Bluegrass Bioneers Returns!
Coming the Weekend of October 21-23 Breakthrough Solutions for People and Planet
Free and Open to the Public
Friday, October 21, 9am-10pm Saturday, October 22, 9am-11pm Sunday, October 23, 10am-6:30pm
at the University of Louisville
The Bioneers Conference is the leading sustainability and social solutions conference in the country. It brings together, in 21 American cities, more than 10,000 social, scientific, and environmental innovators, visionaries, and citizens from all walks of life working to create a more just and sustainable world for humanity.
Bluegrass Bioneers is the southeast region's incarnation of the national Bioneers conference combining world-renowned pre-recorded plenary talks from the conference in CA with live regional environmental visionaries to create a one-of-a-kind sustainable solutions event.
Inspirational talks and life stories from California include Amory Lovins (green energy guru & Chairman of Rocky Mountain Institute), Gloria Steinem (renowned author and feminist icon), Paul Stamets (world's leading "myco-technologist"), Phillippe Cousteau (ocean explorer, author, activist) and many others.
They will be joined by live regional leaders and visionaries like author Chad Montrie, professor Barbara Burns, Kimberly Frieder (children's author & environmentalist), Christian Thalacker (biodiesel entrepreneur), Keith Mountain (glaciologist & state geographer), Justin Mog (UofL sustainability director), Brian Barnes (UofL & Bellarmine philosophy professor), Mark Steiner (Cultivating Connections), Teddie Phillipson-Mower (environmental educator), Tom FitzGerald (Kentucky Resources Council), Joe Franzen & Claude Stephens (urban homesteaders), Sean Patrick Hill (author), Open Ground, 350 Louisville and many more.
Entertainment this year includes Harry Pickens, Andrea Davidson, River City Drum Corps, and the Troubadours of Divine Bliss...plus screenings of the feature films "YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip" and "Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time."
There will also be a Family Day, a Re-skilling Fair, a Peace Mini-Fair, and a local/sustainable Iron Chef Dinner sponsored by Whole Foods and 15Thousand Farmers.
The University of Louisville will host the Annual Bluegrass Bioneers Conference which is presented by BEcreative and the UofL Sustainability Council and sponsored by Organic Valley.
Please check the website for the latest schedule information and updates.
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