Bioneers
What is Bioneers?
A New Word. Founder Kenny Ausubel coined the term Bioneers in 1990 to describe an emerging culture. Bioneers are social and scientific innovators from all walks of life and disciplines who have peered deep into the heart of living systems to understand how nature operates, and to mimic “nature’s operating instructions” to serve human ends without harming the web of life. Nature’s principles—kinship, cooperation, diversity, symbiosis and cycles of continuous creation absent of waste—can also serve metaphoric guideposts for organizing an equitable, humane and democratic society.
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Speakers
Paul StametsSolutions from the Underground:
Using Fungi to Help Save the World
Erica FernandezSi, Se Puede! (Yes, We Can!)
Ray AndersonSustainability in Action
Kavita RamdasShakti, Shanti, Sangam: Power,
Peace and the Politics of Change
Alexandra CousteauSaving Our Water Planet
Janine BenyusNature’s 100 Best: Top Biomimicry
Solutions to Environmental Crises
Dune LankardSustainable Solutions over Centuries:
a New Business Model
David OrrSome Like It Hot, but Lots Don’t:
The Changing Climate of Us Politics
Greg WatsonLessons Learned from Thirty-Five
Years of Environmental Activism
Sandra SteingraberThe Environmental Life
of Children—from Placenta to Puberty
Lucas BenitezFighting for Justice for Farm workers
Christine LohThe “Development”
Imperative for Asians
Naomi KleinThe Shock Doctrine:
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Rebecca MooreGoogle Earth:
Visualizing Change, Mapping the Future
Rick ReedCollaborating on a Grand Scale:
Think Systemically and Act Cooperatively
Peter Blaze CorcoranProfessor of Environmental Studies and Environmental Education at Florida Gulf Coast University
Peter NeilGoogle Earth:
Visualizing Change, Mapping the Future
Russell LibbyMOFGA Executive Director
Deb SouleLocal herbalist,
Author and Avena Botanicals founder
Kathy FreundExecutive Director
The Independent Transportation Network
J Carl Ganter Director
Circle of Blue
Tom LinzeyCo-founder: The Community 
gkisedtanamoogkWampanoag elder
June LaCombeThe Greening of Art
Anita SanchezThe Power Of Positive Change:
Michael TetreaultDirector of The Nature Conservancy
Paul Stamets2:13
Peter Neill4:23
Bioneers7:48
Dune Lankard6:34
Paul Hawken5:54
Van Jones4:31
J. Carl Ganter7:02
Geoff Lawton's1:35
Democracy School16:08
Shock Doctrine6:47
Maude Barlow5:09
Earth Charter5:13