'07 Event Schedule

Printed programs are available at Eureka Recycling 8a - 5p M-F Click for location (be cautious of truck traffic as you enter/exit), or Northern Sun Merchandising, 10a-6p, Click for map. Pick up as many as you will definitely distribute.

Meet Northland Bioneers Conference Emcee,

GEMMA BULOS

and Musical Muse, MICHAEL MONROE

Friday, November 2nd Tasting GALA
6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

6:30p - 7:30p ~ Cuisine aficionado, and RAKE food blogger, Jeremy Iggers, and eight dining darlings prepare guests for a Tasting Gala by considering what it takes to prioritize local and organic ingredients. What does it really take to dine deliciously and conscientiously?  And why is it important to do so? Panelists include: Kim Bartmann, Red Stag Supperclub, Café Barbette and Bryant Lake Bowl, Karen Cross, Black Cat Natural Foods, Lynn Gordon, French Meadow Bakery & Café Minneapolis, F Concourse Minneapolis/St Paul Airport, Northstar Crossing Minneapolis/St Paul Airport, and JFK Airport New York City, Liz McMann, Mississippi Market Natural Food Co-op, Eric Rivkin, Vivalaraw, Danny Schwartzman, Common Roots Cafe, Corey VanScoyk Area Manager Chipotle Mexican Grill, and Patrina Walters, Asase Yaa

7:30 -10p ~ Tasting Gala, Exhibitors Feature and Silent Auction offers something for everyone. Enjoy delicious samples from our panelist's restaurants while you check out the 30 exhibitors on site. Make sustainable purchases that also benefit the Northland Bioneers Conference. Gala is open to

Saturday, November 3, 8a to 10:15p

9a Opening Remarks: Honorable Mary Hammon-Roland, Mayor of Apple Valley

Throughout the day, Ten Plenaries from Ntl. Bioneers via DVD, 13 Workshops, 30 Exhibits, Facilitated Participant Reflections. Scroll down for a full event schedule.

7p Keynote: Dr. Verna Price, "The Power of People"

Based on her book, the Power of People: Four Kinds of People Who Can Change Your Life, Dr. Verna Cornelia Price will help you discover why you are powerful, how to access your personal power, how to use your personal power and how to evaluate the powerful people influencing you in work and life.

Sunday, November 4th, 9am to 8pm

Five Plenaries from Ntl Bioneers via DVD, 13 Workshops, 30 Exhibits, Facilitated Participant Reflections. Scroll down for a full event schedule.

10a Keynote: Susan Hubbard, "Why There Isn't Waste"

There really isn't waste - but so what? In a world of wind turbines, solar panels and the ubiquitous biomass - what is so sexy about waste or even... no waste? The answer is embedded - embedded energy! Okay, so energy is all the rave - let's talk carbon credits and climate change and you. How many of us will erect a wind turbine this year? What do we really influence and is it going to make any difference - is it going to make a big enough difference? Yes it is.

3:45p Delegation Report on Water Quality and Access, Facilitated by Susan Hubbard, Eureka Recycling

Throughout the weekend a delegation of Metro leaders will meet to examine assumptions and opportunities about water quality and access in MN. This report to the community will express the outcomes of their discussions.

FULL EVENT SCHEDULE

FRIDAY

6:00p Doors Open for Registration, Exhibition, Art Gallery, Silent Auction

6:30p to 7:30p Theater ~ Dining for Generations Ahead (see above for details)

7:30p Tasting Gala with food presented by the panelists, along with other local offerings.

9:30p Event Closes

SATURDAY

8:00a

Registration Open until 8p

Exhibitors Open until 9p

Food Emporium Open until 6p

9:00 Opening Festivities with Mayor Mary Hammon Roland of Apple Valley, Emcee Gemma Bulos and Musical Muse, Michael Monroe

9:30 Bioneers Plenary: JAY HARMAN Designing the Next Golden Age: A Progress Report

10:05 Facilitated Participant Reflection

10:20 Break

10:45 Round One Workshops (for full descriptions click here):

240B The Art of Convening: Creating Wholeness and Sustainability in our Meetings and Gatherings, Craig Neal

250A The Domestication of Instinct, Yogiraj Achala (Charles Bates)

250B Multicultural Youth Leaders, Craig Luedemann

Theatre Minnesota’s Role in Developing the New Energy Economy, State Senator Ellen Anderson

240A Changing Lives in the Developing World with Solar Energy, Linda Cullen

245A The Artist Journey, Ellen Schillace

245B Future of the Minnesota Environmental Movement, Julia Nerbonne and the HECUA Environmental Sustainability Class of 2007

12:00 Bioneers Plenary: JUDY BACA, The Interactive Digital Mural: A Tool for Social Reconciliation from the Local to the Global

12:35 Bioneers Plenary: JUDY WICKS, Local Living Economies: Green, Fair and Fun

1:10 Facilitated Participant Reflection

1:30 Break

2:00 Round Two Workshops (for full descriptions click here):

250A Transformative Dialog: An Introduction, Jean Greenwood

245A Green Wisdom, Life Guidance, Louann Lanning

240B Choice: Better Pets. Better People. Better Planet.™, Stacy J. Lewis, Creature Teacher

240A 10 Principles of Just Climate Control, EJAM

245B Money, Innovation and Transformation, Joel Hodrof f

250B Compassionate Kids, Sponsored by the Animal Rights Coalition, presented by Amy Leo Barankovich, Family Room

3:00 Hour Break

3:00 Delegation Meeting: Water Quality & Access, Facilitated by Susan Hubbard and Dianna Kennedy, Eureka Recycling, room tbd

4:00 Bioneers Plenary: JOHN ABRAMS, Thinking Like Cathedral Builders

4:35 Bioneers Plenary: VAN JONES, Toward a Green Growth Alliance: Birthing a New Politics

5:10 Facilitated Participant Reflection

5:30 Plenary: PAUL ANASTAS, Green Chemistry: From Here to Sustainability

6:05 Facilitated Participant Reflection

6:20 Break

7:00 Keynote: Dr. Verna Price, The Power of People, Theatre

7:30 Closing Participant Reflection

8:00 Just Can’t Stop Plenary Blitz (these plenaries will be repeated in 2008)

8:00 Bioneers Plenary: MAJORA CARTER , Green the Ghetto

8:35 Bioneers Plenary: EVON PETER , An Indigenous Perspective on How to Survive the Next Hundred Years

9:05 Bioneers Plenary: EVE ENSLER , V to the 10th

9:40 Bioneers Plenary: EDWARD TICK, Return of the Ghost Dancers: Modern War’s Devastation… and Healing

10:15 Adjourn

SUNDAY

9:00a

Registration Open until 5p

Exhibitors Open until 8p

Café and Food Emporium Open until 6:30p

Silent Auction Open until 5p

10:00 Susan Hubbard, CEO Eureka Recycling, Waste is Preventable, Theater

10:30 Break

11:00 Round Three Workshops (for full descriptions click here): 

250B Sustainability 101: Everything You Wanted to Know, Terry Gips

240B Addressing Emotional and Spiritual Challenges, Kaia Svien

240A Choose Renewables, David Boyce

245A Modern Storytelling for Sustainability, Sarah Bell Haberman and Arlene Birt

250A Biomimicry: Basics and Applications, Daniel Halsey

255A EarthFusion Festival: Youth, Music and Consciousness, Lucy Rahn, Gina Letizia and Evamarie Bittleston

245B Katrina Recovery Update, Diana Knobel Theatre Green Conversion of the Ford Site, Lynn Hinkle

11:45 Break

12:05 Bioneers Plenary: WALLACE J. NICHOLS, A Brave New Ocean, or an Ocean Revolution?

12:40 Bioneers Plenary: CAROL BEBELLE, Culture and Rebuilding… Re-membering New Orleans/Re-weaving its Social and Cultural Fabric

1:15 Facilitated Participant Reflection

1:30 Break

2:00 Round Four Workshops (for full descriptions click here):

240A Sustainable Saint Paul Annual Report - Environmental Fact Sheet, Anne Hunt and Richard A. Person

255A Mass Transit Moves Sustainable Development, Russ Adams and Mat Holingshed

240B Sustainability and the Natural Step Framework, Terry Gips

245A The Time of Woman, Jane Evershed

245B Careers in the Growing Green Economy, Barbara Parks

250A TelAVision.org - The Video Vision Stories Movement, George Johnson

250B Compassionate Kids Sponsored by the Animal Rights Coalition, presented by Amy Leo Barankovich, Family Room

2:45 Hour Break

3:45 Delegation Report on Water Quality and Access, Facilitated by Susan Hubbard, Eureka Recycling, Theatre

4:45 Break (Silent Auction closes at 5p)

5:15 Bioneers Plenary: CHARLOTTE BRODY, The Sea Around Us, The Environment in Us

5:50 Bioneers Plenary: WINONA LaDUKE, Seeds the Creator Gave Us

5:15 Facilitated Participant Reflection

6:00 Break

6:00 Silent Auction Winners Announced

6:20 Bioneers Plenary: KA HSAW WA & KATIE RE DFORD, Earth Rights: Linking Human Rights and Environmental Struggles in the Age of Globalization

6:55 Closing Community Ceremony

8:00 Adjourn