Join BORN for a
Northern Rockies Bioneers Conference
Volunteer, Sponsor & Donor
Appreciation Party

Sunday, May 18
Beall Center at Beall Park
(Bozeman & Villard Streets in Bozeman)
5 PM - 10 PM
Please Bring a Potluck Dish to Share
with Serving Utensils

BORN will Provide FREE Local Beer & Live Music
as well as plates & eating utensils

... for an evening of appreciation
for all of our
volunteers, sponsors, and donors,
past, present & future.

This will be a great time to see old friends,
make new connections, and get involved
with the planning of this year's amazing
Northern Rockies Bioneers Conference!

EVENING TIME LINE

5 PM : View an incredible video of Van Jones,
a previous Bioneers Plenary Speaker
5:30 PM : Call to Action - Meet BORN Board Members and Conference Director Lori Foster
6 PM : Enjoy Dinner and Conversation
7 PM : Musical Performances by Local Artists
10pm: Curfew

for more information contact Lori Foster : lori@bornnetwork.org

The Bioneers Conference has convened annually since 1990 to focus on practical solutions to our most pressing environmental and social challenges. Each October in San Rafael, CA, the Bioneers come together as a group of leading social and scientific innovators to share stories, present model solutions and network with each other. www.bioneers.org

To stimulate and enhance these efforts on a local level, Bioneers beams a simultaneous broadcast of the Conference plenary talks to some 15 sites around the country. Those local sites view the national speakers and produce their own workshops based on local issues and organizing needs.

View What Is Bioneers? Video

Find more videos like this on Bioneers Community


  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
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
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 
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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 
 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
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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 
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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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