Change the Story, Change the World
"Bioneers 2016 speaker and performer, Alixa Garcia of Climbing PoeTree, talks about race, privilege, love and compassion. We caught up with Alixa in New York City in preparation for Bioneers. Watch Climbing PoeTree perform at Bioneers Oct. 21st-23rd, 2016. Join us!" Watch video
Findhorn Fellow and Co-founder of Bioneers, Nina Simons, shares, “Bioneers has always been a place where we have sought to raise indigenous voices and saw indigenous cultures as the old growth cultures.” This article raises the voices of three respected indigenous women leaders: Dr. Tieraona Low Dog on Greening Medicine Jeannette Armstrong on Human Relationship as Land Ethic Ohki Siminé Forest on the Return of the Ancient Council Ways Read the full story by Ana Yglesias … Continue reading
Findhorn Fellow, Nina Simons, is an award-winning social entrepreneur and visionary thinker. In 1990, she co-founded Bioneers with her husband and partner, Kenny Ausubel. As President, she has helped to lead the organization through 23 years of identifying, gathering and disseminating breakthrough innovations that reveal a positive and life-honoring future that’s within our grasp, today. In this 2-minute video, Nina celebrates the re-emergence of indigenous wisdom and knowledge in uplifting and … Watch video
"Race is socially constructed and it is constructed through the way we arrange space, the way we arrange institutions, the way our unconscious works. But it is not inevitable. We're wired to differentiate and we're wired to connect with each other. Which of those becomes most dominant depends on us. But not just us individuals, us collectively and us in terms of how we build our institutions and structures. And that is the challenge we face today." John A. Powell gives an intelligent and … Watch video
In the face of large global institutional (economic, political, educational, etc.) obstacles to advancing the Rights of Mother Earth, it is time to explicitly state what we can and must do. In this 23-minute video, Dr Dan Wildcat reports on what Indigenous Peoples from around the World are saying about activities and actions that must be encouraged and enhanced in the struggle to defend Mother Earth from human abuse and misuse. Dr. Dan Wildcat is the Director of Haskell Environmental Research … Watch video
The cognitive and emotional benefits of healthy oceans and waterways have been celebrated through art, song, romance and poetry throughout human history. Marine biologist, activist, community organiser, and author Wallace J. Nichols dives deeper and explores our blue minds through the dual lenses of evolutionary biology and cognitive science, reminding us that we are water. Watch video
Alisa Gravitz speaks at the 2014 Bioneers National Conference demonstrating that large system change is possible and is happening before our eyes. Industry will dominate society’s values for a socially and environmentally regenerative world. Gravitz, President and CEO of Green America, affirms that companies do listen to customer concerns, and energy and water conservation is a matter of their survival. Thanks to battery storage technology, solar and wind are knocking dirty energy off the grid. … Watch video
Our friends at Bioneers bring us this passionate talk from the courageous Kichwa leader from the Ecuadorian Amazon who joins Amazon Watch and The Pachamama Alliance with an urgent report from the front lines of protecting the lungs of the planet where women’s leadership is rising. Watch video
Acclaimed filmmaker, Louie Schwartzberg, speaks passionately about the grass roots movement that is speaking up and speaking out to address the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. He then introduces his short film narrated by Morgan Freeman, Humanity's Great Transition. This is the sequel to Louie's opening film for the UN Climate Summit, What's Possible, and was shown at the Bioneers 2014 Annual Conference. Watch video