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, 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, 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, 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, Sun

Youth Leadership

with Rachel Barge Restoration Nation Theater | 10:55am, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Sun