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Chicago - The Living City
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Vandana Shiva, Saturday Keynote
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CHICAGO - THE LIVING CITY 
This year's theme is The Living City. Why? Chicago is a living system, where all parts are connected and intelligent. All parts (our natural environment, infrastructure and people) need to be healthy in order to prosper. 

 

Like National Bioneers, we believe that solutions to today's most pressing environmental and socio-economic challenges should be built upon nature's principles of kinship and cooperation; diversity; symbiosis; and cycles of continuous creation, absent of waste. 

 

To that end, we are bringing people together to look at how nature operates, and then explore how to follow nature's operating instructions to serve human needs while restoring, rather than harming the web of life. 

 

Why wait?  Click to register now!

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WHAT IS GLBC?

Great Lakes Bioneers Chicago is a local, self-organized affiliate partner of the National Bioneers movement. We are innovators and visionaries inspired by nature. 

 

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We're pleased to announce that you can register now for the fall Great Lakes Bioneers Chicago gathering, taking place at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Student Center East from Friday, November 2 through Sunday, November 4.  Take advantage of our discounted Early Bird Registration Rates, which will be in effect through September 28. 
 
Click for Friday, Saturday and Sunday schedules of events and take a look at our exciting program!  This event will be filled with inspiring speakers, skill and resource building workshops, performance artists and access to experts working to on vital issues regarding people and planet. 
Dr. Vandana Shiva
Saturday Keynote Address
 
Vandana Shiva

  Vandana Shiva, renowned researcher, author and eco-feminist 

is giving one of three keynote addresses on Saturday, November 2.  

  

Dr. Shiva's work epitomizes the philosophy of the Bioneers movement. While it is true that many have explored the idea of living in balance with the planet, Vandana Shiva has sparked a movement that lifts up the fundamental rights of nature over those of the corporate-led global economic framework that has brought us to the brink of economic and ecological disaster.
 

Dr. Shiva's keynote address will show us that a city, like any living system, needs food for its nourishment and metabolism.  The future of the city, she says, lies in gardens and organic connections to the countryside - not in asphalt or jungles of concrete.

 

Attend our gathering on Saturday and listen to Dr. Shiva talk about her work at Navdanya, and how protecting the biological and cultural diversity of seed - currently threatened by corporations - is the basis of living food and living communities. Learn more - then read and consider joining the grassroots by signing Vandana Shiva's Declaration on Seed Freedom!

Upcoming Events:

Join Us this November! 
Learn more about who is presenting each day of our event and what the focus of each session is by clicking on the links in the right side bar of our website. You also can sort by area of interest by using the drop down menu, also in the side bar to the right. 

We hope you will take a close look and then register right away to ensure your place at this extraordinary event!

 

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