2005 Bioneers Southeast FORUM .........................................
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FRIDAY-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28-30, 2005
Savannah College of Art & Design-Atlanta
1600 Peachtree St. NW Atlanta 30309
www.inspiringfutures.org/bioneers
tel. contact Ed McNally: 404.371-8554
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS & PANELISTS
NOTE:
The following events take place in the main hall known
as the "HUB": opening and closing "harvests"
of ideas, morning plenary events, lunches, the Friday evening
reception and film screenings and the closing ceremony on Sunday
afternoon. Exhibitor tables are also in the HUB.
Locations for afternoon Regional Panel Discussions & Presentations listed in RED.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 28
7:30 8:30 a.m.
Registration - Lobby
Organic Continental Breakfast - HUB
Exhibitor Tables Open - HUB
8:30 a.m.
WELCOME - HUB
Tommy Conlon, Bioneers Southeast Steering Committee
member, Pine Lake, GA City Council
8:40 a.m.
OPENING CEREMONY: Tom Blue Wolf, Earthkeepers - HUB
9:00 10:45 a.m.
PLENARY PRESENTATIONS from the 2005 National Bioneers
Conference - HUB
(1 AIA Credit)
Welcome and opening remarks by Bioneers founders Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons
JANINE BENYUS - What Life Knows: New Ideas from Biology that Could Change the World
WILL BULLOCK - You Are Where You Eat: Growing Urban Food and Community
10:45 a.m. Break Exhibitor Tables Open - HUB
11:00 a.m. 12:15 p.m.
PLENARY PRESENTATIONS from the 2005 National Bioneers Conference - HUB
BILL MCKIBBEN - Global Warming: A Climate of Fear and Opportunity
DIANE WILSON - An UnReasonable Woman: UnReasonableness and Where It Gets You
12:15 1:30 p.m. ORGANIC LUNCH - HUB
1:30 3:00 p.m. SOUTHEAST REGIONAL WORKSHOPS I:
1. 1 Empowerment, Rites of Passage and Wise Women
- Classroom 1
Dr. Rick Clofine, Director, Millenium Healthcare
Lisa Michaels, author
Shasta Zaring, Garden of the Goddess Atlanta
1. 2 Getting our Housing in Order: Can Sustainable
Equal Affordable? - Georgia
Paul Hirsch, Georgia Community Loan Fund
Aaron Sampson, Community Housing Resource Center
1.3 It's All Connected: Building Coalitions of New Bioneers
- Classroom 2
Gerald Boyd, NCBI Atlanta Black/African Heritage and Men's
caucus leader
Joane DeMark, Hakomi therapist
1.4 Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America
(65 min.) Classroom 4
screening and audience Q&A
a film by Nashville resident Jeff Barry
1. 5 New Media, New Messages: Bloggers, Docs and Progressive
Radio - HUB
Heather Gray, host Just Peace, WRFG FM
George King, filmmaker
Kathy Malloy, producer, Air America Radio
Mike Malloy, host, Air America Radio
Catherine Smith, co-proprietor, www.BlogforDemocracy.org
John Sugg, Senior Editor, Creative Loafing moderator
3:15 4:45 pm SOUTHEAST REGIONAL WORKSHOPS II:
2. 1 After Peak Oil: The Future of Energy -
HUB
Dr. Allison Bailes, spokesperson, AB3 Energy
Steve Freeman, project manager, One World Sustainable Energy
Dr. Katy Hinman, spokesperson, Georgia Interfaith Power &
Light
Rob Del Bueno, founder, VegEnergy - moderator
2. 2 How the Arts are Transforming Communities and
Classrooms Classroom 2
George King, documentary filmmaker
Celeste Miller, dancer, choreographer
Robert Earl Price, poet-playwright
Shelby Habeger, managing director, Push Push Theater
Tim Habeger, artistic director, Push Push Theater
Alice Lovelace, poet-author-arts consultant moderator
2.3 Keeping Water Fresh for Everyone
Classroom 4
Billy Hall, spokesperson, Newfields Engineering
Ciannat Howett, staff lawyer, Southern Environmental Law Center
Rick Rheingans, Center for Global Environmental Health, Emory
University
moderator to be announced
2. 4 The Precautionary Principle in Action: Improving
Public Health and Fostering Environmental Justice - Classroom
1
Sherrill Marcus, volunteer, Metro Atlanta Transportation Equity
Coalition
Louversia Wiggins, Director, West Atlanta Watershed Alliance
Yomi Noibi, Director, Atlanta Chapter, Eco Action - moderator
2.5 Values in the Marketplace Georgia
Bill Harris, distributor, Cafe Campesino
Tirza Hollenhorst, member, BALLE Atlanta
Polly Sattler, founder, Sustainable Business Partners
2.6 Walking the Walk: Reclaiming Streets to Strengthen
Hearts and Communities
Classroom 3
Dr. Richard Bright, Morehouse School of Public Health
Sally Flocks, Executive Director, PEDS
Sanders Moore, project assistant, The Georgia Conservancy
D. Patton White, dancer-choreographer-director, Beacon Hill Dance
Co.
Felicia Davis, program manager, Georgia Conservancy moderator
5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
ORGANIC RECEPTION: co-hosted by Georgia Organics and Sevananda Natural Foods - HUB
6:30 9:30 p.m.
DOCUMENTARY DOUBLE FEATURE! - HUB
The Real Dirt on Farmer John 85 min
Raise Your Voice: Sweet Honey In the Rock 85 min.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 29
7:30 8:30 a.m.
Registration - Lobby
Organic Continental Breakfast - HUB
Exhibitor Tables Open - HUB
8:30 a.m. OPENING HARVEST OF IDEAS - HUB
9:00 a.m. Remarks by DAVID OAKEY, founder & CEO, David
Oakey Designs (1 AIA Credit)
9:20 10:45 a.m.
PLENARY PRESENTATIONS from the 2005 National Bioneers Conference - HUB
CAROLYN RAFFENSPERGER - Bold Precaution: The Precautionary Principle Gains Traction
JEREMY NARBY - Intelligence in Nature: A Predator's Inquiry
10:45 a.m. Break - Exhibitor Tables Open - HUB
11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
PLENARY PRESENTATIONS from the 2005 National Bioneers Conference - HUB
OMAR FREILLA - Greening the Inner City: Jobs, Health, Justice and the Environment
THOM HARTMANN - Beyond Framing: How Deep Neuro-Linguistic Programming Communicates
RHA GODDESS - Who's Got Next? Cultivating Feminine-Centered Leadership in a Hip-Hop Era
12:30 1:30 p.m. ORGANIC LUNCH - HUB
1:30 3:00 pm SOUTHEAST REGIONAL WORKSHOPS III
3. 1 A Walk in the Woods: Treating Nature Deficit
Disorder in Children - Georgia
Dr David Busch, Eco-Psychotherapist Solo Session
3. 2 Designing with Nature: Ecological Design
in the 21st Century (1 AIA Credit) - California
John Mlade, greenbuilding expert, Perkins + Will Architects,
LLC
David Oakey, founder, CEO, David Oakey Designs
Jeanette Yen, director, Center for Biologically Inspired Design
(CBID), Georgia Tech
Pandra Williams, environmental artist - moderator
3.3 Edens Lost and Found: Restoring Chicago
(60 min.) Classroom 4
screening and audience discussion
preview of a new 4-part series to air on PBS in January,
2006
3. 4 Katrina and Rita: Personal Stories and Lessons
Learned - HUB
Carolyn Aidman, Project Manager, Special Initiatives,
State Division of Public Health
Bill Bolling, Executive Director, Atlanta Community Food Bank
Carolyn Morris, Director, Alternate Roots
John O'Neal, Director, Junebug Theater Co., New Orleans
Bill Summers, jazz musician-composer, Exec. Dir., Multiethnic
School for the Arts, New Orleans
Forest Swattman, executive volunteer, Reach Out America
Roy Craft, Exec Dir. Regional Council of Churches moderator
3. 5 Think Globally Grow, Sell and Eat
Locally - Classroom 1
Cornelius Blanding, outreach coordinator, Federation of Southern
Cooperatives
Farmer D., Serenbe Farms
Michael Touhy, owner-chef, Woodfire Grill - Atlanta
Kat West, Exec. Director, Atlanta Community Garden Association
Alice Rolls, Director, Georgia Organics, co-coordinator, Atlanta
Local Food Initiative (ALFI) - moderator
3.6 Tribal Dialogue: Reclaiming Community
North Carolina
Elana Hemmelfarb, The Paidea School
John Laughinghawk, ProActive Evolution
Stacie Smith, Center for Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
3.7 Open Space Technology Classroom 2
3:15 4:45 pm SOUTHEAST REGIONAL WORKSHOPS IV
4.1 A Harvest of Grassroots Solutions - Georgia
Natalie Foster, Regional Representative, Sierra Club
Bruce Morton, member, West Atlanta Watershed Alliance
Mark O'Connell, CEO, Creative Earth (Athens)
Kay Packard, founder, Chamblee Backyard Habitats
Janet Wells, Sandy Springs community activist - moderator
4.2 Activism across Generations: Mothers, Daughters
and Others Classroom 2
A conversation between Felicia Davis and daughter Ilai Kenney
and friends
4.3 Beltlines, Trolleys and Web Portals: Avenues for
Green Business Development - California
Dagmar Epsten, CEO, Epsten & Assoc. Architects
Glenn Kurtz, Exec. Vice President, Lanier Parking
Tommy Lindstroth, Director of Sustainability, Melaver,
Inc. (Savannah)
Chris Miller, CEO, Economic Development Office of Savannah
Catherine Ross, Director, Center for Quality Growth & Regional
Development, Ga Tech (invited)
Jeff Rader, Sr. Transportation Planner, Jacobs Civil - moderator
4.4 E-Solutions: Open Source Tools for Today's Bioneers
Classroom 3
Tirza Hollenhorst, founder, ifPeople
Chris Johnson, ifPeople
4.5 Southern Artists and Social Change Classroom
4
Lisa Alembik, curator, Dana Gallery, Agnes Scott College
Sandra Kwak, editor, Deconform Magazine
Charles Nelson, visual artist
Pandra Williams, environmental visual artist
Stan Woodard, Development Director, Atlanta Contemporary Gallery
- moderator
4.6 The New Renaissance: Imagining
New Stories to Live In Classroom 2
David Sutherland and Tom Tomaka - The Atlanta Leavers
4.7 Using Green Technology to Rebuild and Restore
after Katrina and Rita - HUB
Greg Andrews, U.S. Dept. of Energy
Dennis Creech, Executive Director, Southface Energy Institute
Dr. Andrew Dannenberg, MD, National Center for Environmental Health,
CDC&P
spokesperson, U.S. EPA (invited)
Frederick Ravid, President, Charter Financial Services - moderator
SUNDAY OCTOBER 30
7:30 8:30 a.m.
Registration - Lobby
Organic Continental Breakfast - HUB
Exhibitor Tables Open - HUB
8:30 a.m. OPENING HARVEST OF IDEAS - HUB
9:00 a.m. Remarks by SANDRA ROBERTSON, Exec. Dir., Georgia Coalition on Hunger
9:20 10:45 a.m.
PLENARY PRESENTATIONS from the 2005 National Bioneers
Conference - HUB
(1 AIA Credit)
MICHAEL ABLEMAN - Field of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey to the Frontiers of American Agriculture
OHKI SIMINE FOREST - Return of the Ancient Council Ways: Indigenous Survival in Chiapas
ANDY LIPKIS - Restoring Los Angeles: Healing the Nature of Our Cities
10:45 a.m. Break - Exhibitor Tables Open - HUB
11:00 a.m. 12:15 p.m.
PLENARY PRESENTATIONS from the 2005 National Bioneers Conference - HUB
DAVID ORR - The Fifth Revolution: The Evolution of Ecological Design Intelligence
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON - "And, there are those of us who straddle..."
12:15 1:30 p.m. ORGANIC LUNCH & WORLD CAFÉ - HUB
1:30 3:00 pm REGIONAL WORKSHOPS V
5. 1 Beyond the Global Divide: World Pilgrims and Bridgebuilders
- HUB
Steven Cervin, community Jewish educator, Emory University
Rabbi Joshua Lesser, Congregation Bet Haverim
Jan Swanson, Program Director, World Pilgrims
Tayyibah Taylor, editor, founder, Azizah Magazine
Plemon T. El Amin, Iman Atlanta Masjid of All Islam moderator
5. 2 Engineering For a Sustainable Future (1
AIA) - California
Henning M. Bloech, Dir. Communications, Greenguard (invited)
Rob Del Bueno, Founder, VegEnergy
Robert Flanigan, Researcher, Eprida, Inc.
John Mlade, greenbuilding and biomimicry specialist, Perkins
+ Will - moderator
5. 3 Immigration at the Crossroads: Enforcement vs.
Reform Classroom 1
Bryan Chan, Exec. Director, Refugee Women's Network
Frank Figueroa, Latin American Affairs liaison, DeKalb County
Police Dept. (invited)
Charles Kuck, partner, Kuck, Casablanca & Howard, LLC
Adelina Nicholls, Pres. Coordinadora de Linderes Comunitarios
Jerry Gonzalez, Exec. Director, Georgia Assoc. of Latino Elected
Officials (GALEO) moderator
5.4 Teach Your Children Well: Nature, Nurture and the
21st Century Classroom
North Carolina
Skip Connett, Project Manager, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
Dr. Phil DeLargy, boardmember, REAL Enterprises
Reginald H. Turner, professor, ECPI College of Technology
Dr David Busch, Eco-Psychotherapist - moderator
5. 6 Wisdom of the Earthkeepers Georgia
Tom Bluewolf, Earthkeepers
Gary Fourstar, Many Horses Foundation
3:15 4:45 pm SOUTHEAST REGIONAL WORKSHOPS VI
6.1 At the Forefront of Bioenergy - Classroom
1
a presentation by Eprida, Inc. of Athens, GA
Robert Flannigan, Research Director, Eprida, Inc.
6. 2 Bioneer Heal Thyself: New Trends in Preventative
Health North Carolina
Glenn Abuwan, musician, music meditation specialist
Dr. Oladele Alawode, Morehouse School of Medicine (invited)
Dr. A. K. Andoh, Exec. Director, North Scale Research Institute
/ G.E.N.E.S.I.S. Project
Tom Blue Wolf, founder, Earthkeepers
Reva Pinson, representative, EcoQuest International
moderator to be announced
6. 3 God's Green Earth? A Dialogue among World Faith
Leaders - California
Fr. Woody Bartlett, Episcopal Priest
Gary Fourstar, Many Horses Foundation
Iman Plemon T. El Amin, Atlanta Masjid of All Islam
Paula Gable, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta
Rabbi Yossi New, Rabbi, Congregation Beth Tefillah
6.4 What's Myth Got to Do With It ?: A Performance
Workshop - Georgia
Honora Foah, Creative Director, Mythic Imagination Institute
and special guests
6.5 Students- Being Involved Making a Difference
- HUB
Tovie Bentley, student The Galloway School
La Quita Carter, student Atlanta Job Corps
Tracey Edwards, student Atlanta Job Corps
Lisa Tantilo, student The Galloway School
Tonomi Tsumafuji, student The Galloway School
Ron Thomas, volunteer, Close-Up Foundation moderator
6.6 21st Century Peacekeepers: Imagining a World
that Just Might Work - Classroom 2
Elizabeth Baldwin, boardmember, Atlanta WAND
Steve Leeper, community activist
Mary Olsen, Director, Nuclear Information and Resource Service
(NIRS) (Asheville, NC)
Bobbie Paul, Exec. Director, Atlanta WAND
4:45 5:15 p.m.
FINAL HARVEST OF IDEAS - HUB
5:15 5:45 p.m.
CLOSING CEREMONY - HUB
Gary FourStar, Many Horses Foundation
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