Climate Strategies from the Ground Up | Eriel Deranger, Adrianna Quintero, Annie Leonard, Christiana Wyly, and Osprey Orielle Lake

Four extraordinary women leaders share their perspectives on how to break through the stalemates that impede progress to build a world in which we can all thrive. They work in different spaces – from challenging governments and corporations to defending Indigenous people’s rights, education reform, movement building and investing in green businesses.

With: Eriel Deranger, Communications Manager of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation; Adrianna Quintero, Senior Attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council and founder/Director of Voces Verdes; Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA; Christiana Wyly, Executive Director of Food Choice Taskforce, Director of My Plate Planet initiative. Hosted by Osprey Orielle Lake, co-founder and Executive Director, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN).

Recorded Sunday, October 18, 2015 at the National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Awakening Genius in Your Life | Michael Meade and John Densmore

If people are to find creative ways of living together and healing both culture and nature, the awakening of individual genius may be the deepest and most imaginative way to approach the seemingly impossible tasks that face contemporary cultures. With: Michael Meade and John Densmore.

Recorded Sunday, October 18, 2015 at the National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Art as a Vehicle for Social Change: Edge-Walking with Favianna Rodriguez

In times of strife, how can art serve as a healthy catalyst for positive transformation? Join San Francisco City Art Commissioner Dorka Keehn in a conversation about the frontlines of cultural revolution. With: Favianna Rodriguez, a renowned transnational interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer focused on social change.

Recorded at the 2015 National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Aligning Profits with the Public Good: The Future of Impact Investing

How can investment choices and strategies truly move the needle on large-scale change? Four leading entrepreneur/investors working to reinvent and re-imagine impact investing share strategies and projects. Hosted by Darian Rodriguez Heyman, former Craigslist Foundation Executive Director and SF Environment Commissioner. With: Silda Wall Spitzer, New World Capital, which invests primarily in green technologies; James Joaquin, co-founder of the venture capital firm Obvious Ventures; Catlin Powers of Sol Source, inventor, Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment.

Recorded Saturday, October 17, 2015 at the National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Carbon Farming: Soil Not Oil

Sequestering soil carbon is a critically important way to mitigate climate change. Hosted by John Roulac, founder and CEO of the groundbreaking organic superfood company, Nutiva. With: rancher John Wick, co-founder of the exemplary Marin Carbon Project, developing ways to increase durable carbon on his grazed grassland while increasing biodiversity and soil fertility and capturing the scientific data.

Recorded Saturday, October 17, 2015 at the National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Cultivating Dynamic Power, Catalyzing the Movement | J. Miakoda Taylor

What if we stop perceiving power and privilege as limited commodities? How do we collaborate in ways that generate dynamic power and create win-win strategies? Join J. Miakoda Taylor, Founding Director of Fierce Allies, in this interactive exploration.

Recorded Saturday, October 17, 2015 at the National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Curbing Corporate Power to Develop a Just Food System | Joann Lo, Saru Jayaraman, Sriram Madhusoodanan, and Ben Burkett

Although powerful global corporations and their allies are trying to undermine progress toward sustainable and just food systems, unexpected collaborations among labor, women’s rights activists, family farmers and environmentalists are innovating strategies and alliances to assure a new course for our food systems. Hosted by Joann Lo, Executive Director, Food Chain Workers Alliance. With: Saru Jayaraman, Co-Director/founder, ROC United; Sriram Madhusoodanan, Value [the] Meal Director at Corporate Accountability International; Ben Burkett, President of the National Family Farm Coalition.

Recorded Saturday, October 17, 2015 at the National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Digital Media: Collaboration and Movement Building in a Data-Driven Society | Matthew Monahan, Ben Knight, Edward West, and Ingrid Sanders

To have any chance of success, highly creative, collaborative uses of new forms of digital media must be a cornerstone of any strategy for progressive social and environmental movements. Four leading innovators in this domain share their insights. Hosted by Matthew Monahan, Namaste Foundation. With: Ben Knight, co-founder of Loomio; Edward West, co-founder of Impact Hub Oakland and Hylo social network; Ingrid Sanders, founder of PopExpert, a crowd-sourced, community-driven platform.

Recorded Saturday, October 17, 2015 at the National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Green Chemistry and Biomimicry in STEM Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches | Amy Cannon and John Warner

The seminal co-founder of Green Chemistry, John Warner, and his esteemed partner, green chemistry educator Amy Cannon, are co-founders of the groundbreaking green chemistry education non-profit Beyond Benign. They’ll show how the combination of green chemistry and biomimicry in the STEM curriculum provides a unique opportunity to inspire students to make connections with the natural world and to use that inspiration to become creators of truly sustainable products and processes. They’ll focus on techniques and resources for adopting green chemistry and biomimicry throughout educational systems, highlighting K-12 and higher education programs aimed at transforming STEM education.

Recorded Saturday, October 17, 2015 at the National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Kandi Mossett – Decolonizing the mind at Bioneers

Kandi Mossett, of the Indigenous Environmental Network, in her powerful #Bioneers2017 Keynote, delivers a powerful address on First Nations, fossil fuels, and decolonization of the mind.