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Bioneers Conference 2007DVD set: 16 inspirational, half-hour lecturesDVD's can be checked out from the Lowell Bennion Service Center library in the Union Building of the U of U |
DVD Topics and Presenters Descriptions
1. Opening remarks
2. Designing the Next Golden Age: A Progress Report
JAY HARMAN
Designing the Next Golden Age: A Progress Report - award-winning inventor, entrepreneur and CEO of PAX Scientific offers examples of highly efficient technologies inspired by natural systems that can help us create prosperity without degrading the biosphere.
3. The Interactive Mural: A Tool for Social Reconciliation from the Local- Global
JUDY BACA
In the Interactive Mural: A Tool for Social Reconciliation from the Local to the Global World, the renowned Los Angeles muralist and community arts leader, Judy Baca, unleashes the power of public art to help transform societies.
4. Local Living Economies: Green, Fair, Fun
JUDY WICKS
Local Living Economies: Green, Fair and Fun-Fabled entrepreneur and activist Judy Wicks tells her story of moving beyond responsible business practices to working cooperatively with other entrepreneurs and citizens to build whole economies based on love of nature and community.
5. Thinking Like Cathedral Builders
JOHN ABRAMS
Thinking Like Cathedral Builders- Business needs bold new stories. Author, designer/builder and community activist explains how equal doses of freedom, hope, outrageous behavior and long-term thinking can open the way to a durable and successful future.
6. Toward a Green Growth Alliance: Birthing a New Politics
VAN JONES
Toward a Green Growth Alliance: Birthing a New Politics- It is the chief moral obligation of our time to build a green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Activist and founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights urges us to carry our spiritual, cultural and economic movements into the electoral arena to transform politics and forge a green “New Deal” coalition so that kids who are now prison fodder will help create a zero-pollution economy, harvest the sun and heal the land instead.
7. Green Chemistry: From Here to Sustainability
PAUL ANASTAS
Green Chemistry: From Here to Sustainability- the “father of green chemistry” explains that moving toward a sustainable civilization depends on major changes taking place in the nature of our products, processes and systems. Green chemistry seeks to transform many of the materials that are the basis of our society - from clothes to housing, communications, agriculture and energy - to ensure they are as benign as possible to the planet and all its inhabitants.
8. Green the Ghetto
MAJORA CARTER
Green the Ghetto- A leading figure in the environmental justice movement and founder of the groundbreaking organization Sustainable South Bronx, Majora Carter offers her vision of what we must do to green our inner cities so that we can reclaim our birthright - healthy communities with clean air and water, and access to open spaces.
9. An Indigenous Perspective on How to Survive the Next Hundred Years
EVON PETER
An Indigenous Perspective on How to Survive the Next Hundred Years- chairman of Native Movement and former chief of the Neetsaii Gwich’in from Arctic Village in northeastern Alaska, dives into traditional knowledge, spiritual understanding and common sense as tools for helping to heal and transform humanity.
10. V to the 10th
EVE ENSLER
V to the 10th- Award-winning playwright and world-renowned women’s rights activist Eve Ensler tracks the extraordinary global trajectory of the "V-Day” movement over the last decade and shares her visions for the next ten years - helping women all over the world obtain peace, power and pleasure.
11. Return of the Ghost Dancers: Modern War’s Devastation…and Healing
EDWARD TICK
Return of the Ghost Dancers: Modern War's Devastation...and Healing- a psychotherapist who has been working with survivors of war, violence and trauma for over 30 years, surveys the true extent and costs of modern technological warfare, its resulting spiritual and ecological crises, and the possibility of healing individuals, nations and the planet through spiritual, cultural and community transformations.
12. A Brave New Ocean, or an Ocean Revolution?
WALLACE J. NICHOLS
A Brave New Ocean, or an Ocean Revolution?- senior scientist at the Ocean Conservancy and ocean activist extraordinaire, explains how space-based research and new deep sea technologies have resulted in an explosion of information about the ocean. To change our destructive course we must harness this knowledge, make it accessible to everyone and creatively communicate what the state of the oceans means to the future of life on our planet.
13. Culture and Re-Building…Remembering New Orleans/Re-Weaving Its Social and Cultural Fabric
CAROL BEBELLE
Culture and Re-building... Remembering New Orleans/Re-weaving its Social and Cultural Fabric- The renowned community activist, poet and co-founder of the Ashé Cultural Arts Center, Carol Bebelle, dedicated to the saving and re-birth of New Orleans’ rich legacy, discusses the cultural, social and creative mandates for the re-building of New Orleans that will respect the city’s bonds of connection and community.
14. The Sea Around Us, The Environment in Us
CHARLOTTE BRODY
The Sea Around Us, The Environment in Us- executive director of Commonweal, and seasoned organizer for civil rights, women’s rights, workers’ rights, peace and environmental health since 1964, explores how chemicals are creating disease and disorders, and how solutions are being innovated to regain health and democracy.
15. Seeds the Creator Gave Us
WINONA LADUKE
Seeds the Creator Gave Us- The renowned indigenous rights leader and two-time Green Party US Vice Presidential candidate, Winona LaDuke, highlights the struggles of indigenous peoples to protect their food sovereignty, restore their food systems and protect their cultures and foods from genetic modification.
16. Earth Rights: Linking Human Rights & Environmental Struggles in the Age of Globalization
KA HSAW WA & KATIE REDFORD
Earth Rights: Linking Human Rights and Environmental Struggles in the Age of Globalization - The co-founders and directors of EarthRights International, Ka Hsaw Wa and Katie Redford, will discuss their work from the jungles of Burma and the Amazon to U.S. courtrooms to hold corporations accountable for human rights and environmental abuses committed in the name of development. They will focus on EarthRights’ landmark lawsuit Doe v. Unocal, and their work to raise the voices of indigenous people in global forums through their model-training program, the EarthRights Schools.
