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Northland Bioneers Conference
Schedule for Friday, October 20, 2006
Friday, 8 am Registration Opens
8:30 - 9 am Welcome and Opening CeremonyANN BANCROFT
Emcee, Ann Bancroft, world-renowned polar explorer
Accompanied by Barbara McAfee, Music for Life
Ann Bancroft is one of the world's preeminent polar explorers and an internationally recognized leader. Through her various roles as explorer, educator, and sought-after speaker, she is dedicated to sharing the powerful stories of her expeditions with people worldwide to inspire them to pursue their goals and dreams.
Bancroft's teamwork and leadership skills have undergone severe tests during her polar expeditions and provided her with opportunities to break down barriers and shatter female stereotypes. The tenacity and courage that define her character have earned Bancroft worldwide recognition as one of today's most influential role models. She has been named among Glamour magazine's "Women of the Year" (2001); featured in the book Remarkable Women of the Twentieth Century (1998); inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame (1995); named Ms. magazine's "Woman of the Year" (1987); and honored with numerous other awards for her accomplishments. www.yourexpedition.com 
Barbara McAfee is a talented singer/songwriter and keynote speaker who uses music and words to inspire and connect people. Her musical keynotes have brought heart and sass to events at Best Buy Women's Leadership forum, YMCA national training, and numerous wellness events around the US. She has also lent her music to keynotes by national authors Margaret Wheatley and Peter Block.
Barbara has a lively voice coaching practice where she supports all kinds of people in finding more power and pleasure in expression.
Before devoting herself to music full time, Barbara was an organizational change facilitator for 12 years with a special emphasis on improving communities for children and families.
She lives near the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. www.barbaramcafee.com
Dr. Irene Kovala, MCTC
Interim Sr. Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs
Anne Hunt, City of St. Paul
Deputy Policy Director, Environment
Scott Benson, City of Minneapolis
City Council, Ward 11
Mayor Mary Hammon-Roland
Apple Valley
Friday, 9 - 10 am Local Keynote SpeakerDAVID WALINGA, MD, MPA
Innovating a Non-Toxic Future: Building a World with Healthier Food and Products for Our Children
David Wallinga, M.D., MPA is director of the Food and Health program at the Minneapolis-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), www.iatp.org/foodandhealth. David's work highlights the public health benefits of making plastics and other commercial products from things we grow, rather than from fossil fuels. For the past decade, he also has written and spoken about the health impacts, especially on fetuses and children, of many toxic substances unknowingly added to products, including cosmetics, household products and foods. Additionally, Dr. Wallinga works on the public health benefits of growing food sustainably and without antibiotics or arsenic rather than under "conventional," industrial models that tend to rely on intensive use of energy and fossil-fuel derived pesticides and fertilizers. He has a medical degree from the University of Minnesota and a policy degree from Princeton University.
Friday, 10 am - 12 pm 20 Interactive Workshops
Friday, 10 am 11:30 am
George Johnson
The Power of Stories and Vision Stories
In this highly interactive presentation you will have a chance to be a story teller and to realize the potential for positive change by creating a story on how you will impact the future.
Guy Trombley and Paula Westmoreland
Artfully Applying Ecological Sciences, Ethics, and Principles to Culture Transformation
Discover the art of implementing science in the human and natural landscape to create culture that restores the environment and builds community.
Friday, 10 am 10:55 am
Danie Watson
Social Marketing: The Art and Science of Behavior Change
Apply marketing principles to create voluntary behavior change to improve health, prevent violence, build community, influence policymakers or increase environmental stewardship.
Terry Gips
Introduction to Sustainability and the Natural Step Framework
Can we align ourselves with the Earth, save money, and create vibrant communities? Explore how with this inspiring Swedish approach brought here by Paul Hawken.
Susan Hubbard
St. Paul Environmental Roundtable
Learn about a citizen participation process that helped to set Saint Paul's policy on: zero waste, food systems, cleaner energy, green building, open space and water stewardship.
John Dwyer, Kurt Gough, and Jackie Millea
4 Houses: In Search of Truly Sustainable Design
Shelter Architecture will present their unique approach to sustainability via four sustainable home designs that are helping the United States Green Building Council set a new standard for sustainable residential design.
Marnita Schroedl, Marnita's Table
Let Marnita's Magic Motion Mix Move you Into Your Vision
So you're ready to step fully into your vision and live in the community of your dreams. This powerful session puts you fully in motion.
Sandy Olson Loy
Making Healthy, Fresh and Sustainable Food Choices
BUY FRESH BUY LOCAL: You'll build community, save fossil fuels, invest in our sustainable farmers and eat great healthy food grown by people you know.
Curt McNamara and Wendy Jedlicka
The Basics of Biomimicry
This experiential workshop gives you a thorough grounding in the principles, plus time to apply the principles to your life, work, or designs.
Gemma Bulos
Music, Peace and Women Waterkeepers
Water. Music. Women. Honoring and merging these powerful forces can provide nourishment, healing and compassion and lead us on a path towards a peaceful and sustainable future.
Friday, 11:05 am 12:00 pm
Troy Goodnough
Power for the Prairie: Renewable Energy Development at UMM
The University of Minnesota, Morris generates a significant portion of its energy with a large wind turbine and plans to heat and cool the campus with biomass gasification.
Jill Jacoby
Duluth Stormwater Garden Project
Sweetwater Alliance is a nonprofit organization working to create a Stormwater Garden on Duluth's Bayfront. The Stormwater Garden project fuses ecological restoration, art, water cleansing, and environmental education.
Cathy Geist, Wiley Buck, and Students
Ecological Restoration and Youth
College students, in partnership with Great River Greening, are teaching urban youth how to help restore a native prairie while building connection with the land and each other.
Joel Hodroff
EcoBucks: A New Currency for Sustainability
Imagine customer loyalty rewards for recycling and carpooling; not for consumer spending. Come learn about EcoBucks, a business-community partnership to promote rapid sustainable economic development.
Christy James
Renewing the Countryside
Learn about Green Routes and sustainable tourism opportunities in Minnesota that support healthy rural communities, local food systems, and green business practices.
Rick Person
The St. Paul Environmental-Economic Partnership Project
City of Saint Paul sustainability plan and implementation schedule.
Laurie J. Brown
Sustaining the Vision
Join Laurie Brown, entrepreneur and inventor, to learn how to bring business ideas and inventions into the future while sustaining the entrepreneur and the environment.
Friday, 10am 2 pm World Café
Lightly facilitated community room where participants bring questions and reflections. Through listening and expression participants record actionable ideas. Led by Cheryl Kartes, Institute of Cultural Affairs - Technology of Participation®.
Cheryl Kartes brings an aesthetic concern for nurturing creativity and the human spirit to the MN ToP team. Her local and national work in arts and nonprofit administration has provided her with over 20 years of experience in organizational and community leadership roles. Cheryl is a mediator, a coach, a mentor ToP trainer, and served as co-chair for the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) 2001 conference held in the Twin Cities.
Friday, 1 - 5 pm National Plenary Presentations via satellitePAUL STAMETS
How Mushrooms Can Help Save the WorldPaul Stamets (www.fungi.com), president of Fungi Perfecti, a mail-order business supplying cultures, equipment and myco-technologies to mushroom cultivators throughout the world, has discovered four new species of mushrooms and pioneered countless techniques in the field of edible and medicinal mushroom cultivation and in "fungal bioremediation." He has written six books including Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, The Mushroom Cultivator, Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World, and most recently, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, as well as many articles and scholarly papers. Paul has authored and been awarded several breakthrough patents on fungal pesticide and bioremediation techniques that have great potential to help clean up the environment. He is also a dedicated hiker, conservationist and explorer whose passion is to preserve, protect and clone as many ancestral strains of mushrooms as possible from the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.
SARAH CROWELL
The Courage to Walk in Beauty: Creating Space for Young People to Find Truth and PowerSarah Crowell (www.destinyarts.org), the Executive Director of the renowned Destiny Arts Center in Oakland, CA, has been empowering youth through dance, theater, violence-prevention and youth leadership classes and workshops in Bay Area schools and community centers since 1990, encouraging youths to find their voices through the arts. She is also a dancer and actress who has performed nationally and internationally and co-directs the "i am! Productions" dance/theater company.
MICHAEL POLLAN
Beyond the Bar Code: The Local Food RevolutionMichael Pollan (www.michaelpollan.com), currently the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and Director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism, has been writing about where the human and natural worlds intersect (food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture) for over 20 years. His books include the award-winning, bestselling, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World; and, most recently, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, about the ethics and ecology of eating. A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine since 1987, he has received numerous awards, and his articles have appeared in many publications, including Harper's, Mother Jones and House & Garden.
JAMES HILLMAN
Accentuate the Positive: Reclaiming the Country from the NationJames Hillman is a Connecticut-based scholar, international lecturer, pioneer psychologist, and the author of more than twenty books, including The Soul's Code, Re-Visioning Psychology, Healing Fiction, The Dream and the Underworld, and Suicide and the Soul. A Jungian analyst and originator of post-Jungian "archetypal psychology," he has held teaching positions at Yale, the University of Chicago, Syracuse and the University of Dallas, where he co-founded the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.
LOIS GIBBS
25 Years of an Inspirational Journey: From Love Canal to the NationLois Marie Gibbs (www.chej.org), a legendary figure in the grassroots environmental justice movement ever since the infamous, historic "Love Canal" episode, is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ), which has assisted over 10,000 grassroots groups nationwide with critical organizing and technical assistance. The winner of many awards including the 1990 Goldman Environmental Prize and the 1998 Heinz Award, Lois has spoken around the country and been featured on many of the nation's most popular television and radio news shows.
Friday, 5 7 pm Dinner/Community Dialogue/Social
What have you learned at the Northland Bioneers Conference? How will you "habithat"? Led by Craig Neal, Heartland Circle.
Meal tickets are available through registration for $12 (recommended). Limited meal tickets may be available on site. You are also welcome to bring your own food. Please respect the zero waste policy of the event and use reusable containers only.
Craig Neal, Vision Holder, Heartland Inc.
Since awakening to his life's purpose in 1963, Craig Neal has celebrated life as a passionate change leader, publishing executive and organizational executive and guide to those called to authentically show up in life and work.
Throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s Craig held executive positions with Garden Way, Inc, Rodale Publishing and helped launch Harrowsmith and Eating Well magazines. In 1996 he concluded his publishing career and as Publisher of Utne Magazine. In 1996 Craig founded Heartland Inc. with Patricia, his wife of 25 years. Since then he has been dedicated to creating networks of authenticity and essential conversations among individuals and within organizations through training and convening events that serve to bring about the desired systemic personal, social and organizational transformations needed in these extraordinary times.
In 1998 Heartland produced the first "Thought Leader Gathering" for 40 change leaders in Minnesota. Eight years and 125 Gatherings later, Craig has guided over 1200 leaders in these ongoing membership based groups in Minnesota and the Bay Area of Calif. He and Patricia created the Essential Conversations Process (ECP) for educators (Circle of Fire) and MBA students, along with convening meetings for businesses and communities alike.
In 2004 Craig launched the Art of Convening TeleTraining series for those called to be an inspired catalysts for change in their organization or community. Over 200 leaders are currently engaged or have graduated from 21 Art of Convening groups.
Craig is skilled at building relationships within and across organizations and in developing and maintaining superior communication skills and member relations. He founded the Conscious Business Alliance, the Minnesota Magazine Publishers Association, and served as a founding board member of Business for Social Responsibility and of Responsible Minnesota Business. Craig lives with Patricia and their two sons on an urban gardenstead in Minnesota. He loves the land, is an avid gardener, beekeeper and voyageur. He is currently writing The Art of Convening: A Field Guide to Essential Conversations. www.heartlandcircle.com 
Friday, 7 - 8 pm Local Keynote SpeakerJ. DRAKE HAMILTON
Global Warming Solutions: 21st Century Energy Solutions to Grow Our Economy, Make People Healthier, and Fight Global WarmingJ. Drake Hamilton is science policy director for the private, nonprofit Fresh Energy (formerly Minnesotans for an Energy-Efficient Economy). Fresh Energy, www.fresh-energy.org, advocates for energy solutions that lead to healthy economies, healthy people, a healthy environment, and greater energy independence. Hamilton's specialty is communicating global warming solutions. She serves on the board of the U.S. Climate Action Network, and helped found Congregations Caring for Creation. In 2005, she studied global warming policy in Europe via a leadership fellowship from the European Union. She holds degrees in geography and environmental studies from Dartmouth College and the University of Minnesota. She was formerly Assistant Professor of Geography at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in environmental geography and energy policy.
Friday, 8 10 pm Musical Entertainment
Dance into your dreams with three motivational pop/rock/jazz/worldbeat musicians, Gemma Bulos, A Million Voice Choir, Gina Citoli, A Cabaret Of Consciousness, and Karen HeaChung Lyu. 
Gemma Bulos, Composer/Performer of "We Rise," Architect of the Million Voice Choir Founder, A Single Drop Non-Profit Organization
As a pre-school teacher who was not on her regular 8:50am train to the World Trade Center on September 11, helpless, Gemma Bulos, the Million Voice Choir's founder witnessed a global community united through tragedy. In response, she wrote "We Rise," a rousing anthem that celebrates water as a metaphor for unity in action. The song was presented and performed at the United Nations as the new human world anthem in celebration of the International Day of Peace. The "We Rise" metaphor made her think specifically about water which led her to learn more about freshwater issues. And in focusing on that, she discovered the power of water in our fundamental human relations, our global interactions and in peacemaking.
Launching in Spring 2004, Gemma traveled around the world teaching and inviting people to sing "We Rise." This world "tour" galvanized diverse groups in an invited 100 cities in over 60 countries to join together for this unprecedented grassroots global peace movement. This culminated in a wave of voices singing "WE RISE" from all over the world on International Peace Day. This was the single initiative that has helped her to become a living example of ASD's concept; it takes a single drop of water to start a wave, one person to initiate social change.
Her work as a head teacher at the Children's Museum of Manhattan, mentor for at-risk youth in the South Bronx, and international volunteer work, combined with her work as a performer, has helped her cultivate a comprehensive and entertaining approach to raise awareness and inspire action. 
Gina Citoli is an internationally recognized songwriter and singer. Her voice carries healing qualities and she is one of the consciousness raising messengers on our planet at this time. Gina combines her wisdom with music, vocals and humor to convey solutions for the challenges facing humanity.
Karen HeaChung Lyu loves to celebrate global music and connection - inspiring hearts, moving feet and opening minds with eclectic global joy and soul, from salsa to jazz  and Korean to Hebrew. As vocalist and bandleader of Global Jazz, she soulfully savors songs in many styles and languages including English, Korean, Hebrew, (Brazilian) Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Vietnamese, Arabic and sign language. In addition to Global Jazz, she has also performed with the Karen Lyu Quartet, Via Brasil, Bomba, Minneapolis Community College Gospel Choir, the Eddie Piccard Trio and as a solo vocalist since 1993. Karen has been featured on NPR "All Things Considered", MPR "Morning Show," Democracy Now, documentary film, regional television, radio and cable. Karen has a BSS in Jazz Studies from Cornell College, and also studied voice with Mira Kehoe (Guthrie Theatre) and Roberta Davis (Manfredo Fest). Born in Seoul, South Korea, Karen grew up in California, Texas and Minnesota and has had wonderful experiences traveling in Central America, South Korea, Brazil, Europe, Canada and throughout the US. www.globaljazz.net
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