Building Power from the Rubble: How Frontline Communities in El Salvador Are Creating…

A movement of rural communities in El Salvador called La Coordinadora has led the way in community-based disaster preparedness, building a grassroots democracy movement, and influencing national policy. It’s featured in the new film and book This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis. Hosted by Mariel Nanasi, Executive Director/President, New Energy Economy. With: Estela Hernández, El Salvadoran Congresswoman; Karolo Aparicio, Executive Director, EcoViva, La Coordinadora’s U.S. sister organization; Avi Lewis, filmmaker, director of This Changes Everything.

Recorded Saturday, October 18, 2014 at the national Bioneers Summit Conference in San Rafael, California.

Indigenous Forum – Indigenous Women on the North-South Frontlines of Earth Protection | Patricia Gualinga

This indigenous North-South cultural exchange builds bridges and solidarity among North-South indigenous people and their allies. Courageous indigenous leader Patricia Gualinga (Kichwa) from the Ecuadorian Amazon joins Amazon Watch and Pachamama Alliance with an urgent report from the rainforest front lines where indigenous women are stepping into leadership to defend the rights of Mother Earth (Pachamama) and their peoples, and to protect the Amazon from oil concessions.

Recorded Sunday, October 19, 2014 at the national Bioneers Summit Conference in San Rafael, California.

Movement Building I: Convergence

Can the global convergence of disparate movements gain the traction necessary to overcome the concentration of wealth and power driving the destruction of civilization and nature? How? Hosted by Carleen Pickard, Executive Director, Global Exchange. With: Naomi Klein, author, filmmaker, activist; Clayton Thomas-Muller, indigenous rights leader and movement builder; Joel Solomon, President, Renewal Partners and Chairman, Renewal Funds, founding member of Social Venture Network and Tides Foundation of Canada.

Recorded Saturday, October 18, 2014 at the national Bioneers Summit Conference in San Rafael, California.

Intelligence in Nature: The Vegetable Mind | Melissa K. Nelson, Robin Kimmerer, and Monica Gagliano

Contemporary science is validating traditional knowledge about the vast pervasive intelligence in nature, and in plants in particular. What is intelligence? How do we learn nature’s languages? Hosted by Melissa K. Nelson, President, The Cultural Conservancy. With: Robin Kimmerer, Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at SUNY-ESF; Monica Gagliano, renowned Australian marine biologist and evolutionary ecologist whose research Michael Pollan reported in The New Yorker.

Recorded Saturday, October 18, 2014 at the national Bioneers Summit Conference in San Rafael, California.

Movement Building II—All Together Now: Stand Up, Build Justice, Cool the Globe

How do we move from disconnected, fearful individuals to connected, collective agents of change? What are the relationships among concentrated corporate power, lack of government oversight, and fractured social movements? How can each of us step up to build justice and cool the globe? Hosted by Connie Cagampang Heller, co-founder, Linked Fate Fund for Justice. With: john a. powell, Director, UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society; Lindsey Allen, Acting Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network; Manuel Pastor, Director, USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity; Christina Livingston, Executive Director, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment.

Recorded Sunday, October 19, 2014 at the national Bioneers Summit Conference in San Rafael, California.

Public Power To Counteract Climate Challenges and Corporate Control

Bold strategies by publicly owned utilities in communities such as Austin, Santa Fe and Marin County are challenging private energy monopolies and transitioning off fossil-fuel dependence. Hosted by Mariel Nanasi, Executive Director/President, New Energy Economy. With: Karl Rábago, Executive Director, Pace University School of Law Energy and Climate Center, former VP of Distributed Energy for Austin’s community-owned electric utility; Dawn Weisz, Executive Officer, Marin Clean Energy, which launched California’s first Community Choice Aggregation program.

Recorded Friday, October 17, 2014 at the national Bioneers Summit Conference in San Rafael, California.

 

Science Fiction Envisions the World We Want

Bioneers Associate Producer J.P. Harpignies interviews Kim Stanley Robinson, among our most celebrated, award-winning science-fiction writers and the most ecologically conscious. The author of many classic works including the seminal Mars and Three Californias trilogies explores such topics as: how “eco-futurist fiction” seeks to identify today’s most important trends; the power of dystopian and utopian memes; and how science fiction can contribute to helping us shape a desirable tomorrow

Recorded in 2014 at the national Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.

Toward a Nontoxic Industry and Economy

What would a nontoxic industrial economy look like, and how do we get there? From green chemistry and biomimicry to mobilizing women and challenging corporate power, innovators are connecting the clean technology space with social movements. With: John Warner, co-founder of Green Chemistry; Erin Switalski, Executive Director, Women’s Voices for the Earth; Jeanne Rizzo, President/CEO, Breast Cancer Fund, founder Cancer-Free Economy project.

Recorded Saturday, October 18, 2014 at the national Bioneers Summit Conference in San Rafael, California.

 

Woman and Nature: The Shadow and The Promise

Explore with a multicultural circle of women the upsides and downsides of the deep, ancient association of women and “the feminine” with nature, and how a re-integration of the feminine principle into our culture may best serve us today. Hosted by Starhawk, renowned author, educator, activist, Permaculturist. With: Rachel Bagby, singer, author, farmer, facilitator; Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining), Diné (Navajo) artist/activist; Sasha Houston Brown (Dakota/Santee Sioux Tribe, Nebraska), Director of Education at Little Earth of United Tribes; Brandi Mack, who uses permaculture and holistic health approaches in her work with African American girls suffering from trauma; Osprey Orielle Lake, Co-founder/Executive Director, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network.

Recorded Saturday, October 18, 2014 at the national Bioneers Summit Conference in San Rafael, California.

 

Citizen Science: DIY Knowledge To and From the People

Activists, scientists and grassroots groups are leveraging new technology and collaborative networks to accurately monitor the quality of the environment, expose governmental and corporate abuses, and enable large-scale ecological research to understand the web of life in the age of climate disruption. Hosted by Teo Grossman, Bioneers Director of Strategic Network Initiatives. With: Severine v T Fleming, Farm Hack; Shannon Dosemagen, founder/President, New Orleans-based Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science; Brian Haggerty, co-designer, USA National Phenology Network, a multisectoral climate change research program using citizen scientists to monitor seasonal behavior of U.S. flora and fauna.

Recorded Saturday, October 18, 2014 at the national Bioneers Summit Conference in San Rafael, California.

The Golden Rule: Restoring the Earth by Restoring Human Dignity | Paul Hawken

“There is an environmental movement and there is a social justice movement. If they could truly become one movement the transformation would be unimaginable.

When a black child in Oakland winces at the thought of an ancient tree being cut down in northern California, and when an ex logger in northern California winces at the thought of a teenager, a black teenager in Oakland, being cut down on those streets, then we’ll know that day has arrived.”

Could Western civilization’s oldest ethical instructions of the Golden Rule hold acute relevance to our planetary environmental crisis? Could restoring respect for human beings be the key to restoring the health of the planet? Author Paul Hawken has been tracking the rapid proliferation of nonprofit, non-governmental organizations around the world. It boils down to this: Taking care of nature means taking care of people, and taking care of people means taking care of nature.

A Return to Wholeness: Storytelling as a Healing Art | Rachel Naomi Remen

“The future may depend on our remembering that everything has in it a dream of itself. That the seeds of wholeness and the seeds of needed change are already present in all events and all people and every one of us. That the wholeness of the world can only be restored one heart at a time.” So says doctor and healer Rachel Naomi Remen. She has cultivated a new generation of doctors practicing whole-person medicine, with an unlikely message: Bless others out loud. The wholeness of the world is restored one heart at a time.

Find out more about Rachel Naomi Remen and how you can engage with her campaigns and efforts by visiting rachelremen.com