National Bioneers Program

Opening remarks from Nina Simons, co-producer of Bioneers

SUNDAY PLENARIES
9:00 am – 1:00 pm

WALLACE J. NICHOLS A Brave New Ocean, or an Ocean Revolution?
Senior scientist at the Ocean Conservancy and ocean activist extraordinaire explains how 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
The renowned community activist, poet and co-founder of the Ashé Cultural Arts Center, dedicated to the saving and re-birth of New Orleans’ rich legacy, 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 The Sea Around Us, The Environment in Us
Executive director of Commonweal, and seasoned 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 innovated to regain health and democracy.

WINONA LADUKE Seeds the Creator Gave Us
This renowned indigenous rights leader and two-time Green Party U.S. Vice Presidential candidate highlights 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
The 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.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
2:45 pm – 4:15 pm

Voices from the Global South
Movements are arising throughout the Global South to reverse centuries of exploitation and challenge dire human rights and environmental abuses. These struggles have profound relevance to the fate of global ecosystems and the future of humanity. Hosted by Eric Leenson of Progressive Asset Management; with renowned activists Ka Hsaw Wa and Katie Redford, co-founders of EarthRights International, which fights human rights and environmental abuses by governments and corporations around the world. (A20)

Social Entrepreneurs: The Angels Made Me Do It
Imaginative entrepreneurs are converting challenges into solutions by creating fairtrade networks, triple bottom-line business models and redirecting financial flows for the common good. Hosted by Chet Tchozewski, executive director of Global GreenGrants Fund; with Donna Frank, owner of A Shared Blanket Gallery in Durango, CO; David Bronner, CEO of the mission-driven iconic business, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, Inc; and fair-trade innovator Priya Haji of World of Good. (A21)

The Ocean Revolution
Extraordinary waves of social and technological innovations may yet save the matrix of planetary life and the storehouse of its greatest biodiversity — our mother ocean. Hosted by Ocean Conservation Research Sciences Advisor Michael Stocker; with one of the world's greatest experts on marine life and most effective activists to save the seas, Wallace J. Nichols; and Stanford University researcher and strategic thinker, George Shillinger, who addresses international marine conservation issues at the intersection of science, business, policy and journalism. (A22)

Community Food Sovereignty
Lack of access to fresh, vital food destroys the health of those in disenfranchised innercity and Native American communities. A dynamic food movement using diverse strategies to provide locally grown, healthy, affordable and traditional foods to underserved communities is growing rapidly around the country (and the world). Moderated by Bioneers' own Arty Mangan; with Jaime Iglesias of Nuestras Raices; Arturo Sandoval, president and founder of Voces, Inc.; and Geralina Fortier, peer nutrition coordinator at People's Grocery. (A23)

Alternet Presents: Social Media Activism/Web 2.0 Networking for Change
How can citizens use Web 2.0 interactivity to gain access to tools to become more politically effective and creative? Join leading-edge webizen activists for the latest, greatest practical tips. Hosted by Alternet publisher Don Hazen; with James Rucker of Color of Change; Deanna Zandt of Hightower Lowdown; and Theeba Soundararajan, media and technology justice coordinator for Third World Majority. (A24) Alternative Futures: Scenario Planning for a Precarious World How do big corporations, the military and governments use scenario planning to navigate a radically destabilized future? And how can the rest of us use this powerful tool to create a positive future instead? With ecologist, anthropologist and scenario consultant Peter Warshall; legendary scenario master Peter Schwartz, founder of the Global Business Network; and Diana Scearce, consultant with the Monitor Institute. (A25)

Building Successful Campaigns: An Interactive Problem-Solving Workshop
What are the ingredients of success and the thorniest obstacles inherent in activist campaigns? Join a circle of highly experienced organizers for some practical tips on your campaigns. Hosted by Charlotte Brody of Commonweal (former executive director of Health Care Without Harm); with Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK and Global Exchange; Michael Brune of Rainforest Action Network; Adrienne Maree Brown of The Ruckus Society; and Clayton Thomas-Müller, chair of the Indigenous Environmental Network's (IEN) Native Energy Campaign Advisory Committee. (A26)

Staying Healthy in an Unhealthy World
How do we keep body and soul together in a toxic, degraded landscape? How can we use the most sophisticated and ancient tools of holistic healthcare to keep ourselves and our families vital as we work to clean our environment and restore our human relationships and ecological systems? With Robyn Benson, D.O.M. and founder of Santa Fe Soul Health and Healing Center; and Wendy Strgar, loveologist and founder of Good Clean Love, on healthy intimacy and the relationship between sexuality and health. (A27)

Grandmothers Council (A28)

Turning Inspiration into Action: An Open Space Workshop for Youth – Part 1
Open space workshops offer a unique way for participants to co-create the agenda or host their own discussion groups. If something lights a fire in your belly during the weekend, this is the place to solidify your commitment to positive social change and turn your passion into action! Facilitated by Dev Aujla, 23-year-old director of DreamNow, and members of the Bioneers Youth Advisory Council. Note: This is a double session. (Y5)

SUNDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Fierce Grace: Six Women Organizers Talk about Gender and Social Change
Hear six women activists discuss how the research that women and girls think and relate differently from males applies to their work restoring the Earth and communities. Hosted by Charlotte Brody, executive director of Commonweal; with Mari Rose Taruc, operations director for Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN); Melinda Kramer, founding director of Women's Earth Alliance; Annie Leonard, coordinator of the Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption (of the Environmental Grantmakers Association); Stacy Malkan, communications director for Health Care Without Harm; and Robin Guenther, the principal of Guenther 5 Architects, a leading expert in green healthcare facility design. (B17)

The Lives and Fates of Earth's Animals
What is our relationship and responsibility to our fellow sentient beings on this planet? What does our treatment of them tell us about ourselves? Does the plight of endangered species offer us a warning sign about our own fate if we don't change our ways? Bokara Legendre, television host and journalist, interviews Mark Bekoff, author of many books including The Emotional Lives of Animals and co-author (with Jane Goodall) of The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love; animal activist Camilla Fox, author of Culling the Wild; and James Deutsch, head of the African Program of the World Conservation Society, one of the largest worldwide animalsaving organizations. (B18)

Inside/Outside: The Social Ecology of Corporate Accountability
Visionary innovators are using a wide range of strategies to compel corporations and high finance to do the right thing. Hosted by Kevin Danaher, founder of the leading fairtrade nonprofit Global Exchange; with Tom Van Dyck, a senior vice president at the Royal Bank of Canada on greening the electronics industry; Morgan Simon of the Responsible Endowments Coalition on efforts to shift university portfolios to responsible investments; and Michael Marx, executive director, Corporate Ethics International, on a strategy to build a unified citizens' movement to bring corporations back under democratic control. (B19)

Crossing the Threshold: Indigenous Artists Bridging Divides
How can indigenous artists, operating today in a rapidly changing, multimedia planetary landscape, stay true to their roots and fully engage with the global culture? Hosted by Jaune Evans of the Lannan Foundation; with educator, writer and artist Jeannette Armstrong, founder of the En'owkin Centre; internationally renowned Santa Fe-based sculptor Bob Haozous; and Tlingit painter Celeste Worl. (B20)

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) Presents:
Deposing King Coal, Drilling Down on Fossil Fools
Of all fuels, coal is the most polluting, toxic and greenhouse-gas-emitting. Yet, it still supplies 50% of energy in the U.S. What strategies are succeeding to keep coal underground and to force a shift to renewables? Hosted by Michael Brune, executive director of RAN; with Michel Gelobter of Redefining Progress; and Navajo anti-coal activist Enei Begaye, the executive director of Black Mesa Water Coalition. (B21)

Food Activism: Food Fights from Frankenfoods to Organic Sub-Standards
Corporate assaults are raising the pressure on the genetic integrity of our food supply while lowering the bar on organic standards. How do we resist? Hosted by Bioneers' food and farming program director Arty Mangan; with indigenous foods defender Winona LaDuke; Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception; and the Cornucopia Institute's Mark Kastel, a leader in the fight to maintain strong organic standards. (B22)

Story-based Strategy: Interventions and Actions to Change the Culture
Every day we are bombarded by sophisticated stories that try to sell us lousy products, bad policies and phony politicians. How can we intervene in this toxic mediascape and move new ideas that shift the culture towards sustainability and justice? smartMeme collective members James Bell, Doyle Canning and Patrick Reinsborough, with Kenneth Bailey of the Design Studio 4 Social Intervention, will share innovative strategies for transforming narratives, and profile creative actions to shift culture. Moderated by Ilyse Hogue of MoveOn.org. (B23)

Turning Inspiration into Action – An Open Space Workshop for Youth – Part 2
(See Sunday, 2:45, Y5 for more info) (Y6)