Bioneers: Rendevous On The Wild Green Frontier
by John Laumer, Philadelphia on 10.24.06
When the New York Times devotes top reporting talent to the leading edge green thinkers and practioners you know a tipping point approaches. From the Times story on the just-held Annual Bioneers Conference At This Gathering, the Only Alternative Is to Be Alternative, we offer a single excerpt: "Students, organic farmers, architects, advocates for Pacific dolphins and a growing number of entrepreneurs looking to invest in green technology come to hear the latest thinking on global warming (code word: Katrina) and how to keep the food supply safe (buzzword: spinach). Alternative energy, Bioremediation and environmental justice, once-fringy issues, have over the course of the conference’s 17-year history become part of the national dialogue". Wishing we had been there, which could have been done by satellite, per the photo. And we wonder, too, whether Bioneers read TreeHugger?
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To answer your question, I'm not sure whether a 'Bioneer' reads this blog, but most certainly the bioneer watcher does. I've been attending the Bioneers conference for 10+ years, and I find the three day event the energetic push I need to keep a year's awareness of "right living" as well as a year's worth of reading about and by the myriad Bioneers presenters.
Fore most in my mind are memories of the stellar plenary presentations by Wm. McDonough in 2000, Paul Stamats in 1999, and Peter Warshall in 1997, and wacky Caroline Casey in 1996.
TreeHugger has become my daily bread (amongst scads of other aggregation blogs)of the same kind of subjects -- C2C product-reviewing, green design investigating -- that Bioneers brings only yearly, but more alive, because the folks are there to talk to.
TreeHugger should certainly make a trip to Marin next October.
Hi. I'm the founder and co-executive director of Bioneers. Yes, I am most certainly aware of Treehugger. We ought to get connected for 2007 Bioneers. People do not realize we're a relatively small organization and there's lots we'd like to do that have not done yet! We'll get there.
Thanks for your great work. Best
Kenny Ausubel
Hey, I was there! Just no time to write anything at the momment :-)
I'm am both an attendee to the Bioneers conference as well as a treehuggerTV watcher. I was actually rather suprised that Treehugger wasn't involved in any way to the whole bioneers web. Glad to see the connection beginning!