Bioneers Speaker, Joan Blades of MoveOn, MomsRising & Living Room Conversation

How do we come together to find the right answers when don’t agree? Bioneers16 speaker, Joan Blades, founding partner of Living Room Conversations and co-founder of MomsRising.org and MoveOn.org, trained as an attorney/mediator, spent 10 years as a software entrepreneur and is also an artist, mother, and true believer in the power of citizens. She is the co-author of The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where and How to Work and Boost the Bottom Line and The Motherhood Manifesto. Learn more at https://bioneers.org

Living Filtration System – Biomimicry Design Challenge | Ray of Hope Prize Finalist

Alison Lewis and Casey Howard with Team Penthouse Protozoa in Eugene, USA discusses the “Living Filtration System ” – a project finalist in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. The Living Filtration System is biomimetic drainage system that keeps nutrients in the soil rather than leaving the field in runoff. It’s an alternative designed to serve as a catalyst for changing current farming techniques.

Team Penthouse Protozoa is one of the seven finalists for the $100,000 Ray C. Anderson Prize, to be awarded at the 2016 Bioneers Conference.

For more information and to attend the awards ceremony: https://nationalbioneersconferenceo2016.sched.org/event/6qNP/biomimcry-global-design-challenge-award

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Oasis Aquaponic Food Production System – Biomimicry Design Challenge | Ray of Hope Prize Finalist

Michelle Leach with Team Oasis in Ann Arbor, Michigan discusses the “Oasis Aquaponic Food Production System ” – a project finalist in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. The Oasis Aquaponic Food Production System helps subsistence farmers grow better food using less space, less water, and no chemicals. It also improves nutrition and generates income

Team Oasis is one of the seven finalists for the $100,000 Ray C. Anderson Prize, to be awarded at the 2016 Bioneers Conference.

For more information and to attend the awards ceremony: https://nationalbioneersconferenceo2016.sched.org/event/6qNP/biomimcry-global-design-challenge-award

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Hexagro – Biomimicry Design Challenge | Ray of Hope Prize Finalist

Felipe Hernández of Team Hexagro in Milan, Italy discusses his team’s project, a finalist in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. Hexagro allows people to grow healthy food on a small footprint. It’s made of recyclable, biodegradable materials with a unique, hexagonal shape that was inspired by geometric patterns found in nature.

Team Hexagro is one of the seven finalists for the $100,000 Ray C. Anderson Prize, to be awarded at the 2016 Bioneers Conference.

For more information and to attend the awards ceremony: https://nationalbioneersconferenceo2016.sched.org/event/6qNP/biomimcry-global-design-challenge-award

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BioNurse – Biomimicry Design Challenge | Ray of Hope Prize Finalist

Camila Hernández and Camila Gratacos of Team CERES in Quillota, Chile discusses the “BioNurse” – a project finalist in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. The BioNurse is an incubator for life. It helps seeds to grow and restores degraded soils back to health.

Team CERES is one of the seven finalists for the $100,000 Ray C. Anderson Prize, to be awarded at the 2016 Bioneers Conference.

For more information and to attend the awards ceremony: https://nationalbioneersconferenceo2016.sched.org/event/6qNP/biomimcry-global-design-challenge-award

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BIOcultivator – Biomimicry Design Challenge | Ray of Hope Prize Finalist

Team B4D in Zvolen, Slovakia discusses the “BIOcultivator” – a project finalist in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. The BIOcultivator is a self-sustaining system to help city-dwellers grow their own organic food, right on their balconies. It was designed inspired by the ability of some lizard species living in arid areas to collect water and moisture with their skin.

Team B4D is one of the seven finalists for the $100,000 Ray C. Anderson Prize, to be awarded at the 2016 Bioneers Conference.

For more information and to attend the awards ceremony: https://nationalbioneersconferenceo2016.sched.org/event/6qNP/biomimcry-global-design-challenge-award

Learn more at https://bioneers.org

Mangrove Still – Biomimicry Design Challenge | Ray of Hope Prize Finalist

Alessandro Bianciardi of Team Planet in Brescia, Italy discusses the “Mangrove Still” – a project finalist in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. The Mangrove Still is a modular desalinization and water purification system built with recyclable and re-usable materials.

Team Planet is one of the seven finalists for the $100,000 Ray C. Anderson Prize, to be awarded at the 2016 Bioneers Conference.

For more information and to attend the awards ceremony: https://nationalbioneersconferenceo2016.sched.org/event/6qNP/biomimcry-global-design-challenge-award

Learn more at https://bioneers.org

Ericka Huggins, Former Leader of Black Panther Party: Practicing Mindfulness

Ericka Huggins, activist, educator, former political prisoner & leader of the Black Panther Party shares with Elisa Parker how we can integrate mindfulness to navigate and change the world. #Bioneers16 www.conference.bioneers.org. Learn more at https://bioneers.org

Standing Rock Update and Indigenous Call to Action – Bioneers 2016

Kandi Mossett, Tara Houska, and Dallas Goldtooth present an update and call to action on the situation at Standing Rock, North Dakota – where thousands of Indigenous water protectors and allies are defending sacred lands from desecration by the Dakota Access Pipeline in the face of police brutality and arrest.

Filmed live at the Bioneers 2016 Conference on October 23, 2016.

Full professional quality audio version will be made available after the conference.

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Ericka Huggins: The Role of Spiritual Practice in Social Justice Work

Ericka Huggins, the renowned former Black Panther, political prisoner, human rights activist – and educator, poet, and professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Merritt College in Oakland – has for 35 advocated for “restorative justice” and the role of spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting social change. Grounded in her belief in the greatness of the human heart, Ericka says each one of us has the ability to look there for the answers to questions about the future of our world. Personal transformation is necessary to achieve social transformation.

Introduction by Fania Davis, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth.

This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.