Opening Remarks | Bioneers 2016

Opening remarks by Bioneers co-founders Nina Simons and Kenny Ausubel, and Bioneers Executive Director Joshua Fouts.

This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers 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.

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Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and Itzcuauhtli Roske-Martinez | Bioneers 2016

Youth Director of Earth Guardians Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and his brother Itzcuauhtli Roske-Martinez present an activist hip-hop duo extraordinaire.

Introduction by Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers CEO and Founder.

This performance was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.

Bill McKibben: What Winning the Climate Change Battle Looks Like

The most influential climate activist of our era, Bill McKibben, a founder of the extraordinarily effective 350.org grassroots campaign, describes the immense groundswell of global citizen engagement rising to challenge the “dirty” energy industry. Find out where we are scientifically and politically in the transformation to end our reliance on fossil fuels, while lighting the pathways toward a clean-energy future.

Introduction by Clayton Thomas-Muller, 350.org

Learn more and join the campaign by visiting 350.org.

Indigenous Rising – Solutions to the Climate Crisis

Bioneers invited frontline activists from Standing Rock and the Alberta Tar Sands to speak about Indigenous efforts to protect water, air, and other natural resources for all.

Featuring:

Kandi Mossett (Mandan,Hidatsa, Arikawa) Indigenous Environmental Network

Eriel Deranger (Athabasca Chipweyan First Nation), Indigenous Climate Action

Tara Houska (Anishinaabe-Couchiching First Nation), Honor the Earth
Dallas Goldtooth (Dakota/Diné), Indigenous Environmental Network

To learn more, please visit:
www.ienearth.org/
http://www.honorearth.org/

Visionary Indigenous leaders highlight the need for mainstream understanding of the benefits of protecting human rights as they apply to resource extraction and Mother Earth.

This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.

Climbing PoeTree: Creativity – The Antidote to Destruction | Bioneers 2016

Extraordinary award-winning poets, performance activists and cultural architects Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman of Climbing PoeTree explore the network of mutuality that binds our existence through the ricochet of oppression and the reciprocity of liberation. Their art is a tool for catalyzing action, cross-pollinating solutions, getting at the root of our most pressing social and ecological issues, and reminding us that we all belong to each other.

Introduction by Nina Simons, Bioneers co-founder and President.

This performance took place at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.

Closing Remarks and Closing Performance Jam | Bioneers 2016

Closing remarks by Bioneers co-founders Nina Simons and Kenny Ausubel and Bioneers Executive Director Joshua Fouts.

Closing Performance Jam with Climbing PoeTree, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Itzcuauhtli Roske-Martinez, Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree.

This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers 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.

Subscribe to the Bioneers Radio Series, available on iTunes and other podcast providers and on your local radio station.

Support Bioneers today: www.bioneers.org/donate

Please join our mailing list (https://bioneers.org/subscribe), stay in touch via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Bioneers.org) and follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/bioneers).