The Leading Edges of Design for a Sustainable World

Co-sponsored by the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI). Hosted by Elizabeth Thompson, BFI Executive Director. With: David McConville, immersive media artist, BFI Board President; Jason McLennan, Living Building Challenge founder, winner of the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge; Jay Harman, inventor, entrepreneur, founder of PAX Scientific, author of The Shark's Paintbrush.

Creativity and Improvisation in Leadership, Education and Sustainability

An emergent conversation hosted by author and activist Anneke Campbell. With: Nalini Nadkarni, “the Queen of the Forest Canopy;” Matthew Fox, priest and theologian, leading exponent of Creation Spirituality; Alfonso Montuori, Director of Masters program in Transformative Leadership, California Institute of Integral Studies; Rose von Thater Braan (Tuscorora/Cherokee), co-founder of the Native American Academy.

Entrepreneurship: Mission-Driven Companies

Hosted by Christy Foley, founder of The Foley Connection. With: Matthew Engelhart, co-founder of Café Gratitude and Gracias Madre, co-author of Sacred Commerce; John Roulac, founder and CEO of Nutiva; Mary Waldner and Dale Rodrigues, founders of Mary’s Gone Crackers.

Women as Democracy Builders: Reclaiming Our Commons from Corporate Power

Hosted by author and activist Anna Lappé. With: Leila Salazar-Lopez, Program Director at Amazon Watch; Kelle Louaillier, Executive Director of Corporate Accountability International; Lynne Twist, Pachamama Alliance co-founder, Soul of Money Institute founder.

Tools for Transforming Education: Whole Child, Whole Person, Whole World

Hosted by Cleary Vaughan-Lee, Education Coordinator for the Global Oneness Project. With: Mark Collin and Chuck Fisher of Dovetail Learning.

Interactive/Experiential

Building Community Resilience from Detroit to Japan

With: Gloria Rivera, Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Coordinator; Carolyne Stayton, Co-Executive Director, Transition U.S.; Kalia Lydgate, co-founder of P.O.W.E.R. (People Organizing for Wealth and Ecological Restoration), a Marion Institute program.; Bob Stilger, Co-President, New Stories.

From Conflict to Collaboration in Indigenous Territories: Tribal Strategies for Resistance and Restoration

Indigenous Forum

With: Darcie Houck (Mohawk and Ottawa), partner in Native American law firm of Fredericks, Peebles and Morgan LLP; Jihan Gearon (Diné/Navajo and African American), Executive Director, Black Mesa Water Coalition; Tony Skrelunas (Diné/Navajo), founder of Grand Canyon Trust Native America Program.; Octaviana Trujillo (Pascua Yaqui), founding Chair of the Department of Applied Indigenous Studies at Northern Arizona University.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Cultivating Women’s Leadership: Alumnae Reunion and Sampler

Hosted by Nina Simons and Toby Herzlich, Co-Founders of Cultivating Women’s Leadership trainings, with Sarah Crowell, Co-facilitator and Artistic Director of Destiny Arts, Rachel Bagby, Improvisational Vocal & Social Artist.

Interactive/Experiential

Youth Leadership: Recognizing The Rights of Nature

With: Debra Weistar, Finding the Good and Synergia Learning Ventures.

Council: Restoring and Honoring the Sacred Feminine and Sacred Masculine

Facilitated by Ilarion Merculieff, Aleut traditional messenger, and Sharon Shay Sloan, Council trainer and community steward.

Interactive/Experiential (Double session)

Wiser Together World Café: Intergenerational Dialogue and Mentoring

Join participant-driven 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 and for building personal and professional partnerships. With: David Shaw, Common Ground Center, UC Santa Cruz; Dana Pearlman, The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development and the Global Leadership Lab; Tim Merry, Myrgan Inc, Art of Hosting; Giselle Chow, Graphic Facilitator and Recorder, Giselle Chow Consulting.

Facilitated Dialogue at the Networking Center – Creating Resilient Food Systems

What have we learned about how to feed ourselves sustainably?  What needs to be amplified? What obstacles need to be overcome? Come connect, network, and share your insights. 

Beloved Community: An Invitation

An emergent conversation hosted by Connie Cagampang Heller, co-founder, Linked Fate Fund for Justice. With: John A. Powell, Executive Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley; Joseph Phelan, founder and co-principle of WeAreNotTrayvonMartin.com; Catherine Lerza, philanthropic advisor, organizer and consultant to Groundswell Fund.

Redesigning the Corporation and Its Supply Chain for Social and Environmental Values

Hosted by Andrew Revkin, Senior Fellow at Pace University's Academy for Applied Environmental Studies, NY Times blog dotearth. With: Tensie Whelan, President, Rainforest Alliance; Manuel Rodriguez, Senior Vice President, Government & International Affairs and Corporate Responsibility Officer, Chiquita Brands International, Inc; Jonathan Atwood, Vice President, Sustainable Living and Corporate Communications, Unilever.

Climate Change and Agriculture

With: Ann Thrupp, Executive Director of the Berkeley Food Institute, Darren Doherty, master Permaculturist; Renata Brillinger, California Climate and Agriculture Network.

Mother Jones Presents: Media Mojo for Social Change

Hosted by Steve Katz, Publisher of Mother Jones. With: Danny Glover, renowned actor and lifelong activist; Katie Galloway, director and producer of the award-winning film "Better This World"; Gay Dillingham, award-winning film producer/director.

Spine of the Continent: Wildlife Corridors, Biodiversity and Climate Change

Hosted by Mary Ellen Hannibal, author of The Spine of the Continent; With: Healy Hamilton, Senior Research Fellow with Marine Conservation Institute; Adina Merenlender, conservation biologist with UC Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources; Justin Brashares, Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at UC Berkeley.

Leadership Lessons from the Living Earth

With: Toby Herzlich, founder, Biomimicry for Social Innovation and co-founder, Cultivating Women’s Leadership trainings, and accompanied by a host of natural mentors.

Interactive/Experiential

Spirit Moving into Form: The Sacred Dance of the Feminine and the Masculine in Today’s World

With: Pele Rouge Chadima, FireHawk Hulin, Lana Holmes, co-founders of Timeless Earth Wisdom, Inc. Interactive/Experiential

The Native Artist’s Voice: A Commentary on Social and Environmental Issues

Indigenous Forum

Hosted by: Reuben Roqueni, Program Director at the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Director, Bioneers Indigeneity Program. With: Rulan Tangen (Metis), dancer/choreographer; William Wilson (Navajo), photographer; Kade Twist (Cherokee), multi-disciplinary artist; Tracey Rector (Seminole), filmmaker and producer.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Youth Leadership: Peaceful Warriors

Here’s how to do violence prevention through movement, games, role-playing and conversation (all ages). Led by Rashidi Omari, hip-hop instructor; Destiny Arts students. 

Council: Community of Mentors: Intergenerational Reciprocity, Guidance and Mutual Exchange

Facilitated by Ilarion Merculieff and Sharon Shay Sloan.

Interactive / Experiential

Wiser Together Open Space: If you could have any conversation, or host any activity, what would it be? Bring it here

These participant-driven conversations use Open Space Technology (OST) to help us leverage our collective intelligence, share our dreams and move towards wise action. Participants post and join topics they are passionate about, co-creating an exciting meeting of minds to address complex issues and common interests. There are multiple sessions; participants can attend any and all of them and come and go as they please. With: David Shaw, Common Ground Center, UC Santa Cruz; Dana Pearlman, The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development and the Global Leadership Lab; Tim Merry, Myrgan Inc, Art of Hosting; Giselle Chow, Graphic Facilitator and Recorder, Giselle Chow Consulting. (This is a double session.)

Herbwalk: The Medicinal and Edible Landscape

With master herbalist Kami McBride.

Facilitated Dialogue at the Networking Center—Building Local Economies

What New Economy systems and networks are already supporting local wealth, jobs, ownership, and a robust system of exchanges? What else is needed? Come connect, network, and share your insights.

Paths to Healing Around Family and Money: An Intergenerational Emergent Conversation

With: Eileen Rockefeller, impact philanthropist, founding chair of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and author of Being a Rockefeller, Becoming Myself; her son, Daniel Growald. Hosted by renowned doctor and author, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD. Join this mother and son, leading members of America's legendary first family of philanthropy, as they explore how honest investigation into values and service can lead to healing, individuation and a joyful and fulfilling life.

Wiser Together World Cafe: Creating Tomorrow Together!

We've learned from each other's ideas and work this weekend, but how can we nourish partnerships and relationships year-round to ground possibilities into realities? Join us for a participant-driven 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 and for building personal and professional partnerships. Let's create tomorrow, together! With: David Shaw, Common Ground Center, UC Santa Cruz; Dana Pearlman, The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development and the Global Leadership Lab; Tim Merry, Myrgan Inc, Art of Hosting; Giselle Chow, Graphic Facilitator and Recorder, Giselle Chow Consulting.

Gender Equality and Finding Balance: Diverse Approaches

An emergent conversation hosted by Nina Simons, Bioneers; With: Ilarion Merculieff, Aleut traditional messenger; Pat McCabe, Dine (Navajo) writer, artist, activist, speaker and cultural liaison; Will Keepin, Co-Director of the Satyana Institute and Gender Reconciliation International; Pele Rouge Chadima, co-founder, Timeless Earth Wisdom, Inc.

Spiritual Ecology: A Spiritual Response to the Ecological Crisis

With: Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the World Wildlife Fund’s Sacred Earth program; Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, renowned Sufi teacher and author; Joanna Macy, legendary activist and scholar of systems theory, deep ecology and Buddhism.

Moving from Sustainababble to True Sustainability

Co-sponsored with the Worldwatch Institute. Hosted by: Robert Engelman, President, Worldwatch. With: Erik Assadourian, Senior Fellow, Worldwatch; Annie Leonard, activist extraordinaire, creator of The Story of Stuff.

Disruptive Financing Innovations for Distributed Energy and Sustainability

With: Billy Parish, co-founder and President of the solar energy platform Solar Mosaic; Marco Krapels, Executive Vice President, Rabobank, NA; Angelina Galiteva, founder and Board President, Renewables 100 Policy Institute.

Transforming Our Relationship to White Privilege to Co-Create Beloved Community

With: Yeshi Neumann, Rockwood Leadership Institute.

Experiential/Interactive

Eat Your Heritage: Chamorro Foodways from the Island of Guam

Indigenous Forum

Sponsored by the Cultural Conservancy’s Mino-Niibi Fund for Indigenous Cultures. Part of Guam Humanities Council’s (GHC) Eat Your Heritage Tour. Hosted by: Kimberlee Kihleng, Ph.D. and Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe), President of the Cultural Conservancy/professor at SFSU GHC Executive Director. With: Monaeka Flores, GHC Project Coordinator; Peter Duenas, chef and restaurateur, the most respected Chamorro chef in Guam, a leader in promoting native foods; Bill McDonald, founder of the Farmers Cooperative, leader in Guam’s local food movement.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Council: Initiation, Adulthood and the Resurgence of Community-Supported Rites of Passage

With: Sharon Shay Sloan and Orland Bishop, Executive Director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation, Indaba leader and community healer.  

Interactive/Experiential

Facilitated Dialogue at the Networking Center—Growing Community Capital

How do we uncover and mobilize the hidden wealth of skills, insights, wisdom, resources and experience in our communities? Come connect, network, and share your insights.

Youth Leadership: Meet the Brower Youth Award Winners

Presented by New Leaders Initiative at Earth Island Institute.  

Conversation Café

TBA

Herbwalk

With renowned herbalists Autumn Summers and Kevin Spelman, PhD, MCPP, scientist, clinician, educator, herbalist and writer.

Campaign Connection: Mobilizing Women for Climate Solutions

Mobilizing Women for Climate Solutions, presented by Women's Earth and Climate Caucus and International Women's Earth and Climate Initiative. With: Osprey Orielle Lake, Sally Ranney, Claire Greensfelder, Atossa Soltani of Amazon Watch; and a representative from the Indigenous Environmental Network.  Come join key leaders, recently returned from the Women's Earth and Climate Summit, as they show us how we can get involved in the growing global women's movement for sane climate and sustainability policies and in some of the exciting actions and projects outlined in the "Women's Climate and Sustainability Blueprint for Action." Note: Men are welcome to attend.

Connecting Across Difference Through Indigenous Learning Practices

An emergent conversation hosted by Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe), President of the Cultural Conservancy/professor at SFSU; with Rose von Thater Braan (Tuscorora/Cherokee), co-founder/Director of the Native American Academy; Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan), Executive Director of the En’Owkin Centre.

Narrative Medicine: Building Peace Through Understanding How Others Perceive Their Worlds

With path finding psychotherapist and Narrative Medicine facilitator Shari Foos, who creates workshops to heal organizations, businesses and at-risk youth.

Interactional/Experiential. Showcase Theater

The Role of “Heroic” Learning Communities in the Postmodern Era

Join author and educator Richard Tarnas and elder change-maker, Buddhist scholar and Deep Ecology progenitor Joanna Macy for this radical exploration of Heroic Learning Communities and their unique role at this critical moment in the evolution of human civilization and our relationship to nature, each other and ourselves.

The Art and Tradition of Fermentation: Community, Culture and Evolution

With: Sandor Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation and other cutting-edge books on cultured foods.

The Commons of Healthcare: Resilience as the Anchor for Health

Hosted by Molly Roberts, M.D., M.S., President of the American Holistic Medical Association. With: Jamie Harvie, Executive Director, Institute for a Sustainable Future, co-founder, Commons Health Care Network; Nancy Sudak, M.D. ABIHM, Executive Director American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine; David Zuckerman, Research Associate, The Democracy Collaborative.

Resist, Restore, Re-imagine: Greening Detroit with Resilience

Hosted by Nikki Henderson, Executive Director, People’s Grocery. With: Gloria Rivera, Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Coordinator; Malik Yakini, Executive Director of The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network; Lottie Spady, Detroit activist.

Mother Earth – Father Sky: Voices from the Spirit!

Indigenous Forum

Hosted by: Tom B.K. Goldtooth (Dine’/Dakota), Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network. With: Eddie Benton-Benai, (Anishinabe Fish Clan), Grand Chief of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge; Mona Polacca (Hopi, Havasupai and Tewa), indigenous elder stateswoman, International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Walking Your Talk in the World: Exploring Embodied Transformation

Come to begin at the heart and soul of what matters; discover the patterns that ‘walk us,’ harvest your natural knowing, glide with effortless ease, connect vibrantly to your world, and embody your goals for global renewal. With author and educator Suki Munsell, Ph.D., Interactive/Experiential

Interactive/Experiential

Youth Leadership: Poetry Slam | Hosted by poet Josh Healy

Youth Leadership: Poetry Slam. Hosted by poet Josh Healy.

Council: Restoring and Honoring the Sacred Feminine and Sacred Masculine

Interactive, experiential 

(Double session, continued from 2:45pm)

Conversation Café

TBA

Facilitated Dialogue at the Networking Center—Reimagining Education

How do we re-imagine and redesign systems of learning to respond to our escalating challenges and real needs? Come connect, network, and share your insights. 

Wiser Together Open Space: If you could have any conversation, or host any activity, what would it be? Bring it here

These participant-driven conversations use Open Space Technology (OST) to help us leverage our collective intelligence, share our dreams and move towards wise action. Participants post and join topics they are passionate about, co-creating an exciting meeting of minds to address complex issues and common interests. There are multiple sessions; participants can attend any and all of them and come and go as they please. With: David Shaw, Common Ground Center, UC Santa Cruz; Dana Pearlman, The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development and the Global Leadership Lab; Tim Merry, Myrgan Inc, Art of Hosting; Giselle Chow, Graphic Facilitator and Recorder, Giselle Chow Consulting. (This is a double session.)

The Crossroads of Art and Social Change

Performances plus discussion. With: John Densmore, iconic drummer of the legendary rock group, the Doors, author of The Doors: Unhinged, and Riders on the Storm; Climbing PoeTree, award-winning spoken-word activists; Hosted by Filmmaker and Professor Jeremy Kagan, founder of The Change Making Media Lab at the University of Southern California.

Building the Movement for a New Economy

Hosted by John Bloom, Senior Director of Organizational Culture at RSF Social Finance. With: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Executive Director, Green for All; Bob Massie, President of the New Economics Institute; David Levine, co-founder and CEO of the American Sustainable Business Council.

The Healing Potential of Cannabidiol, MDMA, and Entheogens

Hosted by J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers associate producer. With: Martin Lee, Director of Project CBD, a cannabis science information service, author of Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational and Scientific; Amy Emerson, Director of Clinical Research at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS); Ralph Metzner, legendary psychedelic research pioneer.

Biodynamic Farming: Way Beyond Organic

With: Gena Nonini, 3^rd-generation farmer, owner/operator of Marian Farms, a premiere Biodynamic farm and distillery in Fresno, CA.  

A Hero’s Quest: Tapping Our Courage and Unleashing Our Ingenuity to Address Climate Change

With: Betsy Taylor, Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions; John Neffinger, KNP Communications.

Giving Power: Exploring “Situatedness” and Power

Hosted by Connie Cagampang Heller, co-founder, Linked Fate Fund for Justice. With: Jeannette Armstrong, Ph.D. (Syilx Okanagan), traditional Okanagan knowledge keeper, co-founder and Executive Director of En’owkin Centre; Claire Jean Kim, Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies, UC Irvine.

Guardians of the Water: Native Youth Speak Out on Arts, Media, and Cultural Health

Indigenous Forum

Hosted by Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe), President of the Cultural Conservancy/professor at SFSU. With: Nicola Wagenberg (Colombian), Vice-President and Director for the Guardians of the Waters Youth program of The Cultural Conservancy (TCC); Valarie Perez Ordoñez (Salvadoran-Mexican), artist, activist, TCC Youth Coordinator for the Guardians of the Waters Youth program; Mateo Hinojosa (Bolivian-American), documentary filmmaker, educator, media director and teacher at TCC.  

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Generation Waking Up: Building A Movement For Systemic Change

An interactive, multimedia program exploring the game-changing role of today's young generation, connecting the dots between environmental sustainability, social justice, and human thriving. We will walk away with a deeper sense of individual and collective purpose as we build bridges across movements to create systemic change. With, from Generation Waking Up: Joshua Gorman, founder; Barbara Jefferson and Hanni Hanson, trainers and coordinators; and Cherine Badawi, curriculum coordinator.

Gender Reconciliation: Breakthrough in Healing Gender-Based Violence

With: Will Keepin, Ph.D. and Rev. Cynthia Brix, Co-Directors of the Satyana Institute and Gender Reconciliation International.

Interactive/Experiential

Council: Weaving the Fabric of Community

With: Sharon Shay Sloan and Ilarion Merculieff. 

Interactive/Experiential

Conversation Café

TBA

Facilitated Dialogue at the Networking Center—Dreaming Bioneers

Bioneers celebrates our 25tth anniversary in 2014. What should our goals be in the crucial years ahead? Come connect, network, and share your insights.

Mixers and networking opportunities

TBA

Indigenous Forum: Youth and Indigenous Leader Talking Circle

TBA

Symphony of Soil

Introduced by director Deborah Koons Garcia

Garcia's follow-up to The Future of Food examines the human relationship with soil, the use and abuse of soil in agriculture, deforestation and development, and the latest scientific research on soil’s potential to help address climate change. Filmed on four continents, Symphony of the Soil reveals that if we want healthy plants that result in healthy humans living on a healthy planet, we have to start at the roots, with healthy soil.

Elemental

Directed by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Gayatri Roshan

Introduced by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

Elemental tells the remarkable story of three individuals on three separate continents working in radically different contexts but united by their deep connection with nature and driven to confront some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. It highlights: water activist Rajendra Singh’s struggle to resuscitate the desperately polluted Ganges river; young Denè mother Eriel Deranger’s “David and Goliath” struggle against the world’s largest industrial development, Canada’s Tar Sands; and biomimicry inventor and entrepreneur Jay Harman’s search for investors willing to risk millions to back his conviction that nature’s own systems hold the key to our world’s ecological problems.

Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree

Welcome by Bioneers Founders Kenny Ausubel, CEO, and Nina Simons, President

Welcome by Bioneers Founders Kenny Ausubel, CEO, and Nina Simons, President.

Opening: R. Carlos Nakai, the world’s premiere performer of the Native American flute

Jason McLennan | Living Buildings and a Regenerative World

By: Jason McLennan

Introduction by: Paul Hawken

The visionary founder of the Living Building Challenge illuminates the game-changing impacts of the world’s most advanced and provocative green building certification program. He chronicles its core principles, its global influence on designers, builders, communities and educational systems, and its manifest progress transforming the interface between human habitats and the natural world into a virtuous cycle.

Gender Awareness with Will Keepin, Ph.D. and Rev. Cynthia Brix, Co-Directors of Gender Reconciliation International

Nalini Nadkarni | Between Earth and Sky: Trees as Silent Teachers

By: Nalini Nadkarni

Introduction by: Nina Simons

The “Queen of the Forest Canopy” has conducted unique scientific studies of trees for three decades on four continents, revealing what the complex, diverse biology of rainforests can teach us about human connections and dynamics. She believes we can learn from arboreal example to begin to hear and heal across our differences, and in turn conserve these invaluable planetary ecosystems and their life-giving functions. Nalini Nadkarni, Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Utah, is a passionate communicator about nature and science to people in all walks of life.

Film Short: Nature’s Wonders by Louie Schwartzberg

Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Maya Salsedo | The Youth Food Bill of Rights

Introduction by Hai Vo, Real Food Challenge.

By: Maya Salsedo

David McConville | Cosmomimicry: Why the Universe Matters

By: David McConville

Heeding Buckminster Fulller’s counsel to “Start with the Universe,” the visionary Board President of the Buckminster Fuller Institute explores the surprisingly practical ways that patterns and structures in the universe can inform design strategies for addressing today’s “wicked” problems. We are not alone… McConville is the Co-Founder and Director of Noospheric Research of The Elumenati (www.elumenati.com), a full-service design and engineering firm specializing in the development and deployment of immersive visualization environments and experiences inspired by Fuller's Geoscope, whose clients include NASA, NOAA, Disney, NVIDIA, JPL, Burning Man, Cirque du Soleil, and 350.org. He collaborates with numerous community initiatives to develop systems-oriented solutions to energy, environmental, and educational challenges.

Performance by RACHEL BAGBY | Think… Act Globally

By: Rachel Bagby

JAY HARMAN – The Nature of Innovation

As a boy in Australia, Jay Harman noticed that nature’s favorite form is the spiral. From the shape of galaxies and hurricanes to how blood flows through your veins to how water goes down a drain, this ancient sacred form – the Golden Mean - has preoccupied a lineage from indigenous peoples to Plato, Pythagoras, Descartes and Da Vinci. Harman had the genius to apply nature’s favorite form to industrial design. Through starting numerous biomimicry firms and research conducted for his acclaimed new book, The Shark’s Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature Is Inspiring Innovation, he has illustrated key ways that biomimetic business differs from business as usual. He’ll share inspiring examples of companies and governments that are adopting biomimicry, including radical approaches to mitigating the harms of fracking and climate change. He will illustrate ways we can all be biomimics in our homes and businesses. Modern biomimicry does more than gratify human industrial ambition; it teaches us how to live in harmony with nature and opens breakthrough opportunities for a new business model of partnership with nature.

Performance by “Slam Poet Harvester” TIM MERRY: Holding Up a Mirror to the Moment

Performance by "Slam Poet Harvester" TIM MERRY: Holding Up a Mirror to the Moment. This gifted spoken-word improviser revives the ancient art of sacred bards and jesters as he generates instant poetic commentary on and analysis of what he sees and hears, on the spot, helping us live more consciously in the moment.

Indigenous Forum Special Event: Sunrise Water Canoe Ceremony

Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree

Opening Remarks by Kenny Ausubel

Opening Remarks by Kenny Ausubel

“One Drop” Film with Louie Schwartzberg

"One Drop" Film with Louie Schwartzberg, award-winning cinematographer, director and producer.

Janine Benyus | The Biomimicry Network Effect: What Will We Solve Together?

By: Janine Benyus

Introduction by Nina Simons

If we collectively consulted nature to solve a few key issues, imagine what a difference we could make!  The acclaimed biomimicry guru, biologist, innovation consultant, and author Janine Benyus illuminates how the Biomimicry community might collaborate, with nature’s help, on a short list of challenges that just can’t wait. She will translate the latest scientific findings on Biomimicry, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as “one of the 20 breakthrough ideas in business,” and on biological networks into an action plan for anyone wanting to spread good ideas organically.

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Motherhood and Leadership

By: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

The Executive Director of Green For All shares her deeply personal journey of how the experience of becoming a mother has created a new sense of urgency in her work to create a healthier and more just planet. She reveals how the challenges of parenting have stretched and transformed her approach to leadership.

Message From the Amazon: Amazon Watch and Pachamama Alliance host indigenous leaders with a message from the heart of the rainforest

Film Short: Nature’s Wonders by Louie Schwartzberg

Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Asa Needle | Toxic Soil Busters: Urban Soil Remediation.

Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Asa Needle | Toxic Soil Busters: Urban Soil Remediation.

Tom B.K. Goldtooth | Stopping the Privatization of Nature and Commodification of Mother Earth

By: Tom B.K. Goldtooth

Introduction by Melissa Nelson, The Cultural Conservancy                              

The Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network weaves together the voices of Indigenous peoples who are asking the world to reevaluate our relationship to Mother Earth, to turn away from destroying, privatizing and commodifying nature, and to turn instead to indigenous wisdom with "indigenuity." We can fashion sustainable solutions and re-sacralize our relationship to Mother Earth.

Darren Doherty | Regrarianism: Re-booting Agriculture for the Next 10,000 Years

By: Darren Doherty

Introduction by Brock Dolman, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center

Large-scale modern agriculture is the world's largest industry and the most ecologically destructive human activity. One of the world's most brilliant and accomplished Regenerative Agriculture practitioners who has worked on thousands of projects on five continents will describe how "Regrarianism" can reverse this destruction and usher in a new regenerative future for our food systems.

Performance by Climbing PoeTree | Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman

Performance by Climbing PoeTree | Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman, award-winning spoken word duo, committed organizers and boundary-breaking soul sisters.

Danny Glover | Reimagining Citizenship, Democracy and Nature

By: Danny Glover

The beloved actor and progressive elder shares the long view of how change happens, and how we are called upon today as never before to reclaim our rights and responsibilities as citizens. He scans the horizon of the arc of justice and the convergence of the movements to restore justice and nature.

A Call From the Amazon

Lunchtime event: 1:30-2:30 p.m. (bring your lunch and listen…)

A Call From the Amazon (lunchtime presentation and discussion at Indigenous Forum)
Learn more about the vision to defend the Yasuni National Park and indigenous territories threatened by oil development in the Ecuadorian Amazon and beyond. With: Franco Viteri, Kichwa from Sarayaku, Ecuador and President of Governing Body of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuadorian Amazon (GONAE); Atossa Soltani, Amazon Watch Executive Director and Yasuni Ambassador; Leila Salazar-Lopez, Amazon Watch Program Director, and others TBA.

Ilarion Merculieff | The Womb At The Center of the Universe

By: Ilarion Merculieff

Introduction by Nina Simons

This Aleut traditional messenger offers indigenous perspectives –bringing ancestral wisdom to guide us through modern times. The elders say that the leadership of women is paramount if we are to successfully transform civilization to conserve Earth’s capacity to sustain Life. Ilarion has served his people, and other indigenous peoples locally, nationally, and internationally for 35 years in diverse leadership capacities, including as the first Alaska Native Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development.

In Loving Remembrance of Peter Warshall, Barbara Whitestone, Bob Russell

Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree

Opening Remarks by Nina Simons

Opening Remarks by Nina Simons

Performance by Climbing Poetree

Performance by Climbing PoeTree | Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman, award-winning spoken word duo, committed organizers and boundary-breaking soul sisters.

Billy Parish | 100% Clean Energy For and By The People

By: Billy Parish
This leading young change-maker turned entrepreneur is showing how, in this generation, we can shift from fossil fuels to a world 100% powered by clean energy, and we can do it in a way that makes all of us richer, healthier and happier. The only way it will happen is if we get involved and take power into our own hands. Solar Mosaic, the company he co-founded, is employing revolutionary crowdfunding techniques to democratize investment opportunities and spread distributed energy.

Film Short: Nature’s Wonders by Louie Schwartzberg

Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Kyle Thiermann | Surfing for Change

Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Kyle Thiermann | Surfing for Change

Dekila Chungyalpa | Faiths for Conservation: The Hope of A New Environmental Movement

By: Dekila Chungyalpa
The Sikkim-born Director of the World Wildlife Fund’s Sacred Earth program engages with faith leaders and institutions in Asia and around the world to address environmental decline and restore communities. Environmental advisor to His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, she works with communities in the Himalayas, the Mekong, East Africa and the Amazon, and helps mobilize Buddhist and interfaith collaborations for healing the Earth.

JOANNA MACY | Choosing Life

By Joanna Macy

The renowned Buddhist teacher, eco-philosopher, systems theorist, scholar, author, longtime peace, justice and ecology activist, and one of the most beloved and influential leaders in the personal and social change movements of our era, shares the essence of the wisdom she has distilled during her extraordinary 84-year trajectory. According to Joanna, the greatest gift we can give our world is our full presence. As we draw that gift forth from ourselves and each other, we find our courage and clarity. In this time of radical uncertainty, that choice and that capacity is there for us every step of the way.

Performance by “Slam Poet Harvester” TIM MERRY: Holding Up a Mirror to the Moment

This gifted spoken-word improviser revives the ancient art of sacred bards and jesters as he generates instant poetic commentary on and analysis of what he sees and hears, on the spot, helping us live more consciously in the moment.

Closing Remarks by KENNY AUSUBEL and NINA SIMONS

Closing Performance with R. CARLOS NAKAI

With R. CARLOS NAKAI, the world's premiere performer of the Native American flute.

Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree

Opening: R. Carlos Nakai, the world’s premiere performer of the Native American flute

Gender Awareness with Will Keepin, Ph.D. and Rev. Cynthia Brix, Co-Directors of Gender Reconciliation International

Film Short: Nature’s Wonders by Louie Schwartzberg

Performance by RACHEL BAGBY | Think… Act Globally

By: Rachel Bagby

JAY HARMAN – The Nature of Innovation

As a boy in Australia, Jay Harman noticed that nature’s favorite form is the spiral. From the shape of galaxies and hurricanes to how blood flows through your veins to how water goes down a drain, this ancient sacred form – the Golden Mean - has preoccupied a lineage from indigenous peoples to Plato, Pythagoras, Descartes and Da Vinci. Harman had the genius to apply nature’s favorite form to industrial design. Through starting numerous biomimicry firms and research conducted for his acclaimed new book, The Shark’s Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature Is Inspiring Innovation, he has illustrated key ways that biomimetic business differs from business as usual. He’ll share inspiring examples of companies and governments that are adopting biomimicry, including radical approaches to mitigating the harms of fracking and climate change. He will illustrate ways we can all be biomimics in our homes and businesses. Modern biomimicry does more than gratify human industrial ambition; it teaches us how to live in harmony with nature and opens breakthrough opportunities for a new business model of partnership with nature.

Performance by “Slam Poet Harvester” TIM MERRY: Holding Up a Mirror to the Moment

Performance by "Slam Poet Harvester" TIM MERRY: Holding Up a Mirror to the Moment. This gifted spoken-word improviser revives the ancient art of sacred bards and jesters as he generates instant poetic commentary on and analysis of what he sees and hears, on the spot, helping us live more consciously in the moment.

Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree

“One Drop” Film with Louie Schwartzberg

"One Drop" Film with Louie Schwartzberg, award-winning cinematographer, director and producer.

Message From the Amazon: Amazon Watch and Pachamama Alliance host indigenous leaders with a message from the heart of the rainforest

Film Short: Nature’s Wonders by Louie Schwartzberg

A Call From the Amazon

Lunchtime event: 1:30-2:30 p.m. (bring your lunch and listen…)

A Call From the Amazon (lunchtime presentation and discussion at Indigenous Forum)
Learn more about the vision to defend the Yasuni National Park and indigenous territories threatened by oil development in the Ecuadorian Amazon and beyond. With: Franco Viteri, Kichwa from Sarayaku, Ecuador and President of Governing Body of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuadorian Amazon (GONAE); Atossa Soltani, Amazon Watch Executive Director and Yasuni Ambassador; Leila Salazar-Lopez, Amazon Watch Program Director, and others TBA.

In Loving Remembrance of Peter Warshall, Barbara Whitestone, Bob Russell

Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree

Performance by Climbing Poetree

Performance by Climbing PoeTree | Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman, award-winning spoken word duo, committed organizers and boundary-breaking soul sisters.

Film Short: Nature’s Wonders by Louie Schwartzberg

JOANNA MACY | Choosing Life

By Joanna Macy

The renowned Buddhist teacher, eco-philosopher, systems theorist, scholar, author, longtime peace, justice and ecology activist, and one of the most beloved and influential leaders in the personal and social change movements of our era, shares the essence of the wisdom she has distilled during her extraordinary 84-year trajectory. According to Joanna, the greatest gift we can give our world is our full presence. As we draw that gift forth from ourselves and each other, we find our courage and clarity. In this time of radical uncertainty, that choice and that capacity is there for us every step of the way.

Performance by “Slam Poet Harvester” TIM MERRY: Holding Up a Mirror to the Moment

This gifted spoken-word improviser revives the ancient art of sacred bards and jesters as he generates instant poetic commentary on and analysis of what he sees and hears, on the spot, helping us live more consciously in the moment.

Closing Remarks by KENNY AUSUBEL and NINA SIMONS

Closing Performance with R. CARLOS NAKAI

With R. CARLOS NAKAI, the world's premiere performer of the Native American flute.

The Leading Edges of Design for a Sustainable World

Co-sponsored by the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI). Hosted by Elizabeth Thompson, BFI Executive Director. With: David McConville, immersive media artist, BFI Board President; Jason McLennan, Living Building Challenge founder, winner of the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge; Jay Harman, inventor, entrepreneur, founder of PAX Scientific, author of The Shark's Paintbrush.

Creativity and Improvisation in Leadership, Education and Sustainability

An emergent conversation hosted by author and activist Anneke Campbell. With: Nalini Nadkarni, “the Queen of the Forest Canopy;” Matthew Fox, priest and theologian, leading exponent of Creation Spirituality; Alfonso Montuori, Director of Masters program in Transformative Leadership, California Institute of Integral Studies; Rose von Thater Braan (Tuscorora/Cherokee), co-founder of the Native American Academy.

Entrepreneurship: Mission-Driven Companies

Hosted by Christy Foley, founder of The Foley Connection. With: Matthew Engelhart, co-founder of Café Gratitude and Gracias Madre, co-author of Sacred Commerce; John Roulac, founder and CEO of Nutiva; Mary Waldner and Dale Rodrigues, founders of Mary’s Gone Crackers.

Women as Democracy Builders: Reclaiming Our Commons from Corporate Power

Hosted by author and activist Anna Lappé. With: Leila Salazar-Lopez, Program Director at Amazon Watch; Kelle Louaillier, Executive Director of Corporate Accountability International; Lynne Twist, Pachamama Alliance co-founder, Soul of Money Institute founder.

Tools for Transforming Education: Whole Child, Whole Person, Whole World

Hosted by Cleary Vaughan-Lee, Education Coordinator for the Global Oneness Project. With: Mark Collin and Chuck Fisher of Dovetail Learning.

Interactive/Experiential

Building Community Resilience from Detroit to Japan

With: Gloria Rivera, Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Coordinator; Carolyne Stayton, Co-Executive Director, Transition U.S.; Kalia Lydgate, co-founder of P.O.W.E.R. (People Organizing for Wealth and Ecological Restoration), a Marion Institute program.; Bob Stilger, Co-President, New Stories.

From Conflict to Collaboration in Indigenous Territories: Tribal Strategies for Resistance and Restoration

Indigenous Forum

With: Darcie Houck (Mohawk and Ottawa), partner in Native American law firm of Fredericks, Peebles and Morgan LLP; Jihan Gearon (Diné/Navajo and African American), Executive Director, Black Mesa Water Coalition; Tony Skrelunas (Diné/Navajo), founder of Grand Canyon Trust Native America Program.; Octaviana Trujillo (Pascua Yaqui), founding Chair of the Department of Applied Indigenous Studies at Northern Arizona University.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Cultivating Women’s Leadership: Alumnae Reunion and Sampler

Hosted by Nina Simons and Toby Herzlich, Co-Founders of Cultivating Women’s Leadership trainings, with Sarah Crowell, Co-facilitator and Artistic Director of Destiny Arts, Rachel Bagby, Improvisational Vocal & Social Artist.

Interactive/Experiential

Youth Leadership: Recognizing The Rights of Nature

With: Debra Weistar, Finding the Good and Synergia Learning Ventures.

Council: Restoring and Honoring the Sacred Feminine and Sacred Masculine

Facilitated by Ilarion Merculieff, Aleut traditional messenger, and Sharon Shay Sloan, Council trainer and community steward.

Interactive/Experiential (Double session)

Wiser Together World Café: Intergenerational Dialogue and Mentoring

Join participant-driven 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 and for building personal and professional partnerships. With: David Shaw, Common Ground Center, UC Santa Cruz; Dana Pearlman, The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development and the Global Leadership Lab; Tim Merry, Myrgan Inc, Art of Hosting; Giselle Chow, Graphic Facilitator and Recorder, Giselle Chow Consulting.

Facilitated Dialogue at the Networking Center – Creating Resilient Food Systems

What have we learned about how to feed ourselves sustainably?  What needs to be amplified? What obstacles need to be overcome? Come connect, network, and share your insights. 

Beloved Community: An Invitation

An emergent conversation hosted by Connie Cagampang Heller, co-founder, Linked Fate Fund for Justice. With: John A. Powell, Executive Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley; Joseph Phelan, founder and co-principle of WeAreNotTrayvonMartin.com; Catherine Lerza, philanthropic advisor, organizer and consultant to Groundswell Fund.

Redesigning the Corporation and Its Supply Chain for Social and Environmental Values

Hosted by Andrew Revkin, Senior Fellow at Pace University's Academy for Applied Environmental Studies, NY Times blog dotearth. With: Tensie Whelan, President, Rainforest Alliance; Manuel Rodriguez, Senior Vice President, Government & International Affairs and Corporate Responsibility Officer, Chiquita Brands International, Inc; Jonathan Atwood, Vice President, Sustainable Living and Corporate Communications, Unilever.

Climate Change and Agriculture

With: Ann Thrupp, Executive Director of the Berkeley Food Institute, Darren Doherty, master Permaculturist; Renata Brillinger, California Climate and Agriculture Network.

Mother Jones Presents: Media Mojo for Social Change

Hosted by Steve Katz, Publisher of Mother Jones. With: Danny Glover, renowned actor and lifelong activist; Katie Galloway, director and producer of the award-winning film "Better This World"; Gay Dillingham, award-winning film producer/director.

Spine of the Continent: Wildlife Corridors, Biodiversity and Climate Change

Hosted by Mary Ellen Hannibal, author of The Spine of the Continent; With: Healy Hamilton, Senior Research Fellow with Marine Conservation Institute; Adina Merenlender, conservation biologist with UC Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources; Justin Brashares, Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at UC Berkeley.

Leadership Lessons from the Living Earth

With: Toby Herzlich, founder, Biomimicry for Social Innovation and co-founder, Cultivating Women’s Leadership trainings, and accompanied by a host of natural mentors.

Interactive/Experiential

Spirit Moving into Form: The Sacred Dance of the Feminine and the Masculine in Today’s World

With: Pele Rouge Chadima, FireHawk Hulin, Lana Holmes, co-founders of Timeless Earth Wisdom, Inc. Interactive/Experiential

The Native Artist’s Voice: A Commentary on Social and Environmental Issues

Indigenous Forum

Hosted by: Reuben Roqueni, Program Director at the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Director, Bioneers Indigeneity Program. With: Rulan Tangen (Metis), dancer/choreographer; William Wilson (Navajo), photographer; Kade Twist (Cherokee), multi-disciplinary artist; Tracey Rector (Seminole), filmmaker and producer.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Youth Leadership: Peaceful Warriors

Here’s how to do violence prevention through movement, games, role-playing and conversation (all ages). Led by Rashidi Omari, hip-hop instructor; Destiny Arts students. 

Council: Community of Mentors: Intergenerational Reciprocity, Guidance and Mutual Exchange

Facilitated by Ilarion Merculieff and Sharon Shay Sloan.

Interactive / Experiential

Wiser Together Open Space: If you could have any conversation, or host any activity, what would it be? Bring it here

These participant-driven conversations use Open Space Technology (OST) to help us leverage our collective intelligence, share our dreams and move towards wise action. Participants post and join topics they are passionate about, co-creating an exciting meeting of minds to address complex issues and common interests. There are multiple sessions; participants can attend any and all of them and come and go as they please. With: David Shaw, Common Ground Center, UC Santa Cruz; Dana Pearlman, The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development and the Global Leadership Lab; Tim Merry, Myrgan Inc, Art of Hosting; Giselle Chow, Graphic Facilitator and Recorder, Giselle Chow Consulting. (This is a double session.)

Herbwalk: The Medicinal and Edible Landscape

With master herbalist Kami McBride.

Facilitated Dialogue at the Networking Center—Building Local Economies

What New Economy systems and networks are already supporting local wealth, jobs, ownership, and a robust system of exchanges? What else is needed? Come connect, network, and share your insights.

Technology to Transform: Building a Youth Driven Climate Justice Movement

Lunchtime event: 1:30-2:30 p.m. (bring your lunch and listen…)

Professor Antwi Akom discusses what the modern world can learn from the indigenous world to combat climate change and describes his work building a youth-driven climate justice movement that uses technological innovations at the grassroots level to cultivate community, heal divisions and develop joint movement building strategies.

Paths to Healing Around Family and Money: An Intergenerational Emergent Conversation

With: Eileen Rockefeller, impact philanthropist, founding chair of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and author of Being a Rockefeller, Becoming Myself; her son, Daniel Growald. Hosted by renowned doctor and author, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD. Join this mother and son, leading members of America's legendary first family of philanthropy, as they explore how honest investigation into values and service can lead to healing, individuation and a joyful and fulfilling life.

Wiser Together World Cafe: Creating Tomorrow Together!

We've learned from each other's ideas and work this weekend, but how can we nourish partnerships and relationships year-round to ground possibilities into realities? Join us for a participant-driven 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 and for building personal and professional partnerships. Let's create tomorrow, together! With: David Shaw, Common Ground Center, UC Santa Cruz; Dana Pearlman, The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development and the Global Leadership Lab; Tim Merry, Myrgan Inc, Art of Hosting; Giselle Chow, Graphic Facilitator and Recorder, Giselle Chow Consulting.

Gender Equality and Finding Balance: Diverse Approaches

An emergent conversation hosted by Nina Simons, Bioneers; With: Ilarion Merculieff, Aleut traditional messenger; Pat McCabe, Dine (Navajo) writer, artist, activist, speaker and cultural liaison; Will Keepin, Co-Director of the Satyana Institute and Gender Reconciliation International; Pele Rouge Chadima, co-founder, Timeless Earth Wisdom, Inc.

Spiritual Ecology: A Spiritual Response to the Ecological Crisis

With: Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the World Wildlife Fund’s Sacred Earth program; Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, renowned Sufi teacher and author; Joanna Macy, legendary activist and scholar of systems theory, deep ecology and Buddhism.

Moving from Sustainababble to True Sustainability

Co-sponsored with the Worldwatch Institute. Hosted by: Robert Engelman, President, Worldwatch. With: Erik Assadourian, Senior Fellow, Worldwatch; Annie Leonard, activist extraordinaire, creator of The Story of Stuff.

Transforming Our Relationship to White Privilege to Co-Create Beloved Community

With: Yeshi Neumann, Rockwood Leadership Institute.

Experiential/Interactive

Eat Your Heritage: Chamorro Foodways from the Island of Guam

Indigenous Forum

Sponsored by the Cultural Conservancy’s Mino-Niibi Fund for Indigenous Cultures. Part of Guam Humanities Council’s (GHC) Eat Your Heritage Tour. Hosted by: Kimberlee Kihleng, Ph.D. and Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe), President of the Cultural Conservancy/professor at SFSU GHC Executive Director. With: Monaeka Flores, GHC Project Coordinator; Peter Duenas, chef and restaurateur, the most respected Chamorro chef in Guam, a leader in promoting native foods; Bill McDonald, founder of the Farmers Cooperative, leader in Guam’s local food movement.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Council: Initiation, Adulthood and the Resurgence of Community-Supported Rites of Passage

With: Sharon Shay Sloan and Orland Bishop, Executive Director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation, Indaba leader and community healer.  

Interactive/Experiential

Facilitated Dialogue at the Networking Center—Growing Community Capital

How do we uncover and mobilize the hidden wealth of skills, insights, wisdom, resources and experience in our communities? Come connect, network, and share your insights.

Youth Leadership: Meet the Brower Youth Award Winners

Presented by New Leaders Initiative at Earth Island Institute.  

Conversation Café

TBA

Herbwalk

With renowned herbalists Autumn Summers and Kevin Spelman, PhD, MCPP, scientist, clinician, educator, herbalist and writer.

Campaign Connection: Mobilizing Women for Climate Solutions

Mobilizing Women for Climate Solutions, presented by Women's Earth and Climate Caucus and International Women's Earth and Climate Initiative. With: Osprey Orielle Lake, Sally Ranney, Claire Greensfelder, Atossa Soltani of Amazon Watch; and a representative from the Indigenous Environmental Network.  Come join key leaders, recently returned from the Women's Earth and Climate Summit, as they show us how we can get involved in the growing global women's movement for sane climate and sustainability policies and in some of the exciting actions and projects outlined in the "Women's Climate and Sustainability Blueprint for Action." Note: Men are welcome to attend.

Connecting Across Difference Through Indigenous Learning Practices

An emergent conversation hosted by Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe), President of the Cultural Conservancy/professor at SFSU; with Rose von Thater Braan (Tuscorora/Cherokee), co-founder/Director of the Native American Academy; Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan), Executive Director of the En’Owkin Centre.

Narrative Medicine: Building Peace Through Understanding How Others Perceive Their Worlds

With path finding psychotherapist and Narrative Medicine facilitator Shari Foos, who creates workshops to heal organizations, businesses and at-risk youth.

Interactional/Experiential. Showcase Theater

The Role of “Heroic” Learning Communities in the Postmodern Era

Join author and educator Richard Tarnas and elder change-maker, Buddhist scholar and Deep Ecology progenitor Joanna Macy for this radical exploration of Heroic Learning Communities and their unique role at this critical moment in the evolution of human civilization and our relationship to nature, each other and ourselves.

The Art and Tradition of Fermentation: Community, Culture and Evolution

With: Sandor Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation and other cutting-edge books on cultured foods.

The Commons of Healthcare: Resilience as the Anchor for Health

Hosted by Molly Roberts, M.D., M.S., President of the American Holistic Medical Association. With: Jamie Harvie, Executive Director, Institute for a Sustainable Future, co-founder, Commons Health Care Network; Nancy Sudak, M.D. ABIHM, Executive Director American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine; David Zuckerman, Research Associate, The Democracy Collaborative.

Resist, Restore, Re-imagine: Greening Detroit with Resilience

Hosted by Nikki Henderson, Executive Director, People’s Grocery. With: Gloria Rivera, Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Coordinator; Malik Yakini, Executive Director of The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network; Lottie Spady, Detroit activist.

Mother Earth – Father Sky: Voices from the Spirit!

Indigenous Forum

Hosted by: Tom B.K. Goldtooth (Dine’/Dakota), Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network. With: Eddie Benton-Benai, (Anishinabe Fish Clan), Grand Chief of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge; Mona Polacca (Hopi, Havasupai and Tewa), indigenous elder stateswoman, International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Walking Your Talk in the World: Exploring Embodied Transformation

Come to begin at the heart and soul of what matters; discover the patterns that ‘walk us,’ harvest your natural knowing, glide with effortless ease, connect vibrantly to your world, and embody your goals for global renewal. With author and educator Suki Munsell, Ph.D., Interactive/Experiential

Interactive/Experiential

Youth Leadership: Poetry Slam | Hosted by poet Josh Healy

Youth Leadership: Poetry Slam. Hosted by poet Josh Healy.

Council: Restoring and Honoring the Sacred Feminine and Sacred Masculine

Interactive, experiential 

(Double session, continued from 2:45pm)

Conversation Café

TBA

Facilitated Dialogue at the Networking Center—Reimagining Education

How do we re-imagine and redesign systems of learning to respond to our escalating challenges and real needs? Come connect, network, and share your insights. 

The Crossroads of Art and Social Change

Performances plus discussion. With: John Densmore, iconic drummer of the legendary rock group, the Doors, author of The Doors: Unhinged, and Riders on the Storm; Climbing PoeTree, award-winning spoken-word activists; Hosted by Filmmaker and Professor Jeremy Kagan, founder of The Change Making Media Lab at the University of Southern California.

Building the Movement for a New Economy

Hosted by John Bloom, Senior Director of Organizational Culture at RSF Social Finance. With: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Executive Director, Green for All; Bob Massie, President of the New Economics Institute; David Levine, co-founder and CEO of the American Sustainable Business Council.

The Healing Potential of Cannabidiol, MDMA, and Entheogens

Hosted by J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers associate producer. With: Martin Lee, Director of Project CBD, a cannabis science information service, author of Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational and Scientific; Amy Emerson, Director of Clinical Research at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS); Ralph Metzner, legendary psychedelic research pioneer.

Biodynamic Farming: Way Beyond Organic

With: Gena Nonini, 3^rd-generation farmer, owner/operator of Marian Farms, a premiere Biodynamic farm and distillery in Fresno, CA.  

A Hero’s Quest: Tapping Our Courage and Unleashing Our Ingenuity to Address Climate Change

With: Betsy Taylor, Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions; John Neffinger, KNP Communications.

Giving Power: Exploring “Situatedness” and Power

Hosted by Connie Cagampang Heller, co-founder, Linked Fate Fund for Justice. With: Jeannette Armstrong, Ph.D. (Syilx Okanagan), traditional Okanagan knowledge keeper, co-founder and Executive Director of En’owkin Centre; Claire Jean Kim, Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies, UC Irvine.

Guardians of the Water: Native Youth Speak Out on Arts, Media, and Cultural Health

Indigenous Forum

Hosted by Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe), President of the Cultural Conservancy/professor at SFSU. With: Nicola Wagenberg (Colombian), Vice-President and Director for the Guardians of the Waters Youth program of The Cultural Conservancy (TCC); Valarie Perez Ordoñez (Salvadoran-Mexican), artist, activist, TCC Youth Coordinator for the Guardians of the Waters Youth program; Mateo Hinojosa (Bolivian-American), documentary filmmaker, educator, media director and teacher at TCC.  

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Generation Waking Up: Building A Movement For Systemic Change

An interactive, multimedia program exploring the game-changing role of today's young generation, connecting the dots between environmental sustainability, social justice, and human thriving. We will walk away with a deeper sense of individual and collective purpose as we build bridges across movements to create systemic change. With, from Generation Waking Up: Joshua Gorman, founder; Barbara Jefferson and Hanni Hanson, trainers and coordinators; and Cherine Badawi, curriculum coordinator.

Gender Reconciliation: Breakthrough in Healing Gender-Based Violence

With: Will Keepin, Ph.D. and Rev. Cynthia Brix, Co-Directors of the Satyana Institute and Gender Reconciliation International.

Interactive/Experiential

Council: Weaving the Fabric of Community

With: Sharon Shay Sloan and Ilarion Merculieff. 

Interactive/Experiential

Conversation Café

TBA

Facilitated Dialogue at the Networking Center—Dreaming Bioneers

Bioneers celebrates our 25tth anniversary in 2014. What should our goals be in the crucial years ahead? Come connect, network, and share your insights.

Disruptive Financing Innovations for Distributed Energy and Sustainability

With: Billy Parish, co-founder and President of the solar energy platform Solar Mosaic; Marco Krapels, Executive Vice President, Rabobank, NA; Angelina Galiteva, founder and Board President, Renewables 100 Policy Institute.

Mixers and networking opportunities

TBA

Indigenous Forum: Youth and Indigenous Leader Talking Circle

TBA

Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree

Welcome by Bioneers Founders Kenny Ausubel, CEO, and Nina Simons, President

Welcome by Bioneers Founders Kenny Ausubel, CEO, and Nina Simons, President.

Opening: R. Carlos Nakai, the world’s premiere performer of the Native American flute

Jason McLennan | Living Buildings and a Regenerative World

By: Jason McLennan

Introduction by: Paul Hawken

The visionary founder of the Living Building Challenge illuminates the game-changing impacts of the world’s most advanced and provocative green building certification program. He chronicles its core principles, its global influence on designers, builders, communities and educational systems, and its manifest progress transforming the interface between human habitats and the natural world into a virtuous cycle.

Gender Awareness with Will Keepin, Ph.D. and Rev. Cynthia Brix, Co-Directors of Gender Reconciliation International

Nalini Nadkarni | Between Earth and Sky: Trees as Silent Teachers

By: Nalini Nadkarni

Introduction by: Nina Simons

The “Queen of the Forest Canopy” has conducted unique scientific studies of trees for three decades on four continents, revealing what the complex, diverse biology of rainforests can teach us about human connections and dynamics. She believes we can learn from arboreal example to begin to hear and heal across our differences, and in turn conserve these invaluable planetary ecosystems and their life-giving functions. Nalini Nadkarni, Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Utah, is a passionate communicator about nature and science to people in all walks of life.

Film Short: Nature’s Wonders by Louie Schwartzberg

Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Maya Salsedo | The Youth Food Bill of Rights

Introduction by Hai Vo, Real Food Challenge.

By: Maya Salsedo

David McConville | Cosmomimicry: Why the Universe Matters

By: David McConville

Heeding Buckminster Fulller’s counsel to “Start with the Universe,” the visionary Board President of the Buckminster Fuller Institute explores the surprisingly practical ways that patterns and structures in the universe can inform design strategies for addressing today’s “wicked” problems. We are not alone… McConville is the Co-Founder and Director of Noospheric Research of The Elumenati (www.elumenati.com), a full-service design and engineering firm specializing in the development and deployment of immersive visualization environments and experiences inspired by Fuller's Geoscope, whose clients include NASA, NOAA, Disney, NVIDIA, JPL, Burning Man, Cirque du Soleil, and 350.org. He collaborates with numerous community initiatives to develop systems-oriented solutions to energy, environmental, and educational challenges.

Performance by RACHEL BAGBY | Think… Act Globally

By: Rachel Bagby

JAY HARMAN – The Nature of Innovation

As a boy in Australia, Jay Harman noticed that nature’s favorite form is the spiral. From the shape of galaxies and hurricanes to how blood flows through your veins to how water goes down a drain, this ancient sacred form – the Golden Mean - has preoccupied a lineage from indigenous peoples to Plato, Pythagoras, Descartes and Da Vinci. Harman had the genius to apply nature’s favorite form to industrial design. Through starting numerous biomimicry firms and research conducted for his acclaimed new book, The Shark’s Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature Is Inspiring Innovation, he has illustrated key ways that biomimetic business differs from business as usual. He’ll share inspiring examples of companies and governments that are adopting biomimicry, including radical approaches to mitigating the harms of fracking and climate change. He will illustrate ways we can all be biomimics in our homes and businesses. Modern biomimicry does more than gratify human industrial ambition; it teaches us how to live in harmony with nature and opens breakthrough opportunities for a new business model of partnership with nature.

Performance by “Slam Poet Harvester” TIM MERRY: Holding Up a Mirror to the Moment

Performance by "Slam Poet Harvester" TIM MERRY: Holding Up a Mirror to the Moment. This gifted spoken-word improviser revives the ancient art of sacred bards and jesters as he generates instant poetic commentary on and analysis of what he sees and hears, on the spot, helping us live more consciously in the moment.

The Leading Edges of Design for a Sustainable World

Co-sponsored by the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI). Hosted by Elizabeth Thompson, BFI Executive Director. With: David McConville, immersive media artist, BFI Board President; Jason McLennan, Living Building Challenge founder, winner of the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge; Jay Harman, inventor, entrepreneur, founder of PAX Scientific, author of The Shark's Paintbrush.

Creativity and Improvisation in Leadership, Education and Sustainability

An emergent conversation hosted by author and activist Anneke Campbell. With: Nalini Nadkarni, “the Queen of the Forest Canopy;” Matthew Fox, priest and theologian, leading exponent of Creation Spirituality; Alfonso Montuori, Director of Masters program in Transformative Leadership, California Institute of Integral Studies; Rose von Thater Braan (Tuscorora/Cherokee), co-founder of the Native American Academy.

Entrepreneurship: Mission-Driven Companies

Hosted by Christy Foley, founder of The Foley Connection. With: Matthew Engelhart, co-founder of Café Gratitude and Gracias Madre, co-author of Sacred Commerce; John Roulac, founder and CEO of Nutiva; Mary Waldner and Dale Rodrigues, founders of Mary’s Gone Crackers.

Women as Democracy Builders: Reclaiming Our Commons from Corporate Power

Hosted by author and activist Anna Lappé. With: Leila Salazar-Lopez, Program Director at Amazon Watch; Kelle Louaillier, Executive Director of Corporate Accountability International; Lynne Twist, Pachamama Alliance co-founder, Soul of Money Institute founder.

Tools for Transforming Education: Whole Child, Whole Person, Whole World

Hosted by Cleary Vaughan-Lee, Education Coordinator for the Global Oneness Project. With: Mark Collin and Chuck Fisher of Dovetail Learning.

Interactive/Experiential

Building Community Resilience from Detroit to Japan

With: Gloria Rivera, Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Coordinator; Carolyne Stayton, Co-Executive Director, Transition U.S.; Kalia Lydgate, co-founder of P.O.W.E.R. (People Organizing for Wealth and Ecological Restoration), a Marion Institute program.; Bob Stilger, Co-President, New Stories.

From Conflict to Collaboration in Indigenous Territories: Tribal Strategies for Resistance and Restoration

Indigenous Forum

With: Darcie Houck (Mohawk and Ottawa), partner in Native American law firm of Fredericks, Peebles and Morgan LLP; Jihan Gearon (Diné/Navajo and African American), Executive Director, Black Mesa Water Coalition; Tony Skrelunas (Diné/Navajo), founder of Grand Canyon Trust Native America Program.; Octaviana Trujillo (Pascua Yaqui), founding Chair of the Department of Applied Indigenous Studies at Northern Arizona University.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Cultivating Women’s Leadership: Alumnae Reunion and Sampler

Hosted by Nina Simons and Toby Herzlich, Co-Founders of Cultivating Women’s Leadership trainings, with Sarah Crowell, Co-facilitator and Artistic Director of Destiny Arts, Rachel Bagby, Improvisational Vocal & Social Artist.

Interactive/Experiential

Youth Leadership: Recognizing The Rights of Nature

With: Debra Weistar, Finding the Good and Synergia Learning Ventures.

Council: Restoring and Honoring the Sacred Feminine and Sacred Masculine

Facilitated by Ilarion Merculieff, Aleut traditional messenger, and Sharon Shay Sloan, Council trainer and community steward.

Interactive/Experiential (Double session)

Wiser Together World Café: Intergenerational Dialogue and Mentoring

Join participant-driven 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 and for building personal and professional partnerships. With: David Shaw, Common Ground Center, UC Santa Cruz; Dana Pearlman, The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development and the Global Leadership Lab; Tim Merry, Myrgan Inc, Art of Hosting; Giselle Chow, Graphic Facilitator and Recorder, Giselle Chow Consulting.

Facilitated Dialogue at the Networking Center – Creating Resilient Food Systems

What have we learned about how to feed ourselves sustainably?  What needs to be amplified? What obstacles need to be overcome? Come connect, network, and share your insights. 

Connecting Across Difference Through Indigenous Learning Practices

An emergent conversation hosted by Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe), President of the Cultural Conservancy/professor at SFSU; with Rose von Thater Braan (Tuscorora/Cherokee), co-founder/Director of the Native American Academy; Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan), Executive Director of the En’Owkin Centre.

Narrative Medicine: Building Peace Through Understanding How Others Perceive Their Worlds

With path finding psychotherapist and Narrative Medicine facilitator Shari Foos, who creates workshops to heal organizations, businesses and at-risk youth.

Interactional/Experiential. Showcase Theater

The Role of “Heroic” Learning Communities in the Postmodern Era

Join author and educator Richard Tarnas and elder change-maker, Buddhist scholar and Deep Ecology progenitor Joanna Macy for this radical exploration of Heroic Learning Communities and their unique role at this critical moment in the evolution of human civilization and our relationship to nature, each other and ourselves.

The Art and Tradition of Fermentation: Community, Culture and Evolution

With: Sandor Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation and other cutting-edge books on cultured foods.

The Commons of Healthcare: Resilience as the Anchor for Health

Hosted by Molly Roberts, M.D., M.S., President of the American Holistic Medical Association. With: Jamie Harvie, Executive Director, Institute for a Sustainable Future, co-founder, Commons Health Care Network; Nancy Sudak, M.D. ABIHM, Executive Director American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine; David Zuckerman, Research Associate, The Democracy Collaborative.

Resist, Restore, Re-imagine: Greening Detroit with Resilience

Hosted by Nikki Henderson, Executive Director, People’s Grocery. With: Gloria Rivera, Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Coordinator; Malik Yakini, Executive Director of The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network; Lottie Spady, Detroit activist.

Mother Earth – Father Sky: Voices from the Spirit!

Indigenous Forum

Hosted by: Tom B.K. Goldtooth (Dine’/Dakota), Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network. With: Eddie Benton-Benai, (Anishinabe Fish Clan), Grand Chief of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge; Mona Polacca (Hopi, Havasupai and Tewa), indigenous elder stateswoman, International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Walking Your Talk in the World: Exploring Embodied Transformation

Come to begin at the heart and soul of what matters; discover the patterns that ‘walk us,’ harvest your natural knowing, glide with effortless ease, connect vibrantly to your world, and embody your goals for global renewal. With author and educator Suki Munsell, Ph.D., Interactive/Experiential

Interactive/Experiential

Youth Leadership: Poetry Slam | Hosted by poet Josh Healy

Youth Leadership: Poetry Slam. Hosted by poet Josh Healy.

Council: Restoring and Honoring the Sacred Feminine and Sacred Masculine

Interactive, experiential 

(Double session, continued from 2:45pm)

Conversation Café

TBA

Facilitated Dialogue at the Networking Center—Reimagining Education

How do we re-imagine and redesign systems of learning to respond to our escalating challenges and real needs? Come connect, network, and share your insights. 

Symphony of Soil

Introduced by director Deborah Koons Garcia

Garcia's follow-up to The Future of Food examines the human relationship with soil, the use and abuse of soil in agriculture, deforestation and development, and the latest scientific research on soil’s potential to help address climate change. Filmed on four continents, Symphony of the Soil reveals that if we want healthy plants that result in healthy humans living on a healthy planet, we have to start at the roots, with healthy soil.

Elemental

Directed by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Gayatri Roshan

Introduced by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

Elemental tells the remarkable story of three individuals on three separate continents working in radically different contexts but united by their deep connection with nature and driven to confront some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. It highlights: water activist Rajendra Singh’s struggle to resuscitate the desperately polluted Ganges river; young Denè mother Eriel Deranger’s “David and Goliath” struggle against the world’s largest industrial development, Canada’s Tar Sands; and biomimicry inventor and entrepreneur Jay Harman’s search for investors willing to risk millions to back his conviction that nature’s own systems hold the key to our world’s ecological problems.

From Conflict to Collaboration in Indigenous Territories: Tribal Strategies for Resistance and Restoration

Indigenous Forum

With: Darcie Houck (Mohawk and Ottawa), partner in Native American law firm of Fredericks, Peebles and Morgan LLP; Jihan Gearon (Diné/Navajo and African American), Executive Director, Black Mesa Water Coalition; Tony Skrelunas (Diné/Navajo), founder of Grand Canyon Trust Native America Program.; Octaviana Trujillo (Pascua Yaqui), founding Chair of the Department of Applied Indigenous Studies at Northern Arizona University.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Mother Earth – Father Sky: Voices from the Spirit!

Indigenous Forum

Hosted by: Tom B.K. Goldtooth (Dine’/Dakota), Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network. With: Eddie Benton-Benai, (Anishinabe Fish Clan), Grand Chief of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge; Mona Polacca (Hopi, Havasupai and Tewa), indigenous elder stateswoman, International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

The Native Artist’s Voice: A Commentary on Social and Environmental Issues

Indigenous Forum

Hosted by: Reuben Roqueni, Program Director at the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Director, Bioneers Indigeneity Program. With: Rulan Tangen (Metis), dancer/choreographer; William Wilson (Navajo), photographer; Kade Twist (Cherokee), multi-disciplinary artist; Tracey Rector (Seminole), filmmaker and producer.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Guardians of the Water: Native Youth Speak Out on Arts, Media, and Cultural Health

Indigenous Forum

Hosted by Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe), President of the Cultural Conservancy/professor at SFSU. With: Nicola Wagenberg (Colombian), Vice-President and Director for the Guardians of the Waters Youth program of The Cultural Conservancy (TCC); Valarie Perez Ordoñez (Salvadoran-Mexican), artist, activist, TCC Youth Coordinator for the Guardians of the Waters Youth program; Mateo Hinojosa (Bolivian-American), documentary filmmaker, educator, media director and teacher at TCC.  

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Eat Your Heritage: Chamorro Foodways from the Island of Guam

Indigenous Forum

Sponsored by the Cultural Conservancy’s Mino-Niibi Fund for Indigenous Cultures. Part of Guam Humanities Council’s (GHC) Eat Your Heritage Tour. Hosted by: Kimberlee Kihleng, Ph.D. and Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe), President of the Cultural Conservancy/professor at SFSU GHC Executive Director. With: Monaeka Flores, GHC Project Coordinator; Peter Duenas, chef and restaurateur, the most respected Chamorro chef in Guam, a leader in promoting native foods; Bill McDonald, founder of the Farmers Cooperative, leader in Guam’s local food movement.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree

Welcome by Bioneers Founders Kenny Ausubel, CEO, and Nina Simons, President

Welcome by Bioneers Founders Kenny Ausubel, CEO, and Nina Simons, President.

Opening: R. Carlos Nakai, the world’s premiere performer of the Native American flute

Jason McLennan | Living Buildings and a Regenerative World

By: Jason McLennan

Introduction by: Paul Hawken

The visionary founder of the Living Building Challenge illuminates the game-changing impacts of the world’s most advanced and provocative green building certification program. He chronicles its core principles, its global influence on designers, builders, communities and educational systems, and its manifest progress transforming the interface between human habitats and the natural world into a virtuous cycle.

Gender Awareness with Will Keepin, Ph.D. and Rev. Cynthia Brix, Co-Directors of Gender Reconciliation International

Nalini Nadkarni | Between Earth and Sky: Trees as Silent Teachers

By: Nalini Nadkarni

Introduction by: Nina Simons

The “Queen of the Forest Canopy” has conducted unique scientific studies of trees for three decades on four continents, revealing what the complex, diverse biology of rainforests can teach us about human connections and dynamics. She believes we can learn from arboreal example to begin to hear and heal across our differences, and in turn conserve these invaluable planetary ecosystems and their life-giving functions. Nalini Nadkarni, Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Utah, is a passionate communicator about nature and science to people in all walks of life.

Film Short: Nature’s Wonders by Louie Schwartzberg

Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Maya Salsedo | The Youth Food Bill of Rights

Introduction by Hai Vo, Real Food Challenge.

By: Maya Salsedo

David McConville | Cosmomimicry: Why the Universe Matters

By: David McConville

Heeding Buckminster Fulller’s counsel to “Start with the Universe,” the visionary Board President of the Buckminster Fuller Institute explores the surprisingly practical ways that patterns and structures in the universe can inform design strategies for addressing today’s “wicked” problems. We are not alone… McConville is the Co-Founder and Director of Noospheric Research of The Elumenati (www.elumenati.com), a full-service design and engineering firm specializing in the development and deployment of immersive visualization environments and experiences inspired by Fuller's Geoscope, whose clients include NASA, NOAA, Disney, NVIDIA, JPL, Burning Man, Cirque du Soleil, and 350.org. He collaborates with numerous community initiatives to develop systems-oriented solutions to energy, environmental, and educational challenges.

Performance by RACHEL BAGBY | Think… Act Globally

By: Rachel Bagby

JAY HARMAN – The Nature of Innovation

As a boy in Australia, Jay Harman noticed that nature’s favorite form is the spiral. From the shape of galaxies and hurricanes to how blood flows through your veins to how water goes down a drain, this ancient sacred form – the Golden Mean - has preoccupied a lineage from indigenous peoples to Plato, Pythagoras, Descartes and Da Vinci. Harman had the genius to apply nature’s favorite form to industrial design. Through starting numerous biomimicry firms and research conducted for his acclaimed new book, The Shark’s Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature Is Inspiring Innovation, he has illustrated key ways that biomimetic business differs from business as usual. He’ll share inspiring examples of companies and governments that are adopting biomimicry, including radical approaches to mitigating the harms of fracking and climate change. He will illustrate ways we can all be biomimics in our homes and businesses. Modern biomimicry does more than gratify human industrial ambition; it teaches us how to live in harmony with nature and opens breakthrough opportunities for a new business model of partnership with nature.

Performance by “Slam Poet Harvester” TIM MERRY: Holding Up a Mirror to the Moment

Performance by "Slam Poet Harvester" TIM MERRY: Holding Up a Mirror to the Moment. This gifted spoken-word improviser revives the ancient art of sacred bards and jesters as he generates instant poetic commentary on and analysis of what he sees and hears, on the spot, helping us live more consciously in the moment.

Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree

Opening Remarks by Kenny Ausubel

Opening Remarks by Kenny Ausubel

“One Drop” Film with Louie Schwartzberg

"One Drop" Film with Louie Schwartzberg, award-winning cinematographer, director and producer.

Janine Benyus | The Biomimicry Network Effect: What Will We Solve Together?

By: Janine Benyus

Introduction by Nina Simons

If we collectively consulted nature to solve a few key issues, imagine what a difference we could make!  The acclaimed biomimicry guru, biologist, innovation consultant, and author Janine Benyus illuminates how the Biomimicry community might collaborate, with nature’s help, on a short list of challenges that just can’t wait. She will translate the latest scientific findings on Biomimicry, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as “one of the 20 breakthrough ideas in business,” and on biological networks into an action plan for anyone wanting to spread good ideas organically.

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Motherhood and Leadership

By: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

The Executive Director of Green For All shares her deeply personal journey of how the experience of becoming a mother has created a new sense of urgency in her work to create a healthier and more just planet. She reveals how the challenges of parenting have stretched and transformed her approach to leadership.

Message From the Amazon: Amazon Watch and Pachamama Alliance host indigenous leaders with a message from the heart of the rainforest

Film Short: Nature’s Wonders by Louie Schwartzberg

Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Asa Needle | Toxic Soil Busters: Urban Soil Remediation.

Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Asa Needle | Toxic Soil Busters: Urban Soil Remediation.

Tom B.K. Goldtooth | Stopping the Privatization of Nature and Commodification of Mother Earth

By: Tom B.K. Goldtooth

Introduction by Melissa Nelson, The Cultural Conservancy                              

The Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network weaves together the voices of Indigenous peoples who are asking the world to reevaluate our relationship to Mother Earth, to turn away from destroying, privatizing and commodifying nature, and to turn instead to indigenous wisdom with "indigenuity." We can fashion sustainable solutions and re-sacralize our relationship to Mother Earth.

Darren Doherty | Regrarianism: Re-booting Agriculture for the Next 10,000 Years

By: Darren Doherty

Introduction by Brock Dolman, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center

Large-scale modern agriculture is the world's largest industry and the most ecologically destructive human activity. One of the world's most brilliant and accomplished Regenerative Agriculture practitioners who has worked on thousands of projects on five continents will describe how "Regrarianism" can reverse this destruction and usher in a new regenerative future for our food systems.

Performance by Climbing PoeTree | Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman

Performance by Climbing PoeTree | Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman, award-winning spoken word duo, committed organizers and boundary-breaking soul sisters.

Danny Glover | Reimagining Citizenship, Democracy and Nature

By: Danny Glover

The beloved actor and progressive elder shares the long view of how change happens, and how we are called upon today as never before to reclaim our rights and responsibilities as citizens. He scans the horizon of the arc of justice and the convergence of the movements to restore justice and nature.

In Loving Remembrance of Peter Warshall, Barbara Whitestone, Bob Russell

Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree

Opening Remarks by Nina Simons

Opening Remarks by Nina Simons

Ilarion Merculieff | The Womb At The Center of the Universe

By: Ilarion Merculieff

Introduction by Nina Simons

This Aleut traditional messenger offers indigenous perspectives –bringing ancestral wisdom to guide us through modern times. The elders say that the leadership of women is paramount if we are to successfully transform civilization to conserve Earth’s capacity to sustain Life. Ilarion has served his people, and other indigenous peoples locally, nationally, and internationally for 35 years in diverse leadership capacities, including as the first Alaska Native Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development.

Billy Parish | 100% Clean Energy For and By The People

By: Billy Parish
This leading young change-maker turned entrepreneur is showing how, in this generation, we can shift from fossil fuels to a world 100% powered by clean energy, and we can do it in a way that makes all of us richer, healthier and happier. The only way it will happen is if we get involved and take power into our own hands. Solar Mosaic, the company he co-founded, is employing revolutionary crowdfunding techniques to democratize investment opportunities and spread distributed energy.

Film Short: Nature’s Wonders by Louie Schwartzberg

Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Kyle Thiermann | Surfing for Change

Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Kyle Thiermann | Surfing for Change

Dekila Chungyalpa | Faiths for Conservation: The Hope of A New Environmental Movement

By: Dekila Chungyalpa
The Sikkim-born Director of the World Wildlife Fund’s Sacred Earth program engages with faith leaders and institutions in Asia and around the world to address environmental decline and restore communities. Environmental advisor to His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, she works with communities in the Himalayas, the Mekong, East Africa and the Amazon, and helps mobilize Buddhist and interfaith collaborations for healing the Earth.

JOANNA MACY | Choosing Life

By Joanna Macy

The renowned Buddhist teacher, eco-philosopher, systems theorist, scholar, author, longtime peace, justice and ecology activist, and one of the most beloved and influential leaders in the personal and social change movements of our era, shares the essence of the wisdom she has distilled during her extraordinary 84-year trajectory. According to Joanna, the greatest gift we can give our world is our full presence. As we draw that gift forth from ourselves and each other, we find our courage and clarity. In this time of radical uncertainty, that choice and that capacity is there for us every step of the way.

Performance by “Slam Poet Harvester” TIM MERRY: Holding Up a Mirror to the Moment

This gifted spoken-word improviser revives the ancient art of sacred bards and jesters as he generates instant poetic commentary on and analysis of what he sees and hears, on the spot, helping us live more consciously in the moment.

Closing Remarks by KENNY AUSUBEL and NINA SIMONS

Closing Performance with R. CARLOS NAKAI

With R. CARLOS NAKAI, the world's premiere performer of the Native American flute.

Symphony of Soil

Introduced by director Deborah Koons Garcia

Garcia's follow-up to The Future of Food examines the human relationship with soil, the use and abuse of soil in agriculture, deforestation and development, and the latest scientific research on soil’s potential to help address climate change. Filmed on four continents, Symphony of the Soil reveals that if we want healthy plants that result in healthy humans living on a healthy planet, we have to start at the roots, with healthy soil.

Elemental

Directed by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Gayatri Roshan

Introduced by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

Elemental tells the remarkable story of three individuals on three separate continents working in radically different contexts but united by their deep connection with nature and driven to confront some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. It highlights: water activist Rajendra Singh’s struggle to resuscitate the desperately polluted Ganges river; young Denè mother Eriel Deranger’s “David and Goliath” struggle against the world’s largest industrial development, Canada’s Tar Sands; and biomimicry inventor and entrepreneur Jay Harman’s search for investors willing to risk millions to back his conviction that nature’s own systems hold the key to our world’s ecological problems.

Seed Exchange

Hosted by: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Tesuque Pueblo Farm, Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library, Living Seed Company, and Sustainable Seed Company.

Better This World

Introduced by directors Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega

This extraordinary, multiple award-winning film shows us how two boyhood friends from Midland, Texas wound up arrested on terrorism charges at the 2008 Republican National Convention. A dramatic story of idealism, loyalty, crime and betrayal, Better This World goes to the dark heart of the War on Terror and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in post-9/11 America.

Caroline Casey: Change the Metaphor – Change the Culture!

Caroline Casey with guest Richard Tarnas: Change the Metaphor - Change the Culture! Calling All Public Dreamers 8:44pm – 9:45pm. The Visionary Activist Show radio host and stand-up astrologer invokes the “Green Fire of Reverent Indigenuity Rising from the Rubble -- that we be agents of responsive cool in a hot reactive world.” Caroline welcomes long-time ally Richard Tarnas, author of the acclaimed book “Cosmos and Psyche”  together animating the astro*mytho guiding meta-story that we may form a collaborative alliance with the desirable future.  The event will be filmed for the motion picture “Startracks.”

This session is included with all Bioneers registrants including; 1, 2, and 3 day tickets as well as half day tickets. If you would like to attend Caroline Casey's session and have not registered for one of the Bioneers passes you may indenpentenly register for this session here: https://www.regonline.com/casey2013

Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary

Introduced by director Gay Dillingham - Starts at 8:45 PM

Gay Dillingham offers a short clip from this nearly finished film that captured one last intimate conversation between these two bigger-than-life figures just a few months before Leary’s death, as they pondered life, drugs, and the biggest mystery of all: death. It’s a deeply touching portrait of two very complex, controversial characters whose epic friendship helped shape a generation.

Standing on Sacred Ground, Parts 1 and 2

Introduced by director Toby McLeod - At 8:55 PM

We will get to see the first two installments in this four-part film series about indigenous cultures fighting to protect their sacred lands for future generations. Episode 1, “Pilgrims and Tourists” tracks Russian shamans and a northern California tribe as they each confront massive government projects. Episode 2, “Profit and Loss” highlights resistance to destructive extraction projects in Papua New Guinea and in Alberta, Canada’s Tar Sands.
 

Dance Party with DJ Dragonfly

From 10:30 PM - Midnight

Technology to Transform: Building a Youth Driven Climate Justice Movement

Lunchtime event: 1:30-2:30 p.m. (bring your lunch and listen…)

Professor Antwi Akom discusses what the modern world can learn from the indigenous world to combat climate change and describes his work building a youth-driven climate justice movement that uses technological innovations at the grassroots level to cultivate community, heal divisions and develop joint movement building strategies.

POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP INTENSIVE

From the Culture Of Soil to Cultured Foods

Bioneers presents an ecological-farm tour and fermented foods workshop with master nature farmer and Chez Panisse supplier Bob Cannard, and fermented foods revivalist and author Sandor Katz.

“The man who first taught me how to make sauerkraut is a leader of this underground, and possibly the most famous fermento in America. Sandor Katz is the Johnny Appleseed of fermentation… Since falling under the spell of Katz’s fermentation evangelism, I have launched big crocks of sauerkraut and kimchee; mason jars of pickled cucumbers, carrots, beets, cauliflower, onions and peppers; jelly jars of yogurt and kefir; and 5-gallon carboys of beer and mead. I am regularly reminded that all are alive.”                  --Michael Pollan

Beneficial microorganisms are a keystone element in soil fertility and human health. A mere tablespoon of thriving soil has about 50 billion microorganisms. A healthy human gut has approximately 100 trillion microorganisms that are essential to life. These microorganisms are life-supporting allies that provide multiple important functions that make nutrients more bioavailable, promote health and build immunity against disease. We are only now beginning to recognize the need to maintain healthy levels of microorganisms with better farming techniques and by eating more fermented foods.

On Monday, October 21 join Bioneers on a private farm tour with Green String Farm owner Bob Cannard, who will share his unique eco-farming practices that create deep fertility in the land, and intense vitality and flavor in the food he grows. In the afternoon Sandor Katz will teach a hands-on workshop on how to make powerfully healthy foods in your own kitchen, while discussing the wonderful, diverse, global culinary traditions and health benefits of fermented foods.

“Fermentation makes foods more nutritious, as well as delicious. Microscopic organisms, our ancestors and allies, transform food and extend its usefulness. Hundreds of medical and scientific studies confirm what folklore has always known- fermented foods help people stay healthy,” explains Katz.

Join Us for a day of farming and fermentation
Where: Green String Farm, Petaluma, CA
When: Monday October 21 from 10 AM- 4:30 PM
Cost: $175 (Includes lunch and bus transportation from Embassy Suites, San Rafael)
Register here

About our teachers

Bob Cannard has been farming sustainably for 30 years, and is well-known for providing produce to Alice Waters' Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley. In 2003, he co-founded Green String Farm, 140-acre (60 acres in cultivation) eco-farm in Petaluma that focuses on working with, rather than against, natural processes to grow a diversity of fruits and vegetables with practices that exceed organic standards, while also training new farmers. http://2013conference.bioneersarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/BobCannardWorkingtheSoil.wav

Sandor Katz is a food activist, fermentation specialist and author of the book Wild Fermentation, widely considered the bible for DIY foodies. http://2013conference.bioneersarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Sandorkatzinterview2.wav

Indigenous Forum Special Event: Sunrise Water Canoe Ceremony

Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree

Opening Remarks by Kenny Ausubel

Opening Remarks by Kenny Ausubel

“One Drop” Film with Louie Schwartzberg

"One Drop" Film with Louie Schwartzberg, award-winning cinematographer, director and producer.

Janine Benyus | The Biomimicry Network Effect: What Will We Solve Together?

By: Janine Benyus

Introduction by Nina Simons

If we collectively consulted nature to solve a few key issues, imagine what a difference we could make!  The acclaimed biomimicry guru, biologist, innovation consultant, and author Janine Benyus illuminates how the Biomimicry community might collaborate, with nature’s help, on a short list of challenges that just can’t wait. She will translate the latest scientific findings on Biomimicry, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as “one of the 20 breakthrough ideas in business,” and on biological networks into an action plan for anyone wanting to spread good ideas organically.

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Motherhood and Leadership

By: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

The Executive Director of Green For All shares her deeply personal journey of how the experience of becoming a mother has created a new sense of urgency in her work to create a healthier and more just planet. She reveals how the challenges of parenting have stretched and transformed her approach to leadership.

Message From the Amazon: Amazon Watch and Pachamama Alliance host indigenous leaders with a message from the heart of the rainforest

Film Short: Nature’s Wonders by Louie Schwartzberg

Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Asa Needle | Toxic Soil Busters: Urban Soil Remediation.

Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Asa Needle | Toxic Soil Busters: Urban Soil Remediation.

Tom B.K. Goldtooth | Stopping the Privatization of Nature and Commodification of Mother Earth

By: Tom B.K. Goldtooth

Introduction by Melissa Nelson, The Cultural Conservancy                              

The Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network weaves together the voices of Indigenous peoples who are asking the world to reevaluate our relationship to Mother Earth, to turn away from destroying, privatizing and commodifying nature, and to turn instead to indigenous wisdom with "indigenuity." We can fashion sustainable solutions and re-sacralize our relationship to Mother Earth.

Darren Doherty | Regrarianism: Re-booting Agriculture for the Next 10,000 Years

By: Darren Doherty

Introduction by Brock Dolman, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center

Large-scale modern agriculture is the world's largest industry and the most ecologically destructive human activity. One of the world's most brilliant and accomplished Regenerative Agriculture practitioners who has worked on thousands of projects on five continents will describe how "Regrarianism" can reverse this destruction and usher in a new regenerative future for our food systems.

Performance by Climbing PoeTree | Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman

Performance by Climbing PoeTree | Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman, award-winning spoken word duo, committed organizers and boundary-breaking soul sisters.

Danny Glover | Reimagining Citizenship, Democracy and Nature

By: Danny Glover

The beloved actor and progressive elder shares the long view of how change happens, and how we are called upon today as never before to reclaim our rights and responsibilities as citizens. He scans the horizon of the arc of justice and the convergence of the movements to restore justice and nature.

A Call From the Amazon

Lunchtime event: 1:30-2:30 p.m. (bring your lunch and listen…)

A Call From the Amazon (lunchtime presentation and discussion at Indigenous Forum)
Learn more about the vision to defend the Yasuni National Park and indigenous territories threatened by oil development in the Ecuadorian Amazon and beyond. With: Franco Viteri, Kichwa from Sarayaku, Ecuador and President of Governing Body of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuadorian Amazon (GONAE); Atossa Soltani, Amazon Watch Executive Director and Yasuni Ambassador; Leila Salazar-Lopez, Amazon Watch Program Director, and others TBA.

Beloved Community: An Invitation

An emergent conversation hosted by Connie Cagampang Heller, co-founder, Linked Fate Fund for Justice. With: John A. Powell, Executive Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley; Joseph Phelan, founder and co-principle of WeAreNotTrayvonMartin.com; Catherine Lerza, philanthropic advisor, organizer and consultant to Groundswell Fund.

Redesigning the Corporation and Its Supply Chain for Social and Environmental Values

Hosted by Andrew Revkin, Senior Fellow at Pace University's Academy for Applied Environmental Studies, NY Times blog dotearth. With: Tensie Whelan, President, Rainforest Alliance; Manuel Rodriguez, Senior Vice President, Government & International Affairs and Corporate Responsibility Officer, Chiquita Brands International, Inc; Jonathan Atwood, Vice President, Sustainable Living and Corporate Communications, Unilever.

Climate Change and Agriculture

With: Ann Thrupp, Executive Director of the Berkeley Food Institute, Darren Doherty, master Permaculturist; Renata Brillinger, California Climate and Agriculture Network.

Mother Jones Presents: Media Mojo for Social Change

Hosted by Steve Katz, Publisher of Mother Jones. With: Danny Glover, renowned actor and lifelong activist; Katie Galloway, director and producer of the award-winning film "Better This World"; Gay Dillingham, award-winning film producer/director.

Spine of the Continent: Wildlife Corridors, Biodiversity and Climate Change

Hosted by Mary Ellen Hannibal, author of The Spine of the Continent; With: Healy Hamilton, Senior Research Fellow with Marine Conservation Institute; Adina Merenlender, conservation biologist with UC Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources; Justin Brashares, Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at UC Berkeley.

Leadership Lessons from the Living Earth

With: Toby Herzlich, founder, Biomimicry for Social Innovation and co-founder, Cultivating Women’s Leadership trainings, and accompanied by a host of natural mentors.

Interactive/Experiential

Spirit Moving into Form: The Sacred Dance of the Feminine and the Masculine in Today’s World

With: Pele Rouge Chadima, FireHawk Hulin, Lana Holmes, co-founders of Timeless Earth Wisdom, Inc. Interactive/Experiential

The Native Artist’s Voice: A Commentary on Social and Environmental Issues

Indigenous Forum

Hosted by: Reuben Roqueni, Program Director at the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation. Director, Bioneers Indigeneity Program. With: Rulan Tangen (Metis), dancer/choreographer; William Wilson (Navajo), photographer; Kade Twist (Cherokee), multi-disciplinary artist; Tracey Rector (Seminole), filmmaker and producer.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Youth Leadership: Peaceful Warriors

Here’s how to do violence prevention through movement, games, role-playing and conversation (all ages). Led by Rashidi Omari, hip-hop instructor; Destiny Arts students. 

Council: Community of Mentors: Intergenerational Reciprocity, Guidance and Mutual Exchange

Facilitated by Ilarion Merculieff and Sharon Shay Sloan.

Interactive / Experiential

Wiser Together Open Space: If you could have any conversation, or host any activity, what would it be? Bring it here

These participant-driven conversations use Open Space Technology (OST) to help us leverage our collective intelligence, share our dreams and move towards wise action. Participants post and join topics they are passionate about, co-creating an exciting meeting of minds to address complex issues and common interests. There are multiple sessions; participants can attend any and all of them and come and go as they please. With: David Shaw, Common Ground Center, UC Santa Cruz; Dana Pearlman, The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development and the Global Leadership Lab; Tim Merry, Myrgan Inc, Art of Hosting; Giselle Chow, Graphic Facilitator and Recorder, Giselle Chow Consulting. (This is a double session.)

Herbwalk: The Medicinal and Edible Landscape

With master herbalist Kami McBride.

Facilitated Dialogue at the Networking Center—Building Local Economies

What New Economy systems and networks are already supporting local wealth, jobs, ownership, and a robust system of exchanges? What else is needed? Come connect, network, and share your insights.

The Crossroads of Art and Social Change

Performances plus discussion. With: John Densmore, iconic drummer of the legendary rock group, the Doors, author of The Doors: Unhinged, and Riders on the Storm; Climbing PoeTree, award-winning spoken-word activists; Hosted by Filmmaker and Professor Jeremy Kagan, founder of The Change Making Media Lab at the University of Southern California.

Building the Movement for a New Economy

Hosted by John Bloom, Senior Director of Organizational Culture at RSF Social Finance. With: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Executive Director, Green for All; Bob Massie, President of the New Economics Institute; David Levine, co-founder and CEO of the American Sustainable Business Council.

The Healing Potential of Cannabidiol, MDMA, and Entheogens

Hosted by J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers associate producer. With: Martin Lee, Director of Project CBD, a cannabis science information service, author of Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational and Scientific; Amy Emerson, Director of Clinical Research at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS); Ralph Metzner, legendary psychedelic research pioneer.

Biodynamic Farming: Way Beyond Organic

With: Gena Nonini, 3^rd-generation farmer, owner/operator of Marian Farms, a premiere Biodynamic farm and distillery in Fresno, CA.  

A Hero’s Quest: Tapping Our Courage and Unleashing Our Ingenuity to Address Climate Change

With: Betsy Taylor, Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions; John Neffinger, KNP Communications.

Giving Power: Exploring “Situatedness” and Power

Hosted by Connie Cagampang Heller, co-founder, Linked Fate Fund for Justice. With: Jeannette Armstrong, Ph.D. (Syilx Okanagan), traditional Okanagan knowledge keeper, co-founder and Executive Director of En’owkin Centre; Claire Jean Kim, Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies, UC Irvine.

Guardians of the Water: Native Youth Speak Out on Arts, Media, and Cultural Health

Indigenous Forum

Hosted by Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe), President of the Cultural Conservancy/professor at SFSU. With: Nicola Wagenberg (Colombian), Vice-President and Director for the Guardians of the Waters Youth program of The Cultural Conservancy (TCC); Valarie Perez Ordoñez (Salvadoran-Mexican), artist, activist, TCC Youth Coordinator for the Guardians of the Waters Youth program; Mateo Hinojosa (Bolivian-American), documentary filmmaker, educator, media director and teacher at TCC.  

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Generation Waking Up: Building A Movement For Systemic Change

An interactive, multimedia program exploring the game-changing role of today's young generation, connecting the dots between environmental sustainability, social justice, and human thriving. We will walk away with a deeper sense of individual and collective purpose as we build bridges across movements to create systemic change. With, from Generation Waking Up: Joshua Gorman, founder; Barbara Jefferson and Hanni Hanson, trainers and coordinators; and Cherine Badawi, curriculum coordinator.

Gender Reconciliation: Breakthrough in Healing Gender-Based Violence

With: Will Keepin, Ph.D. and Rev. Cynthia Brix, Co-Directors of the Satyana Institute and Gender Reconciliation International.

Interactive/Experiential

Council: Weaving the Fabric of Community

With: Sharon Shay Sloan and Ilarion Merculieff. 

Interactive/Experiential

Conversation Café

TBA

Facilitated Dialogue at the Networking Center—Dreaming Bioneers

Bioneers celebrates our 25tth anniversary in 2014. What should our goals be in the crucial years ahead? Come connect, network, and share your insights.

Seed Exchange

Hosted by: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Tesuque Pueblo Farm, Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library, Living Seed Company, and Sustainable Seed Company.

Better This World

Introduced by directors Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega

This extraordinary, multiple award-winning film shows us how two boyhood friends from Midland, Texas wound up arrested on terrorism charges at the 2008 Republican National Convention. A dramatic story of idealism, loyalty, crime and betrayal, Better This World goes to the dark heart of the War on Terror and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in post-9/11 America.

Caroline Casey: Change the Metaphor – Change the Culture!

Caroline Casey with guest Richard Tarnas: Change the Metaphor - Change the Culture! Calling All Public Dreamers 8:44pm – 9:45pm. The Visionary Activist Show radio host and stand-up astrologer invokes the “Green Fire of Reverent Indigenuity Rising from the Rubble -- that we be agents of responsive cool in a hot reactive world.” Caroline welcomes long-time ally Richard Tarnas, author of the acclaimed book “Cosmos and Psyche”  together animating the astro*mytho guiding meta-story that we may form a collaborative alliance with the desirable future.  The event will be filmed for the motion picture “Startracks.”

This session is included with all Bioneers registrants including; 1, 2, and 3 day tickets as well as half day tickets. If you would like to attend Caroline Casey's session and have not registered for one of the Bioneers passes you may indenpentenly register for this session here: https://www.regonline.com/casey2013

Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary

Introduced by director Gay Dillingham - Starts at 8:45 PM

Gay Dillingham offers a short clip from this nearly finished film that captured one last intimate conversation between these two bigger-than-life figures just a few months before Leary’s death, as they pondered life, drugs, and the biggest mystery of all: death. It’s a deeply touching portrait of two very complex, controversial characters whose epic friendship helped shape a generation.

Standing on Sacred Ground, Parts 1 and 2

Introduced by director Toby McLeod - At 8:55 PM

We will get to see the first two installments in this four-part film series about indigenous cultures fighting to protect their sacred lands for future generations. Episode 1, “Pilgrims and Tourists” tracks Russian shamans and a northern California tribe as they each confront massive government projects. Episode 2, “Profit and Loss” highlights resistance to destructive extraction projects in Papua New Guinea and in Alberta, Canada’s Tar Sands.
 

Dance Party with DJ Dragonfly

From 10:30 PM - Midnight

Seed Exchange

Hosted by: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Tesuque Pueblo Farm, Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library, Living Seed Company, and Sustainable Seed Company.

Better This World

Introduced by directors Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega

This extraordinary, multiple award-winning film shows us how two boyhood friends from Midland, Texas wound up arrested on terrorism charges at the 2008 Republican National Convention. A dramatic story of idealism, loyalty, crime and betrayal, Better This World goes to the dark heart of the War on Terror and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in post-9/11 America.

Caroline Casey: Change the Metaphor – Change the Culture!

Caroline Casey with guest Richard Tarnas: Change the Metaphor - Change the Culture! Calling All Public Dreamers 8:44pm – 9:45pm. The Visionary Activist Show radio host and stand-up astrologer invokes the “Green Fire of Reverent Indigenuity Rising from the Rubble -- that we be agents of responsive cool in a hot reactive world.” Caroline welcomes long-time ally Richard Tarnas, author of the acclaimed book “Cosmos and Psyche”  together animating the astro*mytho guiding meta-story that we may form a collaborative alliance with the desirable future.  The event will be filmed for the motion picture “Startracks.”

This session is included with all Bioneers registrants including; 1, 2, and 3 day tickets as well as half day tickets. If you would like to attend Caroline Casey's session and have not registered for one of the Bioneers passes you may indenpentenly register for this session here: https://www.regonline.com/casey2013

Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary

Introduced by director Gay Dillingham - Starts at 8:45 PM

Gay Dillingham offers a short clip from this nearly finished film that captured one last intimate conversation between these two bigger-than-life figures just a few months before Leary’s death, as they pondered life, drugs, and the biggest mystery of all: death. It’s a deeply touching portrait of two very complex, controversial characters whose epic friendship helped shape a generation.

Standing on Sacred Ground, Parts 1 and 2

Introduced by director Toby McLeod - At 8:55 PM

We will get to see the first two installments in this four-part film series about indigenous cultures fighting to protect their sacred lands for future generations. Episode 1, “Pilgrims and Tourists” tracks Russian shamans and a northern California tribe as they each confront massive government projects. Episode 2, “Profit and Loss” highlights resistance to destructive extraction projects in Papua New Guinea and in Alberta, Canada’s Tar Sands.
 

Dance Party with DJ Dragonfly

From 10:30 PM - Midnight

In Loving Remembrance of Peter Warshall, Barbara Whitestone, Bob Russell

Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree

Opening Remarks by Nina Simons

Opening Remarks by Nina Simons

Ilarion Merculieff | The Womb At The Center of the Universe

By: Ilarion Merculieff

Introduction by Nina Simons

This Aleut traditional messenger offers indigenous perspectives –bringing ancestral wisdom to guide us through modern times. The elders say that the leadership of women is paramount if we are to successfully transform civilization to conserve Earth’s capacity to sustain Life. Ilarion has served his people, and other indigenous peoples locally, nationally, and internationally for 35 years in diverse leadership capacities, including as the first Alaska Native Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development.

Performance by Climbing Poetree

Performance by Climbing PoeTree | Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman, award-winning spoken word duo, committed organizers and boundary-breaking soul sisters.

Billy Parish | 100% Clean Energy For and By The People

By: Billy Parish
This leading young change-maker turned entrepreneur is showing how, in this generation, we can shift from fossil fuels to a world 100% powered by clean energy, and we can do it in a way that makes all of us richer, healthier and happier. The only way it will happen is if we get involved and take power into our own hands. Solar Mosaic, the company he co-founded, is employing revolutionary crowdfunding techniques to democratize investment opportunities and spread distributed energy.

Film Short: Nature’s Wonders by Louie Schwartzberg

Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Kyle Thiermann | Surfing for Change

Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Kyle Thiermann | Surfing for Change

Dekila Chungyalpa | Faiths for Conservation: The Hope of A New Environmental Movement

By: Dekila Chungyalpa
The Sikkim-born Director of the World Wildlife Fund’s Sacred Earth program engages with faith leaders and institutions in Asia and around the world to address environmental decline and restore communities. Environmental advisor to His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, she works with communities in the Himalayas, the Mekong, East Africa and the Amazon, and helps mobilize Buddhist and interfaith collaborations for healing the Earth.

JOANNA MACY | Choosing Life

By Joanna Macy

The renowned Buddhist teacher, eco-philosopher, systems theorist, scholar, author, longtime peace, justice and ecology activist, and one of the most beloved and influential leaders in the personal and social change movements of our era, shares the essence of the wisdom she has distilled during her extraordinary 84-year trajectory. According to Joanna, the greatest gift we can give our world is our full presence. As we draw that gift forth from ourselves and each other, we find our courage and clarity. In this time of radical uncertainty, that choice and that capacity is there for us every step of the way.

Performance by “Slam Poet Harvester” TIM MERRY: Holding Up a Mirror to the Moment

This gifted spoken-word improviser revives the ancient art of sacred bards and jesters as he generates instant poetic commentary on and analysis of what he sees and hears, on the spot, helping us live more consciously in the moment.

Closing Remarks by KENNY AUSUBEL and NINA SIMONS

Closing Performance with R. CARLOS NAKAI

With R. CARLOS NAKAI, the world's premiere performer of the Native American flute.

Technology to Transform: Building a Youth Driven Climate Justice Movement

Lunchtime event: 1:30-2:30 p.m. (bring your lunch and listen…)

Professor Antwi Akom discusses what the modern world can learn from the indigenous world to combat climate change and describes his work building a youth-driven climate justice movement that uses technological innovations at the grassroots level to cultivate community, heal divisions and develop joint movement building strategies.

Paths to Healing Around Family and Money: An Intergenerational Emergent Conversation

With: Eileen Rockefeller, impact philanthropist, founding chair of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and author of Being a Rockefeller, Becoming Myself; her son, Daniel Growald. Hosted by renowned doctor and author, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD. Join this mother and son, leading members of America's legendary first family of philanthropy, as they explore how honest investigation into values and service can lead to healing, individuation and a joyful and fulfilling life.

Wiser Together World Cafe: Creating Tomorrow Together!

We've learned from each other's ideas and work this weekend, but how can we nourish partnerships and relationships year-round to ground possibilities into realities? Join us for a participant-driven 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 and for building personal and professional partnerships. Let's create tomorrow, together! With: David Shaw, Common Ground Center, UC Santa Cruz; Dana Pearlman, The Lotus: Authentic Leadership Development and the Global Leadership Lab; Tim Merry, Myrgan Inc, Art of Hosting; Giselle Chow, Graphic Facilitator and Recorder, Giselle Chow Consulting.

Gender Equality and Finding Balance: Diverse Approaches

An emergent conversation hosted by Nina Simons, Bioneers; With: Ilarion Merculieff, Aleut traditional messenger; Pat McCabe, Dine (Navajo) writer, artist, activist, speaker and cultural liaison; Will Keepin, Co-Director of the Satyana Institute and Gender Reconciliation International; Pele Rouge Chadima, co-founder, Timeless Earth Wisdom, Inc.

Spiritual Ecology: A Spiritual Response to the Ecological Crisis

With: Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the World Wildlife Fund’s Sacred Earth program; Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, renowned Sufi teacher and author; Joanna Macy, legendary activist and scholar of systems theory, deep ecology and Buddhism.

Moving from Sustainababble to True Sustainability

Co-sponsored with the Worldwatch Institute. Hosted by: Robert Engelman, President, Worldwatch. With: Erik Assadourian, Senior Fellow, Worldwatch; Annie Leonard, activist extraordinaire, creator of The Story of Stuff.

Disruptive Financing Innovations for Distributed Energy and Sustainability

With: Billy Parish, co-founder and President of the solar energy platform Solar Mosaic; Marco Krapels, Executive Vice President, Rabobank, NA; Angelina Galiteva, founder and Board President, Renewables 100 Policy Institute.

Transforming Our Relationship to White Privilege to Co-Create Beloved Community

With: Yeshi Neumann, Rockwood Leadership Institute.

Experiential/Interactive

Eat Your Heritage: Chamorro Foodways from the Island of Guam

Indigenous Forum

Sponsored by the Cultural Conservancy’s Mino-Niibi Fund for Indigenous Cultures. Part of Guam Humanities Council’s (GHC) Eat Your Heritage Tour. Hosted by: Kimberlee Kihleng, Ph.D. and Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe), President of the Cultural Conservancy/professor at SFSU GHC Executive Director. With: Monaeka Flores, GHC Project Coordinator; Peter Duenas, chef and restaurateur, the most respected Chamorro chef in Guam, a leader in promoting native foods; Bill McDonald, founder of the Farmers Cooperative, leader in Guam’s local food movement.

To view the entire Indigenous Schedule click here

Council: Initiation, Adulthood and the Resurgence of Community-Supported Rites of Passage

With: Sharon Shay Sloan and Orland Bishop, Executive Director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation, Indaba leader and community healer.  

Interactive/Experiential

Facilitated Dialogue at the Networking Center—Growing Community Capital

How do we uncover and mobilize the hidden wealth of skills, insights, wisdom, resources and experience in our communities? Come connect, network, and share your insights.

Youth Leadership: Meet the Brower Youth Award Winners

Presented by New Leaders Initiative at Earth Island Institute.  

Conversation Café

TBA

Herbwalk

With renowned herbalists Autumn Summers and Kevin Spelman, PhD, MCPP, scientist, clinician, educator, herbalist and writer.

Campaign Connection: Mobilizing Women for Climate Solutions

Mobilizing Women for Climate Solutions, presented by Women's Earth and Climate Caucus and International Women's Earth and Climate Initiative. With: Osprey Orielle Lake, Sally Ranney, Claire Greensfelder, Atossa Soltani of Amazon Watch; and a representative from the Indigenous Environmental Network.  Come join key leaders, recently returned from the Women's Earth and Climate Summit, as they show us how we can get involved in the growing global women's movement for sane climate and sustainability policies and in some of the exciting actions and projects outlined in the "Women's Climate and Sustainability Blueprint for Action." Note: Men are welcome to attend.

Mixers and networking opportunities

TBA

Indigenous Forum: Youth and Indigenous Leader Talking Circle

TBA