Alixa Garcia, of the spoken word duo Climbing PoeTree, and Java Rahm, on the Kora, perform live for the Bioneers audience. This performance was given at the 2014 Bioneers Annual Conference.
Wallace J. Nichols on Connecting Love With Science
Marine biologist, activist, community organizer and author Wallace J. Nichols connects love with science.
This clip was taken from Wallace’s plenary talk at the 2014 Bioneers National Conference. His full talk can be viewed here.
Opening Drumming (Saturday)
Drumming Session with Afia Walking Tree and Deb Lane.
This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.
Eve Ensler – Award-winning playwright, performer, activist
As the creation story of Judeo-Christian beliefs, the biblical recounting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has long had profound influence around the world. So what’s it like to be named Eve? World-renowned playwright and activist Eve Ensler explores her own personal journey into her name sake. The provocative author of “The Vagina Monologues” and founder of V-Day to end violence against women suggests there’s another story beneath the traditional story. For her, it’s both very personal – and very political.
Listen to a podcast from our archives based on Eve Ensler’s talk at Bioneers in 2014.
Will Keepin and Cynthia Brix – Gender Reconciliation
The Co-Directors of Gender Reconciliation International illuminate gender imbalances.
Learn more about the work of Gender Reconciliation International.
This speech was given at the 2013 Bioneers National Conference.
Andy Lipkis – Navigating Adaptation and Resilience
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.
Introduction by TreePeople Board Member Laurie Benenson.
This speech was given at the 2015 National Bioneers Conference.
Read an edited transcript of this talk here.
Mary Gonzalez – Keynote 2010: “Environment and Its Relationship to Equity and the Economy”
Mary Gonzales is the western territory director for the Gamaliel Foundation, an institute that seeks to build faith-based organizations in the U.S., Great Britain and South Africa. With nearly 30 years’ organizing experience, she has helped create many regional faith and value based community organizations in California and Hawaii. Mary also conducts leadership training events within the Gamaliel network and for several national religious and educational institutions.
For more about Mary Gonzales’ work visit The Gamaliel Foundation website.
Don’t Mourn, Organize: Power and Passion for Environmental Justice and Democracy
Somewhere in a typical American city, a woman wakes up to the noxious odors of a nearby sewage treatment plant. Her daughter carries a rescue inhaler to school. Like hundreds of her neighbors, this woman is sick and tired of being sick and tired. Women and men from vulnerable communities everywhere are rising up to gain equal access to clean water and air, equal environmental enforcement and protection, and equitable land use and planning. Impassioned community organizers Mary Gonzales and Peggy Shepard show us all how successful environmental justice campaigns across the U.S. are raising the voices of people of color and low-income communities and creating a better world for everyone.
To learn more about Mary Gonzales’ work, please visit The Gamaliel Foundation website. For more on Peggy Shepard’s work, visit the We Act for Environmental Justice website.
Busting the Drug War: The Dawn of Drug Policy Reform | Ethan Nadelmann
Ethan Nadelmann, founder/director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the nation’s leading drug policy reform organization, traces the hidden history of drugs laws, which are intimately connected with racism and the political exploitation of people’s fears. He offers a set of practical and effective policy reforms that are now being advocated by a rising tide of former drug warriors.
To find more about Ethan Nadelmann’s work, please visit the Drug Policy Alliance website.
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Going Locavore: Urban Food Innovation and Community Transformation | Michael Pollan and Oran Hesterman
Our misbegotten industrial food system is one of our greatest vulnerabilities. Its dangerously fossil-fueled, toxic, monocultural and centralized. The real cost of cheap food is very high to both people and planet. Urban food innovators are designing vibrant new local food economies built on environmental and ecological integrity, sustainability, diversity and equity. Join author Michael Pollan, Fair Food Foundation CEO Oran Hesterman, faith-based change-maker James Ella James and student leader Victoria Carter for a smorgasbord of nourishing morsels from the emerging locavore movement.
Find out more about Michael Pollan at his website, and the work Oran Hesterman is doing at the Fair Food Network website.
Becoming a Habitat: Motherhood, Faith and the Environmental Human Rights Movement
We live in a society dependent on toxic chemicals. Today about 287 such chemicals trespass inside the blood of newborns and inside all of us – without our consent. Despite the odds, ecologist, author and mother Sandra Steingraber is an optimist. She’s betting that the burgeoning global environmental human rights movement will free us from our deadly dependency. She believes our grandchildren will look back on us and marvel that our economy was once dependent on toxic chemicals – and they will think of it as unthinkable.
To find out more about the work of Sandra Steingraber, please visit her website.
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Why the World Doesn’t End: Recreation Myths of Nature and Culture | Michael Meade
When a culture is disintegrating and the stories everybody believed in no longer fit, its time to rekindle our connection to ancient wisdom and universal truths. Mythologist, author and storyteller Michael Meade, founder of the Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, reminds us that the word apocalypse – which has come to mean the end of the world, actually means an unveiling. Once we penetrate that veil, its not the end – but the beginning of a new story.
To find out more about Michael Meade’s work, visit the Mosaic Voices website.