Thursday, October 15, 2009
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9:00am - 5:00pm
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PRE-CONFERENCE INTENSIVE:
Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability
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9:00am – 5:00pm
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PRE-CONFERENCE INTENSIVE:
Education For Action in the Age of Climate Change
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PRE-CONFERENCE Farm Field Trip:
The Omnivore’s Discovery |
Friday, October 16, 2009
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Plenary Sessions
9:00am - 1:00pm
Veterans' Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
and in the Main Tent via simulcast
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Traditional Welcome to his people’s ancestral lands by Chairman Greg Sarris of Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, Coast Miwok/Southern Pomo Nations
Opening remarks from Co-founder:
Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons
Introduction by Arty Mangan, Bioneers Food & Farming Director
BROCK DOLMAN (profile)
Basins of Relations: A Reverential Rehydration Revolution
Introduction by Liz Cunningham, Bioneers Youth and Conference Project Manager
KARI FULTON (profile)
Youth Redefining Environmentalism, Reclaiming our Futures
Intermission
Introduction by Kenny Ausubel
JACK HIDARY (profile)
From Small Steps to the Energy Revolution
Introduction by Dune Lankard, Alaskan Indigenous Social Entrepreneur and Bioneers Board Member
SARAH JAMES (profile)
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: Report from the Arctic
SALLY ROESCH WAGNER (profile)
Performance
Introduction by Kenny Ausubel
MICHAEL POLLAN (profile)
In Defense of Food: The Omnivore’s Solution
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Afternoon Sessions
2:45 - 4:15 pm
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Forever Young: The Omnivore’s Dilemma for Youth (VMA)
Land Is Life: Indigenous Peoples Respond to Climate Change (Main Tent)
Terms of Market Engagement: Breakthrough Business Strategies for Sustainability (John Mohawk Tent)
Transforming Higher Education for the Age of Climate Change (Rachel Carson Tent)
Rehydration Revolution: Hydrological and Carbon Farming (Showcase Theater)
Across Differences: The Real Value of Social Diversity (Manzanita)
Changing the Story: Using Media for Social Transformation (Corte Madera)
Headlines! Art Inspired by Environmental News (Santa Rosa)
Herb Walk with Sage LaPena-Peconom (Meet at the Sun Stage)
Council Circle (Council Tent)
Open and Egalitarian Forum
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Afternoon Sessions
4:30 - 6:00pm
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Moving Images Festival (Showcase Theater)
Food, Inc.
The People's Grocery
Re-Envisioning Leadership (VMA)
Geodesic/Synergetic/Dymaxion Trimtabs: The Buckminster Fuller Challenge! (John Mohawk Tent)
Localization-The Pathway to Living Economics (Rachel Carson Tent)
Sacred Waters: Renewing the Blood of Mother Earth (indigenous Tent)
Busting the Drug War: The Dawning Era of Drug Policy Reform (Manzanita)
Re-Weaving the Web of Life: Conserving Global Biodiversity (Corte Madera)
Building a Green Agenda for the Racial and Economic Justice Movements in the Bay Area (Santa Rosa)
Social Media (Autodesk Atrium)
Council Circle (Council Tent)
Open and Egalitarian Forum
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Evening Events
7:00pm
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Bioneers Moving Image Festival (Rachel Carson Tent)
A Sea Change
Witness to Hiroshima
Youth Event (John Mohawk Tent)
Students of Consequence
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Evening Events
7:00pm onward
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Bioneers Moving Image Festival (Showcase Theater)
The Yes Men Fix the World
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
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Plenary Sessions
9:00am - 1:00pm
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KAI ECKHARDT (profile)
Musical Performance
Opening Remarks by Jim Garrison (profile), President of State of the World Forum
Clip from Hidden Beauty introduced by filmmaker Louis Schwartzberg
Introduction by Bryony Schwan
JASON MCLENNAN (profile)
Living Buildings: The Future of Architecture
Introduction by Nina Simons
LILY YEH (profile)
The Rwanda Healing Project: Bringing Hope through Art and Creative Action
Introduction by Nina Simons
JENSINE LARSEN (profile)
The Electric Pulse of Women Transforming Our World
SHAILJA PATEL (profile)
Performance by award-winning Kenyan activist-artist
MARIN COUNTY AWARD
Presented by Charles McGlashan & Jim Farley
Introduction by Kenny Ausubel
ARTURO SANDOVAL (profile)
Changing the Axis: Drawing from Mexican and Latin American Cultures to Create a Sustainable Future
Introduction by Kenny Ausubel
DR. ANDREW WEIL (profile)
Environmental Health, Environmental Medicine
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Afternoon Sessions
2:45 - 4:15 pm
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The Living Building Challenge: Can You Match Nature’s Design Elegance? (VMA)
Imagine That! The Power of Creativity and Imagination to Create Social and Environmental Change (Main Tent)
The Blue Revolution: Restoring Watersheds in Cities and Communities (John Mohawk Tent)
Shattering Stereotypes: Empowering Youth to Create Positive Change (Rachel Carson Tent)
Native Media and Cultural Revitalization (Indigenous Tent)
Mother Jones Presents: Morph or Die—The Transformation of Journalism and Media (Showcase Theater)
Breakthrough Communities: How Multi-Racial Coalitions are Building Transformative Leadership for Sustainability and Justice
(Manzanita)
A Conversation About Integrative Medicine, Environmental Health and the Transformation of Health Care (Corte Madera)
Dreaming New Mexico: Reconciling Human and Natural Systems (Santa Rosa)
Herb Walk with Autumn Summers
Council Circle (Council Tent)
Open and Egalitarian Forum
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Afternoon Sessions
4:30 - 6:00pm
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Bioneers Moving Image Festival (Showcase Theater)
Children of the Amazon
Silent Snow
Global Water Sustainability Challenges: How would Biomimicry (Nature) solve them? (VMA)
Women and Entheogens (Main Tent)
Blackstone Ranch Institute Presents: From Convening to Coordinated Action: The Path to Transformational Change (John Mohawk Tent)
Farming With Nature: Looking to the Land for Guidance (Rachel Carson Tent)
Green Economy Innovations in Native Lands (Indigenous Tent)
Educasting: Education for Innovation (Manzanita)
UnEarthing the Story: The Power of Women and Media (Corte Madera)
From Jaguars to White Spirit Bears: Conserving Imperiled Wildlands (Santa Rosa)
Social Media (Autodesk Atrium)
Council Circle (Council Tent)
Open and Egalitarian Forum
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Evening Events
6:30 - 8:00pm
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Seed Exchange
Moving Image Festival
Dirt!
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Evening Events
7:30 - 10:00pm
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Food and Farming Banquet and Tribute to Organic Valley (Embassy Suites Ballroom - special tickets are required)
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Evening Events
8:00-9:30pm
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Moving Image Festival
Earth Days
Origins
DR. ANDREW WEIL & CAROLINE W. CASEY
Trickster Medicine: Death--Sex--Money--Power--Pragmatic
Mysticism--Democratic Animism... and more!
(VMA - Cost: $10 for conference attendees w/badge; $30 open to the public.)
Live Music & Dance Party
Dance the night away to Live Music & the "gaiatronic grooves" of DJ Dragonfly. (Exhibit Hall)
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
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Plenary Sessions
9:00am - 1:00pm
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KAI ECKHARDT (profile)
Musical Performance
Opening remarks by Nina Simons, Bioneers co-founder
Introduction by Nina Simons
JOANNA MACY (profile)
The Hidden Promise of Our Dark Age: Discovering Our Wisdom, Strength and Beauty in the Midst of Crisis
Introduction by Thomas Linzey (profile), Executive Director of the Community Environmental Defense Fund
MARI MARGIL (profile)
Who speaks for the Trees? Driving Nature’s Rights into Law
Introduction by Rebecca Moore (profile), founder of Google Earth Outreach
CHIEF ALMIR NARAYAMOGA SURUI (profile)
Biocultural Conservation in the Amazon: How an Amazon Tribe Has Combined Traditional Knowledge with Science and Technology to Save its Rainforests and its People
Intermission
Introduction by Kate Gordon, co-director of the National Appollo Alliance
JEROME RINGO (profile)
The Color Of Green: The Next Inconvenient Truth
DESTINY ARTS YOUTH PERFORMANCE COMPANY
performance
Introduction by Kenny Ausubel
ANNIE LEONARD (profile)
The Story of Stuff
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Afternoon Sessions
2:45 - 4:15 pm
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Collective Healing: Transforming Trauma and Despair (VMA)
The Forest and the Trees – and the People: Saving Rainforest Biocultural Diversity (Main Tent)
Awakening the Dreamer (John Mohawk Tent)
Raising Their Voices! Youth Using New Media to Amplify Their Causes (Rachel Carson Tent)
Protecting Sacred Landscapes, Native Plants, Foods and Medicines (Indigenous Tent)
Shades of Gray: Is the Economy Really Turning Green? (Showcase Theater)
Democracy Breaks Out: The Spokane Revolution (Manzanita)
Fair Food: Building a Fair and Sustainable Food System with Faith, Politics and Music (Corte Madera)
Visualizing Your Cause in Google Earth (Novato/Larkspur)
Herb Walk with Kami McBride (Meet at Sun State)
Council Circle (Council Tent)
Open and Egalitarian Forum |
Afternoon Sessions
4:30 - 6:00pm
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Moving Image Festival
A Sense of Wonder
Lessons from Rachel Carson
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A Dialogue about Sustainability from Two Cultures: Modern Systems Thinking and Indigenous Wisdom (VMA)
When Less is More: Rethinking Our Relationships to Time and Money (Main Tent)
Tag, You’re I.T.-Information Technology Innovations (John Mohawk Tent)
Democracy Schools and the Rights of Nature (Rachel Carson Tent)
Indigenous Philanthropy: Expanding Funding for the First Peoples (Indigenous Tent)
Becoming Resilient Change Agents (Manzanita)
Inner Transformation and Engagement for Environmental and Social Justice (B17)
Breaking Gridlock: Greening and Decentralizing State and Regional Energy Systems (B23)
Indigenous Mapping with Google Earth
Council Circle (Council Tent)
Open and Egalitarian Forum
Closing Circle
Hosted by Cultivating Women's Leadership '09 Ocamora Alumni
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Monday, October 19, 2009
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9:00am - 5:00pm
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POST-CONFERENCE INTENSIVE:
Democracy School Intensive
Embassy Suites Hotel
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POST-CONFERENCE TRAINING WORKSHOP & FIELD TOUR:
Natural Magic: Permaculture Workshop and Biodiversity Gardens
Tour
Meet in Front of Embassy Suites Hotel (buses depart for the tour promptly at 8:00)
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