R. CARLOS NAKAI

Opening and final closing of plenaries by R. CARLOS NAKAI - The world's premier performer of the Native American flute, of Navajo-Ute heritage, will open and close the conference with spontaneous music fitted to the energy. Restoration Nation Theater | 9am, Fri

Welcome to Beaming Bioneers

With Sarah Skenazy and Shana Rappaport

Opening Remarks

by Kenny Ausubel.

Opening Remarks

by Nina Simons.

The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria: Making Home Once Again

by Greg Sarris, Ph.D.  Introduction by Melissa Nelson, Professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State The Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and professor of Native American Studies at Sonoma State University will describe how his people (descendants of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo) are using their understanding that they have always been a part of the natural world to embark on a major commitment to position themselves as “keepers of the land” once again. Using ancient ethics and aesthetics of place, bolstered by casino revenues, the 1,300 member tribe has partnered with county and state officials to secure and restore large tracts of open space, as well as to convert local farms to the production of organic produce for the low-income and needy, thus creating a model of local restoration and sustainability. Restoration Nation Theater | 9:55am, Fri

Flavas of a Whole Community: Ingredients for Food Access in Historically Under-Invested Communities

by Nikki Henderson  Introduction by Arty Mangan, Bioneers Food and Farming Director  This nationally recognized young leader of the food justice movement will explore how we can all support the development of healthy communities and combat childhood malnutrition, diet-related diseases and food injustice. She will show how we can use the creation of “good food” systems to heal historical traumas around race, class, power and privilege in a spirit of collaboration and “ally-ship.” She is the Executive Director of the groundbreaking Oakland-based People's Grocery, among the West Coast's most significant on-the-ground food justice organizations. She works with Michael Pollan and Alice Waters, among others. Restoration Nation Theater | 10:25am, Fri

The Public Square Is Empty (Aside from the Occasional Hanging)

by Carol Jenkins  Introduction by Nina Simons  As perhaps never before in our history, Americans are at war -- with one another. Divided by race, class, gender, faith and rigid politics, our media has failed us. Instead of the Public Square of information, we increasingly retreat to our own de facto segregated sources of opinion. In this crucial election year of 2012, can we revive the Public Square, and, if not, what happens? Carol Jenkins is an Emmy award-winning former journalist and producer, and founding President of the Women's Media Center, the groundbreaking nonprofit aimed at increasing coverage and participation of women in the media. In that WMC role, she conceived the acclaimed Progressive Women’s Voices media leadership program, and acquired and expanded SheSource as the largest portfolio of women experts in the country. She will explore how to regenerate the public information commons in this polarized age. Restoration Nation Theater | 11:20am, Fri

Youth Leadership

by Rhiannon Tomtishen and Madison Vorva.  These Brower Youth Award winners, two high school best friends, will describe their campaign with Rainforest Action Network to safeguard habitat for Orangutans and preserve rainforests by ending use of palm oil by the Girl Scouts and others. Restoration Nation Theater | 11:50am, Fri

emPOWERed

by Michael Brune  Introduction by James Gollin, Rainforest Action Network President  Hungry for good news? Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune will tell the story of how an inspiring grassroots coalition has achieved hundreds of victories against Big Coal over the last several years. He will depict a new, localized approach to fighting climate change effectively and outline what each of us can do to help clean energy such as solar and wind become the dominant source of power by the end of this decade. The Beyond Coal campaign, including recent funding of $50 million from Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City, has helped block 166 (and counting) new coal plants over the past decade, with major impacts on reducing global greenhouse gas and mercury emissions. The Mother Jones magazine headline says it all: “How a Grassroots Rebellion Won the Nation’s Biggest Climate Victory.” In 1999, while working at Rainforest Action Network, Michael Brune ran a successful campaign that pressured Home Depot stores to stop purchasing and selling wood from old-growth forests. Time magazine listed this as its top environmental story of that year. He is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Daily Kos. In 2008 he published the book Coming Clean -- Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal. Restoration Nation Theatre | 12:10pm, Fri 

Native American Ecological Restoration Movements

Traditional Eyak Ecological Salmon Preservation & Revitalization on Alaska’s Copper River.

With Dune Lankard (Eyak Athabaskan), Co-Founder and President, Eyak Preservation Council; and Pamela Smith (Eyak Athabaskan) Co-Founder, Eyak Preservation Council Dune will portray the ongoing battle to protect the natural salmon ecosystem and indigenous cultural landscape against an onslaught of corporate resource extraction. His mission is to preserve, restore and celebrate wild salmon culture and habitat through awareness, education and the promotion of sustainable livelihoods within the communities of the Copper River and Prince William Sound watersheds of Alaska. His work ensures that the salmon will continue to return to their birthplace and nurture the ecosystems of which they are a fundamentally important species. Essential to local economic sustainability is bioregional conservation, and his little corner of the world is a microcosm baseline model for the planet. This is one of the last wild places on planet earth where we still have a chance to get it right, by leaving it alone- wild and thriving. Indigenous Forum | 2:45pm-3:30pm, Fri

Resilient Communities I: Methods and Madness

With Andy Lipkis, Founder and President of Tree People; Astrid Scholz, Executive Vice President of Ecotrust; Tom Goldtooth of Indigenous Environmental Network; Jim Sheehan of Envision Spokane; Mark Mykleby, retired Colonel of the Marine Corps. One key to resilience in the face of the Great Disruption is the greater decentralization of our basic systems and infrastructure. These leading models highlight a diversity of radically innovative approaches to the greater localization and regionalization of systems of energy, water, finance, governance and spiritual values put into action. Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri  

Changing the Stories that Create Culture, And How We Tell Our Own

Presented by Women’s Media Center. Hosted by Carol Jenkins and Jodie Evans of the Women’s Media Center

With Aimee Allison, Co-Executive Director of RootsAction; Rose Aguilar, host of “Your Call” on KALW 91.7 FM. Don’t let anyone else frame your story! Come hear from women journalists, bloggers and media-makers how their storytelling has evolved and what they’ve learned. In an emergent conversation, experiment with telling your own story and learn tools and practices to increase your effectiveness. Interactive Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Investing in Valuable Strangers: Social Capitalism, Community Economics and Impact Investing

Presented by SOCAP.

With Kevin Jones, Founder of SOCAP, Good Capital, and Hub Bay Area; Shaun Paul, General Partner of People and Planet Holdings; Konda Mason, founder and CEO of Hub Oakland, LLC; John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man;. The Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) conference has become the world's leading convening for people who want to mix what has meaning with their investment dollars. Three groundbreaking social capitalists take a look at new ways of thinking about money and what it does in the world. Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

1% Solutions: Outing the Oligarchy, Corporate Racial Politics, Election Reform and Constitutional Amendments

Hosted by Kevin Danaher, Co-Founder of Global Exchange.

With john a. powell, Director of the Haas Diversity Research Center at UC Berkeley; Steven Hill, political writer, author of Ten Steps to Repair American Democracy; Victor Menotti, Executive Director of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG); Katie Redford, Earth Rights International. This revelatory exploration of the plutocracy covers an arc of critical issues: outing the economic monopoly and political stranglehold of the top 1%; revealing the racial politics corporations use to divide and conquer; transforming our corrupted political system with authentic election reform and the restoration of democracy; the need for a Constitutional Amendment to revoke corporate “free speech;” and how the upcoming Supreme Court Kiobel v. Shell lawsuit -- which arose out of the executions of the Ogoni 9 in Nigeria, including Ken Saro Wiwa -- has Shell arguing it cannot be held accountable for the torture and killing of the environmentalists because it’s a corporation, yet it says corporations are people when it gives them rights. That’s mighty corporate! Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri  

Education for a Sustainable Future: Mobilizing Our Network to Act

With Kirk Bergstrom, Founder and President of WorldLink; Emily Ryan, Program Director, Cultivating an Ecoliterate Worldview, Schumacher College; Shana Rappaport, Bioneers Education for Action Program Director; Melanie Ida Chopko, graphic recorder. A vital movement is growing within the Bioneers community to combine our shared experience and wisdom in the service of education for sustainability. This highly interactive session is for educators, students, and social change agents who believe education is central to creating a truly sustainable future – and are committed to leveraging the strength of our collective capacity to do it. This is a unique opportunity to learn, share and connect around one of the essential questions of our time: “How can education ensure the long-term integrity of the biosphere and human well-being?” Participants will explore a core set of principles and practices that define Education for Sustainability (EfS), engage in framing central questions of value to the field, and begin building an allied network to put them into action. Extend the experience by joining the “Wiser Together” session on Saturday, and Friday evening’s Education for Action (EfA) Networking Reception. Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Campaign Connection: Why Seed Matters

With Mathew Dillon and Sara McCamant of Seed Matters; Rebecca Newburn of Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library; Stacy Malkan, Media Director, California Right to Know ballot initiative. Seeds are a legacy we've inherited from generations of farmers and gardeners, and with that inheritance comes a responsibility to care for the diversity and beauty of seeds. Community Seed Toolkits, a program of Seed Matters, empowers communities to create successful local seed swaps, seed banks and libraries, seed gardens, and plant breeding clubs that reflect the resilience and diversity of our local food and gardening communities. Join representatives from Seed Matters, local seed libraries, and other seed educators to learn how you can become part of the grassroots seed community. Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Fukushima Redux: Inspired Actions for a Safe Energy Future in Japan and the US

Hosted by Claire Greensfelder, Board Member, INOCHI/Plutonium Free Future.

With Yasuteru Yamada, Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima (Japan); Mayumi Oda, Internationally Recognized Artist & Co-Founder, Morokino Sustainable Village Project (Hawaii/Japan); Dr. Carol Wolman, Psychiatrist & Activist with Fukushima Response (California); Cecile Pineda, Author, Devil's Tango, How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step (California). Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Generation Waking Up

This global campaign ignites young people to bring forth a thriving, just, sustainable world. This interactive, multimedia, peer-led workshop facilitated by Joshua Gorman and Valerie Love of Generation Waking Up helps youth see how they can make a difference, as individuals and as a generation. Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Cultivating Women’s Leadership Reunion and Sampler

Hosted by Nina Simons and Toby Herzlich, Co-Founders of Cultivating Women’s Leadership trainings.

Come taste, sample or reconnect with the unique field that this intensive training co-creates, and meet other remarkable women. Moonrise Tent | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Herbwalk: Medicines and Wild Edibles

With Autumn Summers. There is a bounty of local wild and naturalized medicines and foods that grow in Northern California that you can include in your wellness kit and kitchen pantry. Come discover how to find and use California poppy, cattail, grindelia and many other useful plants, as we explore the landscape right around the conference site. We are surrounded by medicines -- if we know what to look for and learn how to respectfully, sustainably harvest and wisely use them. Sun Stage | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri  

The Emergent Power of Global Action Networks

With Steven Waddell, Founding Executive Director of Global Action Network; Scott Spann, Founder of Innate Strategies; Ruth Rominger, Consultant to REAMP network. Global Action Networks (GANs) are tying together businesses, governments and NGOs in a super-web of connections to realize the scale and direction of change necessary to address the 21st century's critical challenges and opportunities. They are a new organizational form, as different from business as business is from government, and as both those are from NGOs. The emergence of GANs holds great promise to respond effectively to complex paradoxes and dilemmas through support for diverse perspectives, cultural variety, and transcendent action. Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri 

Ethos

The Bioneers Moving Image Festival presents a screening of 'Ethos'. Also presented by Grist. In person: Annie Leonard (Story of Stuff) and Steven Hill (10 Steps Towards Rebuilding Democracy), Emmet Brady (Your Garden Show). Ethos, presented on film by Actor and activist Woody Harrelson, lifts the lid on a Pandora's Box of systemic issues that guarantee failure in every aspect of our lives, from conflicts of interest in politics to unregulated corporate power, to a military industrial complex that just about owns our government. Ethos shows how the environment to our democracy and our own personal liberty are at stake. With interviews from some of today's leading thinkers including Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, Ethos demonstrates a simple but powerful way to start making meaningful and sustainable change. (67 minutes) Showcase Theater, at the Exhibit Hall | 4:30pm, Fri

Motherhood and Leadership: From the Traditional to the Revolutionary

Hosted by Anneke Campbell, author and activist.

With Peggy O’Mara of Mothering.com; Vanessa Daniel, Executive Director of Groundswell; Maame Yelbert-Obeng of Women’s Earth Alliance. As women’s roles are undergoing revolutionary change, also changing are ideas of who can beget and raise children, motherhood as women’s destiny, and concepts of leadership. Many of the qualities deemed necessary for effective and transformational leadership are some of the very skills traditionally developed in mothering: organization, teaching, guiding, handling conflicting claims and disturbances, multi-tasking, split-second decision-making based in intuition and values, nurturing and collaboration, and resolving differences. Mothers have throughout time been leaders in homes, families and communities, but our notions of leadership are still based in the heroic business-political-military model, hence we do not recognize leaders all around us, or inside us. How might changing models of motherhood and leadership coalesce to free both from conventional constraint? Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Return of the Salmon

Hosted by Arty Mangan, Bioneers Food and Farming Director

With Caleen A. Sisk of the Winnemem Wintu nation; John Williams of Frog’s Leap Winery. Once incredibly abundant, salmon have become severely diminished or even extinct in many Northern California watersheds. Come hear how the Winnemem Wintu, through spiritual ceremony and ecological activism, are restocking the McCloud River with ancestral Chinook from New Zealand; and how Napa Valley vineyard owners have rededicated millions of dollars worth of productive vineyards to help restore the Napa River and encourage the return of Steelhead and Chinook. Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri  

What Will It Take to Grow Bioregional Economies?

Presented by RSF Social Finance. Hosted by John Bloom, Senior Director of Organizational Culture at RSF

With Don Shaffer, RSF President/CEO; Carol Newell, Founder of Renewal and Co-Founder of Play BIG; Deborah Frieze, Board member and former Co-President of The Berkana Institute and co-founder of the Berkana Exchange What are the challenges of and tools for building or re-building local, regional economies? Leading figures in socially responsible and community-based investment explore how conscious financing can be a force for regional sustainability, the development of enterprise, and the building of community capital. Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

In Pursuit of Happiness: Becoming Beloved Community

Hosted by Connie Cagampang Heller, Co-Founder of Linked Fate Fund for Justice at the Tides Foundation.

With: john a. powell, Director of the Haas Diversity Research Center at UC Berkeley; Shakti Butler, Executive Director of World Trust; Eveline Shen, Executive Director of Forward Together; Grace Bauer, Co-Director of Justice for Families. An uncertain economy, changing demographics and shifting social norms all contribute to a growing, almost palpable anxiety that has gripped much of America. Persistent anxiety about difference -- or the lack of difference -- acts as a powerful force that re-inscribes social separation and even isolation for individuals and their communities. Perhaps something more fundamental is driving this disquiet. Perhaps we are uneasy with an uncertain world that might not just threaten our way of life, but also our sense of who we are. Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Campaign Connection: Organizing for Clean Energy

Presented by the Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and 350.org.

With Anna Goldstein, US Campaign Manager of 350.org, Rachel Butler of the Sierra Club's Beyond Oil team, and Amanda Starbuck of the Energy and Finance at Rainforest Action Network. Three of the leading organizations working to halt and reverse climate change and move to a post-carbon energy future join forces to show us how to get involved. Come learn about the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, which has blocked the construction or reopening of over 100 coal burning plants to date; 350.org’s incredibly successful grassroots movement to pressure political leaders to address climate change; and RAN’s potent direct action campaigns to pressure polluters. The Tent of Inspiration | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri  

Council with the World: Young Bioneers Speak

Hosted by Kate Lipkis, Certified Council Trainer; and Casey McCarroll, rites of passage guide, Founder of LAUNCH.

Join with fellow young bioneers to swap story, build community and share your dreams for your lives and the world. Youth Unity Center | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

California Bay Area Native Cultural Resource Protection

Hosted by Dennis Martinez (O’odham-Chicano-Swedish). With Nick Tipon (Coastal Miwok); Corrine Gould (Ohlone); Sage La Pena (Nomtipom Wintu). Join us for total immersion into the history, traditional indigenous knowledge and sophisticated sciences of the Bay Area Natives working to protect their cultures, resources and landscapes. Dennis Martinez (O’odham-Chicano-Swedish) will guide the audience through Native perspectives on sustainability including controversial REDD laws. Indigenous Forum | 4:30pm-5:15pm, Fri

Resilient Communities World Café

With Vicki Robin, co-creator of the Conversation Cafes; and Bob Stilger, Ph.D., Vice President of New Stories. Join master world café facilitators Vicki Robin and Bob Stilger for dynamic conversations with other bioneers about how to create resilient communities. Embassy Suites Private Dining Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Wiser Together Cafe: Partnering Across Generations

With Dave Shaw, Ashley Cooper and Susan Kelly. We are one generation waking up together across the cycle of life to the urgent need for coming together on behalf of what we believe in. How might we join forces to re-develop wholeness and community with the human and more than human world? Join us for a series of participant-driven World Cafe conversations about how we can collaborate to shape the future by synergizing the unique gifts of all generations. The Cafe provides a hospitable space for integration and reflection on what is emerging at the conference, building partnerships of personal and professional value, and seeing the collective intelligence become visible before your eyes through graphic recording. Let's create tomorrow, together!! World Cafe | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Rock the Boat

The Bioneers Moving Image Festival presents a screening of 'Rock the Boat'. On July 25th, 2008, a dozen intrepid Angelenos took to their boats and kayaks and embarked on an ambitious and absurd mission to navigate the entire length of the LA River. Rock the Boat follows this controversial kayaking expedition down the cemented-in LA River, and looks at how the transformation of Los Angeles from a 'dream city of endless possibility' to the nightmare sprawl it is today arose from our habit of using, managing and re-imagining nature in a single-minded quest for more. (50 minutes) Panelists: Director Thea Lucia Mercouffer with George Wolfe and Andy Lipkis, plus Shana Maziarz from the Wild and Scenic Film Festival Friday, October 19, 2012, 6:15pm | Showcase Theatre, Exhibit Hall

Education for Action Networking Reception

Join us for this special reception, on Friday evening from 6:30-8:30, to nourish yourself and Bioneers' growing educational community! Come mingle and munch with other formal and non-formal educators, students and education for sustainability allies for an evening of light programming, dinner and networking to form connections and guide experiences with intention throughout the rest of the weekend. Advanced RSVP required – Cost $10 – Sign up when you register online. Epiphany Theater | 6:30-8:30pm, Fri

The House I Live In

The Bioneers Moving Image Festival presents a screening of 'The House I Live In'. Also presented by Grist. In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished communities at home and abroad. Filmed in more than twenty states, The House I Live In tells the stories of individuals at all levels of America’s War on Drugs. From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, the film offers a penetrating look inside America’s criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy. Winner: Best Documentary at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. (106 minutes) Panelists: Dr. Gabor Mate (The Realm of Hungry Ghosts), Ethan Nadelmann (Drug Policy Alliance), and Sarah Skenazy (Bioneers) Friday, October 19, 2012, 8:00 pm | Showcase Theatre, Exhibit Hall