Shows from: Bioneers 2009
August 13th, 2010
I want to let our listeners know that from October 21 to 24 I will be in New Bedford, MA for Connecting for Change: a Bioneers by the Bay Conference presented by the Marion Institute, sponsor of FuturePrimitive.org. I will be uploading my podcasts directly from the conference. This year the keynote speakers will be Greg Mortenson, author of best sellers Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools, Van Jones, Annie Leonard and many others.
Check out the keynote speakers on the Connecting for Change website. I have been podcasting from the conference for the past 5 years and look forward enthusiastically to a new adventure in New Bedford this year. I invite you to sign up for the conference and listen to the podcasts from the press room at the event.
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- Joanna Harcourt-Smith
Filed under Bioneers 2009
November 2nd, 2009
an interview with Anders Nyquist
Anders Nyquist is an Arquitect specialized in healthy buildings, resource economizing in buildings, sustainable, green buildings and green planning. “I am convinced and I have shown that it is possible to build green buildings based upon system design – EcoCycleDesign. We architects can play a vital role in creating a sustainable future for mankind and our fellow passengers on the globe.”
ecocycledesign.com
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Filed under Bioneers 2009 » architecture, sustainability
October 29th, 2009
an interview with Temistocles Blessed
Temistocles Blessed is an activist who works to raise awareness regarding peace, love and social and environmental justice. After attending Bioneers 2007, Tem began to set up his own renewable energy company called BleSSed Energy.
temblessed.com
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Filed under Bioneers 2009 » activism, music, sustainability
October 29th, 2009
an interview with Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist and author. He is author and co-author of dozens of articles, op-eds and papers, as well as six books including The Ecology of Commerce (1993) and Blessed Unrest (2007). Paul heads the Natural Capital Institute, a research organization located in Sausalito, California, that has created WiserEarth, a open source networking platform that links NGO’s, funders, businesses, goverment, social entrepreneurs, students, organizers, academics, activists, scientists and citizens.
paulhawken.com
naturalcapital.org
wiserearth.org
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Filed under Bioneers 2009 » activism, social networks, sustainability
October 29th, 2009
an interview with John Burt and Phloeum Prim
John Burt is the Founding Board Chair of Cambodian Living Arts (CLA). An independent theatrical producer for 25 years, Mr. Burt was most recently the Executive producer of the new CLA commission, Where Elephants Weep, the first Cambodian American opera.
Phloeum Prim is the first Director of Cambodian Living Arts, founded by Arn Chorn-Pond. He is a Cambodian entrepreneur and business leader who has worked with CLA for many years as a Board member and executive consultant on strategic planning.
whereelephantsweep.net
cambodianlivingarts.org
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Filed under Bioneers 2009 » activism, art, performing
October 29th, 2009
an interview with Dr. Elisabet Sahtouri
Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris is an American/Greek evolution biologist, futurist, author and consultant on Living Systems Design. Author of Earthdance: Living Systems in Evolution; A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us and Biology Revisioned with Willis Harman.
sahtouris.com
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Filed under Bioneers 2009 » biology, futurism, systems thinking
October 29th, 2009
an interview with Woody Tasch
Woody Tasch is Chairman and President of Slow Money, a 501(c)3 organization formed in 2008 to catalyze the flow of investment capital to small food enterprises and to promote new principles of fiduciary responsibility to support sustainable agriculture and the emergence of a restorative economy.
slowmoneyalliance.org
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Filed under Bioneers 2009 » activism, restorative economy, sustainability
October 29th, 2009
an interview with Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva, physicist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocate, is the Director of The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy. She serves as an ecology advisor to several organizations including the Third World Network and the Asia Pacific People’s Environment Network. In 1993 she was the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, commonly known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”. She has also written several works include, Staying Alive, The Violence of the Green Revolution, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, Monocultures of the Mind and Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit.
vandanashiva.org
navdanya.org
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Filed under Bioneers 2009 » activism, ecology, feminism
October 26th, 2009
an interview with Robin Chase
Robin Chase is a transportation innovator. She was the founding CEO of Zipcar (the largest carsharing company in the world) and GoLoco (the first company to combine ridesharing, social networks, and easy payment). She writes, consults, and gives talks about the future of transportation and how to actually get there.
robinchase.org
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Filed under Bioneers 2009 » activism, social networks
October 25th, 2009
an interview with Peter Czarkowski
Peter Czarkowski is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At 21 he dropped out of college to assist those affected by Hurricane Katrina. Now 24, he leads a team of AmeriCorps volunteers from around the country. Eight in all, the group call themselves “Kill Squad” because of their desire to kill apathy. They are currently working with the Marion Institute to help host the 5th annual Bioneers by the Bay conference in New Bedford.
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Filed under Bioneers 2009 » activism
October 25th, 2009
an interview with Clemens Pietzner
Our Love And/Or Our Money. Does time present us with a unique opportunity to think, feel and “do” our money differently. Clemens Pietzner is the President of Triskeles for more information go to www.triskeles.org
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Filed under Bioneers 2009 » activism, retroactive economy
October 25th, 2009
an interview with Mercy Bell and David
Filed under Bioneers 2009 » activism, music, performing arts
October 24th, 2009
an interview with Nipun Mehta
Nipun Mehta is the founder of Charity Focus a fully volunteer driven organization started in 1999.
Charity Focus has now become an incubator of gift-economy projects ranging from web services to a film production company to a print magazine to a restaurant. With a membership of 250.000, they attract millions of viewers to their website, charityfocus.org
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Filed under Bioneers 2009 » activism, gift-economy
October 23rd, 2009
an interview with Paul Epstein
Clean energy solutions can stimulate business opportunities and job creation. All proposed technologies must also be examined as to their health and safety, environmental impact, the economic feasibility and benefits. Life cycles analysis can help separate those technologies that are “no regrets” -and can be invested in today- from those that require further study.
chge.med.harvard.edu/about/faculty/epstein.html
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Filed under Bioneers 2009 » health, sustainability, technology
October 23rd, 2009
an interview with Juan Pacheco
Mr Pacheco’s motivation comes from his own life experience. As a youth, he was involved in a gang which took many things away from him. Now he is working at helping other young people turn their lives around. He was a gang member in the past that will become a great physician. He is at Georges Mason University attaining his Pre-Med degree.
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Filed under Bioneers 2009 » healing, health, storytelling
October 23rd, 2009
an interview with Jim Peters
Jim Peters is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bureau of Indian Affairs. He is a member of the Mashpee tribe and a member of the Wampanog singers and dancers.
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Filed under Bioneers 2009 » Indigenous Culture, music, performing arts
October 23rd, 2009
an interview with Will Allen
Will Allen is an urban farmer who is transforming the cultivation, production and delivery of foods to underserved urban population. He says it’s all about the soil.
growingpower.org
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Filed under Bioneers 2009 » activism, urban farming
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