Hi Bioneer,
We're excited to announce that registration for the 2022 Bioneers Conference in-person event is now open! We'll be hosting this return to an in-person event at a new venue, the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, CA.
We’re aware that the Bioneers Conference is now a global event, so we intend to continue to make virtual attendance possible. Stay tuned in the weeks ahead for details on how to attend the Conference virtually.
We’re in the thick of a civilizational stress test. It feels like a permanent five-alarm emergency, signaling that massive change is inevitable. But it’s more than just change – this scenario demands authentic transformation. It’s a crucible, and now more than ever, we’ve got to keep the faith and persevere.
The ground truth of the past decade or so has been the power of social movements to affect systemic change and a transformation of the very principles, paradigms, and values in which human civilization is anchored. Although the tide is turning, the existential challenge is that time is not on our side. We need to fast-forward the transformation. At Bioneers 2022, we’ll dive deep into solutions, visions, strategies, and paradigm shifts to do just that.
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At this existential moment, our power lies in community. It’s about changing our societal pronoun from “me” to “we.” We know the solutions residing in nature surpass our conception of what’s even possible, and we know that human creativity is rising to solve the fundamental crises we face. There’s a window through, and we'll open it together.
Tickets are currently at their lowest price of the year, so make sure to get yours soon! |
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BIONEERS 2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
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Our keynote speaker lineup for 2022 is an impressive mix of leaders and visionaries on the frontlines of today's most pressing challenges, from environmental justice and indigenous rights to green building and economic progress.
Our list of amazing speakers is still growing, so stay tuned for updates! |
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Enric Sala
Enric Sala is a former university professor who saw himself writing the obituary of ocean life, and quit academia to become a full-time conservationist as a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. |
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Angela Glover Blackwell
Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder in Residence at PolicyLink, the organization she started in 1999 to advance racial and economic equity for all. |
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Zainab Salbi
Zainab Salbi is a humanitarian, media host, author, and founder and former CEO of Washington-based Women for Women International. |
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Clayton Thomas-Muller
Clayton Thomas-Muller is the ‘Stop It At The Source’ Campaigner with 350.org, founder and organizer with Defenders of the Land and Bioneers board member. |
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Jason McLennan
Jason McLennan, one of the world’s most influential visionaries in contemporary architecture and green building, is a highly sought-out designer, consultant and thought leader. A winner of Engineering News Record’s National Award of Excellence and of the prestigious Buckminster Fuller Prize, Jason has been showered with such accolades as “the ‘Wayne Gretzky’ of the green building industry and a “World Changer." |
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Ohki Forest
Ohki Forest is a Mohawk spiritual teacher dedicated to the healing of the “First Wound of the Americas” and Indigenous restitution through her non-profit, Red Wind Councils, in Chiapas, Mexico. The author of Dreaming the Council Ways, True Native Teachings from the Red Lodge, Ohki received the Eagle Feather Award from the Society for Shamanic Practice for her lifelong dedication to the renewal of Indigenous spirituality. |
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Frans B. M. de Waal
Frans B. M. de Waal, Ph.D., is a Dutch/American biologist and primatologist widely renowned for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates. C. H. Candler Professor Emeritus at Emory University, de Waal has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and was declared one of The Worlds’ 100 Most Influential People Today by Time magazine in 2007. |
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Cindy MontaƱez
Cindy MontaƱez is the CEO of TreePeople, which organizes thousands of people to plant and care for trees in their neighborhoods, schools, parks, and local mountains and forests. |
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Samuel Myers
Samuel Myers, MD, MPH, studies the human health impacts of accelerating disruptions to Earth’s natural systems, a field recently dubbed “Planetary Health.” A Principal Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, he is the founding Director of the Planetary Health Alliance, the author of roughly 100 peer-reviewed research articles, and the lead editor of Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves. |
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Kongjian Yu
Kongjian Yu, a world-renowned, award-winning leader in ecological urbanism and landscape architecture, is the founder of the planning and design firm, Turenscape, in Beijing. Yu, who received a doctorate at The Harvard School of Design, founded the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture and the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Peking University. |
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