Dekila Chungyalpa, buddhist and Director of the World Wildlife Fund’s Sacred Earth Program, discusses the powerful role of faith in the environmental conservation movement.
This speech was given at the 2013 Bioneers National Conference and is part of the Nature, Culture and Spirit Collection, Vol. 1 .
Terrance McNally speaks with Tom Goldtooth, the Executive Director of The Indigenous Environmental Network on environmentalism and indigenous activism.
This interview was given at the 2011 Bioneers National Conference.
Terrance McNally speaks with Maya Wiley, Founder and Director of The Center for Social Inclusion, on structural injustice and racism.
“Structural racism, in a nutshell, is simply the way that we’ve created institutions and the way they interact, and the policies on top of them, that create pathways to opportunities for some, but barriers to opportunities to others.” – Maya Wiley
Terrence McNally speaks with Philippe Cousteau, Jr., the grandson of Jaques Cousteau and CEO of EarthEcho International, on continuing the legacy of his family of environmental activism.
“My grandfather always taught me that everything is interconnected. I mean, we have coal dust from China that lands on the beaches of the Bahamas. Whatever we do in one spot effects another. And that’s what nature is all about.” – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
This interview was given at the 2011 Bioneers National Conference.
Terrance McNally speaks with Meiny Prins, the CEO of Priva, on her work with the Dutch horticulture and building sustainability company.
This interview was given at the 2011 Bioneers National Conference.
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, 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, 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, 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.”
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.
The Brower Youth Award Winner shares her personal journey for food justice. This speech was given at the 2013 Bioneers National Conference.
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.
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