Local Programming

This 3rd Annual conference will prepare participants to activate what they learn from watching the national Bioneers plenary speakers, participating in demonstration sessions and meeting with exhibitors and other participants. 

Anticipate lots of surprises this year with your '08 EMCEE and Futurefit®  Guide , Nina Rothschild Utne, Artistic Director, Marcela Lorca and Community Conversation Guide, Yogiraj Achala (AKA Charles Bates)

Nina Rothschild Utne, EMCEE and Futurefit Guide 

Nina Rothschild Utne, a 10+ year veteran of Bioneers, is the former CEO and current Editor at Large of Utne Reader, which she recently sold to Ogden Publications. Nina is a speaker on a wide range of topics that include “motherhood as a training-ground for business,” “the power of media to transform culture,” “spirituality and business,” and “the voice of independent media.” She holds a BA in English and American Literature from Harvard University and a Master’s degree in Human Development from St. Mary’s University. Nina is also a founding member of the Headwaters Fund, City of Lakes Waldorf School, UnReasonable Women for the Earth, and Code Pink.

Marcela Lorca, Artistic Director 

Marcela became Movement Director for the Guthrie Theater in 1991, and has since coached more than 100 plays. She is also Head of Movement for the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training program. Her directing credits at the Guthrie include The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, Caviar on Credit, Postcards From Earth, Confluence, Bring Love to My Doorstep, The Long Walk, I Keep Walking on Sinking Sand, Bye Bye Margarita and In Darkness. She also directed and choreographed Blood Wedding at the Guthrie Lab and Missouri Repertory Theater, Found at Mixed Blood Theater, Antigone at the University of Minnesota, If You Could Only Touch My Heart, Raw and Walking Around at the Southern Theater and A Happening at the Juilliard School of Drama. National choreographic credits include The Winter’s Tale at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Persians at Washington Shakespeare Theater, A Light in the Piazza at the Goodman Theater, School for Scandal at the Longwarf Theater, and Pericles at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. At the Guthrie Theater she has choreographed over 20 plays including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jane Eyre, The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, Merrily We Roll Along, Sweeny Todd, Much Ado About Nothing, You Can’t Take It With You, Winter’s Tale, Pericles, Lysistrata, As You Like It and A Christmas Carol. She has also worked at the National Actor’s Theater and Signature Theater in New York City, National Opera of the Dominican Republic, Grupo del Centro-Chilean dance company, and US/European tours with Jonathan Stone’s Dinner. She has taught at New York University, Juilliard Drama School, US conferences, the London International School of Performing Arts and the Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training. She is a recipient of a McKnight Fellowship for Theater Artists, and a McKnight Choreographic Fellowship.

Yogiraj Achala (AKA Charles Bates), Community Conversation Guide A Tradition of Himalayan Sages. He is an agent of global systems change, and has just completed a six and a half year sabbatical to deepen his spiritual condition. 10th Dot® (his 40 year private practice in organizational and global change), and Namaste Yoga Institute are now joined by Mystisystems® which weds the systems principals of the mystics and contemporary organizational systems theory. He has integrated his 16 years of work at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, and 38 years of work in Yoga theory, and methodology, into the global interventions of both Mystisystems® and The Ashram Project (a training for leaders and change agents). He has written Ransoming the Mind; The Integration of Yoga and Modern Therapy, and Pigs Eat Wolves®; Going Into Partnership with your Dark Side. Additional books and technologies are forthcoming as a result of his sabbatical period.

Saturday, Nov 15th           9:00a to 9:30p

7:45 Registration

9:00 Inspiring the White House from Our House(s)

9:30 Regional Keynote: Senator Ellen Anderson, Minnesota's Place in the Green Economy

Senator Ellen Anderson (DFL-St. Paul/Falcon Heights) is the co-chair of Minnesota’s new Green Jobs Task Force, which is currently bringing together people from all sectors to work on ways to enhance job creation in our state by taking advantage of new opportunities in the Green Economy; she was the chief Senate author this year of the bills to create the Task Force and to conform state economic development policy with energy and environmental policy. Ellen also chairs the Senate Environment, Energy & Natural Resources Budget Division. She was the chief Senate author of legislation to establish the strongest Renewable Energy Standard in the nation, to combat climate change, to raise Minnesota’s Minimum Wage and to help homeowners who are facing foreclosure.

10:00 Getting Futurefit: Nina Rothschild Utne

11:00 Bioneers Plenary* ERICA FERNANDEZ Si, Se Puede! (Yes, We Can!) This remarkable eighteen-year-old environmental justice activist helped mobilize her diverse community in Oxnard, California to defeat the placement of a liquefied natural gas facility just offshore. Erica Fernandez 18, born and raised in Michoacán, Mexico till age ten, became a remarkable young environmental activist in Oxnard, California. Initially motivated to fight air pollution because of her asthma, she helped mobilize her whole diverse community, from Latino youth to the Sierra Club, to defeat the placement of a liquefied natural gas facility just offshore, successfully resisting a multinational billion-dollar corporation.

11:35 to 1:00p Open Forum (Table talk in groups or 1:1, visit exhibitors, attend a workshop or performance, enjoy local/organic ala carte nourishment, or take a walk to the river)

11:50 to 12:30p Regional Workshops Options Include:

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The Solutionaries: Systemic Transformation and the Youth Climate Movement, Blegen

Timothy DenHerder-Thomas, A recent Brower Youth Awardee, will share personal stories from the search for ecological entrepreneurship for sustainable community development, facilitate a discussion about its broader implications, and invie your participation.

 

Permaculture Principles Willey Hall 125

Daniel Halsey Permaculture Principles guide practitioners in designing life systems to solve or mitigate modern issues of climate change, peak oil and social well being. The presentation will introduce attendees to the applications of Permaculture in their daily lives.

Green Your Life Blegen Hall

Keegan Lund Simple solutions to green peoples’ city living. Often in urban cities people think they are separate from the natural world. This may cause us to make decisions which are harmful to the environment, both in our homes and outside our homes. Imagine that very simple changes can be made in and around the home, which save money and also helps protect our ecosystems. Information on composting, gardening, energy efficiency, rain capture/storage, and even urban chicken raising will be shared.

Shamanic Wellness Blegen Hall

Steven Johnson and Heather Willoughby

Shamanic Wellness ~ Enhancing individual well-being and the well-being of the planet through developing a transpersonal relationship with the earth.

Greener is greener Blegen Hall

Kel Heyl, CPBD

Certified Professional Building Designer Greener as in healthier for you, your family and the planet and greener as in saving you money. We’ll look at a Five Step Stairway approach to Greening your home. The first step is to improve the fuel efficiency to reduce heating and cooling bills. This will reduce your carbon footprint. The next steps are to reduce the environmental stressors to improve the health of your home. This should reduce your health costs.

The Solutionaries: Systemic Transformation and the Youth Climate Movement, Blegen Hall

A recent Brower Youth Awardee, Timothy DenHerder-Thomas will share personal stories from the search for ecological entrepreneurship for sustainable community development, facilitate a discussion about its broader implications, and invite your participation.

1:00 Bioneers Plenary* RICK REED Collaborating on a Grand Scale: Think Systemically and Act Cooperatively As visionary co-founder of RE-AMP, he and the Garfield Foundation orchestrated a ground breaking collaboration among 70 NGOs and 10 foundations to transform the Midwest from a leader in emissions to a leader in clean energy. In 2007, all seven of the region’s Governors signed an accord committing their states to slashing their global warming pollution by 80% over the next 40 years. Rick Reed is a senior advisor to the Garfield Foundation, leading its collaborative clean energy project, RE-AMP. With a background in organic farming and molecular biology, Rick has been working in the fields of philanthropy and sustainability for nearly 20 years.

1:45 Bioneers Plenary* LUCAS BENITEZ Fighting for Justice for Farmworkers This champion of labor rights who left Mexico at age 14 to work in the fields in the US has led campaigns for living wages and ending farm worker slave camps. By organizing boycotts and hunger strikes, he and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers have forced the world’s largest and richest fast-food chains to the negotiating table. Lucas Benitez (www.ciw-online.com), a farmworker and co-director of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, originally from Guerrero, Mexico, came to the U.S. on his own when he was 16 to help support his five brothers and sisters. By organizing fellow migrant farmworkers, Lucas helped secure the first wage increase for tomato pickers in 20 years, exposed and stopped two slavery rings, and launched a Labor Action Rights program that collected nearly $100,000 in back wages. In 1999 Lucas was the recipient of the prestigious Do Something BRICK Award, which recognizes and honors ten outstanding leaders under the age of 30.

2:25 Bioneers Plenary* CHRISTINE LOH The “Development” Imperative for Asians How Asians look at development will have a great impact on Earth’s environmental and ecological future. With the threat of climate change, the world must collaborate much more meaningfully, but will that happen fast enough? This internationally acclaimed environmental activist has worked extensively in Chinese business and government and now heads Civic Exchange, a Hong Kong think tank. She shares her perspectives on key levers for restorative development in Asia. Christine Loh, with a stellar background in law, business, politics and media, is a leading voice on public policy in Hong Kong and internationally, and is the co-founder and CEO of the think tank Civic Exchange. Formerly Loh served on the Hong Kong Legislative Council and had a successful career in business. She writes extensively about politics, energy/climate change, and sustainable development in mainstream and academic publications, has written and edited many books, and is an international adviser to many prestigious groups, including the G8+5 Climate Change Dialogue. A member of Asia Society’s International Council (and co-chair of human rights in China), Christine has been widely recognized for her achievements, including as one of TIME’s “Heroes of the Environment.”

3:05 Bioneers Plenary* RAY ANDERSON Sustainability in Action The nation’s most inspiring green business visionary leader and Interface, Inc., his $1 billion global carpet-manufacturing company, are nearly half-way to a zero environmental footprint by 2020. He shows how sustainability and ethics are far better paths to business performance and profit. Ray Anderson (www.interfaceinc.com) is the most successful visionary "green business" leader in America, founder and chairman of the environmentally groundbreaking company, Interface Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of modular carpet and a leading producer of commercial fabrics. Anderson, the author of Mid-Course Correction and a former co-chair of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, was named one of TIME International’s Heroes for the Environment in 2007.

3:40 Post Plenary Dialogue

4:05 to 6:30 Open Forum (Table talk in groups or 1:1, visit exhibitors, attend a workshop or performance, enjoy local/organic ala carte nourishment, or take a walk to the river)

4:30 to 5:10 Regional Workshops – LIVE!

Holistic Green Manufacturing Willey Hall, 125 

Lynn Hinckle and Geraldo Ruiz 

An exploration of the opportunities and challenges of local Green manufacturing and small business ownership.  

 

“Not a Kernel to Eat” Puppet Show Blegen Hall

Reed Aubin, Krista Leraas, Andrew French

Humorous, sad and triumphant, Not a Kernel to Eat is a puppet play about a Mexican farmer as he loves and loses his corn.

The Work That Reconnects Blegen Hall

Kaia Svien

An introduction to Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects, aiding us on emotional and spiritual realms to respond to environmental challenges.

Eureka! There’s No Such Thing As Waste Blegen Hall

Backyard and Worm Bin Composting, Blegen Hall Dianna Kennedy and Lynn Hoffman, Eureka Recycling Did you know a typical household in the Twin Cities area throws away about 10 pounds of compostable material every day? Come learn about the environmental benefits of composting and how you can easily reduce waste at home! This workshop has tips from local nonprofit waste-reduction organization, Eureka Recycling, for maintaining a healthy compost pile or worm bin no matter what type of composter you are. You’ll walk away with more than enough information to start composting at home right away. Some supplies will be available for purchase.

5:30 to 6:10 Regional Workshops Options Include

zAmya Theater Interactive Roadshow Willey Hall, 125

Maren Ward, Lecia Grossman Explore the issues of land ownership and its impact on homelessness in 1858 and today through theater and audience participation.

Giving the Earth a Louder Voice Blegen Hall

Greg Ritter

Could you do more if you had more? GIVING THE EARTH A LOUDER VOICE helps you find major gifts. Participants will learn how to secure major gifts to advance their organizations by understanding: why people give, how to make a compelling case for their projects, the most effective means for communicating their case, and how to locate their best prospects.

Secrets of Breath – taking responsibility for my own stress Blegen Hall

Divya and Sivakumar Kanchibhotla

The interactive and experiential workshop "Secrets of Breath – taking responsibility for my own stress" will demonstrate tools and techniques to eliminate stress, increase energy and focus, create a sense of belongingness and harmony for peaceful coexistence in cooperation and service.

Meeting: Water Reclaimers    Blegen Hall

A new collaboration has formed in the Twin Cities, calling themselves The Water Reclaimers. The Water Reclaimers represent a wide range of perspectives and expertise on the issues impacting our drinking water, including people from local environmental nonprofits, water quality entities, art organizations, city government, restaurants, and more. Join them in their next project to creatively engage people in trusting our drinking water and to help share information about water quality, bottled water, tap water, and water as a “commons.”

6:30 Bioneers Plenary* PAUL STAMETS Solutions from the Underground   Using Fungi to Help Save the World One of the most brilliant explorers of the deep biology of mushrooms and fungi illuminates some potentially worldchanging fungus-based ecological, medicinal and nutritional technologies. Paul Stamets (www.fungi.com), president of Fungi Perfecti, a mail-order business supplying “mycotechnologies” to mushroom cultivators worldwide, has: discovered four new species of mushrooms; pioneered countless techniques in edible and medicinal mushroom cultivation and in “fungal bioremediation;” and written six books including Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, The Mushroom Cultivator, Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, and many articles and scholarly papers. A dedicated hiker, conservationist and explorer, his passion is to preserve, protect and clone as many ancestral strains of mushrooms as possible from the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.

7:20 Bioneers Plenary* JANINE BENYUS Nature’s 100 Best  Top Biomimicry Solutions to Environmental Crises The brilliant naturalist, author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, and founder of the Biomimicry Institute reminds us that our prime directive as living beings is always to seek to create conditions conducive to life. What are Nature’s 100 Best (her book-in-progress), revolutionary solutions to the world’s most vexing challenges? Janine Benyus (www.biomimicryguild.com) is a biologist, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Her company, the Biomimicry Guild, helps clients such as HOK Architects, Interface, Herman-Miller, Kohler, and Seventh Generation consult life's genius to create sustainable products and processes. Janine also co-founded the non-profit Biomimicry Institute, a biomimicry design portal on the web, and the Innovation for Conservation program to conserve the habitat of the mentor organisms. Her latest book project is Nature's 100 Best, a look at what ingenious (and often endangered) species can teach us about becoming true natives.

8:00 Bioneers Plenary* ALEXANDRA COUSTEAU Saving Our Water Planet As a member of the legendary Cousteau family, Alexandra grew up traveling the globe and learning firsthand the value of conserving the natural world. An Emerging Explorer with National Geographic, Alexandra will discuss what we must do to preserve the integrity of our planet’s waters, share stories from her most recent adventures around the world, as well as talk about her latest initiative which seeks to inspire and empower individuals to protect not only the oceans and its inhabitants, but also the human communities that rely on the purity of our freshwater resources. Alexandra Cousteau (www.earthecho.org), born in 1976, granddaughter of the legendary Jacques-Yves Cousteau, is a leading activist and advocate for the conservation and restoration of the planet's oceans and sustainable management of its water resources. A member of the third generation of the Cousteau family to devote their lives to the natural world, she learned to scuba dive with her grandfather when she was seven and hasn't stopped exploring since. Raised in France and the U.S., Alexandra, who co-founded EarthEcho International with her brother Philippe in 2000, is a 2008 National Geographic Emerging Explorer and has spoken to audiences at the UN, Harvard University and the Smithsonian, among numerous other institutions. Alexandra founded her own organization, Blue Legacy, in 2008 and is preparing to launch a global initiative, the Blue Campaign. d her own organization, Blue Legacy, in 2008 and is preparing to launch a global initiative, the Blue Campaign.

8:45 Entertainment

9:30 Adjourn

Sunday, Nov. 16th, 10:00a to 8:30

8:30a  Registration and Open Forum (Table talk in groups or 1:1, visit exhibitors, attend a workshop or performance, enjoy local/organic ala carte nourishment)

9:10 to 9:50 Regional Workshops Options Include:

Green Charter Schools  Willey Hall, 125

A panel presentation and discussion; Jim Tangen-Foster, Jim McGrath, and David Rice discuss the role of Green Charter Schools in promoting environmental literacy and sustainability across the nation. Students from Minnesota New Country School, often referred to as the "Frog School," for its discovery of deformed frogs, will share with you their projects on super-mileage cars, electric motorcycles and our zero waste campaign.

Complementary & Alternative Medical Care Blegen Hall

Laurel Anderson Minnesota hospitals are leaders in “going green” and offering natural treatment options. Learn about national trends and experience a few modalities.

Healthy Home and Work Blegen Hall

Swami Anand Veetrag (Panna)is meditation instructor and Pyra Vastu (science to correct the living and working place with pyramids) expert. He welcomes the audience to come and experience this age-old technique of drinking water and achieve weight loss and greater well being. The secret of total health is in this unique technique of drinking water. Swami travels frequently and lives in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Growing a Local Food Economy Blegen Hall Nick Hylla

Jeremy Solin Growing a local food economy (or any local movement) is about people working together: building issue literacy, creating shared vision, and taking leveraged actions. Come experience team learning methods and see how they are being applied to the local food movement in Central Wisconsin.

10:10 Entertainment

10:30 Inspiring the White House from Our House(s)

11:00 Bioneers Plenary* KAVITA RAMDAS Shakti, Shanti, Sangam: Power, Peace and the Politics of Change

 The president and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, among the most effective international leaders empowering women globally, explains how listening to and learning from women community leaders is the key to building sustainable and effective movements for social justice, equality and peace. Kavita N. Ramdas, the president and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, is one of the most effective international leaders working to empower women around the world by increasing girls’ access to education, defending women’s health and reproductive rights, preventing violence against women, and advancing women’s political participation at all levels.

11:45 Bioneers Plenary* GREG WATSON Twelve Degrees of Freedom

Lessons Learned from Thirty-five Years of Environmental Activism His exemplary contributions have ranged from launching community gardens and farmers’ markets to serving as Massachusetts’ Commissioner of Agriculture, teaching environmental science, working with low-income communities, developing sustainable technologies, and helping create the nation’s first offshore wind farm. Now senior advisor for Clean Energy Technology within the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, he describes how to foster unprecedented collaborations in support of comprehensive design solutions. Greg Watson (www.masstech.org) is senior advisor for Clean Energy Technology within the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and vice president for Sustainable Development with the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. Greg’s long life of exemplary, cutting-edge public service has included serving as: executive director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative; director of educational programs for Second Nature; director of The Nature Conservancy's Eastern Regional Office; commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture; and executive director of the New Alchemy Institute.

12:20 Post Plenary Dialogue 1:00 Open Forum (Table talk in groups or 1:1, visit exhibitors, attend a workshop or performance, enjoy local/organic ala carte nourishment, or take a walk to the river)

1:30 to 2:10 Regional Workshops Options Include:

Faith and Earth’s Future Community Willey Hall 125

Dialogue Moderated by Paul Strickland with leaders from local spiritual and religious communities

How does your faith journey influence your beliefs about stewardship of creation as a sacred trust? This engaging format explores sustainable living from many faith perspectives. Learn about traditions different from your own and share your own perspective so others can expand their understanding.

Green Careers   Blegen Hall

Barbara Parks

The rapid growth of the green economy is a well-documented fact. So where are all the green jobs? You may be looking for an opportunity to snag a good job with a socially responsible company or organization. . . work for a progressive start-up in a green field or market sector. . or launch an entrepreneurial venture to provide a green service or product to environmentally conscious consumers. But where to start when traditional job posting sites reveal little of green work opportunities? Come to find out what’s happening in Minnesota and nationally on the green career scene.

Word Medicines: Finding Words For Troubled Times Blegen Hall

Ted Bowman

Participants will draw on the writing of poets and others to prompt their own writing about the state of our earth at this time. Poetry can complement advocacy and other actions as we need words to help us speak the unspeakable. Sometimes, the arts open windows that statistics and data will not.

Green Eyez   Blegen Hall

Como Park High School Student Group

Students from Como High School have a lot to say about caring for the environment. This award winning program run and led by students is an inspiration to adults as well as students. Many high schools do not have environmental clubs because of the lack of information available to students on how to go about creating one. Through props, Q&A, and a slide show the Green Eyez student group will share their experience in bringing sustainability awareness to their school.

2:30 Bioneers Plenary* DUNE LANKARD Sustainable Solutions Over Centuries A New Business Model

This Eyak Athabaskan native from the Copper River Delta region of Alaska and lifelong commercial fisherman became a community activist and preservationist when the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill desecrated his homelands and waters. He describes the preservation of ecosystems and people as the way to maintain healthy thriving economies for businesses and communities into the future. He has dedicated his life to protecting human rights and the environment. Selected by Time magazine as one of its "Heroes of the Planet," he is a co-founder of the RED OIL Network (Resisting Environmental Degradation of Indigenous Lands).

3:20 Bioneers Plenary* SANDRA STEINGRABER The Environmental Life of Children—from Placenta to Puberty  

Dubbed “the new Rachel Carson,” this ecologist, biologist, cancer survivor, mom, internationally recognized expert on environmental links to cancer and reproductive health and author of the award-winning books: Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, and Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood explains why pediatric environmental health activism is the civil rights movement of our era. Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is a biologist, award-winning author, mother of two, and cancer survivor. Currently a scholar-in-residence at Ithaca College in New York, she is author of the classic, highly influential books, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and Environment, and Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood. Hailed by the Sierra Club as "the new Rachel Carson," Steingraber is presently at work on a book about the environmental life of children. She has addressed many environmental health conferences, testified at Congressional briefings, and appeared frequently on national media.

4:00 Bioneers Plenary* REBECCA MOORE Google Earth: Visualizing Change, Mapping the Future  

 Google Earth’s mapping and visualization technologies are powerful tools for public interest purposes, from environmental justice to climate change, biocultural preservation, land conservation and creating a sustainable society. This software engineer turned public-interest advocate founded Google Earth Outreach, and her efforts are dramatically leveraging the crucial work of NGOs, communities and indigenous peoples worldwide. Rebecca Moore (earth.google.com/outreach) is a computer scientist and longtime software professional. At Google, she conceived and now manages the Google Earth Outreach program, which supports nonprofits, communities and indigenous peoples around the world in applying Google's mapping tools to pressing problems in areas such as environmental conservation, human rights, cultural preservation and creating a sustainable society. Her personal work using Google Earth was recently instrumental in stopping a plan (www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200709/google.asp) to log more than a thousand acres of redwoods in her Santa Cruz Mountain community.

4:40 Discovering your Future Fit Ways, Nina Rothschild Utne

5:10 Break

5:45 Bioneers Plenary* NAOMI KLEIN The Shock Doctrine

The Rise of Disaster Capitalism One of the most important political and economic thinkers of our time, this Canadian journalist and author (The Shock Doctrine and No Logo) penetrates the veils of corporate globalization to expose transnational capital’s most ruthless strategies yet to exploit catastrophe from Baghdad to New Orleans. She portrays her vision of how people’s movements can counter the disaster of disaster capitalism. Naomi Klein (www.naomiklein.org) is an award-winning Canadian journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the highly influential, bestselling books: No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies and, most recently, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She writes a regular, internationally syndicated column for The Nation and The Guardian. Her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and she co-produced The Take with director Avi Lewis, an award-winning feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories.

6:30 Bioneers Plenary* DAVID ORR Some Like It Hot, But Lots Don’t 

The Changing Climate of US Politics One of the nation’s most important architects of environmental literacy in higher education and a leading light of the sustainability movement, this visionary educator will outline a national climate change policy for the incoming administration developed by the Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP). David W. Orr, professor and chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College and an award-winning scholar and leader in the sustainability movement, renowned for his pioneering work on environmental literacy and ecological design, is the author of The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror; The Nature of Design; Earth in Mind; and Ecological Literacy; and co-editor of The Global Predicament and The Campus and Environmental Responsibility. At Oberlin, he directed a collaboration of students, staff and some of the world’s most innovative designers and architects to build a state-of-the-art green building, the Environmental Studies Center.

7:10 Entertainment and Close

7:45 Homeward to try out your new ideas

* Plenary speakers present live at the Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, CA one month prior to the Northland Bioneers Conference in the Twin Cities. Here, on DVD, these 35 minute presentations are presented alongside entertainment and participant interactions to help make the plenary information useable for the long-term