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.

 

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.

 

Darren Doherty – Regrarianism: Re-Booting Agriculture for the Next 10,000 Years

One of the world’s most brilliant and accomplished Permaculture designers describes how “Regrarianism” can reverse the destruction and usher in a new regenerative future for our food systems and communities.

This speech was given at the 2013 Bioneers National Conference.

Kenny Ausubel – Global Mash-Up: Moving Toward a Wisdom Culture

The Bioneers Co-Founder depicts the dawning Next Enlightenment of interdependence, kinship and reverence. This speech was given at the 2013 Bioneers National Conference.

 

Nina Simons – Walking While Listening

The Bioneers Co-founder describes her journey to discover her true self and her inner leader.

This speech was given at the 2013 Bioneers Annual Conference.

 

Marina Silva – The Challenge of Sustainable Development | Bioneers

The legendary Amazonian defender of the rainforest and its peoples was the first rubber tapper ever elected to Brazil’s federal Senate, served as Minister of the Environment under Lula, and ran as the 2010 Green Party Presidential candidate, gaining as astonishing 19% of the vote. Marina Silva depicts how we can balance protecting the Amazon and other vital ecosystems with sane development that brings people out of poverty without destroying the environment.

This performance/speech was given at the 2012 Bioneers National Conference.

 

Three Sisters Farming: Indigenous Women, Plants and Foodways

A hands-on workshop in Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) presented by The Cultural Conservancy and Bioneers Traditional Ecological Knowledge Program at the Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden, College of Marin, Novato, CA.

This intensive invited participants to explore plants as teachers and the science and philosophy of diverse indigenous foodways and ethnobotanical traditions, including: “Three Sisters” Agriculture, Pueblo farming, organic gardening and California Indian land management practices. We harvested, collected seeds, and ate together from a Three Sisters Garden as an embodiment of botanical and social polyculture.

Video credits:
Created by students of the Marin Media Corps and New Media Learning. For more information please visit the Community Media Center of Marin at cmcm.tv

Student Crew:
Presley Balestreri
Cole Thompson
Cameron Gibson
Linh Huynh