeswax and pitch coating on wooden carv- parel from Guatemala ings and gourds. Nutiva www.nutiva.com Meridian University Nutiva offers delicious organic Hemp Bars, Inka Biospheric Systems www.MeridianUniversity.edu Hemp Protein, Hemp Oil, Hempseeds, www.inka.fm Meridian’s degree programs in psychology, HempShakes™ and organic, fair-trade Extra- business, and education are available in Virgin Coconut Oil. We donate 1% of sales to both Low-Residence and Online formats. sustainable agriculture groups. International Council of Thirteen Meridian’s MBA in Creative Enterprise em- Indigenous Grandmothers phasizes the values of sustainability, com- www.samadhilife.com munity, and social responsibility in leading Occidental Arts and Ecology Center International Council of Thirteen Indigenous and creating organizations. www.oaec.org Grandmothers (www.grandmotherscouncil. We offer courses in Permaculture, School com) will be represented by Samadhi Life, Inc. Gardens, Water and Energy Systems, Wa- (www.samadhilife.com), official store of the Modesto Milling tershed Restoration, Fine Arts, and more. Grandmothers to raise money for their mis- www.modestomilling.com We sell organic, heirloom seedlings at our sion. Flordemayo, Universal Healer and Elder 100% Organic Feed Mill. Organic Feeds for plant sales and offer tours and organizational will be present at our booth. livestock and poultry. Feed sold in 25 and 50 retreat facilities. pound biodegradable sacks. Larger farms can Jadexchange save with one-ton totes or truck delivery. www.jadexchange.com Organic Pastures www.organicpastures.com Multidisciplinary Association for The Kangaroo Girls Psychedelic Studies www.thekangaroogirls.com www.maps.org Partners in Place, LLC www.partnersinplace.com

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Peaceful Goods Regenerative Design Institute Steinerbooks www.peacefulgoods.com www.regenerativedesign.org steinerbooks.org Organic, Fair Trade, low impact dye clothing The Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, Steinerbooks publishes books on bio-dynamic & other gear for women, men and children. CA, is an educational center and demonstra- agriculture, environmentalism, social justice, Including: Speeses, Mahadevi Designs, Mission tion site in permaculture and regenerative animal rights and education. Playground, Indigenous Designs, Under the design. RDI’s programs teach the skills people Nile, Maggie’s Organics, Sweetgrass Naturals, need to become community leaders and cre- Shining Shakti and more. ate healthy solutions to the current environ- Syracuse Cultural Workers mental crisis. www.syracuseculturalworkers.com

Posada Natura Retreat / Eco Era Reserve www.posadanatura.com River of Words A Thread of Hope Guatemalan Fair Trade www.ecoera.org riverofwords.org www.athreadofhope.coop Mountain Retreat Center w/Ceremonial and Pioneering place-based education nonprofit Fairly-Traded rayon chenille and cotton Convention Center. Services: Health Retreats that combines environmental education with clothing and accessories, beaded jewelry and Rain Forest Education. Eco Era Wildlife the arts, teaching the poetry and art of place and more, handmade by Mayan women’s Refuge is dedicated to land conservation and to children around the world, focusing on wa- co-ops and groups in Guatemala. Socially preservation of Indigenous Culture. tersheds and water issues. responsible mission. Retail / wholesale / web sales / fundraising.

Positive News / EON Sacred Fire www.positivenewsus.org www.sacredfiremagazine.com Tikkun Magazine EON3.net www.tikkun.org Positive News is a newspaper, which brings Tikkun Magazine offers articles on politics, HOPE, exemplifies OLS UTIONS and inspires Share International magazine spirituality, and culture from a spiritually to ACTION. PositiveNewsUS.org EON vid- Share International magazine shows the syn- progressive perspective. Our Network of eos highlight people creating planetarian so- thesis underlying the environmental, political, Spiritual Progressives has chapters and lutions, catalyzing local action, inspiring hope social, economic and spiritual changes now members nationwide. and courage. occurring on a worldwide scale and seeks to stimulate practical action to rebuild our world along more just and compassionate lines. Tinctoria Designs Quest www.tinctoriadesigns.com www.thebidetsolution.com Sound Spaces www.soundspaces.com Contact [email protected] Sound Spaces is an independent portal for for details on exhibiting at Bioneers 2010. conscious music and film for over 20 years, providing a hand-picked, cutting edge selection of sounds and sights from around the planet.

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A k A walk thru time/Conexions Conference Grounds Kangaroo Girls 68 Al-Kemi 29 Klean Kanteen Conference Grounds Alliance for Climate Education Conference Grounds l Animals Asia Foundation Pavilion Law offices of Janelle Orsi/Regenerative Real Estate 54 Aprovecho 36 Living Awareness Pavilion ARC & Organic Pastures Pavilion Lotus Gallery 69 AstroGraph 48 m Avalaon Springs Conference Grounds Malibu Compost 82 Avant Garde Wellness 72 MAPS (multidisciplinary association of psychedelic studies) 53 B Mary’s Gone Crackers 1 Bainbridge Graduate Institute 21 Mayan Connection 63 BALLE 79 Meridian University 30 Bear Wallow Herbs Pavilion Modesto Milling 60 Bioneers Store 25 Mother Jones 84 Bioneers Store 26 Multiple Threads 73 Bioneers Store 34 n Bioneers Store 35 Nada Chair 11 BioPro Tech 16 Nepalese Paper 80 Botanical Preservation Corp 2 New Society Publishers 64 C Northern Sun 12 Café Mam VMA, Conference Grounds & 37 Nutiva 3 California Coastal Commission Pavilion NY Times 8 ChicoBag 87 o Clifbar Conference Grounds OAEC (Occidental Arts and Ecology Center) 38 e Organic Valley 88 Earth Island Institute 9 p Earth Solutions Pavilion Partners in Place Pavilion Eclectic Institute 28 Peaceful Goods 62 EcoLight Pavilion Portfolio 21 43 Elixir Café 4 Posada Natura 45 En’owkin Centre 57 Positive News 33 f q Floracopeia 65 Quest 18 Flow Foods/Chocolatl Pavilion Regenerative Design Institute 52 Friends of the Eel River Conference Grounds River of Words 81 g RSF 86 Girton Capital Management 59 s Global Oneness Project 66 Sacred Fire Magazine 31 Goddard College 20 Share International Magazine 24 Gorgeous Goddesswear 77 Silent Auction 27 Green Lifestyles on Planet Paradise Pavilion Solar Living Institute Pavilion GreenerPrinter 47 Sound Spaces 61 h Steiner Books 46 Healing Hands Pavilion Sunrise Center 83 Herbs America 13 Syracuse Cultural Workers Pavilion Holos Institute Pavilion t Huichol Indian Art 58 Thread of Hope 42 i Tikkun Magazine 32 INKA Conference Grounds Tinctoria Designs 74 The International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers 44 Treehugger 85 j w Jadexchange 67 WEAD 78 World Pulse 10

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www.bioneers.org - 68 - - 69 - - 68 - - 69 - www.bioneers.org www.bioneers.org - 70 - - 71 - CONFERENCE EVENT STAFF Special thanks to these businesses and individuals who have generously provided their Patrick Balduchi products and services in support of the Bioneers conference and events Jason Berkman Berkeley Ecology Center Marin Agricultural Institute Paul Brown Lindsey Burns Conservation Corp of North Bay Organic Valley Family of Farms Clare Cleveland The staff at Embassy Suites Hotel Deb & Tom Westar for Youth Program Jack Cleveland Katrina Frey of Frey Vineyards support from Synergia Learning Ventures, Nan Crawford Angela Karegeannes at Fork Full of Earth for providing “edu-catering” www.synergia.us Erin Ely for the youth orientation, www.forkfull.org Janine Herman Jeanne Jones Deborah Grace Kraft Jarred Lundstrom Mary Lundstrom We honor these artists, performers and photographers whose work enriches Bioneers Biasha Mitchell Lydia Neilsen Galen Bannon Chi Fang Greg Sarris Heather Newbold Micah Bazant Max Harper Tyler Matthew Smith Band Sam Prentice Kevin Buckland LoCura Musica Anne-Katrin Spiess & Jamie Morra Mary Quillin California HoneyDrops Loyd Family Players Sally Roesch Wagner Breece Robertson Capoeira Mandiga of Marin Jan Mangan Becky White and Secret Mission Waldo Soveranes Chuck Castleberry Naomi and the Curteous Women Environmental Artists Directory Barbara Whitestone Melanie DeMore Rudeboys (WEAD) Jesse Salveson Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company Chris Noble Shadia Wood Jacksun Sneve DJ Dragonfly Peregrine O’Gormley Paul Zink Kate Taylor DJ Ellen Shailja Patel Nicole Wagner Wendy Domster Tim Porter Azlan White Kai Eckhardt Carl Reeverts Jennifer Esperanza Frank Rogozienski Council Facilitators Lynne Iser Rabbi Mordechai Liebling Marlowe Sam Sharon Shay Sloan

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Clayton Thomas-Müller (Chair) Kenny Ausubel CEO & Founder, Co-Producer Conference, Co-Director Indigenous Tar Sands Campaigner Dreaming New Mexico, Director International Indigenous Environmental Network Nina Simons President & Co-Founder, Co-Producer Conference, Director Bioneers Women’s Leadership Greg Watson (Vice-Chair) Jill P. van Nortwick Executive Director Senior Advisor for Clean Energy Technology Peter Mattair Vice President for Advancement Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs Vice President for Sustainable Development Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Roberto Aponte Director of Events & Programs Management Chuck Castleberry Executive Liaison Thomas Van Dyck (Treasurer) Maia Cortissoz Membership & Development Assistant Senior Vice President, Financial Consultant Liz Cunningham Youth & Conference Project Manager SRI Wealth Management Group, RBC Dain Rauscher T.C. Gritt Project Manager J.P. Harpignies Associate Producer Conference and Special Projects Charlotte Brody (Secretary) National Field Director Aaron Leventman Media Project Manager Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Esther Lombardi Web Content Manager Arty Mangan Director Food & Farming Kenny Ausubel Felicia Marohn Executive Assistant CEO & Founder Aidan Kallas Retail Sales Associate & Receptionist Collective Heritage Institute/Bioneers Ginger Ridder Sponsorship & Conference Exhibitor Manager Nicole Spangenburg Dreaming New Mexico Project Coordinator Dune Lankard Susan Talkington Administration Manager Eyak Preservative Council/Ashoka Fellow/Prime Movers Fellow Amy Theobald Design & Production Manager Jeffrey Vasterling Comptroller Chief Oren Lyons Onandaga Council of Chiefs, Onandaga Nation Kelli Webster Conference Project Manager Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan Julie Weinstein Membership & Development Manager Professor of American Studies, State University of New York Scott White Desktop & System Administrator Jacquelyn Williams Executive Assistant David W. Orr Spencer Windes Senior Marketing & Communications Project Manager Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics Oberlin College

Nina Simons President & Co-Founder Interns Collective Heritage Institute/Bioneers Suzanne Parker Web Intern Illana Stein Youth Intern

Contractors

Samuel Copeland Graphic Designer Chantal Foster Web Strategist Neil Harvey Radio Series Host & Senior Producer Michael Leifer Marketing Consultant Linda Milanesi Proofreader Laura Noss Marketing Consultant Diane Rigoli Graphic Designer Jessica Scadron Marketing Consultant Matt Schulze Multimedia Producer Catherine Stifter Radio Series Co-Writer Peter Warshall Dreaming New Mexico Co-Director Stephanie Welch Radio Series Managing Producer