About kindle

Event Itinerary

• Friday October 17, 2008
• 7:00-7:30Yoga, BYOM
• 7:30-8:30Breakfast
• 7:30-8:30Registration
• 9:00 Welcome Address by Margot Milliken and Selma Botman
• 9:15Invocation with Wabanaki Elder, gkisedtanamoogk
• 9:30Peter Neill - World Ocean Observatory - More Info
• 10:15Bridget Besaw - Slideshow
• 10:30Peter Blaze Corcoran - Kin, Kind, Kindle: Relationship, Care and Igniting Action with the Earth Charter - More Info
• 11:15Emilia Dahlin - Singer Songwriter
• 11:30Russell Libby - Our Next Agriculture - More Info
• 12:15-1:45Lunch - Fresh, Local, Vegetarian
• 1:00-3:30Beaming Bioneers
• Paul Stamets - How Mushrooms Will Save The World
• Erica Fernandez - Si, Se Puede! ( Yes, We Can!) - More Info
• Ray Anderson - Sustainability in Action
• Kavita Ramadas - Power, Peace, and the Politics of Change
• 1:45-3:15Workshops
• Ark of Hope - More Info
  Sally Linder
  Peter Blaze Corcoran
• Food and Farming - More Info
  Roger Doiran
  Amanda Beal
  John Piotti
  Melissa White-Pillsbury
• Casco Bay Estuary Partnership - More Info
  Curtis Bohlen
  Chris Hal
  Matt Craig
• Penobscot River Partnership - More Info
  John Banks
  Laura Rose Day
  Kate Dempsey
• Humanitarian Outreach - More Info
  Tom Wright
  Dr. Ann Lemire
  David Rearden
  Maryanne Ringle
• Learning From The Emerging Future - More Info
  Michael T. Kelly Ph.D
  Neil Cambridge
• Urban Villages and the Public Transit Spine - More Info
  Stacy Benjamin
  Tracy Perez
  Andrew Whitman
  Jerry Bley
  Stephanie Gilbert
  Elizabeth Chapman
  Mitchell Rasor
• 3:30-4:30Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
• 5:00-6:00Film Series
• 6:30-9:00Ocean Gate Mixer

• Saturday October 18, 2008
• 7:00-7:30Yoga
• 7:30-8:15Breakfast - Fresh, Local, Vegetarian
• 7:30-8:15Registration
• 8:30Mike Tetreault - The Nature Conservancy
• 9:15Port Veritas
• 9:30Deb Soule - Avena Botanicals - More Info
• 10:15Shamou
• 10:30J. Carl Ganter - Circle of Blue - More Info
• 11:15Emma Holder
• 11:30Anita Sanchez - Pachamama Alliance
• 12:30-3:40Lunch - Fresh, Local, Vegetarian
• Beaming Bioneers
• Dune Lankard - Sustainable Solutions Over Centuries: A New Business Model
• David Orr - Some Like It Hot, But Lots Don’t: The Changing Climate of US Politics
• Greg Watson - Lessons Learned from Thirty-five Years of Environmental Activism
• Sandra Steingraber - The Environmental Life of Children from Placenta to Puberty
• 1:30-2:45Workshops Session 1
• New Media - More Info
  Mark Dixon
  Melissa Paly
  J. Carl Ganter
• Social Enterprise - More Info
  Ted Regan
  Melvin Murrell
• Resilience Thinking - More Info
  David Borden
  Dorn Cox
• Pachamama Alliance - More Info
  Anita Sanchez (Session 1)
  
• Permaculture - More Info
  gkissedtanamoogk
  Joline Blais
• Art Activism - More Info
  June Lacombe
• USM LEEDS Tour - More Info
  Carol Potter
  Dudley Greeley
  Sondra Bogdonoff
• 3:00-4:15Workshops Session 2
• Climate Change
  Sam Merrill, Ph.D
  Richard Barringer, Ph.D
  Charles Colgan, Ph.D
  Mark Lapping, Ph.D
• Re-thinking Sewers and Sewage Treatment
  Abby Rockefeller
• Pachamama Alliance - More Info
  Anita Sanchez (Session 2)
• Cuba: Food For All
  Barbara West
  Thomas Whitney
  Stan Lofchie
• Green Buildings
  Jennifer Richards USGBC
  Gunnar Hubbard
• 4:00-5:30Tom Linzey - The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund - More Info

• Sunday, October 19, 2008
• 7:30-8:00Yoga
• 7:30-8:15Breakfast - Fresh, Local, Vegetarian
• 7:30-8:15Registration
• 8:30Welcome Address
• 9:00Katherine Freund - Independent Transportation.
• 9:45Emma Holder - bellydance by Adira
• 10:00June Lacombe - The Greening of Art
• 10:45Maine Media Workshop
• 11:00gkisedtanamoogk - Wampanoag Elder, Teacher - More Info
• 11:45Kegwin + Company
• 12:00-1:30Entertainment
• 12:00-1:30Lunch - Fresh, Local, Vegetarian
• 12:30-3:30Beaming Bioneers
• Lucas Benitez - Fighting for Justice for Farmworkers
• Christine Loh - The "Development" Imperative for Asians
• Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
• Rebecca Moore - Google Earth: Visualizing Change, Mapping the Future
• 1:30-3:00Workshops Session
• Water Rights - More Info
  Thomas Linzey
  Gail Darrell
• Where did I put the Past? - More Info
  Robert Bernheim Ph.D
• Fresh Farms - More Info
  Marika O'Brien
  Martha Putnam
• Slow Money - More Info
  Sarah Ruef-Lindquist
  Anders Ferguson
• Maya Culture
  Sam Meacham
  Jorge Gonzalez
• Transition Towns - More Info
  Dr. Alastair Lough
  Patricia Proulx-Lough
• 3:30-3:45Closing Ceremony
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• Exhibit Hall, Imaginarium, and BookFair open all days 8:00-5:00
• Snacks and Coffee served throughout weekend

About kindle?

kin·dle 1. vti

1. to set something alight, or to begin to burn

2. to make something glow, or to become bright

3. to become aroused, or to arouse feelings or interest

Kindle, the Northern New England BIONEERS conference therefore is, by design, intended to be a place of universal awakening, of setting something alight, an attitude reflecting this extraordinarily bright moment in time: a time of hope, an opportunity for change, to begin a new way forward. Kindle will ‘arouse feelings of interest’, encourage people to speak up and step up, get involved, to dream in color of a world we know is possible.

Kindle is a three-day ‘tour de force’, a cirque de soleil for the soul-and mind! It is a bonfire from which many will be able to warm their hearts and set their imaginations ablaze. It is an opportunity for individuals to gather together, under one roof, sharing their stories, discovering new ideas, shifting earlier perspectives. Kindle is a shared meal, metaphorically and literally, a chance to break bread with others holding shared values.

Kindle is also nothing more than a simple name we have given to this extraordinary Northern New England BIONEERS gathering. It is a simpler way to communicate an annual event unlike any other. It is a reminder of a simpler time, of campfires and being safe as we slept under the stars.