Second Annual Chesapeake Bioneers Conference October 14-16, 2005 at The University of the District of Columbia

Visionary Practical Solutions for Restoring the Earth and Its People “Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, and collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.”

– Terry Tempest Williams, from The Open Space of Democracy, Bioneers 2004

Bioneers Mission

To disseminate environmental solutions and strategies to national and global audiences to educate, inspire and equip individuals, groups, companies and institutions toward effective action to restore the Earth and her peoples;

To develop and spread model economic strategies for ecological agriculture, environmental restoration and community self-reliance that conserve biological and cultural diversity, and that strengthen traditional, indigenous and restorative farming practices;

To promote understanding of the human-nature relationship and revitalize our cultural and spiritual connection with the natural world;

To conduct public education designed to engage people through conferences, workshops, and the media and by creating model projects;

To bring together people and information for the purpose of creating an effective program to restore health to the Earth and her peoples;

To develop and spread model economic strategies for ecological agriculture, environmental restoration and community self-reliance; and

To promote understanding of the human-nature relationship in order to revitalize our cultural and spiritual connection with the natural world.

This event is hosted by the Agriculture Experimental Station at UDC. For information about the program, see: www.UDC.edu. Dr. Bobby William Austin is Vice President for University Relations and Communications at the Univer- sity of the District of Columbia. He brings an extensive background as a sociologist, foundation executive, college administrator, editor and policy consultant in Education and the Humanities to his work. Dr. Austin was the found- ing President of the Village Foundation where he served About Bioneers for fi ve years. He is the Chairman of the Planning Com- mittee on the Status of African American Men, convened For 16 years, the Annual Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, by Congressman Danny Davis, (D) Ill. He is a recipient California, has assembled leading scientifi c innovators and of the Kellogg National Fellowship Award and is listed in environmental visionaries who offer practical solutions to Who’s Who in Black America, Outstanding Young Men of pressing environmental and social problems. For the fourth America, the International Dictionary of Biographies and consecutive year, Bioneers Conference plenaries are being the International Edition of Men of Achievement. Austin broadcast live via satellite in North American communities, is a Mahatma Gandhi Fellow of the American Academy of who organize events to complement the national plenaries, Political and Social Science. Dr. Austin serves as a board with workshops tailored to the needs of their bioregions. member for the National Housing Trust, the Council for Bioneers is an educational nonprofi t organization founded in the Advancement of Adult Literacy, and the World Policy 1990 to promote practical environmental solutions and inno- Board of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. vative social strategies for restoring the Earth and its com- munities. Its mission is accomplished through educational Wholeness for Humanity programs, media outreach and communications, youth and women’s initiatives, fellowships and grants. Wholeness for Humanity (WFH), is the offi cial coordinator, for the Chesapeake Bioneers Conference. Founded by Greg The Chesapeake bioregion is one of the world’s most bounti- Drury in 1991, WFH is dedicated to increasing accessibility ful ecosystems. Within its borders, national decision mak- to integrative medicine, holistic health, wellness, ethics and ers have a powerful impact. The University of the District spirituality. Core activities include conference planning, a of Columbia (UDC), Second Annual Chesapeake Bioneers monthly luncheon lecture series, and networking of people Conference host, is a historically black university and is the sharing values of promoting health, sustainability, spiritual only public institution of higher education in Washington, development and cultural connectedness. DC Representatives from non-government organizations, governmental agencies, local and national organizations, WFH partners with governmental and non-governmental and private businesses throughout Chesapeake region have organizations, institutions, communities and individuals. been invited to this regional conference. Participants will By connecting the dots among intimately related issues take away ideas, models, tools and resources for building and subcultures, WFH serves as a learning portal, exposing alliances, improving the environment and the world. people to ideas and strategies they might not have otherwise considered. Groups that have participated with WFH include Dr. Gloria S. Wyche-Moore serves the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Washington Area Spiritual as the Associate Dean of Research and Network, DC Sustainable Business Network, Friends of the Associate Director of the Agricultural Earth, Citizens for Better Health, GreenFest DC, DC Earth Experiment Station, Community Outreach Week (an activity of the DC Energy Offi ce), National Youth and Extension Services. Her tenure at the Service Day, Points of Light, and the Community Art Block University of the District of Columbia has Project (a DC Parks and Recreation program). Greg Drury is spanned more than three decades, serv- one of the founders of the Chesapeake Bioneers and currently ing as a Professor in the Department of serves as Administrator for the organization. Biological and Environmental Sciences and Assistant Dean in the College of Life Sciences. Dr. Wyche-Moore has also served as the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors for the Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center, former director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Project Director of Wholeness for Humanity USDA’s Strengthening Grant, a Cafritz Foundation Fellow, 4545 42nd Street NW, Suite 300 • Washington, DC 20016 and Project Director of a NASA grant, “Anacostia River 202-686-9813 • Fax 202-686-6439 Institute for Remote Sensing.” www.WholenessforHumanity.com 1 2005 Speakers and Partner Organizations

National Speakers via Satellite: Michael Ableman • Janine Benyus • Wil Bullock • Ohki Simine Forest • Omar Freilla • Rha Goddess • Thom Hartmann • Andy Lipkis • Bill McKibben • Jeremy Narby • David Orr • Carolyn Raffensperger • Bernice Johnson Reagon • Vyacheslav Trigubovich • Diane Wilson

Local Speakers: Robert Johnson, DC Dept. of Health Erik Assidourian, Worldwatch Institute Maya, Elephants’ Wisdom Bill Aiken, Soka Gaikka Intl. Frankie Lind, Biodiesel Richard Albright, DC Dept. of Health Peggy McConnell, Effective Living Strategies, Intl. Joan Barbaucher, CalvertGroup Phil Mendelson, DC Councilmember Chuck Clinton, DC Energy Offi ce Sara Montag, Roots & Shoots DC Armory Residents from Hurricane Katrina Dan Morhaim, MD, Maryland House of Delegates Edgar Cahn, Time Dollar Institute Glen O’Gilvie, Earth Conservation Corps Michael Campbell, Chesapeake Bioneers Advisor Martin Ogle, Northern Virginia Park System Doug Cohen, USPartnership/Sustainable Development Jane Osborne, Religious Partnership/Anacostia Kate Davenport, SustainUS Dr. William Lawrence Pollard, UDC President Dave Deppner, Forest Garden Bernie Prince, FreshFarm Markets Robert Duggan, Tai Sophia Rev. Terry Provance, Oiko Credit Amtchat Edwards, George Washington Carver Outdoor School Kevin John Richardson, PoGo Organic Farm Charles Eisenstein, Penn State Kim Rush, National Arboretum Hedieh Fakriyazdi, GMU, Baha’i Community Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm Ian Fisk, Net Impact Bill Sanda, Weston Price Foundation Ariele Foster, Community Harvest Jim Schulman, Community Forklift Chris Fullerton, Tuscarora Organic Growers Coop. Erik Schwartz, IntefFaith Works Dawn Gifford, DC GreenWorks Sara Standish, SustainUS Bridget Gray, Earth Conservation Corps Daniel Swartz, GWIPL Ed Grusheski, Philadelphia Water Department Josh Tulkin, CCAN & SustainUS Jenny Guillaume, National Arboretum UDC Student Government panelists Suzanne Hunt, Biodiesel Reuven Walder, SeaWeb Bill Hutchins, Helicon Works Marsha Weiner, Slow Food Talia Ichtertz, Eco-Ventures International Barry Wind, Progressive Asset Management

2005 Partner Organizations*: Jewish Youth Philanthropy Institute American Institute of Architects – Committee on the Environment LifePages Australian Embassy National Foundation of Alternative Medicine Canadian Embassy The Peace Alliance Casey Trees Endowment Fund PoGo Organic Farm Chesapeake Bay Foundation Points of Light Foundation Chesapeake Climate Action Network Polyface Farm Co-op America Religious Partnership for the Anacostia River Copy Connection Restaurant Nora’s DC Department of Parks and Recreation Sierra Club MD–DC–VA DC Energy Offi ce St. Columba’s Episcopal Church –Environment Committee DC Environmental Network Tabard Inn DC Executive Offi ce of the Mayor U.S. Partnership for the Decade of Education for Delegate Dan Morhaim (Baltimore) Sustainable Development Earth Conservation Corps University of the District of Columbia – Earth Day Network Agriculture Experimental Station Earthome U.S. National Arboretum – Washington Youth Garden Episcopal High School U.S. Peace Government Friends of the Earth Vedic Architecture Greater Washington Interfaith Power & Light Washington Area Spiritual Network Greenbelt Movement Weston Price Foundation Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin White Dog Café Institute of Noetic Sciences Wise Women Jane Goodall Institute – Roots & Shoots Worldwatch Institute * Wholeness for Humanity has partnered Chesapeake Bioneers with these organizations in 2005 to create events in the metropolitan DC area. 2 Schedule of Events at a Glance Friday Sunday

4:00-6:30pm Registration open 8:30-9:00am Registration open 4:30-5:30pm Wine and cheese reception 8:30-9:00am I-Groups Session, Intergenerational Learning 5:30-6:30pm I-Groups Session, Intergenerational Learning 9:00-9:30am Address: DC Councilmember Phil Mendelson 6:00-6:30pm Welcome, UDC President Pollard 9:30-11:00am Local speakers & workshops 6:30-10:30pm – PLENARIES (via satellite) Creating a Green Economy • Sustainable Business Janine Benyus – What Life Knows: New Ideas From Biology Map • Corporate Social Responsibility • Effective Living Wil Bullock – You Are Where You Eat Strategies • Soil, Nutrition and Food • Organics, Biodiversity Vyacheslav Trigubovich – Russian Snow Leopards & Farming • BioDiesel • Benefi ts, Coop’s, Production • Green Bill McKibben – Global Warming Building • Alternative Media/Social Responsibility • Science/ Diane Wilson – An UnReasonable Woman Philosophy of Gaia Theory

Saturday 11:00-11:30am Break, Informal I-Groups Meet 11:30am-12:00pm Brown Bag Lunches 8:30-9:00am Registration open 8:30-9:30am I-Groups Session, Intergenerational Learning 12:00-4:00pm - PLENARIES (via satellite) 9:00-9:30am Address, Chuck Clinton, Dir., DC Energy Offi ce Michael Ableman - Frontiers of American Agriculture Ohki Simine Forest - Return of the Ancient Council Ways 9:30-11:00am Local Speakers & Workshops Andy Lipkis - Restoring Los Angeles/Healing Nature of Cities Earth Conservation • Body, Health, Nutrition • Power of Youth: David Orr - Evolution of Ecological Design Intelligence School Gardens, Sustainable Organizing, Liberation • Roots & Bernice Johnson Reagon - “...those of us who straddle...” Shoots (Jane Goodall Youth Programs) • Food: Good Tasting and Good for You/Slow Food • Growing Urban Food • Local 4:00-4:30pm Music Performance Organic Farmers, Organic Restaurants 4:30-6:00pm Local Speakers & Workshops 11:00-11:30am Break, Informal I-Groups Meet Living Systems/Organic Farming • InterFaith Panel/Faith Based 11:30am-12:00pm Brown Bag Lunches Presenters • Green Investing • Protecting Oceans, Chesapeake Bay • Camping with Purpose 12:00-4:00pm – PLENARIES (via satellite) Jeremy Narby – Intelligence In Nature: A Predator’s Inquiry 6:00-6:30pm Group Coordinators Launch I-Groups from Con- Carolyn Raffensperger – The Precautionary Principle ference into the World Omar Freilla – Greening the Inner City: Jobs, Health, Justice Thom Hartmann – Reframing Political “Messages” 6:30pm Conclusion Rha Goddess – Feminine-Centered Leadership in Hip Hop Era

4:00-4:15pm Break 4:15-4:45pm Plenary: US Partnership/Sustainable Development

4:45-6:15pm Local Speakers & Workshops Sustaining Urban & Rural Forest Ecosystems • Global I-Groups Description Warming • Climate Challenge on Campus • Organics You Want • Organic Farmers markets, School programs • Water: I-Groups, also known as “Integrative Groups”, will be an inte- From River to You • Hurricane Katrina/Evacuees • Michelle gral part of this years’ Bioneers Conference. Youth and adults Ava Dance alike, will be partitioned into small groups to develop action plans to take back to their local communities. Attendees will 6:15-7:30pm Dinner Break at area restaurants with I-Groups be encouraged to engage in a series of planning and workshop sessions that will foster networking, consultation, and most 7:30-9:00pm Local Panel: Urban Socio-economic Programs importantly, intergenerational learning. I-Groups will serve as Glen O’Gilvie – Earth Conservation Corps agents that help create resources and bonds between individuals Dan Morhaim, MD – Maryland Delegate/Environment Health – two elements that contribute towards the success and longevity Edgar Cahn – TIMEBank of grassroots projects. The enrichment of sustainable community Michael Campbell – Chesapeake Bioneers Advisor activities through integrative collaboration and cooperation will lead the dialogue surrounding all I-Groups activities. Talia Ichtertz – Eco-Ventures International/Youth Programs

9:00pm Open Bioneers Party! 3 Friday Speakers’ Bios Schedule

“I love tenderly prepared, nutrient dense food, not manu- Friday factured, highly processed foods,” says Bill Sanda, 4:00-6:30pm Registration open Executive Director of the Weston A. Price Foundation. a 4:30-5:30pm Wine and cheese reception food/nutrition education, research/advocacy non-profi t. The foundation supports accurate nutrition education, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture feeding of live- 5:30-6:30pm I-Groups Session (Integrative), stock, community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling, Groups for Intergenerational Learning

prepared parenting and nurturing therapies. It maintains that modern technology should be harnessed to serve the wise, nurturing traditions 6:00-6:30pm Welcome to Conference by of our ancestors and that science and knowledge can validate those UDC President William L. Pollard traditions. Tai Sophia is the meeting point of ancient healing 6:30-10:30pm PLENARIES from NATIONAL traditions from East and West (Chinese Tai, “great”; CONFERENCE (via satellite) Greek Sophia, “wisdom”). This “great wisdom” is the Janine Benyus – What Life Knows: New Ideas foundation of Tai Sophia’s mission, programs, and services. For 30 years, Tai Sophia has empowered From Biology That Could Change the World. The Bio- individuals and communities to reconnect with nature and healing, mimicry Guild seeks to emulate the time-tested adaptive recover our ancestors’ wisdom, practice the arts of living and dying, strategies of many species of plants, animals and micro- and to care for and serve one another. Its educational programs/of- organisms to transform how we live on this planet. Janine ferings incorporate nature’s wisdom, the ancient healing traditions, celebrates the newest ancient ideas bubbling up in the modern science, and transformative practice. Tai Sophia has graduate natural sciences, illuminating how evolution’s wisdom can programs in Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, & Applied Healing Arts. help us design benign, life enhancing technologies while Roots & Shoots® engages youth through com- inspiring us to protect Earth’s biodiversity. munity service and learning. Dr. Jane Goodall’s global program emphasizes that knowledge leads to Wil Bullock – You Are Where You Eat: Growing Urban compassion, which inspires action. Roots & Shoots Food and Community. Boston’s famed Food Project has groups care for the human community, animals, and become a model for integrating food and health, city and the environment. They foster respect for all living country, justice and access. Wil, a remarkable 24-year-old things, promote understanding of all cultures, and inspire individuals community leader from Boston’s inner city, explores how to take action to make the world better for people, animals, and the environment. The Roots & Shoots program began when 16 students the Food Project has successfully bridged these worlds and gathered with Dr. Goodall on her front porch in Dar es Salaam, Tan- how youth are playing crucial roles in changing the food zania in 1991. The students were fascinated by animal behavior and system. concerned about the state of the environment. Since then, Roots & – Shoots has spread rapidly. More than 6,000 groups – ranging in size Vyacheslav Trigubovich From Russia with Snow from two to 2,000 – have registered in more than 87 countries. Leopards: The Future of Wilderness Protection. Since 1917, the former Soviet Union’s unique system of “za- Sara Montag is Roots & Shoots Membership povedniks” has forbidden the presence of people in some Coordinator, having started as intern, then becoming a wilderness areas, except for scientifi c study. These truly special projects consultant. She has been working at the wild, biodiverse nature preserves are under increasing Jane Goodall Institute for one and one-half years and spent this summer working with Roots & Shoots groups threat from commercial development. The founder of the in Tanzania. Altai Foundation, Slava Trigubovich is among the Rus- sian Federation’s best-known anti-poaching rangers and Ariele Foster is the Local Food Alliance Pro- advocates for the protection of wilderness and endangered gram Director for Community Harvest in Washing- species (including the fabled snow leopard). ton DC. A native of rural Virginia, Ariele graduated from Hampshire College in 2001, where she studied Bill McKibben – Global Warming: A Climate of Fear sustainable agriculture and wrote her thesis on im- and Opportunity. The mother of all environmental threats, plementing local food systems in the context of in- global warming requires immediate technological and creasing globalization of agriculture. For four years social responses on an unprecedented global scale. Author she worked on organic farms in California, Massachusetts and Costa and environmental activist Bill, a frequent contributor to Rica. She also has an extensive background advocating environmental justice around climate and clean energy issues. Ariele speaks fl uent a wide variety of publications including The New York Spanish and Portuguese, and wants to start a sustainable agriculture Times, explores how humanity is rising to the challenge. education center on her family’s farm and teach internationally. 4 Saturday Schedule Speakers’ Bios

Diane Wilson – An UnReasonable Woman: UnReasonable- Sara Standish works with New Ventures, World ness and Where It Gets You. An ad in National Geographic Resources Institute and volunteers with SustainUS. by the American Plastics Council celebrated plastic as the In 2004-05, Sara worked with youth leaders to sixth basic food group. These chemicals can change the engage young scientists, policymakers, and educa- tors and to foster peer-to-peer learning on sustain- very character of human societies, producing behavioral ability issues. She helped develop the youth-led organizational model abnormalities along with serious health problems. Diane, for SustainUS. She manages the New Ventures project mentoring a fourth-generation shrimper on the Texas Gulf Coast, has program, connecting business school students with environmental used civil disobedience and other nonviolent approaches to entrepreneurs. New Ventures supports environmentally sustainable stop corporate chemical giants from polluting. enterprises in emerging economies.

Marsha B. Weiner, Regional Governor of Slow Food USA, says we need to recover the art of savoring our food. Slow Food USA is Saturday an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and 8:30-9:00am Registration open ecologically sound food production; to revival of the kitchen and table as centers of pleasure, culture, and community; to the invigoration 8:30-9:30am I-Groups Session (Integrative), of regional, seasonal culinary traditions; and to living a slower and Groups for Intergenerational Learning harmonious rhythm of life. Marsha is a freelance writer and producer.

9:00-9:30am Opening Address by Charles J. “Chuck” Kimberly Rush has worked with the Clinton, Director, DC Energy Offi ce: How our contribu- US National Arboretum’s Washington tions to the environment and world create an inherent Youth Garden for over 5 years and direct- ed the program for the last three. She was sense of self; how DC Energy Offi ce ushers that along. Assistant Director for Garden Harvest, Baltimore, an organic farm that donates fresh produce to emergency Chuck Clinton has served as DC Energy Offi ce’s director since food agencies. Jenny Guillaume has been Program Coordinator its creation in 1978. DCEO operates conservation and low income for the US National Arboretum’s Washington Youth Garden since fall fuel assistance programs and administers the State Energy and 2003. She was Garden Coordinator for Hilltop Community Garden Weatherization Assistance Programs; operates the Residential Energy in Lewiston, Maine. Her favorite vegetable is okra––southern fried! Assistance Challenge federal grant program and several DOE-funded BioMass/Alternative Fuel Vehicle programs. DCEO publishes the District’s Comprehensive Energy Plan; participates in PSC regulatory proceedings; updatsg/implements DC’s contingency plans for petro- Michelle Ava approaches move- leum shortages, electricity brownouts, natural gas interruptions; and ment as a healing art. With a Masters administers the Reliable Energy Trust Fund, including 16 education, degree in dance education from The energy effi ciency, assistance programs, all to help DC citizens adapt George Washington University, she to deregulation of electricity. has been a vital force in Washington, DC dance and holistic communities for 9:30-11:00am Local Speakers & Workshops over three decades. She is an innovative dance educator, choreog- rapher, bodywork therapist and spiritual teacher. She has dedicated Spoken Word: Earth Conservation Corps. her work to fusing modern dance with yoga, meditation and spiri- tual practice to assist others to discover their creative expression. Your Body, Your Health: Robert Duggan,Tai Sophia; Bill Sanda, Weston A. Price Foundation. With a vision of creating “dance for everyone”, she founded Joy of Motion Dance Center in 1976 where she served as Artistic Direc- The Power of Youth/School Gardens: Kim Rush & Jenny tor until 1990. Michelle is Founder and Artistic Director of Ava Guillaume; Sara Standish; Charles Eisenstein; Sara Montag. Dance, an organization that provides opportunities and environ- ments for self-learning, building connectiv- Food: Good Tasting and Good for You: ity and deepening community through the Marsha Weiner, Slow Food; Chris Fullerton, expression of movement. Her private practice Tuscarora Organic Growers Cooperative; Ariele in Dance Coaching is located in the Cleveland Foster, Community Harvest. Park section of Washington D.C. She is currently co-producing SpiritDance, a seasonal community gathering featuring 11:00-11:30am Break, Informal I-Groups meet improvisational dance and live music. 11:30am-12:00pm Brown Bag Lunches

5 Saturday Speakers’ Bios Schedule

In 1989 Dave Deppner founded Trees for 12:00-4:00pm PLENARIES from NATIONAL the Future to help people suffering from horrible CONFERENCE (via satellite) environmental conditions. He worked in the Peace Corps and dedicated his life to helping people and Jeremy Narby - Intelligence In Nature: A Predator’s the environment. Dave has planted for more than Inquiry. How can “lowly” slime molds fi nd the shortest 30 years in many countries. His vision has become route through a maze to a food source every time? Swiss- a reality and thousands have been helped in a sus- based Canadian anthropologist, Amazonian indigenous tainable way. Dave and his wife Grace are pioneers land-rights activist and author of Intelligence in Nature and in helping the neediest areas of the world become self-reliant through reforestation and sustainable agriculture. Their The Cosmic Serpent Jeremy recently traveled the world to partnership has opened doors and created lasting friendship with meet shamans and scientists to probe what they understand local groups and individuals around the globe. Dave suggests some about the intelligence present in all life forms. He explores actions to reduce global warming: use fossil fuels more effi ciently; how humanity can learn from nature’s economy and know- save old growth forests, cut sustainably; plant trees when you travel; ingness in our own search for a sustainable way of life. plant 1 tree every 2,000 miles by automobile; plant 1 tree every 1300 miles by plane; plant 1 tree every 100 gallons of gasoline; and plant Carolyn Raffensperger - Bold Precaution: The Precau- 1 tree every 1000 kilowatt hours. tionary Principle Gains Traction. The Precautionary Prin- ciple is the wellspring of a new political agenda that grows Josh Tulkin has been working on environmen- tal issues since he became president of the San Ma- from renewed respect for the natural world, the wealth we teo High School Eco Club his junior year of high hold in common, and our collective responsibilities. Caro- school. At Pomona College Josh has been strongly lyn, executive director of the Science and Environmental involved in clean energy politics and global warm- Health Network, has been a leader in seeding the Precau- ing campaigns. He began his work when he joined tionary Principle in the U.S., and describes remarkable a campaign against the Global Climate Coali- successes in applying it in governments, companies and tion, an industry group that denies the existence communities. of global warming. The following year Josh joined with 250 other youths in The Hague, the Netherlands for the 6th World Confer- Omar Freilla - Greening the Inner City: Jobs, Health, ence on Climate Change, trying to pressure his government to take Justice and the Environment. Environmental restoration a stronger stance. As an intern at Greenpeace the following summer, can succeed only if it meaningfully addresses social justice Josh designed the student Clean Energy Now handbook and helped coordinate the youth delegation to the following Climate Conference and the elimination of poverty. Omar, one of the nation’s in Bonn, Germany. Last spring Josh was elected the Environmental most dynamic and creative young environmental justice Affairs Commissioner of Pomona College. Through this position leaders, is a founding board member of Sustainable South and his seat on the newly formed Claremont Colleges Environmental Bronx and recently launched Green Worker Cooperatives, Review Committee, Josh plans to pressure the schools to incorporate an inspiring initiative dedicated to the creation of worker- more sustainability and green design into their building guidelines owned, environmentally friendly manufacturing coopera- and foster an environment of greater student participation in campus planning. tives in the South Bronx. Thom Hartmann - Beyond Framing: How Deep Neuro- A Historical Fact Worthy of Note... Linguistic Programming Is Used to Communicate Political and Ecological “Messages”. “Conservatives” and corpo- Biodiesel, a fuel made from vegetable oil, rate interests use the powerful tools of Neuro-Linguistic runs in any unmodifi ed diesel engine. Biodie- Programming (NLP) to defi ne arguments, win elections sel can be made from any virgin vegetable oil pressed straight from the seed such as soy, and persuade the public. To be effective in the public arena, sunfl ower, canola, coconut and hemp. It can progressives and bioneers must fi rst understand these tools. also be made from recycled cooking oils. Beef Thom learned NLP 27 years ago as a psychotherapist and tallow and fi sh oil can even be used to make advertising agency CEO. He is a nationally syndicated biodiesel. Its use dates back over 100 years when Dr. Rudolf radio talk show host, and award-winning author of 14 Diesel invented the diesel engine to run on fuels such as coal books including Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate dust suspended in water, heavy mineral oil, and ...vegetable oil! Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights. His fi rst engine experiments were catastrophic failures. But his engine at the 1900 Paris World Exhibition was running on 100% peanut oil.

6 Saturday Schedule Speakers’ Bios

Rha Goddess - Who’s Got Next?: Cultivating Feminine- Washington DC’s Freshfarm Market at Dupont Circle is a Centered Leadership in a Hip Hop Era. Young women splendid showcase for some of America’s fi nest foods, and it can be are rising up to take their power, and in doing so they are found in this modest-sized but splendidly stocked market. The Dupont circle market began as an arm of American Farmland Trust, and then re-weaving a web of relationship that promises to rock the became an independent concern run by its founders, Ann Yonkers world. Performing artist, activist and hip-hop entrepreneur and Bernie Prince. Located in a grassy park, it offers the Sunday Rha, renowned for her spoken-word dexterity and feisty shopper some extremely beautiful foodstuffs and fl owers. Free-range political consciousness, explores how this generation’s chicken, turkey, pheasant, quail, organic beef, and rabbit fi lled out daughters are branding their own movement of love, power the meat side of the market, while the dairy consisted of fresh moz- and freedom. zarella, ricotta, goat’s milk yogurt, and goat cheese. The fresh ricotta alone would make me a faithful shopper if I needed any prompting. Delicate, milky, pure, fresh ricotta cheese is, like a big Brandywine to- 4:00-4:15pm Break mato, a market treasure that is impossible to fi nd in your supermarket.

4:15-4:45pm Featured Local Plenary For the past 7 years, writer/educator Margaret A. Barker has The US Partnership for Sustainable Development: served as coordinator of Cornell University’s Kids Growing Food Doug Cohen, State of the Moment for the Decade of program, most recently focusing on school food garden programs Education for Sustainable Development. Highlights of the for DC public schools in collaboration with DC Agriculture in the Classroom, the American Institute of Wine and Food and Fresh Farm Action Teams and Core Projects in The Higher Ed, Living Markets. Institutions, Business/Sustainable Enterprise, Youth, Faith, and K-12 Sectors of the Partnership. Ed Grusheski has been General Manager, Public Affairs Division, of the Philadelphia 4:45-6:15pm Local Speakers & Workshops Water Department (PWD) since 1999. He has previously served as a Museum educator at Sustaining Urban and Rural Forest Ecosystems: Boston Children’s Museum, the New Jersey State Dave Deppner - “Forest Garden” projects, their income- Museum, Philadelphia’s Civic Museum and Port generating and environmental benefi ts; aspects of this con- of History Museum, and was Director of PWD’s cept address concerns: growing crises in water-retention, Water Works Interpretive Center. Educated at the global climate change, rapid increase in fossil fuel prices. Boston Latin School, Georgetown University, and the University of Pennsylvania, he serves on many task forces and committees, includ- Global Warming: Josh Tulkin, CCAN & SustainUS – The ing the PA Department of Environmental Protection’s Coastal Zone Campus Climate Challenge: Join the fi ght against global Management Steering Committee, the Schuylkill River Heritage warming. Corridor Urban Gateway Task Force, and the PWD Water Quality Education Community Advisory Committee. Ed serves on the Board Getting the Organics You Want: Ann Yonkers and Marga- of Directors of the Fairmount Park Commission’s Fund for the Water ret Barker: FreshFarm Markets; Ed Huling, New Farms. Works. He is the President of the Oliver Evans Chapter of the Soci- ety for Industrial Archeology, and serves on the Strategic Planning Water: From River to You: Ed Grusheski, Philadelphia Committee of the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. Water Department. Hurricane Katrina: DC Armory Resi- Doug Cohen has helped organizations incorporate leadership dents displaced from New Orleans; UDC intelligence in the workplace/community life for over 20 years. Doug supports environmental stewardship and sustainable development Student Government speakers/panelists. through design/facilitation of cross-sector initiatives. He designed youth Sustainability Literacy programs for the 2005-2014 Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. Co-Chair of National Youth Initiatives, US Partnership, Doug helped develop the National Youth 6:15-7:30pm Dinner Break, area restaurants w/ I-Groups Council for Sustainable Development. In June 2005, the Youth team collaborated with the City of San Francisco to coordinate the Youth Track conference for World Environment Day. The team contributed to the UN Environment Program’s Region of North America strategy for environmental/sustainability education for the Decade. Doug is working with the US Partnership’s Youth Team on a strategy to devel- op leadership capacity of American youth who will lead the societal shift to integrate sustainable practices into all human endeavors.

7 Saturday Speakers’ Bios Schedule 7:30-9:00pm Local Urban Socio-economic Programs The Earth Conservation Corps, a nonprofi t founded in 1989 as a White House domestic policy initiative, provides hands- Panel on environmental education, job training and community service Glen O’Gilvie – Earth Conservation Corps (ECC) programs for disadvantaged youth ages 17-25. Some 45 ECC youth members are inducted into the full-time program in July and Glen O’Gilvie became President and CEO in 2004, succeeding graduate in May. The program counts over 300 graduates with an Bob Nixon, ECC’s founder and now Chairman. Glen brings over 85% success rate of Corps members who go on to higher educa- 11 years’ expertise in youth development to ECC. tion, are gainfully employed, or stay involved in their community. His most recent post as Program Offi cer for The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region’s Youth Development Initiative positions Dan K. Morhaim, MD, has served on the him well to continue ECCs’ mission. At The Com- Maryland House of Delegates, District 11, since munity Foundation, he worked with more than 70 1994 and has been re-elected for the 2002-06 term. youth challenging them to seek solutions to com- He has chaired Health/Government Operations and munity needs through comprehensive leadership Health Care Delivery/Finance committees. His and grantmaking training. Glen was responsible for many council assignments have included Infant Mortality, Attention growing the organization’s grant program, which builds the capac- Defi cit Disorder Council, Aquaculture, Recycling, and the Demo- ity of nonprofi t organizations around the region. Prior to joining the cratic State Central Committee. Dan gained his MD degree from Community Foundation, Glen served as National Coordinator for the New York Medical College in 1975. He was emergency physician Robert F. Kennedy Memorial’s, RFK Fellows/AmeriCorps education for the Veterans Administration Hospitals and a faculty member of enrichment programs and as Director of Washington, DC operations. University of Maryland’s School of Medicine. He is founder of the He supervised a staff of program and assistant directors, developed Professional Emergency Physicians, a medical group at six hospitals and implemented the Washington, DC program, and managed pro- employing over 90 physicians. In his spare time, he serves as Fire gramming in Los Angeles and San Francisco. “There is nothing more Surgeon with the Baltimore County Fire Department and as a coach important than helping develop young people and working to improve for girls’ softball and basketball. He lent his medical expertise to the the health of our environment. The work these youth accomplish Maryland-Kuwait Health Care Task Force. here now will not only be of benefi t to us, but will benefi t future The Time Dollar Institute was created in 1995. In 1980 generations.” Glen received his Master of Education, Guidance, and Dr. Edgar S. Cahn, author of Our Brother’s Keeper, and founder Counseling and Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and resides with his of the Antioch School of Law, had a heart attack. Recuperating, he wife Heidi and daughter Delaney. dreamed up Time Dollars™ to replace massive government spending cuts on social welfare, to pay people for what needs to be done. In Dan Morhaim, MD – Maryland House of Delegates 1987 at the London School of Economics, Edgar explained why the currency should work. Back home he put service credits into opera- Edgar Cahn – Time Dollar Institute tion. Foundation funding for Time Dollar Exchanges dried up in the mid 1990’s, followed by a time of determining what made Time Dol- Michael Campbell - Chesapeake Bioneers Advisor lars/Time Banking unique tools for social change. A 1997 Time Dollar Talia Ichtertz - Eco-Ventures International, Youth convention helped new/surviving groups identify “what works.” The Environmental Training Programs Time Dollar Institute became the hub of a small network of indepen- dent Time Dollar Exchanges around the country. Edgar developed the 9:00pm-open Bioneers Party! theory of Co-Production outlined in his book, No More Throw Away People (2000; re-issued in 2004), which became the framework for Time Dollars. The Institute is now working to spread the concept of Time Dollars and Co-Production. Efforts include short trainings for organizations, partnership with universities to build Time Dollars and Co-Production into course curricula, and long-distance learning.

Talia Ichtertz, of EcoVentures International, graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service with a degree in Science, Technol- ogy, and International Affairs and a concentration in Environmental Studies. EVI supports sustainable livelihoods and communities through training, mentoring, connect- ing, and inspiring young people to develop as environmentally, socially committed entrepreneurs. Talia has worked on EVI’s Environmental Entrepreneurship Workshops, Sustainable Business Assessment and Assistance Youth Training Program, and Sustain- ability Learning Journey. 8 Chesapeake Bioneers Board of Advisors

Larry Bohlen (founding member) provides Reuven Walder combines his scientifi c, activ- leadership and strategic support to numerous food ist and media background to empower others to safety and environmental organizations. For fi ve take an active role in habitat protection, education years he led Friends of the Earth’s Health and and policy issues. Currently at SeaWeb and one Environment Programs to protect people against of this years presenters, he has more than 15 years pesticides, genetic contamination and other pol- experience conducting research on an array of spe- lution. With more than 14 years of experience cies including salmon, seabirds and marine mam- as an advocate, he served as the director of the mals in several ecosystems. He has worked for government agencies group’s Safer Food, Safer Farms Campaign and the coordinator of and non-profi ts alike and has worked on wide array of research and the D.C. Environmental Network. He was a founding member of the restoration projects from the Canadian Arctic to Baja California. He Genetically Engineered Food Alert Coalition, a national organization is also an experienced environmental educator for 14 years. Reuven providing critical public accountability of the biotechnology industry has an MS in Marine Ecology from Moss Landing Marine Laborato- and government regulators. He is the founder and current coordina- ries and currently lives in Rockville, Maryland. tor of the Mad Cow Prevention Alliance, and a founder and current chair of Chesapeake Bioneers. Larry graduated summa cum laude Ed Huling spent the past 25 years in ex- with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and a concentration in Philoso- ecutive roles for entrepreneurial companies phy from the University of Maryland. He has held environmental dedicated to protecting the environment and positions with the American Lung Association, the Coalition to Save improving the nutritional content of food. Belt Woods, and served as a volunteer with the Sierra Club for over Ed is currently developing a new farming 10 years, co-founding the Club’s Challenge to Sprawl Campaign. He system, which he calls “Nutri-Farming”. also worked as an aerospace engineer for NASA. His goal is to insure both superb fl avor and high nutritional value in the fruits and veg- Michael Campbell (founding member) has etables, and to eliminate the toxic chemi- been involved in the organic gardening movement cals from the growing process. As part of this effort he is producing for a long time. After receiving a BA in Cultural organic vegetables on two farms in Pennsylvania. He markets his Pluralism and Native American Studies from produce to Whole Foods Markets and restaurant distributors in NY, Humboldt State, Arcata, CA, he studied organic Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Prior to farming, Ed served as gardening with Alan Chadwick for two years. He a board member for Earthfoods Associates, an innovative consult- has taught gardening at the Windstar Foundation ing fi rm assisting farmers with biological and natural approaches and built green homes in Taos, NM. He later re- to agricultural problems. Ed also spent a year leading a research turned to school and received a PhD in Agricultural Education from project at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This research tested Iowa State. Following that, he worked for the Maryland Extension different methods of farming to determine which of these resulted Service in Baltimore, where he helped create the SOUL (Save Our in crops with the highest nutritional content. His USDA research Urban Lands) project. He is currently the Project Administrator at also documented the dramatic decline in nutritional value of our food Fox Haven Farms, in rural Maryland. during the past 60 years. In the early 90’s, Ed opened one of the fi rst restaurants in the Washington DC area featuring organic ingredients. Darcey Rakestraw is a communications pro- He is still an owner and a member of the Board of Directors of this fessional with seven years’ experience in public/in- popular, award-winning restaurant, “Thyme Square.” vestor relations and public affairs. Prior to joining Worldwatch, Darcey worked at the Embassy of Greg Drury (founding member and administra- Ethiopia in Washington, D.C. as press offi cer, tor) started his path as a meditator at 15 years old where she developed and implemented commu- and then graduated from Maharishi International nications strategies to increase the understanding University in Fairfi eld, Iowa in 1981. He is a mas- of the developing country’s government policies among key U.S. sage and Reiki therapist, yoga teacher, dancer and institutions, the press and public. Prior to that, Darcey worked at a fi tness junkie. He is founder and director of Whole- small Internet investment bank providing investor relations services ness for Humanity (WFH). WFH is dedicated to during the “dot-com” boom, and was an Account Executive at a New increasing accessibility to integrative medicine, York City-based public relations fi rm focused on the luxury travel holistic health, wellness, ethics and spirituality. WFH provides and home furnishings markets. Darcey is a holistic health counselor corporate education and wellness programs. Greg hosted the radio and graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York program entitled “Wholeness for Humanity” an hour-long call in talk City. In her spare time, she teaches whole foods cooking classes. She show with such prestigious guests as Larry Dossey, Joan Borysenko, is passionate about clarifying the links between human health and the Caroline Myss and Richard Barrett. He is also a Lay Minister for health of our planet—the fact that the vitality of our ecosystems and hands-on-healing and is currently a member of The Order of St. the quality of the food, water and air we consume has a direct impact Luke’s of the Physician. Other affi liations include United Religions on our health and wellbeing. Darcey is a graduate of Vassar College Initiative, St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, Maharishi Peace Palace, with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. Points of Light Foundation and Interfaith Conference. 9 Sunday Speakers’ Bios Schedule

Kate Davenport chairs Washington DC’s Sunday SustainUS Chapter, a youth-led non-profi t 8:30-9:00am Registration open bringing youth expertise into sustainable devel- 8:30-9:00am I-Groups Session, Intergenerational opment issues by grassroots campaigns/partici- Learning pation in international events. Kate has worked with youth leadership and confl ict resolution 9:00-9:30am Opening Address, DC Councilmember training and international development issues. She works with EVI’s environmental entrepreneurship programs and Phil Mendelson - DC Environment helped design the Environmental Enterprise Development Initiative in Tanzania. She worked in China and Southern/Eastern Africa on Phil Mendelson was fi rst elected to the City Environmental and Economic Development projects and organized Council in 1998. He chairs the Judiciary Commit- the Tufts University delegation to the 2002 World Summit on Sus- tee, and is a member of the Education, Librar- tainable Development. ies and Recreation and Government Operations committees. He represents the Council at the Peggy McConnell, of Tucson, AZ, works with Metropolitan Washington Council of Govern- Effective Living Strategies, Intl. She develops well- ments. Phil has been active with District issues ness programs for schools and corporations on burn- since 1975 when he joined the McLean Gardens Residents Associa- out, ADD, restructuring, change improvement, and tion fi ght to save that 43-acre housing complex from destruction. He post-traumatic stress syndrome. She has developed ran for a seat on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission in 1979 and taught corporate global leadership/ team build- and continued to serve as an ANC Commissioner until he took offi ce ing skills and meditation courses for many years. as an At-Large member of the Council in 1999.

Joel Salatin is a third-generation alternative Phil believes government should be an honest, effi cient service de- farmer with his wife Teresa and family, in Virginia’s liverer; DC should help those least able to help themselves develop Shenandoah Valley. His Polyface Farm serves self-suffi ciency skills and end the poverty cycle; and do this without some 400 families and 30 restaurants with salad bar increasing taxes on middle/upper income residents. DC must model service delivery in public education, safety, and health. beef, pastured poultry, eggmobile eggs, pigaerator pork, forage-based rabbits, pastured turkey and for- 9:30-11:00am Local speakers & workshops estry products. Polyface Farm has been featured in Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, and Creating a Green Economy: Kate Davenport, SustainUS, Gourmet. Joel was profi led on the Lives of the 21st Century series Sustainable Business Map; Ian Fisk, DC Small Business with Peter Jennings on ABC World News. Joel writes for Stockman Network; Erik Assidourian, Worldwatch Institute, Corpo- Grass Farmer, Acres USA, and American Agriculturalist magazines. The author of fi ve books, his latest, Holy Cows and Hog Heaven: rate Social Responsibility; Peggy McConnell, Effective The Food Buyer’s Guide to Farm Friendly Food, brings producers Living Strategies, Intl., Tuscon, AZ, explores Thinking and patrons together in understanding and appreciation. He speaks Globally and Acting Locally with joy, prosperity, and diver- on issues, from “creating the farm your children will want” to “mak- sity, for sustainable economics and humanitarian service. ing a white collar salary from a pleasant life in the country.” Soil, Nutrition and Food: Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm, Martin Ogle, Chief Naturalist for Northern Organics, Biodiversity & Farming; Kevin John Richardson, Virginia Regional Park Authority since 1985, has BS PoGo Organics. and MS Degrees in Wildlife Biology from Colorado State University and Virginia Tech, respectively. He BioDiesel: Frankie Lind, PoGo Organics; Suzanne Hunt, has been presenting lectures and courses on Gaia Biofuels Project Manager, WorldWatch Institute. Theory for about 15 years. Green Building: Dawn Gifford, DC GreenWorks; Jim Allison Archambault has studied and worked Schulman, Community Forklift; Bill Hutchins, Helicon in aspects of solar energy in Africa, the Caribbean, Works; Allison Archambault, Gridpoint, Inc. and US. She currently works for GridPoint, Inc., Alternative Media/Social Responsibility: Bridget Gray, a DC-based technology company which facili- tates renewable energy adoption for home owners AmeriCops members present Earth Conservation Corps and small businesses. GridPoint builds intelligent media/press coverage, show media/camera technique. energy management (IEM) products to reduce The Science and Philosophy of Gaia Theory: electricity costs, improve power reliability and itemize energy consumption. Its IEM appliances, the size of a small Martin Ogle, Northern Virginia Park System. refrigerator, provide traditional and renewable energy users with in- stant, automatic backup power based on high-capacity, battery-based 11:00-11:30am Break, Informal I-Groups meet technology. 11:30am-12:00pm Brown Bag Lunches 10 Sunday Schedule Speakers’ Bios

12:00-4:00pm PLENARIES from NATIONAL Suzanne Hunt of Worldwatch Institute, brings to Biofuels CONFERENCE (via satellite) projects her experience from watershed management planning in New York State and sustainable forestry in Pennsylvania, to teaching Michael Ableman - Field of Plenty: A Farmer’s Journey salt marsh ecology in North Carolina, to working with Costa Rican to the Frontiers of American Agriculture. Using stories and farmers on a conservation/development project. Suzanne’s interest in pictures, Michael Ableman, founder and executive director renewable energy and environmental responsibility led her introduce of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens biodiesel at her family farm, Hunt Country Vineyards, and to research and author/photographer of From the Good Earth and the the viability of biodiesel production to operating wine-making ma- chinery. Suzanne is currently helping found an organization in Wash- new Fields of Plenty, takes us to visit some of the most in- ington, DC to teach inner city children how to turn waste grease from novative individuals growing food today — master farmers, restaurant kitchens into a cleaner-burning fuel for their school buses. food artisans, and those using their farms as platforms for social and ecological change. Dawn Gifford, Executive Di- rector of DC Greenworks, has 15 Ohki Simine Forest - Return of the Ancient Council Ways: years experience in Permaculture, Indigenous Survival in Chiapas. Of Canadian Mohawk LID, landscape design, horticul- descent, Ohki went to study with Mongolian shamans and ture, agriculture, arboriculture, ultimately moved to Chiapas, Mexico, where she was initi- vocational education, business ated into the world of Mayan healers. In 1994, she created a and workforce development, and community organizing. Dawn spiritual center in Chiapas and a nonprofi t aimed at help- graduated cum laude from the University of Maryland with dual de- ing Mayan indigenous communities. She explains the vital grees in Latin American Studies and Women’s Studies, and a minor importance of the Mayan resistance and the applicability of in Botany. She has advanced certifi cation in Permaculture Design their ancient council ways as a model for all humanity. and Instruction, Landscape Architecture, Organic Agriculture, and Arboriculture. She taught remedial math and horticulture for seven Andy Lipkis - Restoring Los Angeles: Healing the Na- years in area high schools before becoming Education Director at ture of Our Cities. As a teenager, Andy learned that smog Garden Resources of Washington in 1997. In 1999, Dawn opened was killing the forests of Southern California. He and the DC offi ce of Community Resources Chesapeake under the trade his friends began planting and caring for trees, and were name DC Greenworks. She became its Executive Director in 2003. dubbed the “tree people.” More than 30 years later, Andy’s Dawn is a member of the DC Urban Forestry Technical Advisory pathfi nding efforts have proven the feasibility of making Board and the Federal Reserve Bank Small Business and Agriculture Advisory Council. A DC native, Dawn takes a holistic approach to large cities sustainable, and have resulted in the planting of the region’s greenspace, and focuses her work around community two million trees, the education of one million schoolchil- ownership, long-term environmental and economic sustainability, dren, and, most recently, the retrofi tting of a portion of Los and achievable results. Angeles to function as an urban forest watershed. Bill Hutchins, founder of Helicon Works, Archi- David Orr - The Fifth Revolution: The Evolution of Eco- tecture and Education, offers his clients expertise in logical Design Intelligence. From the perspective of the combining environmentally sensitive architecture sustainability of human life on the Earth, what does it mean and building practices with spiritual and psycho- to be intelligent? And what does the answer imply for edu- logical wisdom. Based in Takoma Park, Bill does cation, learning and research? David, professor and chair this work locally and throughout the country, via of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College, workshops and helping clients create their home. For more info visit his website, www.HeliconWorks.com. is an award-winning scholar and leader in the sustainability movement, renowned for his seminal work on environmen- tal literacy in higher education and on ecological design. Central Park Zoo’s Wildlife Theater company present interac- Bernice Johnson Reagon - “and, there are those of us who tive short shows using drama, puppetry, straddle...”. A legendary composer, singer, historian, music games and songs that make learning about producer, author and cultural activist whose career stretches wildlife entertaining and insightful. The Adventures of Captain Cocoa features over more than four decades, starting with her participation super-hero Captain Cocoa on an adventure in the Civil Rights Movement, Bernice has received major to save the rainforest, only to discover it might be the common recognition from the most prestigious institutions in the person who can really save the day. (To book Wildlife Theater, land for her pathfi nding work as a scholar, teacher and artist contact Alison Saltz, 212-439-6450.) in the history and evolution of African American culture.

11 Sunday Speakers’ Bios Schedule

Erik Schwarz directs Interfaith Works, a non-profi t which part- 4:00-4:30pm Music performance ners faith communities with service/interfaith organizations, to do hands-on service/social action projects. He is active with the Board 4:30-6:00pm Local speakers & workshops of United Religions Initiative DC, Executive Committee for the National Days of Youth Service, Interreligious Council, and the Ecu- Living Systems: Kevin John Richardson, menical Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. Erik PoGo Organic Farm. is Episcopal Chaplain, Washington Home and Hospice. He served at the InterFaith Conference and the Washington National Cathedral. Kevin Richardson designs buildings using natural materials and sustainable systems. His Local Rabbi Daniel Swartz is coordina- Solutions in Anchorage, Alaska, uses regional alter- tor of Greater Washington Interfaith Power natives in community building/energy issues. Kevin and Light, which works with congregations helps produce “compost tea” and uses a biological and faith-based organizations in DC to help approach to plant/land management. He works with promote sustainable energy use and progres- Pogo Sherwood, Pogo tree experts, Acme Biomass Reduction, to sive policies. Rabbi Swartz has worked with provide Washington, DC with compost tea production, application faith communities on environmental issues, services, and educational opportunities. Their services include using including climate change, children’s environmental health, and envi- compost/compost tea and fungi in storm water management, slope ronmental racism. stability, sediment and erosion control, water fi ltration, bioremedia- tion, and ecological restoration. Kevin is developing BENEFIT!, a Rev. Terry Provance, Executive Director of plant/land management program using biologically active products Oikocredit USA, Washington, DC, has worked to produced at Pogo’s farm. increase investments, infrastructure and publicity for the socially responsible, development-focused, religious-based organization. Ordained in the United Faith and Sustainability Panel: Erik Schwarz, InterFaith Church of Christ, Terry pastored a UCC congregation Works, moderates this panel of faith based presenters: Dan- in Pittsburgh for 5 years. He administered an international program iel Swartz, Greater Washington Interfaith Power & Light; in Cleveland for 10 years before joining Oikocredit. Terry has visited Hedieh Fakhriyazdi, Baha’is of the US; Jane Osborne, over 100 countries for peace, economic justice, disarmament and racial equality. He has worked for the National Council of Churches, Religious Parthership on the Anacostia; Bill Aiken, Soka Presbyterian Church USA, American Friends Service Committee and Gaikka Intl., USA Buddhist Association. the Unitarian Universalist Association and received an MDiv from Green Investing: Joan Barbaucher, CalvertGroup; Rev. Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and an MA in Christian Social Ethics from the Graduate Theological Union. Terry Provence, Oiko Credit; Barry Wind, Progressive As- set Management. Barry Wind is a full service, fee-based fi nan- Our living Seas - Ocean Impacts, Solutions and Look- cial advisor with a strong commitment to socially ing Ahead: Reuven Walder, SeaWeb; Richard Albright responsible investing (SRI). He offers a full range and Robert Johnson, DC Department of Health - Effects of of SRI services, including comprehensive fi nancial planning and asset management. He also offers Toxic Dumps in the Chesapeake Bay. clients community investment and philanthropic Camping with Purpose: Amchat Edwards, George Wash- giving alternatives. Barry is a member of two na- ington Carver Outdoor School. tional networks of SRI advisors, Progressive Asset Management and the First Affi rmative Financial Network. Profes- sionally licensed as a Registered Representative and Registered 6:30-6:30pm Regional and Community Action Investment Advisor, he has a Master of Management degree with a Planning: Doug Cohen and Hedieh Fakriyazdi, I-Groups concentration in Public and Nonprofi t Management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Coordinators, will launch I-Groups from conference into the world.

Amtchat Edwards had his fi rst camping experi- ence at age 9 with the George Washington Carver 6:30 Conclusion Outdoor School. At 25, he continues to learn with the school, as the Education Coordinator. Full time Out- reach and Education Coordinator for the Student Con- servation Association’s DC regional offi ce, Amtchat is commited to working with youth in the outdoors until he has heard “all of the stories that the trees have to tell.” 12 Sunday Schedule Speakers’ Bios

Dr. Richard D. Albright, DC’s chemical wea- pons and ordnance expert, has a Masters from George Washington University and a Doctorate from Wayne State University. He wrote a book on chemical wea- pon site cleanup; has testifi ed before Congress, state government, and in federal court on environmental issues. He has been on Russian TV and been interviewed in Australian and Canadan press. His work has been featured in The Washingtonian Magazine, The Washington Post, Northeast Ohio News Herald, and The Kansas City Star. He serves on Interstate Technology/Regula- tory Council Teams concerning Unexploded Ordnance, Perchlorates and Small Arms Range Remediation. He has worked for 20 years to restore the Chesapeake Bay. Jane Osborne coordinates the Anacostia River Religious Part- nership, bringing faith congregations together to clean up and advo- cate for the river. The Partnership collaborates with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Earth Conservation Corps, Casey Trees, and the Anacostia Watershed Society, to provide service opportunities, con- ducts educational boat trips on the Anacostia and, this fall, is opening the Saturday Environmental Academy, an environmental education program for 7th and 8th graders from the larger DC area. Jane retired from the U.S. Public Health Service in 2000 and is an organization development consultant and personal coach. Robert Johnson works as a lab Microbiologist, developing monoclonal antibodies for treatment of se- rious diseases, and in the public health fi eld evaluating indoor environments hazardous exposures He blends research interests of biodefense, chemical exposures and infectious disease with his artistic photographic eye, seen at www.Colorspace.us.

Bill Aiken is Public Affairs Director for Soka Gak- kai International-USA (SGI-USA), a diverse Buddhist community active in peace, cultural exchange and edu- cation for sustainable development areas. He was an advisor to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. He has lectured at DC area colleges/universities. Reuven Walder runs SeaWeb’s Marine PhotoBank Program, a free image library to inspire and empower the ocean conservation community. He has worked in research/restoration to recover sensitive species/habi- tats from the Arctic to Baja, CA, with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, California Re- gional Water Quality Control Board, Californiau uni- versities, non-profi t and private entities. An environmental educator, Reuven has motivated individuals with a conservation message. He spent four years with California’s Turtle Island Restoration Network, protecting endangered salmon and sea turtle populations/habitats.

Hedieh Fakhriyazdi is a Global Affairs student at George Mason University and an active member of the Bahá’í community. After high school, Hedieh devoted a year serving at a Bahá’í Radio Station and teaching children’s virtue classes in rural Chile. Her interests are human rights, environmental advocacy, and mentoring youth. 13 Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light (GWIPL) is a non-profi t initiative that helps congregations, religious institutions and others in the Washington, D.C. area work for a more just, sustainable and healthier creation by reducing the threat of global warming. It is a part of a network of Interfaith Power and Light’s across the country and offers concrete opportunities for congregations and individuals to protect creation. GWIPL is a project of the Churches’ Center for Theology and Public Policy. The InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington is also a co-sponsor. GWIPL also works closely with the Religious Partnership for the Anacostia and the DC Department of Energy’s Green Faith Program. GWIPL is part of a national movement, with additional Interfaith Power and Light programs currently in 16 states and more in formation.

To fi nd out more about these, go to GWIPL’s website: http://www.gwipl.org/default.asp

Public Policy and Advocacy People and institutions of faith can make a difference through their actions to conserve energy and through the purchase of green energy. But we can also make a difference by speaking up for policies that will ensure a just, sustainable future for all of creation.

14 15 Chesapeake Bioneers 2005 Sponsors

Angel Hearts of Change (donation valued at $2500 or more) (donation valued at $500 or more) Bon Appetit Australian Embassy Terrie Clifford Green Mountain Coffee Louise Mitchell Honest Tea Nora’s Restaurant Founders’ Circle (donation valued at $1000 or more) Sustainer Firtzi Cohen (donation valued at $250 or more) Irene Crowe Coppi’s Organic Dean & Deluca St. Columba’s Episcopal Church DC Energy Offi ce Plum Design Supporter PoGo Organic Farm (donation valued at $100 or more) Ed Huling

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I-GROUPS FORMED, FILMS, EDU-TAINMENT throughout the weekend: Wildlife Conservation Society – Central Park Zoo’s Environmental Theater • Ester Francis – Song Cycle on Earth/Human Relations • Doug Stoup – IceAx, Program on Extreme Wilderness • Michelle Ava, Drumming and Dance

FILM SCREENINGS: Friday 6:30 pm – 7:15 pm “We are all Smith Islanders” (35 minutes) 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm “Endangered Species” (97 minutes) 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm “Alone Across Australia & Messages from the Tarkine” (55 minutes)

Saturday 10:00am - 11:30 am (Film Screening with Bob Nixon, Filmmaker) “Anacostia: Restoring the People’s River” (37 minutes) 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm “The Next Industrial Revolution” (55 minutes) 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm “Being Caribou” (72 minutes) 2:15 pm – 4:15 pm “The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream” (78 minutes) “Destination Earth” (a 1956 vintage fi lm made by the American Petroleum Institute) (14 minutes) “In the Suburbs” (a 1957 vintage fi lm made by Redbook) (19 minutes)

Sunday 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm “We Are All Smith Islanders” (35 minutes) 12:45 pm – 1:25 pm “Anacostia: Restoring the People’s River” (37 minutes) 1:25 pm – 2:25 pm “The Next Industrial Industry” (55 minutes) 2:25 pm – 3:45 pm “The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream” (78 minutes)

Program design and editing contributed by Betty Plummer, Plum Design, Arlington, VA. 2005 National Bioneers Conference

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