Bioneers
The Bioneers is a network of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.
A celebration of the genius of nature and human ingenuity, the Bioneers held its 25th Annual Conference in 2014. Congratulations Bioneers !
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One of our many Bioneers friends -- Paul Hawken -- speaking of 'Project Drawdown' at the 2014 Bioneers conference.
Project Drawdown, the 2017 Announcement of the Book publication
Drawdown maps, measures, models, and describes the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming. For each solution, we describe its history, the carbon impact it provides, the relative cost and savings, the path to adoption, and how it works. The goal of the research that informs Drawdown is to determine if we can reverse the buildup of atmospheric carbon within thirty years. All solutions modeled are already in place, well understood, analyzed based on peer-reviewed science, and are expanding around the world.
The subtitle of Drawdown — The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming — may sound brash. We chose that description because no detailed plan to reverse warming has been proposed. There have been agreements and proposals on how to slow, cap, and arrest emissions, and there are international commitments to prevent global temperature increases from exceeding two degrees centigrade over pre-industrial levels. One hundred and ninety-five nations have made extraordinary progress in coming together to acknowledge that we have a momentous civilizational crisis on our earthly doorstep and have created national plans of action. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has accomplished the most significant scientific study in the history of humankind, and continues to refine the science, expand the research, and extend our grasp of one of the most complex systems imaginable—climate. However, there is as yet no roadmap that goes beyond slowing or stopping emissions.
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The Annual Bioneers Gatherings
"When I listen with my heart, I am pierced with an empathic awareness that calls me into action beyond what any amount of learning, reading or mental understanding can prompt."
- -- Nina Simons, Shifting Guidance from Head to Heart,
● http://conference.bioneers.org/
For over 25 years, the annual Bioneers Conference has connected thousands of people with practical, visionary solutions for pressing environmental and social challenges
Kenny Ausubel, co-founder with Nina Simons, has written many books and over the years inspired with his talks and activism ...
GreenPolicy360 highlights the Bioneers
Bioneers in 2014 celebrating their 25th Anniversary Conference
Long time friends of GreenPolicy360's siterunner, here's to all the connections, a celebration of "the genius of nature and human ingenuity."
Here's to Bioneers at work, an eco-network continuing on, keeping on, protecting, preserving, nurturing, doing good work locally and globally ...
● Bioneers on Social Media -- https://twitter.com/bioneers / https://www.facebook.com/Bioneers.org / http://www.bioneers.org/category/blog/
Hearty Congratulations especially go to co-founders Kenny and Nina
Ancient Wisdom, Earth Connections
Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois Nation, speaks of the "Seventh Generation"
"We are, you are, part of the earth"
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwmqZ272As
"We are looking ahead, as is one of the first mandates given us as chiefs, to make sure and to make every decision that we make relate to the welfare and well-being of the seventh generation to come...."
"What about the seventh generation? Where are you taking them? What will they have?"
- Chief Oren Lyons
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Eco/Environmental Activists with Vision
Bioneers Dennis Kucinich, Chief Lyons & Leonardo DiCaprio
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- Bioneer Rebecca Moore
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The Bioneers... "a network of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges".
SJS / GreenPolicy Siterunner -- My friends since the start-up in Santa Fe ... for over 25 years, the Bioneers have been fortunate to have the love of Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons out in front as thousands of hearty souls meet and network every year for an amazing conference in the San Francisco bay area to share 'best of' ideas from eco/environmental fields worldwide.
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A Look Back
● http://www.bioneers.org/25-years-of-bioneers/
● http://www.bioneers.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Bioneers_DigitalYearbook_25thAnniv.pdf
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"A Revolution from the Heart of Nature"
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Naomi, what do you think?
Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything" Naomi Klein speaks at the Bioneers Conference
NY Times..."the most momentous and contentious environmental book since 'Silent Spring.'"
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Climate Leadership (Conf videos)
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Media and changing the “mindscape”
Resilient communities
Restorative food systems
Indigenous knowledge
Women’s leadership
Youth leadership
Ecological design
Ecological medicine
Human rights and Rights of Nature
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Resilience - http://www.resilience.org
Resilience Exchange - http://solutionbuilder.org/about/
Resilience Summit - AAAS (June 2014) - http://aaaspolicyfellowships.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Resilience_Summit_Program.pdf
Resilient Communities (movement) - http://www.resilientcommunities.com/
http://www.transitionus.org/about-us
http://www.ResilientAmerica.org
http://www.bioneers.org/check-bioneers-resilient-communities-network/
http://www.bioneers.org/resilient-communities-part-2/
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Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature
- by Kenny Ausubel
http://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Future-Reimagining-Civilization-Nature/dp/1603584595
Reviews
"Without doubt, Kenny Ausubel has one of the most glorious minds on the planet. Herein he has crafted a dazzling treasury of essays on the destiny of humanity and its place on earth, a rosary of startling truths. His ability to describe the cataclysmic loss of living systems contrasted with the luminous and untold rise of human awakening is unique among living writers and speakers. Read this for its brilliance, but read it also to find joy in the intricate reimagination of what it means to be a human being at this parlous moment in civilization."
-- Paul Hawken, author/editor of Drawdown
"Kenny Ausubel is one of the planet's key people, a kind of hub for the new ideas that will, if we're smart, shape our future. He delivers them with the... brio and confidence that will help people overcome their fear and get to work!"
-- Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth; founder of 350.org
"Dreaming the Future proposes a path forward that is both profoundly radical and full of common sense. An excellent read for everyone who wants to build a better future-and for those looking to supplement the many dry technical tomes about today's environmental problems. Ausubel explores the political, cultural, and personal changes needed to chart a sustainable path forward, leaving readers delighted and hopeful.
-- Annie Leonard, author and host, The Story of Stuff; co-director, The Story of Stuff Project
"A brilliant new look at what it is to be human on a living planet. Kenny Ausubel has devoted his life to creating organizations that dream a new future. In this marvelous book he shares his vision in eloquent words that inspire us to take action. Read, enjoy, dream--and act!
-- John Perkins, author, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and Hoodwinked.
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