BORN presents
The 6th Annual
NORTHERN ROCKIES
BIONEERS CONFERENCE
SAVE THE DATE!
October 16 - 19, 2008
in Bozeman, Montana
at the Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture
2008 Bioneers Plenary Speaker Line-Up
live via satellite from the National Bioneers Conference
Ray Anderson
Founder and chairman for Interface Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of modular carpet, an incredibly
successful visionary in "green business".
Lucas Benitez
Co-director of the Coalition of
Immokalee Workers, he is helping to lead one of the most important labor
struggles in recent U.S. history.
Janine Benyus
Author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
and co-founder of the Montana-based Biomimcry Guild which helps designers, engineers, and community leaders "consult life's genius for more
graceful ways to live on earth."
Erica Fernandez
Winner of the David Brower
Youth Award, she helped mobilize her community to stop a liquified gas
plant from being built in Oxnard, CA.
Naomi Klein
Author of several books including
Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, and No
logo. She is one of the most important political and economic thinkers of our time.
Dune Lankard
A native Athabaskan Eyak from the
Copper River Delta of Alaska, Dune was recently selected
by Time
magazine as one of its "Heroes of the Planet". He is co-founder of RED OIL Network
(Resisting Environmental Degradation Of Indigenous
Lands).
Rebecca Moore
An eco-activist and
engineer, she manages the Google Earth
Outreach program, which supports activists, communities and indigenous peoples around the world in learning how to apply Google's mapping tools
to the world's pressing problems.
Kavita Ramdas
CEO and President of the
Global Fund for Women, she provides
leadership and direction for the largest grant-making foundation in the world focused exclusively on supporting international women's human rights.
Rick Reed
A leading figure in RE-AMP, a seven-state network of
non-profits and foundations striving
for Midwest leadership in clean energy by reducing electricity sector global warming pollutants 80% by 2030.
Paul
Staments
One of the worlds leading Mycologists and brilliant explorers in the fungal realm, he is the author of
several books including, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World. Owner of Fungi Perfecti, his work is leading to new realms
in nutrition, medicine and environmental technologies.
Sandra Steingraber
Dubbed "the new Rachel Carson" by the Sierra Club,
she is an ecologist/biologist and
cancer survivor. She is internationally recognized as an expert in the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health. She is the author
of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Look at Cancer and the Environment and most recently, Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey into
Motherhood.
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