Oct October 18-20, 2013 National Bioneers Conference
San Rafael, CA Marin Center
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Eat Your Heritage: Chamorro Foodways from the Island of Guam

June 10, 2013 By

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.

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Moving from Sustainababble to True Sustainability

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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.

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Disruptive Financing Innovations for Distributed Energy and Sustainability

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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.

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Gender Equality and Finding Balance: Diverse Approaches

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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.

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Spiritual Ecology: A Spiritual Response to the Ecological Crisis

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Ilarion Merculieff | The Womb At The Center of the Universe

June 10, 2013 By

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.

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Opening Remarks by Nina Simons

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Opening Remarks by Nina Simons

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