08:00 AM
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.
04:30 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.