Bioneer, With our planet in a climate emergency, an explosion in wealth inequality has led to a bizarre reality where billionaires continue to make news, dreaming of leaving the earth behind and adventuring into space. If we’re lucky, maybe they will... While some find it easier to imagine a future in the stars, extraordinary scientists and researchers are revealing the fascinating reality of the dynamic ecosystems beneath our feet — in the incredibly complex interrelationships of plants, bacteria, fungi, insects and minerals that life aboveground depends on.
This week we share presentations and discussions featuring some of the world’s leading experts on underground ecosystems, including Suzanne Simard, Ann Biklé, and David R. Montgomery. |
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Suzanne Simard – Dispatches From the Mother Trees |
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Suzanne Simard is one of the planet’s most influential, groundbreaking researchers on plant communication and intelligence. In her presentation at the 2021 Bioneers Conference, Suzanne discussed the dire global consequences of logging old-growth rainforests and nature-based solutions that combine Western science and Indigenous knowledge for preserving and caring for these invaluable forest ecosystems for the future generations.
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David Montgomery and Anne Biklé – You Are What Your Food Ate |
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The intimate connections between the life of the soil and the nutritional quality of food points to the profound importance of farming practices that can imbue the human diet with the nutrients and compounds that underpin health, or rob us of them. In this presentation from the 2021 Bioneers Conference, geologist David Montgomery and biologist Anne Biklé share the growing body of scientific evidence linking soil health with human health discuss how a growing vanguard of farmers pioneering regenerative practices is proving that farming practices that are good for the land are good for us too.
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Call for Submissions! Bioneers Conference – Artist Application 2022 |
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Bioneers invites artists to bring captivating, compelling, and inspiring art to the 2022 Bioneers Conference, which will be held at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, May 13-15th, 2022. Learn more about how you can share your art with the Bioneers community! Learn more here. |
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Lessons from the Underground |
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Most people live and move through life without a second thought ABOUT the extraordinarily dynamic life hidden beneath our feet. In this recorded conversation, three of the world’s leading specialists on different aspects of those underground ecosystems share their cutting-edge research. Moderated by Bioneers’ Restorative Food Systems Director Arty Mangan, this conversation features Suzanne Simard, Ph.D., Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia, one of the planet’s leading experts on the synergies and complexities of forests and husband and wife duo, Anne Biklé and David R. Montgomery, both scientific researchers whose groundbreaking work on the microbial life of soil has revealed its crucial importance to human wellbeing and survival.
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At a time when the world is desperate for a new approach to living on the planet, can permaculture scale up to create the global ecological and social changes that are needed for human survival? Hosted by Permaculturalist Penny Livingston, this 2021 Bioneers Conference session features Permaculture co-founder David Holmgren, Permaculture magazine co-founder, and editor Maddy Harland, and author and regenerative farmer Mark Shepard.
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Guardians of the River — Online Course |
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How can we reconnect with water and understand our relationship with water bodies based on values of kinship? In this unique online course from Guardians Worldwide, learn from practitioners from many different nations about traditional water knowledge and global confluences of water thinking. Want to become a River Guardian? Use code “bioneers20” for an exclusive 20% discount.
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