Danny Kennedy: Where Does the Money Think the Future Is? | Bioneers 2016 Short Clips Series
The great energy transition is underway. Renewable electricity build-out is outpacing dirty projects. Global greenhouse gas emissions have flatlined, but the transition isn’t happening fast enough to significantly arrest climate change. Danny Kennedy, founder of Sungevity and Managing Director of the California Clean Energy Fund, draws from lessons learned over decades as an activist and entrepreneur on the frontlines of the global energy transition. He illustrates his vision of how to achieve clean energy accessible to people of all classes, cultures and countries in a distributed, decentralized and democratized system.
This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.
Mari Margil: The Nature of the Problem | Bioneers 2016 Short Clips Series
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.
This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.
The Apache Stronghold – Saving Oak Flats
Chiricahua Apache daughter and mother activists, Naelyn Pike and Vanessa Nosie, tell their story of resistance to protect sacred site, Oak Flat, from destruction by mining through the Apache Stronghold movement.
This presentation took place in the Indigeneity Forum at the 2015 National Bioneers Conference.
Indigeneity is a Native-led Program within Bioneers/Collective Heritage Institute that promotes indigenous knowledge and approaches to solve the earth’s most pressing environmental and social issues through respectful dialogue.
Mari Margil: The System | Bioneers 2016 Short Clips Series
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.
This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.
Native Land Trusts: Returning to a Land They Never Left
Across the United States, First Peoples are reclaiming their roles as expert stewards of land, water and resources through cooperative Native land trusts.
Valentin Lopez, Director of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust, and Ken Holbrook, Maidu Summit Consortium Chairman, present two California-based initiatives, sharing honest examples of successes and challenges surrounding Indigenous land management and cultural perpetuation.
Featuring Beth Rose Middleton, Associate Professor of Native American Studies at UC Davis.
This presentation took place in the Indigeneity Forum at the 2015 National Bioneers Conference.
Indigeneity is a Native-led Program within Bioneers/Collective Heritage Institute that promotes Indigenous knowledge and approaches to solve the earth’s most pressing environmental and social issues through respectful dialogue.
Native Appropriations: Why Representations Matter
Jessica Metcalfe presents an overview of cultural appropriation, why it is harmful, and how to responsibly support Native American traditions by wearing authentic Native American fashion. With Tailinh Agoyo of the Warrior Project.
This presentation took place in the Indigeneity Forum at the 2015 National Bioneers Conference.
Indigeneity is a Native-led Program within Bioneers/Collective Heritage Institute that promotes indigenous knowledge and approaches to solve the earth’s most pressing environmental and social issues through respectful dialogue.
Kim Stanley Robinson – Democracy: America’s Utopian Science Fiction
Watch Kim Stanley Robinson’s full talk: Rethinking Our Relationship to the Biosphere.
“The greatest American utopian science fiction story is this one: That government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this Earth. That story contains a future tense, and an imperative. It’s a science fiction story. It’s a utopian story. What Lincoln was saying to us was an injunction, and even a command. Democracy only exists when people go out and make it happen, especially when there are very powerful forces with a lot of money trying to buy up that very same government that we call democratic.
So, in this battle, we have to settle in for the long haul, do what can be done in the day to day, while also keeping in sight the long-term vision of a planet where we actually are in balance with the natural forces and can work with them to everyone’s benefit. Since it’s possible, then we need to do it. It’s a matter of responsibility to the children and the people not yet born.”
Michael Ableman – Farmer, author, photographer | Bioneers
Michael Ableman will offer a panel at the 2017 Bioneers Conference titled “Street Farms: Growing Food and Jobs in the City”. Buy your tickets now: http://bit.ly/2qdtMmW
How can new innovative types of urban farms produce healthy food, generate jobs, rebuild lives, and revitalize marginalized neighborhoods? Urban farming master Michael Ableman will share his experiences and guidance on how to develop vital urban farming initiatives in your community, and how to avoid the pitfalls that doom many projects. Michael is co-founder/Director of Sole Food Street Farms, the largest urban farm in North America in Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, the poorest zip code in Canada rife with addiction, HIV, prostitution and homelessness.
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