Seeding the Field: 30 Years of Transformative Solutions

30 Years of Transformative Solutions

Released in honor of the 30th Anniversary of the founding of Bioneers, this video series celebrates some of the best moments of the Bioneers conference through the last three decades. Since 1990, Bioneers has arisen to become a unique communications and media platform for diverse voices with a grounded vision for creating a restored and just world. These short videos provide a sampling of the scope and depth of work from the Bioneers community, a visionary movement of movements has grown together around authentic “solve-the-whole problem” solutions.

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Maximilian DeArmon and Theo Badashi produced the videos on behalf of Cosmogenesis Media Group. Thanks to Bioneers founders Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons for assisting in the curation of the keynotes selected for the video production.

Editors Abe Costanza, Johwell St-Cilien, Oceana Joos, Brandon Pinard, and visual effects editor Omid Pakbin assisted in the creation process; Stephanie Welch assisted in the sound mix.

Many thanks go to the Bioneers organization, staff and partners, and all those who proudly call themselves Bioneers.

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Bioneers is a fertile hub for the most visionary insights into the world around us, and the people living in it. We are all connected, and by learning from the heart of nature, we can work together to imagine and bring to life new paths forward.
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Bioneers: It’s All Connected

 
Bees are being threatened to extinction by the spread of viruses brought on by deforestation, but mycologist Paul Stamets has found a revolutionary but natural solution: mushrooms. Stamets shares how fungus extract can be used as medicine for bees to help save their dying colonies – and our ecosystems – in a way that connects us back to the Earth.
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Can Mushrooms Save the Bees? with Paul Stamets

 
A child’s first introduction to manhood is often through our fathers. It’s high time we push back on toxic masculinity and what it means to “be a man”, so we can create a better future for our children and ourselves.
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Decoding the Man Box with Kevin Powell, Tony Porter

 
As humanity faces extraordinary challenges on local and global levels, women and girls are rising up to lead, innovate and create a new paradigm through which voices from diverse backgrounds are honored and recognized on our collective path to a more promising future.
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The Promise of Women and Girls

 
How and what we eat has taken on more meaning than just nutrition. Author Michael Pollan makes the case for farmers’ markets as a quiet revolution of our food system today. Learn how these celebrations of community reinvigorate local economies and reconnect consumers to the natural world.
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Farmers Markets with Michael Pollan

 
Nature has the ability to self-organize and self-repair. These powerful bio-forces renew the Earth and break the cycle of human destruction. So by incorporating ecological design in technology, we can manufacture a more sustainable future.
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Ecological Design with John Todd

 
Indigenous communities are reclaiming their space at the forefront of environmental activism. Their shared traditional wisdom is now shaping the movement to promote healing and decolonization. Featuring Eriel Deranger, Executive Director of Indigenous Climate Action.
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Indigeneity with Eriel Deranger

 
With a growing interest in co-ops, public banking, worker-owned companies and non-profit corporations, could we be setting a new standard for the American ideal, while building a more sustainable economy?
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How to Build a New Economy with Gar Alperovitz and Ted Howard

 
Nature is a master designer. The resiliency of life is embodied in its adaptation to the ecosystems found in each corner of the Earth. Rather than setting ourselves apart from the genius that surrounds us, humanity can design a harmonious destiny with the same biological patterns that construct our world.
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Biomimicry with Janine Benyus

 
Did you know that dolphins and whales can “see” with sound better than humans can see with their own eyes?
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Making Contact:The Intelligence of Whales with James Nestor

 
In nature there are no kings, only kin. The Bioneers aim to imitate natural systems, creating symbiosis within ecosystems, to help restore diversity and planetary health.
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What Are the Bioneers? with Kenny Ausubel

 
What is the origin of life? Our creation stories hold the mysteries that inspire and shape how we perceive our world.
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New Cosmology with Tom Hayden

 
“We did not come into this world. We came out of it, like buds out of branches and butterflies out of cocoons.” – Lyall Watson.
So, how are we going to protect the world that gave life to us? Featuring Bioneers CEO and co-founder Kenny Ausubel.
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Dreaming the Future with Kenny Ausubel

 
Michael Pollan shares his transformative experience with psychedelics, and the expansive channels of love, connection and consciousness, forged from these profound tools.
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The Benefits of Psychedelics with Michael Pollan

 
What does ethical reciprocity between humans and the natural world look like? The Honorable Harvest reminds us how to be attentive, reverent and in service to the legacies that teach us how to commune with our planet, respectfully.
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The Honorable Harvest with Robin Kimmerer

 
As a call for climate action drastically leaps to the center of political, cultural and economic urgency – who will join the movement before it’s too late?
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Green Economy with Van Jones

 
The environmental and sustainability movement is a language of kinship, inclusion and generosity, and creates an expanded sense of what is possible with humankind.
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Dream of A Hundred-Year Plan with Paul Hawken

 
Hip-hop has a long tradition of being a voice for social justice. Explore the growing culture of eco hip-hop as it takes the stage, speaking for environmental action.
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New Paradigm Hiphop with Climbing Poetree, Dj Cavem, Lyla June, Xuitezcatl Martinez, Isa Roske

 
We are the environment; there is no distinction. Learn how the simple and profound act of breathing connects us profoundly and intrinsically to oxygen in ways we don’t often comprehend.
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We Are the Air with David Suzuki

 
Across our globe, youth from all walks of life are rising up and coming together to stand for climate justice. Witness this powerful movement in action.
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Youth Leading the Way for Climate Justice

 
The path to healing and restoration as a global community is built by the relationships we all have with ourselves, each other, and the ancient intelligence of the living Earth. Featuring Nina Simons, Bioneers Co-Founder and Chief Relationship Officer.
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As We Open Our Hearts with Nina Simons

 
Restorative justice is a justice that heals. It recognizes the importance of healing trauma, repairing pain and rewriting policies to find healthier alternatives for our justice system and the rehabilitation of the incarcerated.
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Restorative Justice with Fania Davis

 
Climate change is not just about conservation, stopping pipelines and building new energy systems; it’s about creating radical new visions of our collective future. 3D Ocean Farming cultivate crops that are sustainable to grow, affordable to eat and regenerative for local ecosystems.
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3D Ocean Farming with Bren Smith

 
Nature is not our property, and communities are now speaking up to pass legislation that honors and upholds the true rights of nature.
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The Rights of Nature with Mari Margil, Tom Linzey

 
Scientific breakthroughs aren’t always about fabricating new solutions; sometimes they’re about the creative use of solutions already found in nature. Green chemist John Warner has found that grey hairs can restore themselves to their natural color, and all it takes is a little beetle chemistry.
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Green Chemistry with John Warner

 
Science now shows that plants appear to be sentient beings, and their innate intelligence can teach humans a great deal about consciousness.
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Are Plants Intelligent? with Kenny Ausubel, Jeremy Narby

 
As the need for climate action grows more dire, poet and activist Drew Dellinger demands environmental justice for those who come after us. His voice echoes the question asked by his great-great-grandchildren in his dreams: “What did you do while the Earth was unraveling?”
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Shouldering Our Individual Responsibility for Environmental Justice with Drew Dellinger

 
Gender Equity and Reconciliation creates safe environments for men and women to have intimiate and often taboo conversations around gender and sexuality. Through hearing our pain, we can heal our future.
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Gender Equity and Reconciliation with Cynthia Brix, William Keepin, Zanele Khumalo

 
Real change is not just policy and law, but how we relate to one another. Interconnectedness among all living beings is a fundamental truth. Only when we embrace this understanding can we foster an atmosphere of mutual support and eliminate the obstacles to harmonious living.
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Reconnecting to Nature, the Earth, and Each Other

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