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, Sun

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 Several new initiatives are redefining leadership, transforming outdated methods and structures into practices and networks that are equitable, sustainable, and of the heart.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, Sun

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, Sun

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, Sun

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, Sun

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, Sun

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.

With: Carolyn Raffensperger, Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network; others tba.

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, Sun

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, Sun