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The 5th annual Colorado Bioneers features a live satellite feed of the main Bioneers plenaries, and is locally enriched with a Marketplace; film, music and arts; networking; children's activities; service projects, and sessions and workshops on regional issues and community solutions.
[Schedule Subject to Change]
JAY HARMAN
Designing the Next Golden Age: A Progress Report
Award-winning inventor, entrepreneur and CEO of PAX Scientific, Jay
Harman, offers us examples of highly efficient technologies inspired by
natural systems that can help us create prosperity without degrading
the biosphere.
JUDY BACA
"The Interactive Digital Mural: A Tool for Social Reconciliation from the Local to the Global"
The world-renowned Los Angeles muralist and community arts pioneer Judy
Baca discusses the power of public art to help transform societies.
JUDY WICKS
"Local Living Economies: A Just and Sustainable Alternative to Corporate Globalization"
Entrepreneur
and activist Judy Wicks tells her story of moving beyond responsible
business practices within her company to working cooperatively with
other entrepreneurs and citizens to build whole economies based on love
of nature and community - a movement that has taken on greater urgency
with the dual challenges of climate change and peak oil.
JOHN ABRAMS
"Thinking Like Cathedral Builders"
In
these pivotal times business needs bold new stories. Equal doses of
freedom, hope, outrageous behavior and long term thinking, says author,
design/builder and community activist John Abrams, can open the way to
a durable and successful future.
VAN JONES
Toward A Green Growth Alliance: Birthing A New Politics
It is the chief moral obligation of our time to build a green economy
strong enough to lift people out of poverty. To succeed we must carry
our spiritual, cultural and economic movements into the electoral arena
to transform politics and forge a green "New Deal" coalition," so that
those kids who are now prison fodder will instead help create a
zero-pollution economy, harvest the Sun and heal the land.
PAUL ANASTAS
"Green Chemistry: From Here to Sustainability"
The
"father of green chemistry" explains that if we are to move toward a
sustainable civilization, major changes have to take place in the
nature of our products, processes and systems. Green Chemistry looks at
the materials that are the basis of our society-from clothes to housing
to communications to agriculture to energy-to ensure they will become
as benign as possible to the planet and all its inhabitants.
MAJORA CARTER
"Green the Ghetto"
One of the leading figures in the Environmental Justice Movement,
founder of the groundbreaking organization, Sustainable South Bronx,
offers us her vision of what we must do to green our inner cities so
that all of us can reclaim our birthright: to live in healthy
communities with clean air and water and access to open spaces.
EVON PETER
"An Indigenous Perspective on How to Survive the Next Hundred Years"
The
chairman of Native Movement and former chief of the Neetsaii Gwich'in
from Arctic Village in northeastern Alaska dives into traditional
knowledge, spiritual understanding and common sense as tools for
helping to heal and transform humanity.
EDWARD TICK
"Return of the Ghost Dancers: Modern War's Devastation...and Healing"
Ed
Tick, who has been working with survivors of war, violence and trauma
for over 30 years, will present a survey of the true extent and costs
of human and environmental devastation due to modern technological
warfare, the resulting spiritual and ecological crises, and the
possibility of healing individuals, nations and the planet through
spiritual, cultural and community transformations.
EVE ENSLER
"V to the 10th"
The award-winning playwright and world-renowned women's rights activist
Eve Ensler discusses the extraordinary global trajectory of the "V-day"
movement over the last decade and her visions for the next ten years:
helping women all over the world obtain peace, power and pleasure.
WALLACE J. NICHOLS
"A Brave New Ocean or an Ocean Revolution?"
Space-based
research and new deep sea technologies have resulted in an explosion of
information about the ocean. To change our destructive course we must
harness this knowledge, make it accessible to everyone and creatively
communicate what the state of the oceans means to the future of life on
our planet.
CAROL BEBELLE
Culture And Re-building...Re-membering New Orleans/Re-weaving its Social and Cultural Fabric
Renowned
community activist, poet and cofounder of the Ashe' Cultural Arts
Center, dedicated to the saving and re-birth of New Orleans' rich
legacy, Carol Bebelle discusses the cultural, social and creative
mandates for the re-building of New Orleans that will respect the
city's bonds of connection and community.
CHARLOTTE BRODY
How Chemicals Are Changing What It Means To Be A Woman (or a man)
...and
what women and men can do to change chemicals. Commonweal's Charlotte
Brody, an organizer for civil rights, women's rights, workers' rights,
peace and environmental health since 1964, explores how chemicals are
creating disease and disorders and how solutions are being created to
regain health and democracy.
WINONA LaDUKE
"Seeds the Creator Gave Us"
Winona
LaDuke discusses the struggles of indigenous peoples to protect their
food sovereignty, restore their food systems, and protect their
cultures and foods from genetic modification.
KA HSAW WA & KATIE REDFORD
Earth Rights: Linking Human Rights and Environmental Struggles in the Age of Globalization
Katie
Redford and Ka Hsaw Wa, co-founders and directors of EarthRights
International, will discuss their work from the jungles of Burma and
the Amazon to U.S. courtrooms to hold corporations accountable for
human rights and environmental abuses committed in the name of
development. They will focus on EarthRights' landmark lawsuit Doe v.
Unocal, and their work to raise the voices of indigenous people in
international forums through their model training program, the
EarthRights Schools.
The following local presenters are currently confirmed to attend Colorado Bioneers: (note: stay tuned for additions!)
Justin Baker, Conscious Alliance