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November 11-13, 2021

The Annual Bioneers Conference


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SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:

A salute to our friend and fellow Bioneer, Rebecca Moore, who first proposed Google Earth Outreach and has led many follow on initiatives, now including Timelapse, utilizing the Landsat database and its decades of images to bring us an unprecedented vision of earth's changes over time.


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Timelapse from Google Earth

Welcome to Timelapse!


Rebecca Moore, Director, Google Earth, Earth Engine & Outreach:

To explore Timelapse in Google Earth, go to g.co/Timelapse — choose any place on the planet where you want to see time in motion.


Google Earth Timelapse

Launch Date: April 15, 2021


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Bioneers 2020 Conference Postponed, for Health & Safety, Until 2021


Now in its 3rd Decade, the Bioneers Annual Gathering Is Changed this Year as Result of COVID-19


For so many of us, the gathering is the most inspiring, soul-nourishing and catalytic moment in our yearly cycle, and we most certainly aim to be back in 2021 for a powerful reunion. And the work does not stop in between, to say the least.


Read about the 2020 Virtual Conference Announcement here


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Bioneers in Solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives


As Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) share their lived experiences of oppression and discrimination — as well as their wisdom for moving forward to dismantle the systems that perpetuate it — the value of listening to these voices right now cannot be overstated. Here are a few of so many inspiring BIPOC organizers and leaders that you should be paying attention to.

Patrisse Cullors, best known for being a co-founding partner of the Black Lives Matter movement, also wrote the New York Times best-selling book, “When They Call You a Terrorist.”
Kimberlé Crenshaw is the executive director of the African American Policy forum and the host of their podcast, Intersectionality Matters!
The Audre Lorde Project is a community organizing center for LGBT and gender non-conforming people of color.
Code Switch is an NPR podcast hosted by a multi-racial, multi-generational team of journalists. Their episodes span overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, how they play out in our lives and communities, and how all of this is shifting.
PolicyLink is a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity by Lifting Up What Works®.
Dr. Rupa Marya is a doctor, professor and leading activist whose work connects medicine with social justice.
The Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, directed by professor john a. powell, advances research, policy, & communications in order to realize a world where all belong.


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Anti-Racist Research Policy Center convenes varied specialists to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, founded in 1971, combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation.
Repairers of the Breach is a nonprofit organization that seeks to build a moral agenda rooted in a framework that uplifts our deepest moral and constitutional values to redeem the heart and soul of our country.
Color of Change is an online racial justice organization that designs campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, & champion solutions that move us all forward.
Maya Wiley is a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, as well as a University professor at the New School in NYC.
Dream Corps closes prison doors and opens doors of opportunity. This nonprofit organization brings people together across racial, social, and partisan lines to create a future with freedom and dignity for all.
White Awake is a network of people combating white supremacy by focusing on educational resources and spiritual practices to engage people who’ve been socially categorized as “white” in the creation of a just and sustainable society.
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) is a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice.


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Pathways Forward with a Diverse Global Bioneers Community


The Bioneers' award-winning audio series -- Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature -- has reached millions of listeners. As of 2019 it is currently distributed to 165 stations, including 18 of the top radio markets in the U.S. The Bioneers' podcast passed 500,000 downloads in 2019.

Millions of people regularly watch Bioneers-produced videos — full talks from brilliant speakers and edited shorts — with a 400% increase in views in 2019.

Take a look at the Bioneers' 30th Anniversary Video Series, Seeding the Field. Follow the Bioneers for the latest eco-solutions and green stories of environmental action in motion.

The Bioneers global network, a community of communities is working everyday to bring transformative change to the world.


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At the Bioneers 2019 Conference -- 30 Years On and Going Strong

Looking back & looking forward... Video memories & moments over the years


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Everyday a Vision of Possibilities and Change

Growing Transformative Solutions


Day 2 of the 30th global Bioneers gathering

Activists, organizers, coalition builders step up, join in


Kenny Ausubel & Nina Simons, co-founders of the Bioneers. Welcoming all to the 30th annual conference in Marin, California


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GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: San Francisco-Marin, the beautiful site of the Bioneers' annual global conference


2019 / The Thirtieth Get-Together

For three decades, with persistence and resilience we keep on keeping on ... https://conference.bioneers.org


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Bioneers, Planet Citizens, Out in Front


Global Climate Strike


Years of Forward-looking Green New Deal Ideas from the Bioneers


We first began advocating for a Green New Deal here at Bioneers in 1995. What may have seemed impossible is now suddenly within reach. The questions are what it’s going to look like, how fast we can make it happen – and how we will overcome the retrograde forces pushing business as usual – and they do mean business. One thing is for sure: The twin crises of climate chaos and extreme inequality will keep getting worse fast — and people will keep rising up in ever bigger numbers demanding and making change. That’s what happened in the 1930s and it’s happening again. -- Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers co-founder, October 2019



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Welcome to the Bioneers Conference


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 to the Bioneers global network, planet citizen friends of GreenPolicy360


Bioneers Explorations -- Biomimicry, Learning from Nature

With the Bioneers, GreenPolicy360 calls for eco-literacy, a path to learning, wisdom, and new vision of sustainable living.



Planet Citizens


Going green begins with a decision, a choice to become actionable, moving and multiplying, choosing to create waves, creating rippling forces of change...

Being green is to be a Bioneer, 'bioneering' planet citizens


It's All Related


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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,


https://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 ...


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Sustainability


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 'the 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 go to Bioneers co-founders Kenny and Nina


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The past 30 years of climate change ... With Bill McKibben at the Bioneers Conference

Video, Introduced by Kenny Ausubel


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Seventh Generation Wisdom

Ancient Wisdom, Earth Connections


Native Wisdom / Native Ecological Knowledge

'It is all connected' ...


Indigenous Peoples


Oren Lyons, Chief of Onondaga Iroquois Nation, speaks of the "Seventh Generation"


"We are, you are, part of the earth"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwmqZ272As


Seventh Generation

"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?"


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Chief Oren Lyons


Eco/Environmental Activists with Vision


Bioneers Dennis Kucinich, Chief Lyons & Leonardo DiCaprio


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Leonardo speaks at the UN Climate Summit


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After Years in Development / 2014-2017

Project Drawdown's Climate Book Is Published †


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https://twitter.com/ProjectDrawdown
The Drawdown CO2 Project: Practical Solutions & Priorities


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One of our many Bioneers friends -- Paul Hawken -- introduces 'Project Drawdown' at the annual Bioneers conference.


Paul Hawken - Project Drawdown | Bioneers (Video)


Drawdown maps, measures, models, and describes 100 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.


Project Drawdown, the Book
Project Drawdown #Bioneers
Project Drawdown @GreenPolicy360


 


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Earth Outreach with Google


Bioneer Rebecca Moore
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'Bioneering'


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.

Here is an excerpt from one of the books Kenny and I worked on together, "Seeds of Change: A Living Treasure". Remembering the Coyote Cafe of Mark Miller and a new American cuisine inspired by chefs like Alice Waters of Chez Panisse and Deborah Madison of Greens. Of course, we smile at the roasting of the hot green chile of New Mexico, my favorite among all the varieties of native seeds that have come to be in the Americas.

Protecting seed diversity, co-evolution at work, heirloom produce and food, farm-to-table, independent alternative agriculture and rich organic gardens, farmers markets, peak of season awareness of taste -- and connection of diet to health. We've been bringing a vital message to homes and kitchens, restaurants and businesses, politics and quality of life for years now. Remembering the best of the past and carrying on, keeping on...


Recalling Kenny Ausubel and your GreenPolicy360 Siterunner working on a "Little Green Book" as we looked to alternative agriculture and brought forward ideas and green practices as an alternative to the globally multiplying problems of industrial-corporatized ag.


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Restorative Food Systems at the Bioneers

https://bioneers.org/programs/restorative-food-systems/


'Climate Smart' Agriculture, Regenerative Agriculture

Alternative agriculture, a decade's long 'Green Politics, Food & Health Project' bringing together the Bioneers & resources of GreenPolicy360



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In Santa Fe, from Seeds of Change by Kenny Ausubel


At a distance of twenty yards from the Coyote Cafe in Santa Fe, you can smell the unmistakable dark, earthy aroma of roasting chiles. So far from any visible physical source, the scent rises as a smoky puzzle. One wonders whether perhaps trickster chef and restaurateur Mark Miller has alchemically released an etheric chile loop, an Akashic relleno stuffed with the eternal pleasure and nourishment of some of the most cherished foods in history, and the hottest.

"Food should be a catalyst for creating meaning in our lives," Miller says passionately, "and part of that meaning is a sense of place. Cuisine belongs in a certain place, culturally, historically, and geographically. Our food should connect us to our cultural path. We used to have a food legacy when religions were full of food prescriptions."

It comes as no surprise that Miller completed graduate anthropology work at the University of California at Berkeley in cross-cultural aesthetics before signing on as a chef with Alice Waters. During his tenure at famed Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse, he frequented the Oakland produce market, perfecting the selection of fresh and unusual varieties of vegetables and foods for the restaurant. During his gathering he became "aware that the commercial hybrids were not of the same intensity of flavor as some of the older heirloom varieties..."


From Michael Pollan, in the early years of his career as we shared our work with and 'turned on' a visionary writer to the richness of diversity --


The Seed Conspiracy

By Michael Pollan

The New York Times Magazine, March 20, 1994


GreenPolicy Siterunner: Looking back at the mid-90s and turning Michael Pollan on to the Bioneers-Seeds of Change story...


THIS IS THE SEASON OF THE garden seed, that time of pure promise when the entire contents of a quarter-acre patch of vegetables—the yield of which will burden a small truck come August—can still fit inside an envelope and be sent cross-country by Fed Ex. The seeds themselves betray no sign of the prodigies they contain, but there, in a handful, they are: this weightless, buff disk packs a complete set of instructions for the making of a two-pound beefsteak tomato; that crinkled, blond tablet is etched with the blueprint for a 10-foot-tall sweet-corn tower.

But this is not the only kind of information encoded in a garden seed. For the seeds I order are inscribed with cultural, political and economic information as well. And if I am to believe some of the more polemical seedsmen whose catalogues-cum-tracts have found their way to my mailbox this season, the decision to plant one variety and not another is freighted with moral and environmental significance. A political fight is not exactly what I came to vegetable gardening to pick, but I seem to have stumbled into one anyway.

There I was, looking for a new variety of corn to try, and I wind up reading in the catalogue from Seeds of Change—part of a growing army of seed firms fired with a sense of political mission—about the negative impact that the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), of all things, will have on the free exchange of seeds and global biodiversity...



Re: Environmental laws and global trade

Hybrid seed patents, e.g. Bayer-Monsanto corporate seed-stock and market-controlling mergers, corporate trade protectionism with agreements such GATT / NAFTA / WTO as opposed to Alternative, independent agriculture, environmental sustainability, protection of seed diversity with open-source and 'seed saving / seed sharing', local adaptation to environmental conditions, reduction of high-input petrochemical/pesticide regimes and debt accumulation, soil loss/water pollution/health impacts



A Look Back over the Decades: The Bioneers

Climate Leadership (Bioneers Conference videos)



"A Revolution from the Heart of Nature"


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"A Revolutionary Agenda"


  • Media & 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



Relational Reality, Integral Ecology

Bioneers & Santa Fe Beginnings of the NM and US Green Party


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Focus on Resilience


Resilience - https://www.resilience.org

Resilience Exchange - https://solutionbuilder.org/about/

(TW) https://twitter.com/resxchange

Resilience Summit - AAAS (June 2014) - Resilience Summit

Resilient Communities - https://www.resilientcommunities.com/


https://www.transitionus.org/about-us

https://www.resilience.org/

https://www.ResilientAmerica.org

https://www.bioneers.org/resilient-communities-resilient-food-systems-webcast-trahan-heckman-severine-vt-fleming/

https://www.bioneers.org/check-bioneers-resilient-communities-network/

https://www.bioneers.org/resilient-communities-part-2/



Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature

by Kenny Ausubel

https://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Future-Reimagining-Civilization-Nature/dp/1603584595


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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: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming


"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, founder of 350.org; author of Eaarth


"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 Shapeshifting



GreenPolicy360 Siterunner/SJS:

Memories of Joining Up with the Bioneers

Kenny Ausubel came across to me with a welcoming smile. I had moved from Los Angeles to Santa Fe and was living in an adobe place on Camino del Monte Sol across from a monastery and next to St. Johns College. Kenny talked to me about his film Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crime and I talked about my screenplay "Sister Kenny". In the 1940s Sister Kenny, an Australian nurse who traveled to the US with a new, and controversial treatment for polio, came up against the the American medical establishment. Sister Elizabeth Kenny's struggle to bring healing became an epic fight and, as with the Harry Hoxsey story, brought new thinking to care and treatment. Sister Kenny's 'pioneering principles of muscle rehabilitation became the foundation of physical therapy' as is now recognized.

Kenny Ausubel was working on a new project, the start up of the Bioneers, and your GreenPolicy360 editor/siterunner was writing and working with Michael Riccards, the president of St John's to bring a new library to the famed college of Annapolis and Santa Fe. We were successful in the Great Books library and, with Kenny's invite, I moved to set up a new publishing division for the Bioneers drawing on my decade in NY publishing. The timeng was propitious.

It started in a serious way w the launch of Seeds of Change, an initial Bioneers project. The Bioneers story got a boost, an intellectual launch of new ideas we brought forward as we developed, packaged and published....

Think biodiversity, healthy food, organic seeds and agriculture, a new American cuisine, the food movement, Chez Panisse (Alice Waters), The Greens (Deborah Madison), Charlie Trotter 4 star restaurants, farmers markets,



I was asked to talk some more about beginnings with the Bioneers and Seeds of Change... here are a couple quotes from the old days. Those were the days when we were young and full of energy !

>Founder of the publishing division of Seeds of Change. Together with Kenny Ausubel, Steve was responsible for the independent organization of the Bioneers after SOC's acquisition by Mars, Inc. 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. www.bioneers.org/


>Re Steve Schmidt and 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....

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 $(XXX,XXX) for the two books, a rarity for nonfiction. The deal was successfully completed including a substantial ($XXX,XXX) marketing budget.....

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.


SJS (April 2021) : Thank you Kenny. Looking back on thirty years +. What a ride it's been ;-


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