Terrance McNally Speaks with Mark Hertsgaard | Bioneers

Terrance McNally speaks with author and journalist Mark Hertsgaard, on his work on climate change.

“Genuine skeptics are open to evidence. But clearly, the deniers are not open to evidence. They have made up their mind and then they cherry-pick whatever little facts they can find.” – Mark Hertsgaard

This interview was given at the 2011 Bioneers National Conference.

 

Terrance McNally Speaks with Yoni Landau | Bioneers

Terrance McNally speaks with Yoni Landau, Co-founder and Director of the Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive, on his experience with the youth food movement and the Berkeley Student Food Collective.

This interview was given at the 2011 Bioneers National Conference.

 

Terrance McNally Speaks with Charlotte Brody | Bioneers

Terrance McNally speaks with Charlotte Brody, Director of Chemicals, Public Health and Green Chemistry for the Blue Green Alliance, on her work in the public health field. This interview was given at the 2011 Bioneers National Conference.

 

Miguel Santistevan on Being Connected to Mother Earth

Miguel Santistevan, an ethnobiologist and farmer from Taos, New Mexico, explains how farming has connected him with Mother Earth.

“I measure my success by how many different living things are benefiting from what I am doing.”

 

Jay Harman – Designing the Next Golden Age

Naturalist, inventor and entrepreneur Jay Harman shows how nature’s favorite form, the spiral, is ubiquitous in nature: from the shape of galaxies to the flow of blood in our veins, how air moves through our lungs, and plants and flowers unfold. Movement wants to follow the path of least resistance. He shows how the spiral correlates with the fabled Golden Mean and the Fibonacci sequence, the mathematical representation of aesthetic beauty.

This speech took place at the 2004 National Bioneers Conference and is part of the Ecological Design Collection, Vol. 1.

 

Maya Salsedo – The Youth Food Bill of Rights | Bioneers

The Brower Youth Award Winner shares her personal journey for food justice. This speech was given at the 2013 Bioneers National Conference.

 

Asa Needle – Toxic Soil Busters: Urban Soil Remediation | Bioneers

The Brower Youth Award winner portrays how his town of Worcester, Massachusetts is making strides in the environmental justice and community solidarity movements. This speech was given at the 2013 Bioneers National Conference.

 

Kyle Thiermann – Surfing for Change | Bioneers

The Brower Youth Award winner brings young people into awareness and action on water issues around the world through surfer activism. This speech was given at the 2013 Bioneers National Conference.

 

John Densmore – Jim Morrison’s Prayer for America | Bioneers

The Doors’ drummer performs Jim Morrison’s poem “American Prayer.” This performance was given at the 2013 Bioneers Annual Conference.

 

Tom B.K. Goldtooth – Stopping the Privatization of Nature

The Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network invokes indigenous peoples asking the world to reevaluate our relationship to Mother Earth. We can turn away from destroying, privatizing and commodifying nature, and instead to “indigenuity” to fashion sustainable solutions by re-sacralizing our relationship with Mother Earth.

This speech was given at the 2013 Bioneers National Conference.