Jason McLennan – Living Buildings and a Regenerative World | Bioneers

The visionary founder of the Living Building Challenge illuminates the game-changing impacts of the world’s most advanced and provocative green building certification program. He chronicles its core principles, its global influence on designers, builders, communities and educational systems, and its manifest progress transforming the interface between human habitats and the natural world into a virtuous cycle.

This speech took place at the 2013 Bioneers Annual Conference and is part of the Ecological Design Collection, Vol. 2.

 

Xiuhtezcatl and Itzcuauhtl Martinez Rap | Bioneers

The youth activist rap duo performs their original work. This performance took place at the 2014 Bioneers Annual Conference.

 

Destiny Arts Perfomance | Bioneers

The Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company perform their original work at Bioneers. They are part of the Destiny Arts Center, a non-profit focused on violence prevention through art and conflict mediation for youth in Oakland, CA.

This performance took place at the 2014 Bioneers Annual Conference.

 

Tim Merry Performs his Spoken Word Art (Day 2) | Bioneers

The Slam Poet Harvester weaves the second day’s highlights into bardic verse. This performance took place at the 2014 Bioneers Annual Conference.

 

Climbing PoeTree Live Performance | Bioneers

This award-winning, boundary-breaking spoken word duo, consisting of Alixia Garcia and Naima Penniman, rocks the house.

“There is disaster tourism, like there is disaster profiteering off the the torrential storms and the warring and the wrath of global warming. Who will get paid to rebuild, and who will they build for?”

This performance took place at the Bioneers 2014 Annual Conference.

 

Eve Ensler – Eve’s Revolution

Eve Ensler, playwright, performer, activist, award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues and founder of V-Day, deconstructs the tale of Adam and Eve from a feminist perspective.

“This is the time for radical change. This is the time to come into our bodies to dance and drum and rise. This is the time to stop apologizing for our belief that it is possible to live in a world where everyone gets fed; taken care of.”

This speech took place at the 2014 Bioneers Annual Conference.

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john a. powell – Beloved Community | Bioneers

As humanity faces global environmental and social collapse, our fear of the “Other” can be magnified by unstable contracting economies, radically shifting demographics, and new social norms. Can humanity overcome these divisions and come together to protect our common home? john a. powell, a nationally respected voice on race and ethnicity, leads UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion, serves on the UC Berkeley School of Law faculty, and is author of Racing to Justice.

This speech was given at the 2014 Bioneers Annual Conference.

 

Chloe Maxmin – Divesting from Fossil Fuels – Youth Leadership Lessons

An activist since age 12, Chloe co-founded Divest Harvard to pressure her college to disinvest from fossil fuel holdings, gaining international recognition for her effective activism.

This speech was given at the 2014 Bioneers Annual Conference. Learn more about what Chloe has been up to since then.

Clayton Thomas Muller – The Canadian Native Rights Movement | Bioneers

Clayton Thomas-Muller, a leading organizer for Idle No More and Defenders of the Land, and a Co-Director of Polaris Institute’s Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign, portrays Canada’s rising Native-led rights-based movement, supported by labor, civil society, students and grassroots groups. It’s challenging the neo-liberal free market agenda that has turned Canada into a petro-state. It may be our last best effort to save our lands and the health of our people from the extractive industries and the banks that finance them.

This speech was given at the 2014 Bioneers National Conference.

Robin Kimmerer – Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass

Indigenous peoples worldwide honor plants, not only as our sustainers, but as our oldest teachers who share teachings of generosity, creativity, sustainability and joy. By their living examples, plants spur our imaginations of how we might live. By braiding indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with modern tools of botanical science, Robin Kimmerer, professor of Environmental Science and Forestry, of Potawatomi ancestry, explores the question: “If plants are our teachers, what are their lessons, and how might we become better students”?

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Arielle Klagsbrun – Open Letter from Ferguson Protestors and Allies | Bioneers

A leader of the “Take Back Saint Louis” campaign to remove tax incentives to corporations profiting from climate change reads “An American Horror Story — Open Letter from Ferguson Protestors and Allies.”