Aug 22, 2018 posted, This speech was given at the 2009 National Bioneers Conference.

The Hidden Promise of Our Dark Age: Discovering Our Wisdom, Strength and Beauty in the Midst of

Aug 22, 2018 posted, This speech was given at the 2009 National Bioneers Conference.

The Hidden Promise of Our Dark Age: Discovering Our Wisdom, Strength and Beauty in the Midst of Crisis

One of the great activists and spiritual teachers of our era, Joanna Macy (1929-2025), brings a hopeful message: If we can free ourselves from the delusions and dependencies bred by the “industrial growth society,” something wonderful can happen. If we manage to steer clear of panic, we may well find, at last, the wild power of our creativity and solidarity.

Introduction by Nina Simons, Co-Founder of Bioneers.

Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. 

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A known poet, writer, and lyricist takes you on a poetic journey to realize the need to stop climate change. Deepak Ramola is the Founder and Artistic Director of Project FUEL, an organisation that

A known poet, writer, and lyricist takes you on a poetic journey to realize the need to stop climate change. Deepak Ramola is the Founder and Artistic Director of Project FUEL, an organisation that documents and designs human wisdom. He also served as the Kindness Ambassador for UNESCO MGIEP. Through his methodology, recognised at world's top 100 innovations in education, he has worked with the women of Masai tribe to young girls in Afghanistan, sex workers of Kamathipura, earthquake survivors in Nepal to Syrian refugees in Europe and migration-affected villages of Uttarakhand, India. A celebrated lyricist in Hindi Cinema, he is also a published author of an award-winning collection of Hindi and English books. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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Mar 20, 2023  UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIÊ»I AT MÄ€NOA

Botanist, professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation,

Mar 20, 2023  UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIÊ»I AT MÄ€NOA

Botanist, professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Wall Kimmerer is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. A SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, Kimmerer has won the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing and a MacArthur “genius” grant. Her research interests include the restoration of ecological communities, as well as the restoration of our relationships to land. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.

 

 

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