BIONEERS BY THE BAY CONFERENCE 2008
24-26 OCTOBER 2008, NEW BEDFORD, MA

Visionary and practical solutions for restoring the Earth and its inhabitants.

Joanna Harcourt-Smith interviews the speakers and workshop presenters at the conference.

For more information on the conference, see Connecting for Change.

OCTOBER 26


LYNNE TWIST - Listen to Interview (2.4 minutes, 948kb)
Lynne Twist is a global activist, fundraiser, speaker, consultant, and author and has dedicated her life to global initiatives that serve the best instincts in all of us. The compelling stories and insights gained from her experiences inspire Lynne's keynotes and workshops, and are the foundation for her best selling, award winning book The Soul of Money. Lynne founded the Soul of Money Institute to express her commitment to supporting and empowering people in finding peace and sufficiency in their relationship with money and the money culture.


KATHERINE BUCKELL AND AOIFE CLANCY - Listen to Interview (13 minutes, 4.66mb)
Katherine Buckell and Aoife Clancy are singer/songwriters individually who performed together at the conference.
In this interview they perform 2 songs.


JOHN PERKINS AND LLYN ROBERTS -Listen to Interview (14 minutes, 3.20mb)
John Perkins is an author who's latest book entitled The Secret History of the American Empire is on the New York Times Bestseller list. He is a founder and board member of Dream Change, a world wide grass roots movement of people from diverse cultures and backgrounds dedicated to shifting consciousness and promoting sustainable lifestyles for the individual and global community. Llyn Roberts is an author, who's books includes The Good Remembering and Shamanic Reiki and she is also a Consultant/Director of Dream Change.


BILL RYERSON - Listen to Interview (15 minutes, 3.43mb)
Bill Ryerson was one of the panelists in a workshop entitled The Population Factor in Climate Change which discussed the implications of population growth, some unique solutions to the population problem that lie within our grasp. Bill is the president of Population Media Center, an organization which works worldwide using entertainment-education for social change.


DORIT - Listen to Interview (16 minutes, 3.74mb)
Dorit presented a two-part workshop entitled Seeds of Change offering exercises and strategies to adapt to a changing environment and learning to make tasty meals easily and quickly which will leave the least amount of carbon footprint, while energizing and nourishing you on a deep level. Dorit's website Serenity Spaces offers information on her workshops, retreats, Organic Living Foods.


JOHN ABRAMS - Listen to Interview (9 minutes, 2.1mb)
John Abrams is co-founder and CEO of South Mountain Company, a 32-year-old employee owned design/build and renewable energy company in West Tisbury Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. He serves with the Island Housing Trust and Island Affordable Housing Fund boards, the Island Plan steering committee, and lives with his wife Chris in the Island Cohousing Neighborhood in West Tisbury, which was developed by his company.


KENNY AUSUBEL - Listen to Interview (9 minutes, 2.1mb)
Kenny Ausubel is an award-winning social entrepreneur, author, journalist and filmmaker. He is the founder and co-president of Bioneers, serves as executive producer of the Bioneers plenary series airing on Free Speech TV and Link TV and acted as a central advisor to Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary The 11th Hour, and appears in the film.


OCTOBER 25


DR THOMAS RAU, MD - Listen to Interview (16 minutes, 5.68mb)
Dr. Thomas Rau teaches naturopathic healing methods, dietary, neural and isopathic therapies. He is Medical Director and part owner of the Paracelsus Klinik, Center for Biological Medicine and Dentistry in Lustmuhle, Switzerland which is widely recognized as a center of excellence for natural medicine. He is also Co-Founder of the Biological Medicine Network in the USA.


ELIOT COLEMAN AND BARBARA DAMROSCH - Listen to Interview (16 minutes, 5.48mb)
Eliot and Barbara operate a year-round organic market garden at Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine. Eliot has nearly 40 years of experience in all aspects of organic farming and Barbara has worked in the field of horticulture since 1977 and writes a weekly column in The Washington Post called A Cooks Garden.


RACHEL BAGBY - Listen to Interview (13 minutes, 4.48mb)
Rachel Bagby, JD - founder of Choral Earth and VoteKindly.org is an author (Divine Daughters), composer, leadership advisor and vocal artist. A graduate of Stanford Law School, she received the 2008 Arts and Healing Network award for her masterful use of vocal strategies for personal and community strengthening. Rachel speaks at major venues in such fields as collective wisdom, gender equity, mindfulness practice, and sustainable development. Her VoteKindly.org videos are helping to change the way people vote, no matter what or whom they're voting for.


RIKI OTT, PhD - Listen to Interview (15 minutes, 5.31mb)
Riki Ott is a community activist, former fisherm'am, author, and has a degree in marine toxicology with a specialty in oil pollution. Her latest book is entitled Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill


NINA SIMONS - Listen to Interview (16 minutes, 3.71mb)
Nina Simons co-founded the nonprofit Bioneers and currently serves as co-president with her partner and husband, Kenny Ausubel. A social entrepreneur, Nina's work to advance social change is guided by her efforts to restore gender balance and diversity, and by her reverence for whole systems and the mystery of the natural world, transformational arts and learning.
Listen to Interview (16 minutes, 3.71mb)


RHA GODDESS - Listen to Interview (7 minutes, 1.68mb)
Rha Goddess is a political activist, performing artist and social entrepreneur. Rha's current projects include being the Executive Producer of The Hip Hop Mental Health Project and "The Meditations Trilogy."


OCTOBER 24


KRISTIN HOFFMAN - Listen to Interview (12 minutes, 3mb)
Kristin Hoffman, singer/songwriter who performed "Song for the Ocean" at the conference. Kristin says "Connecting to people by creating music is my contribution to the world."


GARY HIRSHBERG - Listen to Interview (3 minutes, 832kb)
Gary Hirshberg - Chairman, President, and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, the world's leading organic yogurt producer, based in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Gary has won numerous awards for corporate and environmental leadership and was named "Business Leader of the Year" by Business NH Magazine and "New Hampshire's 1998 Small Business Person of the Year" by the U.S. Small Business Administration.


MAJORA CARTER - Listen to Interview (9 minutes, 2.06mb)
Dr Majora Carter simultaneously addresses public health, poverty alleviation, and climate change as one of the nation's pioneers in successful green-collar job training and placement systems. She founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 to achieve environmental justice through economically sustainable projects informed by community needs.


TEM BLESSED - Listen to Interview (11 minutes, 2.59mb)
Tem Blessed, youth activist and socially conscious hip-hop artist from New Bedford, MA.


WAMPANOAG NATION SINGERS - Listen to Interview (14 minutes, 3.25mb)
Joanna interviews two of the men from Wampanoag Nation Singers & Dancers from Mashpee, MA who opened the conference.



INTERVIEWS FROM THE 2007 CONFERENCE
19-21 OCTOBER 2007, UMASS DARTMOUTH

For the 2007 Interviews, click here.




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