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Nation's Largest Solutions-Oriented Environmental Conference Bioneers
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NATION'S LARGEST SOLUTIONS-ORIENTED ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE CELEBRATES ITS 15TH YEAR IN SAN RAFAEL, CALIF.

LAMY, NM, September 15, 2004 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- October 15-17, 2004 in San Rafael, Calif., experts at the 15th Annual Bioneers Conference will offer real solutions to some of our most compelling environmental challenges. These include energy security, destructive farming practices, corporate domination of media, severe water shortages, extreme social injustice and rapidly declining forests.

The conference titled, "Visionary and Practical Solutions for Restoring the Earth," will feature distinguished speakers such as Paul Hawken, John Mohawk, Terry Tempest Williams and Amory Lovins, who will speak on subjects ranging from alternatives to economic globalization to ecosystem restoration to art and social change. The conference will offer fifteen plenary sessions and 50 in-depth workshops.

Examples include:
  • The Open Space of Democracy: Thoughts on America: Join some of America's most brilliant thinkers on nature, culture and democracy, including naturalists and authors Terry Tempest Williams and Gary Paul Nabhan. Hosted by the Orion Society's Thoughts on America Initiative, promoting thoughtful dialogue and civil engagement. Moderated by Laurie Lane-Zucker.

  • Waste Not: Greening Manufacturing: Featuring Harvey Stone, founder of the GoodBye Chain group, this workshop will look at the business opportunity that is eliminating the 94 percent waste that characterizes the industrial revolution. Jeff Mendelsohn, CEO of the cutting-edge New Leaf Paper and Dan Imhoff, author of Paper or Plastic? Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World will also contribute their experiences.

  • Ecological Medicine: One Notion, Indivisible: The workshop will examine the links between industrial chemicals, disease and prevention, and what governments, corporations and consumer campaigns need to do to heal the Earth and people. Workshop with Michael Lerner, co-founder of Commonweal, Carolyn Raffensperger, environmental lawyer and executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, and Charlotte Brody, R.N., executive director of Health Care Without Harm.
"Although we face unprecedented environmental problems," said Bioneers founder Kenny Ausubel, "Nature already holds many solutions and this conference spotlights the creative strategies that help us realize these solutions by restoring community, justice and democracy."

This year, the nation's largest solutions-oriented environmental conference, with over 3,000 attendees, is expanding its reach by beaming the plenary sessions by satellite to fifteen sites across the United States and Canada. These communities are: Anchorage, Alaska, Eugene, Ore., Bozeman, Mont., Logan, Utah, Prescott, Ariz., Boulder, Colo., Telluride, Colo., Houston, Texas, Fairfield, Iowa, Carbondale, Ill., Bloomington, Ind., Traverse City, Mich., Washington, D.C., Durham, N.H., and Vancouver, British Columbia.

Each site will organize its own region-specific conference featuring local speakers and bioregional issues. In addition, the award-winning independent radio series: Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature, will highlight conference material in future programs of the annual 13-part series.

"No conference on Earth celebrates more fully the possibilities of creating a world that is conducive to life," said Paul Hawken, author of Natural Capitalism. "Bioneers is central to the re-imagination of what it means to be human."

Since 1990, the Bioneers Conference has assembled a singular cross-cultural and global gathering of 'biological pioneers' working with nature to heal nature.

"Bioneers" are scientific and social innovators who are helping define a coming 'Age of Biology' founded in principles of kinship, interdependence, cooperation, and community. They share working models for restoration that can be replicated, refined and spread around the world as vital keys to environmental and cultural renewal.

CONTACT:
Wren Farris
Communications Coordinator
Tel. 505-986-0366, ext. 122
wren@bioneers.org

Nicole de Beaufort
Media Liaison
Tel. 202-236-0207
nicole@bioneers.org

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