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"We have entered the endgame in our traditional, historical relationship with the natural world."
-–James Gustave Speth, RED SKY AT MORNING (2004)
  
  
 

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OCT. 17-19, 2008
Great Lakes Bioneers Conference
Campus of Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan
Here's another good conference, with speakers that include

  • Paul Stamets on "Solutions from the Underground: Using Fungi to Help Save the World"
  • David Orr, "Some Like It Hot, But Lots Don't: The Changing Climate of US Politics"
  • Janine Benyus on "Biomimicry Solutions to Environmental Crises"
  • Rebecca Moore, Naomi Klein, and many others.

Check it out at glbconference.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
   
  
  • To inform citizens about the dire consequences of climate change and species extinction, and how these problems are being addressed at local, national, and international levels;
  • To convince citizens that they must act now, on behalf of all peoples and all species, for what affects even the least visible of earth’s creatures affects us all;
  • To help citizens concerned about climate change and species extinction support one another and participate in local, national, and international efforts to slow climate change and species extinction and reduce their harmful effects.
       
We must change our lives and convince other people to do the same.