Ryan Camero, Brower Youth Award winner, arts activist and community organizer discusses his work helping build diverse coalitions in the spirit of “intersectional” justice to protect highly threatened and crucially important Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta ecosystem.
This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.
Thomas Linzey & Mari Margil – Occupy the Law: The Movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature.
As species collapse around the world while governments still authorize fossil fuel extraction and other destructive, unsustainable activities, communities across the U.S. are rising in resistance to “occupy the law”. They’re enacting “community bills of rights” that recognize a community’s legally enforceable right to sustainability and the rights of nature. Two of its most effective path-finding national and global leaders, Tom Linzey and Mari Margil of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, show how this movement challenges our constitutional framework in which corporate rights and the preemptive authority of state and federal governments block sustainability, environmental protection and democracy.
Introduction by Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers CEO and Founder.
This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.
Find out more about Thomas Linzey & Mari Margil and how you can engage with their campaigns and efforts by visiting the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
Legendary Mohawk midwife and environmental health researcher and advocate Katsi Cook illuminates her dynamic new work strengthening Indigenous communities and addressing the cultural and physical safety and thriving lives of Indigenous girls and women. As Program Director of NoVo Foundation’s Indigenous Communities Leadership Program for Indigenous Girls and Women, she’s building bridges across communities and existing networks to increase synergy in the protection of Indigenous girls and women from multiple forms of violence and oppression. She shares preliminary results from a network-mapping analysis using a net-centered approach based on the understanding that “leadership is an emergent property of a network in balance”.
Introduction by Nina Simons, Bioneers co-founder and President.
This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.
James Nestor, an author and journalist with a passion for extreme adventure who has written for Scientific American, National Public Radio and The New York Times, draws from his mind-boggling, multiple award-winning new book, DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves. He describes how groups of athletes and scientists plumbed ocean depths, and researchers collaborating with engineers from Apple, Google and elsewhere worked to “crack” the cetacean language code and send back messages to these giant marine mammals – to make contact. Their weird and wondrous new discoveries might just redefine our understanding of the ocean, and of ourselves.
Introduction by Joshua Fouts, Bioneers Executive Director.
This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.
The Gender Equity and Reconciliation process seeks to heal the profound wounds around gender, sexuality, and relational intimacy. It brings together people of all sexual orientations and genders to jointly confront gender disharmony to reach healing reconciliation. Will and Cynthia have developed the method over 24 years, introducing the practices in nine countries. Gender reconciliation’s startling successes in South Africa have played a role in transforming that country’s AIDS and HIV policies, and exciting new academic research on the program is underway at two South African universities. Learn more about the work of Will Keepin and Cynthia Brix via their organization, Gender Reconciliation International.
Introduction by Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers CEO and Founder.
This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.
Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman perform selections from their newly released record.
This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.
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Opening Ceremony by Tiffany Adams (Chemehuevi/Maidu) and dancers.
This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.
Drumming Session with Afia Walking Tree and Deb Lane.
This performance took place at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.
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.
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).
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.
Sunday’s opening drumming session by Afia Walking Tree and Deb Lane.
This performance took place at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.
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.
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