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Northland Bioneers Conference
Schedule for Sunday, October 22, 2006
Personal Care Workshops
Sunday, 7:30 8:15 am
Amy Leo Barankovich
Walking with Nature
Sunday, 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
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Co-Emcee, Paul Steinhauser, White Bear Raquet Club
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
Paul Steinhauser Born in Tokyo in 1953, and raised in St. Paul, Paul has had an undying love for the outdoors for as long as he can remember. His formal education is from the University of Minnesota where he graduated in 1976 with a BS in history and a Secondary Ed teaching degree. His interest in mother nature combined with a historical perspective gave Paul an early window into realizing the unsustainable direction our society was heading.
In 1976, Paul accepted the job of Tennis Pro/Manager of the White Bear Racquet Club. This 8 month per year position (September through April) provided Paul with the perfect job to support his wilderness travel habit. The next 12 summers Paul backpacked, canoed, and hiked though U.S. and Canadian mountain ranges, assisted with bird banding in Minnesota and Washington, spent a summer in the Amazon, and two summers in the Okavongo Swamp in Botswanna where he lived with a troupe of habituated baboons. Often these travels magnified for Paul how rapidly and how deeply civilization is damaging the web of life.
In 1987 Paul assembled a team of investors and developers who envisioned and created White Bear Racquet & Swim, a 130,000 square foot health and fitness club, opened in 1988. Reading Ray C. Anderson's Mid-Course Correction in 2001 provided the spark that started WBRS on its journey towards sustainability that continues today. "What use are your personal health efforts if you don't have a healthy environment in which to live" is the battle cry of the WBRS leadership team. In 2004 WBRS gained national attention in the health club industry for its vision and leadership in expanding the definition of health to include the health of the environment.
Today, while leading WBRS, Paul consults with clubs nationwide on reducing energy, chemicals, and waste from their operations while improving the product provided. Recently he has been participating in community forums on renewable energy, specifically pushing for the Renewable Energy Standard of 20% by 2020 for Minnesota. Living with his wife and two young boys in Mahtomedi, Paul describes himself as a "Fossil Fuel Reduction Evangelist."
Diana Knobel, Katrina Reflections A Relief Workers Perspective
Diana Knobel just completed her seventh trip to the south establishing relationships and coalitions between Minnesota and the Gulf Coast and has followed many young people's stories on their unique Relief Work experiences. Diana facilitates an Unconditional Love and Forgiveness method in private practice and conducts workshops and lectures on transformational change, spiritual healing and servant leadership. Diana is leading an eclectic trip of volunteers to New Orleans for the Thanksgiving holidays.
Sunday, 9 am 11 am Brunch & Community Dialogue
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. 
World Café Report Out by participants
Coordinator of Public Process for Minneapolis Sustainability Initiative
Kenneth A. Meter MPA, President, Crossroads Resource Center
www.crcworks.org
Sunday, 11 am 12 pm Local Keynote Speakers
Sunday, 11 11:30 amCONSTANCE GRAUDS, R.Ph.
Ecological Medicine: Healing The People and The PlanetConstance Grauds, R.Ph., is president of the Association of Natural Medicine Pharmacists (www.anmp.org); adjunct faculty at the University of Minnesota, Center for Spirituality and Healing; and instructor at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. She is also author of the books The Energy Prescription which gives prescriptives for the age-old complaint of fatigue; and Jungle Medicine...from medicine to magic, which recounts spirited tales of her apprenticeship in Amazonian jungle shamanism. Grauds is director of the Center for Spirited Medicine (www.spiritedmedicine.com), and executive director of the Spirited Medicine Alliance, a non-profit dedicated to bringing together medicine, spirit, and ecology for the health and welfare of the Earth and its inhabitants. Her passion and life's work is the integration of the spiritual and scientific healing aspects of plants as medicine into today's modern medicine.
Sunday, 11:30 am 12 pmHORST RECHELBACHER
Alivelihood: The Art of Sustainable SuccessHorst M. Rechelbacher is an active environmentalist, innovative business leader, author and artist. He is the founder of the Aveda Corporation, a global plant-based cosmetic company, which he began in 1978. He started Intelligent Nutrients, a biodynamic and organic based functional foods and nutraceuticals, and HMR Enterprises, which specializes in film, arts and antiques. Horst was voted by the Austrian press along with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Wolfgang Puck as one of the most notable Austrians living in America. In 2004, Horst was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the beauty industry. Vanity Fair Magazine recognized him as one of the most influential environmentalist stewards in their 2005 Best of Best issue. He is also an advisor and supporter of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. In addition, he is the founder and chairman of the Horst M. Rechelbacher Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to social and environmental preservation projects that operate on a grass-roots level. Horst is one of the three original founders of BSR, Business for Social Responsibility, which illustrates his belief that businesses not only have the responsibility but the greatest opportunity to provide sustainability to all living species.
Sunday, 12 4 pm National Plenary Presentations via satelliteRACHEL NAOMI REMEN, M.D.
Becoming a Blessing: Living as if Your Life Makes a DifferenceRachel Naomi Remen, MD, one of the earliest pioneers in the mind/body holistic health movement, co-founded the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, which vaulted to national prominence when it was featured in Bill Moyers' ground-breaking PBS series, "Healing and the Mind." She has cared for people with cancer and their families for over 30 years. A nationally recognized medical reformer and educator who sees the practice of medicine as a spiritual path, she is currently Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine and founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness, and is the author of several bestselling books, including: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal and My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge and Belonging.
MARIA ELENA DURAZO
Building Alliances: Labor, Immigration and the EnvironmentMaria Elena Durazo, one of the nation's most prominent Hispanic labor leaders, is the President of the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union, (H.E.R.E.-Local 11, AFL-CIO) and General Vice-President of H.E.R.E's International Union (U.S. membership of over 250,000). One of 10 children of Mexican immigrant field workers, Maria earned a law degree in 1985 and became the first Latina to head a major union in Southern California. A member of the California Coastal Commission, she was also National Director of the Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride, a national mobilization campaign to fix U.S. immigration laws.
SPENCER BEEBE
Building Salmon Nation: Rethinking People & Place in the North PacificSpencer B. Beebe (www.ecotrust.org), over the course of his 35 year career, has played a key role in the creation of innovative conservation and development organizations from Alaska to Bolivia, helping pioneer "debt for nature" swaps in tropical rainforest countries, "environmental banking" in the Pacific Northwest and building "Salmon Nation" a vision of a truly sustainable greater Northwest region. He is founder and President of Ecotrust, a Portland-based organization committed to improving social, economic and environmental conditions from Alaska to California and serves on the boards of ShoreBank Corporation, Ecotrust Canada and Ecotrust Forest Management, Inc.
SOFÍA QUINTERO
Women Telling Our Stories and Promoting JusticeSofía Quintero (aka "Black Artemis") (www.blackartemis.com) is a Bronx born writer, activist, educator and comedienne of Puerto Rican-Dominican ancestry. A self-proclaimed "Ivy League homegirl," who earned an MPA from Columbia's prestigious School of International Affairs, she is a long-time activist on a range of issues who has married her activism with storytelling in the critically acclaimed Black Artemis series of novels as well as other works under her own name (including Divas Don't Yield). Sofia also co-founded Chica Luna Productions and Sister/Outsider Entertainment to help produce socially conscious entertainment in many media.
PAUL HAWKEN
Biology, Resistance and Restoration: Sustainability as an Infinite GamePaul Hawken (www.naturalcapital.org, www.paulhawken.com) has been a trend-setting leader for decades. He was one of the earliest pioneers at the birth of the modern "health food" movement, one of the earliest exponents and exemplars of socially responsible entrepreneurship and a life-long social justice and environmental activist. If all that weren't enough, Paul has long been one of our most important thinkers on ecology and economics, culture, business, activism and politics, and he has written several of the most ground-breaking and deeply influential books of our time, including The Ecology of Commerce, Natural Capitalism (and the forthcoming Blessed Unrest).
Sunday, 4 5 pm Closing Ceremony
Emcee, Ann Bancroft, world-renowned polar explorer
Accompanied by Barbara McAfee, Music for Life
and
Co-Emcee, Paul Steinhauser, White Bear Raquet Club
Katrina Reflections- A Reverend's Perspective with Reverend Lance Eden, First Street UMC
Rev. Lance Eden at 27 years old is the youngest African American Minister in the United Methodist Louisiana Conference. Rev. Eden's enthusiasm for the rebuilding and renewal of New Orleans has caught national media attention. Rev. Eden recognizes the complexities of African American residents returning to the surrounding community of First Street UMC and works toward creating equal opportunity solutions for all peoples, the environment and the future generations of New Orleanians.
A Call for Stewardship, Yogiraj Achala, Mystisystems®
Yogiraj Achala (Charles Bates)
Initiated in the Tradition of the Himalayan Sages with the title of Yogiraj by the great Himalayan sage Swami Rama. Author of two books: Pigs Eat Wolves, and Ransoming the Mind. Yogiraj has 37 years of study directly in the lineage of the Himalayan Tradition of Sages, is a past board member of the national organization, Yoga Alliance,with 28 years in private practice as an Organizational Development Consultant and is past chairman of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.
Continuing into his 4th year of developmental leave from his private practice in organizational development consulting and teaching yoga and mysticism theory, concept and methods, he is redeveloping his curriculum for the next phase of his work while deepening his spiritual condition. www.mystisystems.com
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