2015 Bioneers Conference Program

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BIONEERS CONFERENCE

OCTOBER 16-18, 2015 M A R I N C E N T E R • S A N R A FA E L , C A

Welcome Bioneers!

From Kenny:

From Nina:

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pic change. Everywhere the world is in upheaval.

The only question is how things will change, which is where we bioneers come in. The 2015 Bioneers conference will dramatically show how world-changing breakthroughs may be closer than they appear. Give thanks.

Because 2014 was Bioneers’ 25th anniversary, I looked back through our archive to see what I could see. Perhaps the biggest takeaway was that the Bioneers community did not exist 26 years ago, and we now have a quarter century and more of actionable intelligence and many successful practices ready to be scaled. Much of our shared work has already entered the mainstream, and there’s lots more in play now.

In complex adaptive systems, no one is in control, and the name of the game is influence. The ROI we’re looking for is Return on Influence. Together we can profoundly influence the direction this one-in-a-civilization moment takes.

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elcome,

and thank you for coming!

Today, we are called to bring healing to a world that’s been systematically divided – between nature and people, men and women, rich and poor. Divided by the fallacy of racial difference.

I’m grateful for this opportunity to come together – to bring our hearts, minds and hands together in shared vision and engaged action.

The interdependence of environment and social justice has never been more vivid. Earth has never been plundered on such a huge scale. Extractive corporations assault Native and low-income communities globally, harming the women and children first.

Our programming—as it has for many years—illuminates effective pathways and visions coming from the intersection where justice and environment meet, where how we relate to everything is up for reinvention and renewal.

We’re also looking for ROE – Return on Engagement. We need to engage millions, in fact, billions more people in the great work of restoring nature and our human communities.

Thankfully, there is a massive awakening occurring. Women everywhere are speaking out and standing strong. Together, we can celebrate this spectrum of voices, our common ground and our collective reach. Together, we can stand aligned with the power of life herself.

We are so grateful to share this time with you as together we hold the space for epic change to become epic transformation for a restored world.

Guided by our hearts’ love and powered by our desire to serve life’s beauty and mystery, we can navigate effective pathways forward. And do it with joy.

With Love and Appreciation — Kenny Ausubel & Nina Simons, Co-founders

TABLE OF CONTENTS About Bioneers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Pre- & Post-Conference Intensives. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Helpful Info. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Program Schedule Friday–Sunday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Booksigning Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Things to See and Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Films. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Youth Leadership Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 The Summit Tent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Art and Artisan Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Yoga and Movement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Family Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Change-Makers Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Greening Bioneers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Presenter Biographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Media Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Radio Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Bioneers Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Grow the Movement with Bioneers . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Board of Directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Back Cover

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ABOUT BIONEERS WE STAND AT THE THRESHOLD OF A SINGULAR PASSAGE IN THE HUMAN experiment: To re-imagine how to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations.

To move from breakdown to breakthrough, the coming years will be the most important in the history of human civilization. Bioneers highlights and helps realize the profound transformation already taking hold around the globe: the dawn of a human civilization that partners with the wisdom of nature’s design and practices values of justice, diversity, democracy and peaceful co-existence.

For 26 years, Bioneers has acted as a seed head for the game-changing social and scientific vision, knowledge and practices advancing this great transformation. We do so through our annual national conference, award-winning media, local Bioneers Network conferences and initiatives, and leadership training programs. g

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WE DISSEMINATE the voices of breakthrough innovators offering practical and visionary solutions for people and planet, connecting people with solutions and each other. We provide communications and networking platforms for diverse voices inclusive of those often marginalized or excluded.

WE OFFER compelling holistic education for action to the public and educators.

WE SUPPORT and engage with local community resilience action networks to spread successful models, community building and public education to build resilience from the ground up locally and regionally.

WE CULTIVATE leadership development at a time we’re all called upon to be leaders, with a special focus on the leadership of women, Indigenous peoples and youth.

WE INSPIRE a change of heart, sense of wonder and reverence for the genius and gifts of nature and human creativity.

Our Role & Programs: Communicate, Connect, Catalyze The cornerstone of Bioneers is to inspire, inform and engage global citizen action with actionable knowledge, successful models and networks. We communicate, connect and catalyze.

The kaleidoscopic Bioneers framework uniquely provides innumerable entry points for people with diverse interests and backgrounds. We focus on three synergistic initiatives: Changing the Mindscape: Public Education & Media Outreach We produce award-winning, solutions-focused media across multiple formats and platforms: our annual national conference, award-winning radio series, TV broadcasts, books, and digital and online communications platforms and interactive pathways for engagement. As a producer, publisher and distributor of original and aggregated content, we’re reaching ever-larger audiences through conventional and new media channels.

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POST-CONFERENCE INTENSIVES

Resilience from the Ground Up: The Bioneers Resilient Communities Network Since 2001, Bioneers has directly supported the inevitable movement toward greater re-localization as an ecological, economic and political imperative. The Bioneers Resilient Communities Network provides a substantive, actionable portfolio of breakthrough ideas, practices and tools. We’re cultivating a learning-and-action network of communities that act as living laboratories of practice for local and regional resilience.

A Community of Leadership: Women, First Peoples & Youth Mentorship Today’s wicked problems are too complex and interrelated for any individual or single discipline to solve. Bioneers recognizes that these daunting realities require new forms of leadership and organization anchored in collaboration, teamwork, diversity and network organizing models. Our leadership programs engage diverse sectors, disciplines, ethnicities, generations and walks of life, with a focus on the uniquely important leadership of women, Indigenous peoples and youth.

OUR EVERYWOMAN’S LEADERSHIP PROGRAM highlights and promotes feminine-centered leadership frameworks that are relational, collaborative, culturally diverse, intergenerational and appreciative of differences.

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OUR NATIVE-LED INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE PROGRAM supports the leadership of First Peoples, in partnership with Indigenous leaders and organizations including The Cultural Conservancy and Indigenous Environmental Network.

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OUR YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM builds intergenerational relationships with structured opportunities for young people to develop their vision, skills and connections to pursue their passions to heal nature and our human communities.

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The Future Is Here Now... In Your Hands The world we want is here now—in the models, practices and stories embodied in the Bioneers community of leadership. We know and have much of what we need to succeed. In 2020, we want people to tell the stories of the unique roles the Bioneers community of leadership played in epic global transformation. We invite you to join with us to make the impossible inevitable: ATTEND the annual National Bioneers Conference.

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PARTICIPATE in local Bioneers Resilient Community Network conferences, events and initiatives.

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SPREAD Bioneers media and educational materials by becoming a Media Pollinator as an individual, company or organization.

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HELP bring Bioneers media and educational institutions to schools and community centers.

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PARTICIPATE in a Cultivating Women’s Leadership training and women’s network.

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BE INSPIRED and create your own projects, connected with the resource of the Bioneers networks.

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SUPPORT Bioneers financially!

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PRE-CONFERENCE INTENSIVES THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15TH 9am – 4pm

Building Green Blocs: Collaborative Climate Policy Innovations Co-sponsored by the Dutch Consulate of San Francisco with additional support from the California Endowment.

Real, viable and encouraging action continues to swell across multiple scales below the federal/ nation-state level. States, regions, cities and citizen groups are rapidly developing collaborative networks and frameworks to take significant policy action on climate change. This oneday workshop will explore the role of collaborative climate policy across multiple jurisdictional scales – from coordinated citizen action to city, state and regional collaborations, to global sub-national partnerships, such as Holland’s recent pact with California.

What are the leading models for multi-scale collaboration on climate policy? Can the success of California’s vanguard efforts on this front be “exported”? Can Environmental Justice issues be dealt with more effectively via sub-national collaborations? Join a diverse group of groundbreaking leaders from civil society and governance to explore how collaborative approaches to climate change are changing the game, pointing us towards a resilient and climate-ready future, and how we can participate in this emerging movement.

Speakers include: Andy Lipkis, founder/President, TreePeople Henk Ovink, Special Envoy on International Water Affairs for the Netherlands David Orr, Oberlin College & the Cleveland Foundation Greg Watson, Director of Policy and Systems Design, Schumacher Center Vien Truong, National Director, Green For All Renata Brillinger, Executive Director, California Climate and Agriculture Network Timothy Burroughs, Chief Resilience Officer, City of Berkeley Hugo von Meijenfeldt, Representative for the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the 13 westernmost United States Sarah Shanley Hope, Executive Director of The Solutions Project For a comprehensive speaker list, please visit conference.bioneers.org/climate2015

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Acorns, Elderberries and Pine Nuts: How to Keep Our Cultural Landscapes Healthy Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Demonstration and Workshop Western science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge need each other to solve today’s crises.

This hands-on immersion in the knowledge, sciences and practices of California Native peoples working to protect and restore their eco-cultural heritage will focus especially on traditional food gathering and processing, and sophisticated, time-tested land management practices. The workshop will be full of fun, food and culture-bearers. We are particularly interested in engaging both Native and non-Native conservationists, scientists, NGOs, and governmental organizations seeking to connect with TEK holders and Indigenous stewardship ethics to help refine their own understanding of ecosystems and their land management systems.

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Co-hosted by: Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Director of Bioneers’ Indigenous Knowledge Program Tiffany Adams (Miwok/Maidu/ Chemehuevi) Leah Mata (Northern Chumash) Edward Willie (Pomo/Walkiki/Wintu)

POST-CONFERENCE INTENSIVES MONDAY, OCTOBER 19TH 9am – 5pm

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do we form effective alliances in the face of inequity and distrust? possible when we stop perceiving power and privilege as limited commodities? h How do we transform rage/shame/discomfort/difference into opportunities for trust building? h What does it take to dynamically engage as a unified movement? h What’s

Join J. Miakoda Taylor, Director of Fierce Allies; Rosa Gonzales, founder of Facilitating Power; and a diverse team of movement building leaders, in this interactive workshop, as we explore these questions and more.

Are you organizing for climate justice or immigrant rights, a grassroots or labor union organizer, crafting policy, mobilizing public opinion, protecting farm workers, transforming the cradle-to-prison pipeline, fighting for food/land sovereignty or sustainable agriculture, a funder, educating future leaders… Is movement building relevant to your work?

Draw on practices from Restorative Justice, Somatic Trauma Healing, Popular Education, Emotional and Social Intelligence, Indigenous Wisdom…

Participate. Interact. Question. Build skills. Connect. Impact. Be impacted. Expand comfort zones. Seed fierce alliances.

Location: Embassy Suites Hotel Price: $125.00 includes lunch Registration for this event closes at 1:30 pm Sunday, October 18th.

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Living Seeds Tour and Seed Saving Workshop

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Seeds are the genetic memory of the past and the biological potential for the future. That collective heritage is a treasure that is being monopolized by multinational corporations; three companies now control almost 50 % of the global seed supply. But the good news is that seed stewardship at the grassroots is thriving through home-garden seed savers, community seed libraries and ecologically minded seed entrepreneurs. Become a seed steward, learn about the importance of adaptation, selection and seed saving techniques. Tour the Petaluma Seed Bank, housed in the historical Sonoma County Bank building. Visit The Living Seed Company trial garden located in an unspoiled spot bordering the Golden Gate Recreational Area in GMO-free Marin County. Visit a small farm that is using locally grown and adapted seeds for market production. Learn how to start a community seed lending library. Meet with Indigenous seed master Emigdio Ballon and hear his story of a life-long relationship with seeds and how he is blending traditional agricultural principles and biodynamic farming. And enjoy a seed-to-table lunch.

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Presenters: Matthew and Astrid Hoffman, Living Seed Company Paul Wallace, Baker Heirloom Seeds Rebecca Newburn, Richmond Seed Lending Library Emigdio Ballon, Tesuque Tribal Farm Manger Arron Wilder, Table Top Farm Sara McCamant, Ceres Project Locations: Petaluma Seed Bank, Living Seed Company Trial Garden, and Table Top Farms Price: $195.00 includes transportation and lunch 5

HELPFUL INFORMATION RECORDING & FILMING: NO AUDIO OR FILM RECORDING IS PERMITTED IN THE VMA THEATER OR INDIGENOUS FORUM TENT WITHOUT EXPRESS PERMISSION FROM BIONEERS. To obtain permission in the form of a special Press/Media pass, you must check in at the Press Table in the Registration area. Thank you for your cooperation.

2015 CONFERENCE INFO AT YOUR FINGERTIPS! Our conference website is optimized for mobile devices. Visit conference.bioneers.org for schedules, speaker bios and more.

Use #bioneers15 to share your conference photos and updates on Facebook (facebook.com/ Bioneers.org), Twitter (@bioneers) and Instagram (@bioneers).

CONFERENCE INFO BOOTH & MESSAGE CENTERS are located near the Change Makers Fair, across from the Registration Tent. Get assistance with directions, workshop locations or messages. There is also a bulletin board in the north hallway of the Exhibit Hall where messages may be posted.

LOST & FOUND articles may be turned in or claimed at the Bioneers Office in the Exhibit Hall building. The office is located in the Buckeye Room at the end of the Exhibit Hall hallway.

Neither Bioneers nor the Marin Center is responsible for any lost or stolen items.

MEALS: Lunch will be available on the conference grounds after 1pm, following keynotes.

Options are à la carte vendors and food trucks on site, as well as the restaurant in the Embassy Suites hotel. Food will be organic and locally sourced when available. Offerings include vegetarian, vegan, omnivore, gluten-free and more. General dinner will not be offered on-site but there are many local eateries to choose from.

EARN CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS (CE) for attending the National Bioneers Conference! Bioneers partners with Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments to provide CE for nurses. Payment is by check only. To receive credits, you must register onsite before attending sessions, and attend the entirety of any session. Nurses are required to provide an RN Lic. #. For details and registration, visit the Continuing Education booth near Main Registration. The Nursing Continuing Education provider has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Provider Number 16546.

CONFERENCE CREW. Throughout the 2015 Bioneers conference you will see people with “Conference Crew” badges. They are dedicated to helping Bioneers and helping you enjoy your conference experience. Feel free to ask questions, or simply say “Thanks!”

EMPATHY TENT. At Bioneers, coming together to seek solutions to the world’s great challenges can be inspiring, but it can also be intense and even stressful at times. The Empathy Tent, a new feature this year, is a place to come for emotional support and compassion for whatever is troubling us. One can sign up for half-hour slots on a first-come/first served basis, and there will also be a short workshop about empathy and how to practice it each day of the conference. All are welcome to come by with questions and/or input. Located on the island beside the Re-Inventing Leadership and Council Circle tents.

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE • FRIDAY KEYNOTES & PERFORMANCES 9am–1pm Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium Drumming

by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree Opening Ceremony

by Dean Hoaglin (Coast Miwok), Suscol Intertribal Council Opening Talks

by Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, Bioneers Founders ANDY LIPKIS Navigating Adaptation and Resilience as Un-Sustainability Hits the Tipping Point Introduction by Laurie Benenson, TreePeople Board Member As founder and President of L.A.’s legendary TreePeople, Andy Lipkis has brought visionary solutions to the once-poster child of municipal environmental dysfunction. Inventing the citizen forestry movement and engaging hundreds of thousands of Angelenos, over decades he has systematically demonstrated how to repair and restore an urban watershed by integrating ecology, economy and justice. As L.A.’s eco-governance model starts to spread globally, he will report from the frontlines of the City of Angels and Australia, which has engaged the entire citizenry as watershed managers.

MALIK YAKINI Food, Race and Justice Introduction by Greg Watson, Schumacher Center Malik Yakini, Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, will explore how the current industrial food system that supplies most of our food creates inequities, based in part on the social construct we call “race.” He will share wise perspectives on addressing racism, thinking beyond the logic of capitalism and how we might create a more just, sustainable food system.

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XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ & ITZCUAUHTLI ROSKE-MARTINEZ Youth Activist Hip-Hop Duo Extraordinaire

JENSINE LARSEN with SISTER ZEPH (via video) Crowdsourcing the Feminine Intelligence of the Planet Introduction by Nina Simons, Bioneers Co-Founder World Pulse founder Jensine Larsen and Sister Zeph, an award-winning Pakistani digital crusader for girls’ education, illustrate how their global network is harnessing the power of digital communication into a powerful force for change by connecting women from more than 190 countries – including those reaching out using Internet cafés and cell phones from remote rural areas and conflict zones. Jensine will share her personal journey building World Pulse from a vision into a network now impacting over two million lives. She and Sister Zeph will show us how we can participate in this soulful digital revolution to unleash the true feminine intelligence of the planet.

Youth Leadership: JUNIOR WALK, Brower Youth Award Winner on Appalachian resistance to the coal mining industry and mountain-top removal.

ERIEL DERANGER Reclaiming Our Indigeneity and Our Place in Modern Society Introduction by Clayton Thomas-Müller, Idle No More Eriel Deranger, a tireless, passionate activist for the rights of Indigenous people, Communications Coordinator of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN), a community of 1,200 people living downstream from the largest industrial project on the planet, the Alberta Tar Sands, has been on the frontlines of the global fight against the ravages of fossil fuel extraction. The ACFN’s resistance is a prime example of Indigenous resurgence in Canada, revealing how Indigenous peoples are shaking up how we do and see things and pointing the way forward for the protection, preservation and future governance of Mother Earth.

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE • FRIDAY TOM HAYDEN Building Green Blocs and Justice: California’s Game-Changing Climate Leadership Model Introduction by Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers Co-Founder As one of the nation’s greatest change-makers, former California State Senator Tom Hayden will describe the political evolution of California’s pace-setting clean energy economy as a model for a Green Bloc of states.

Nationally and globally, California is attempting to survive climate change and build a 100% renewable energy future without nuclear power. This requires a movement that takes the road of justice, serves the needs of communities of color and labor, and realigns the political parties away from the funding and influence of the fossil fuel industry.

Lunchtime Performance Northern California Native Dance Group Location: Sun Stage

FRIDAY AFTERNOON PROGRAMS 2:45-4:15pm Lifting Women’s Voices in the Media: Tools, Models and Practices Join a diverse circle of women media-makers to hear how each learned to trust her own voice. They share stories and discuss effective strategies that can be applied to lift the voices of women of every age and perspective. Hosted by Jodie Evans, women’s media champion. With: Jensine Larsen, founder of World Pulse; Neema Namadamu, internationally renowned Congolese civil society leader, founder of Hero Women Rising; Nicole Middleton, GlobalGirl Media activist.

Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA) Food Justice: Healthy Food Is a Basic Human Right Inner cities such as Detroit are food deserts with little or no access to fresh, healthy food. Food justice visionaries Malik Yakini of the Detroit Black Food Security Network and Oran Hesterman, President/CEO of the Fair 8

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Food Network, share effective food justice strategies that incentivize low-resource communities to shop at farmers markets, support local farmers, and develop their own urban farms that provide jobs and access to fresh, locally grown food. Hosted by Arty Mangan, Bioneers Director of Restorative Food Systems.

Location: Showcase Theater

The Carbon Economy Disruption: Turning the Ship All bets are off as climate shocks create a “new abnormal” of a world. Can our fossil fuel-based economy change course in time? These climate leaders are suggesting how. With: Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club; Atossa Soltani, founder/Board President of Amazon Watch, Board Chair of The Christensen Fund; Mark Schapiro, award-winning environmental journalist, author of Carbon Shock: A Tale of Risk and Calculus on the Front Lines of the Disrupted Global Economy.

Location: Larkspur Room What We Can Learn from Our Primate Kin, from Women’s Leadership to Rights for Nature: A Conversation with Roger and Debbi Fouts Groundbreaking primate researchers Roger and Debbi Fouts founded Project Washoe as the first successful initiative in which a nonhuman being acquired a human language (American Sign Language). They conducted 40 years of research with a family of sign language-speaking chimpanzees, studying their conversations and cultural transmission (a story documented in their extraordinary 1996 bestseller Next of Kin). Their son Joshua Fouts, Executive Director of Bioneers, will explore with them the insights they’ve derived from this astonishing interspecies journey, including surprising perspectives on female leadership, the rights of all species, and more.

Location: Manzanita Room Climate Change and Health Climate change is the greatest health challenge of the 21st century. Impacts range from heat illness to asthma and changes in

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE • FRIDAY vector-borne disease. It also threatens our food, air, water, shelter and security. It disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable.

As a huge purchaser of goods and energy, the health care sector represents 16+% of the GDP and affords the opportunity to redirect hospital practices and purchases to diminish its impact on climate change contributors. How can we prioritize climate solutions that also support health and equity?

How can we promote more climate-resilient communities? With: Linda Rudolph, MD, Director, Center for Climate Change and Health; Barbara Sattler, RN, Dr.PH, professor at the University of San Francisco School of Nursing, founding member of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. Hosted

by Laura Faye, former Executive Director of Hospitals for a Healthy Environment.

Location: Sausalito Room Scaling Up Climate Education As public opinion regarding climate change finally begins to tip, we need to scale up climate education rapidly. Join leading diverse voices for a strategic conversation about the shape and trajectory of climate change education in the U.S. – what’s working, where the bright spots are, what major challenges lie ahead. With: Brant Olson, Campaign Director for ClimateTruth.org; Lisa Hoyos, founder of Climate Parents; Vernard Williams, Associate Program Director, Alliance for Climate Education (ACE). Moderated by Teo Grossman, Director of Strategic Initiatives at Bioneers.

Location: Santa Rosa Room Indigenous Forum. Native Land Trusts: Returning to a Land They Never Left Across California, First Peoples are reclaiming their roles as expert stewards of land, water and resources through cooperative Native land trust partnerships. These mechanisms can help re-integrate traditional lifeways and empower marginalized Native Californians. Working with foundations, state parks and conservationists seeking connection with Traditional Knowledge holders and land-based stewardship ethics,

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they’re blending traditional and modern ecological and botanical sciences for optimal management strategies. With: Beth Rose Middleton (Afro-Caribbean/Eastern European), Associate Professor of Native American Studies at UC Davis; Valentin Lopez (Amah Mutsun Tribal Band), Director of the Mutsun Land Trust; Ken Holbrook (Maidu), Maidu Summit Consortium Chairman; Matthew Leivas, Sr. (Chemehuevi), Native American Land Conservancy board member.

Location: Indigenous Forum Youth Stepping Up to Leadership – Strategies and Advice for Young Activists 2015 Brower Youth Award winners share stories, challenges and successful strategies for environmental justice. Learn how to initiate community environmental campaigns, rally support and resources, and make real change for a more sustainable future.

Location: Youth Unity Center

Caring for Ourselves, Caring for the World Through slow-paced, fun and interactive play, we will open up the “Self-Care Wheel,” a map of wholeness to help in those times when we get out of balance in our service to the world.

With: Pele Rouge, FireHawk Hulin and Lana Holmes of Timeless Earth Wisdom.

Location: Re-Inventing Leadership Tent Council. Walking Water Story/ Water Song/Water Is Life: What Are We Going To Do About It Now? California is in its worst drought in recorded history, while other regions have more precipitation than they can handle. The climate is changing, and there is no alternative to water.

What can water teach us about resilience, connectivity and community? What is our relationship and responsibility to this source of life? What can we do now? With: Benjamin von Mendelssohn, visionary leader of the Tamera Community and director of the Grace Foundation for Humanizing Money and Sharon Shay Sloan, co-leader of Walking Water.

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE • FRIDAY Earth Connection Herb Walk with Kami McBride How do we tune in to the Earth for guidance on how to partner with nature to live sustainably on our beloved planet? Come explore the medicine under our feet as we practice some simple, everyday ways of tuning in and listening to what Earth has to teach us.

Location: Meet at Sun Stage Wiser Together Café: Village Building and Reclaiming the Commons Can we turn isolated communities and fractured environments into resilient, intergenerational, nature-connected villages? Come join conversations about public placemaking, reclaiming the commons, permaculture, and slowing down into deep community.

With David Shaw, UCSC Common Ground Center; Dana Pearlman, The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development; Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, and Amy Lenzo, World Cafe and Wiser Together pioneers.

Location: World Café Community of Mentors In these sessions, youth meet with Bioneers presenters in a small interactive group to get guidance from experienced leaders.

With Jakada Imani, Director of the Center for Spiritual and Social Transformation at the Pacific School of Religion and former Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Facilitated by Lauren Dalberth Hage.

Location: Tiburon Room Floating Island Bio-Filter Launch: Local Bio-remediation Hands-On Activity See inside back cover for details.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON PROGRAMS 4:30-6:00pm Climate Equity and the Path Towards Real Climate Solutions: Not a Side Issue Far from being “another issue” in the climate change debate, climate justice and equity issues are not just reaching a tipping 10

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point – they may well be the tipping point required to achieve real and lasting climate agreements and policy. With: Vien Truong, National Director, Green For All; Arsenio Mataka, Assistant Secretary for Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs at CalEPA; Colette Pichon Battle, Executive Director/ Attorney, Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy.

Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)

Re-Imagining Philanthropy: Innovative Strategies Today new generations of progressive philanthropists are generating innovative strategies to redesign philanthropy and create lasting change through movement-building, collaborations and engaging youth philanthropists and women. With: Justin Winters, Executive Director of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation; Leah Hunt-Hendrix of Solidaire; Jessica Houssian of Women Moving Millions; Stuart Valentine of Centerpoint Investment Strategies. Hosted by Joshua Fouts, Executive Director of Bioneers.

Location: Larkspur Room Cuba’s Organic Agriculture: Aberration or Model for the World?

Cuba developed, out of necessity, the most organic, sustainable agricultural system of any country. Is that model replicable in other parts of the world, or is it now likely to be overrun by industrial farming as ironically the easing of tensions with the U.S. opens the island up to the influx of capital and multinational corporate plutocrats? What can we learn from Cuba’s food system, and what are the risks to Cuban food security and sovereignty as its economic isolation ends?

With: Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange and FairTradeUSA; Greg Watson, former Massachusetts Secretary of Agriculture; Anuradha Mittal, founder and Executive Director of the Oakland Institute.

Location: Santa Rosa Room Why the Wild? Wilderness in the Anthropocene In an era of climate change and sprawling human development, how can we conserve,

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE • FRIDAY manage and/or restore wilderness at scale?

And what does “wilderness” mean in an epoch almost completely dominated by human activity? What role do wild places play, practically and spiritually? Hosted by Jason Mark, Editor of the Earth Island Journal. With: Bruce Hamilton, Deputy Executive Director of the Sierra Club; Richard White, Professor of Environmental History at Stanford; Rue Mapp, award-winning founder of Outdoor Afro.

Location: Sausalito Room Leading from the Feminine: Multicultural Facets and Variances What does it mean to bring the “feminine” forward in leadership, when explored from diverse cultural perspectives? How might our differences help to inform our best learning and ways forward? Hosted by Anneke Campbell, author, activist. With: poet Noris Binet; Nikki Silvestri, former Executive Director of Green For All and The People’s Grocery; Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining), Diné (Navajo) artist/activist.

Location: Manzanita Room Healing Foods, Healthy Communities Three food leaders share innovative strategies that use food to heal individuals and communities. Hosted by Arty Mangan, Bioneers Director of Restorative Food Systems. With: Cathryn Couch, founder of Ceres, a youth empowerment project providing wholesome food to community members with serious illnesses; Jesse Cool, groundbreaking restauranteur and author who has brought locally grown, organic food to the patients’ menu at Stanford Hospital.

Location: Showcase Theater Indigenous Forum. The Apache Stronghold: Saving Oak Flat High above the town of Superior, Arizona, lies Oak Flat – a centuries-old sacred site for the Apache, but this land was handed over to an international mining conglomerate by Congressional Republicans earlier this year through an underhanded rider attached to a must-pass defense bill. Meet 16-year-old Naelyn Pike (Chiricahua Apache), co-leading

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a group called The Apache-Stronghold alongside her mother Vanessa Nosie (Chiricahua Apache) and Vansler Standing Fox Nosie (Chiricahua Apache) who will tell their story of resistance as they fight an uphill battle to repeal the bill and Save Oak Flat. Facilitated

by Tom Goldtooth (Dakota/Diné).

Location: Indigenous Forum

Youth Leadership.

Rising Youth for a Sustainable Earth (RYSE) Organizing Meeting Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, youth activist and eco hip hop artist extraordinaire, leads an organizing meeting to explore how youth can play a leadership role in the climate movement.

Location: Youth Unity Center Cultivating Women’s Leadership (CWL) Sampler and Reunion Come and taste what CWL immersion retreats have to offer, or join us to remember and meet other great women alums.

Bring your whole self, and you’ll be warmly welcomed. With: Nina Simons, Bioneers and CWL co-founder; Rachel Bagby, CWL co-facilitator, singer, author, activist.

Location: Re-Inventing Leadership Tent Council. Mirror, Mirror: Urgency and Transitions in a Time of Great Turning – Personal Transformation, Activism and Social Change The elders are saying that we have no more time to waste and that we must act now.

What do you love too much to lose? Is healing ourselves part of environmental and social justice? What are the links between personal and planetary healing and transformation? With: Ilarion Merculieff, Aleut traditional messenger; Sharon Shay Sloan, council trainer and community steward.

Location: Council Circle Community of Mentors Youth get guidance from an experienced leader in a small interactive group. With David Shaw, ecological horticulture teacher at UC Santa Cruz, Permaculture instructor for the Regenerative Design Institute, and on the Stewardship Council of The World Café 11

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Community Foundation. Facilitated by Lauren Dalberth Hage.

Location: Tiburon Room

FRIDAY NIGHT 7:00-10:30pm FILMS with Filmmakers Location: Showcase Theater

7:00pm The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution In the 1960s when a new revolutionary culture was emerging, those seeking to radically transform the system believed change was imminent. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change. Whether they were right or wrong, good or bad, more than 40 years after its founding in Oakland, the group and its leadership remain enduring figures in our popular imagination. This new feature documentary includes eyewitness accounts from the first members who joined the organization, rank-and-file members, and the voices of lawyers, journalists, scholars, police officers and former FBI agents. Directed by Stanley Nelson. Sonya Childress of Firelight Media will introduce the film. (113 minutes)

9:10pm For All the Marbles Faced with the most urgent issue of our generation, climate change, a Salt Lake City carpenter decides to run for Congress in the 2014 election. We follow Bill Barron on his very unique campaign trail, as he rides his bike 600 miles across the state of Utah to raise awareness and get out the vote! (Bill was inspired by Bioneers to embark on this quest.) (13 minutes)

9:35pm Beyond the Walls This inspiring story shows how mural art on walls around the world expresses the aspirations of embattled communities in such places as the West Bank, Northern Ireland, Liberia, El Salvador, Argentina, Australia, and 12

U.S. inner cities. A vivid and surprising exploration of one of the most dynamic and inspiring and under-reported artistic movements of our era. With: Director and Executive Producer Gayle Embrey. (40 minutes)

9:10pm CAROLINE CASEY Performance Scheherazade Is the Earth: Inaugurating Trickster’s Guiding Cultural Meta-Story Scheherazade is the quintessential Compassionate Trickster Redeemer, animating the power of the woman storyteller to liberate all women, the land, and even the tyrant who has hardened his heart. She guides us all to wed the Earth. On this night, we cahoot with the mythological ancestors for a rousing evening of astro*mytho*politico story. Animating, magnetizing, and spiraling forth into the memosphere the irresistible all-inclusive invitation to a Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity Rising from the Rubble…

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE • SATURDAY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 KEYNOTES & PERFORMANCES 9am–1pm Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium Drumming

by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree Welcome

by Kenny and Nina, Bioneers Founders LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG Visual Healing – Short Film The globally renowned master of nature-inspired films will show some of his latest work.

HENK OVINK Water by Design Introduction by Paul Vosbeek, founder of Real NewEnergy Henk Ovink, one of the world’s leading experts on sustainable, resilient coastal infrastructure, served as a Senior Advisor to the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force and is a leading figure in the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment. He will share his vision of how we must change our entire culture to put water back into the center of our hearts and minds if we are to cope effectively with climate change, water crises, biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, extreme weather events, and myriad environmental, economic, and sociopolitical crises.

He will illustrate how new approaches to design and politics are at the heart of a more resilient future.

SISTER SIMONE CAMPBELL Community: Healing for the 21st Century Introduction by Reverend Canon Sally Grover Bingham, Interfaith Power & Light Sister Simone Campbell is a poet, social justice attorney and one of the nation’s most influential faith-based progressive activists.

She led the famous 2012 “Nuns on the Bus” tour to challenge Congressional budget proposals that radically slashed programs for the poor. She shares her vision of how we can

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heal our divisions and differences, create a renewed sense of community, and build a far more just, peaceful, verdant and compassionate world.

DESTINY ARTS YOUTH PERFORMANCE COMPANY The beloved Oakland youth performance group rocks the house every year.

BEN KNIGHT Self-Organizing Community Democracy for the Internet Age Introduction by Matthew Monahan, Namaste Foundation Emerging in response to the need for a scalable way to make inclusive group decisions during the Occupy movement in 2011, Loomio, an activist-driven tech co-op, developed an open-source tool for democratic organizing now used by 80,000 people in 93 countries. Change-making communities, social movements and organizations have used it to make more than 25,000 decisions.

In this digital world, Loomio is on a mission to empower communities and organizations everywhere to weave diverse perspectives into powerful collective action.

Youth Leadership: LYNNEA SHUCK, Creator of the Junior Refuge Ranger Program and 2014 Brower Youth Award Winner, on National Wildlife Refuges: Connecting Kids to Nature.

RINKU SEN Both/And/All: Environmentalism and Racial Justice Introduction by Nina Simons Rinku Sen is one of the most dynamic and influential social, racial and gender justice activists of our time, among the nation’s most effective voices for inclusion and human rights. She’s also a cutting-edge journalist, author and researcher. She will share her vision of how we must urgently learn to face and address our completely intertwined ecological and social justice crises, while we learn how to do it without losing our minds, our friends…or our fights.

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE • SATURDAY PAUL HAWKEN Project Drawdown Introduction by Kenny Ausubel One of the most important thought leaders, activists and entrepreneurs of our era will illuminate the groundbreaking Project Drawdown. It’s the first systematic attempt to do the math on the most effective climate solutions and technologies that already exist, and the impact they would have if they scaled in a rigorous manner over the next 30 years. This coalition of NGOs, academics, scholars, scientists, businesses and government agencies has come together to measure the impact of 100 substantive solutions to mitigating carbon emissions to determine if, when and how we can achieve a year-to-year drawdown in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

The news is good.

Lunchtime Performance Trashion Show with Truckee High’s Envirolution Club Location: Sun Stage

SATURDAY AFTERNOON PROGRAMS – 2:45-4:15pm Racing ​U​p ​Y​our ​M​ovement Three national leaders reveal how their organizations and allies asserted a race frame on movements that were predominantly white.

From stories about shifting the movements for good food, reproductive rights and media reform, we’ll learn principles and gather ideas for research, leadership development and communications to blast through resistance to a race frame. Hosted by Rinku Sen. With: Malkia Cyril, Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice; Saru Jayaraman, Co-Director/founder, ROC United; Mateo Nube, co-founder of the Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project.

Location: Showcase Theater Water Wizards: Designing Resilient Infrastructure and Communities for Climate Instability In a truly historic event, Andy Lipkis and Henk Ovink, two of the planet’s leading water and 14

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infrastructure visionaries, come together for the first time to share their insights about how we can retrofit our cities, coasts, and regions so that our communities can survive and thrive even in the “new abnormal” of extreme storms, floods and droughts. Part of the solution is also engaging everyone and soliciting great innovative ideas.

Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA) Digital Media: Collaboration and Movement Building in a DataDriven Society To have any chance of success, highly creative, collaborative uses of new forms of digital media must be a cornerstone of any strategy for progressive social and environmental movements. Four leading innovators in this domain share their insights. Hosted

by Matthew Monahan, Namaste Foundation.

With: Ben Knight, co-founder of Loomio; Edward West, co-founder of Impact Hub Oakland and Hylo social network; Ingrid Sanders, founder of PopExpert, a crowdsourced, community-driven platform.

Location: Larkspur Room Carbon Farming: Soil Not Oil Sequestering soil carbon is a critically important way to mitigate climate change. Hosted

by John Roulac, founder and CEO of the groundbreaking organic superfood company, Nutiva. With: rancher John Wick, co-founder of the exemplary Marin Carbon Project, developing ways to increase durable carbon on his grazed grassland while increasing biodiversity and soil fertility and capturing the scientific data.

Location: Manzanita Room Green Chemistry and Biomimicry in STEM Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Bringing Sustainability Into the Classroom The seminal co-founder of Green Chemistry, John Warner, and his esteemed partner, green chemistry educator Amy Cannon, are co-founders of the groundbreaking green chemistry education non-profit Beyond

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE • SATURDAY Benign. They’ll show how the combination of green chemistry and biomimicry in the STEM curriculum provides a unique opportunity to inspire students to make connections with the natural world and to use that inspiration to become creators of truly sustainable products and processes. They’ll focus on techniques and resources for adopting green chemistry and biomimicry throughout educational systems, highlighting K-12 and higher education programs aimed at transforming STEM education.

Location: Sausalito Room The Art of Empathy: Honoring Your Emotional Ecosystem Empathy is possibly our most essential skill, yet many of us trip over it because we weren’t taught how it works. Karla McLaren, a pathfinding educator, researcher and author, draws from four decades of extensive empathic experience with current insights from neuroscience, social science, the arts and healing traditions to show us how we can become healthier, happier and far more effective in the world by cultivating our empathic presence.

Location: Santa Rosa Room Indigenous Forum.

Native Appropriations: Why Representations Matter How do we challenge and transform racist stereotypes and stop the appropriation of Indigenous cultures? With: Jared Yazzie (Diné), Owner of OxDx Native Clothing Co.; Tailinh Agoyo (Naragansett/Blackfeet), founder of The Warrior Project; Jessica Metcalfe, Ph.D., (Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe), founder and CEO of “Beyond Buckskin,” an expert forum for the discussion of representations of Native peoples, including stereotypes, cultural appropriation, news and activism.

Location: Indigenous Forum Youth Leadership.

The Power of Our Food Choices Come explore how food connects us to our environment, our community, and our own health with an intergenerational team from Ceres Community Project, a youth

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empowerment program that provides healthy meals for community members with serious illness.

Location: Youth Unity Center Hear Ye! Sing Ye! Lend Earth Your (R)Evolutionary Voices What if the music of our fully connected heartminds and voices could galvanize humanity’s creativity to successfully address climate challenges? Award-winning performance artist, leadership muse, consultant and founder of Choral Earth, Rachel Bagby waves an exhilarating array of improvisational wands— including Dekaaz, a 10-syllable dynamo—to help you catch and use the actionable “aha’s” that arise from collaborating vocally to activate our dreams of positive change.

Location: Re-Inventing Leadership Tent

Council. Remembering the Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine: The Head to the Heart, the Longest Journey Ever Made Many say the most important work in these times is to place the mind in service of the heart, yielding heart-centered action. What do you know you need to do in this time?

Each of us carries aspects of the sacred masculine and feminine within. How are these related? With Ilarion Merculieff, Aleut traditional messenger; Sharon Shay Sloan, council trainer and community steward.

Location: Council Circle Medicines and Wild Edibles: Herbwalk with Autumn Summers Learn how to sustainably gather and use California poppy, catttail, grindelia and many other local plants, as we explore the landscape around the Marin Center. We are surrounded by medicines and wild foods if we know what to look for.

Location: Meet at Sun Stage Wiser Together Café: Intergenerational Partnerships for The Great Turning How can we work intergenerationally to usher in “The Great Turning” towards a life 15

PROGRAM SCHEDULE • SATURDAY sustaining society? Come join conversations about how we can collaborate across the cycle of life to shape our shared future.

With Joanna Macy, Bioneers elder, author and seed teacher of The Work That Reconnects; David Shaw, UCSC Common Ground Center; Dana Pearlman, The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development; Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, and Amy Lenzo, World Café and Wiser Together pioneers.

Location: World Café Community of Mentors Youth get guidance from an experienced leader in a small interactive group. With Darian Rodriguez Heyman, co-founder of BetterWorld Wireless, and formerly: Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation; Commissioner for the Environment for San Francisco; and co-founder of Social Media for Nonprofits. Facilitated by Dave Hage.

Location: Tiburon Room

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solutions and technologies, and what we can do for them to be scaled up over the next 30 years. With: Paul Hawken; Amanda Ravenhill, Executive Director, Project Drawdown; rancher John Wick, co-founder of the exemplary Marin Carbon Project.

Location: Showcase Theater The Healing Potential of Psychedelics: Breakthroughs in Research After decades of the repression and demonization of these substances, research trials around the country have been achieving remarkable results that validate the profound healing potential of psychedelics such as psilocybin and MDMA. Mounting evidence suggests they positively address such varied conditions as end-of-life anxiety, PTSD, and cluster headaches. Hosted by J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers Conference Associate Producer.

With: Robert Barnhart, filmmaker of A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin (screening at Bioneers); Philip Wolfson, M.D., leading MDMA researcher; Mitch Schultz, director of the film DMT: The Spirit Molecule.

Location: Larkspur Room

Spirit in Action: How Spirituality Can Transform Social Movements Can spirituality help people become more effective in working for social justice in our fractured world? How can spirituality sustain our courage, commitment, and energy – and perhaps our ability to collaborate – through the long arc of the work towards social equity and environmental health? Hosted by Jakada Imani, Director of the Center for Spiritual and Social Transformation at the Pacific School of Religion. With: Sister Simone Campbell; Brenda Salgado, East Bay Meditation Center; Gerardo Omar Marin (Anahuaca), Co-Director, Rooted in Community Youth Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Leadership.

Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)

Curbing Corporate Power to Develop a Just Food System Although powerful global corporations and their allies are trying to undermine progress toward sustainable and just food systems, unexpected collaborations among labor, women’s rights activists, family farmers and environmentalists are innovating strategies and alliances to assure a new course for our food systems. Hosted by Joann Lo, Executive Director, Food Chain Workers Alliance. With: Saru Jayaraman, Co-Director/founder, ROC United; Sriram Madhusoodanan, Value [the] Meal Director at Corporate Accountability International; Ben Burkett, President of the National Family Farm Coalition.

Location: Manzanita Room

Project Drawdown How can we achieve a year-to-year drawdown in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere? Learn about the first truly systematic attempt to weigh the most effective existing

Integral Leadership that Reclaims the Feminine: A Whole System Experience Join us to interactively explore the power of bringing our human wholeness into leadership with an embodied experience of a map that

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE • SATURDAY illuminates healthy relationship to our selves, each other, and Mother Earth. With: Nina Simons, Bioneers Everywoman’s Leadership founder; Clare Dakin, founder of TreeSisters. org; Nikki Silvestri, BALLE fellow and former Executive Director of Green For All and the People’s Grocery.

Location: Re-Inventing Leadership Tent Aligning Profits with the Public Good: The Future of Impact Investing How can investment choices and strategies truly move the needle on large-scale change?

Four leading entrepreneur/investors working to reinvent and re-imagine impact investing share strategies and projects. Hosted by Darian Rodriguez Heyman, former Craigslist Foundation Executive Director and SF Environment Commissioner. With: Silda Wall Spitzer, New World Capital, which invests primarily in green technologies; James Joaquin, co-founder of the venture capital firm Obvious Ventures; Catlin Powers of Sol Source, inventor, Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment.

Location: Sausalito Room Indigenous Forum. Idle No More – Bay Area to Tar Sands: A History of the Movement The fastest growing Indigenous resistance ever to industrial exploitation, Canada’s Idle No More movement has gone global. These leading Indigenous campaigners share its successful strategies and show how you can participate. With: Clayton Thomas-Müller (Mathais Colomb Cree), Idle No More, Indigenous rights activist, Bioneers Board; Eriel Deranger, Communications Manager of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation; Pennie Opal Plant (Yaqui, Mexican, English, Choctaw, Cherokee), Bay Area Idle No More.

Location: Indigenous Forum Youth Leadership. Poetry Slam – Words Matter Young poets share their original work and compete for prizes as the audience determines the winner – always a rousing and inspiring event. Hosted by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, 15,

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eco-rapper extraordinaire and Youth Director of Earth Guardians.

Location: Youth Unity Center

Cultivating Dynamic Power, Catalyzing the Movement What if we stop perceiving power and privilege as limited commodities? How do we collaborate in ways that generate dynamic power and create win-win strategies? Join J. Miakoda Taylor, Founding Director of Fierce Allies, in this interactive exploration.

Location: Santa Rosa Room Council. It’s all alive/It’s all connected/It’s all intelligent/It’s all relatives: Engaging Difficult Dialogues and Creating Strong Alliances and Partnerships across Spectrums of Difference Conflicts in worldviews and the stories and myths of our times have contributed to imbalances in the human-nature relationship, resulting in losses for all. What does nature need and how can difficult dialogues help restore the balance, now? With: Ilarion Merculieff, Aleut traditional messenger; Sharon Shay Sloan, council trainer and community steward. Bioneers of all ages invited.

Location: Council Circle Community of Mentors Youth get guidance from an experienced leader in a small interactive group. With Karina Epperlein, an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work explores justice, transformation and healing. Facilitated by Dave Hage. Location: Tiburon Room

SATURDAY NIGHT 6:30pm Seed Exchange Acquire new seed varieties for your garden, swap your seeds and learn from master seed savers. Hosted by: Occidental Arts Ecology Center, The Living Seed Company, Richmond Seed-Lending Library, Sustainable Seed Company, and Tesuque Tribal Farm.

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BIONEERS AWARDS AND BENEFIT DINNER We’re bringing back the popular Bioneers Awards Dinner! Join Kenny Ausubel, Nina Simons, Joshua Fouts and the Bioneers community for a mythic autumnal meal co-created

by Embassy Suites Chef Scott La Crosse and renowned holistic chef Adina Niemerow. It’s sure to be a rowdy celebration honoring several true Bioneers sheroes and heroes: Fania Davis, Jensine Larsen and Sister Zeph, Henk Ovink and Andy Lipkis, and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez.

Separate admission: $50 Location: Embassy Suites Ballroom

Dance Party Join us for an epic experience of beats, movement and visuals, featuring DJ Spooky, Android Jones, DJ Hey Man (Power to the Peaceful), MC Radioactive and Gabby Lala (Snow Angel).

Location: Exhibit Hall

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Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium

FILMS with filmmakers: Location: Showcase Theater

Drumming

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Welcome

by Kenny and Nina, Bioneers Founders

A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin This powerful documentary features groundbreaking FDA-approved research on the medical potential of psilocybin, conducted by leading doctors at UCLA, New York University and John’s Hopkins University, and funded

by The Heffter Research Institute. The significant positive results of the Phase 2 studies have been published in top-tier peer-reviewed psychiatric journals, and reported by Michael Pollan in The New Yorker. With: filmmaker Robert Barnhart. (60 minutes)

8:20pm Finding the Gold Within This film follows six black men from Akron, Ohio, who all participated since 6th grade in an innovative program that gives young people a chance to grow into self-knowledge, discipline and confidence, through the challenges and tests they face during their first years of college. Each of them is determined to disprove society’s stereotypes and low expectations.

The film explores America’s historically embedded fear of “blackness” and probes what it means to be young, black and male. Introduced

by Director Karina Epperlein. (92 minutes) 18

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 KEYNOTES & PERFORMANCES 9am–1pm

SHANNON DOSEMAGEN Open-Source Development of Tools for Community Science Introduction by Joshua Fouts, Bioneers Executive Director Shannon Dosemagen will describe how communities worldwide are being equipped to use new tools to redefine expertise and mobilize local intelligence to protect public health and ecosystems. As co-founder/President of the multiple award-winning New Orleans-based Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, she helped launch the Public Lab in response to the BP oil spill.

Today it’s a groundbreaking platform and resource for citizen science environmental activism nationally and internationally.

FANIA DAVIS Restorative Justice’s Promise: Helping Us Re-Invent What it Means to be Human Introduction by Cameron Simmons, Youth Advocate, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth Drawing on her lifetime of social justice activism, Fania Davis depicts the essence of

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE • SUNDAY Restorative Justice, an emerging approach that seeks to move us from an ethic of separation, domination and extreme individualism to one of collaboration, partnership and interrelatedness. Rooted in Indigenous views of justice and healing, this rapidly expanding global movement invites us to make a radical shift from either-or, right-wrong, and us-versus-them ways of thinking. It seeks to midwife an evolutionary shift beyond domination, discord and devastation toward healing, wholeness and holiness with one another and all creation.

MICHAEL MEADE with JOHN DENSMORE How Your Unique Genius Can Help Heal Nature and Culture Introduction by Nina Simons Legendary storyteller, author and scholar of mythology, anthropology and psychology, Michael Meade will show why we desperately need to awaken the genius within each of us – not only to achieve personal fulfillment, but to have any hope of addressing our global crises, restore the natural world, and heal our culture. Accompanied by John Densmore, legendary drummer of The Doors, he will weave storytelling, performance, mythology and street savvy.

Youth Leadership: JASMYN MITCHELL, 17, a climate justice, food equity, and fossil fuel divestment activist, an Action Fellow with Alliance for Climate Education (ACE), on the untapped potential of “Frontline Youth.”

ADRIANNA QUINTERO Re-imagining the Environmentalist Introduction by Kenny Ausubel Adrianna Quintero, a Senior Attorney at the NRDC and founder/Executive Director of Voces Verdes, says that if we want to have any chance of succeeding in securing a healthy future and a livable planet, it’s time to re-imagine the environmentalist. All of us have a connection to nature, and we need to embrace a new vision that reflects the realities of our time and the growing diversity in

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our country. As the U.S. moves toward being a minority majority nation and the Latino population asserts its very high commitment to environmental concerns, more and more of us need to feel welcomed and a part of the movement – even if we’ve never been on a hike.

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON Rethinking Our Relationship to the Biosphere: A Utopian Vision of a New Economic Paradigm Introduction by J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers Associate Producer The coming century requires that we rethink and restructure our relationship with our planet to avoid endangering the integrity of the biosphere and risking the end of human civilization. This means reforming our economic system, which uses a market and trade system that systemically under-prices and degrades both people and the natural world.

How can we change that, and what would it look like if we did? One of the great visionary science fiction writers of our era will draw from his decades of work and thinking on this question to sketch a utopian but deeply informed and cogent scenario of a new economy for the coming decades.

CLOSING PERFORMANCE

by Iyanifa Luisah Teish Lunchtime Performance Audiopharmacy featuring Ras K’Dee (Dry Creek Pomo) and Dancing Earth Dance Company featuring Rulan Tangen (Metis) Location: Sun Stage

1:15pm-2:30pm Herbwalk with Tellur Fenner Owner/Director of the Blue Wind Botanical Medicine Clinic and Education Center in Ukiah, CA. Location: Meet at World Café

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE • SUNDAY SUNDAY AFTERNOON PROGRAMS – 2:45-4:15pm The Vanguard of the Design Science Revolution Brilliant leaders from some of the most innovative, groundbreaking design-focused NGOs on the planet illustrate how they are helping accelerate the global revolution in sustainable design. With: Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Director, Buckminster Fuller Institute; Shannon Dosemagen, Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science; Eric Corey Freed, VP of Global Outreach at the International Living Futures Institute; Beth Rattner, Executive Director of the Biomimicry Institute. Moderated by Amanda Ravenhill, Executive Director, Project Drawdown.

Location: Showcase Theater Awakening Genius in Your Life If people are to find creative ways of living together and healing both culture and nature, the awakening of individual genius may be the deepest and most imaginative way to approach the seemingly impossible tasks that face contemporary cultures. With: Michael Meade and John Densmore.

Location: Manzanita Room Nature, Science, Writing, and the Future of Humankind Two celebrated writers hold a free-range conversation about humanity’s embeddedness in nature. Although they work in radically different genres, they’re both among our most insightful thinkers, and both deeply scientifically literate and profoundly elegant stylists.

Hosted by J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers Associate Producer. With: Kim Stanley Robinson, renowned science-fiction author; Alison Hawthorne Deming, poet, professor, one of the nation’s greatest writers on the natural world, whose most recent book is Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit.

Location: Larkspur Room Climate Strategies from the Ground Up Four extraordinary women leaders share their perspectives on how to break through the 20

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stalemates that impede progress to build a world in which we can all thrive. They work in different spaces – from challenging governments and corporations to defending Indigenous people’s rights, education reform, movement building and investing in green businesses. With: Eriel Deranger, Communications Manager of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation; Adrianna Quintero, Senior Attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council and founder/Director of Voces Verdes; Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA; Christiana Wyly, Executive Director of Food Choice Taskforce, Director of My Plate Planet initiative. Hosted by Osprey Orielle Lake, co-founder and Executive Director, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN).

Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)

Youth Restorative Justice Leaders in Oakland Stepping Up This youth-facilitated workshop will share stories of how Oakland youth are transforming their own lives and making an impact on public policy in Oakland through Restorative Justice. Through storytelling, we’ll also explore the role and dimensions of promising youth-adult partnerships that effectively promote youth agency and have allowed youth to assume the role of advisors and consultants to the mayor, police officials, youth organizations and Oakland Unified School District. This workshop will utilize elements of restorative circles, fishbowl and other interactive and creative modes of facilitation.

With: Oakland youth and adult allies.

Location: Santa Rosa Room Art as a Vehicle for Social Change: Edge-Walking In times of strife, how can art serve as a healthy catalyst for positive transformation? Join San Francisco City Art Commissioner Dorka Keehn in a conversation about the frontlines of cultural revolution. With: Favianna Rodriguez, a renowned transnational interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer focused on social change; others tba.

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE • SUNDAY Indigenous Forum. Urban Native Food Justice and Revitalization Urban Native youth working with The Cultural Conservancy’s (TCC) Native Foodways Program share their experiences in food justice, organic farming and the revitalization of native foodways. Hosted by Lois Ellen Frank (Kiowa), Native American master chef and food educator. With: Kaylena Bray (Seneca), Coordinator of TCC’s Foodway Program; Native interns Trevor Ware (Caddo-Kiowa-Lenape) and Quinton Cabellon (Yokut). Includes screening of a new, short documentary film about Bay Area urban Native youth reclaiming their Indigenous foods, identities and health.

Location: Indigenous Forum Youth Leadership. Open Mic. Bring your stories, songs, poems, issues, jokes and ideas to share. This is your chance to take the stage and be heard.

Location: Youth Unity Center Reinstating the Feminine and Our Right to Thrive Come step into an embodied (and ancient) experience of your wholeness and indivisibility with nature, through a framework of logic and flow that mirrors your human body.

Explore your intuitive capacity to rebalance, replenish and follow your energies towards the life you long for. Hosted by Clare Dakin, founder of TreeSisters.org.

Location: Re-Inventing Leadership Tent Council. Modern Family and Intergenerational Collaboration— Youngers, Middlers, Elders & All: Love Beyond Boundaries in the 21st Century As former constructs of gender and family change, what are the new faces of family in our world and how do we nourish the bonds of community? What new stories and social structures are needed to support resilience in love, sexuality, partnership and parenthood?

With: Ilarion Merculieff, Aleut traditional messenger; Sharon Shay Sloan, council trainer and community steward. Bioneers of all ages invited.

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Wiser Together Open Space: Creating Tomorrow Together Through Collaboration, Creativity and Celebration Join us for a celebratory, productive and engaging finale to the weekend. In Open Space all are welcome to post and join topics, as we co-create a learning environment that fosters shared visions and enables collective intelligence to emerge. Come connect with other bioneers who share your passion and forge alliances for future wise action. There will be multiple sessions: stay the whole time, or come and go as you please. With David Shaw, UCSC Common Ground Center; Dana Pearlman, The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development; Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, and Amy Lenzo, World Cafe and Wiser Together pioneers. (Note: this is a double session.)

Location: World Café

Community of Mentors Youth get guidance from an experienced leader in a small interactive group. With renowned author and artist/activist Luisah Teish, an initiated elder in the Ifa/Orisha tradition and a facilitator of inter-generational/ cross-cultural workshops. Facilitated by Lauren Dalberth Hage.

Location: Tiburon Room

SUNDAY AFTERNOON PROGRAMS – 4:30-6:00pm Greening Corporate Behavior: The “Good Cop/Bad Cop” Strategy What’s the most effective way for eco and social justice activists to change the behavior of corporations: intense outside pressure, working on the “inside,” or a combination of the two? Leaders from some of the planet’s most effective NGOs seeking to alter corporate behaviors engage in a dynamic forthright discussion. Hosted by J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers Conference Associate Producer.

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE • SUNDAY

Indigenous Forum. Creating Resilience through Revitalizing Traditional Systems We’ll explore the importance of basing community design on Indigenous knowledge and relationships and how Indigenous ways of learning can be a key to climate adaptation.

Tohono O’odham Community Action (TOCA) and the Tohono O’odham Youth Group will show how they’ve empowered youth to build a successful, sustainable tribal food system through the New Generation of O’odham Farmers program. Sustainable Nations, which works to re-engage traditional knowledge as the base for Indigenous water, energy and housing infrastructure, runs national training and development projects and the new Tucson Indigenous Adobe Initiative. With: Terrol Johnson, Executive Director, Tohono O’odham Community Action (TOCA); PennElys Droz, Ph.D., (Anishinaabe), Executive Director of Sustainable Nations; and a group of Native youth presenters.

Location: Indigenous Forum Rising Seas, Raising Awareness and Readying Marin: Marin County Town Hall Meeting Join Marin County Supervisors, the Environmental Forum of Marin and MarinLink for a discussion on Marin’s ongoing commitment to a climate resilient future. With beautiful and extensive shorelines in an era of rising seas, Marin has a coastal resilience leadership opportunity just waiting to emerge.

Learn about local, regional and national scale efforts and models that work with communities and natural systems to plan and create a climate resilient future. Moderated by Steve Kinsey, Marin County Supervisor. With: Amy Chester, Managing Director for Rebuild by Design; Jack Liebster, Planning Manager, Marin County CDA; Bruce Riordan, Program Director, Climate Readiness Institute.

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at the Future 500; Leila Salazar-Lopez, Executive Director of Amazon Watch; and Ryan Honeyman, author of The B Corp Handbook.

Location: Showcase Theater

Organic Valley “GrassUP! For Good Health” Special Event 2015 is the International Year of Soils, and what better way to celebrate than by exploring the critical role soil plays in a healthy food system! Bioneers is honored to partner with organic and cooperative leader Organic Valley to bring a “GrassUP! for good health” event to Bioneers this year. Join leading experts for dynamic conversation, delicious food and drink, informative displays and cool presentations on soil, pasture, nutrition, climate, pollinators and seeds. Come ready to discuss fresh solutions for a sustainable food future and learn ways we can all take action to protect a precious and powerful, nonrenewable resource: SOIL! Location: Exhibit Hall Wiser Together Open Space: Creating Tomorrow Together Through Collaboration, Creativity and Celebration See description at 2:45pm. (Note: this is a double session.)

Location: World Café

REAL BOOKS BOOKSIGNING SCHEDULE Just learn about a new book by a keynote speaker or session presenter that you can’t wait to get? Check here for booksignings all weekend long, located in the REAL Books store in the Exhibit Hall. Take a look at the REAL Books poster for any additional signings.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 4:30pm

6:15pm

ORAN HESTERMAN Fair Food JASON MARK Satellites in the High Country BETH ROSE MIDDLETON Trust in the Land MARK SCHAPIRO Carbon Shock

RACHEL BAGBY

Divine Daughters NORIS BINET Women on the Inner Journey NINA SIMONS Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 4:30pm

6:15pm

ERIC COREY FREED GreenSense for the Home KARLA MCLAREN The Language of Emotions

ANDRES EDWARDS The Heart of Sustainability J.P. HARPIGNIES Visionary Plant Consciousness ILARION MERCULIEFF Stop Talking

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 4:30pm

6:15pm

ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Writing the Sacred into the Real DORKA KEEHN Eco-Amazons OSPREY ORIELLE LAKE Uprisings from the Earth KIM STANLEY ROBINSON Shaman and other titles

RYAN HONEYMAN The B Corp Handbook ANNIE LEONARD The Story of Stuff

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THINGS TO SEE AND DO Networking & Interactivity at Bioneers

WHAT IS COUNCIL?

Besides the frequent – and fruitful – informal exchanges and serendipitous encounters that occur at the conference each year, we are providing more and more structured opportunities to help you connect with other folks with common interests. Many of these opportunities are listed below. In addition, many afternoon sessions are designed to be participatory.

The practice of council is both ancient and modern, with roots in many civilizations throughout the world as well as in contemporary organizational disciplines. As the shift hits the fan, we need to act now and shift our consciousness accordingly to negotiate the unknown future. The collective wisdom found in council is key to this process. By removing the social barriers that keep us separate, council allows for the kind of listening that brings instant recognition that we are all related.

We also invite you to share your photos and updates from the conference with us on social media – use #bioneers15 to join the conversation! facebook.com/Bioneers.org @bioneers

@bioneers

The Summit Network in a dynamic new community-driven space for ecopreneurs, business and nonprofit leaders. Read more on pages 28-29 and head to The Summit tent for the most current schedule.

Yoga & Embodiment See page 32 for location and session times.

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Interactive sessions hosted by David Shaw of UC Santa Cruz’s Common Ground Center offer facilitated intergenerational dialogues and “open space” sessions. See schedule pages for sessions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Location: World Café

Council Circle

The Indigenous Forum Native-led daily programs and a pre-conference intensive at the only cross-cultural gathering of its kind in the U.S. with visionary Indigenous leaders. Over 100 Indian Nations participated in 2014. See each day’s schedule for session details.

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All council sessions are facilitated by Ilarion Merculieff, Aleut traditional messenger, and Sharon Shay Sloan, council trainer and community steward, except where noted otherwise. See schedule pages for sessions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Location: Council Circle

Performances on Outdoor Sunstage See each day’s schedule for more details.

Location: SunStage |Friday and Saturday: 1:30pm and 6:00pm

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Family Fair Bioneers has created a unique learning and play program for families with kids. See page 33 for more details.

Youth Leadership Powerful programs, life-changing experiences. See page 27 for more details.

Art & Artisan Market We have more art than ever at this year’s conference! See page 30 for more details.

Change-Makers Fair Explore vibrant national and local nonprofit innovators and socially conscious companies creating the world we want.

Ongoing, see inside back cover for map

Caroline Casey Astro-mytho-politico performance. See Friday night schedule for details on what’s in store!

Exhibit Hall, Friday, 9:10pm

Seed Exchange Trade open-pollinated, heirloom, traditional and organic seeds with hard-core seedheads.

Exhibit Hall, Saturday: 6:30pm

Trashion Show Truckee High’s Envirolution Club steals the show every year, turning trash into high fashion with a serious environmental message.

Saturday, 1:15pm, Sun Stage

Bioneers Awards & Benefit Dinner © J A N M A NG A N

Join us for great food, great people and great fun! Separate admission: $50 Embassy Suites Ballroom, Saturday, 7:30 PM

Saturday Night Dance Party!

Renowned artists DJ Spooky and Android Jones will join DJ Hey Man (Power to the Peaceful) and local artists MC Radioactive and Gabby Lala (Snow Angel) to transform the night into a raging fest of beats, movement and visuals.

Exhibit Hall, 9:30pm-Midnight

Organic Valley’s “Grass Up! For Good Health” Learn from experts at a cocktail hour featuring the latest discoveries in soil, nutrition and pollinators. More details in schedule.

Exhibit Hall, Sunday, 4:30pm

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FILMS AT BIONEERS 2015 7:00pm, FRIDAY, OCT. 16

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SATURDAY, OCT. 17

LOCATION: SHOWCASE THEATER Join us for screenings of these outstanding films followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.

THE BLACK PANTHERS, VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION Friday 7:00pm In the 1960s, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of radical social change. This new feature documentary explores why the group endures in popular imagination, with the voices of founding members, lawyers, journalists, scholars, police officers, and former FBI agents. Directed by Stanley Nelson. Sonya Childress of Firelight Media will introduce the film. (113 minutes) FOR ALL THE MARBLES Friday 9:10pm This is the story of how, faced with the urgent issue of climate change, a Salt Lake City carpenter decides to run for Congress in the 2014 election. We follow Bill Barron on his very unique campaign trail, as he rides his bike 600 miles across the state of Utah to raise awareness and get out the vote! (Bill was inspired by Bioneers to embark on this quest.) (13 minutes) BEYOND THE WALLS Friday, 9:35pm This vivid and surprising exploration of one of the most dynamic and under-reported artistic movements of our era shows how embattled communities in such places as the West Bank, Northern Ireland, Liberia, El Salvador, Argentina, Australia, and U.S. inner cities are using mural art to dream big. With: Director and Executive Producer Gayle Embrey. (40 minutes) A NEW UNDERSTANDING: THE SCIENCE OF PSILOCYBIN Saturday, 7:00pm This powerful documentary features groundbreaking FDA-approved research on the medical potential of psilocybin, conducted by leading doctors and researchers. The significant positive results of the Phase 2 studies have been published in top-tier peer-reviewed psychiatric journals, and reported

by Michael Pollan in The New Yorker. With: filmmaker Robert Barnhart. (60 minutes) FINDING THE GOLD WITHIN Saturday, 8:20pm Follow six black men from Akron, Ohio – participants since 6th grade in an innovative program that promotes self-knowledge, discipline and confidence – through the challenges and tests they face during their first years of college. This film probes what it means to be young, black and male in a country with a historic fear of “blackness.” Introduced by Director Karina Epperlein. (92 minutes) 26

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YOUNG PEOPLE ARE CRUCIAL TO THE HEALTH AND SUCCESS OF MOVEMENTS FOR CHANGE. Thanks to the investment of the Bioneers community, our Youth Leadership Program has become a proven incubator for the next generation of visionary leaders.

In addition to the Youth Leadership keynotes and afternoon sessions listed in the main program schedule, we also offer these special sessions—some of which are open to all ages.

JUST US FOR FOOD JUSTICE: Youth activists meet to develop leadership skills, network and strengthen the Bay Area food justice movement. Facilitated by Gerardo Marin of Rooted in Community. Thursday, 9-6, Walker Creek Ranch.

LGBTQ ALLIANCE TALKING CIRCLE: A safe space to be with allies and share issues that pertain to your community in an open discussion facilitated by Kristin Rothballer.

Friday, 11:30am. Location: Youth Unity Center YOUTH OF COLOR CAUCUS: What is the role of youth of color in the environmental movement? Explore the connection between social justice and the environmental crisis.

Facilitated by Luisah Teish. Please respect this space and attend only if you identify as a youth of color. Saturday, 10:30am. Location: Youth Unity Center TRANSFORMING INSPIRATION INTO ACTION: Join young global dream activators Bryan and Shayna of NuMundo.org to distill and focus ideas, move past personal limitations, and set your pledge free to the Bioneers community. Sunday, 12-2pm. Location: Youth Unity Center WISER TOGETHER CAFÉ: PARTNERING ACROSS GENERATIONS. Interactive sessions hosted by David Shaw of UC Santa Cruz’s Common Ground Center offer facilitated intergenerational dialogues and “open space” sessions. See schedule pages for specific sessions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Location: World Café SINGING TREE COLLECTIVE MURAL PROJECT: This youth-driven collaborative mural project invites everyone to create her/his own messages celebrating the Earth, unity and peace. Led by artist Laurie Marshall. Open all day. Location: Exhibit Hall STUDENT ECO-ART EXHIBITION curated by WEAD (Women Environmental Artists Directory). Open all day. Location: Exhibit Hall INTERACTIVE LIVING MANDALA ART PROJECT: Seeds, flowers, gourds and shells are your medium to create a large-scale collective art piece. Led By Aaron Ableman with Erika Minkowsky. Friday, 2:00pm. Location: Youth Unity Center DIGITAL STORYTELLING: Synergia Learning Ventures’ Mobile Interactive Classroom provides space in which youth can blog about their Bioneers experience, film interviews with speakers and participate in the “Eyes of the Future” Project. With Tom and Debra Weistar.

Open all day. Location: Youth Unity Center COMMUNITY OF MENTORS: Activist youth seeking guidance have the daily opportunity to be in small-group mentoring sessions with Bioneers presenters. See schedule pages for specific sessions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

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THE SUMMIT

Take Impact to New Heights at The Summit brought to you by the:

OPEN TO ALL CONFERENCE ATTENDEES, FRIDAY-SUNDAY 12-7:00 PM Join us in The Summit tent – see map for location

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Join us for the first annual Summit, hosted at the National Bioneers Conference by a community of mission-driven business and community leaders, entrepreneurs and investors. The Summit is a community-driven space featuring an array of activities, including panel discussions, networking, peer-to-peer skill sharing, art, music and open space for conversation and collaboration. Visit the Summit during open hours to share and learn strategies to grow a more just, resilient and regenerative economy.

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THE SUMMIT

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Carbon divestment and the making of a renewable economy

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Financing your enterprise from day one

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Fair Trade and successful supply chain management

SUMMIT PARTNERS

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ON-SITE ART + ARTISAN MARKET © REPU BLIC OF LIGHT

This year Bioneers strove to go above and beyond to bring you beautiful, engaging and interactive art from a wide variety of world-class artists. Between sessions, please explore the grounds to see and experience the amazing art installations we’ve curated just for you.

And be sure to check out the brand new Artisan Market in the Exhibit Hall. You’ll discover a plethora of artists offering their goods for sale, as well as a very special Indigenous Fine Arts Market (IFAM) pop-up, meaning half of the artisans are Indigenous peoples.

Among the many incredible artists whose art is featured this year: ANDROID JONES: The much sought-after multimedia artist is bringing an immersive visual experience to the new and improved Saturday Night Dance (details pg. 18). Selections of his work will be on display and for sale there.

ROBERT BENGSTON, INSPIRATION CAMPAIGN: Look on the grounds by the lagoon for the white plaster figures and share your answer to his thought-provoking question.

FELICIA GABALDON uses iconic imagery to depict the colonization of her family history.

Her paintings represent the distant reverence of self-discovery, culture, and historical elements. She is one of the Native American artists featured in the IFAM pop-up in the Exhibit Hall.

You can find a complete list of artists at conference.bioneers.org/art © R E PU BLIC OF L I GH T

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STAGE ART + SILENT AUCTION The larger than life art pieces you see adorning the Veterans’ Memorial Theater stage this year are the vision of Native American artist and Indigenous Knowledge Program Director Cara Romero (Chemehuevi).

To create the designs, Cara looked to her rich family traditions and history in the Southwest United States. Each piece reflects tribal anthropomorphic vocabulary found in ancestral pottery of the Romero family’s Chemehuevi and Cochiti Pueblo lineage. Both tribes are descendants of Anasazi and Mimbres peoples.

The stage pieces were then custom-painted by an extraordinary team of young Native American artists: George Alexander (Muscogee Creek), Santiago Romero (Cochiti/Taos/Santa Ana Pueblo), Rose Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo), and Diego Romero (Cochiti Pueblo).

“I worked with the ancient designs and modern-day Indians to bring to the audience something contemporary, yet based in traditional knowledge. It’s the beauty reflected that I see working at the heart of Bioneers Indigenous Knowledge Program every day.”

– Cara Romero, 2015 Stage Art Designer & Bioneers Indigenous Knowledge Program Director

As you enter the Veterans’ Memorial Theater, you are surrounded by a procession of Warrior Spirit Beings created by world-renowned Choctaw artist Marcus Amerman.

The concept behind these sculptures is humanity’s need for help from the heavens to save Mother Earth. They are created with recycled and repurposed materials: horns, shields, hubcaps, feathers, Indian memorabilia and more.

These celestial beings—modern-day versions of Native American sky beings—have come as Earth guardians to support the Revolution from the Heart of Nature.

TAKE HOME THE ART OF BIONEERS 2015 All of the stage art and entryway sculptures are up for auction during the 2015 Bioneers Annual Conference.

This is your chance to take home an incredible piece of art and also benefit Bioneers and the Native American artists who contribute their talent!

Place your bid in the Exhibit Hall before the silent auction closes on Sunday at 5:00 p.m.

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YOGA AND MOVEMENT © FLU ID FRA ME

There is always a lot to take in over the weekend at Bioneers. All those incredibly stimulating discussions about solving the world’s problems can get overwhelming, so many of you have expressed the desire for more opportunities to unwind and recharge, which is why we have radically expanded our yoga and movement offerings this year. We’d like to give a special thanks to Suzanne and Rebecca of Off the Mat, Barbara and Jeremy of Bay Area Soul Motion​ Collective, and Adam of Yoga to the People.

YOGA AND MOVEMENT SCHEDULE FRIDAY:

SUNDAY:

7:45-8:45am Morning Flow Vinyasa Yoga with Adam Zwecker Location: The Island

7:45-8:45am AM Yoga: Be The Change with Rebecca Rogers Location: The Island

1:15-2:15pm Vinyasa Yoga with Adam Zwecker Location: The Island

1:15-2:15pm Sustainable Yoga for a Sustainable Planet with Rebecca Rogers Location: The Island

6:15-7:15pm Conscious Dance with Jeremy Weichsel Location: Exhibit Hall SATURDAY: 7:45-8:45am Yoga with Suzanne Sterling Location: The Island 1:15-2:15pm Embodiment with Suzanne Sterling Location: The Island 6:15-7:15pm Conscious Dance with Barbara Aman Location: Sun Stage

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Note: In the case of rain, all outdoor yoga classes will take place in the Exhibit Hall.

Suzanne Sterling, a musician, yogi, activist and social innovator who has been performing and teaching transformational workshops for over 20 years, is founder of Voice of Change, a co-founder of Off the Mat into the World, and Director of the Global Seva Challenge. An award-winning musician, she has released 5 solo albums and numerous DVD soundtracks. (suzannesterling.com)

NEW FOR 2015: FAMILY FAIR! © JA N MA NGA N

SATURDAY 9am-6pm and SUNDAY 9am-4:30pm in the MARIN CENTER EXHIBIT HALL Families with kids 13 and under are invited to join some of the country’s top nature-inspired education masters for a unique learning-and-play program at our first-ever Family Fair: GREEN CHEMISTRY with Beyond Benign’s Amy Cannon: How would nature do it? Explore interactive stations and take part in the biomimicry design revolution: Make your own solar cell using blackberries, design your own image using a bio-inspired polymer, and more! Both Days ORGANIC VALLEY FAMILY OF FARMS’ COUNTRY FAIR: Enjoy games, activities like butter making, an enclosed honeybee display and farm-related carnival games. Both Days GREEN CHEMISTRY & AGRICULTURAL LAB with Dr. Miriam Kaplan. Both Days NATURE WALK WITH COASTAL REDWOOD BIOMIMICRY NETWORK: Discover local flora and fauna and learn how nature inspires design using the Biomimicry Institute’s “Life’s Principles” on a nature walk through the wetlands around the Marin Center.

2pm Saturday + Sunday STORYDOME: Experience this mind-blowing immersive space that uses state-of-the art digital media to tell new, awe-inspiring visual stories with wonder and reverence for all life, from the vastness of the cosmos to the tiniest quantum flux. Both Days JUNIOR SCIENTISTS FROM GREEN KIDS NOW will lead sustainability activities to create a cleaner and healthier planet. Both Days MUSICAL PERFORMANCE AND SING-ALONG with Aaron Ableman, creator of the award-winning children’s ecological musical “Pacha’s Pajamas.” 3pm Saturday + Sunday AQUARIUM OF THE BAY’S BAY-MOBILE LAB: Explore hands-on education activities about the San Francisco Bay and human impact on marine life, including a touch tank with tide pool animals like sea stars, sea cucumbers, hermit crabs and whelk snails. 11am - 4pm Saturday + Sunday NATURE WALK WITH VIDA VERDE: Venture into the wetlands around the Marin Center to raise your ecological awareness and appreciation of nature. 10am Saturday + Sunday NATURE-BASED SCAVENGER HUNTS with Coleen Mahoney, a Build It Green award-winning architect. 11am Saturday + Sunday FAMILY FAIR ADMISSION Family Fair activities are FREE to the public but do not include access to conference keynotes, panels and workshops.

Visit conference.bioneers.org/family for more details.

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CHANGE-MAKERS FAIR EXHIBITORS Come connect with organizations, nonprofit and for-profit, focused on building community and promoting sustainability, justice and a resilient world. You’ll find the Change Makers Fair exhibit space near the Sun Stage and central plaza. It will run all three days of the conference, October 16-18, and is free and open to the public.

ANTENNA THEATER antenna-theater.org ASHLAND SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY (ASET) BIODYNAMIC ASSOCIATION biodynamics.com CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRATED STUDIES ciis.edu CENTERPOINT INVESTMENT STRATEGIES centerpointinvesting.com CLIF BAR clifbar.com CONSERVATION CORPS conservationcorpsnorthbay.org CONSCIOUS ELDERS NETWORK consciouselders.org COOL THE EARTH cooltheearth.org DASH HEMP dashhemp.org ECO CORK ecocork.us FIREFLY CHOCOLATE fireflychocolate.com FRIENDS OF PM PRESS pmpress.org GATHERING THYME gatheringthyme.com GREEN RIVER FINANCIAL SERVICES greenriverfinserv.com HEALING HANDS MASSAGE alcochanshealinghands.com INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BUILDING— BIOLOGY & ECOLOGY hbelc.org KULI KULI FOODS kulikulifoods.com LA VIE DE LA ROSE FLOWER ESSENCES laviedelarose.com LA VIE WELLNESS IN A BOTTLE drinklavie.com LOTUS FOODS 34

lotusfoods.com NAROPA UNIVERSITY naropa.edu NATIVE ORGANIC COTTON nativeorganic.com NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS northatlanticbooks.com NUMI ORGANIC TEA numitea.com OHLONE HERBAL CENTER ohlonecenter.org PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE pachamama.org POPULATION MEDIA CENTER populationmedia.org PRESIDIO GRADUATE SCHOOL presidio.edu RAINFOREST TRUST rainforesttrust.org SKYWELL skywell.com SNELLING TOTAL WELLNESS snellingtotalwellness.com STARTRACKS PRODUCTION changingofthegods.com STEINER BOOKS steinerbooks.org SUN POTION sunpotion.com SYNERGY ORGANIC CLOTHING synergyclothing.com TAMALPA INSTITUTE tamalpa.org TANKA FUND AT INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION tankafund.org TRIAD OF HEALTH FAMILY HEALING CENTER triadofhealth.net WEAVING EARTH weavingearth.com WESTON A. PRICE FOUNDATION westonaprice.org

GREENING THE CONFERENCE

BERKELEY ECOLOGY CENTER Every year the Berkeley Ecology Center helps Bioneers push the envelope of what it means to be a “green” event. Over 90% of the waste generated by the conference is recycled and composted. Since 1969, the Ecology Center has been giving people tools, information and infrastructure to live urban lives that respect the environment, build community, and reinforce justice. The Center runs: Berkeley’s residential curbside recycling program and its farmers markets; a food justice program that includes organic produce stands, nutrition education and youth empowerment; a wide range of classes, workshops and climate action services; a hotline, help desk, and bookstore. (ecologycenter.org)

CONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY (CCNB) Since 2000, CCNB has provided invaluable recycling and composting services at Bioneers.

Nationally recognized as a leader in youth service, CCNB’s extensive job training, educational, community service, and civic engagement programs help young people gain knowledge, values and skills to become exemplary environmental stewards. Corps-members help reduce fire and flood hazards, build and maintain trails, restore wildlife habitat, collect recyclables, grow organic food, offer environmental education to school children; and provide recycling services for small and large-scale special events in Marin and Sonoma Counties. (conservationcorpsnorthbay.org)

SUSTAINABILITY IN THE KITCHEN Thanks to the shared commitment and collaboration of Featured Chef Adina Niemerow and Executive Chef Scott La Crosse, the Embassy Suites kitchen recycles, composts and uses as much local and organic food as possible for our events. As we enjoy the bounty of such mindful efforts we remain aware of food waste and hunger. Even in affluent Marin County, there are some 50,000 food insecure people, so Bioneers works with Food Shift and ExtraFood.org to distribute all the appropriate unused food to those in critical need. Food Shift aims to radically shift the way food and people are valued in our society. ExtraFood.org has delivered over 315,286 pounds of food to 60 nonprofits, also preventing thousands of pounds of methane from entering the atmosphere.

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PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES TIFFANY ADAMS (Chemehuevi/ Konkow/Nisenan), an award-winning California Native jewelry and regalia artist who specializes in working California red abalone into intricately shaped traditional themes, is also a fulltime student and social activist promoting equal access and resources for Native American students at Sierra College in Rocklin as well as a Contributing Editor for News from Native California.

TAILINH AGOYO is a photogra-

pher whose photos of The Warrior Project and the Indigenous Fine Art Market and Santa Fe Indian Market have been published worldwide. An advocate for Native art and artists, she worked as PR/Marketing and Programming Director at two prominent Native art festivals, has been an actor in film and television for 25+ years and now shares her knowledge through youth workshops. (http:// tfaphotography.com) LINDSEY ALLEN, Executive Director of Rainforest Action Network (RAN), a veteran environmental and social justice organizer, has played a central role in achieving some of the most significant corporate policy commitments to protect forests over the past decade.

Previously Director of RAN’s Forest Program spearheading its Rainforest Agribusiness and Rainforest-Free Paper campaigns, she helped win some groundbreaking protections for forests, the climate, and human rights. (ran.org) MARCUS AMERMAN (Choctaw), best known for his bead art, is also a multimedia artist, painter, performance artist, fashion designer, and glass artist. His work is in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the Portland Art Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History. (marcusamerman.com) KENNY AUSUBEL, CEO and founder (in 1990) of Bioneers, is an award-winning social entrepreneur, journalist, author and filmmaker.

Co-founder and first CEO of the organic seed company, Seeds of Change, his film (and companion book) Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime helped influence national alternative medicine policy. He has edited several books

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and written four, including most recently, Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature. (bioneers.org) RACHEL BAGBY, who has a

Stanford law degree in Social Change and was a founding member of Bobby McFerrin’s “Voicestra,” works with leaders from organizations such as Google and the Sierra Club to unleash the force of nature inside them, to get that next, big, Earth-serving thing done. Author of Divine Daughters: Liberating the Power and Passion of Women’s Voices, Rachel practices what she preaches. (rachelbagby.com) EMIGDIO BALLON, Agriculture Director of Tesuque Pueblo, President of the Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute’s board, and a former U.S. organic certification inspector, is a plant geneticist of Bolivian Quechua ancestry who is a renowned expert on: sustainable/ organic/biodynamic farming, the cultivation of quinoa and amaranth, plant germination techniques, seed saving, the revival of traditional indigenous nutritional and medicinal crops; and Quechua rituals and culture. (4bridges.org) ROBERT J. BARNHART, a film-

maker and strong advocate for the study of psychoactive materials in spiritual and nontraditional healing practices for many years, sits on the boards of both The Heffter Research Institute and The Multi-disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), the pre-eminent non-profits working on scientific/medical research on psychedelics. He is the director of A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin (screening at Bioneers 2015). (anewunderstanding.org) COLETTE PICHON BATTLE, Esq., Executive Director/Attorney, Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy, is: a native Louisianan award-winning activist working tirelessly around equity in the post-Katrina/post-BP disaster Gulf Coast; a specialist in immigration and disaster law; a lead co-ordinator for Gulf South Rising 2015, a regional initiative around climate justice in the South; and also serves on the board of the U.S. Climate Action Network. (gcclp.org)

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES LAURIE BENENSON, a journalist, writer, filmmaker and passionate environmentalist who has worked with many organizations, including the NRDC, Rainforest Action Network, TreePeople, and Bioneers, founded Movieline Magazine in 1985 and was its Editor-inChief for six years, then covered film and TV for The New York Times before becoming a documentary film producer whose credits include Dirt! The Movie, and most recently, Kiss the Ground.

NORIS BINET , a native of the

Dominican Republic but now a Sonoma County-based visual artist, poet, sociological researcher, meditation teacher, and author, has worked for NGOs in Mexico and the U.S. in diverse communities for 25+ years. Her many innovative projects have included the development of holistic strategies to prevent mental health stresses among Latino immigrants. She is the author of Women on the Inner Journey: Building a Bridge. (norisbinet.org) THE REV. SALLY BINGHAM, Canon for the Environment in the Episcopal Diocese of California, founded the groundbreaking Regeneration Project and its Interfaith Power & Light campaign, which mobilized thousands of religious people to put their faith into action through energy stewardship. One of the first faith leaders to fully recognize climate change as a core moral issue, she is the lead author of Love God/Heal Earth. (theregenerationproject.org) PAULETTE

BLANCHARD

(Absentee Shawnee/Si-Wi-Nwi), MA in Geography and Environmental Sustainability (University of Oklahoma), is a researcher and activist whose work addresses the challenges Indigenous peoples face in relation to climate change/climate justice. She is active in several organizations, including: the Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Working Group, Idle No More Central Oklahoma, and Rising Voices of Indigenous Peoples in Weather and Climate Science.

BRAY (Haudenosaunee/Seneca) has worked for the last 6 years as a consultant to several Indigenous-led, social entrepreneurship organizations in the U.S. and Latin America, including the Indigenous PeoKAYLENA

ples Biocultural Climate Change Assessment, The Cultural Conservancy, Conversations with the Earth, and The California Indian Environmental Alliance. She is currently working with The Cultural Conservancy on the co-development of a Native Foodways Ethnobotany Garden. (nativeland.org) RENATA BRILLINGER, co-founder and Executive Director of the California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN), previously worked with Sonoma County’s Center for Climate Protection and served as the Director of Californians for GE-Free Agriculture. She also serves on the steering committees of the California Rangeland Conservation Coalition, the Center for Sustainability at CalPoly University, and the UC Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute. (calclimateag.org) MICHAEL BRUNE became Execu-

tive Director of the Sierra Club in 2010. Under his leadership, the Club has grown to more than two million supporters and is at the forefront of the drive to move beyond fossil fuels to clean energy. He is the author of a detailed vision for a true clean-energy future: Coming Clean: Breaking America’s Addiction to Oil and Coal. (sierraclub.org) TIMOTHY BURROUGHS, Chief

Resilience Officer (CRO) for the City of Berkeley, is the city’s lead staff for advancing community readiness for a range of hazards, such as natural disasters and the impacts of climate change. Previously Timothy led development and managed implementation of Berkeley’s ambitious Climate Action Plan. He also served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa. (cityofberkeley.info) QUINTON CABELLON (Yokut/ Filipino/Irish), born and raised in Oakland, California, an avid gardener and food justice advocate, is a full-time student pursuing a degree in sustainable agriculture and food-systems and has been an Intern with The Cultural Conservancy for a little over a year, working in both their Native Foodways and media programs.

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The Netherlands, has worked as a midwife, nurse, yoga teacher, and writer in many genres. She is the 37

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES co-author (with Thomas Linzey) of Be The Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community and co-editor (with Nina Simons) of Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart. She also writes and co-produces advocacy videos for non-profits.

SISTER SIMONE CAMPBELL, one of the most influential contemporary faith-based progressive activists, led the famous 2012 “Nuns on the Bus” tour to challenge Congressional budget proposals that radically slashed programs for the poor. Formerly General Director of the Sisters of Social Service and Executive Director of Jericho, a California interfaith organization, she is Executive Director of Network, a Catholic social justice non-profit. Also a poet and a social justice attorney, she founded the Community Law Center in Oakland, and is the author of: A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community.

AMY S. CANNON, who earned

the world’s first Ph.D. in Green Chemistry, is the co-founder/Executive Director of Beyond Benign, a non-profit dedicated to green chemistry education. A former professor of Green Chemistry at UMass, Lowell, she also worked as an award-winning chemist and scientist in the private sector. At Beyond Benign, Amy runs workshops for educators, designs green chemistry curricula, and collaborates with educators to advance green chemistry in K-12 and higher education. (beyondbenign.org) CAROLINE W. CASEY, creator/ weaver-of-context of “The Visionary Activist Show” on Pacifica Radio KPFA/KPFK, author, and Chief Trickster of Coyote Network News, a mythological news service for the Trickster Redeemer within us all, is dedicated to democratic animism, pragmatic mysticism, applied divination, and reuniting political savvy with mythological guidance. (visionaryactivism.com, coyotenetworknews.com) PELE ROUGE CHADIMA is the co-founder of Timeless Earth Wisdom, Inc., an earth wisdom teacher and guide, a leader of women’s circles, and the author of Never Shout at a Bear. (timelessearthwisdom.com)

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AMY CHESTER, Managing Direc-

tor for Rebuild by Design, a design initiative of the Hurricane Sandy Task Force and HUD that culminated in $930 million being awarded to six projects to address structural and social vulnerabilities uncovered by Superstorm Sandy, is responsible for the day-to-day operations, management, fundraising, and strategy of Rebuild by Design. (rebuildbydesign.org) SONYA CHILDRESS, Director of Partnerships and Engagement for Firelight Media, an award-winning independent production company renowned for producing powerful films about pivotal movements and people in American history, including for PBS, has helped organizations, philanthropists and filmmakers use film as a tool to further human rights and social justice for over 15 years. Prior to Firelight, Sonya’s employers included: California Newsreel, Active Voice, Working Films, and ITVS. (firelightmedia.org) JESSE ZIFF COOL, a pioneering

sustainable agriculture and cuisine advocate since the mid 1970s, author of seven cookbooks and founder of five restaurants (currently operating three in the Bay Area), is a lecturer for Stanford’s Department of Education, a consultant to Food Services at Stanford Hospital and to Queens Hospital in Hawaii, and serves on the boards of Eco Farm, Oldways and JobTrain. (cooleatz.com) CATHRYN COUCH is the found-

er of Ceres Community Project, a California-based non-profit whose innovative model connecting sustainable food systems, youth empowerment and health has been replicated in nine communities nationally. A member of the Sonoma County Food System Alliance, Couch was a finalist for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Community Health Leaders Award and was a 2013 Leader in Sustainability for Sonoma County. (ceresproject.org) MALKIA AMALA CYRIL, the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice (CMJ) and co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network, a national network of 175 organizations working to ensure media access, rights, and representation for mar-

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES ginalized communities, is a frequent public speaker and a prolific writer whose articles and quotes have appeared many publications, including the Huffington Post, Essence Magazine. (mediajustice.org)

ry film producer (Road to Return, Juvies) and has a long track record as a human rights and ecology activist. (johndensmore.com, facebook.com/ johndensmore1, twitter @johndensmore)

CLARE DAKIN is the founder of TreeSisters, an eco-feminist UK charity exploring nature-based feminine leadership as a catalyst for global behavioral change and working on tropical reforestation through crowd funding. Prior to founding TreeSisters, Clare served as UK coordinator for Project GreenHands, a massive agro-forestry, social mobilization initiative in southern India. (treesisters.org)

ERIEL TCHEKWIE DERANGER, a Dene Indigenous activist, member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) of Alberta, Canada, is the ACFN’s Communications Coordinator, whose work is focused on resisting the devastation of the Alberta Tar Sands and fighting for her people’s rights. She has also worked extensively on international Indigenous rights issues. (acfn.com)

KEVIN

DANAHER,

PH.D.,

co-founder of Global Exchange, FairTradeUSA, the Green Festivals, and the Green Guardians, is the author or editor of 13 books on the global political economy, including Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots. (globalexchange.org) FANIA DAVIS, J.D., PH.D., co-founder and Executive Director of Restorative Justice For Oakland Youth, came of age in Alabama in the 1960s and was active in the Civil Rights, Black Liberation, women’s, prisoners’, peace, and anti-apartheid movements. A civil rights trial lawyer for 27 years, she has also taught Restorative Justice at San Francisco’s New College Law School and Indigenous Peacemaking at Eastern Mennonite University. (rjoyoakland.org) ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING

is a poet, essayist and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. Author of four books of poetry and four of nonfiction, her most recent publication is Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit (2014). A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, she lives in Tucson, Arizona and Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. (alisonhawthornedeming.com) JOHN DENSMORE, an original/

founding member of the legendary musical group, The Doors, co-wrote and produced numerous gold and platinum albums and toured the world. The author of the bestselling autobiography, Riders on the Storm, as well as The Doors Unhinged, he is also an award-winning documenta-

THE DESTINY ARTS YOUTH PERFORMANCE COMPANY

(DAYPC), a program of Destiny Arts Center, an Oakland-based violence prevention/arts education nonprofit, is a multicultural group of teens that creates original performance art combining hip-hop, dance, theater, martial arts, song, and rap. The company has performed locally and nationally since 1993 and has been the subject of two documentary films.

DAYPC’s artistic directors are Sarah Crowell & Rashidi Omari. (destinyarts.org) DOSEMAGEN is co-founder/President/Executive Director of the award-winning Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, which coalesced in response to the BP oil spill and is now a groundbreaking platform and resource for community science and environmental activism nationally and internationally. With 15 years’ experience in local organizing and education, Shannon, an Ashoka Fellow and Senior Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program, is active on many councils and advisory boards. (publiclab.org) (@sdosemagen on Twitter) SHANNON

PENNELYS DROZ, PH.D., (Anishinaabe), the Director of Sustainable Nations, a Native-led and staffed sustainable community development organization, has worked in the Indigenous environmental field for thirteen years with the vision of helping rebuild ecologically, culturally and economically thriving, sustainable Native nations. She has also written extensively on how to harmoniously blend traditional land-based building and agricultural practices with modern “green” technologies. (sustainablenations.org)

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PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES GAYLE EMBREY, owner of Power

Surge Productions, LLC. and a documentary film producer whose first project was 2006’s Playground Project (which detailed the sexual exploitation of children), is also involved with Chicken & Egg Pictures, Gamechanger Films, and Impact Partners (producer of such acclaimed documentaries as The Cove and How to Survive a Plague). Beyond the Walls, being screened at Bioneers, is her first film as a director. (beyondthewallsthefilm.com) KARINA EPPERLEIN , an award-winning documentary filmmaker for over 23 years, explores justice, transformation and healing in her films, addressing such themes as: women in prison, the Armenian genocide, dance and disability, and youth education. Finding the Gold Within, showing at Bioneers 2015, is her tenth film. Her earlier work includes theatre and lifelong teaching of creative expression, t’ai chi chuan, sound, and breath.

(GoldTheFilm.com, Karinafilms.us) JODIE EVANS, a peace, environ-

mental, women’s rights and social justice activist for forty+ years, co-founder of CodePink: Women for Peace, served in Jerry Brown’s gubernatorial administration in the 1970s and ran his presidential campaigns. Author of Stop the Next War Now and Twilight of Empire and producer of several documentary films, Jodie sits on 14 boards, including: 826LA, RAN, Drug Policy Alliance, and Women’s Media Center. (codepink.org) LAURA FAYE (formerly Laura Brannen), an expert in hospital-based sustainability efforts with 25 years’ healthcare experience, owner/founder of the consulting firm, BLUE Environmental Performance, was the founding Executive Director of the groundbreaking organization, Hospitals for a Healthy Environment, and guided the American Hospital Association in the development of its Sustainability Roadmap. (blue-epc.com) TELLUR FENNER, owner/Director of the Blue Wind Botanical Medicine Clinic and Education Center in Ukiah, CA, is a clinical herbalist/educator who has studied and used plant medicines from all the major bioregions of the U.S. His interdisciplinary approach integrates botany, ethnobotany, botanical pharmacy,

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physiology, phytochemistry, and other biological sciences. (bluewindbmc.com, facebook.com/ bluewindbmc) DEBORAH & ROGER FOUTS, world-renowned co-founders of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute, have, since 1967, been involved with Project Washoe, the first successful project in which a nonhuman being acquired a human language – American Sign Language. For over 40 years they studied chimpanzee conversations, cultural transmission, and imaginary and private signing. Their book Next of Kin is a chronicle of their life with Washoe, Loulis, Moja, Tatu and Dar. (friendsofwashoe.org) JOSHUA SHERIDAN FOUTS, Bioneers Executive Director, is a globally recognized media innovator and social entrepreneur known for his visionary work facilitating meaningful understanding between cultures. With a background in anthropology, Joshua has worked with peoples of Malaysia, Africa, and the Amazon, governments and universities in over 20 countries, and innovators and engaged citizens worldwide. (bioneers.org) ERIC COREY FREED is Vice President of the International Living Future Institute, a global hub for visionary programs, including the Living Building Challenge and Living Product Challenge. A leading, award-winning figure in “green” architecture for 20+ years, he co-developed the Sustainable Design programs at the Academy of Art University and UC Berkeley Extension, and currently teaches at Boston Architectural College. He is the author of 11 books. (living-future.org) TOM B.K. GOLDTOOTH, Execu-

tive Director of the Minnesota-headquartered Indigenous Environmental Network, a social change activist for over 35 years, has become internationally recognized as an environmental and climate justice leader, working with many Indigenous Peoples and organizations around the world. Tom has launched a campaign advocating for Indigenous communities to reclaim their future, build power for just transition and apply indigenous knowledge to change the system and not the climate. (ienearth.org)

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES ROSA ESPERANZA GONZALEZ,

Fierce Allies Associate and founder of Facilitating Power, partners with organizations, agencies, and community leaders to develop facilitative leadership approaches to building community resilience and grassroots power for economic and environmental balance. She is a visual and performing artist, popular education practitioner, and student of Vedic wisdom, committed to activating the lessons of our ancestors – to bring balance – with all our relations.

BOB GOUGH, an attorney and

cultural ecologist with 40 years’ experience on tribal resource issues, advocates for indigenous rights and works on building sustainable, efficient and renewable energy-based homeland economies as Secretary of the Intertribal Council On Utility Policy (COUP). Bob previously co-chaired the Native Peoples/Native Homelands workshops and was lead author of the National Climate Assessment’s Indigenous Peoples, Lands and Resources chapter (2014). (intertribalcoup.org) TEO GROSSMAN, Director of Strategic Initiatives at Bioneers, previously worked on a range of projects from federal range management to state-level assessments of longrange planning to applied research on topics including climate change adaptation, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and ecological networks. A Doris Duke Conservation Fellow during graduate school, Teo holds an MS in Environmental Science & Management from UC-Santa Barbara. (bioneers.org) BRUCE HAMILTON, its current Deputy Executive Director, has worked for the Sierra Club for over 38 years, starting as a regional organizer, then as National Field Director, and later as National Conservation Director. He has also served on many national and international advisory boards, including currently on the World Commission on Protected Areas. Prior to joining the Sierra Club staff he was the Field Editor of High Country News. (sierraclub.org) J.P. HARPIGNIES, Bioneers Con-

ference Associate Producer, affiliated with Bioneers since 1990, is a NYCbased consultant, conference producer, copy-editor and writer. A former Program Director at the New York Open Cen-

ter and a senior review team member for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge the last 5 years, he has authored or edited several books, including Political Ecosystems, Delusions of Normality, Visionary Plant Consciousness, and, most recently, Animal Encounters.

PAUL HAWKEN is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author. Starting at age 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. (paulhawken.com) Photo: Raymond Baltar TOM HAYDEN, one of the leading figures of the student, civil rights, anti-war and environmental movements of the 1960s, went on to serve 18 years in the California legislature, where he chaired labor, higher education and natural resources committees. Director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Culver City, CA, he continues to be a leading voice for peace, erasing sweatshops, saving the environment, and reforming politics. Tom is the author and editor of 20 books and has taught at several universities, including UCLA, Pitzer, and Harvard. (tomhayden.com) ORAN B. HESTERMAN, PH.D., with 35+ years’ experience as a scientist, farmer, philanthropist, businessman, educator, and advocate, is a national leader in sustainable agriculture and food systems. President/CEO of Fair Food Network, he is the author of: Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All. Previously Hesterman served as a program director at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and taught at Michigan State University. (fairfoodnetwork.org) DJ HEY MAN! (aka DARIAN RODRIGUEZ HEYMAN), former

Executive Director of the Craigslist Foundation and SF Environment Commissioner, was the DJ tent producer at Power to the Peaceful, an 80,000-person annual concert for peace and social justice in San Francisco. He is a renowned socially-engaged DJ who has performed widely in the U.S. and internationally and shared the stage with such icons as DJ Spooky, Miguel Migs, and King Britt.

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PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES DEAN HOAGLIN (Hookooeko Band Coast Miwok/Big Valley Pomo/Yuki/Wailaki), Cultural Competency Program Coordinator for the Inter-Tribal Council of California, has been in the social service field for 20 years, working with such organizations as: Sonoma County Indian Health Project, Friendship House Association of American Indians, California Rural Indian Health Board, Native Wellness Institute, and the Sacramento Native American Health Center. He is also a renowned traditional dancer and singer. (itccinc.org) ASTRID HOFFMAN is the co-founder of The Living Seed Company, an organic/heirloom seed company based in West Marin, CA, dedicated to supporting families, friends and communities growing food together and saving seeds, seeking to preserve food diversity through the distribution and growing of open-pollinated seeds and to educate the public about the life-affirming art of seed-saving. (livingseedcompany.com)

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RYAN HONEYMAN, a sustainability consultant and author of The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good, helps businesses such as Ben & Jerry’s, King Arthur Flour, Method, Klean Kanteen, and Nutiva become Certified B Corporations and maximize the value of their B Corp certification. (honeymanconsulting.com) SARAH SHANLEY HOPE, Executive Director of The Solutions Project, a national organization seeking to accelerate the transition to 100% clean, renewable energy for all people and purposes, and Board Chair of People’s Grocery, was previously Executive Director of the Alliance for Climate Education, Chief Development Officer at Green for All, and Corporate Brand Manager for Cargill and Best Buy. (thesolutionsproject.org)

MATTHEW HOFFMAN is the co-founder (with his wife Astrid) of The Living Seed Company, dedicated to the mission of empowering people everywhere to grow food together and save their own seeds—one of the best ways to achieve both inner harmony and global prosperity. (livingseedcompany.com)

JESSICA HOUSSIAN works with Women Moving Millions, a leading women-led philanthropic organization. Previously a partner at Inspired Philanthropy Group, and before that an Associate Features Editor at Harper’s Bazaar, she currently serves on the boards of UNICEF Canada and the Canadian Women’s Foundation (where she chairs the Anti-Human Trafficking Grants Committee). She also serves as Board Chair of RefugePoint and is a trustee of The Houssian Foundation. (womenmovingmillions.org)

KENNETH HOLBROOK , a Native Californian of the Maidu Tribe, is Executive Director and a founding member of the Maidu Summit Consortium (MSC), whose mission is to “preserve, protect, and promote the Mountain Maidu Homeland with a united voice.”

He is committed to serving conservation from a traditional, place-based ecology perspective and was honored by Yale University’s Endangered Language Fund for his work with the Maidu language. (maidusummit.org)

LISA HOYOS, Director and co-founder of Climate Parents, a national organization focused on mobilizing parents and families for clean energy and climate solutions, has been a campaigner in the labor, environmental and Environmental Justice movements in California for over twenty years, working with organizations including the national AFL-CIO, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the BlueGreen Alliance, and Greenpeace. She is a bilingual Latina. (climateparents.org)

LANA HOLMES, a co-founder of Timeless Earth Wisdom, Inc., has many years’ expertise helping establish and launch companies that embody EarthWise™ values—the belief that organizations should mirror the inherent wisdom, beauty, and collaborative systems found in nature in order to help create a thriving, life-promoting world. (timelessearthwisdom.com)

FIREHAWK HULIN is a co-found-

er of Timeless Earth Wisdom, Inc., an EarthWise business ecology founded on ancient “Medicine Wheel” teachings. He has a long history of co-creating ceremonies, rites of passage, vision quests and wisdom councils in the U.S. and Europe. (timelessearthwisdom.com)

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES LEAH HUNT-HENDRIX, PH.D., co-founder/Director of Solidaire, a donor community and movement support organization, has lived around the world, including in Egypt, Syria and the West Bank. An Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies who sits on several boards, including those of EDGE Funder Alliance and the New Economy Coalition, her work is focused on political economy, corporate power, racial justice, and movement strategy. (solidairenetwork.org) JAKADA IMANI is the Director of the Center for Spiritual and Social Transformation at the Pacific School of Religion (PSR), which trains, supports, and inspires spiritually rooted change-makers. Prior to joining PSR, Jakada served for 6 years as Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. (@jakada_imani on Twitter) (psr.edu) SARU JAYARAMAN , the award-winning Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United), Director of the Food Labor Research Center at UC, Berkeley, and author of Behind the Kitchen Door, co-founded ROC after 9/11 with displaced World Trade Center workers. It now has 14,000 worker members, 150+ employer partners, and several thousand consumer-members in 32 cities nationwide. (rocunited.org) JAMES JOAQUIN is the Managing Director of Obvious Ventures, a fund focused on early-stage investments in startups that combine profit potential with positive environmental and social impact, which he co-founded in 2014 with Evan Williams, co-founder of Blogger and Twitter, and Vishal Vasishth, former Chief Strategy Officer of Patagonia. James has 25+ years’ experience building businesses, including Clearview Software, When.com, Ofoto, and Xoom.com. (obviousventures.com)

ease. TOCA has founded farms that grow traditional crops, created healthy tribal foods school lunch programs, and revitalized healthy cultural traditions. (tocaonline.org) DORKA KEEHN, an award-win-

ning artist, public art consultant, and a major proponent for art and artists in San Francisco, serves as a San Francisco Arts Commissioner, chairing the Visual Arts Committee, which commissions all of the city’s public artwork. Dorka is also a co-founder of Sites Unseen, which brings art programming to neglected alleys in the downtown Yerba Buena neighborhood. (keehnonart.com, sitesunseen.org) STEVE KINSEY, a Marin County Supervisor since 1997, has focused on watershed restoration, sustainable agriculture, transportation, affordable housing, and working closely with communities of color to reduce barriers to equal opportunity. He is Chair of the California Coastal Commission and also serves on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the board of Marin Agricultural Land Trust. He is currently part of Marin’s Sea Level Rise resiliency planning efforts. (marincounty.org) BEN KNIGHT is co-founder of

Loomio, an online tool for collaborative governance built by a team of activists, technologists and social innovators in New Zealand.

Ben has an academic background in the evolution of collective intelligence, a practical background in grassroots community organizing, and a passion for the potential of technology to spur positive social change. He was closely involved with the Occupy movement in 2011. (loomio.org)

TERROL JOHNSON , co-found-

OSPREY ORIELLE LAKE is: Co-Founder/ Executive Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, Co-Chair of International Advocacy with the Global Alliance for the Rights Of Nature, and author of the award-winning book, Uprisings For The Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature. (wecaninternational.org)

er/President of Tohono O’odham Community Action (TOCA), has led efforts to build a tribal food system that provides healthy, culturally appropriate foods in the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona, one of the poorest communities in the U.S. with epidemic rates of nutrition-related dis-

DEB LANE has been playing the drums for most of her life. Formerly a member of the Santa Cruz World Beat Band, Pele Juju, she performs with artists throughout the Bay Area and beyond. In addition to her musical

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PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES endeavors, Deb is a leader in water-use efficiency and works as a Water Resources Analyst.

JENSINE LARSEN, an award-winning social media entrepreneur and international journalist, is the founder/CEO of World Pulse, a digital communication network linking tens of thousands of women from more than 190 countries (including those speaking out using Internet cafes and cell phones from rural areas and conflict zones) into a powerful force for change, impacting more than 2 million lives. (worldpulse.com) Photo: Andrea Leoncavallo MATTHEW LEIVAS, SR., a cur-

rent (6-term!) Tribal Council Member and former Chairman of the Chemehuevi tribe, also served at different times over the years as its Farm Manager, Chief Game Warden, and Housing Authority Executive Director. He is also long-time environmental and water rights activist and a culture-bearer who co-founded the Salt Song Project and is a board member of the Native American Land Conservancy.

ANNIE LEONARD , a lifelong environmentalist, currently Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, has over two decades’ experience investigating, organizing, and communicating about the environmental and social impacts of all our material goods. Her 2007 online film, The Story of Stuff, viewed 50 million times, is the most watched online environmental film ever. She also authored an eponymous book that takes a deeper dive into the issues raised in the film. (greenpeace.org) JACK LIEBSTER, Marin County’s

Advance Planning Manager in charge of sea level rise response, the Local Coastal and Countywide plans, and other initiatives, previously served with California’s Coastal Commission for 25 years, including as its Public Affairs Director, and has a long, distinguished career in public service, including for the EPA, the State Coastal Conservancy, as Half Moon Bay’s Planning Director, and many other positions. (marincounty.org)

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ANDY LIPKIS, founder (at age 18 in 1973) and President of TreePeople, which has mobilized volunteers to plant over 2 million trees in Los Angeles, is an award-winning activist and social entrepreneur renowned for developing urban watershed management solutions to protect cities against droughts and floods, prevent water and air pollution, and mitigate/adapt to climate change.

Andy is currently facilitating an unprecedented collaboration between LA’s DWP, County Public Works/Flood Control, and City Bureau of Sanitation to address the historic drought. (treepeople.org) JOANN LO is the Co-Director of the Food Chain Workers Alliance.

The daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, she graduated from Yale with a degree in Environmental Biology and has been a labor and community organizer for almost 20 years. Vice Chair of the Los Angeles Food Policy Council’s Leadership Board, she also serves on the board of the Domestic Fair Trade Association. (foodchainworkers.org) VALENTIN LOPEZ, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, one of three historic tribes recognized as Ohlone, is of Mutsun, Awaswas, Chumash, and Yokuts ancestry. A Native American Advisor to: U.C.’s Office of the President; the National Alliance on Mental Illness; and the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Valentin, a traditional Mutsun singer and dancer, is also working to restore the Mutsun Language. (amahmutsun.org) JOANNA MACY, a renowned

Buddhist teacher, eco-philosopher, systems theorist, scholar, and longtime peace, justice and ecology activist, is the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, a theoretical framework and workshop methodology for personal and social change. Joanna’s many seminal books include: Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age; Thinking Like a Mountain; World as Lover, World as Self; and Pass It On: Five Stories That Can Change the World. (joannamacy.net) SRIRAM MADHUSOODANAN, Director of Value [the] Meal at Corporate Accountability International, works to mobilize parents, health professionals, community leaders and young people to challenge the fast food industry’s devastating impact on children’s health. (stopcorporateabuse.org)

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES ARTY MANGAN, Bioneers’ Restorative Food Systems Director, joined Bioneers in 1998 as Project Manager for the Restorative Development Initiative. A former board president of the Ecological Farming Association and member of the Santa Cruz GE Subcommittee, Arty has worked with farmers and agriculture since 1978, first as a partner in Live Juice and later with Odwalla, where he was in charge of fruit sourcing. (bioneers.org) RUE MAPP, the award-winning

founder of Outdoor Afro, dedicated to using digital media to boost the numbers of African Americans participating in organized outdoor recreation activities, is an entrepreneur, creator of Oakland’s game/hobby store start-up (It’s Your Move). She was invited to the White House to participate in both the America’s Great Outdoors Conference and the First Lady’s Let’s Move initiative. (outdoorafro.com) GERARDO

OMAR

MARIN

(Anahuaca/Mexica), Co-Director of the Rooted in Community National Youth Food Sovereignty and Justice Network, is an El Paso, Texas-based activist whose community work is rooted in indigenous healing art, music, and dance. For the past ten years he has facilitated cultural healing, inner-resilience and creative activism programs with teenagers and youth advocacy workers across the Americas. (rootedincommunity.org) JASON MARK is the editor of Earth Island Journal and a co-founder of San Francisco’s largest urban farm. His writings on the environment have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Atlantic, and The Progressive.

His new book, Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man, makes an impassioned case for holding onto wildness as a touchstone. (earthisland.org) XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ, a

15-year old Boulder, Colorado-based Indigenous environmental activist (since age 6!) and rapper, is the Youth Director of Earth Guardians, a non-profit organization committed to protecting the water, air, earth, and atmosphere. He has organized many rallies, actions, demonstrations and events, and has traveled widely internationally to speak about environmental and Indigenous issues. (earthguardians.org)

LEAH MATA (Northern Chumash) is an award-winning (including a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship) California Indian artist creating contemporary living forms of regalia and jewelry that combine contemporary artistic expressions with traditional knowledge and materials. She is also a graduate student focusing on Cultural Sustainability.

ARSENIO MATAKA, Assistant Secretary for Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs at the California Environmental Protection Agency, previously served as Directing Attorney for California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., were he fought for justice alongside some of the state’s most exploited communities. Arsenio’s environmental justice career began at the Great Valley Center, where he provided extensive outreach and capacity building services to rural and underserved communities. (calepa.ca.gov) KAMI McBRIDE, author of The Herbal Kitchen, has taught experiential herbal programs focused on sustainable wellness practices and revitalizing our relationship with the plant world for over 25 years. Her popular online courses empower people to use herbal medicine in their daily lives for home wellness care. (livingawareness.com) WOMAN STANDS SHINING (PATRICIA McCABE), of Diné

Nation, living in Taos, NM, is a mother, activist, artist, writer, and international speaker who draws upon the deep Indigenous sciences of thriving life to reframe inquiries about sustainability, and is devoted to next generations, “Women’s Nation” and “Men’s Nation” as functional members of the “Hoop of Life,” upholding the honor of being human.

SARA McCAMANT, a long-term

local food activist, garden educator and seed saver, helped co-found the West County Community Seed Exchange in Sebastopol, CA, one of the earliest seed libraries and seed gardens in the country. She previously worked with Seed Matters, an initiative of the Clif Bar Family Foundation, coordinating their Community Seed Toolkit program, and is the Garden Manager at Ceres Community Project. (ceresproject.org) 45

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES KARLA McLAREN, M.ED. is an

educator, researcher, and award-winning author whose empathic approach to emotions seeks to revalue even the most “negative” emotions to open new pathways into the soul. She is the author of The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life’s Most Essential Skill, and The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You, as well as the interactive online course, Emotional Flow.

MICHAEL MEADE, D.H.L., a storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology renowned for his hypnotic, fiery oratory, street savvy, perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths, is the author of many books including: Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul, and The World Behind the World; and founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, a Seattle-based nonprofit dedicated to education and cultural healing. (mosaicvoices.org) ILARION (LARRY) MERCULIEFF (Aleut) has over 35 years’

experience serving his people and other indigenous peoples internationally. The first Native commissioner of the Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development, he chaired the Indigenous Knowledge sessions of the Global Summit of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change, and co-founded several organizations including the Indigenous Peoples’ Council for Marine Mammals. He has received many prestigious awards for his activism and co-authored Aleut Wisdom: Stories of an Aleut. (gcill.org) JESSICA R. METCALFE, PH.D., (Turtle Mountain Chippewa), the main author of the website Beyond Buckskin and owner of the Beyond Buckskin Boutique, has co-curated exhibitions and taught college courses in Native American studies, studio art, art history, and literature. Her current work focuses on American Indian art, clothing, and design from all time periods, with an emphasis on contemporary artists. (beyondbuckskin.com) BETH ROSE MIDDLETON, PH.D.,

of Afro-Caribbean and Eastern European ancestry, is an Associate Professor of Native American Studies at UC Davis whose areas of 46

research include: Native American environmental policy, the protection of sacred sites using conservation tools, intergenerational trauma and healing, indigenous analysis of climate change, Afro-indigeneity, and qualitative GIS. She is the author of: Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation. (ucdavis.edu) NICOLE MIDDLETON, a media producer, activist, and filmmaking mentor at GlobalGirl Media in Oakland, has nearly a decade of experience in digital media production and entertainment in the U.S. and Brazil, and has worked with Danny Glover and various domestic and foreign policy organizations to raise awareness of important social issues. (globalgirlmedia.org)

DJ Spooky aka PAUL D. MILLER creates multimedia performances, recordings, art installations and writings that immerse audiences in a blend of genres, raising awareness about climate change, sustainability, global culture, the role of technology in society and other pressing social issues. He is also executive editor of ORIGIN Magazine and his DJ MIXER iPad app has seen over 12 million downloads in the last year. In 2012-2013, he was the first artist-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC and National Geographic’s 2014 Emerging Explorer. (djspooky.com) JASMYN MITCHELL, a seven-

teen-year-old climate justice activist from the heart of Boston, currently serves as an Action Fellow with Alliance for Climate Education (ACE), working on a campaign that would make Massachusetts the first state to divest fossil fuel investments from its pension funds. Jasmyn also works on food equity and sustainable agriculture issues with the Boston Food Project. (acespace.org) ANURADHA MITTAL, the award-winning found-

er and Executive Director of the Oakland Institute, is an internationally renowned expert on trade, development, human rights and agriculture issues.

She has authored and edited many books and reports including, most recently, (Mis)Investment in Agriculture: The Role of the International Finance Corporation in the Global Land Grab. Her articles and opinion pieces are widely published nationally and internationally. (oaklandinstitute.org)

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES MATTHEW MONAHAN is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who is passionate about how we can quickly transform our global systems for a more just and sustainable world. He is currently working on identity software, reimagining philanthropy, and building bridges to New Zealand. (inflection.com, namaste.org, kiwiconnect.nz) REBECCA NEWBURN, a pio-

neer in the international seed library movement, is co-founder of Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library, a free seed-lending library located in the Richmond, California Public Library.

Rebecca developed “create a library” resources that have helped hundreds of communities open seed libraries and is a key partner in the national Save Seed Sharing Campaign that works to protect the right to share locally grown seeds. (richmondgrowsseeds.org) ADINA NIEMEROW is a San Francisco-based holistic chef, whole food nutritionist, wellness expert and a true believer that food is medicine. She has grown her expertise through studies at the Heartwood Institute and Natural Gourmet Institute and tenures at top wellness spas and restaurants, including the French Laundry and The Tree of Life Rejuvenation center. Adina has been a private holistic chef to Fortune 500 CEOs and Hollywood actors. Her celebrated book Super Cleanse is an extensive guide to vegetarian raw and cooked foods for everyday wellness. (adinaniemerow.com) MATEO NUBE was born and grew up in La Paz, Bolivia. Co-founder of the Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project in 2007, he has spent the last two decades organizing in the labor, environmental justice and international solidarity movements, and is also a member of the Latin rock band Los Nadies. (movementgeneration.org) DAVID W. ORR, Professor of Environmental Studies and Counselor to the President at Oberlin College, and Stephan Minter Fellow at the Cleveland Foundation, an award-winning scholar and leader in the sustainability movement, renowned for his pioneering work on environmental literacy and ecological design, is the author of: Down to the Wire; The Last Refuge; The Nature of Design; Earth

in Mind; and Ecological Literacy; and co-editor of Hope is an Imperative. (oberlin.edu/envs/) HENK OVINK, the Netherlands’ first Special Envoy on International Water Affairs, is one of the world’s leading experts on designing infrastructure in the light of climate change and on the links between governance/politics, planning, design, and the environment. He served as Senior Advisor to the U.S.’ Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task, has written many influential papers, and has consulted and taught widely, including at: Harvard, Columbia, Delft, Groningen, and the Eindhoven Design Academy. (rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/water-en-veiligheid, rebuildbydesign.org, nwp.nl, deltacommissaris.nl) DANA PEARLMAN, dedicated

to designing and facilitating conversations and participatory processes to unearth deeper wisdom at the individual and collective levels, co-authored the free guidebook: The Lotus: A practice guide for Authentic Leadership towards Sustainability, and is a co-founder of the Global Leadership Lab. (www.blurb.com/b/2513859-the-lotus) DANNA PFAHL, Vice President

of Stakeholder Engagement at Future 500, has a background in environmental policy and coalition building, having worked with Oxfam America, Global Exchange, Amnesty International and many other groups on environmental and social issues. She currently works directly with some of the largest utilities and consumer brands in the country to advance market-based approaches to environmental problems. (future500.org) PENNIE OPAL PLANT, of Yaqui/

Mexican/Choctaw/Cherokee/European descent, an activist on behalf of the rights of Mother Earth and indigenous peoples, as well as the environment, for 30+ years, is: a co-founder of Idle No More SF Bay and Movement Rights; an organizer of the Refinery Corridor Healing Walks; and a member of the Bay Area Refinery Corridor Coalition and Bay Area Rights of Nature Alliance.

CATLIN POWERS, PhD, is the

co-founder/CEO of One Earth Designs (creator of the groundbreaking SolSource solar stove), a pioneering sustainable/ethical enter47

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES prise, which received one of the highest Global Impact Investing Rating System (GIIRS) ratings ever awarded. A fellow at Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, Catlin has won many prestigious awards for her work in the clean energy and environmental health fields. (oneearthdesigns.com) ADRIANNA QUINTERO, Director of Partner Engagement for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and founder/Executive Director of Voces Verdes, a leading national Latino coalition on climate change and clean energy, started as an attorney in NRDC’s Environment and Health program litigating cases on pesticides, toxic chemicals, safe drinking water, clean air, environmental justice, and US-Mexico border issues. She has been a groundbreaking environmental leader in the Latino community and beyond. (nrdc.org)

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is one of America’s leading science fiction writers, author of many works, including: Aurora, Shaman, 2312, Galileo’s Dream, The Years of Rice and Salt, the renowned Mars trilogy, and other novels. He lives in Davis, California. (kimstanleyrobinson.info) FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural organizer, and political activist based in Oakland, California. Her art and collaborative projects address migration, global politics, economic injustice, patriarchy, and interdependence. Favianna is also the Executive Director of CultureStrike, a national arts organization that engages artists, writers and performers in migrant rights. (favianna.com) DARIAN RODRIGUEZ HEYMAN,

Executive Director of the Biomimicry Institute, previously worked with William McDonough and Michael Braungart on The Upcycle, the sequel to Cradle to Cradle, and was co-founder and the first Executive Director of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. A former management consultant, Beth is also an attorney and a long-time advocate for human and environmental health. (biomimicry.org)

a serial social entrepreneur, is co-founder/Chief Development Officer of BetterWorld Wireless, which partners with U.S. NGOs and government agencies serving the poor to power their mobile impact campaigns. Previously, Heyman served as: Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation; Commissioner for the Environment for San Francisco; and co-founded Social Media for Nonprofits. Heyman is also the best-selling author of Nonprofit Management 101. (betterworldwireless.com)

AMANDA JOY RAVENHILL, Professor Emeritus of Sustainable Business at Presidio Graduate School, co-founder of The Hero Hatchery, former head of business partnerships at 350.org and an Americorp Fellow, is the Executive Director of Project Drawdown, a new initiative co-founded by Paul Hawken that is looking comprehensively at climate solutions and analyzing the path to ‘drawdown’—the point at which carbon in the atmosphere begins to decline. (drawdown.org)

CARA ROMERO (Chemehuevi),

BETH

RATTNER ,

BRUCE RIORDAN is the Pro-

gram Director for the Climate Readiness Institute, which brings together academic experts with climate practitioners from Bay Area governments, non-profits and businesses to conduct research projects and facilitate workshops.

Previously Climate Strategist for the Bay Area Joint Policy Committee, he is also co-founder of the Alliance of Regional Collaboratives for Climate Adaptation. (climatereadinessinstitute.org) 48

Program Director of the Bioneers Indigenous Knowledge Program, previously served her Mojave-based tribe in several capacities, including as: first Executive Director at the Chemehuevi Cultural Center, a member of the tribal council, and Chair of the Chemehuevi Education Board and Chemeuevi Headstart Policy Council. Cara is also a highly accomplished photographer/artist. (bioneers.org/pages/indigeneity-program) ITZCUAUHTLI ROSKE-MARTINEZ, a highly gifted 12-year old

eco-themed lyricist and rapper and eco activist from Boulder, Colorado, of Aztec descent on his father’s side and steeped in environmental activism on his mother’s, began his precocious activism and eco-themed lyrical performances at age seven and hasn’t stopped since.

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES KRISTIN ROTHBALLER, a consultant to nonprofits, foundations and social enterprises, is currently developing The Toll House at Bell Valley retreat center; helping design COAL, a musical to engage people around climate change, serving on the urban program faculty of Center for Whole Communities and on the teaching team for Ecology of Awakening. Kristin’s past positions include Managing Director of Green for All and Director of Programs at Bioneers. (tollhouseinn.com/retreats.php, coalmusical.com) JOHN W. ROULAC, founder and CEO of the superfoods company Nutiva, has also founded five ecological nonprofits, including GMO Inside and the Nutiva Foundation. John has written four books, including Backyard Composting and Hemp Horizons. (nutiva.com) LINDA RUDOLPH, MD, MPH,

board certified in Occupational Medicine, is the Director of the Center for Climate Change and Health at the Public Health Institute. She was previously the Deputy Director for Chronic Disease Prevention and Public Health, California Department of Public Health, and Health Officer/Public Health Director for the City of Berkeley. (phi.org) LEILA SALAZAR-LÓPEZ, the newly appointed Executive Director of Amazon Watch, which works to protect the Amazon by working with indigenous people in defense of rivers, rights, rainforests, and global climate, has for 20+ years been a passionate activist, campaigner and director of international advocacy and corporate accountability campaigns for Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network, Global Exchange, and Green Corps. (amazonwatch.org) BRENDA SALGADO is the Center Director at East Bay Meditation Center, whose mission is to foster personal and interpersonal healing, social action, and inclusive community building for underrepresented and marginalized communities. Brenda’s prior work has focused on integrating spiritual and contemplative practices into social justice movement building. A first-generation Nicaraguan-American, she currently serves on the boards of the Movement Strategy Center and the Shambhala Sun Foundation. (eastbaymeditation.org)

INGRID SANDERS created popexpert.com after taking a sabbatical from her tech career and being inspired by the time she spent studying with experts who help people live better. Previously General Manager of Online Advertising for Active Network and the Managing Director of Digital Strategy and Partnerships for TARGUSinfo, she is also a certified yoga teacher and health coach. (popexpert.com) BARBARA SATTLER, RN, DrPH, a professor at the University of San Francisco and founding member of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, an international organization that helps to integrate environmental health into nursing education, practice, research, and policy/advocacy, has worked with dozens of hospitals to reduce potentially toxic exposures, engage in environmentally friendly purchasing, reduce unnecessary waste, and address climate change. (usfca.edu) MARK SCHAPIRO, an Oakland-

based investigative journalist who explores the intersection of environmental abuses, economics and politics, is the author of several books, including most recently Carbon Shock. His award-winning work has been widely published, including in Harpers, Mother Jones, The Atlantic, The Nation, Newsweek, etc. A former correspondent with PBS’ Frontline, he is a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. (markschapiro.com) MITCH SCHULTZ, MFA, a transmedia storyteller whose work explores the inherent connections between consciousness, nature, culture, and the evolving human story, is the creator of MYTHAPHI: an open source media arts and distribution platform for emerging ideas, and is the director of the documentary, DMT: The Spirit Molecule. (mythaphi.com) LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG is an

award-winning filmmaker who has been shooting time-lapse 24/7 continuously for over three decades, mastering the art of filmmaking in his quest to uncover the mysteries of the living universe. Through his company Moving Art, Louie brings his stunning time-lapse and nature cinematography to audiences as diverse as the UN, TED, 49

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES NASA, Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday, and 3D IMAX theaters worldwide. (movingart.com)

ing trainings with Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY). (rjoyoakland.org)

RINKU SEN, President/Executive Director of Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation and Publisher of the award-winning news site Colorlines, previously served in leadership roles at the Center for Third World Organizing. Author of the influential books Stir It Up and The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization, she has won many prestigious prizes and fellowships and sits on the boards of several NGOs. (raceforward.org)

NINA SIMONS, co-founder and

DAVID SHAW, a Permaculture

and whole systems designer, facilitator, and educator, co-founded the Common Ground Center at UC Santa Cruz, an inter-generational partnership focused on education for a just and sustainable world, which seeks to support communities locally and globally to transform their shared future through dialogue and collective action. (kresge.ucsc.edu/commonground) LYNNEA SHUCK, currently a freshman at Harvard, spearheaded the creation of the Junior Refuge Ranger Program to train young environmental stewards. After starting the program at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Lynnea is working to spread the program around the nation, and ultimately to all 560 National Wildlife Refuges in the U.S. NIKKI SILVESTRI, a thought leader in creating social equity for underrepresented populations in food systems, social services, public health, climate solutions, and economic development for a decade, formerly served as Executive Director at Green for All, and before that at Oakland’s People’s Grocery. Nikki also sits on the board of Food First and is a Business Alliance of Living Economies (BALLE) Fellow. (nikkisilvestri.com) CAMERON SIMMONS, a young man arrested multiple times and seemingly headed on “the school-to-prison pipeline,” transformed his life when he entered West Oakland’s Bunche H.S. and got involved in Restorative Justice Circles for African American youth. Cameron now has a job and is increasingly giving presentations and co-facilitat-

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President of Bioneers and founding Director of its Everywoman’s Leadership program (which includes “Cultivating Women’s Leadership” intensives and CoMadres retreats), co-edited the anthology book, Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart. An award-winning social entrepreneur, Nina previously served as President of Seeds of Change and Director of Strategic Marketing for Odwalla before co-founding Bioneers. (bioneers.org/every-womans-leadership/) SHAY SLOAN is Director of the Indigenous & Community Lands & Seas program for The WILD Foundation; a certified council trainer with the Center for Council (Ojai Foundation); and co-editor of Protecting Wild Nature on Native Lands. She has been involved with Bioneers since 2001, currently supporting the Community of Mentors and Youth Programs, and coordinating and convening the Council tent. (wild.org) ATOSSA SOLTANI, founder and Board President of Amazon Watch, served as the organization’s Executive Director for 18 years. Board Chair of the Christensen Fund and a board member of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, Atossa has been tirelessly leading global campaigns that have resulted in groundbreaking victories for indigenous rights, corporate accountability, and rainforest protection. (amazonwatch.org) SHARON

DANIEL SOUWEINE is the Director of the Citizen Engagement Laboratory’s Climate Lab, which incubates new organizing and communications projects working on climate and energy issues. Its projects include: ClimateTruth.org, Climate Parents, the Climate Relief Fund, and Faces of Fracking. Daniel was previously Chief of Staff at Citizen Engagement Lab and is one of the organization’s co-founders. (engagementlab.org) REV. M. KALANI SOUZA, Execu-

tive Director of the Olohana Foundation, is a Hawaiian storyteller, musician/performer, poet, priest, facilitator, and social justice activist.

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES He currently works with the University of Hawaii’s National Disaster Training Center, chairs the Indigenous Knowledge Hui of the Pacific Risk Management Ohana, working to mitigate disasters in the greater Pacific region, and serves as a board member or advisor to several Indigenous and community non-profits and climate adaptation projects. (olohana.org) SILDA WALL SPITZER, JD, Prin-

cipal at NewWorld Capital Group, a private equity firm specializing in energy efficiency, clean energy, water, waste-to-value and environmental services, has had a highly varied career in the public, private and nonprofits sectors. Her remarkable resumé has included: co-founder/CEO of NewYorkStatesOfMind.com; managing director at a woman-owned investment firm; First Lady of NYS; co-founder of Children for Children; and being a corporate lawyer for a decade. (newworldcapital.net) AUTUMN SUMMERS, who has

intensely studied herbalism and ethnobotany for over 25 years with a special kinship for the plants of Northern California, teaches edible and medicinal plant classes at the California School of Herbal Studies, consults for the pioneering herbal company, Herb Pharm, and teaches in their intern program in Southern Oregon. (cshs.com) J. MIAKODA TAYLOR is Director of Fierce Allies, a consulting and training program that uses relationship-based strategies for change to foster meaningful partnerships across divides of power and privilege. This work is informed by restorative justice, emotional/social intelligence, conflict transformation, somatic trauma healing, improvisational arts and other disciplines. Clients range from big-greens, front-line/ grass-roots organizations, field innovators and individual leaders. (fierceallies.com) LUISAH TEISH, an initiated elder (Iyanifa) in the Ifa/Orisha tradition, is a renowned speaker, artist-activist, facilitator of inter-generational/crosscultural workshops and discussion groups, and a teacher of online classes for The Shift Network and Balade Black Productions. Her several books include: Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals, and most recently, On Holy Ground: Commitment and Devotion to Sacred Land (co-authored with Leilani Birely).

(yeyeteish.com, ileorunmilaoshun.com, balade.black/luisah-teish-crossroads-tool) CLAYTON THOMAS-MÜLLER, a member of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, is a Winnipeg-based Indigenous rights activist, the Indigenous Extreme Energy Campaigner with 350.org and an organizer for Defenders of the Land and Idle No More. He has campaigned across Canada, Alaska and the lower 48 in hundreds of Indigenous communities to organize against the encroachments of the fossil fuel industry and the banks that finance them.

(350.org, idlenomore.ca) ELIZABETH THOMPSON, Executive Director of The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) since 2004, has led BFI through a re-birth, expanding its mission and boosting its educational programs. In 2007 she developed and launched The Buckminster Fuller Challenge, now recognized as socially responsible design’s highest award. Elizabeth has served in a leadership capacity in a variety of cultural and educational initiatives throughout her 25+ year career. (bfi.org) VIEN TRUONG, JD, the new

National Director of Green For All, a national initiative to build an inclusive green economy, previously led the Greenlining Institute’s Environmental Equity team, helping pass SB 535, which directs a quarter of CA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to disadvantaged communities. Vien, who has long worked in a variety of contexts to address the systemic problems confronting low-income communities, has received numerous awards for her work. (greenforall.org) VALENTINE, MBA, explores the boundaries of philanthropy and entrepreneurship in his role as Director of the Sustainable Living Coalition (SLC), a non-profit dedicated to Sustainability Education and Enterprise Design. He is also a financial advisor with 15 years in the social, responsible and impact investment sectors. The Centerpoint mission includes “manifesting the experience of true wealth for clients by supporting the integration of their deep life purpose and investment portfolio.” (centerpointinvesting.com) STUART

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PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES HUGO VON MEIJENFELDT , currently the representative for the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the 13 westernmost U.S. states, was formerly Deputy Director General at the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment and also served as Special Envoy for Climate Change at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, leading Dutch participation in global diplomatic activities to reach a climate agreement.

BENJAMIN VON MENDELSSOHN, co-founded the Peace

University at Potsdam and later researched many social experiments and intentional communities.

Trained as a healer, dancer and choreographer, Benjamin has been an innovator in nurturing new models of community based on holistic principles. Living at the renowned, highly influential Tamera eco-social experiment in Portugal since 1998, he has become one of the community’s leaders. (tamera.org) PAUL VOSBEEK, a founding partner of Real NewEnergy, an integrated sustainable energy company and co-founder of OrangeGoesGreen a public-private partnership between the Netherlands and the U.S., working on energy, water and food projects, recently co-founded several clean-tech start-ups, including QuinteQ Energy Storage and BladeRunner Energy. Paul also serves as the Chief Economic Advisor to the Consulate General of the Netherlands in San Francisco. (realnewenergy.com, orangegoesgreen.org, quinteqenergy.com, bladerunnerenergy.com) JUNIOR WALK has been working with various anti-surface mining organizations in the Appalachian region for the past six years. He has done everything from lobbying at the federal and state levels, gathering data for lawsuits against coal companies, and even getting arrested. Junior now serves as the Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator for Coal River Mountain Watch. (crmw.net) AFIA WALKING TREE is a renowned multi-instrumental percussionist, performer, educator, ethnomusicologist, permaculture practitioner, NGO administrator, and longtime activist focused on transformative cultural healing across multi-ethnic and intergenerational lines. Her newest project is the Off-Grid

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Drum Mobile, a portable drum/arts/gardening learning-laboratory that will bring the power of African drumming and permaculture to communities of color nationally. (afiawalkingtree.com) TREVOR WARE (Caddo-Kiowa-Western Band

Delaware-Absentee Shawnee), who formerly worked for the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma as its NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) Coordinator, is currently working on a plan to develop a community garden using traditional Caddo plants on 40 acres of Caddo Nation trust land.

JOHN C. WARNER is one of the two seminal founders of the entire field of Green Chemistry, co-authoring the defining text, Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice with Paul Anastas. Founder/President/Chief Technology Officer of the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, President of The Beyond Benign Foundation, and recipient of the 2014 Perkin Medal, the highest honor in American Industrial Chemistry, he has published over 200 patents, papers and books. (warnerbabcock.com) GREG WATSON, Director of Poli-

cy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for New Economics, formerly Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture, also served as Massachusetts’ Senior Advisor for Clean Energy Technology and has had a long career of exemplary public service, including as: Executive Director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative; Director of Educational Programs for Second Nature; and Executive Director of the New Alchemy Institute. (centerforneweconomics.org) WEST, MBA, cofounder of Hylo, an innovative social network helping members of communities-of-purpose connect and collaborate, also co-founded Impact Hub Oakland, a co-working and community space for impact entrepreneurs. In 2006, he co-founded Mission Motors, a manufacturer of advanced electric vehicle components. He is an advisor to numerous startups, and has taught entrepreneurship at Presidio Graduate School and California College of the Arts. (hylo.com) EDWARD

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES RICHARD WHITE, an American

historian who teaches environmental history at Stanford and a past President of the Organization of American Historians, is the author of a number of influential books on the American West, Native American History, railroads, and environmental history. He has won prestigious Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships and has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Among his many books is The Organic Machine. (stanford.edu) JOHN WICK, a rancher from West Marin, is the co-founder of the Marin Carbon Project. He is currently working with scientists to establish a suite of replicable, scalable, and broadly applicable agricultural practices that will be globally recognized as climate beneficial while balancing Earth’s carbon cycles. (marincarbonproject.org) ARRON WILDER has operated Table Top Farm

in Point Reyes Station, Marin County, for the last 5 years. He specializes in growing open pollinated, heirloom crops and works in collaboration with Living Seed Company to grow out unique and rare varieties of vegetables for seed collection. He was formerly a soil scientist who worked on soil and water remediation for 12 years. (tabletopfarm.net) VERNARD WILLIAMS, J.D., based in Las Vegas, NV, is an Associate Program Director for the Alliance for Climate Education (ACE).

A founding member of ACE’s New York region, he established its Las Vegas office in 2011. A one-time U.S. Court of Appeals staff attorney, Vernard got to share the stage, as a youth activist, with such luminaries as Nelson Mandela and Mario Cuomo. (acespace.org)

individuals with life threatening illnesses, is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author of Noe – A Father/Son Song of Love, Life, Illness and Death. A founding member of the Heffter Research Institute, he writes extensively on politics, transformation, psychedelics, and consciousness, and is the editor of the forthcoming MAPS publication: The Ketamine Papers. (philwolfsonmd.com) CHRISTIANA WYLY, coordinator of the My Plate/My Planet Initiative, an aggregation of groups supporting sustainability in the U.S. Dietary Guidelines, is Executive Director of the Food Choice Taskforce, an organization working at the nexus of environmental and human health. Formerly Transition Chair of Global Green, USA, she is also an operating partner at Satori Capital, an impact investment firm, and was a founding partner of Green Mountain Energy.

MALIK KENYATTA YAKINI, founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which operates a seven-acre urban farm and is spearheading the opening of a co-op grocery store in Detroit’s North End, views the “good food revolution” as part of the larger movement for freedom, justice and equality, and seeks to help develop an international food sovereignty movement that embraces black communities throughout the Americas, Caribbean, and Africa. (dbcfsn.org) JARED YAZZIE (Navajo) founder

of OXDX Clothing (started in 2009 in a college dorm room), was raised in Northern AZ, and most of his creations depict American Indian struggles, issues, and art and are strongly influenced by street art, music, and the beauty of the world.

JUSTIN WINTERS, the Executive Director of the

Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, with deep expertise in environmental issues and cutting-edge communications strategies, has for the last nine years built the foundation from the ground up, working with Leonardo to design his approach to philanthropy, activism, and social change. She has co-created an organization renowned for its innovations, collaborations, and its impact. (ldcfoundation.org) PHIL WOLFSON, MD, Principal Investigator for the first Bay Area MAPS-sponsored study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for

SISTER ZEPH, an award-winning

crusader for girls’ education in rural Punjab, Pakistan (where 52% of women are illiterate), braves threats to her life and her school (Zephania Free Education), to provide education to hundreds of girls annually. The 2014 recipient of World Pulse’s Lynn Syms Prize, recognizing an outstanding grassroots woman using digital tools to effect change, a documentary, Flight of the Falcon, was made about her life.

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The 2015 Collections perfectly complement our first 16 Media Collections, released in 2014 and available in both digital format and as beautifully packaged CD/DVD sets.

Bioneers Media Collections are designed for everyone, and are an especially powerful tool for: • College and high school students and teachers • Libraries and community centers • Companies, nonprofit organizations, public servants, diverse professionals and engaged citizens.

PLAY IT FORWARD: GIVE A MEDIA COLLECTION TO THE LIBRARY OR SCHOOL OF YOUR CHOICE! For every $250 gift, we will send one Media Collection to the library, school or institution of your choice. Use the remit envelope in this program or visit www.bioneers.org to make a secure online donation.

Visit the Bioneers Store in Exhibit Hall to purchase 2014 Media Collections at special conference prices. You can also stream Media Collections content free or purchase a download at media.bioneers.org. For licensing for educational curricula or broadcast, or subscriptions for educational institutions and libraries, please contact us: media@bioneers.org.

CLIMATE LEADERSHIP, VOLUME 1

Discover game-changing approaches across a wide range of sectors and communities that will mitigate climate disruption, restore the changing biosphere, and revitalize our human communities.

RACIAL JUSTICE, VOLUME 1

This powerful Collection offers deep insights and practical pathways for how we can move beyond racism to create a truly just, inclusive, compassionate and ecologically vital society and world.

ECOLOGICAL LITERACY, VOLUME 1

From climate action to shifting food choices and procurement, the educational institutions and leaders featured in this Collection are showing how all education is environmental education.

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BIONEERS MEDIA COLLECTIONS WOMEN LEADERS ON LEADERSHIP, VOLUME 1

This inspiring Collection features the vision, voices and fierce purposefulness of leaders who exemplify why feminine-centered leadership is a decisive game-changer in today’s world.

EVERYWOMAN’S LEADERSHIP, VOLUME 2

Explore dynamic models of how women are elevating human qualities associated with the feminine to a place of balance with the masculine in our leadership, institutions and culture.

EVERYWOMAN’S LEADERSHIP, AUDIO COLLECTION 1

This audio-only Collection features diverse and inspiring leaders revealing how women are reinventing leadership worldwide.

PROTECTING AND RESTORING NATURE, VOLUME 2: CLIMATE JUSTICE, EARTH JUSTICE

Gain inspiring practical and visionary solutions for mitigating climate disruption and restoring the ecosystems, wildlands, biodiversity and biocultural diversity on which all life depends.

PROTECTING AND RESTORING NATURE, VOLUME 3: FORESTS

Learn how these breakthrough innovators are waging successful campaigns to conserve landscapes on large scales, combining high technology with Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and more.

INDIGENOUS FORUM, VOLUME 1

The Indigenous Forum is a sovereign, Native-led space at the annual Bioneers Conference, where diverse Indigenous leaders share traditional wisdom and insight from their work today.

FOOD JUSTICE, VOLUME 2

This powerful Collection shows ingenious, effective approaches for a “Fair Food” system – healthy, sustainably grown food as a human right, strong local food systems and economic democracy.

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BIONEERS MEDIA COLLECTIONS GREEN BUSINESS, VOLUME 1

Hear from visionary leaders radically re-thinking current economic ideas and practices to build a Green Economy that is environmentally healthy, equitable, and restores both nature and people.

NATURE, CULTURE AND SPIRIT: HONORING THE SACRED, VOLUMES 2 & 3

Discover how Earth-honoring reverence in our ethical and religious worldviews can heal nature and human wholeness with the visionaries featured in these deeply moving Collections.

DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE RIGHTS OF NATURE, VOLUMES 2 & 3

These rousing Collections portray the vibrant global movement of movements devoted to environmental health, justice, diversity, and democracy – to human rights and the rights of nature.

ECOLOGICAL MEDICINE, VOLUME 2: HEALING THE EARTH, HEALING OURSELVES

Learn from brilliant scientific, medical and social innovators creating a regenerative healthcare system, healthy society and restored environment through an “integrative medicine” paradigm.

ECOLOGICAL DESIGN, VOLUME 3: NATURE’S OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS

When you fight nature, you lose. As this Collection vividly brings to life, ecological design systems are far more efficient, economical, profitable and humane than current design norms.

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, VOLUME 2

Meet courageous, inventive activists on the frontlines of environmental justice and the strategies, technologies and street savvy we can all use to achieve a healthy, just and beautiful world.

KEYNOTES 2014

A celebration of the genius of nature and human ingenuity, this set of National Bioneers Conference 2014 Keynote Talks and Performances will fill you with hope and change the way you see the world. Visit the Bioneers Store in the Exhibit Hall to pre-order 2015 Keynotes DVDs! 56

RADIO SERIES “These programs, and the amazing people that contribute with their evocative and compelling points of view, give me hope for our beleaguered planet. I am very grateful to Bioneers for bringing these INSPIRED, new world leaders to the forefront. Don’t ever stop.”

– Teresa Anastasion, KSFR

BIONEERS: Revolution from the Heart of Nature RADIO SERIES XV Our award-winning 13-part series of half-hour shows features the “bioneers”—social and scientific innovators with breakthrough solutions for people and planet. Cutting-edge, charismatic, provocative, hopeful, these are ardent voices of brilliant visionaries with both feet on the ground. Listen and be inspired by their practical approach to transformation and their innovative solutions for environmental restoration, social justice and cultural healing.

• Multiple Winner, New York festivals (NYf) International Radio Competition: WorldMedal, Gold, Silver, Bronze

• 6-time Winner: Gold Communicator Award of Excellence • 20-time Winner: Silver Communicator Award of Distinction • PRX Zeitgeist Award: Top Five Most Licensed Debut Group • Won 11 Communicator Awards in 2014 series: 1 Gold & 10 Silver (from 13 shows) Purchase past Radio Series CD sets at special conference pricing by visiting the Bioneers Store in the Exhibit Hall.

Check your local listings to listen to Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature in hundreds of communities worldwide. If they don’t already, encourage your local station to air this program, available free of charge. You can also stream shows free online. More program information at media.bioneers.org/radio-series.

The series is an original production of the Bioneers | Collective Heritage Institute. New content is sourced and recorded annually at the acclaimed National Bioneers Conference.

Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature is made possible by: • Organic Valley Family of Farms. Organic and farmer-owned since 1988. Meet your local farmers at www.organicvalley.coop.

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BIONEERS BOOKS Take a deep dive in these titles for the leading-edge vision, wisdom and heartbeat of Bioneers, all available in the REAL Books store in Exhibit Hall.

DREAMING THE FUTURE: REIMAGINING CIVILIZATION IN THE AGE OF NATURE

By Kenny Ausubel, Foreword by David W. Orr In this award-winning collection of essays, Ausubel helps us reimagine our future and our connection to nature and each other. He illuminates the big ideas, meta-trends and game-changing innovations led by some of the world’s greatest thinkers and doers to create a world where people take their cues from nature, and address justice, equity, diversity, democracy and peace.

“Kenny Ausubel is one of the most glorious minds on the planet. Herein he has crafted a dazzling treasury of essays, a rosary of startling truths.”

– Paul Hawken, author-entrepreneur MOONRISE: THE POWER OF WOMEN LEADING FROM THE HEART

Edited by Nina Simons and Anneke Campbell, Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams This kaleidoscopic anthology explores the flourishing, passionate forms of leadership emerging from women in over 30 essays from eminent women trailblazers, and a few good men. They depict how they cultivate their “feminine” strengths to reinvent leadership to prioritize community, collaboration, the environment, and the common good. Contributors include Alice Walker, Jean Shinoda Bolen and Eve Ensler.

“Moonrise brings together thirty wise essays on transforming the old ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ division into a human style of leadership.”

– Gloria Steinem NATURE’S OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS: THE TRUE BIOTECHNOLOGIES

Edited by Kenny Ausubel with J.P. Harpignies, Foreword by Paul Hawken This landmark book shows how we can emulate and adapt nature’s operating instructions to the benefit of all life. It illustrates “true biotechnologies” such as biomimicry, indigenous land management and ecologically intelligent design, with a Who’s Who of contributors including Paul Hawken, Janine Benyus, David Suzuki, Michael Pollan and Amory Lovins.

“These are the beginnings of illuminated manuscripts, biological strategies that carefully attend to the complexity of life.”

– Paul Hawken, author-entrepreneur

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BIONEERS BOOKS ECOLOGICAL LITERACY: EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD

Edited by Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow, Preface by Fritjof Capra The concept of “ecological literacy” advanced by this book’s editors from the Center for Ecoliteracy extends “toward a deeper transformation of the substance, process and scope of education at all levels.” Contributors include Fritjof Capra, Wendell Berry, David W. Orr, Alice Waters and Donella Meadows. An invaluable resource for parents and educators.

“This highly original volume makes a critical contribution to rethinking how we teach our children about their place in nature. The best of its kind.”

– Michael Pollan, author, Omnivore’s Dilemma.

ECOLOGICAL MEDICINE: HEALING THE EARTH, HEALING OURSELVES

Edited by Kenny Ausubel with J.P. Harpignies, Foreword by Dr. Andrew Weil This pathfinding collection illuminates how human and environmental health are inseparable, spawning an emerging movement called Ecological Medicine. Leading health visionaries contributing include Dr. Andrew Weil, Michael Lerner, Carolyn Raffensperger and Jeanne Achterberg.

“Inspiring…the gritty essays in Ecological Medicine present many success stories. An unprecedented book. Your grandchildren may be grateful.”

– Dr. Larry Dossey

ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS: INDIGENOUS TEACHINGS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

Edited by Melissa K. Nelson This treasure trove illuminates the indigenous wisdom and knowledge contained in Traditional Ecological Knowledge, the “Original Instructions” for how to live on Earth and with each other, and contemporary perspectives on a spectrum of global and indigenous issues. Contributors include Chief Oren Lyons, John Mohawk, Winona LaDuke and John Trudell.

“Buckminster Fuller once complained that the Earth had come without a good operating manual. In fact, though, there are an awful lot of instructions that have stood the test of time…It might be wise to pay some attention.” – Bill McKibben VISIONARY PLANT CONSCIOUSNESS: THE SHAMANIC TEACHINGS OF THE PLANT WORLD

Edited by J.P. Harpignies Visionary Plant Consciousness explores how plant consciousness affects the human condition. Twenty-three leading explorers show how these plants may help us access the profound intelligence in nature – the “mind of nature” – that we must learn to understand in order to transform our ecologically destructive way of life. Contributors include Terence McKenna, Dr. Andrew Weil, Wade Davis, Michael Pollan, Alex Grey, and Jeremy Narby.

“This book seeks to inform Westerners about these powerful plants and the shamans who know how to use them.” – Jeremy Narby 59

BIONEERS IS FOR EVERYONE— HELP GROW THE MOVEMENT Bioneers is a nonprofit organization that supports and is supported by a diverse community.

Because of the size and scale of our movement and summit, you may get the impression that the conference fills our coffers and keeps us going from year to year. We wish that were the case.

Every year we produce the conference as a modern council fire for all movements making the world a better place, to share solutions and to partake in brilliance, purpose and great compassion. The Bioneers Conference is your chance to make life-changing connections with allies and ideas, and to recharge for the year ahead.

To make sure as many people in our community as possible can access the Conference, we offer scholarships and many discounted tickets—even our standard rates are subsidized.

The Bioneers Conference has lasted for 26 years because it’s a community effort. Your financial support ensures there’s plenty of room around the council fire for everyone!

You can do that by powering our John Mohawk Scholarship Fund, supporting youth, women, elders, activists and others with limited incomes to be a part of movement building at the conference. Last year 357 youth received scholarships—20% of our audience! 50% of them were youth of color, and 65 youth represented 21 First Nations.

This is how we build a world that benefits all: By making sure the dreams and visions that inform our work together are spoken in diverse voices, regardless of economics.

If you have the means and share our belief that the change makers of the world need a place to gather, renew and reconnect—please support Bioneers by making Bioneers available to everyone!

Please use the envelope in this program to make your gift today. You can also make a secure online donation at www.bioneers.org or contact give@bioneers.org or 415.660.9305.

JOHN MOHAWK (Seneca) was a legendary activist, historian, writer, journalist, farmer, long-time Bioneers Board member, precious teacher and friend, along with his beloved wife Yvonne Dion-Buffalo (Samson Cree Band), and a Native American scholar and activist. John was a committed and generous mentor who loved working with emerging leaders and supporting their development.

We are proud to support our community through scholarships in his name and deeply grateful to all of you who contribute.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We Gratefully Acknowledge and Thank Our Current Donors* We deeply thank all of you bioneers who give less than $500 a year who are too numerous to list!

$100,000+ Anonymous (6) Frances & Benjamin Benenson Foundation Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Poss Family Foundation

$25,000-$99,999 Anonymous (5) Grant Abert Aurora Foundation Barbara Bosson Living Trust Susan N. Clark John Densmore Embrey Family Foundation The Charles Engelhard Foundation Polly Howells & Eric Werthman MK Gratitude Fund of RSF Social Finance David Milliken Namaste Foundation Dale R. Rodrigues Dan & Priscilla Wieden Sandra Witbeck Richard & Trea Yip Nancy Zamierowski

$10,000-$24,999 Anonymous (2) The B. Charles & Jay G. Ames Foundation Christensen Fund Community Investments Fund of Tides Foundation Helen Cooluris Women’s Wellbeing Fund of RSF Social Finance Cathleen Dorinson The Foley Family Foundation Victoria C. Fullerton The Hobson Family Foundation Noel Littlejohns & Jody Snyder Satya D. Kirsch Livingry Foundation Ruth Lofgren The Joshua Mailman Foundation

Charlie and Leigh Merinoff Russell & Suki Munsell Nutiva Park Foundation Marjorie Roswell Steve Saarman & Liese Keon San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Katrin & Linda Spiess Trisons Foundation Underdog Fund of the Rose Foundation Mary Waldner

$5,000-$9,999 Joan Stroud Blaine JB and Margaret Blaugrund Foundation Peter & Mimi Buckley Center for Educational Initiatives Compton Foundation, Inc Eileen Fisher Foundation Richard & Shari Foos Garfield Foundation GeoFamily Foundation Katz Family Foundation Nancy Kurtz Noel Littlejohns & Jody Snyder Livingry Foundation Alan & Jan Marks Dale McDonald Organic Valley/CROPP Cooperative Rick Paine & Lynnaea Lumbard Anne C. Parker Jack & Betsy Rix Susannah M. Schroll Hugo & Monica Steensma Webber Family Foundation W.E. Coyote Foundation

$1,000-$4,999 Anonymous (2) Ananda Fund Frank Arentowicz & Sara Nichols Arntz Family Foundation James & Lyn Avery

*$500 or more between September 1, 2014 and August 31, 2014

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Birdhill Fund Mary B. Brooks Nancy Brown Katherine A. Collins County of Marin Harriet Denison DeeAnn Downing Martha Easter-Wells Cindy Ewing Mary C. Ford Art Gardenswartz & Sonya Priestly Laurrien Gilman Bob and Eileen Gilman Family Foundation Sarah Grace John & Bonnie Gray Anne Hemenway Heather B. Henson Highfield Foundation Just Woke Up Fund of the Santa Fe Community Foundation Jeremy Kagan & Anneke Campbell Kate’s Fund for Women of the Santa Fe Community Foundation Judith A. Kramer Lorna Li Mattlin Foundation Pond Foundation Andrea Nasher Evelyn B. Newell David Orr & Elaine Orr Mark Parnes & Diane Ford Terri Pauls Susan Prince Bonnie Raitt Catherine Raphael Gift Fund of Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Sanford & Carolyn C. Rosenberg Lynne Rosenthal Barbara Sachs Senn Jack Sawyer Richmond Shreve & Marguerite Chandler Nina Simons Sergei Smirnoff & Nancy Milliken Virginia Stearns Szekely Family Foundation Bill & Lynne Twist Thomas W. Van Dyck Job van Weelden 62

Scott & Beth Wachenheim Sharon Weil Mo J. Weimer Julia Winiarski

$500-$999 Anonymous (3) Acterra: Action for a Sustainable Earth Mary Alberts Melissa M. Aronson Kenny Ausubel Bradley E. Baker Judy Bierman Karen Bouris Catherine Byers William Carney & Tamra Peters Margaret Christensen Harriett Crosby Paul S. Cultrera Patricia Dorn Jesse & Riley Douglas Kelly Filon Charlie Freas Elizabeth Gould Russell S. Greene Edward & Melissa Guardardo Diana W. Hadley Hardt Living Trust Foundation Gary & Carole Hemingway Robert E. Jones Nancy Juda Pamela R. Kaplan Wanda Knapik Linda Krull Parker Lindner & Ann Zavitkovsky Will Parish Win Phelps & Virginia S. Coyle Scott & Carol Price Samuel Rubin Foundation Bonnie Rukin Jean Shinoda Bolen Benjamin Sibelman Richard Sloan Sarah Stranahan Dancing Swimmer Pamela Thomas Jennifer E. Tucci Sabine von Glinski

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BIONEERS in SPAIN

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Bioneers has been invited back to Spain for a joint conference hosted by the Basque government in June 2016!

The program will feature leaders from the region together with Bioneers stars, including: Climbing PoeTree

John Warner

Jensine Larsen

Greg Watson

Clayton Thomas-M端ller

Paul Hawken

Manuel Pastor

Join us in beautiful San Sebastian June 24th-26th, 2016 to connect with other bioneers and grow our movement of movements globally.

Visit www.bioneers.org/spain2016 and sign up for Bioneers email updates to stay in the loop about this special event.

We thank our old friend and esteemed Spanish activist filmmaker Pedro Barbadillo for making this event possible. Thank you, Pedro!

BIONEERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Kenny Ausubel (Chair) Founder & CEO, Bioneers Gay Dillingham (Vice-Chair) Co-Founder, Earthstone International, LLC; Executive Director, Livingry Foundation Hugo Steensma (Treasurer) Former Director, SAM Sustainable Asset Management USA, Inc.; Former General Manager & Founder, Rabobank US and Canada Melissa K. Nelson, PH.D. (Secretary) (Anishinaabe/MĂŠtis) President & Executive Director, The Cultural Conservancy; Associate Professor, American Indian Studies Department, San Francisco State University Polly Howells Pachamama Alliance; Marion Woodman Foundation David W. Orr Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College; James Marsh Professor at the University of Vermont; Founder, The Oberlin Project Anita Sanchez International consultant, trainer, speaker and coach Jim Sheehan Founder & President, Center for Justice and the Community Building Foundation Nina Simons Co-Founder & President, Bioneers Clayton Thomas-MĂźller (Cree) Co-Director, Polaris Institute Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign; organizer, Defenders of the Land and Idle No More Greg Watson Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for New Economics

HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS Bill Benenson Laurie Benenson Barbara Bosson Jim Butcher Lauren Embrey Richard Foos Shari Foos Connie Heller

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Konda Mason Dale Rodrigues Jeff Hull Maggie Kaplan Dorka Keehn Chief Oren Lyons Matthew Monahan john a. powell

Larry Rasmussen Gloria Rivera Nikki Silvestri Trea Yip Paul Vosbeek Mary Waldner

BIONEERS STAFF FOUNDERS Kenny Ausubel | CEO Nina Simons | President EXECUTIVE TEAM Joshua Sheridan Fouts | Executive Director Jeffrey Vasterling | VP, Finance PROGRAM DIRECTORS Branden Barber | Director of Engagement & Development Teo Grossman | Director of Strategic Network Initiatives Arty Mangan | Program Director, Restorative Food Systems Cara Romero | Program Director, Indigenous Knowledge Nikki Spangenburg | Program Director, Bioneers Resilient Communities Network STAFF Kelli Barr | Project Manager, National Bioneers Conference J.P. Harpignies | Associate Producer, Conference and Special Projects Neil Harvey | Bioneers Radio Series Host Mia Murrietta | Communications Manager Paula Rivera | Indigenous Knowledge Program Associate Maria Rotunda | Special Projects Manager Dorothée Royal-Hedinger | Marketing Manager Tyson Russell | Digital Content Manager Roberta Giordano | Youth Program Coordinator Stephanie Welch | Bioneers Radio Series Senior Producer Ana Yglesias | Communications Associate Christy Yip | Development Officer Sharon Zetter | Executive Assistant, Everywoman’s Leadership Program INTERNS Selena Khisa | Youth Leadership Intern Julietta Saccardi | Youth Leadership Intern

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ISLAND GETAWAY Floating Island Bio-Filter Launch: Local Bio-remediation Hands-On Activity Join local Gallinas Watershed Council (GWC) and Marin County representatives at the Civic Center Lagoon shoreline to plant and launch restorative floating island bio-filters. Inspired by John Todd’s work, floating island bio-filtration technology supports a living ecosystem of native plants that absorb nutrients in the water, providing habitat while purifying water. This lagoon is part of the Gallinas Watershed, home to many species including the endangered California Clapper Rail and Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse.

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Photos above: An Island Launch earlier this year in Walnut Creek, CA. Hosted by: GWC’s Civic Center Watershed Restoration project leaders Alex Kahl, Aurora Mahassine and Dan Monte with Floating Islands West, Marin School for Environmental Leadership students and Marin County Supervisor Damon Connolly.

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