Biologist and author Sandra Steingraber explains how the town of Dryden, New York banned fracking and stood up against pro-fracking interests.
Nikki Henderson on Community and Food
Nikki Henderson (now Nikki Silvestri), founder of People’s Grocery in Oakland, CA, explains how we can use food to create conversation and community.
“One of the things I love about food is that it is grounding. It calls for presence.”
Rachel Bagby – Think… Act Globally
Rachel Bagby, performance artist, author, and poet, demonstrates how singing together is good for your wellbeing.
This performance took place at the 2013 Bioneers National Conference.
Climbing PoeTree: A Tapestry of Spoken-Word Poetry and Movement
Multimedia artists Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman of Climbing PoeTree present their original spoken word poetry. This performance took place at the 2013 Bioneers Annual Conference.
“I wonder if the sun debates dawn some mornings…”
Climbing PoeTree – A Tapestry of Spoken-Word Poetry and Movement (Day 2)
Multimedia artists Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman, or Climbing PoeTree, present more of their beautiful spoken word poetry. This performance took place at the 2013 Bioneers Annual Conference.
Tim Merry- Holding Up a Mirror to the Moment (Day 1)
Slam poet Tim Merry performs his work, based on his experience at the first day of the conference, at the 2013 Bioneers National Conference.
“We got 3,000 humans choosing clarity over confusion. What we feel over illusion, we will not be deterred or deferred.”
R. Carlos Nakai | Opening Performance
R. Carlos Nakai, a Native American flute music master, performs for the opening ceremony for the 2013 National Bioneers Conference.
TIM MERRY & FRIENDS – Holding Up a Mirror to the Moment (Day 3)
Tim Merry, this time along with a handful of other poets, presents his 3rd day of slam poetry. Each poet was given 100 words to share.
R. Carlos Nakai & Friends – Closing Performance | Bioneers
R. Carlos Nakai invites several friends to sing and play instruments to accompany his beautiful flute playing. This performance closed the 2013 National Bioneers Conference.
Ethan Nadelmann – Drug War, Drug Peace
The world’s leading proponent of sane drug policies asks us to imagine a world in which criminal laws and institutions play little role in drug control policy. What do we risk? What do we gain? What do we fear? And what can we do?
This talk was presented at the 2012 Bioneers Annual Conference.
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Paul Hawken – Regeneration | Bioneers
Paul Hawken is a visionary social entrepreneur, the award-winning author of multiple landmark books including Blessed Unrest, The Ecology of Commerce and Natural Capitalism (co-author), and the Co-Founder of OneSun, a radically innovative solar energy technology company. In this speech, Hawken discusses his younger days, how and why he started a health food store in Boston in the 1970s, and our connection with nature and each other.
“We have invented an economic system – then and now – that doesn’t just kill life, it depends on killing life.”
This speech was presented at the 2012 National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, CA.
John Liu – Restoration Writ Large
Beijing-based filmmaker John Liu proposes that healthy ecosystem function is a superior measure of economic health, in contrast with the rate at which we produce and consume manufactured goods. Showing stunning footage, Liu chronicles the remarkable restoration of China’s denuded Loess Plateau, once the “Garden of Eden” of China. He illustrates how the act of restoring soil fertility restores the hydrological cycle, a process that was radically disrupted by thousands of years of slash-and-burn agriculture and overgrazing. These communities’ intervention not only revitalized the soil, water and air, but also spurred a thriving local economy and higher rates of education.
This speech was presented at the 2011 Bioneers Annual Conference and is part of the Ecological Design, Vol. 1 and Protecting and Restoring Nature, Vol. 1 Collections.