Naomi Klein on Marveling at the Earth (short clip)

The award-winning Canadian journalist, international activist and best-selling author (The Shock Doctrine, No Logo) depicts climate change as more than an “issue.”

It’s a civilizational wake-up call delivered in the language of fires, floods, storms and droughts. It demands that we challenge the dominant economic policies of deregulated capitalism and endless resource extraction. Climate change is also the most powerful weapon in the fight for equality and social justice, and real solutions are emerging from the rubble of our failing systems.

This clip is from a speech that was given at the 2014 Bioneers National Conference. View the full talk here.

Joshua Sheridan Fouts – It’s All Connected

In an excerpt from his 2017 Bioneers Opening Address, Joshua Fouts describes some of the ethical decisions he and his primatologist parents were forced to make as they worked with chimpanzees to research animal intelligence and cognition.

Joshua Sheridan Fouts, Bioneers Executive Director, is a globally recognized media innovator and social entrepreneur known for his visionary work facilitating meaningful understanding between cultures. With a background in anthropology, Joshua has worked with peoples of Malaysia, Africa, and the Amazon, governments and universities in over 20 countries, and innovators and engaged citizens worldwide.

Chemist John Warner on the Power of Thinking

It’s time to create the green molecular building blocks that make green technology truly clean, from raw materials and production to social justice. World-renowned green chemist John Warner illustrates how we can create a new generation of biomimetic and green molecular building blocks to help us reach the “world we want.” A founder of Green Chemistry, he has published over 200 patents, papers and books. He’s founder, President and Chief Technology Officer of Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, and co-founder of Beyond Benign, a nonprofit for sustainability and green chemistry education.

This clip is from a speech that was given at the 2014 Bioneers National Conference. View the full talk here.

Annie Leonard – Hope is the Ultimate Form of Resistance

Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace US and creator of the Story of Stuff, explains how Bioneers provides a ‘deep, rich kind of hope that permeates every cell in your body’, and that Bioneers ‘is the hope replenishment pit stop on our journey to a better world.’

This speech was given at the 2015 Bioneers Annual Conference.

Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.

 

Nina Simons – Shifting Guidance from Head to Heart

Nina Simons, the President and Co-Founder of Bioneers, discusses reclaiming the feminine in order to realign our personal and societal values and practices.

“When I listen with my heart, I am pierced with an empathic awareness that calls me into action beyond what any amount of learning, reading or mental understanding can prompt.”

This speech was given at the 2015 National Bioneers Conference. Read the full transcript of the talk here.

Rinku Sen – Both/And/All: Environmentalism and Racial Justice

Rinku Sen is one of the most dynamic and influential social, racial and gender justice activists of our time, among the nation’s most effective voices for inclusion and human rights. She’s also a cutting-edge journalist, author and researcher. She will share her vision of how we must urgently learn to face and address our completely intertwined ecological and social justice crises, while we learn how to do it without losing our minds, our friends…or our fights.

Introduction by Nina Simons, Co-Founder and President of Bioneers.

This speech was given at the 2015 National Bioneers Conference.

Malik Yakini – Food, Race and Justice

Malik Yakini, Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, explores how the current industrial food system that supplies most of our food creates inequities, based in part on the social construct we call “race.” He shares wise perspectives on addressing racism, thinking beyond the logic of capitalism and how we might create a more just, sustainable food system. Introduction by Greg Watson, Schumacher Center.

This speech was given at the 2015 National Bioneers Conference.

Jensine Larsen with Sister Zeph – Crowdsourcing the Feminine Intelligence of the Planet

World Pulse founder Jensine Larsen and Sister Zeph, an award-winning Pakistani digital crusader for girls’ education, illustrate how their global network is harnessing the power of digital communication into a powerful force for change by connecting women from more than 190 countries – including those reaching out using Internet cafés and cell phones from remote rural areas and conflict zones. Jensine shares her personal journey building World Pulse from a vision into a network now impacting over two million lives. She and Sister Zeph show us how we can participate in this soulful digital revolution to unleash the true feminine intelligence of the planet.

Introduction by Bioneers Co-Founder and President, Nina Simons. This speech was given at the 2015 National Bioneers Conference.

Junior Walk – Resistance and Youth Leadership in Coal Country

Junior Walk, a Brower Youth Award Winner, discusses his involvement with the Appalachian resistance to the coal mining industry and mountain-top removal. This speech was given at the 2015 Bioneers Annual Conference.

Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.

To experience talks like this, please join us at the Bioneers National Conference each October, and regional Bioneers Resilient Community Network gatherings held nationwide throughout the year.

For more information on Bioneers, please visit https://bioneers.org and stay in touch via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Bioneers.org) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/bioneers).

Bioneers 2015 Welcome and Opening Ceremony with Dean Hoaglin

Bioneers Founders Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, with Executive Director Joshua Fouts welcome the attendees of 2015 Bioneers National Conference. Bioneers Indigenous Knowledge Program Director Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) recognizes the indigenous peoples present, followed by a beautiful opening ceremony by Dean Hoaglin (Coast Miwok).

Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.

To experience talks like this, please join us at the Bioneers National Conference each October, and regional Bioneers Resilient Community Network gatherings held nationwide throughout the year.

For more information on Bioneers, please visit https://bioneers.org and stay in touch via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Bioneers.org) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/bioneers).

Eriel Deranger – Reclaiming Our Indigeneity and Our Place in Modern Society

Eriel Deranger, a tireless, passionate activist for the rights of Indigenous people, Communications Coordinator of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN), a community of 1,200 people living downstream from the largest industrial project on the planet, the Alberta Tar Sands, has been on the frontlines of the global fight against the ravages of fossil fuel extraction. The ACFN’s resistance is a prime example of Indigenous resurgence in Canada, revealing how Indigenous peoples are shaking up how we do and see things and pointing the way forward for the protection, preservation and future governance of Mother Earth. Introduction by Clayton Thomas-Müller, Idle No More.

This speech was given at the 2015 Bioneers Annual Conference.