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National Bioneers 2006 Plenary Speakers
 Carl Anthony - The Earth, the City and the Hidden Narrative of Race
This seminal figure in the environmental justice movement, who founded Earth Island’s Urban Habitat program, describes his recent work with the Ford Foundation to bridge urban communities of color with environmental initiatives while reviving vital environmental cultural traditions.
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 Spencer Beebe - Building Salmon Nation: Rethinking People & Place in the North Pacific
The storied founder and President of Ecotrust, a visionary organization building a conservation-based economy in the Pacific Northwest and Canada, shows how to reframe, rethink and scale up an integrated framework for restoring environmental integrity, economic opportunity and social justice on a large bioregional scale.
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 Tzeporah Berman -
Corporate Campaigns and the New Environmentalism: Places, People and the Fate of Our Last Great Forests
The program director of ForestEthics portrays the innovative citizen-based strategies and broad coalitions including First Nations that are achieving huge successes to save some of the world’s last great boreal forests and ecosystems in Canada, often from destruction by giant U.S. corporations.
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 Sarah Crowell - The Courage to Walk in Beauty: Creating Space for Young People to Find Truth and Power
The dynamic executive director of Oakland’s acclaimed Destiny Arts Center reveals the unstoppable power and beauty of empowering multi-cultural young people through dance, theater, and violence-prevention and youth leadership classes.
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 Maria Elena Durazo - Building Alliances: Labor, Immigration and the Environment
The President of the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union’s Local 11, the first Latina woman to lead a major union in Southern California, portrays her work as National Director of the Immigrant Workers’ Freedom Ride, a national mobilization campaign to restructure U.S. immigration and labor laws.
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 Lois Gibbs - 25 Years of an Inspirational Journey: From Love Canal to the Nation
The legendary grassroots champion of environmental justice describes how society is moving away from counting the bodies resulting from bad industrial and pollution policies, to prevention, precaution and other winning strategies for a healthy, safe and economically sound future.
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 Amy Goodman - Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders and the People Who Fight Back
The world-class investigative journalist and popular co-host of Democracy Now! surveys the bumpy terrain of fake news, infoganda and real news, and illustrates how a free independent press may be the most the essential feedback loop to real democracy.
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 Paul Hawken -Biology, Resistance and Restoration
The luminous and influential author, social entrepreneur and change-maker maps the “biggest movement in the history of the world,” a movement of movements that are today converging to restore land, people, justice and democracy around the world, the subject of his forthcoming book Blessed Unrest.
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 James Hillman - Accentuate the Positive: Reclaiming the Country from the Nation
The renowned Jungian scholar and author brings his vast knowledge to bear on some of the deepest psychological, political and cultural trends in the U.S. that uncover a decisive battle for the very soul of the country.
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 Thomas Linzey - Turning Defense into Offense: Challenging Corporations and Creating Self-Governance
The innovative attorney and co-founder of the Democracy Schools and the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund portrays the provocative successes of conservative Townships in Pennsylvania to challenge the validity of corporate rights, claim local self-governance and reclaim democracy.
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 Michael Pollan - Beyond the Bar Code: The Local Food Revolution
The brilliant New York Times writer and best-selling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire once again bounds outside the box to depict the profound societal transformation underway that is irrevocably changing the way we eat and grow our food.
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 Sofia Quintero - Women Telling Our Stories and Promoting Justice
The Bronx-born writer, activist, educator, comedienne and self-proclaimed “Ivy-League homegirl” of Puerto Rican-Dominican descent shares how she has married her activism with storytelling in the critically acclaimed Black Artemis novels and in other socially conscious entertainment in many media.
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 Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. - Becoming a Blessing: Living as if Your Life Makes a Difference
The beloved pathfinder in mind-body medicine, best-selling author, co-founder of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, and professor at UC San Francisco School of Medicine explores the place of the sacred in our lives, our work and our medicine. www.rachelremen.com
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 Paul Stamets - How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
The visionary biologist, mycologist and author of Mycelium Running reveals astonishing evidence of how nature’s solutions surpass our conception of what’s possible to radically restore ecosystems and human health.
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 Clayton Thomas-Muller - Stopping the Energy Colonization of Sacred Native Lands
The brilliant young activist from the exemplary Indigenous Environmental Network depicts how relentless organizing and alliances on the front lines of resistance are stemming industrial society’s juggernaut to exploit unsustainable energy extraction from Native homelands and sacred lands of Turtle Island.
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