2.45pm-4.15pm, FriBreakouts, Panels, Workshops
02:45 PM
Indigenous Forum | 2:45pm-3:30pm, 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, Fri02:45 PM
Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, 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, Fri02:45 PM
Restoration Nation 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, Fri02:45 PM
Manzanita Room | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Showcase Theater | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Santa Rosa Room | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Tent of Inspiration | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Youth Unity Center | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Moonrise Tent | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Sun Stage | 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, Fri2.45pm-4.15pm, SatBreakouts, Panels, Workshops
02:45 PM
Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Living Architecture: The Emerald Edges of Green Building
With Eric Corey Freed, LEED AP, Hon. FIGP, Principal of organicARCHITECT; Paul Kephart, founder, Rana Creek, biologist, ecologist, land-use expert and pathfinder of “Living Architecture" Leading green builders and architects will explore specific bold, new ideas for transforming our cities and suburbs into regenerative and restorative places. Using biomimicry and organic principles as a guide, they'll show tangible deployable lessons we can apply widely to our built environment. Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Stewarding Seeds: Preserving Our Plant Genetic Resources
Hosted by Matthew Dillon, Seed Matters
With John Navazio, Senior Scientist at Organic Seed Alliance and Sara McCamant of Seed Matters. The great treasure of plant diversity is being lost to seed industry consolidation and the privatization of seeds via hybrids and genetic engineering. Only 20 percent of organic farmers use organic seeds owing to the lack of supply. Come hear about a two-fold strategy for reclaiming seed stewardship that includes the development of a commercial-scale organic seed supply and the training of gardeners in seed saving skills. This session will include a seed-saving demonstration. Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
The Next System: Democratizing Wealth and Building a Sustainable System from the Ground Up
Hosted by: Deb Nelson, Executive Director, Social Venture Network. Co-led by Ted Howard and Gar Alperovitz.
In recent years across the nation there has been an explosion in the growth of innovative, environmentally sustainable and economically inclusive community-based businesses, financial institutions and democratic workplaces. The fast developing “New Economy Movement” has also spawned an increasingly sophisticated discussion of what it may mean to “change the system” in a democratic and ecologically meaningful way. We will focus first on one of the most significant community wealth building efforts in the country – the Evergreen Cooperative Initiative of Cleveland. Evergreen-inspired replications have been spawned in cities as diverse as Atlanta, Washington DC, Pittsburgh and Amarillo. We will then move to a discussion of how some of the principles involved in this and many other democratizing models may form the basis of a new vision and a step-by-step path to a systemic transformation that can deal with some of the largest domestic and global economic and ecological challenges of our time. Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Women and Sustainability: Birthing New Leadership Toward a Green Society
Hosted by Anneke Campbell
With Carolyn Finney, professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley; Bonnie Nixon, Executive Director of Sustainability Consortium; Erin English, Associate Engineer at Natural Systems International; Lynda Grose, fashion designer, consultant, associate professor at California College of the Arts A sustainable society is one that aligns our products, processes and politics in ways that are life-affirming and regenerative. Increasingly women are stepping into leadership roles in the sustainability movement, bringing practices that are often associated with the feminine -- increased cooperation, intuition, reaching across differences, and community-based values. How might this kind of orientation reshape the qualities of the sustainability movement? What might women uniquely bring to environmental and social organizing? Join an emergent conversation with women at the leading edges of sustainable innovation, business and organizing to explore what women may be bringing to how we green society for the benefit of all. Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
The Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Campaign Connection: Organizing to Win the War on Women
With Shaunna Thomas, UltraViolet; and Shanelle Mathews and Adriann Barboa, Forward Together. Come and learn about two innovative efforts to build power for women and their communities. We will explore strategies that Strong Families and Ultraviolet are using to create new movements, change policies and organize communities on behalf of women and reproductive justice and rights. The Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Council Circle | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Council for Educators and Educational Settings
Hosted by Sharon Shay Sloan, Council trainer/community steward
With Kate Lipkis; Laura Weaver, Passageworks Institute; John McCluskey, Colorado Center for Council Training; Casey McCarroll, Leadership Council, Stepping Stones Project We’ll explore how Council practice can be applied in educational settings to support the social and emotional learning environment, and how Council can support your role as an educator or student by engendering attentive listening, authentic expression and creative spontaneity. Council Circle | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Moonrise Tent | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Women Moving Forward, Putting Their Passions Into Action
With: Elisa Parker, Co-founder and President of See Jane Do, a social change multimedia organization that redefines media for women and the power of story to create positive change; Mary Elizabeth Young, founding member of Gather the Women Nevada County, activist, writer and speaker. Women leaders of the environmental and social justice movements: YOU are the solution! Whether you are a seasoned or newbie activist, this hands-on workshop is designed for you. Gain tips, tools and resources to activate the activist within each of us. Network with purpose with other women who are leading the way, and help formulate a plan that puts your passion into action. Come join us, because when women come together there is no stopping us in moving forward! Interactive, experiential. Moonrise Tent | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Sun Stage | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Herbwalk: The Medicinal and Edible Landscape
With Kami McBride Kami McBride has inspired thousands to use herbs in their daily lives for health and wellness. Sun Stage | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Autodesk Atrium | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Beyond Belief: Faith in Action for the Earth
Hosted by Rev. Canon Sally Grover Bingham of The Regeneration Project and the Interfaith Power and Light campaign.
With G.L. Hodge, Administrator, Providence Baptist Church of San Francisco; Marilyn Youngbird, Tribal Member, Arikara and Hidatsa Nations; Linda Ruth Cutts, Abiding Abbess Green Gulch Zen Center; Krithika Harish, Young Leaders Program Coordinator, United Religions Initiative. Religions have increasingly taught that protecting the Earth is a moral responsibility. In this panel, learn how religious leaders from diverse communities are putting these beliefs into action in ways that create environmental benefits. Panelists will share successes in organizing faith-based environmental advocacy and justice efforts, ‘green’ social enterprises, environmental health education, and more. Autodesk Atrium | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
World Cafe | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Resilient Communities World Café
With: Vicki Robin, co-creator of the Conversation Cafes, a simple dialogue method used widely in cafes and conferences worldwide; and Bob Stilger, Ph.D., Vice President of New Stories who uses dialogue to support people around the world in building healthy and resilient communities. Join master world café facilitators Vicki Robin and Bob Stilger for dynamic conversations with other bioneers about how to create resilient communities. World Cafe | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Mapping to Mobilize: Eco-Apartheid to Eco-Imagination
With Dr. Antwi Akom and Aaron Nakai of I-SEEED (Institute for Sustainable Economic, Educational and Environmental Design) Why does your community or school look the way that it does? What are young people doing to build a global climate justice movement? How do we train the next generation of climate scientists, energy innovators, and environmental leaders? This workshop puts the power of new technologies into the hands of young change agents, enabling youth to use digital media and online social platforms to spark climate justice movements in their own communities. Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Society and Inner Resilience: Transforming Trauma, Addiction and Adversity
Hosted by Akaya Windwood, President, Rockwood Leadership Institute
With Gabor Maté, MD; James Gordon, MD, Founder and Director of The Center for Mind–Body Medicine, professor at Georgetown Medical School; Staci Haines, national leader in the field of Somatics, teacher, author and pathfinder in healing sexual traumas. In our culture, illnesses, traumas and addictions are usually viewed as the problems of individuals, but they are, above all, social phenomena. Physical and emotional disturbances vary a lot culture by culture. Ours seems to be very prone to creating cancer, depression, obesity, stress, sexual dysfunction and violence, and anxiety disorders. Three brilliant healers and thinkers on the social context of illness explore how our society generates illness, and how, by understanding those processes, we can build up our resilience and achieve higher degrees of balance and wellness, skills we can pass on to our children. They will also look at what we can do to begin transforming our society into a source of solidarity, mutual aid and healing, rather than of disease, separation and fear. Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Conservation, Restoration, Biodiversity and Innovative Philanthropy
Hosted by Atossa Soltani, Founder and Executive Director of Amazon Watch
With Kris Tompkins, conservationist, former CEO of Patagonia; John Liu, international filmmaker, conservationist and ecological restorationist; Marina Silva, Brazilian environmental leader. Come learn about the struggles to preserve some of the last large-scale vibrant ecosystems on Earth, crucial to the diversity of life on our planet, the climate and to our own species’ survival. Kris Tompkins will describe the remarkable work she and her husband Doug Tompkins, Co-Founder of Esprit, are doing as conservation philanthropists and practitioners to create national parks that protect and restore wildlands and biodiversity, inspire care for the natural world, and generate healthy economic opportunities for communities in Patagonia in Chile and Argentina. John Liu will show how understanding the true value of ecological functions including hydrological cycles, climate regulation and soil fertility reveals an astonishing cost-benefit ratio that points to both the ecological and economic imperative of large-scale ecological restoration worldwide, such as he has demonstrated in China and Rwanda. Marina Silva will describe what can and must be done to protect the forests and peoples of the Amazon while alleviating poverty. Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat2.45pm-4.15pm, SunBreakouts, Panels, Workshops
2:45 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Mass Incarceration, Racial Justice and the Drug War
With Ethan Nadelmann; Jakada Imani, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center; Alice A. Huffman, President, California NAACP. The struggle to end America's disastrous “war on drugs” is a struggle for common sense, human rights and, without question, racial justice -- given the extraordinary and disproportionate extent to which people of color are arrested, prosecuted and incarcerated for drug offenses. The majority of these arrests are for low-level drug offenses, such as possession for personal use. An extremely high percentage of young people arrested winds up in prison instead of college. What are the policies and factors motivating these arrests? Who's monitoring these trends? What's happening at federal and state levels to stop the practice of disappearing so many people into the prison system? And what more can be done? Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Cultivating Women’s Leadership: Leadership’s Reinvention Through the Feminine
With Ai-jen Poo; Sandra Steingraber; Nikki Henderson;Anisha Desai, Program Director, New Leaders Initiative; Jess Rimington, Founder and Executive Director of One World Youth Project. With more women ascending into leadership roles, we have an opportunity to re-examine and re-vision new models of organizational and movement culture. Several new initiatives are redefining leadership, transforming outdated methods and structures into practices and networks that are equitable, sustainable, and of the heart. Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
The Next 100 Years of Water: An Action Plan for Los Angeles
With Lauren Bon, author of the Metabolic Studio, where she practices at the intersection of art and philanthropy, working with social brownfields and metabolic sculptures that foster relationships, actions and events that transform the site into a more healthful environment and galvanize transition within complex bureaucracies. Water from the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains supports many of the cities of the West. Our Action Plan envisions a future in which Los Angeles no longer needs imported water. With the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in November 2013, we ask the Bioneers community to discuss our Action Plan: “Toward the Next One Hundred Years of Water.” In this workshop, we aim to remap our bioregion with the intention of maximizing its hydro potential for all living things. Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Changing the Story: New Media for Movement Building
Hosted by Jeremy Kagan, award-winning filmmaker.
With Mathew Gross, new media strategist, former Director of Internet Communications for Howard Dean's presidential campaign; Shirley Sneve, Executive Director of Native American Public Telecommunications; Ian Inaba, Co-Executive Director of Citizen Engagement Lab. Bold innovators in new media activism are addressing both the need to change the larger narrative to combat apathy, cynicism, hopelessness and paranoia, as well as to explore how to get your message out and mobilize engagement most effectively in a rapidly shifting media landscape. Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
What’s Sex Got to Do With It?: Population, Women and the Earth
Hosted by Anuja Mendiratta of Philanthropic and Nonprofit Consulting.
With Robert Engelman, author and President of Worldwatch Institute; Eveline Shen, Executive Director of Forward Together; John Seager, President of Population Connection; Muadi Mukenge, Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Fund for Women. As global population exceeds 7 billion, and climate and social instabilities are on the rise, many believe we’re exceeding Earth’s carrying capacity. The pressure to change our social and ecological systems is ramping up, and women sit firmly at the center of it all. Yet who decides how population and reproductive rights change, and how? With such gross inequities and different perspectives as exist between the global North and the global South, the issue of population has long been a “third rail” in the environmental movement. Within the U.S., issues of reproductive rights, health and justice are surfacing painful political and social wounds, as well as cultural divides that are debilitating for our collective progress. Join us to navigate across a diverse spectrum of perspectives to explore and integrate anthropological, geopolitical, ecological and social identity impacts and narratives, while exploring how these various stories may find common ground. Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
The Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Campaign Connection: Becoming Beloved Ancestors — Building A Women-Led Civil Rights Movement for Future Generations
With Carolyn Raffensperger, Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network; and Caroline Casey, creator-weaver-of-context of “The Visionary Activist Show” on Pacifica Radio stations KPFA in the Bay Area and KPFK in Los Angeles. This organizing and strategizing session will focus on how to launch a women-led rights movement for future generations of all species. We’ll explore visionary new tools, policies and institutions from the local to the international level in a session that pulls together wisdom traditions, the bottom-up organizing of Occupy Wall Street, and new environmental policies. The Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Meet and Greet the 2012 Brower Youth Award Winners
The BYA winners, in their first public appearance, are young activists who have shown outstanding leadership in creating positive environmental and social impacts. Come hear their inspiring stories and have the opportunity to connect with these young activists from all over North America. Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun02:45 PM
Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Permaculture Solutions: From Personal Ecology to Regenerative Policy
Hosted by Arty Mangan. With Penny Livingston, Co-Founder of the Regenerative Design Institute; Trathen Heckman, Director of Daily Acts Organization and Board President of Transition U.S. Permaculturists have been innovating low-tech accessible ways to take nature’s solutions to scale and answer the question: How can we live on this precious planet in a way that meets humanity’s and nature’s needs? From gardens to governance, front-yard farms to public food forests, wide-scale collaborative action and the Transition Town movement, we’ll take a tour of eco-efficacious solutions and models with leading homegrown leaders who will share their personal practices and community engagement strategies. Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun02:45 PM
Autodesk Atrium | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Transforming Education at Every Level: Whole Human Learning Toward a Regenerative Future
Hosted by Margaret Golden, Dominican University.
With Kate Lipkis, who teaches traditional Council methods in the L.A. Unified School District; Alan Webb, whose P2PU (Peer to Peer University) and Citizen Circles are creating innovative forms for peer learning; Megan Cowan, whose Mindful Schools teach mindfulness practice to thousands of youth throughout the San Francisco Bay Area; Gary Martin, whose Global Environments Summer Academy annually cultivates 18 exceptional graduate and professional-level individuals to become environmental leaders. Both within existing systems and by innovating new ones, education is changing, thanks to the perseverance, courage and commitment of dedicated and visionary teachers and learners. In an emergent conversation, come discover new methodologies and vehicles for raising-up, informing and equipping tomorrow’s leaders. Autodesk Atrium | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun02:45 PM
Indigenous Forum | 2:45pm, Sun
Rights of Mother Earth — Protecting Environmental and Cultural Diversity
With Dr. Daniel Wildcat (Yuchi Member of the Muscogee Nation), Haskell Indian Nations University, author of Red Alert! Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge; Dr. Anthony Madrigal (Desert Cahuilla), Director of Cultural Resources, San Manuel Band of Serrano Indians; Tom B.K. Goldtooth (Dinè/Dakota), Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network Across the world, Indigenous Peoples are discussing how we will create institutions and policies that reflect what our traditions have long recognized -- the natural life of our planet exists as relatives, not resources. An Indigenous paradigm is re-emerging that grants equal rights to nature based on the idea that humans do not have a natural right to destroy the natural environment, but have an ancient responsibility to care for the natural world. As Indigenous Peoples, we accept the responsibility to share our Original Instructions and prophecies to ensure harmony with the rest of Creation. The time has come to put our minds together to discuss how we can shape tribal, state, national and global policies for wellbeing of our Mother, planet Earth. Indigenous Forum | 2:45pm, Sun02:45 PM
Council Circle | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Transforming Our Relationship to White Privilege in Service of Co-Creating Beloved Community
Facilitated by Yeshi Neumann of Rockwood Leadership Institute.
This experiential session explores how, through courage, kindness and taking responsibility, we can grow to be more effective white allies in dismantling unjust social systems and becoming “beloved community” across divides of race, ethnicity, class and gender. All are welcome. Experiential. Council Circle | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun02:45 PM
Moonrise Tent | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Listening for Leadership at the Grassroots
Presented by Women’s Earth Alliance
Around the world, women are taking action and raising their voices with one resonant message: Community-driven women's leadership can guide the world toward sustainability and balance. Drawing upon facilitation and leadership techniques from grassroots activists worldwide, the Women’s Earth Alliance team members and partners will guide us on a leadership journey that will help inform and inspire each of us in our own projects and our own leadership. Experiential. Moonrise Tent | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun4.30pm-6pm, FriBreakouts, Panels, Workshops
04:30 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6pm, 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, Fri04:30 PM
Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6pm, 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, Fri04:30 PM
Santa Rosa 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, Fri04:30 PM
Epiphany Theater | 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, Fri04:30 PM
Restoration Nation 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, Fri04:30 PM
The Tent of Inspiration | 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, Fri04:30 PM
Youth Unity Center | 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, Fri04:30 PM
Indigenous Forum | 4:30pm-5:15pm, 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, Fri04:30 PM
Embassy Suites Private Dining Room | 4:30pm-6pm, 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, Fri04:30 PM
World Cafe | 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, Fri4.30pm-6pm, SatBreakouts, Panels, Workshops
04:30 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Change the World, Not the Channel: Media for Social Change
Presented by Mother Jones. Hosted by Steve Katz, Mother Jones Publisher.
With: Annie Leonard, creator of The Story of Stuff; Bill Ryerson, Founder and President of the Population Media Center; Monika Bauerlein, Co-Editor of Mother Jones. Media can play a pivotal role in social change, as these sophisticated practitioners demonstrate with a diversity of strategies, media and innovations. Annie Leonard will share lessons learned on the journey that took her from being a somewhat isolated, wonky waste activist to a thriving social media hub for people transforming how we make, use and throw away stuff around the world. Bill Ryerson will discuss his groundbreaking, highly successful work crafting popular radio and television serialized dramas in developing countries to foster family planning and environmentally sustainable lifestyle choices. Award-winning Mother Jones Co-Editor Monika Bauerlein will examine the crucial role information plays in leveraging social change, and how to operationalize newsmaking. Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Autodesk Atrium | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Built To Last: Housing for the Post-Carbon Age
With: Matt Taecker, urban planner extraordinaire; Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett, legendary co-housing pioneers; Rachel Kaplan, lead author of Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living. In an era of uncertain energy supplies, economic instability, growing population density, climatic disruptions, and new yearnings for localism and greater social connection, how will our buildings, communities and cities be configured? How do we design how and where we live to optimize sustainability, public health, social cohesion…and happiness? Autodesk Atrium | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Banking on the Future: Emergent Species of Equitable Banking Models
Hosted by Bill Twist, Pachamama Alliance Co-Founder.
With Vince Siciliano, CEO of New Resource Bank, member Global Alliance for Banking on Values; Ellen Brown, Chair and President of the Public Banking Institute, author Web of Debt; Marco Krapels, Executive Vice-President, Rabobank N.A. How can banks help support and build a sustainable society? What role should money play in society as a store of values and medium of change and exchange? What role can public banking play where deposits are invested in the common good? These banking innovators are inventing and reinventing social and environmental approaches that represent an emergent international movement towards ethical banking, including the recent Global Alliance for Banking on Values, a 15-bank global network that could give banking a good name, while already outperforming the world’s largest banks. Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Resilient Foodsheds: Agro-ecoregional Approaches to Food Security
With Gary Paul Nabhan and Peter Warshal Food security looms as a major flash point globally: Increasing populations, improved wealth in Brazil, India and China, climate change, pesticide-resistant crop diseases, the price of petro-based fertilizers, the dominance of industrial agriculture corporations that are too-big-not-to-fail, GMOs and more. These challenges pose grave threats to national and global food supplies and government stability. Given nature’s constraints of weather, water and soils, what is the role of agro-ecoregion production and trade in supplying seasonal healthy and affordable food? What are the assets, rewards and advantages of local food systems? How can they be designed into practical and prosperous local and regional foodshed economies? In short, how can agro-ecoregional economies provide resilience for local communities for the vagaries of the roller-coaster food systems of the 21st century? Two leading innovators share their ideas, innovations, dreams, strategies, knowledge and working models that can promote a more local food economy, and a food economy that embodies food security, social equity, a healthy environment, and community wealth, while celebrating biocultural diversity. Gary Paul Nabhan is an internationally celebrated nature writer, founder of Native Seed/SEARCH, teacher, conservation biologist and sustainable agriculture activist who has been called “the father of the local food movement.” Peter Warshall is an innovative ecologist, Co-Director of the Dreaming New Mexico’s project “The Age of Local Foodsheds and a Fair Trade State,” and has worked internationally and as an elected official on conservation/development issues involving water, agriculture, ranching and wildlife. Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
What’s Gender Got to do With It? Moving Beyond Binaries and Polarity into Possibility and Wholeness
With: Ilarion Merculieff; Aleut traditional messenger; Staci Haines, Somatics innovator; Cole, Founder of Brown Boi Project, bridging gender and racial dialogues; Sharon Shay Sloan, Council trainer and community steward. Both for us as human beings and for many of our non-human relations throughout the natural world, we are complex creatures who express a richly diverse continuum of gender and sexual preferences. Disregarding societal restrictions and pressures, who might we choose to be, given greater freedom of expression? Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Embassy Suites Private Dining Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Campaign Connection: The Envision Spokane Community Bill of Rights and the People’s Rights Constitutional Amendment
With Jim Sheehan, Envision Spokane; Jeff Clements, Co-Founder of Free Speech for People, author of Corporations Are Not People. Embassy Suites Private Dining Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
The Tent of Inspiration | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Campaign Connection: Protecting the Amazon and its People
Moderated by Atossa Soltani, Founder and Executive Director of Amazon Watch.
With Tupak Amaru Viteri Gualinga, community Vice President; Marlon Santi, former CONAIE President from Sarayaku; and Nina Sicha Siren Gualinga, Sarayaku youth leader; and representatives of Amazon Watch and Pachamama Alliance.
As the lungs of the planet and a critical climate regulator, the Amazonian rainforest and its peoples play a decisive role in the future of Earth. Hear more about the Sarayaku community's precedent-setting legal victory for indigenous rights and the Amazon, new threats of oil development in their territory, and their call for partnerships in an international campaign to defend life and stop the new oil rounds in the Amazon.
The Tent of Inspiration | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Youth Unity Center | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Youth Leadership: Poetry Slam
This very cool youth poetry slam has judges, scoring and prizes. Everyone’s invited to participate. Youth Unity Center | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Indigenous Forum | 4:30pm, Sat
Native American Food and Farming Movements
With Lilian Hill (Hopi), who has built a successful multi-generational movement to restore the ancient Hopi orchards at Second Mesa; Joe Munroe (Muskoday First Nation), Founder of Muskoday Organic Growers Co-op, who has worked successfully to reverse unemployment with an organic food business model and created a truly healthy economy in Muskoday First Nation in Canada. Major movement is occurring in indigenous communities to restore traditional indigenous organic gardening and foods. Indigenous Forum | 4:30pm, Sat04:30 PM
Council Circle | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Leadership Lessons from the Living Earth: Turning to Nature as Mentor
How can we lead our organizations and social change movements to become more adaptive, resilient, locally attuned and life-enhancing? Looking to nature's wisdom opens us to learning from 3.8 billion years of systems success, and guides us toward leadership patterns, practices and principles that are rooted in sustainability. This experiential workshop will introduce natural models that can be applied to strategy development and organizational change. Participants will work with "Life's Principles" developed by Biomimicry 3.8, and meet natural mentors to help answer their own leadership challenges. Council Circle | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
World Cafe | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Wiser Together Cafe: Education for a Change
With Dave Shaw, Ashley Cooper and Susan Kelly. Education is a key tool that helps us understand the world around us and act in transformative ways. And yet, there is more to learn beyond traditional education models in order to be most effective. At the heart of it, education for action requires each of us to contribute our brilliance and gifts in order to design our shared future. What might be possible when we transcend conventional teacher-student relationships and form learning communities based on curiosity and collaboration across generations? Creating these kinds of opportunities fosters the emergence of collective intelligence and wise action that is needed to transform our world today. What are the big questions that motivate action across generations? And what questions are we are forgetting to ask? Please help us be wiser together as we learn how education may be used for positive change, for a change! World Cafe | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Resilient Communities II: Mobilizing and Equipping Local Citizen Action
Moderated by Asher Miller, Executive Director of the Post Carbon Institute.
With Bill McKibben, Co-Founder of 350.org; Kirsten Schwind, Program Director of BayLocalize; Carolyne Stayton, Executive Director of Transition U.S. Mushrooming numbers of communities are recognizing both the need and the desirability of becoming more self-reliant on basic systems and services such as food, energy and water, and building their local economies and jobs. The question is: How? This session will offer highly practical tools, resources and models for communities and citizens seeking to build ecological and economic resilience. Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat4.30pm-6pm, SunBreakouts, Panels, Workshops
4:30 PM
World Cafe | 4:30pm-6pm, Sun
Wiser Together Cafe: Creating Tomorrow Together
With Dave Shaw, Ashley Cooper and Susan Kelly. We’ve seen what is possible from the Bioneers, we’ve learned from each other’s ideas and meaningful work, and now we’re ready to take it home. Seeds have been planted throughout the weekend and we need each other to ensure our shared success. How can we play together year round? How might we be anchors for each other and our projects as we serve the future we believe in? Let’s nourish partnerships and relationships that we can draw upon in the coming months as we ground these possibilities into realities. And let’s meet up again next year to share what we’re learning! Join us for a participant-driven World Cafe conversation 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, Sun04:30 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Cosmos and Psyche: The Great Transformation
With Richard Tarnas, author of The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche, professor and founding director of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies; Luisah Teish, author and Ifa-Orisha priestess; Oren Lyons, Onondaga Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan and global indigenous leader. Brian Swimme is a renowned cosmologist on the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in the Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness program, and author of The Universe Story (with Thomas Berry) andThe Universe Is a Green Dragon. A growing global consensus is emerging that this moment of planetary breakdown can transform into breakthrough. From scientists to shamans, this crisis is being recognized as a crisis of cosmology -- of the guiding cultural narratives whose stories must also now transform because “worldviews create worlds,” as Richard Tarnas puts it. How can diverse cultures’ cosmologies illuminate these breakthroughs for a radical evolutionary transformation? Author Richard Tarnas suggests that the “disenchanted objectivist world view of modernity that underlies the present crisis is in the process of transcending itself.” That paradigm is becoming a more inclusive cosmology that embraces the creative complexity, aliveness and “ensoulment” inherent in the web of life. He also draws on suggestive evidence that planetary alignments correspond to large-scale human behavior, archetypal cycles that echo and build on prior periods of revolutionary transformation. Luisah Teish will share her Ifa-Orisha West African cosmology’s perspectives, including that of Oya, the Goddess of Catastrophe who shows how breakdown can lead to breakthrough through making basic structural changes. Iroquois elder Oren Lyons will depict perspectives on the place of gratitude, ceremony, clear thinking and peacemaking from the Iroquois and other indigenous traditions. Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Feminomics: How Women’s Leadership and Whole-Systems Approaches Are Reinventing Economics That Work for All
With Ai-Jen Poo; Judy Wicks, groundbreaking socially conscious entrepreneur, Co-Founder of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies; Rebecca Adamson, President and Founder, First Peoples Worldwide; Dana Lanza, CEO of Confluence Philanthropy; Farha-Joyce Haboucha, Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager and Director of Sustainability & Impact Investments, Rockefeller & Co, Inc. At its heart, economy reflects what we value, including both Earth and people. Though many are re-imagining new systems, innovations and forms that can work for all, few are noting explicitly the convergent contribution that women and valuing the feminine and whole systems are making to the field. Join us to explore this terrain with leading-edge innovators and practitioners to inform and clarify new visions for finance, business, economics and culture. Together we’ll investigate, cross-pollinate and surface ideas and observations to inform a collective and viable future vision. Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science
Presented by The Buckminster Fuller Institute. Hosted by David McConville, BFI President.
With 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge finalists: Jason McLennan, founder of the Living Building Challenge, CEO, Cascadia Green Building Council; Cheryl Dahle, founder, Future of Fish. Fifty years ago the visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller called for a "design science revolution." The Buckminster Fuller Institute's Buckminster Fuller Challenge Prize is a clarion call for today's whole-systems designers to solve the world's greatest ecological and social challenges. The $100,000 prize aids the further development of a "trimtab" solution that best demonstrates the capacity to catalyze systemic change using Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science. In this session two of this year's four finalists will share their extraordinary projects. The Living Building Challenge seeks to set the highest possible level of environmental performance in construction and design to push the building industry to re-imagine itself and dramatically re-frame how human buildings and infrastructure function within ecosystems. Future of Fish is a groundbreaking, pragmatic effort to address the very complex crisis of overharvesting that threatens the world's wild marine fisheries by incubating highly innovative market based models that can drive seafood sustainability and marine conservation. Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Capitalism 2.0: Cutting-Edge Conscious Entrepreneurship
Hosted by Deborah Schoenbaum, Multicultural and Diversity Consultant and Faculty at Center for Whole Communities.
With Ken Lee and Caryl Levine, Co-Founders of Lotus Foods; David Lively, Sales and Marketing Vice-President at Organically Grown Company; Bob Gough, Secretary of the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy COUP). Exemplary, socially conscious entrepreneurs are breaking new ground in sustainability and contributing to the common good with boldly creative business strategies and high-quality products and services. These cutting-edge social ventures change the paradigm of the contract between business and society. They will share their approaches, successes and challenges, from mainstreaming naturally derived pharmaceutical products -- to scaling production and distribution of diverse heirloom rice varieties and “More Crop Per Drop”-- practices that radically reduce water consumption by an industry that uses a third of all annual freshwater supply -- to the full-spectrum sustainability and equity practices of the Pacific Northwest’s largest wholesaler of organic fruits and vegetables and supporter of regional agriculture to how Native American nations are using entrepreneurship to address energy and green building jobs and businesses, such as SAFE: “Training a Workforce, Building an Industry: A trained tribal straw bale workforce can construct sustainable, affordable, future-proofed and energy efficient (SAFE) housing built with low-cost, low-embedded energy, carbon sequestering and high-performing locally sourced materials.” Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Campaign Connection: Ending the War On Drugs
State campaigns to change drug laws are sweeping the nation with the leadership of DPA. Learn how citizens can become engaged to end the failed “war on drugs.” Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
The Tent of Inspiration | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Campaign Connection: Organizing to Win the War on Women
With Shaunna Thomas of UltraViolet; and Shanelle Mathews and Adriann Barboa of Forward Together. Come and learn about two innovative efforts to build power for women and their communities. We will explore strategies that Strong Families and Ultraviolet are using to create new movements, change policies and organize communities on behalf of women and reproductive justice and rights. The Tent of Inspiration | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Youth Unity Center | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Help Wanted: Green Jobs
With Markese Bryant of Green for All; and De’Anthony Jones, former Brower Youth Award winner. This session will explore the challenges in finding satisfying “green” work and explore pathways to transforming the Green Movement into real employment opportunities, as well as provide concrete employment-related resources for youth, educators and community organizers. Youth Unity Center | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Council Circle | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Council: What’s Age Got To Do With It? Elders, Youth and Intergenerational Collaboration in Modern Times
With Ilarion Merculieff, Aleut traditional messenger; Sharon Shay Sloan, Council trainer/community steward. We’ll examine the roles of elders and youth and the need for collaboration across generations to help restore balance and right relationship in our communities, organizations and lives. Council Circle | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun6.30pm-8.30pm, FriBreakouts, Panels, Workshops
06:30 PM
Epiphany Theater | 6:30-8:30pm, Fri
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, Fri9am-1pm, FriKeynotes / Plenaries on Friday morning
09:00 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am, Fri
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, Fri09:01 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am-1pm, Fri
09:15 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am-1pm, Fri
Welcome to Beaming Bioneers
With Sarah Skenazy and Shana Rappaport09:20 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am-1pm, Fri
09:40 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am-1pm, Fri
09:55 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:55am, Fri
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, Fri10:25 AM
Restoration Nation Theatre | 10:25am, 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, Fri11:20 AM
Restoration Nation Theatre | 11:20am, 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, Fri11:50 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:50am, 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, Fri12:10 PM
Restoration Nation Theatre | 12:10pm, 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, Fri9am-1pm, SatKeynotes / Plenaries on Saturday morning
09:00 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am, Sat
‘Shafts of Light: Nature’s Temple’ film
With Louis Schwartzberg This internationally recognized artist of film, internationally known for his astonishing stop-action, slow-motion visual poetry of nature, will premiere an astonishing visual feast of light in nature. Restoration Nation Theater | 9am, Sat09:05 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:05am, Sat
The Climate Fight Gets Hotter
by Bill McKibben The award-winning environmental journalist, author, Co-Founder of 350.org, and leading global climate activist will survey the landscape of climate action, including the remarkable holding action by 350.org and others to suspend approval of the Keystone XL pipeline carrying Canadian “tar sands” oil, the “biggest carbon bomb” on the planet. Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature in 1989, the first book for a general audience on climate change. He’s the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989. The grassroots group 350.org has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time magazine called him ‘the planet's best green journalist’ and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was “probably the country's most important environmentalist.” As Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Restoration Nation Theater | 9:05am, Sat09:40 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:40am, Sat
Greening our Faiths: From Belief into Action for the Environment and Environmental Justice
by Fletcher Harper Introduction by Hugo Steensma This courageous Episcopal priest -- Executive Director of the groundbreaking interfaith environmental coalition GreenFaith and award-winning spiritual writer and renowned preacher on the environment -- will illustrate ways in which growing numbers of diverse faith-based groups are offering environmental leadership on issues ranging from renewable energy to environmental justice and reconnecting with the Earth. He’ll describe GreenFaith’s Certification Program for faith-based sites -- a transformative 2-year process through which houses of worship become centers of environmental spirituality, stewardship and justice. Restoration Nation Theater | 9:40am, Sat10:55 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 10:55am, Sat
11:05 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:05am, Sat
The Challenge of Sustainable Development: New Models
by Marina Silva Introduction by Atossa Soltani, Founder and Executive Director of Amazon Watch The legendary Amazonian defender of the rainforest and its peoples was the first rubber tapper ever elected to Brazil's federal Senate, served as Minister of the Environment under Lula, and ran as the 2010 Green Party Presidential candidate, gaining as astonishing 19 percent of the vote. She will depict how we can balance protecting the Amazon and other vital ecosystems with sane development that brings people out of poverty without destroying the environment. Restoration Nation Theater | 11:05am, Sat11:50 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:50am, Sat
Harmonizing People and Nature: A New Business Model
with Gretchen Daily Introduction by Kenny Ausubel Leaders around the world are increasingly recognizing ecosystems as natural capital assets that supply life-support services of tremendous value. The challenge is to turn this recognition into incentives and institutions that will guide wise investments in natural capital, on a large scale. Gretchen Daily will illuminate advances being made on three key fronts: the development of new science and technical tools for valuing Nature, such as InVEST, a software system developed by the Natural Capital Project; new policies and finance mechanisms being implemented worldwide, including in China, South America and the U.S.; and the engaging of leaders in forging a deep and lasting transformation. Gretchen Daily is a Professor of Environmental Science and Director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford. She co-directs The Natural Capital Project, a partnership among Stanford, The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund and the University of Minnesota. Restoration Nation Theater | 11:50am, Sat12:20 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 12:20pm, Sat
Toxic Culture: How Materialistic Society Makes Us Ill
by Gabor Mate, MD The Canadian physician and best-selling author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts is a brilliantly original thinker on addiction, trauma, parenting and the social context of human diseases and imbalances. Contrary to the assumptions of mainstream medicine, he asserts that most human ailments are not individual problems, but reflections of a person's relationship with the physical, emotional and social environment, from conception to death. Mind and body are not separate in real life, and thus health and illness in a person reflect social and economic realities more than personal predispositions. In other words, personal responsibility cannot be separated from societal responsibility and changing the world. Restoration Nation Theater | 12:20pm, Sat9am-1pm, SunKeynotes / Plenaries on Sunday morning
09:00 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am, Sun
09:20 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:20am, Sun
The Whole Fracking Enchilada
by Sandra Steingraber. Introduction by Charlotte Brody, Director of Chemicals, Public Health and Green Chemistry at the BlueGreen Alliance This award-winning author, biologist and specialist on environmental health will explore the threats to climate and public health from extreme energy extraction including hydraulic fracturing (fracking). From strip-mining of frack sand in Wisconsin which releases carcinogenic silica dust into the air -- to the deep-well injection of fracking waste in Ohio which has been linked to earthquakes -- these new methods of blasting hydrocarbons from the earth are shock-and-awe operations. Of particular interest in this talk are the living organisms that inhabit Earth's deep geological strata. Far from being inert, our nation's bedrock is an underground “coral reef” of microbes, another invisible ecosystem that’s linked in ways not yet fully understood to life here on the sunlit surface of our planet. Sandra Steingraber is a Ph.D. biologist, author and 2011 recipient of the Heinz Award for her research and writing on environmental health. She donated the $100,000 cash prize to the fight against hydraulic fracturing, convening the grassroots coalition New Yorkers Against Fracking. In 2010, her book Living Downstream on the environmental links to cancer was released as a documentary film. Her most recent book is Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis. Restoration Nation Theater | 9:20am, Sun09:50 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:50am, Sun
‘Lost Between Neck and Knees’ Performance
by Shailja Patel The piercing internationally acclaimed Kenyan poet of social change peforms her original spoken-word tour-de-force. Restoration Nation Theater | 9:50am, Sun10:00 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 10:00am, Sun
A Caring, Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century
with Ai-Jen Poo. Introduction by Nina Simons One of the nation’s most effective and dynamic young labor leaders will present the vision of Caring Across Generations, a new national coalition of 200 advocacy organizations working together for a dignified quality of life for all Americans. Its purpose is to transform some of our most fundamental social and economic challenges -- jobs, long-term care and immigration -- into opportunities for innovation and solutions that benefit everyone. Selected in 2012 as one of Time’s 100 most influential global leaders, Ai-jen Poo is Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, working to give domestic workers basic workers' rights, and Co-Director of Caring Across Generations. Restoration Nation Theater | 10:00am, Sun10:55 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 10:55am, Sun
Youth Leadership
with Rachel BargeA Brower Youth Award winner shares the new entrepreneurship accelerator for digital cleantech, Greenstart.
Restoration Nation Theater | 10:55am, Sun11:05 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:05am, Sun
Drug War, Drug Peace
by Ethan Nadelmann. Introduction by Jodie Evans, Co-Founder CODEPINK: Women for Peace The world’s leading proponent of sane drug policies will ask us to imagine a world in which criminal laws and institutions play little role in drug control policy. What do we risk? What do we gain? What do we fear? And what can we do? Ethan Nadelmann is the Founder and Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the failed “War on Drugs” and its extreme racial injustices, social harms and costs. Restoration Nation Theater | 11:05am, Sun11:35 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:35am, Sun
Destiny Arts Youth Performance Arts Company
The esteemed Oakland-based multicultural youth dance and performance troupe always gets standing ovations. It's the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Arts Company! Restoration Nation Theater | 11:35am, Sun11:45 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:45am, Sun
Regeneration
by Paul Hawken. Paul Hawken is a visionary social entrepreneur, the award-winning author of multiple landmark books includingBlessed Unrest, The Ecology of Commerce and Natural Capitalism (co-author), and the Co-Founder of OneSun, a radically innovative solar energy technology company. Restoration Nation Theater | 11:45am, Sun12:25 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 12:25pm, Sun
R. Carlos Nakai Performance
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 | 12:25pm, SunBREAKOUTS - EARLY AFTERNOON
02:45 PM
Indigenous Forum | 2:45pm-3:30pm, 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, Fri02:45 PM
Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, 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, Fri02:45 PM
Restoration Nation 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, Fri02:45 PM
Manzanita Room | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Showcase Theater | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Santa Rosa Room | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Tent of Inspiration | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Youth Unity Center | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Moonrise Tent | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Sun Stage | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Living Architecture: The Emerald Edges of Green Building
With Eric Corey Freed, LEED AP, Hon. FIGP, Principal of organicARCHITECT; Paul Kephart, founder, Rana Creek, biologist, ecologist, land-use expert and pathfinder of “Living Architecture" Leading green builders and architects will explore specific bold, new ideas for transforming our cities and suburbs into regenerative and restorative places. Using biomimicry and organic principles as a guide, they'll show tangible deployable lessons we can apply widely to our built environment. Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Stewarding Seeds: Preserving Our Plant Genetic Resources
Hosted by Matthew Dillon, Seed Matters
With John Navazio, Senior Scientist at Organic Seed Alliance and Sara McCamant of Seed Matters. The great treasure of plant diversity is being lost to seed industry consolidation and the privatization of seeds via hybrids and genetic engineering. Only 20 percent of organic farmers use organic seeds owing to the lack of supply. Come hear about a two-fold strategy for reclaiming seed stewardship that includes the development of a commercial-scale organic seed supply and the training of gardeners in seed saving skills. This session will include a seed-saving demonstration. Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
The Next System: Democratizing Wealth and Building a Sustainable System from the Ground Up
Hosted by: Deb Nelson, Executive Director, Social Venture Network. Co-led by Ted Howard and Gar Alperovitz.
In recent years across the nation there has been an explosion in the growth of innovative, environmentally sustainable and economically inclusive community-based businesses, financial institutions and democratic workplaces. The fast developing “New Economy Movement” has also spawned an increasingly sophisticated discussion of what it may mean to “change the system” in a democratic and ecologically meaningful way. We will focus first on one of the most significant community wealth building efforts in the country – the Evergreen Cooperative Initiative of Cleveland. Evergreen-inspired replications have been spawned in cities as diverse as Atlanta, Washington DC, Pittsburgh and Amarillo. We will then move to a discussion of how some of the principles involved in this and many other democratizing models may form the basis of a new vision and a step-by-step path to a systemic transformation that can deal with some of the largest domestic and global economic and ecological challenges of our time. Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Women and Sustainability: Birthing New Leadership Toward a Green Society
Hosted by Anneke Campbell
With Carolyn Finney, professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley; Bonnie Nixon, Executive Director of Sustainability Consortium; Erin English, Associate Engineer at Natural Systems International; Lynda Grose, fashion designer, consultant, associate professor at California College of the Arts A sustainable society is one that aligns our products, processes and politics in ways that are life-affirming and regenerative. Increasingly women are stepping into leadership roles in the sustainability movement, bringing practices that are often associated with the feminine -- increased cooperation, intuition, reaching across differences, and community-based values. How might this kind of orientation reshape the qualities of the sustainability movement? What might women uniquely bring to environmental and social organizing? Join an emergent conversation with women at the leading edges of sustainable innovation, business and organizing to explore what women may be bringing to how we green society for the benefit of all. Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
The Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Campaign Connection: Organizing to Win the War on Women
With Shaunna Thomas, UltraViolet; and Shanelle Mathews and Adriann Barboa, Forward Together. Come and learn about two innovative efforts to build power for women and their communities. We will explore strategies that Strong Families and Ultraviolet are using to create new movements, change policies and organize communities on behalf of women and reproductive justice and rights. The Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Council Circle | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Council for Educators and Educational Settings
Hosted by Sharon Shay Sloan, Council trainer/community steward
With Kate Lipkis; Laura Weaver, Passageworks Institute; John McCluskey, Colorado Center for Council Training; Casey McCarroll, Leadership Council, Stepping Stones Project We’ll explore how Council practice can be applied in educational settings to support the social and emotional learning environment, and how Council can support your role as an educator or student by engendering attentive listening, authentic expression and creative spontaneity. Council Circle | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Moonrise Tent | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Women Moving Forward, Putting Their Passions Into Action
With: Elisa Parker, Co-founder and President of See Jane Do, a social change multimedia organization that redefines media for women and the power of story to create positive change; Mary Elizabeth Young, founding member of Gather the Women Nevada County, activist, writer and speaker. Women leaders of the environmental and social justice movements: YOU are the solution! Whether you are a seasoned or newbie activist, this hands-on workshop is designed for you. Gain tips, tools and resources to activate the activist within each of us. Network with purpose with other women who are leading the way, and help formulate a plan that puts your passion into action. Come join us, because when women come together there is no stopping us in moving forward! Interactive, experiential. Moonrise Tent | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Sun Stage | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Herbwalk: The Medicinal and Edible Landscape
With Kami McBride Kami McBride has inspired thousands to use herbs in their daily lives for health and wellness. Sun Stage | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Autodesk Atrium | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Beyond Belief: Faith in Action for the Earth
Hosted by Rev. Canon Sally Grover Bingham of The Regeneration Project and the Interfaith Power and Light campaign.
With G.L. Hodge, Administrator, Providence Baptist Church of San Francisco; Marilyn Youngbird, Tribal Member, Arikara and Hidatsa Nations; Linda Ruth Cutts, Abiding Abbess Green Gulch Zen Center; Krithika Harish, Young Leaders Program Coordinator, United Religions Initiative. Religions have increasingly taught that protecting the Earth is a moral responsibility. In this panel, learn how religious leaders from diverse communities are putting these beliefs into action in ways that create environmental benefits. Panelists will share successes in organizing faith-based environmental advocacy and justice efforts, ‘green’ social enterprises, environmental health education, and more. Autodesk Atrium | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
World Cafe | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Resilient Communities World Café
With: Vicki Robin, co-creator of the Conversation Cafes, a simple dialogue method used widely in cafes and conferences worldwide; and Bob Stilger, Ph.D., Vice President of New Stories who uses dialogue to support people around the world in building healthy and resilient communities. Join master world café facilitators Vicki Robin and Bob Stilger for dynamic conversations with other bioneers about how to create resilient communities. World Cafe | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Mapping to Mobilize: Eco-Apartheid to Eco-Imagination
With Dr. Antwi Akom and Aaron Nakai of I-SEEED (Institute for Sustainable Economic, Educational and Environmental Design) Why does your community or school look the way that it does? What are young people doing to build a global climate justice movement? How do we train the next generation of climate scientists, energy innovators, and environmental leaders? This workshop puts the power of new technologies into the hands of young change agents, enabling youth to use digital media and online social platforms to spark climate justice movements in their own communities. Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Society and Inner Resilience: Transforming Trauma, Addiction and Adversity
Hosted by Akaya Windwood, President, Rockwood Leadership Institute
With Gabor Maté, MD; James Gordon, MD, Founder and Director of The Center for Mind–Body Medicine, professor at Georgetown Medical School; Staci Haines, national leader in the field of Somatics, teacher, author and pathfinder in healing sexual traumas. In our culture, illnesses, traumas and addictions are usually viewed as the problems of individuals, but they are, above all, social phenomena. Physical and emotional disturbances vary a lot culture by culture. Ours seems to be very prone to creating cancer, depression, obesity, stress, sexual dysfunction and violence, and anxiety disorders. Three brilliant healers and thinkers on the social context of illness explore how our society generates illness, and how, by understanding those processes, we can build up our resilience and achieve higher degrees of balance and wellness, skills we can pass on to our children. They will also look at what we can do to begin transforming our society into a source of solidarity, mutual aid and healing, rather than of disease, separation and fear. Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Conservation, Restoration, Biodiversity and Innovative Philanthropy
Hosted by Atossa Soltani, Founder and Executive Director of Amazon Watch
With Kris Tompkins, conservationist, former CEO of Patagonia; John Liu, international filmmaker, conservationist and ecological restorationist; Marina Silva, Brazilian environmental leader. Come learn about the struggles to preserve some of the last large-scale vibrant ecosystems on Earth, crucial to the diversity of life on our planet, the climate and to our own species’ survival. Kris Tompkins will describe the remarkable work she and her husband Doug Tompkins, Co-Founder of Esprit, are doing as conservation philanthropists and practitioners to create national parks that protect and restore wildlands and biodiversity, inspire care for the natural world, and generate healthy economic opportunities for communities in Patagonia in Chile and Argentina. John Liu will show how understanding the true value of ecological functions including hydrological cycles, climate regulation and soil fertility reveals an astonishing cost-benefit ratio that points to both the ecological and economic imperative of large-scale ecological restoration worldwide, such as he has demonstrated in China and Rwanda. Marina Silva will describe what can and must be done to protect the forests and peoples of the Amazon while alleviating poverty. Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat2:45 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Mass Incarceration, Racial Justice and the Drug War
With Ethan Nadelmann; Jakada Imani, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center; Alice A. Huffman, President, California NAACP. The struggle to end America's disastrous “war on drugs” is a struggle for common sense, human rights and, without question, racial justice -- given the extraordinary and disproportionate extent to which people of color are arrested, prosecuted and incarcerated for drug offenses. The majority of these arrests are for low-level drug offenses, such as possession for personal use. An extremely high percentage of young people arrested winds up in prison instead of college. What are the policies and factors motivating these arrests? Who's monitoring these trends? What's happening at federal and state levels to stop the practice of disappearing so many people into the prison system? And what more can be done? Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Cultivating Women’s Leadership: Leadership’s Reinvention Through the Feminine
With Ai-jen Poo; Sandra Steingraber; Nikki Henderson;Anisha Desai, Program Director, New Leaders Initiative; Jess Rimington, Founder and Executive Director of One World Youth Project. With more women ascending into leadership roles, we have an opportunity to re-examine and re-vision new models of organizational and movement culture. Several new initiatives are redefining leadership, transforming outdated methods and structures into practices and networks that are equitable, sustainable, and of the heart. Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
The Next 100 Years of Water: An Action Plan for Los Angeles
With Lauren Bon, author of the Metabolic Studio, where she practices at the intersection of art and philanthropy, working with social brownfields and metabolic sculptures that foster relationships, actions and events that transform the site into a more healthful environment and galvanize transition within complex bureaucracies. Water from the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains supports many of the cities of the West. Our Action Plan envisions a future in which Los Angeles no longer needs imported water. With the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in November 2013, we ask the Bioneers community to discuss our Action Plan: “Toward the Next One Hundred Years of Water.” In this workshop, we aim to remap our bioregion with the intention of maximizing its hydro potential for all living things. Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Changing the Story: New Media for Movement Building
Hosted by Jeremy Kagan, award-winning filmmaker.
With Mathew Gross, new media strategist, former Director of Internet Communications for Howard Dean's presidential campaign; Shirley Sneve, Executive Director of Native American Public Telecommunications; Ian Inaba, Co-Executive Director of Citizen Engagement Lab. Bold innovators in new media activism are addressing both the need to change the larger narrative to combat apathy, cynicism, hopelessness and paranoia, as well as to explore how to get your message out and mobilize engagement most effectively in a rapidly shifting media landscape. Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
What’s Sex Got to Do With It?: Population, Women and the Earth
Hosted by Anuja Mendiratta of Philanthropic and Nonprofit Consulting.
With Robert Engelman, author and President of Worldwatch Institute; Eveline Shen, Executive Director of Forward Together; John Seager, President of Population Connection; Muadi Mukenge, Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Fund for Women. As global population exceeds 7 billion, and climate and social instabilities are on the rise, many believe we’re exceeding Earth’s carrying capacity. The pressure to change our social and ecological systems is ramping up, and women sit firmly at the center of it all. Yet who decides how population and reproductive rights change, and how? With such gross inequities and different perspectives as exist between the global North and the global South, the issue of population has long been a “third rail” in the environmental movement. Within the U.S., issues of reproductive rights, health and justice are surfacing painful political and social wounds, as well as cultural divides that are debilitating for our collective progress. Join us to navigate across a diverse spectrum of perspectives to explore and integrate anthropological, geopolitical, ecological and social identity impacts and narratives, while exploring how these various stories may find common ground. Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
The Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Campaign Connection: Becoming Beloved Ancestors — Building A Women-Led Civil Rights Movement for Future Generations
With Carolyn Raffensperger, Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network; and Caroline Casey, creator-weaver-of-context of “The Visionary Activist Show” on Pacifica Radio stations KPFA in the Bay Area and KPFK in Los Angeles. This organizing and strategizing session will focus on how to launch a women-led rights movement for future generations of all species. We’ll explore visionary new tools, policies and institutions from the local to the international level in a session that pulls together wisdom traditions, the bottom-up organizing of Occupy Wall Street, and new environmental policies. The Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Meet and Greet the 2012 Brower Youth Award Winners
The BYA winners, in their first public appearance, are young activists who have shown outstanding leadership in creating positive environmental and social impacts. Come hear their inspiring stories and have the opportunity to connect with these young activists from all over North America. Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun02:45 PM
Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Permaculture Solutions: From Personal Ecology to Regenerative Policy
Hosted by Arty Mangan. With Penny Livingston, Co-Founder of the Regenerative Design Institute; Trathen Heckman, Director of Daily Acts Organization and Board President of Transition U.S. Permaculturists have been innovating low-tech accessible ways to take nature’s solutions to scale and answer the question: How can we live on this precious planet in a way that meets humanity’s and nature’s needs? From gardens to governance, front-yard farms to public food forests, wide-scale collaborative action and the Transition Town movement, we’ll take a tour of eco-efficacious solutions and models with leading homegrown leaders who will share their personal practices and community engagement strategies. Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun02:45 PM
Autodesk Atrium | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Transforming Education at Every Level: Whole Human Learning Toward a Regenerative Future
Hosted by Margaret Golden, Dominican University.
With Kate Lipkis, who teaches traditional Council methods in the L.A. Unified School District; Alan Webb, whose P2PU (Peer to Peer University) and Citizen Circles are creating innovative forms for peer learning; Megan Cowan, whose Mindful Schools teach mindfulness practice to thousands of youth throughout the San Francisco Bay Area; Gary Martin, whose Global Environments Summer Academy annually cultivates 18 exceptional graduate and professional-level individuals to become environmental leaders. Both within existing systems and by innovating new ones, education is changing, thanks to the perseverance, courage and commitment of dedicated and visionary teachers and learners. In an emergent conversation, come discover new methodologies and vehicles for raising-up, informing and equipping tomorrow’s leaders. Autodesk Atrium | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun02:45 PM
Indigenous Forum | 2:45pm, Sun
Rights of Mother Earth — Protecting Environmental and Cultural Diversity
With Dr. Daniel Wildcat (Yuchi Member of the Muscogee Nation), Haskell Indian Nations University, author of Red Alert! Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge; Dr. Anthony Madrigal (Desert Cahuilla), Director of Cultural Resources, San Manuel Band of Serrano Indians; Tom B.K. Goldtooth (Dinè/Dakota), Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network Across the world, Indigenous Peoples are discussing how we will create institutions and policies that reflect what our traditions have long recognized -- the natural life of our planet exists as relatives, not resources. An Indigenous paradigm is re-emerging that grants equal rights to nature based on the idea that humans do not have a natural right to destroy the natural environment, but have an ancient responsibility to care for the natural world. As Indigenous Peoples, we accept the responsibility to share our Original Instructions and prophecies to ensure harmony with the rest of Creation. The time has come to put our minds together to discuss how we can shape tribal, state, national and global policies for wellbeing of our Mother, planet Earth. Indigenous Forum | 2:45pm, Sun02:45 PM
Council Circle | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Transforming Our Relationship to White Privilege in Service of Co-Creating Beloved Community
Facilitated by Yeshi Neumann of Rockwood Leadership Institute.
This experiential session explores how, through courage, kindness and taking responsibility, we can grow to be more effective white allies in dismantling unjust social systems and becoming “beloved community” across divides of race, ethnicity, class and gender. All are welcome. Experiential. Council Circle | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun02:45 PM
Moonrise Tent | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Listening for Leadership at the Grassroots
Presented by Women’s Earth Alliance
Around the world, women are taking action and raising their voices with one resonant message: Community-driven women's leadership can guide the world toward sustainability and balance. Drawing upon facilitation and leadership techniques from grassroots activists worldwide, the Women’s Earth Alliance team members and partners will guide us on a leadership journey that will help inform and inspire each of us in our own projects and our own leadership. Experiential. Moonrise Tent | 2:45pm-4:15pm, SunBREAKOUTS - LATE AFTERNOON
04:30 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6pm, 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, Fri04:30 PM
Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6pm, 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, Fri04:30 PM
Santa Rosa 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, Fri04:30 PM
Epiphany Theater | 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, Fri04:30 PM
Restoration Nation 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, Fri04:30 PM
The Tent of Inspiration | 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, Fri04:30 PM
Youth Unity Center | 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, Fri04:30 PM
Indigenous Forum | 4:30pm-5:15pm, 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, Fri04:30 PM
Embassy Suites Private Dining Room | 4:30pm-6pm, 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, Fri04:30 PM
World Cafe | 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, Fri04:30 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Change the World, Not the Channel: Media for Social Change
Presented by Mother Jones. Hosted by Steve Katz, Mother Jones Publisher.
With: Annie Leonard, creator of The Story of Stuff; Bill Ryerson, Founder and President of the Population Media Center; Monika Bauerlein, Co-Editor of Mother Jones. Media can play a pivotal role in social change, as these sophisticated practitioners demonstrate with a diversity of strategies, media and innovations. Annie Leonard will share lessons learned on the journey that took her from being a somewhat isolated, wonky waste activist to a thriving social media hub for people transforming how we make, use and throw away stuff around the world. Bill Ryerson will discuss his groundbreaking, highly successful work crafting popular radio and television serialized dramas in developing countries to foster family planning and environmentally sustainable lifestyle choices. Award-winning Mother Jones Co-Editor Monika Bauerlein will examine the crucial role information plays in leveraging social change, and how to operationalize newsmaking. Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Autodesk Atrium | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Built To Last: Housing for the Post-Carbon Age
With: Matt Taecker, urban planner extraordinaire; Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett, legendary co-housing pioneers; Rachel Kaplan, lead author of Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living. In an era of uncertain energy supplies, economic instability, growing population density, climatic disruptions, and new yearnings for localism and greater social connection, how will our buildings, communities and cities be configured? How do we design how and where we live to optimize sustainability, public health, social cohesion…and happiness? Autodesk Atrium | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Banking on the Future: Emergent Species of Equitable Banking Models
Hosted by Bill Twist, Pachamama Alliance Co-Founder.
With Vince Siciliano, CEO of New Resource Bank, member Global Alliance for Banking on Values; Ellen Brown, Chair and President of the Public Banking Institute, author Web of Debt; Marco Krapels, Executive Vice-President, Rabobank N.A. How can banks help support and build a sustainable society? What role should money play in society as a store of values and medium of change and exchange? What role can public banking play where deposits are invested in the common good? These banking innovators are inventing and reinventing social and environmental approaches that represent an emergent international movement towards ethical banking, including the recent Global Alliance for Banking on Values, a 15-bank global network that could give banking a good name, while already outperforming the world’s largest banks. Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Resilient Foodsheds: Agro-ecoregional Approaches to Food Security
With Gary Paul Nabhan and Peter Warshal Food security looms as a major flash point globally: Increasing populations, improved wealth in Brazil, India and China, climate change, pesticide-resistant crop diseases, the price of petro-based fertilizers, the dominance of industrial agriculture corporations that are too-big-not-to-fail, GMOs and more. These challenges pose grave threats to national and global food supplies and government stability. Given nature’s constraints of weather, water and soils, what is the role of agro-ecoregion production and trade in supplying seasonal healthy and affordable food? What are the assets, rewards and advantages of local food systems? How can they be designed into practical and prosperous local and regional foodshed economies? In short, how can agro-ecoregional economies provide resilience for local communities for the vagaries of the roller-coaster food systems of the 21st century? Two leading innovators share their ideas, innovations, dreams, strategies, knowledge and working models that can promote a more local food economy, and a food economy that embodies food security, social equity, a healthy environment, and community wealth, while celebrating biocultural diversity. Gary Paul Nabhan is an internationally celebrated nature writer, founder of Native Seed/SEARCH, teacher, conservation biologist and sustainable agriculture activist who has been called “the father of the local food movement.” Peter Warshall is an innovative ecologist, Co-Director of the Dreaming New Mexico’s project “The Age of Local Foodsheds and a Fair Trade State,” and has worked internationally and as an elected official on conservation/development issues involving water, agriculture, ranching and wildlife. Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
What’s Gender Got to do With It? Moving Beyond Binaries and Polarity into Possibility and Wholeness
With: Ilarion Merculieff; Aleut traditional messenger; Staci Haines, Somatics innovator; Cole, Founder of Brown Boi Project, bridging gender and racial dialogues; Sharon Shay Sloan, Council trainer and community steward. Both for us as human beings and for many of our non-human relations throughout the natural world, we are complex creatures who express a richly diverse continuum of gender and sexual preferences. Disregarding societal restrictions and pressures, who might we choose to be, given greater freedom of expression? Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Embassy Suites Private Dining Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Campaign Connection: The Envision Spokane Community Bill of Rights and the People’s Rights Constitutional Amendment
With Jim Sheehan, Envision Spokane; Jeff Clements, Co-Founder of Free Speech for People, author of Corporations Are Not People. Embassy Suites Private Dining Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
The Tent of Inspiration | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Campaign Connection: Protecting the Amazon and its People
Moderated by Atossa Soltani, Founder and Executive Director of Amazon Watch.
With Tupak Amaru Viteri Gualinga, community Vice President; Marlon Santi, former CONAIE President from Sarayaku; and Nina Sicha Siren Gualinga, Sarayaku youth leader; and representatives of Amazon Watch and Pachamama Alliance.
As the lungs of the planet and a critical climate regulator, the Amazonian rainforest and its peoples play a decisive role in the future of Earth. Hear more about the Sarayaku community's precedent-setting legal victory for indigenous rights and the Amazon, new threats of oil development in their territory, and their call for partnerships in an international campaign to defend life and stop the new oil rounds in the Amazon.
The Tent of Inspiration | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Youth Unity Center | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Youth Leadership: Poetry Slam
This very cool youth poetry slam has judges, scoring and prizes. Everyone’s invited to participate. Youth Unity Center | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Indigenous Forum | 4:30pm, Sat
Native American Food and Farming Movements
With Lilian Hill (Hopi), who has built a successful multi-generational movement to restore the ancient Hopi orchards at Second Mesa; Joe Munroe (Muskoday First Nation), Founder of Muskoday Organic Growers Co-op, who has worked successfully to reverse unemployment with an organic food business model and created a truly healthy economy in Muskoday First Nation in Canada. Major movement is occurring in indigenous communities to restore traditional indigenous organic gardening and foods. Indigenous Forum | 4:30pm, Sat04:30 PM
Council Circle | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Leadership Lessons from the Living Earth: Turning to Nature as Mentor
How can we lead our organizations and social change movements to become more adaptive, resilient, locally attuned and life-enhancing? Looking to nature's wisdom opens us to learning from 3.8 billion years of systems success, and guides us toward leadership patterns, practices and principles that are rooted in sustainability. This experiential workshop will introduce natural models that can be applied to strategy development and organizational change. Participants will work with "Life's Principles" developed by Biomimicry 3.8, and meet natural mentors to help answer their own leadership challenges. Council Circle | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
World Cafe | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Wiser Together Cafe: Education for a Change
With Dave Shaw, Ashley Cooper and Susan Kelly. Education is a key tool that helps us understand the world around us and act in transformative ways. And yet, there is more to learn beyond traditional education models in order to be most effective. At the heart of it, education for action requires each of us to contribute our brilliance and gifts in order to design our shared future. What might be possible when we transcend conventional teacher-student relationships and form learning communities based on curiosity and collaboration across generations? Creating these kinds of opportunities fosters the emergence of collective intelligence and wise action that is needed to transform our world today. What are the big questions that motivate action across generations? And what questions are we are forgetting to ask? Please help us be wiser together as we learn how education may be used for positive change, for a change! World Cafe | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Resilient Communities II: Mobilizing and Equipping Local Citizen Action
Moderated by Asher Miller, Executive Director of the Post Carbon Institute.
With Bill McKibben, Co-Founder of 350.org; Kirsten Schwind, Program Director of BayLocalize; Carolyne Stayton, Executive Director of Transition U.S. Mushrooming numbers of communities are recognizing both the need and the desirability of becoming more self-reliant on basic systems and services such as food, energy and water, and building their local economies and jobs. The question is: How? This session will offer highly practical tools, resources and models for communities and citizens seeking to build ecological and economic resilience. Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat4:30 PM
World Cafe | 4:30pm-6pm, Sun
Wiser Together Cafe: Creating Tomorrow Together
With Dave Shaw, Ashley Cooper and Susan Kelly. We’ve seen what is possible from the Bioneers, we’ve learned from each other’s ideas and meaningful work, and now we’re ready to take it home. Seeds have been planted throughout the weekend and we need each other to ensure our shared success. How can we play together year round? How might we be anchors for each other and our projects as we serve the future we believe in? Let’s nourish partnerships and relationships that we can draw upon in the coming months as we ground these possibilities into realities. And let’s meet up again next year to share what we’re learning! Join us for a participant-driven World Cafe conversation 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, Sun04:30 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Cosmos and Psyche: The Great Transformation
With Richard Tarnas, author of The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche, professor and founding director of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies; Luisah Teish, author and Ifa-Orisha priestess; Oren Lyons, Onondaga Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan and global indigenous leader. Brian Swimme is a renowned cosmologist on the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in the Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness program, and author of The Universe Story (with Thomas Berry) andThe Universe Is a Green Dragon. A growing global consensus is emerging that this moment of planetary breakdown can transform into breakthrough. From scientists to shamans, this crisis is being recognized as a crisis of cosmology -- of the guiding cultural narratives whose stories must also now transform because “worldviews create worlds,” as Richard Tarnas puts it. How can diverse cultures’ cosmologies illuminate these breakthroughs for a radical evolutionary transformation? Author Richard Tarnas suggests that the “disenchanted objectivist world view of modernity that underlies the present crisis is in the process of transcending itself.” That paradigm is becoming a more inclusive cosmology that embraces the creative complexity, aliveness and “ensoulment” inherent in the web of life. He also draws on suggestive evidence that planetary alignments correspond to large-scale human behavior, archetypal cycles that echo and build on prior periods of revolutionary transformation. Luisah Teish will share her Ifa-Orisha West African cosmology’s perspectives, including that of Oya, the Goddess of Catastrophe who shows how breakdown can lead to breakthrough through making basic structural changes. Iroquois elder Oren Lyons will depict perspectives on the place of gratitude, ceremony, clear thinking and peacemaking from the Iroquois and other indigenous traditions. Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Feminomics: How Women’s Leadership and Whole-Systems Approaches Are Reinventing Economics That Work for All
With Ai-Jen Poo; Judy Wicks, groundbreaking socially conscious entrepreneur, Co-Founder of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies; Rebecca Adamson, President and Founder, First Peoples Worldwide; Dana Lanza, CEO of Confluence Philanthropy; Farha-Joyce Haboucha, Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager and Director of Sustainability & Impact Investments, Rockefeller & Co, Inc. At its heart, economy reflects what we value, including both Earth and people. Though many are re-imagining new systems, innovations and forms that can work for all, few are noting explicitly the convergent contribution that women and valuing the feminine and whole systems are making to the field. Join us to explore this terrain with leading-edge innovators and practitioners to inform and clarify new visions for finance, business, economics and culture. Together we’ll investigate, cross-pollinate and surface ideas and observations to inform a collective and viable future vision. Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science
Presented by The Buckminster Fuller Institute. Hosted by David McConville, BFI President.
With 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge finalists: Jason McLennan, founder of the Living Building Challenge, CEO, Cascadia Green Building Council; Cheryl Dahle, founder, Future of Fish. Fifty years ago the visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller called for a "design science revolution." The Buckminster Fuller Institute's Buckminster Fuller Challenge Prize is a clarion call for today's whole-systems designers to solve the world's greatest ecological and social challenges. The $100,000 prize aids the further development of a "trimtab" solution that best demonstrates the capacity to catalyze systemic change using Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science. In this session two of this year's four finalists will share their extraordinary projects. The Living Building Challenge seeks to set the highest possible level of environmental performance in construction and design to push the building industry to re-imagine itself and dramatically re-frame how human buildings and infrastructure function within ecosystems. Future of Fish is a groundbreaking, pragmatic effort to address the very complex crisis of overharvesting that threatens the world's wild marine fisheries by incubating highly innovative market based models that can drive seafood sustainability and marine conservation. Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Capitalism 2.0: Cutting-Edge Conscious Entrepreneurship
Hosted by Deborah Schoenbaum, Multicultural and Diversity Consultant and Faculty at Center for Whole Communities.
With Ken Lee and Caryl Levine, Co-Founders of Lotus Foods; David Lively, Sales and Marketing Vice-President at Organically Grown Company; Bob Gough, Secretary of the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy COUP). Exemplary, socially conscious entrepreneurs are breaking new ground in sustainability and contributing to the common good with boldly creative business strategies and high-quality products and services. These cutting-edge social ventures change the paradigm of the contract between business and society. They will share their approaches, successes and challenges, from mainstreaming naturally derived pharmaceutical products -- to scaling production and distribution of diverse heirloom rice varieties and “More Crop Per Drop”-- practices that radically reduce water consumption by an industry that uses a third of all annual freshwater supply -- to the full-spectrum sustainability and equity practices of the Pacific Northwest’s largest wholesaler of organic fruits and vegetables and supporter of regional agriculture to how Native American nations are using entrepreneurship to address energy and green building jobs and businesses, such as SAFE: “Training a Workforce, Building an Industry: A trained tribal straw bale workforce can construct sustainable, affordable, future-proofed and energy efficient (SAFE) housing built with low-cost, low-embedded energy, carbon sequestering and high-performing locally sourced materials.” Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Campaign Connection: Ending the War On Drugs
State campaigns to change drug laws are sweeping the nation with the leadership of DPA. Learn how citizens can become engaged to end the failed “war on drugs.” Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
The Tent of Inspiration | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Campaign Connection: Organizing to Win the War on Women
With Shaunna Thomas of UltraViolet; and Shanelle Mathews and Adriann Barboa of Forward Together. Come and learn about two innovative efforts to build power for women and their communities. We will explore strategies that Strong Families and Ultraviolet are using to create new movements, change policies and organize communities on behalf of women and reproductive justice and rights. The Tent of Inspiration | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Youth Unity Center | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Help Wanted: Green Jobs
With Markese Bryant of Green for All; and De’Anthony Jones, former Brower Youth Award winner. This session will explore the challenges in finding satisfying “green” work and explore pathways to transforming the Green Movement into real employment opportunities, as well as provide concrete employment-related resources for youth, educators and community organizers. Youth Unity Center | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Council Circle | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Council: What’s Age Got To Do With It? Elders, Youth and Intergenerational Collaboration in Modern Times
With Ilarion Merculieff, Aleut traditional messenger; Sharon Shay Sloan, Council trainer/community steward. We’ll examine the roles of elders and youth and the need for collaboration across generations to help restore balance and right relationship in our communities, organizations and lives. Council Circle | 4:30pm-6:00pm, SunFRIFriday sessions
09:00 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am, Fri
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, Fri09:01 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am-1pm, Fri
09:15 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am-1pm, Fri
Welcome to Beaming Bioneers
With Sarah Skenazy and Shana Rappaport09:20 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am-1pm, Fri
09:40 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am-1pm, Fri
09:55 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:55am, Fri
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, Fri10:25 AM
Restoration Nation Theatre | 10:25am, 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, Fri11:20 AM
Restoration Nation Theatre | 11:20am, 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, Fri11:50 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:50am, 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, Fri12:10 PM
Restoration Nation Theatre | 12:10pm, 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, Fri02:45 PM
Indigenous Forum | 2:45pm-3:30pm, 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, Fri02:45 PM
Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, 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, Fri02:45 PM
Restoration Nation 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, Fri02:45 PM
Manzanita Room | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Showcase Theater | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Santa Rosa Room | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Tent of Inspiration | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Youth Unity Center | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Moonrise Tent | 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, Fri02:45 PM
Sun Stage | 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, Fri04:30 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6pm, 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, Fri04:30 PM
Showcase Theater, at the Exhibit Hall | 4:30pm, 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, Fri04:30 PM
Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6pm, 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, Fri04:30 PM
Santa Rosa 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, Fri04:30 PM
Epiphany Theater | 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, Fri04:30 PM
Restoration Nation 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, Fri04:30 PM
The Tent of Inspiration | 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, Fri04:30 PM
Youth Unity Center | 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, Fri04:30 PM
Indigenous Forum | 4:30pm-5:15pm, 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, Fri04:30 PM
Embassy Suites Private Dining Room | 4:30pm-6pm, 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, Fri04:30 PM
World Cafe | 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, Fri06:15 PM
Showcase Theatre, at the Exhibit Hall | 6:15pm, 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 Hall06:30 PM
Epiphany Theater | 6:30-8:30pm, Fri
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, Fri08:00 PM
Showcase Theatre, at the Exhibit Hall | 8pm, 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 HallMOVING IMAGE FESTIVALFilms and presentation in the the Moving Image Festival
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Showcase Theater, at the Exhibit Hall | 4:30pm, 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, Fri06:15 PM
Showcase Theatre, at the Exhibit Hall | 6:15pm, 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 Hall08:00 PM
Showcase Theatre, at the Exhibit Hall | 8pm, 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 Hall04:30 PM
Showcase Theater, at the Exhibit Hall | 4:30pm, Sat
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
The Bioneers Moving Image Festival presents a screening of 'Who Bombed Judi Bari?'. Panelists: Producer Darryl Cherney; Attorney Dennis Cunningham; Executive Producer Sheila Laffey; Emmet Brady (Your Garden Show) In 1990 in Oakland, two Earth First! activists survive a car bombing only to be blamed by the FBI for bombing themselves. The victim/suspects, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, later sued the FBI and Oakland Police, but Bari is now dying of cancer before her case goes to trial. This action-packed journey unfolds by the telling of the lawsuit against the FBI, the complex history of Earth First!, the loggers, the controversy of tree spiking, the political/romantic partnership of Bari/Cherney, and the fate of the ancient redwoods. (100 minutes) Showcase Theater, at the Exhibit Hall | 4:30pm, Sat06:30 PM
Showcase Theater, at the Exhibit Hall | 6:30pm, Sat
Harmony
The Bioneers Moving Image Festival presents a screening of 'Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World'. Panelists: Director Julie Bergman Sender and Stuart Sender, Jay Harman (PAX Scienific), and Louie Schwartzberg (Blacklight Films) with Sharmila Singh from the Green Living Project For the better part of three decades, The Prince of Wales has worked side by side with a surprising and dynamic array of environmental activists, business leaders, artists, architects and government leaders, including former Bioneers’ presenters Janine Benyus and Jay Harman. They are working to transform the world, address the global environmental crisis and find ways toward a more sustainable, spiritual and harmonious relationship with the planet. From organic farms, to the rainforests of British Columbia, to rare footage of HRH interviewing Al Gore about climate change in 1988, Harmony introduces viewers to a new and inspiring perspective on how the world can meet the challenges of climate change globally, locally and personally. (90 minutes) Also included is a trailer for the new film Love Thy Nature, an awe-inspiring, sensual, and poetic cinematic experience of our innate connect with the natural world by Sylvie Rokab. Showcase Theater, at the Exhibit Hall | 6:30pm, Sat08:45 PM
Showcase Theatre, at the Exhibit Hall | 8:45pm, Sat
Student Film Showcase
The Bioneers Moving Image Festival presents award-winning short films from the Student Sustainability Film Festival, IMatter.org, Vida Verde Nature Education, and the Green Living Project. Also engage in a discussion about film-making with Phil Busse, the Director for the Media Institute for Social Change. (75 minutes) Saturday, October 20, 2012, 8:45 pm | Showcase Theatre, Exhibit Hall04:30 PM
Showcase Theater, at the Exhibit Hall | 4:30pm, Sun
We Still Live Here (Âs Nutayuneân)
The Bioneers Moving Image Festival Presents a screening of 'We Still Live Here (As Nutayuneân)'. Panelist: Shana Maziarz (Wild and Scenic Film Festival) and L. Frank Manriquez. This award-winning documentary tells a story of cultural revival by the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts. In 1994 a Wampanoag social worker began having recurring dreams: familiar-looking people from another time addressing her in an incomprehensible language. This is because they were speaking Wampanoag, a language no one had used for more than a century. This discovery reaches members of the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanaog communities on an odyssey that would uncover hundreds of documents written in their language, which brought a language alive again in an American Indian community after many generations. (55 minutes) Showcase Theater, at the Exhibit Hall | 4:30pm, SunPLENARY / KEYNOTE
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Restoration Nation Theater | 9am, Fri
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, Fri09:01 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am-1pm, Fri
09:15 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am-1pm, Fri
Welcome to Beaming Bioneers
With Sarah Skenazy and Shana Rappaport09:20 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am-1pm, Fri
09:40 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am-1pm, Fri
09:55 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:55am, Fri
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, Fri10:25 AM
Restoration Nation Theatre | 10:25am, 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, Fri11:20 AM
Restoration Nation Theatre | 11:20am, 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, Fri11:50 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:50am, 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, Fri12:10 PM
Restoration Nation Theatre | 12:10pm, 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, Fri09:00 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am, Sat
‘Shafts of Light: Nature’s Temple’ film
With Louis Schwartzberg This internationally recognized artist of film, internationally known for his astonishing stop-action, slow-motion visual poetry of nature, will premiere an astonishing visual feast of light in nature. Restoration Nation Theater | 9am, Sat09:05 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:05am, Sat
The Climate Fight Gets Hotter
by Bill McKibben The award-winning environmental journalist, author, Co-Founder of 350.org, and leading global climate activist will survey the landscape of climate action, including the remarkable holding action by 350.org and others to suspend approval of the Keystone XL pipeline carrying Canadian “tar sands” oil, the “biggest carbon bomb” on the planet. Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature in 1989, the first book for a general audience on climate change. He’s the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989. The grassroots group 350.org has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time magazine called him ‘the planet's best green journalist’ and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was “probably the country's most important environmentalist.” As Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Restoration Nation Theater | 9:05am, Sat09:40 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:40am, Sat
Greening our Faiths: From Belief into Action for the Environment and Environmental Justice
by Fletcher Harper Introduction by Hugo Steensma This courageous Episcopal priest -- Executive Director of the groundbreaking interfaith environmental coalition GreenFaith and award-winning spiritual writer and renowned preacher on the environment -- will illustrate ways in which growing numbers of diverse faith-based groups are offering environmental leadership on issues ranging from renewable energy to environmental justice and reconnecting with the Earth. He’ll describe GreenFaith’s Certification Program for faith-based sites -- a transformative 2-year process through which houses of worship become centers of environmental spirituality, stewardship and justice. Restoration Nation Theater | 9:40am, Sat10:55 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 10:55am, Sat
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Restoration Nation Theater | 11:05am, Sat
The Challenge of Sustainable Development: New Models
by Marina Silva Introduction by Atossa Soltani, Founder and Executive Director of Amazon Watch The legendary Amazonian defender of the rainforest and its peoples was the first rubber tapper ever elected to Brazil's federal Senate, served as Minister of the Environment under Lula, and ran as the 2010 Green Party Presidential candidate, gaining as astonishing 19 percent of the vote. She will depict how we can balance protecting the Amazon and other vital ecosystems with sane development that brings people out of poverty without destroying the environment. Restoration Nation Theater | 11:05am, Sat11:50 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:50am, Sat
Harmonizing People and Nature: A New Business Model
with Gretchen Daily Introduction by Kenny Ausubel Leaders around the world are increasingly recognizing ecosystems as natural capital assets that supply life-support services of tremendous value. The challenge is to turn this recognition into incentives and institutions that will guide wise investments in natural capital, on a large scale. Gretchen Daily will illuminate advances being made on three key fronts: the development of new science and technical tools for valuing Nature, such as InVEST, a software system developed by the Natural Capital Project; new policies and finance mechanisms being implemented worldwide, including in China, South America and the U.S.; and the engaging of leaders in forging a deep and lasting transformation. Gretchen Daily is a Professor of Environmental Science and Director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford. She co-directs The Natural Capital Project, a partnership among Stanford, The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund and the University of Minnesota. Restoration Nation Theater | 11:50am, Sat12:20 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 12:20pm, Sat
Toxic Culture: How Materialistic Society Makes Us Ill
by Gabor Mate, MD The Canadian physician and best-selling author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts is a brilliantly original thinker on addiction, trauma, parenting and the social context of human diseases and imbalances. Contrary to the assumptions of mainstream medicine, he asserts that most human ailments are not individual problems, but reflections of a person's relationship with the physical, emotional and social environment, from conception to death. Mind and body are not separate in real life, and thus health and illness in a person reflect social and economic realities more than personal predispositions. In other words, personal responsibility cannot be separated from societal responsibility and changing the world. Restoration Nation Theater | 12:20pm, Sat09:00 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am, Sun
09:20 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:20am, Sun
The Whole Fracking Enchilada
by Sandra Steingraber. Introduction by Charlotte Brody, Director of Chemicals, Public Health and Green Chemistry at the BlueGreen Alliance This award-winning author, biologist and specialist on environmental health will explore the threats to climate and public health from extreme energy extraction including hydraulic fracturing (fracking). From strip-mining of frack sand in Wisconsin which releases carcinogenic silica dust into the air -- to the deep-well injection of fracking waste in Ohio which has been linked to earthquakes -- these new methods of blasting hydrocarbons from the earth are shock-and-awe operations. Of particular interest in this talk are the living organisms that inhabit Earth's deep geological strata. Far from being inert, our nation's bedrock is an underground “coral reef” of microbes, another invisible ecosystem that’s linked in ways not yet fully understood to life here on the sunlit surface of our planet. Sandra Steingraber is a Ph.D. biologist, author and 2011 recipient of the Heinz Award for her research and writing on environmental health. She donated the $100,000 cash prize to the fight against hydraulic fracturing, convening the grassroots coalition New Yorkers Against Fracking. In 2010, her book Living Downstream on the environmental links to cancer was released as a documentary film. Her most recent book is Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis. Restoration Nation Theater | 9:20am, Sun09:50 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:50am, Sun
‘Lost Between Neck and Knees’ Performance
by Shailja Patel The piercing internationally acclaimed Kenyan poet of social change peforms her original spoken-word tour-de-force. Restoration Nation Theater | 9:50am, Sun10:00 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 10:00am, Sun
A Caring, Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century
with Ai-Jen Poo. Introduction by Nina Simons One of the nation’s most effective and dynamic young labor leaders will present the vision of Caring Across Generations, a new national coalition of 200 advocacy organizations working together for a dignified quality of life for all Americans. Its purpose is to transform some of our most fundamental social and economic challenges -- jobs, long-term care and immigration -- into opportunities for innovation and solutions that benefit everyone. Selected in 2012 as one of Time’s 100 most influential global leaders, Ai-jen Poo is Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, working to give domestic workers basic workers' rights, and Co-Director of Caring Across Generations. Restoration Nation Theater | 10:00am, Sun10:55 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 10:55am, Sun
Youth Leadership
with Rachel BargeA Brower Youth Award winner shares the new entrepreneurship accelerator for digital cleantech, Greenstart.
Restoration Nation Theater | 10:55am, Sun11:05 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:05am, Sun
Drug War, Drug Peace
by Ethan Nadelmann. Introduction by Jodie Evans, Co-Founder CODEPINK: Women for Peace The world’s leading proponent of sane drug policies will ask us to imagine a world in which criminal laws and institutions play little role in drug control policy. What do we risk? What do we gain? What do we fear? And what can we do? Ethan Nadelmann is the Founder and Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the failed “War on Drugs” and its extreme racial injustices, social harms and costs. Restoration Nation Theater | 11:05am, Sun11:35 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:35am, Sun
Destiny Arts Youth Performance Arts Company
The esteemed Oakland-based multicultural youth dance and performance troupe always gets standing ovations. It's the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Arts Company! Restoration Nation Theater | 11:35am, Sun11:45 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:45am, Sun
Regeneration
by Paul Hawken. Paul Hawken is a visionary social entrepreneur, the award-winning author of multiple landmark books includingBlessed Unrest, The Ecology of Commerce and Natural Capitalism (co-author), and the Co-Founder of OneSun, a radically innovative solar energy technology company. Restoration Nation Theater | 11:45am, Sun12:25 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 12:25pm, Sun
R. Carlos Nakai Performance
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 | 12:25pm, SunSATSaturday Sessions
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Moonrise Tent | 8am-8:45am, Sat
Morning Meditation Tune-Up for Bioneers: Aligning with Life
As you enter into this exciting day of learning and sharing, can you feel your heart beat, and the earth beneath your feet? Can you sense life pulsing and coursing through you? Are you letting its currents fuel and nourish you? Can you tell what’s enlivening, and what’s deadening, and how your life force is seeking to guide you? And can you feel the impact of what you say and do on the web of life around you? This morning tune-up will offer an opportunity to start the day by connecting with ourselves, each other, and the larger intelligence of life, and carry that alignment into the rest of the day. Highly recommended for anyone who tends to find the whirlwind and excitement of conferences over-stimulating or bodily exhausting. This will be an opportunity to fill up, digest, restore, and learn how to move through the rest of the day in greater partnership with life. Moonrise Tent | 8am-8:45am, Sat09:00 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am, Sat
‘Shafts of Light: Nature’s Temple’ film
With Louis Schwartzberg This internationally recognized artist of film, internationally known for his astonishing stop-action, slow-motion visual poetry of nature, will premiere an astonishing visual feast of light in nature. Restoration Nation Theater | 9am, Sat09:05 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:05am, Sat
The Climate Fight Gets Hotter
by Bill McKibben The award-winning environmental journalist, author, Co-Founder of 350.org, and leading global climate activist will survey the landscape of climate action, including the remarkable holding action by 350.org and others to suspend approval of the Keystone XL pipeline carrying Canadian “tar sands” oil, the “biggest carbon bomb” on the planet. Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature in 1989, the first book for a general audience on climate change. He’s the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989. The grassroots group 350.org has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time magazine called him ‘the planet's best green journalist’ and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was “probably the country's most important environmentalist.” As Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Restoration Nation Theater | 9:05am, Sat09:40 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:40am, Sat
Greening our Faiths: From Belief into Action for the Environment and Environmental Justice
by Fletcher Harper Introduction by Hugo Steensma This courageous Episcopal priest -- Executive Director of the groundbreaking interfaith environmental coalition GreenFaith and award-winning spiritual writer and renowned preacher on the environment -- will illustrate ways in which growing numbers of diverse faith-based groups are offering environmental leadership on issues ranging from renewable energy to environmental justice and reconnecting with the Earth. He’ll describe GreenFaith’s Certification Program for faith-based sites -- a transformative 2-year process through which houses of worship become centers of environmental spirituality, stewardship and justice. Restoration Nation Theater | 9:40am, Sat10:55 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 10:55am, Sat
11:05 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:05am, Sat
The Challenge of Sustainable Development: New Models
by Marina Silva Introduction by Atossa Soltani, Founder and Executive Director of Amazon Watch The legendary Amazonian defender of the rainforest and its peoples was the first rubber tapper ever elected to Brazil's federal Senate, served as Minister of the Environment under Lula, and ran as the 2010 Green Party Presidential candidate, gaining as astonishing 19 percent of the vote. She will depict how we can balance protecting the Amazon and other vital ecosystems with sane development that brings people out of poverty without destroying the environment. Restoration Nation Theater | 11:05am, Sat11:50 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:50am, Sat
Harmonizing People and Nature: A New Business Model
with Gretchen Daily Introduction by Kenny Ausubel Leaders around the world are increasingly recognizing ecosystems as natural capital assets that supply life-support services of tremendous value. The challenge is to turn this recognition into incentives and institutions that will guide wise investments in natural capital, on a large scale. Gretchen Daily will illuminate advances being made on three key fronts: the development of new science and technical tools for valuing Nature, such as InVEST, a software system developed by the Natural Capital Project; new policies and finance mechanisms being implemented worldwide, including in China, South America and the U.S.; and the engaging of leaders in forging a deep and lasting transformation. Gretchen Daily is a Professor of Environmental Science and Director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford. She co-directs The Natural Capital Project, a partnership among Stanford, The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund and the University of Minnesota. Restoration Nation Theater | 11:50am, Sat12:20 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 12:20pm, Sat
Toxic Culture: How Materialistic Society Makes Us Ill
by Gabor Mate, MD The Canadian physician and best-selling author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts is a brilliantly original thinker on addiction, trauma, parenting and the social context of human diseases and imbalances. Contrary to the assumptions of mainstream medicine, he asserts that most human ailments are not individual problems, but reflections of a person's relationship with the physical, emotional and social environment, from conception to death. Mind and body are not separate in real life, and thus health and illness in a person reflect social and economic realities more than personal predispositions. In other words, personal responsibility cannot be separated from societal responsibility and changing the world. Restoration Nation Theater | 12:20pm, Sat01:00 PM
Sun Stage | 1pm, Sat
TRashion Show
Produced by Truckee High School’s Envirolution Club.
High fashion collides artistically with recycling as youth designers use their creative talents, humor and refuse from a throwaway society to fashion a message of environmental responsibility. This show rocks the house. Sun Stage | 1pm, Sat02:45 PM
Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Living Architecture: The Emerald Edges of Green Building
With Eric Corey Freed, LEED AP, Hon. FIGP, Principal of organicARCHITECT; Paul Kephart, founder, Rana Creek, biologist, ecologist, land-use expert and pathfinder of “Living Architecture" Leading green builders and architects will explore specific bold, new ideas for transforming our cities and suburbs into regenerative and restorative places. Using biomimicry and organic principles as a guide, they'll show tangible deployable lessons we can apply widely to our built environment. Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Stewarding Seeds: Preserving Our Plant Genetic Resources
Hosted by Matthew Dillon, Seed Matters
With John Navazio, Senior Scientist at Organic Seed Alliance and Sara McCamant of Seed Matters. The great treasure of plant diversity is being lost to seed industry consolidation and the privatization of seeds via hybrids and genetic engineering. Only 20 percent of organic farmers use organic seeds owing to the lack of supply. Come hear about a two-fold strategy for reclaiming seed stewardship that includes the development of a commercial-scale organic seed supply and the training of gardeners in seed saving skills. This session will include a seed-saving demonstration. Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
The Next System: Democratizing Wealth and Building a Sustainable System from the Ground Up
Hosted by: Deb Nelson, Executive Director, Social Venture Network. Co-led by Ted Howard and Gar Alperovitz.
In recent years across the nation there has been an explosion in the growth of innovative, environmentally sustainable and economically inclusive community-based businesses, financial institutions and democratic workplaces. The fast developing “New Economy Movement” has also spawned an increasingly sophisticated discussion of what it may mean to “change the system” in a democratic and ecologically meaningful way. We will focus first on one of the most significant community wealth building efforts in the country – the Evergreen Cooperative Initiative of Cleveland. Evergreen-inspired replications have been spawned in cities as diverse as Atlanta, Washington DC, Pittsburgh and Amarillo. We will then move to a discussion of how some of the principles involved in this and many other democratizing models may form the basis of a new vision and a step-by-step path to a systemic transformation that can deal with some of the largest domestic and global economic and ecological challenges of our time. Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Women and Sustainability: Birthing New Leadership Toward a Green Society
Hosted by Anneke Campbell
With Carolyn Finney, professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley; Bonnie Nixon, Executive Director of Sustainability Consortium; Erin English, Associate Engineer at Natural Systems International; Lynda Grose, fashion designer, consultant, associate professor at California College of the Arts A sustainable society is one that aligns our products, processes and politics in ways that are life-affirming and regenerative. Increasingly women are stepping into leadership roles in the sustainability movement, bringing practices that are often associated with the feminine -- increased cooperation, intuition, reaching across differences, and community-based values. How might this kind of orientation reshape the qualities of the sustainability movement? What might women uniquely bring to environmental and social organizing? Join an emergent conversation with women at the leading edges of sustainable innovation, business and organizing to explore what women may be bringing to how we green society for the benefit of all. Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
The Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Campaign Connection: Organizing to Win the War on Women
With Shaunna Thomas, UltraViolet; and Shanelle Mathews and Adriann Barboa, Forward Together. Come and learn about two innovative efforts to build power for women and their communities. We will explore strategies that Strong Families and Ultraviolet are using to create new movements, change policies and organize communities on behalf of women and reproductive justice and rights. The Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Council Circle | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Council for Educators and Educational Settings
Hosted by Sharon Shay Sloan, Council trainer/community steward
With Kate Lipkis; Laura Weaver, Passageworks Institute; John McCluskey, Colorado Center for Council Training; Casey McCarroll, Leadership Council, Stepping Stones Project We’ll explore how Council practice can be applied in educational settings to support the social and emotional learning environment, and how Council can support your role as an educator or student by engendering attentive listening, authentic expression and creative spontaneity. Council Circle | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Moonrise Tent | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Women Moving Forward, Putting Their Passions Into Action
With: Elisa Parker, Co-founder and President of See Jane Do, a social change multimedia organization that redefines media for women and the power of story to create positive change; Mary Elizabeth Young, founding member of Gather the Women Nevada County, activist, writer and speaker. Women leaders of the environmental and social justice movements: YOU are the solution! Whether you are a seasoned or newbie activist, this hands-on workshop is designed for you. Gain tips, tools and resources to activate the activist within each of us. Network with purpose with other women who are leading the way, and help formulate a plan that puts your passion into action. Come join us, because when women come together there is no stopping us in moving forward! Interactive, experiential. Moonrise Tent | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Sun Stage | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Herbwalk: The Medicinal and Edible Landscape
With Kami McBride Kami McBride has inspired thousands to use herbs in their daily lives for health and wellness. Sun Stage | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Autodesk Atrium | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Beyond Belief: Faith in Action for the Earth
Hosted by Rev. Canon Sally Grover Bingham of The Regeneration Project and the Interfaith Power and Light campaign.
With G.L. Hodge, Administrator, Providence Baptist Church of San Francisco; Marilyn Youngbird, Tribal Member, Arikara and Hidatsa Nations; Linda Ruth Cutts, Abiding Abbess Green Gulch Zen Center; Krithika Harish, Young Leaders Program Coordinator, United Religions Initiative. Religions have increasingly taught that protecting the Earth is a moral responsibility. In this panel, learn how religious leaders from diverse communities are putting these beliefs into action in ways that create environmental benefits. Panelists will share successes in organizing faith-based environmental advocacy and justice efforts, ‘green’ social enterprises, environmental health education, and more. Autodesk Atrium | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
World Cafe | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Resilient Communities World Café
With: Vicki Robin, co-creator of the Conversation Cafes, a simple dialogue method used widely in cafes and conferences worldwide; and Bob Stilger, Ph.D., Vice President of New Stories who uses dialogue to support people around the world in building healthy and resilient communities. Join master world café facilitators Vicki Robin and Bob Stilger for dynamic conversations with other bioneers about how to create resilient communities. World Cafe | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Mapping to Mobilize: Eco-Apartheid to Eco-Imagination
With Dr. Antwi Akom and Aaron Nakai of I-SEEED (Institute for Sustainable Economic, Educational and Environmental Design) Why does your community or school look the way that it does? What are young people doing to build a global climate justice movement? How do we train the next generation of climate scientists, energy innovators, and environmental leaders? This workshop puts the power of new technologies into the hands of young change agents, enabling youth to use digital media and online social platforms to spark climate justice movements in their own communities. Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Society and Inner Resilience: Transforming Trauma, Addiction and Adversity
Hosted by Akaya Windwood, President, Rockwood Leadership Institute
With Gabor Maté, MD; James Gordon, MD, Founder and Director of The Center for Mind–Body Medicine, professor at Georgetown Medical School; Staci Haines, national leader in the field of Somatics, teacher, author and pathfinder in healing sexual traumas. In our culture, illnesses, traumas and addictions are usually viewed as the problems of individuals, but they are, above all, social phenomena. Physical and emotional disturbances vary a lot culture by culture. Ours seems to be very prone to creating cancer, depression, obesity, stress, sexual dysfunction and violence, and anxiety disorders. Three brilliant healers and thinkers on the social context of illness explore how our society generates illness, and how, by understanding those processes, we can build up our resilience and achieve higher degrees of balance and wellness, skills we can pass on to our children. They will also look at what we can do to begin transforming our society into a source of solidarity, mutual aid and healing, rather than of disease, separation and fear. Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat02:45 PM
Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat
Conservation, Restoration, Biodiversity and Innovative Philanthropy
Hosted by Atossa Soltani, Founder and Executive Director of Amazon Watch
With Kris Tompkins, conservationist, former CEO of Patagonia; John Liu, international filmmaker, conservationist and ecological restorationist; Marina Silva, Brazilian environmental leader. Come learn about the struggles to preserve some of the last large-scale vibrant ecosystems on Earth, crucial to the diversity of life on our planet, the climate and to our own species’ survival. Kris Tompkins will describe the remarkable work she and her husband Doug Tompkins, Co-Founder of Esprit, are doing as conservation philanthropists and practitioners to create national parks that protect and restore wildlands and biodiversity, inspire care for the natural world, and generate healthy economic opportunities for communities in Patagonia in Chile and Argentina. John Liu will show how understanding the true value of ecological functions including hydrological cycles, climate regulation and soil fertility reveals an astonishing cost-benefit ratio that points to both the ecological and economic imperative of large-scale ecological restoration worldwide, such as he has demonstrated in China and Rwanda. Marina Silva will describe what can and must be done to protect the forests and peoples of the Amazon while alleviating poverty. Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat04:30 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Change the World, Not the Channel: Media for Social Change
Presented by Mother Jones. Hosted by Steve Katz, Mother Jones Publisher.
With: Annie Leonard, creator of The Story of Stuff; Bill Ryerson, Founder and President of the Population Media Center; Monika Bauerlein, Co-Editor of Mother Jones. Media can play a pivotal role in social change, as these sophisticated practitioners demonstrate with a diversity of strategies, media and innovations. Annie Leonard will share lessons learned on the journey that took her from being a somewhat isolated, wonky waste activist to a thriving social media hub for people transforming how we make, use and throw away stuff around the world. Bill Ryerson will discuss his groundbreaking, highly successful work crafting popular radio and television serialized dramas in developing countries to foster family planning and environmentally sustainable lifestyle choices. Award-winning Mother Jones Co-Editor Monika Bauerlein will examine the crucial role information plays in leveraging social change, and how to operationalize newsmaking. Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Autodesk Atrium | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Built To Last: Housing for the Post-Carbon Age
With: Matt Taecker, urban planner extraordinaire; Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett, legendary co-housing pioneers; Rachel Kaplan, lead author of Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living. In an era of uncertain energy supplies, economic instability, growing population density, climatic disruptions, and new yearnings for localism and greater social connection, how will our buildings, communities and cities be configured? How do we design how and where we live to optimize sustainability, public health, social cohesion…and happiness? Autodesk Atrium | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Banking on the Future: Emergent Species of Equitable Banking Models
Hosted by Bill Twist, Pachamama Alliance Co-Founder.
With Vince Siciliano, CEO of New Resource Bank, member Global Alliance for Banking on Values; Ellen Brown, Chair and President of the Public Banking Institute, author Web of Debt; Marco Krapels, Executive Vice-President, Rabobank N.A. How can banks help support and build a sustainable society? What role should money play in society as a store of values and medium of change and exchange? What role can public banking play where deposits are invested in the common good? These banking innovators are inventing and reinventing social and environmental approaches that represent an emergent international movement towards ethical banking, including the recent Global Alliance for Banking on Values, a 15-bank global network that could give banking a good name, while already outperforming the world’s largest banks. Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Resilient Foodsheds: Agro-ecoregional Approaches to Food Security
With Gary Paul Nabhan and Peter Warshal Food security looms as a major flash point globally: Increasing populations, improved wealth in Brazil, India and China, climate change, pesticide-resistant crop diseases, the price of petro-based fertilizers, the dominance of industrial agriculture corporations that are too-big-not-to-fail, GMOs and more. These challenges pose grave threats to national and global food supplies and government stability. Given nature’s constraints of weather, water and soils, what is the role of agro-ecoregion production and trade in supplying seasonal healthy and affordable food? What are the assets, rewards and advantages of local food systems? How can they be designed into practical and prosperous local and regional foodshed economies? In short, how can agro-ecoregional economies provide resilience for local communities for the vagaries of the roller-coaster food systems of the 21st century? Two leading innovators share their ideas, innovations, dreams, strategies, knowledge and working models that can promote a more local food economy, and a food economy that embodies food security, social equity, a healthy environment, and community wealth, while celebrating biocultural diversity. Gary Paul Nabhan is an internationally celebrated nature writer, founder of Native Seed/SEARCH, teacher, conservation biologist and sustainable agriculture activist who has been called “the father of the local food movement.” Peter Warshall is an innovative ecologist, Co-Director of the Dreaming New Mexico’s project “The Age of Local Foodsheds and a Fair Trade State,” and has worked internationally and as an elected official on conservation/development issues involving water, agriculture, ranching and wildlife. Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
What’s Gender Got to do With It? Moving Beyond Binaries and Polarity into Possibility and Wholeness
With: Ilarion Merculieff; Aleut traditional messenger; Staci Haines, Somatics innovator; Cole, Founder of Brown Boi Project, bridging gender and racial dialogues; Sharon Shay Sloan, Council trainer and community steward. Both for us as human beings and for many of our non-human relations throughout the natural world, we are complex creatures who express a richly diverse continuum of gender and sexual preferences. Disregarding societal restrictions and pressures, who might we choose to be, given greater freedom of expression? Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Embassy Suites Private Dining Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Campaign Connection: The Envision Spokane Community Bill of Rights and the People’s Rights Constitutional Amendment
With Jim Sheehan, Envision Spokane; Jeff Clements, Co-Founder of Free Speech for People, author of Corporations Are Not People. Embassy Suites Private Dining Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
The Tent of Inspiration | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Campaign Connection: Protecting the Amazon and its People
Moderated by Atossa Soltani, Founder and Executive Director of Amazon Watch.
With Tupak Amaru Viteri Gualinga, community Vice President; Marlon Santi, former CONAIE President from Sarayaku; and Nina Sicha Siren Gualinga, Sarayaku youth leader; and representatives of Amazon Watch and Pachamama Alliance.
As the lungs of the planet and a critical climate regulator, the Amazonian rainforest and its peoples play a decisive role in the future of Earth. Hear more about the Sarayaku community's precedent-setting legal victory for indigenous rights and the Amazon, new threats of oil development in their territory, and their call for partnerships in an international campaign to defend life and stop the new oil rounds in the Amazon.
The Tent of Inspiration | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Youth Unity Center | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Youth Leadership: Poetry Slam
This very cool youth poetry slam has judges, scoring and prizes. Everyone’s invited to participate. Youth Unity Center | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Indigenous Forum | 4:30pm, Sat
Native American Food and Farming Movements
With Lilian Hill (Hopi), who has built a successful multi-generational movement to restore the ancient Hopi orchards at Second Mesa; Joe Munroe (Muskoday First Nation), Founder of Muskoday Organic Growers Co-op, who has worked successfully to reverse unemployment with an organic food business model and created a truly healthy economy in Muskoday First Nation in Canada. Major movement is occurring in indigenous communities to restore traditional indigenous organic gardening and foods. Indigenous Forum | 4:30pm, Sat04:30 PM
Council Circle | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Leadership Lessons from the Living Earth: Turning to Nature as Mentor
How can we lead our organizations and social change movements to become more adaptive, resilient, locally attuned and life-enhancing? Looking to nature's wisdom opens us to learning from 3.8 billion years of systems success, and guides us toward leadership patterns, practices and principles that are rooted in sustainability. This experiential workshop will introduce natural models that can be applied to strategy development and organizational change. Participants will work with "Life's Principles" developed by Biomimicry 3.8, and meet natural mentors to help answer their own leadership challenges. Council Circle | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
World Cafe | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Wiser Together Cafe: Education for a Change
With Dave Shaw, Ashley Cooper and Susan Kelly. Education is a key tool that helps us understand the world around us and act in transformative ways. And yet, there is more to learn beyond traditional education models in order to be most effective. At the heart of it, education for action requires each of us to contribute our brilliance and gifts in order to design our shared future. What might be possible when we transcend conventional teacher-student relationships and form learning communities based on curiosity and collaboration across generations? Creating these kinds of opportunities fosters the emergence of collective intelligence and wise action that is needed to transform our world today. What are the big questions that motivate action across generations? And what questions are we are forgetting to ask? Please help us be wiser together as we learn how education may be used for positive change, for a change! World Cafe | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
Resilient Communities II: Mobilizing and Equipping Local Citizen Action
Moderated by Asher Miller, Executive Director of the Post Carbon Institute.
With Bill McKibben, Co-Founder of 350.org; Kirsten Schwind, Program Director of BayLocalize; Carolyne Stayton, Executive Director of Transition U.S. Mushrooming numbers of communities are recognizing both the need and the desirability of becoming more self-reliant on basic systems and services such as food, energy and water, and building their local economies and jobs. The question is: How? This session will offer highly practical tools, resources and models for communities and citizens seeking to build ecological and economic resilience. Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat04:30 PM
Showcase Theater, at the Exhibit Hall | 4:30pm, Sat
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
The Bioneers Moving Image Festival presents a screening of 'Who Bombed Judi Bari?'. Panelists: Producer Darryl Cherney; Attorney Dennis Cunningham; Executive Producer Sheila Laffey; Emmet Brady (Your Garden Show) In 1990 in Oakland, two Earth First! activists survive a car bombing only to be blamed by the FBI for bombing themselves. The victim/suspects, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, later sued the FBI and Oakland Police, but Bari is now dying of cancer before her case goes to trial. This action-packed journey unfolds by the telling of the lawsuit against the FBI, the complex history of Earth First!, the loggers, the controversy of tree spiking, the political/romantic partnership of Bari/Cherney, and the fate of the ancient redwoods. (100 minutes) Showcase Theater, at the Exhibit Hall | 4:30pm, Sat06:00 PM
Sun Stage | 6-7pm, Sat
Traditional Coastal Miwok Dance Family Performance
Hosted by Dean Hoaglin.06:30 PM
Ephiphany Theater | 6:30pm, Sat
Seed Exchange
Hosted by: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Tesuque Pueblo, Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library, The Living Seed Company, and Sustainable Seed Company.
Bring open-pollinated seeds to exchange to help promote the regional adaptation of seeds and be part of a grassroots movement preserving biodiversity. Session includes seed saving demos and advice from master seed savers. Ephiphany Theater | 6:30pm, Sat06:30 PM
Showcase Theater, at the Exhibit Hall | 6:30pm, Sat
Harmony
The Bioneers Moving Image Festival presents a screening of 'Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World'. Panelists: Director Julie Bergman Sender and Stuart Sender, Jay Harman (PAX Scienific), and Louie Schwartzberg (Blacklight Films) with Sharmila Singh from the Green Living Project For the better part of three decades, The Prince of Wales has worked side by side with a surprising and dynamic array of environmental activists, business leaders, artists, architects and government leaders, including former Bioneers’ presenters Janine Benyus and Jay Harman. They are working to transform the world, address the global environmental crisis and find ways toward a more sustainable, spiritual and harmonious relationship with the planet. From organic farms, to the rainforests of British Columbia, to rare footage of HRH interviewing Al Gore about climate change in 1988, Harmony introduces viewers to a new and inspiring perspective on how the world can meet the challenges of climate change globally, locally and personally. (90 minutes) Also included is a trailer for the new film Love Thy Nature, an awe-inspiring, sensual, and poetic cinematic experience of our innate connect with the natural world by Sylvie Rokab. Showcase Theater, at the Exhibit Hall | 6:30pm, Sat07:30 PM
Location TBA | 7:30pm-8:30pm, Sat
Food and Farming Banquet
A local food feast honoring the “Father of Local Food” Gary Paul Nabhan, prepared by Native American Chef extraordinaire Lois Ellen Frank. A separate ticket must be purchased for this event.08:45 PM
Epiphany Theater | 8:45pm-9:45pm, Sat
Caroline Casey: Inaugurating the Trickster Redeemer
Democratic Animism, Pragmatism, Mysticism and Applied Divination Caroline Casey aka Coyote Network News animating the guiding mythic news of now. Epiphany Theater | 8:45pm-9:45pm, Sat08:45 PM
Showcase Theatre, at the Exhibit Hall | 8:45pm, Sat
Student Film Showcase
The Bioneers Moving Image Festival presents award-winning short films from the Student Sustainability Film Festival, IMatter.org, Vida Verde Nature Education, and the Green Living Project. Also engage in a discussion about film-making with Phil Busse, the Director for the Media Institute for Social Change. (75 minutes) Saturday, October 20, 2012, 8:45 pm | Showcase Theatre, Exhibit Hall10:15 PM
Exhibit Hall | 10:15pm-midnight, Sat.
Grist Mix: Bioneers Dance Party
Presented by Grist.
Experience the Bioneers Dance Party with the inimitable DJ Dragonfly and his trans-tempo fusion of exotic idioms, rhythms, melodies and indigenous voices. (10:15pm-midnight)SUNSunday Sessions
08:00 AM
Moonrise Tent | 8am-8:45am, Sun
Morning Meditation Tune-Up for Bioneers: Aligning with Life
As you enter into this exciting day of learning and sharing, can you feel your heart beat, and the earth beneath your feet? Can you sense life pulsing and coursing through you? Are you letting its currents fuel and nourish you? Can you tell what’s enlivening, and what’s deadening, and how your life force is seeking to guide you? And can you feel the impact of what you say and do on the web of life around you? This morning tune-up will offer an opportunity to start the day by connecting with ourselves, each other, and the larger intelligence of life, and carry that alignment into the rest of the day. Highly recommended for anyone who tends to find the whirlwind and excitement of conferences over-stimulating or bodily exhausting. This will be an opportunity to fill up, digest, restore, and learn how to move through the rest of the day in greater partnership with life. Moonrise Tent | 8am-8:45am, Sun09:00 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am, Sun
09:20 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:20am, Sun
The Whole Fracking Enchilada
by Sandra Steingraber. Introduction by Charlotte Brody, Director of Chemicals, Public Health and Green Chemistry at the BlueGreen Alliance This award-winning author, biologist and specialist on environmental health will explore the threats to climate and public health from extreme energy extraction including hydraulic fracturing (fracking). From strip-mining of frack sand in Wisconsin which releases carcinogenic silica dust into the air -- to the deep-well injection of fracking waste in Ohio which has been linked to earthquakes -- these new methods of blasting hydrocarbons from the earth are shock-and-awe operations. Of particular interest in this talk are the living organisms that inhabit Earth's deep geological strata. Far from being inert, our nation's bedrock is an underground “coral reef” of microbes, another invisible ecosystem that’s linked in ways not yet fully understood to life here on the sunlit surface of our planet. Sandra Steingraber is a Ph.D. biologist, author and 2011 recipient of the Heinz Award for her research and writing on environmental health. She donated the $100,000 cash prize to the fight against hydraulic fracturing, convening the grassroots coalition New Yorkers Against Fracking. In 2010, her book Living Downstream on the environmental links to cancer was released as a documentary film. Her most recent book is Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis. Restoration Nation Theater | 9:20am, Sun09:50 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:50am, Sun
‘Lost Between Neck and Knees’ Performance
by Shailja Patel The piercing internationally acclaimed Kenyan poet of social change peforms her original spoken-word tour-de-force. Restoration Nation Theater | 9:50am, Sun10:00 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 10:00am, Sun
A Caring, Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century
with Ai-Jen Poo. Introduction by Nina Simons One of the nation’s most effective and dynamic young labor leaders will present the vision of Caring Across Generations, a new national coalition of 200 advocacy organizations working together for a dignified quality of life for all Americans. Its purpose is to transform some of our most fundamental social and economic challenges -- jobs, long-term care and immigration -- into opportunities for innovation and solutions that benefit everyone. Selected in 2012 as one of Time’s 100 most influential global leaders, Ai-jen Poo is Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, working to give domestic workers basic workers' rights, and Co-Director of Caring Across Generations. Restoration Nation Theater | 10:00am, Sun10:55 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 10:55am, Sun
Youth Leadership
with Rachel BargeA Brower Youth Award winner shares the new entrepreneurship accelerator for digital cleantech, Greenstart.
Restoration Nation Theater | 10:55am, Sun11:05 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:05am, Sun
Drug War, Drug Peace
by Ethan Nadelmann. Introduction by Jodie Evans, Co-Founder CODEPINK: Women for Peace The world’s leading proponent of sane drug policies will ask us to imagine a world in which criminal laws and institutions play little role in drug control policy. What do we risk? What do we gain? What do we fear? And what can we do? Ethan Nadelmann is the Founder and Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the failed “War on Drugs” and its extreme racial injustices, social harms and costs. Restoration Nation Theater | 11:05am, Sun11:35 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:35am, Sun
Destiny Arts Youth Performance Arts Company
The esteemed Oakland-based multicultural youth dance and performance troupe always gets standing ovations. It's the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Arts Company! Restoration Nation Theater | 11:35am, Sun11:45 AM
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:45am, Sun
Regeneration
by Paul Hawken. Paul Hawken is a visionary social entrepreneur, the award-winning author of multiple landmark books includingBlessed Unrest, The Ecology of Commerce and Natural Capitalism (co-author), and the Co-Founder of OneSun, a radically innovative solar energy technology company. Restoration Nation Theater | 11:45am, Sun12:25 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 12:25pm, Sun
R. Carlos Nakai Performance
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 | 12:25pm, Sun2:45 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Mass Incarceration, Racial Justice and the Drug War
With Ethan Nadelmann; Jakada Imani, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center; Alice A. Huffman, President, California NAACP. The struggle to end America's disastrous “war on drugs” is a struggle for common sense, human rights and, without question, racial justice -- given the extraordinary and disproportionate extent to which people of color are arrested, prosecuted and incarcerated for drug offenses. The majority of these arrests are for low-level drug offenses, such as possession for personal use. An extremely high percentage of young people arrested winds up in prison instead of college. What are the policies and factors motivating these arrests? Who's monitoring these trends? What's happening at federal and state levels to stop the practice of disappearing so many people into the prison system? And what more can be done? Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Cultivating Women’s Leadership: Leadership’s Reinvention Through the Feminine
With Ai-jen Poo; Sandra Steingraber; Nikki Henderson;Anisha Desai, Program Director, New Leaders Initiative; Jess Rimington, Founder and Executive Director of One World Youth Project. With more women ascending into leadership roles, we have an opportunity to re-examine and re-vision new models of organizational and movement culture. Several new initiatives are redefining leadership, transforming outdated methods and structures into practices and networks that are equitable, sustainable, and of the heart. Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
The Next 100 Years of Water: An Action Plan for Los Angeles
With Lauren Bon, author of the Metabolic Studio, where she practices at the intersection of art and philanthropy, working with social brownfields and metabolic sculptures that foster relationships, actions and events that transform the site into a more healthful environment and galvanize transition within complex bureaucracies. Water from the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains supports many of the cities of the West. Our Action Plan envisions a future in which Los Angeles no longer needs imported water. With the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in November 2013, we ask the Bioneers community to discuss our Action Plan: “Toward the Next One Hundred Years of Water.” In this workshop, we aim to remap our bioregion with the intention of maximizing its hydro potential for all living things. Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Changing the Story: New Media for Movement Building
Hosted by Jeremy Kagan, award-winning filmmaker.
With Mathew Gross, new media strategist, former Director of Internet Communications for Howard Dean's presidential campaign; Shirley Sneve, Executive Director of Native American Public Telecommunications; Ian Inaba, Co-Executive Director of Citizen Engagement Lab. Bold innovators in new media activism are addressing both the need to change the larger narrative to combat apathy, cynicism, hopelessness and paranoia, as well as to explore how to get your message out and mobilize engagement most effectively in a rapidly shifting media landscape. Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
What’s Sex Got to Do With It?: Population, Women and the Earth
Hosted by Anuja Mendiratta of Philanthropic and Nonprofit Consulting.
With Robert Engelman, author and President of Worldwatch Institute; Eveline Shen, Executive Director of Forward Together; John Seager, President of Population Connection; Muadi Mukenge, Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Fund for Women. As global population exceeds 7 billion, and climate and social instabilities are on the rise, many believe we’re exceeding Earth’s carrying capacity. The pressure to change our social and ecological systems is ramping up, and women sit firmly at the center of it all. Yet who decides how population and reproductive rights change, and how? With such gross inequities and different perspectives as exist between the global North and the global South, the issue of population has long been a “third rail” in the environmental movement. Within the U.S., issues of reproductive rights, health and justice are surfacing painful political and social wounds, as well as cultural divides that are debilitating for our collective progress. Join us to navigate across a diverse spectrum of perspectives to explore and integrate anthropological, geopolitical, ecological and social identity impacts and narratives, while exploring how these various stories may find common ground. Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
The Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Campaign Connection: Becoming Beloved Ancestors — Building A Women-Led Civil Rights Movement for Future Generations
With Carolyn Raffensperger, Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network; and Caroline Casey, creator-weaver-of-context of “The Visionary Activist Show” on Pacifica Radio stations KPFA in the Bay Area and KPFK in Los Angeles. This organizing and strategizing session will focus on how to launch a women-led rights movement for future generations of all species. We’ll explore visionary new tools, policies and institutions from the local to the international level in a session that pulls together wisdom traditions, the bottom-up organizing of Occupy Wall Street, and new environmental policies. The Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun2:45 PM
Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Meet and Greet the 2012 Brower Youth Award Winners
The BYA winners, in their first public appearance, are young activists who have shown outstanding leadership in creating positive environmental and social impacts. Come hear their inspiring stories and have the opportunity to connect with these young activists from all over North America. Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun02:45 PM
Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Permaculture Solutions: From Personal Ecology to Regenerative Policy
Hosted by Arty Mangan. With Penny Livingston, Co-Founder of the Regenerative Design Institute; Trathen Heckman, Director of Daily Acts Organization and Board President of Transition U.S. Permaculturists have been innovating low-tech accessible ways to take nature’s solutions to scale and answer the question: How can we live on this precious planet in a way that meets humanity’s and nature’s needs? From gardens to governance, front-yard farms to public food forests, wide-scale collaborative action and the Transition Town movement, we’ll take a tour of eco-efficacious solutions and models with leading homegrown leaders who will share their personal practices and community engagement strategies. Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun02:45 PM
Autodesk Atrium | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Transforming Education at Every Level: Whole Human Learning Toward a Regenerative Future
Hosted by Margaret Golden, Dominican University.
With Kate Lipkis, who teaches traditional Council methods in the L.A. Unified School District; Alan Webb, whose P2PU (Peer to Peer University) and Citizen Circles are creating innovative forms for peer learning; Megan Cowan, whose Mindful Schools teach mindfulness practice to thousands of youth throughout the San Francisco Bay Area; Gary Martin, whose Global Environments Summer Academy annually cultivates 18 exceptional graduate and professional-level individuals to become environmental leaders. Both within existing systems and by innovating new ones, education is changing, thanks to the perseverance, courage and commitment of dedicated and visionary teachers and learners. In an emergent conversation, come discover new methodologies and vehicles for raising-up, informing and equipping tomorrow’s leaders. Autodesk Atrium | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun02:45 PM
Indigenous Forum | 2:45pm, Sun
Rights of Mother Earth — Protecting Environmental and Cultural Diversity
With Dr. Daniel Wildcat (Yuchi Member of the Muscogee Nation), Haskell Indian Nations University, author of Red Alert! Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge; Dr. Anthony Madrigal (Desert Cahuilla), Director of Cultural Resources, San Manuel Band of Serrano Indians; Tom B.K. Goldtooth (Dinè/Dakota), Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network Across the world, Indigenous Peoples are discussing how we will create institutions and policies that reflect what our traditions have long recognized -- the natural life of our planet exists as relatives, not resources. An Indigenous paradigm is re-emerging that grants equal rights to nature based on the idea that humans do not have a natural right to destroy the natural environment, but have an ancient responsibility to care for the natural world. As Indigenous Peoples, we accept the responsibility to share our Original Instructions and prophecies to ensure harmony with the rest of Creation. The time has come to put our minds together to discuss how we can shape tribal, state, national and global policies for wellbeing of our Mother, planet Earth. Indigenous Forum | 2:45pm, Sun02:45 PM
Council Circle | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Transforming Our Relationship to White Privilege in Service of Co-Creating Beloved Community
Facilitated by Yeshi Neumann of Rockwood Leadership Institute.
This experiential session explores how, through courage, kindness and taking responsibility, we can grow to be more effective white allies in dismantling unjust social systems and becoming “beloved community” across divides of race, ethnicity, class and gender. All are welcome. Experiential. Council Circle | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun02:45 PM
Moonrise Tent | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Listening for Leadership at the Grassroots
Presented by Women’s Earth Alliance
Around the world, women are taking action and raising their voices with one resonant message: Community-driven women's leadership can guide the world toward sustainability and balance. Drawing upon facilitation and leadership techniques from grassroots activists worldwide, the Women’s Earth Alliance team members and partners will guide us on a leadership journey that will help inform and inspire each of us in our own projects and our own leadership. Experiential. Moonrise Tent | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun4:30 PM
World Cafe | 4:30pm-6pm, Sun
Wiser Together Cafe: Creating Tomorrow Together
With Dave Shaw, Ashley Cooper and Susan Kelly. We’ve seen what is possible from the Bioneers, we’ve learned from each other’s ideas and meaningful work, and now we’re ready to take it home. Seeds have been planted throughout the weekend and we need each other to ensure our shared success. How can we play together year round? How might we be anchors for each other and our projects as we serve the future we believe in? Let’s nourish partnerships and relationships that we can draw upon in the coming months as we ground these possibilities into realities. And let’s meet up again next year to share what we’re learning! Join us for a participant-driven World Cafe conversation 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, Sun04:30 PM
Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Cosmos and Psyche: The Great Transformation
With Richard Tarnas, author of The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche, professor and founding director of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies; Luisah Teish, author and Ifa-Orisha priestess; Oren Lyons, Onondaga Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan and global indigenous leader. Brian Swimme is a renowned cosmologist on the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in the Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness program, and author of The Universe Story (with Thomas Berry) andThe Universe Is a Green Dragon. A growing global consensus is emerging that this moment of planetary breakdown can transform into breakthrough. From scientists to shamans, this crisis is being recognized as a crisis of cosmology -- of the guiding cultural narratives whose stories must also now transform because “worldviews create worlds,” as Richard Tarnas puts it. How can diverse cultures’ cosmologies illuminate these breakthroughs for a radical evolutionary transformation? Author Richard Tarnas suggests that the “disenchanted objectivist world view of modernity that underlies the present crisis is in the process of transcending itself.” That paradigm is becoming a more inclusive cosmology that embraces the creative complexity, aliveness and “ensoulment” inherent in the web of life. He also draws on suggestive evidence that planetary alignments correspond to large-scale human behavior, archetypal cycles that echo and build on prior periods of revolutionary transformation. Luisah Teish will share her Ifa-Orisha West African cosmology’s perspectives, including that of Oya, the Goddess of Catastrophe who shows how breakdown can lead to breakthrough through making basic structural changes. Iroquois elder Oren Lyons will depict perspectives on the place of gratitude, ceremony, clear thinking and peacemaking from the Iroquois and other indigenous traditions. Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Feminomics: How Women’s Leadership and Whole-Systems Approaches Are Reinventing Economics That Work for All
With Ai-Jen Poo; Judy Wicks, groundbreaking socially conscious entrepreneur, Co-Founder of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies; Rebecca Adamson, President and Founder, First Peoples Worldwide; Dana Lanza, CEO of Confluence Philanthropy; Farha-Joyce Haboucha, Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager and Director of Sustainability & Impact Investments, Rockefeller & Co, Inc. At its heart, economy reflects what we value, including both Earth and people. Though many are re-imagining new systems, innovations and forms that can work for all, few are noting explicitly the convergent contribution that women and valuing the feminine and whole systems are making to the field. Join us to explore this terrain with leading-edge innovators and practitioners to inform and clarify new visions for finance, business, economics and culture. Together we’ll investigate, cross-pollinate and surface ideas and observations to inform a collective and viable future vision. Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science
Presented by The Buckminster Fuller Institute. Hosted by David McConville, BFI President.
With 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge finalists: Jason McLennan, founder of the Living Building Challenge, CEO, Cascadia Green Building Council; Cheryl Dahle, founder, Future of Fish. Fifty years ago the visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller called for a "design science revolution." The Buckminster Fuller Institute's Buckminster Fuller Challenge Prize is a clarion call for today's whole-systems designers to solve the world's greatest ecological and social challenges. The $100,000 prize aids the further development of a "trimtab" solution that best demonstrates the capacity to catalyze systemic change using Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science. In this session two of this year's four finalists will share their extraordinary projects. The Living Building Challenge seeks to set the highest possible level of environmental performance in construction and design to push the building industry to re-imagine itself and dramatically re-frame how human buildings and infrastructure function within ecosystems. Future of Fish is a groundbreaking, pragmatic effort to address the very complex crisis of overharvesting that threatens the world's wild marine fisheries by incubating highly innovative market based models that can drive seafood sustainability and marine conservation. Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Capitalism 2.0: Cutting-Edge Conscious Entrepreneurship
Hosted by Deborah Schoenbaum, Multicultural and Diversity Consultant and Faculty at Center for Whole Communities.
With Ken Lee and Caryl Levine, Co-Founders of Lotus Foods; David Lively, Sales and Marketing Vice-President at Organically Grown Company; Bob Gough, Secretary of the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy COUP). Exemplary, socially conscious entrepreneurs are breaking new ground in sustainability and contributing to the common good with boldly creative business strategies and high-quality products and services. These cutting-edge social ventures change the paradigm of the contract between business and society. They will share their approaches, successes and challenges, from mainstreaming naturally derived pharmaceutical products -- to scaling production and distribution of diverse heirloom rice varieties and “More Crop Per Drop”-- practices that radically reduce water consumption by an industry that uses a third of all annual freshwater supply -- to the full-spectrum sustainability and equity practices of the Pacific Northwest’s largest wholesaler of organic fruits and vegetables and supporter of regional agriculture to how Native American nations are using entrepreneurship to address energy and green building jobs and businesses, such as SAFE: “Training a Workforce, Building an Industry: A trained tribal straw bale workforce can construct sustainable, affordable, future-proofed and energy efficient (SAFE) housing built with low-cost, low-embedded energy, carbon sequestering and high-performing locally sourced materials.” Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Campaign Connection: Ending the War On Drugs
State campaigns to change drug laws are sweeping the nation with the leadership of DPA. Learn how citizens can become engaged to end the failed “war on drugs.” Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
The Tent of Inspiration | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Campaign Connection: Organizing to Win the War on Women
With Shaunna Thomas of UltraViolet; and Shanelle Mathews and Adriann Barboa of Forward Together. Come and learn about two innovative efforts to build power for women and their communities. We will explore strategies that Strong Families and Ultraviolet are using to create new movements, change policies and organize communities on behalf of women and reproductive justice and rights. The Tent of Inspiration | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Youth Unity Center | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Help Wanted: Green Jobs
With Markese Bryant of Green for All; and De’Anthony Jones, former Brower Youth Award winner. This session will explore the challenges in finding satisfying “green” work and explore pathways to transforming the Green Movement into real employment opportunities, as well as provide concrete employment-related resources for youth, educators and community organizers. Youth Unity Center | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Council Circle | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Council: What’s Age Got To Do With It? Elders, Youth and Intergenerational Collaboration in Modern Times
With Ilarion Merculieff, Aleut traditional messenger; Sharon Shay Sloan, Council trainer/community steward. We’ll examine the roles of elders and youth and the need for collaboration across generations to help restore balance and right relationship in our communities, organizations and lives. Council Circle | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun04:30 PM
Showcase Theater, at the Exhibit Hall | 4:30pm, Sun
