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Help Make it Happen!
Sponsor this Year's Event
Volunteer
About this Year's Program
Meet Keynote David Orr
Bioneer Amy Coffman Phillips on Resiliency
Promote this Year's Conference
 

 

HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Exploring Solutions Guided by Nature
Exploring Solutions Guided by Nature

 

Can you give $10, $25, or $50 to help fund this incredible event, and support our Indiegogo campaign

 

We're working as hard as we can to make this year's conference affordable while ensuring sponsors are aligned with our mission.  

 

 
SPONSOR THIS YEAR'S EVENT
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Visit our website to learn about our 2013 sponsors, who will be featured on our website, in our program event guide, and included in forthcoming newsletters.  

 

Can you sponsor this year's conference? Or place an ad?  Click here for more.

 

 

VOLUNTEER!

Volunteer with Us!  

Help out before the conference:

  • Distribute postcards and posters to local coffee shops, bookstores, etc.
  • Edit some of our video interviews from last year's event so that we can add them to our GLBC Collections.

Help out during one of the three-days:

  • Tickets/Registration
  • Greeting and Wayfinding
  • Exhibit Setup
  • Workshop Room Hosts
  • Food Service 
  • Film Screenings

 

Volunteer Benefits:

All volunteers get a free Great Lakes Bioneers Chicago Volunteer t-shirt and:

  • Free same-day admission (except to the Friday's reception and Sunday's breakfast).
  • Snacks and beverages in the Volunteer Lounge.
  • Behind the scenes access.

Email Elizabeth and say you want to sign up!

 

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Great Lakes Bioneers Chicago is a local, self-organized group.  For more information on Bioneers, visit www.bioneers.org.
 

Greetings Bioneers!

 

After a successful debut in 2012, Great Lakes Bioneers Chicago will host its second annual Bioneers event from November 1-3, at Roosevelt University's Chicago campus.  Registration and schedules for each of the three days (along with workshop / session descriptions) are now available at www.bioneerschicago.org.

 

This year's theme Celebrating Community Resilience will bring together leading innovators from all walks of life to exchange ideas, build networks and inspire a shift to live on the Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations.  This will be a fun, action-oriented gathering for people of all ages and experience levels.  Don't miss it!
 
 
THIS YEAR'S KEYNOTES
 
   Sandra SteingraberAlbert BatesAmeena MatthewsGunther Hauk
   click on each image for more


ABOUT OUR PROGRAM
There will be something for everyone, including:
  • Empowering peer-to-peer sessions on Friday, led by some of Chicago's finest practitioners, including Doug Farr, Farr Associates;  Karen Weigert, Chief Sustainability Officer at City of Chicago; Nance Klehm, Social Ecologies; Elise Zelechowski, ReBuilding Exchange; Nate Kipnis, Nathan Kipnis Architects, Inc.; Orrin Williams, Center for Urban Transformation; 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Kim Wasserman; and many more.  Each session will be moderated and focus on one of six major themes (food, water, waste, shelter, energy and community resilience).  These workshops are designed to be fun, fast-paced and culminate in an action plan. Read more (click through topics) ...
  • Education and awareness-raising workshops, with a focus on action. Workshops on hydrofracking and tar sands, for example, will be followed with strategy sessions to help move positive agendas forward. Click for Saturday and Sunday schedules.
  • Fun, interactive skill-shares, providing attendees an introduction to a wide range of topics, including time banking; dealing with racism; tree coppicing; and beekeeping.
  • Time to network with keynotes, local speakers, colleagues and friends.  Most of our keynote speakers are making themselves accessible all three days, and will be involved in Friday workshops; our Friday evening reception and book signing; optional Sunday breakfast; and more.
  • A designated track on Friday for High School Youth.
  • Inspiring music, dance and poetry, including our Saturday closing when we will "Sing for the Climate", which will be filmed and then registered on the international website by the same name.

Don't wait to register! We're offering early bird registration rates through October 3, with a variety of options that help make this three-day conference affordable for all. 

David Orr @ Schumacher College: Ecoliteracy and Ecological Education
David Orr @ Schumacher College:
Ecoliteracy and Ecological Education
 
MEET KEYNOTE DAVID ORR
Professor of Environmental Studies and Senior Adviser to the President 
Oberlin College / The Oberlin Project 
 

Professor David Orr will open our conference with his keynote address on Friday morning, November 1 at 8:30 am.  David may be best known for his work in bringing about the first substantially green building on a U.S. college campus and subsquent initiatives for creating a carbon neutral plan for his own campus at Oberlin.  But there is much more to learn about Professor Orr's achievements!  Recent projects include:

  • A two-year $2.2 million collaborative project to define a 100 days climate action plan for the Obama administration (www.climateactionproject.com); and 
  • A project with prominent legal scholars across the U.S. to define the legal rights of posterity in cases where the actions of the present generation might deprive posterity of "life, liberty, and property." 

He is also active in efforts to stop mountaintop removal in Appalachia and develop a new economy based on ecological restoration and wind energy. He is the author of Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse (Oxford University Press, 2009).  

Amy Coffman Phillips

LOCAL BIONEER AMY COFFMAN PHILLIPS

WRITES ABOUT RESILIENCY

We are pleased to present to you the first contribution to a new series written by local Bioneers covering topics of interest related to the upcoming gathering in Chicago.  This first piece Resilient Communities: Natural Inspiration for Embedding Resilience into our Local Communities  is written by Amy Coffman Phillips, a local architect and founder of The B-Collaborative. In her article, Amy examines how resiliency provides a roadmap as we build a new future and new world. 

 

Amy has contributed immensely as a member of our Program committee, inviting our keynotes and local presenters to shape the conference schedule. We are grateful to Amy and happy to be able to share some of her insights with you in this inaugural post.

PROMOTE OUR CONFERENCE
Great Lakes Bioneers Chicago is a newly-formed, local affiliate of Bioneers that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and the planet. Our vision for the future is rooted in nature-inspired solutions to the world's most pressing social justice and environmental challenges. 
 
For the most part, those solutions already exist.  What we need to do now is to come together to figure out how we can overcome the barriers that prevent us from acting, and how we can rapidly spread and scale the best-available solutions for our region. That's the opportunity we're creating, and we hope you'll actively participate! 
 
Our Core Planning Team invites you to both attend and promote this year's event. Will you:
  • Post information about our conference on your website? 
  • Include a description of our program in your newsletter?  
  • Send an email that invites friends and colleagues to attend?  

We are hoping that your response will be a loud, resounding YES!  Email us and will provide content you can use to make it easy!  Or visit our promotional page and choose your own.


On behalf of the Great Lakes Bioneers Chicago Core Planning Team,



Pam Richart, Eco-Justice Collaborative
Lead Organizer, Great Lakes Bioneers Chicago