9:00am - 1:00pm :: PLENARY SESSIONS - LIVE SIMULCAST FROM THE BIONEERS CONFERENCE

Opening Remarks from Kenny Ausubel

Clip from Hidden Beauty introduced by filmmaker Louis Schwartzberg

JASON McLENNAN :: Living Buildings - The Future of Architecture

This leading figure in the global green architecture movement challenges us to imagine and demand buildings that operate as elegantly and efficiently as the living structures nature creates. As CEO of Cascadia Green Building Council, author of the Living Building Challenge and co-creator of Pharos (the most advanced building material rating system in North America), he shows breathtaking examples from the worldwide Challenge underway to design buildings that meet or exceed nature’s ecosystem services.

LILY YEH :: The Rwanda Healing Project: Bringing Hope through Art and Creative Action

This internationally celebrated artist works to bring the transformative power of art to impoverished and war-torn communities around the world to foster community empowerment, improve the physical environment, promote economic development and preserve indigenous art and culture. She portrays a heartbreakingly beautiful project (described in Terry Tempest Williams’ latest book Finding Beauty in a Broken World) exemplifying how art can begin to heal the environment as well as the hearts and minds of traumatized people.

JENSINE LARSEN :: The Electric Pulse of Women Transforming Our World

Across the Earth, courageous women leaders from rural villages to corporate suites are connecting to solve global problems. The visionary founder of World Pulse, a global media source covering world issues through women’s eyes, shares her journey building an interactive global media enterprise to unleash the power of women’s voices, and shows how we can participate in this ongoing revolution.

Marin County Award

Charles McGlashan of the Marin County Board of Supervisors and Jim Farley, director of Marin’s Cultural and Visitors’ Services, will present a Resolution honoring the influence Bioneers has had on the county’s green innovations.

ARTURO SANDOVAL :: Changing the Axis: Drawing from Mexican and Latin American Cultures to Create a Sustainable Future

The Euro-American ethic which has dominated the cultural and economic landscape of the Americas for hundreds of years has had some positive effects on the Western hemisphere, but its total domination of the commons has also stifled equally valuable ethics that existed prior to the emergence of the U.S. One of New Mexico’s most prominent civic leaders explores how we can find a balance between these older and newer attitudes to land and life to create a viable future for us all.

Dr. ANDREW WEIL :: Environmental Health, Environmental Medicine

Human health and environmental health are inextricably interconnected, yet the education and training of doctors and health professionals largely ignore the subject. America’s most prominent “Integrative” MD and medical reformer, Dr. Andrew Weil says in his new book on reinventing the American health care system that it’s imperative to mobilize the health-care community as an ally in the environmental movement. The alliance could overcome the influence of vested interests that still block the legislative and policy changes we need to protect the health of people and planet.

1:00pm - 2:30pm :: LUNCH

2:45pm - 5:30pm :: LIVE SPEAKERS IN LOS ANGELES / AFTERNOON SESSIONS

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES IN LOS ANGELES

CHARLES EISENSTEIN :: The Ascent of Humanity

Charles Eisenstein is a healer, traveler, teacher, writer, integrated holistic visionary and evolutionary proactivist. His recent book 'The Ascent of Humanity' identifies the core of the perceived human challenge: separation. Eisenstein challenges us to collectively create a new evolutionary path, acting from the heart and mind on behalf of future generations, now. www.ascentofhumanity.com

LARRY SANTOYO, EarthFlow Design Works :: Permaculture for Humanity

Larry Santoyo is an artist, land use planner and green business consultant. He is among the most experienced Permaculture Designers and Educators in the US and has taught environmental design at colleges and universities nationwide, including UC Berkeley and California State Polytechnic University. Larry is Director of EarthFlow Design Works, a community planning and design firm that integrates economic development strategies with ecological systems management. www.earthflow.com

ASHLEY ZARELLA HAND, LEED AP, ASSOC AIA :: Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Sustainability Committee

The Sustainability Committee of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council is dedicated to empowering the Downtown community to create a culture of sustainability.

We will work with the community to increase accessibility to existing programs and services through outreach and public education. We will identify and create opportunities for new programming and partnerships to meet our goals for a more livable, affordable, and efficient urban center. www.downtownsustainability.com

WOODROW W. CLARK MA3, Ph.D.

Dr. Clark, a long-time advocate for the environment, is an author, lecturer and advisor specializing in renewable energy and sustainable communities. In 2007, Dr. Clark received a Nobel Peace Prize, along with his colleagues of United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for his work as the first Research Director for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, establishing the economic and technical basis for renewable energy technologies to be commercialized in developing nations.

In 2004, he founded Clark Strategic Partners, a consulting firm using his political-economic expertise in order to guide and advise clients on how to implement sustainable development.

Prior to launching Clark Strategic Partners, Dr. Clark was Senior Advisor on Renewable Energy, Emerging Technologies, and Finance to California Governor Gray Davis from 2000 to 2003.

www.clarkstrategicpartners.net

5:30pm - 7:30pm :: COCKTAIL RECEPTION hosted by:

Delectable Sound Selections provided by DJ JUN www.JunAntazo.com

7:30pm - 11:30pm :: HIGHLIGHTS + FILMS

SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BIONEERS PLENARIES

"WHAT ABOUT ME?" :: Directed by Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman

Q&A with Duncan Bridgeman after the Film

Following the success of their first double Grammy nominated film & album "What About Me?" is the latest offering from 1Giant Leap. This visionary project took Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman to over 50 locations as they explore through music, the complexities of human nature on a global scale. The film aims to reveal how we are all connected through creativity and beliefs, but most of all through our collective insanity.

Covering universal topics such as God, Sex, Death and Money, "What About Me?" Features and incredibly diverse collection of collaborators from Noam Chomsky to Will Young, Maxi Jazz to TIm Robbins, Billy Connolly to Michael Stipe, Eckhart Tolle to Baaba Mall, among many others.

"What About Me?" is a poignant emotional and entertaining time capsule of humanity at its most inspirational. www.whataboutme.tv

PERFORMING LIVE ON SATURDAY

UNITED VOICES FOR PEACE : Kid's Choir www.UnitedVoicesforPeace.com

MIKE THE POET :: Spoken Word www.myspace.com/MikeThePoet

RICH FERGUSON :: Spoken Word www.RichRant.com

ADAM YASMIN :: Cajon Drum www.AdamYasmin.com