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Bioneers

It's All Related

The Bioneers, thirty years on, carrying on, it's all connected

• https://www.facebook.com/Bioneers.org/videos/2197871260292334/

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bioneers

Kenny Ausubel speaks to the Bioneers, October 2019

File:Kenny Ausubel - Bioneers 30th Anniversary Conference.pdf

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Reflections on 'Transformative' Change, Growing the Bioneers

Steve Schmidt/GreenPolicy360 and Kenny Ausubel/Bioneers -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bioneers

>Steve was a founder of the publishing division of Seeds of Change in the early 1990s. Together with Kenny Ausubel, Steve was responsible for represenation of Kenny Ausubel in the independent organization of the Bioneers after SOC's acquisition by Mars, Inc.

Bioneers new media publishing and Bioneers outreach grew into what was described as a global community of environmental activists.

The Bioneers conference is considered a preeminent international gathering of environmental groups, NGOs and individuals, held annually since the early 90s. The Bioneers is a unique network and source of environmental solutions.

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Years after the launching of Bioneers, Kenny wrote that Steven Schmidt as "modest" and so he wanted to describe some of Steven's early contribution that helped the success of the Bioneers work over two decades.

Steve Schmidt, Seeds of Change and Bioneers Publishing ... From: Kenny Ausubel

I did two major book deals with Steve Schmidt, as well as working with him in many other capacities over a period since about 1991. I continue to work close and actively with him today. Steve served as my agent for my first book deal related to my work with Seeds of Change, the company I co-founded. I developed a proposal with him, and he was invaluable in the proposal development and refinement. He then went out to multiple publishers, and rapidly garnered very high interest that he leveraged into a pre-emptive offer from Harper Collins (1992). It was a two-book deal respectively for $125,000 for the Seeds of Change book, and $50,000 for a smaller book on Bioneers.

He further negotiated a groundbreaking package that included a 12-city book tour, and a large media campaign that resulted in interviews, reviews and articles from the NY Times and Wall Street Journal, to CNN, ABC and a huge volume of other press. He collaborated with the publisher and me on other innovative strategies. I do not recall the cost of the tour, but it will into six figures and was contractually obligated on top of the advance and money.

Steve built on the first deal for a subsequent two-book deal with Bantam that was at the top level of deals being done in that time, around 1994. He obtained a contract for $400,000 for the two books, a rarity for nonfiction. The deal was successfully completed including a substantial marketing budget...

I am currently working again with Steve on multiple media projects including the Bioneers e-book imprint where we are developing a stable of innovators and titles. He is also acting as agent for my new book, which is with publishers now.

I have found Steve to be not only highly effective, but also one of the smartest, most strategic and most editorially insightful people I’ve ever known. He has unwavering integrity, deep vision, and lots of street smarts.

His background includes many other areas including interactive digital agenting, work in the feature film business, and a major role in both the US and European Green Party platform.

Kenny Ausubel included a number of references and links to Kenny's and Steve's collaborative work on SoC-Bioneers books and their work together:

• https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kenny-ausubel/seeds-of-change-2/

• https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-250008-3

• https://www.amazon.com/Seeds-Change-Living-Treasure-Ausubel/dp/B000MXKZAA

• https://www.abebooks.com/9780062500083/Seeds-Change-Living-Treasure-Passionate-0062500082/plp

• https://www.biblio.com/9780062500083

Seeds of Change: The Living Treasure : The Passionate Story of the Growing Movement to Restore Biodiversity and Revolutionize the Way We Think About Food

Smithsonian - https://www.si.edu/object/siris_sil_457862

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2019

Steven,

The past 10 years at Bioneers have brought us inspiring solutions from visionaries in diverse fields: Indigenous rights, environmental justice, biomimicry, revolutionary love, plant and animal cognition, independent media and so many more. As we look forward to a new decade, filled with potential, we’re excited to present to you some of the most popular Bioneers talks from the past 10 years.

Co-founders, Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, at the 2019’s Bioneers Conference.

• Nina Simons: Bridging the Worlds • Kenny Ausubel: The End of Prehistory

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• https://us7.campaign-archive.com/?u=a916efad15735b28723d0ce37&id=6bb9b0302d&e=e02e7b6bb1

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