Indigenous Forum – Urban Native Food Justice and Revitalization | Kaylena Bray and Quinton Cabellon

Urban Native youth working with The Cultural Conservancy’s (TCC) Native Foodways Program share their experiences in food justice, organic farming and the revitalization of native foodways. With: Kaylena Bray (Seneca), Coordinator of TCC’s Foodway Program; Native interns Trevor Ware (Caddo-Kiowa-Lenape) and Quinton Cabellon (Yokut). Includes screening of a new, short documentary film about Bay Area urban Native youth reclaiming their Indigenous foods, identities and health.

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

The Vanguard of the Design Science Revolution

Brilliant leaders from some of the most innovative, groundbreaking design-focused NGOs on the planet illustrate how they are helping accelerate the global revolution in sustainable design. With: Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Director, Buckminster Fuller Institute; Shan- non Dosemagen, Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science; Eric Corey Freed, VP of Global Outreach at the International Living Futures Institute; Beth Rattner, Executive Director of the Biomimicry Institute. Moderated by Amanda Ravenhill, Executive Director, Project Drawdown.

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

 

Nature, Science, Writing, and the Future of Humankind (Conf panel audio)

Two celebrated writers hold a free-range conversation about humanity’s embeddedness in nature. Although they work in radically different genres, they’re both among our most insightful thinkers, and both deeply scientifically literate and profoundly elegant stylists. Listen to this insightful conversation between Kim Stanley Robinson, renowned science-fiction author and Alison Hawthorne Deming, poet, professor, one of the nation’s greatest writers on the natural world, author of, among other titles, Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit. Hosted by J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers Senior Producer.

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

Greening Corporate Behavior: The “Good Cop/Bad Cop” Strategy | J.P. Harpignies, Annie Leonard, Lindsey Allen, Danna Pfahl, Leila Salazar-Lopez, and Ryan Honeyman

What’s the most effective way for eco and social justice activists to change the behavior of corporations: intense outside pressure, working on the “inside,” or a combination of the two? Leaders from some of the planet’s most effective NGOs seeking to alter corporate behaviors engage in a dynamic forthright discussion.

Hosted by J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers Conference Associate Producer. With: Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA; Lindsey Allen, Executive Director of Rainforest Action Network (RAN); Danna Pfahl, VP of Stakeholder Engagement at the Future 500; Leila Salazar-Lopez, Executive Director of Amazon Watch; and Ryan Honeyman, author of The B Corp Handbook.

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

Indigenous Forum – Creating Resilience through Revitalizing Traditional Systems | Terrol Johnson and PennElys Droz

We’ll explore the importance of basing community design on Indigenous knowledge and relationships and how Indigenous ways of learning can be a key to climate adaptation. Tohono O’odham Community Action (TOCA) and the Tohono O’odham Youth Group will show how they’ve empowered youth to build a successful, sustainable tribal food system through the New Generation of O’odham Farmers program. Sustainable Nations, which works to re-engage traditional knowledge as the base for Indigenous water, energy and housing infrastructure, runs national training and development projects and the new Tucson Indigenous Adobe Initiative. With: Terrol Johnson, Executive Director, Tohono O’odham Community Action (TOCA); PennElys Droz, Ph.D., (Anishinaabe), Executive Director of Sustainable Nations; and a group of Native youth presenters.

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

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.