You can help Bioneers raise our next critically needed $250,000! Meet the matching challenge grant offered to our community by a group of generous donors including The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and others. Your contributions make their $250,000 investment possible. In less than a month you've given $150,500 toward our goal. Thank you! And thank you in advance, for helping us to match the rest! "Imbue your money with soul - your soul - and let it stand for who you are, your love, your heart, your word & your humanity." - Lynne Twist |
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Join Bioneers co-founder and co-CEO
Nina Simons
in San Francisco on Thursday,
December 8th for an evening lecture and book signing for Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart.
Presented by:
Wise Talk: The Gwen Mazer Lecture Series
in collaboration with California Institute
of Integral Studies.
Wise Talk, The Gwen Mazer Lecture Series,
presents three women of wit, wisdom, and intellect speaking the voice of the feminine, exploring the paradigms of spiritual traditions and science, and empowering the principles of leadership from the heart. Other speakers in this year's series are
Isabel Allende and Marilyn Schlitz.
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Don't miss Kenny Ausubel's compelling essay
in Dream of a Nation, a gorgeous new book
that sheds lights on some of the groundbreaking leaders, projects and ideas that have the potential
to solve society's toughest problems. Through a collection of essays and short commentaries, the featured solutions and projects celebrate unique contributions from the country's diverse population and span the nation's most prevalent concerns.
Contributors include Alice Walker, Vice President Al Gore, Paul Hawken, and Kenny.
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Win Discounted Courses at Schumacher College Based in England, Schumacher College has been at the forefront of radical new thinking and education for 20 years, welcoming teachers and participants who are committed to living and working for a sustainable future. Courses in 2012 include teachings by Fritjof Capra, David Orr, and Satish Kumar. Sign up before 15th December 2011 to qualify for discounted courses which Schumacher College is offering to 10 bioneers. Email Schumacher with BIONEERS in the subject line. You will receive a monthly newsletter from teachers, students and partner organizations. The names of the 10 bioneers will be published in the December issue and offered a discounted short-course. 
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Bioneers Conference Afterglow and Thanks
Bioneers 2011 was a powerful time at a powerful time. The theme - Breakdown to Breakthrough: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature - aptly captured the zeitgeist. Speaker after speaker dropped real wisdom in some of the most truly transfixing and memorable moments in 22 years of conferences. We offer our profound gratitude to all of you who participated as part of the Bioneers community of leadership, including our many brilliant presenters, and our esteemed board and staff, sponsors, media partners and numerous allies and partners. |
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Bioneers 2011 Talks and Media Online
We amped up conference media making this year including roaming film and interview crews who shot and recorded arks of great material. Click here to explore the conference video archive that includes unabridged plenaries, several top-notch panels, and stellar performances.
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Unveiling Bioneers 3.0
To open the conference, Bioneers Co-CEOs and Founders Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons unveiled the bones of Bioneers 3.0. Kenny created a cool slide show that begins with a Bioneers-eye view of the world as the context for the organizational reboot, and segues into a snapshot of Bioneers' history plus highlights of the growing edges of emergent work. Nina rounded it out with a vivid picture of the ascendancy of women's leadership and of our dynamic Moonrise Women's Leadership Program.
As Kenny said, "The next five or six years will be the most important years in the history of human civilization." We're stoked to move Bioneers into a mode of action and mobilization to help deploy and scale up the wealth of solutions and strategic networks Bioneers has been hunting and gathering for over two decades. Thank goodness this rich body of work and networks exists to meet the moment.
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Good Press
Many of you asked for a transcript of Kenny's Saturday morning standing-ovation humor piece. The Sting: Social Biomimicry and the Role of Fraud in Nature is now up on Huffington Post.
Bioneers has gotten some glowing coverage recently.
Our home-town independent weekly The Santa Fe Reporter did a really good cover story and profile of Kenny and Bioneers, and strong sidebar on Cultivating Women's Leadership with Nina.
Metropolis Magazine reporter Kira Gould penned an insightful piece on Anim Steel's moving plenary on the "Real Food Challenge," and commented: "This is one of the most age- and ethnicity-diverse conferences I've ever seen."
And a Daily Kos blog by Steve Masover calls Bioneers prescient regarding Occupy Wall Street after reading our book "Nature's Operating Instructions," published seven years ago. Shelf life...
Google Earth posted Rebecca Moore's stunning plenary on the popular Google Earth Sightseer site.
Diana Rico's story on the Ms. Blog, Around the World, Grassroots Women Leaders Rise Up, includes this: "The idea that women can lead from the trenches, on the basis of their life experiences and without any special blessing from an established hierarchy, came forth in many ways at Bioneers."
Please pass all these along by linking, reposting, tweeting
and generally hitting the send button to one and all.
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Special Thanks to Susanna Dakin
Stealth Book Announcement
Yay for Susanna Dakin! Sue changed the course of history - certainly Bioneers' history - with her five-year one million dollar grant to us in 1998. We treated it as seed capital from which we grew most of what you now know as Bioneers. We honor Sue for taking the stage at Bioneers 2011 to share her story and conjure up the next millions to grow Bioneers 3.0 - in big and small gifts alike.
But of course Sue is far more than a heroic Bioneers donor. She's a sculptor, performance artist, writer, and once-upon-a-time publisher of artists' books, magazines and a community newspaper. She co-founded the celebrated 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica. After decades of struggling with real-world problems - and putting words on a page - she is eager for you to buy her new book so she can get back to hands-on transformative art. The book is very provocative, subversive, funny and timely. Check it out.
AN ARTIST FOR PRESIDENT:
The Nation Is The Artwork and We Are The Artists
A Book By Susanna Bixby Dakin
"Artists present a threat to those who love eternal truths. Artists know that truth is elusive- ever in need of being sought, stroked, stoked, dug up, displayed, re-buried, decorated, disguised, elaborated, modified,
re-formulated and discovered again."
Against the inclination of her own nature as well as advice from friends, family, other artists and scoffers, Sue launched a Presidential campaign, as "An Artist for President" for the 1984 electoral season. Hoping to replace Ronald Reagan the artifact with an artist, Sue traveled the country, mostly by rail, whistle-stop campaigning at more than 200 small towns in 30 states, and with longer stays in nearly two dozen large cities. She appeared on television, radio, and in newspapers nationwide, sometimes receiving a surprisingly serious hearing.
This compelling and highly entertaining tale is the true story. Toggling between her political and metaphorical ruminations on the art of politics and how to run the country, this "biography of an event" is even more timely in today's eerie political climate.
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Honoring James Hillman
by Kenny Ausubel
We deeply mourn the passing of James Hillman, one of the towering visionary figures of modern psychology, who died on October 27th at age 85. We were honored to host James for a plenary at Bioneers, Acccentuate the Positive, parts of which we later included in a radio show featuring Dr. Hillman, Taking Back the Country From the Nation, and get to know him a bit.
I met James at an Orion retreat a few years ago, and we connected strongly. It was during the height of the Bush national political psychosis, and the general conversation that first night was dark and ominous - until we started talking about BioneersWorld. James had a sense of cultural smell like a bloodhound, and when he came to the conference, he was elated to discover the parallel universe of new myth-makers and rowdy problem-solvers. He gave an amazing talk, and we were discussing a return engagement when he was diagnosed with cancer. We are truly honored to have known James, and his wonderful partner Margot.
A former Director of Studies at the renowned Jung Institute in Zurich in the late '50s and '60s, James returned to the U.S. in the 1970s and expanded on Jungian ideas to forge the revolutionary field of Archetypal Psychology. It rejected modern psychology's soullessness and its tendency to over-pathologize our inner conflicts, and insisted instead on restoring socio-cultural and mythic-spiritual dimensions to the study of the human psyche. James was co-founder of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture and the author of over 20 books, including such seminal texts as the groundbreaking classic Re-Visioning Psychology and the bestselling The Soul's Code.
James Hillman did more than anyone else to explore the deepest realms of the psyche, encourage the unleashing of the human imagination and re-ensoul contemporary consciousness. He was one of the sharpest and wisest people we have ever met. He will be acutely missed, but his work will be influential for centuries to come.
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Indigeneity Essentials Box Set
The Indigeneity Box Set of greatest hits of native plenaries and radio series shows sold out at the conference, along with our Original Instructions indigenous anthology book. Big props to Cara McCoy, our Indigeneity Program Manager, for putting it all together.
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