Education for Sustainability | Kirk Bergstrom, Jaimie Cloud, and Linda Booth Sweeney

Connect with kindred educators in an emerging community of practice in this participatory session offering frameworks and tools for designing an effective Education for Sustainability (EfS) initiative in your community and/or school. Hosted by Kirk Bergstrom, filmmaker, educator, social entrepreneur, founder and Executive Director of WorldLink. With: Jaimie Cloud, President, Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education; Linda Booth Sweeney, award-winning author and systems educator.

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

Food Literacy as a Catalyst for Social Change | Kirk Bergstrom and Alyson Wyli

Breakthrough food literacy initiatives are transforming communities, bringing people together in meaningful conversations. Learn how to design an effective food literacy program for your community, organization or school. With: Kirk Bergstrom, Executive Director, Nourish Initiative; Alyson Wylie, Health Education Specialist, Center for Nutrition and Activity Promotion, California State University, Chico.

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

Greening Businesses of All Sizes | Amanda Joy Ravenhill, David Levine, Oren Lyons, and Danna Pfahl

Key leaders illustrate promising initiatives and the main challenges in the “greening” of capitalism. Hosted by Amanda Joy Ravenhill, professor of Sustainable Management, Presidio Graduate School. With: David Levine, co-founder/CEO, American Sustainable Business Council; Oren Lyons, global indigenous leader, co-founder, Plantagon vertical greenhouses for urban farming; Danna Pfahl, VP of Stakeholder Engagement, Future 500.

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

Indigenous Forum – ALOHA (Applied Hawaiian Philosophy) | Puanani Mahoe

Native Hawaiian visionary Puanani Mahoe and TEK educator Kaimana Barcarse share Hawaii’s unique collective cultural wisdom and traditional philosophies of land, water, spirit and “Aloha” teachings. Learn about malama aina—how to take care of the land, water, community, spirit and self as they take care of you; and how to weave the Aloha Spirit into your life. The dialogue will address the need for deep collaboration for protecting our natural resources that sustain life on Papahanamoku (Mother Earth).

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

Indigenous Forum – Indigenous Women on the North-South Frontlines of Earth Protection (part 2) | Tom Goldtooth, Crystal Lameman, Faith Gemmill, Clayton Thomas-Muller, and Eriel Deranger

Hosted by Tom Goldtooth (Dine’/Dakota) of the Indigenous Environmental Network. With indigenous women from the North: Crystal Lameman (Beaver Lake Cree Nation) of Idle No More, on current threats from pipelines from the Canadian Tar Sands; Faith Gemmill (Gwich’in), of REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction On Indigenous Lands), on the history of oil and gas development in Alaska and expansion plans for offshore drilling; and witnesses Clayton Thomas-Muller (Mathias Colomb Cree Nation) and Eriel Deranger (Athabaskan Chipewyan First Nation) with Idle No More.

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

Is Earth Full? Holistic Population Solutions in a Growing World | Suzanne York, Shannon Biggs, Rucha Chitnis, and William Ryerson

By 2050, there will be 9 billion people. The good news is there are empowering population initiatives around the world improving lives and protecting the environment. Hosted by Suzanne York, Program Director/Senior Writer, Institute for Population Studies. With: Shannon Biggs, Director of Community Rights, Global Exchange; Rucha Chitnis, India Program Director, Women’s Earth Alliance; William Ryerson, founder/President, Population Media Center.

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

People’s Earth Tribunals and Community Bills of Rights: Mobilizing for Community…

What if ecosystems could sue for violating the rights of nature in places like Alberta’s tar sands or Fukushima? What if communities could write new laws that place their rights above corporate interests? Come find out about the first international Rights of Nature Tribunal and local California Community Bills of Rights, and how you can participate. Hosted by Shannon Biggs, Community Rights director, Global Exchange. With: Vandana Shiva, founder/Director, Navdanya; Pennie Opal Plant, Idle No More/Gathering Tribes; Robin Milam, Administrative Director, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature; Osprey Orielle Lake, co-founder/Executive Director, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network; Prajna Marcus, Bay Area Rights of Nature; Linda Sheehan, Executive Director, Earth Law Center.

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

Resilient Landscapes, Climate-Smart Conservation: The Art and Science of Restoring the World We Want

Learn how insights from avian, aquatic and terrestrial science can help us recreate resilient land and seascapes. Hosted by Mary Ellen Hannibal, award-winning author of The Spine of the Continent: The Race to Save America’s Last, Best Wilderness. With: Wendell Gilgert, Working Lands Program Director, Point Blue Conservation Science, focused on nature-based, climate-smart conservation solutions; and Robin Grossinger, historical ecologist who directs the “Resilient Landscapes” project at the San Francisco Estuary Institute, guiding adaptive landscape-level restoration strategies in California.

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

Solutions from the Underground: Mushrooms as Planetary Healers | Paul Stamets

Visionary mycologist Paul Stamets, founder, Fungi Perfecti, author of landmark books including Mycelium Running, explores the leading edges of his research and current applications using fungi for restoring the biosphere and human health.

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

Photo credit: By Dusty Yao-Stamets – Personal correspondence, CC BY 3.0,

Watering Down: Water Management Strategies for Climate Change

From rangeland to metropolis, these brilliant innovators are watering down, developing ground-breaking water management strategies for a climate changed world.  Hosted by Sarah Newkirk, Coastal Project Director, Nature Conservancy, developing natural infrastructure solutions for coastal resilience (Sarah begins at 1:01:45) with Andy Lipkis, founder/president, TreePeople, biomimicking forest watersheds for climate-resilient cities and water supplies (Andy begins at 2:30); Courtney White, co-founder, Quivira Coalition, building bridges among ranchers, conservationists, public land managers, scientists and citizens for economic and ecological resilience on working landscapes (Courtney begins at 36:00).

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

Your Brain On Water

Hosted by marine biologist Wallace “J.” Nichols, research associate, California Academy of Sciences; co-founder, OceanRevolution.org; author of Blue Mind. New ways of understanding our relationship with the world’s oceans and the ability of healthy waters to provide health, happiness and creativity will be considered by a panel of athletes, scientists, artists, and adventurers. With: Kevin Weiner, post-doctoral fellow, Stanford University and Director of Public Communication, Institute for Applied Neuroscience; Nik Sawe, doctoral candidate, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University; and Andi Wong, Teaching Artist, Rooftop Alternative K-8 School.

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

The Frontlines of Greening Educational Systems: Achieving Environmental Literacy for All

Schools, colleges, and universities can become community models for sustainability, inspiring innovation and teaching environmental literacy for the next generation. Learn from leaders and practitioners how to achieve political, financial, and student success. Hosted by Deborah Moore, founder, Green Schools Initiative. With: David Orr, renowned eco-educator and author, Senior Adviser to the President of Oberlin College; Jennifer Seydel, Executive Director, Green Schools National Network; Nik Kaestner, Sustainability Coordinator, and Elishama Goldfarb, Environmental Literacy Specialist, San Francisco Unified School District.

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