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Building community for change is what Bioneers is all about. Each year we partner with socially responsible, leading-edge companies and organizations to produce what has become one of the most dynamic environmental conferences in the country. These organizations are unusual in the extent to which their products and practices reflect their commitment to restoring the Earth and communities. The Bioneers policy has been to collaborate with green businesses that conduct their operations with a high level of integrity and quality.
We are proud to share an ecosystem with partners deserving of our attention and our patronage. Through these relationships, we are aided in our endeavor to green not only the conference but all of our operations.
Check out the links in this section to find out more about how to get involved and learn about resources for greening your own organization or business.
Conference Sponsors
Bioneers 2008 Sponsors Opportunities
The work of Bioneers wouldn't be possible without the support of our sponsors and media partners. Their alignment with Bioneers demonstrates a commitment to the principles and values of our mission -- creating a sustainable restored world through responsible economic action. We hope you'll show your support to the companies and organizations below.
For more information about sponsorships and partnerships contact Ginger Ridder at 505-986-0366 x124 or gridder AT bioneers.org
Bioneers 2008 Major Sponsors
The Blackstone Ranch Institute
The Blackstone Ranch Institute is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to create positive environmental changes worldwide. The organization supports those who are engaged in fearless and solution-oriented conversations about the most important environmental challenges of our time. Participants in institute programs address urgent concerns such as global warming, water supply, air quality, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, biodiversity, and population growth, and challenge themselves to come up with innovative steps for the way forward.
http://www.blackstoneinstitute.com/
Clif Bar
At Clif Bar Inc., we are committed to people's health and the environment. Clif want to make sure the way we do business helps sustain the natural resources and communities that we depend on. That's why we're working to reduce our ecological footprint in everything we do, from the field to the final product.
Eclectic Institue
Eclectic Institute was founded in 1982. The company name honors and works to continue the legacy of the Eclectic physicians of America's Golden Age of Botanical Medicine, 1836-1837. Eclectic is committed to working with nature’s healing power, in the preparation of botanical products, which nutritionally enhance total health and well-being.
New Leaf Paper
New Leaf Paper demonstrates to its customers and the paper industry that using environmentally sound paper is an economical as well as responsible choice. They provide their customers with the added value of environmental stewardship at competitive prices.
Organic Valley
We think it's a simple truth. The earth's most delicious, most healthful foods are made when farmers work in harmony with nature. That's how this farmer-owned co-op produces organic milk, organic cheese, organic butter, organic eggs, organic juice, organic soy beverages, organic produce, and organic meats! Working with nature is what inspired our original seven farmers to form an organic farming cooperative in 1988. Today our membership has grown to over 900 family farms, and our high standards shine through in our delicious, award-winning, certified organic foods.
http://www.organicvalley.coop/
Portfolio 21
Portfolio 21 is a global equity mutual fund investing in companies designing ecologically superior products, using renewable energy, and developing efficient production methods. Portfolio 21 companies seek to prosper in the 21st Century by recognizing environmental sustainability as a fundamental human challenge and a tremendous business opportunity.
RSF Social Finance
RSF Social Finance creates social benefit through innovative approaches to working with money that reflect the highest aspirations of the human spirit since 1984. We carry out our services on a worldwide basis through philanthropic management, community investment, lending, grantmaking, advisory services, and educational programs.
http://www.rsfsocialfinance.org
MicroPlace
MicroPlace's mission is to help alleviate global poverty by enabling everyday people to make investments in the world’s working poor. Their idea is simple. Microfinance institutions around the world have discovered an effective way to help the world's working poor lift themselves out of poverty. These organizations need capital to expand and reach more of the working poor. At the same time, millions of everyday people here in the United States are looking for ways to make investments that yield a financial return while making a positive impact on the world. MicroPlace simply connects investors with microfinance institutions looking for funds.
https://www.microplace.com/smallchangebigchange/?cid=bioneers
ChicoBag
Colorful, strong and ultra-compact, ChicoBags are a stylish and sustainable alternative to single-use plastic and paper bags. Stuff it into its integrated pouch and throw it in your pocket, purse or glove box. It's a cinch to pack and carry.
Saybrook Graduate and Research Center
Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center offers a premier graduate education rooted in humanistic values for adult learners interested in helping to shape a more humane and sustainable world. Accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), Saybrook offers masters and doctoral degrees in Organizational Systems, Psychology, and Human Science. Saybrook students develop the knowledge and skills necessary to seek truth as scholars, create health and wholeness as practitioners and to offer service and leadership in their communities.
Christensen Foundation
The Christensen Fund believes in the power of biological and cultural diversity to sustain and enrich a world faced with great change and uncertainty. We focus on the “bio-cultural” – the rich but neglected adaptive interweave of people and place, culture and ecology. The Fund’s mission is to buttress the efforts of people and institutions who believe in a biodiverse world infused with artistic expression and work to secure ways of life and landscapes that are beautiful, bountiful and resilient.
http://www.christensenfund.org/
Lincoln Pain/First Affirmative/Calvert
Calvert Group is the largest family of socially responsible Mutual Funds in the US, a leader in shareholder activism, social research and community development investing. First Affirmative Financial Network , LLC is a nationwide network of investment professionals specializing in socially and environmentally responsible investing. Lincoln Pain, CFP/AIF has been helping others use their assets to change the world for 22 years. He is co-founder of the Shareholder Action Network and President of the financial planning and investment consulting firm, Effective Assets. His broker/dealer is Cambridge Investment Research, Inc., Member, FINRA & SIPC.
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Cafe Mam
Café Mam (say 'mom') coffee is grown by fair trade cooperatives of native Mayan farmers living in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala. The growers, primarily of the Mam, Tzetzal and Mochó peoples, are organized according to egalitarian democratic ideals that emphasize hard work, responsibility to the cocooperative, and high standards. The cooperative’s programs provide countless benefits to outlying native communities.
Keeping it Green
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Keeping it Green
As a community coming together at Bioneers to offer and celebrate solutions for restoring the Earth, we must be aware of our individual and collective practices, at the conference and in our home communities. For the last 6 years, we have been engaged in a focused effort to transform the conference culture towards zero waste by designing waste out of the system wherever possible.
The Greening Bioneers project grew out of a youth-led conversation at Bioneers in 2001, envisioning a more environmentally sustainable conference. Since then, we have drastically reduced our ecological footprint and diverted thousands of pounds of would-be "waste" through recycling and composting.
Be Part of the Solution
We can't green Bioneers without your help and participation. Make choices that nurture our precious planet, and thank you for your partnership.
- Carpool to the Conference: Click here to offer or find a ride on our bulletin board
- Bring a bag or backpack to carry any items you may purchase or collect at the conference
- Select only handouts that you will read, and then pass them on to a friend or return them
- Reuse paper
- Carry your own water bottle
- Bring your own mug for coffee and drinks
- Avoid using paper towels
- Use the Resource Recovery Stations for recycling, compost and trash
- Recycle whatever you can, including your name badge at the end of the event
- Help create nutrient-rich Bioneers soil by composting
Media Partners
Bioneers is pleased to partner with the following organizations for the Bioneers Conference.
Media Partners
City Spirit Natural Pages
For over 20 years, City Sprit has been publishing the Natural Pages®, bi-annual community guides for natural living in NY, NJ, CT, PA and the San Francisco Bay Area with a readership of over two million. City Spirit Design offers businesses in service to a sustainable future, professional branding, marketing, packaging, graphic design, and websites building at affordable rates. City Spirit is committed to making a contribution to the evolution of a new consciousness.
E-Magazine
E-The Environmental Magazine, the Nation’s only non-profit, independent consumer publication on the environment is a clearinghouse of information, news & commentary on today’s environmental issues. It’s our intent to inform and inspire individuals who have concerns about the environment and want to know what they can do.
FSTV
Seizing the power of television to expand social consciousness, Free Speech TV (FSTV) fuels the movement for progressive social, economic, and political transformation. By exposing the public to perspectives excluded from the corporate-owned media, FSTV empowers citizens to fight injustices, to revitalize democracy, and to build a more compassionate world. FSTV broadcasts independently-produced documentaries dealing with social, political, cultural, and environmental issues; commissions and produces original programming; develops programming partnerships and collaborations with social justice organizations; provides special live broadcasts from remote locations; and maintains an adjunct Web site that hosts one of the Internet's largest collection of progressive audio and video content.
Link TV
Link TV is a Peabody Award-winning independent national network dedicated to providing diverse perspectives on world and national issues, without censorship or commercials. The network presents a 24-hour mix of international and domestic documentaries, investigative reports, and world news including the daily 'Mosaic' newscast, foreign films and TV’s largest collection of World Music.
Mother Jones
Mother Jones magazine, MotherJones.com, and Mother Jones Radio are celebrating 30 years of smart, fearless journalism. We provide the best in independent, investigative reporting. Mother Jones: Never be afraid to ask.
Plenty
PLENTY Magazine is for hip, socially conscious, technologically savvy readers. With features on policy, travel, food and design, PLENTY promises exciting choices for green living.
Yes! Magazine
Award-winning, ad-free, independent magazine of positive change.
OnEarth
CSRwire
Check out Bioneers member profile on CSRwire!
Pacific Sun
Ideal Bite
Ideal Bite offers bite-size ideas for light-green living. Ideal Bite sends ideas on easy ways to go green to hundreds of thousands of subscribers via a short, sassy email each weekday. The tips are fun, free, and peppered with information and actionable links. Visit www.idealbite.com to see why everyone is Biting!
Ready Made Magazine
ReadyMade is a bimonthly print magazine for people who like to make stuff, who see the flicker of invention in everyday objects — the perfectly round yolk in the mundane egg.
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Green Lifestyles on Planet Paradise
http://greenplanetparadise.com/
“Green Lifestyles’ mission is to be a bridge of education and a window of inspiration to transform the planet to a GREEN Planet Paradise.”