By Nina Simons As I read about Sheryl Sandberg's new book, Lean In, with recent reviews in the Nation by Katha Pollitt and in the NYT Book Review by Anne-Marie Slaughter, I appreciated how each of them decries the immediate array of attacks on Sandberg from other women, and eschews women’s tendency toward a kind …
Nina Simons This talk is dedicated to everyone who has ever felt powerless, experienced being the dissenting or minority voice, or felt unfairly judged, devalued or dismissed for being different. It is intended for anyone who has experienced a culture that elevates some while denigrating others. by Nina Simons As a young woman right …
Nina Simons My life has been a long and windy river, with many twists and turns, and it’s led me to fall in love with many of the issues and people and passions that bring us together through Bioneers. by Nina Simons As a child, though I grew up in a city, nature …
Kenny Ausubel In this epic moment of radical environmental and social disruption, the world is experiencing the dawn of a revolutionary transformation to becoming an ecologically literate and socially just civilization. The existential gauntlet is to make the shift fast enough to outrun global cataclysm. The next five or six years will be …
Kenny Ausubel Bioneers Co-CEO and Co-Founder Kenny Ausubel is honored to join the Presidential Action Project (PCAP) Advisory Council. The Presidential Climate Action Project was conceived by Bioneers Board member David Orr at a conference of sustainable development leaders in 2007. David's idea was to create an action plan for the 44th President …
Nina Simons I believe that our inner and outer work go hand in hand, pursuant to the ancient wisdom, “as below, so above.” That each feeds and strengthens the other so that we may both embody and act from the change we long for in the world. The world is calling for our …
Given the widespread traumas assaulting us all on a virtually daily basis – from climate catastrophes to severe economic strain and the harms of a society that puts profits over people and nature – how could we not carry a constant background level of PTSD? If you engage in a meaningful conversation with most people …
- An Excerpt from Dreaming the Future Honey, We Shrunk the Planet – An Excerpt from Dreaming the Future by Kenny Ausubel
When people ask me what the Bioneers Conference is, I say it’s a natural anti-depressant. As someone all too well informed about the magnitude of the destruction and intractable predicaments our world uniquely faces today, I’m grateful I also have the privilege of a job that amounts to a kind of “star search” for the …