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On Saturday, June 4th over 40 environmental justice organizers, members of the Moving Forward Network took to the water to demand that the Biden Administration and global leaders in attendance for the Summit of the Americas hear a clear message from our communities: ¡Cero Emisiones Ahora! (Zero Emissions Now!). 

Photo by Angela Mooney D'Arcy 

Electric vehicles are big business. A decade ago, there were 120,000 EVs sold worldwide. Today, that many are sold in a single week. By 2030, the number is expected to be closer to a million a week.

Around the world, automakers are pouring millions of dollars into electrifying their vehicles. But with supply snarls pulling the handbrake on sales of all kinds of cars—gas and electric alike—one thing is clear: supply chains matter.

And because EVs use six times the amount of critical minerals of a gas car, the supply chains that have served the traditional auto sector for decades are being reforged. It’s a huge opportunity for Canada—if we play our cards right.

Currently, just a few countries are responsible for much of the production of EV battery minerals, and often these countries are ruled by authoritarian regimes. China and the Congo were responsible for 70 per cent and 60 per cent of the global production of cobalt and rare earth elements, respectively, in 2019, according to the International Energy Agency. And the geographical concentration is even higher for battery mineral processing, where China dominates.

Handily, Canada ranks fifth in the world for its battery supply chain potential, in large part thanks to its supply of metals and minerals. It is the only country in the Western Hemisphere with known reserves of all the minerals necessary to manufacture EV batteries, ranking sixth globally in lithium reserves, seventh in nickel, and eighth in cobalt.

The U.S. and the European Union have flagged their dependence on China for battery minerals and materials as a major risk to their auto industries. Both regions are working to restructure supply chains—and both have identified Canada as a secure and stable source of raw materials.

What’s more, Canada’s clean electricity grid gives it a competitive edge with automakers looking to source low-carbon materials and reduce the carbon footprint of the vehicles they produce. BMW has committed to cutting emissions across its operations, for instance, while Tesla has indicated a preference for lower-carbon input materials like nickel, recently signing a deal with Vale SA to supply nickel from its Canadian operations.

And with the exceptional rise in demand for batteries outstripping the existing supply of certain critical minerals, there is a mineral resource vacuum just waiting to be filled by Canada. Known reserves of the metals and minerals that go into EVs and batteries are more than sufficient to support a global transition to zero-emission vehicles, but new mines are not being built fast enough. The world wants what Canada has—it just needs to step up to the plate.

There are some signs of action. The federal government put critical minerals front and centre in its most recent budget, allocating $3.8-billion toward manufacturing, processing, and recycling projects while introducing a new tax credit for the exploration for battery minerals. Meanwhile, Ontario has produced a critical mineral strategy to “establish and support a battery chain ecosystem” for its auto industry using northern Ontario’s mineral wealth.

But despite some strong investments at either end of the supply chain, very few of Canada’s metals and minerals are actually making their way into batteries. And none of them are doing so within a Canadian supply chain. Unless this changes, Canada runs the risk of repeating history by remaining a “staples” economy, where its raw materials are exported and later reimported with the value added (and the associated jobs created) somewhere else.

If Canadian governments want to seize the battery mineral opportunity, they need to up their game. That means picking winners and going all in, whether it’s building our supply of lithium and graphite or maximizing Canada’s early-stage nickel mines.

That should be coupled with accelerated mining project permit timelines that still ensure Canada meets the highest environmental, social, and governance standards, including Indigenous consultation and partnership. New and existing mines must also be electrified so that Canadian mining products are among the cleanest in the world. Finally, we must build up our domestic processing and refining capabilities.

This is Canada’s race to lose, but winning will require taking the right steps today. It’s time we picked up the pace.

This post originally appeared in The Hill Times.

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A new paper from the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) offers recommended best practices to streamline the process of interconnecting electric vehicle (EV) charging stations to the grid. Paving the Way: Emerging Best Practices for Electric Vehicle Charger Interconnection identifies new policies and practices at the state, local, and utility levels that can help resolve challenges that charging station developers currently face. 

The paper’s recommendations are informed by a survey IREC conducted of third-party EV charging station (EVCS) developers on their experiences and challenges with the grid interconnection process. The developers surveyed work across multiple states and cover a broad share of the EV charger market. These recommendations come at a pivotal time as the Biden Administration plans to allocate $7.5 billion in funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, enacted in November 2021, to states and communities for the deployment of public EV charging stations.

Improving the speed and efficiency with which EV charging stations can be connected to the grid is an important step toward electrifying transportation and thereby decarbonizing the U.S. economy. The transportation sector comprises nearly 30 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and has been the nation’s largest source of carbon emissions since 2017. While more states have begun to encourage the use of EVs, rapid EV adoption is dependent upon the availability of a broad network of charging infrastructure, which includes both private and public chargers. To support EV growth through 2030, it has been estimated that the number of non-home chargers will need to grow from approximately 216,000 chargers in 2020 to 2.4 million by 2030. 

To accommodate the required growth, utilities will need to have efficient processes in place to interconnect new chargers to the grid, especially in preparation for a surge of new service requests that could result from federal spending. Delays resulting from inefficient charger interconnection and other processes, such as permitting and obtaining easements, can add weeks or months to a project’s timeline. The resulting “soft costs” are hard to quantify but can significantly impact charger deployment. 

This paper offers practical insights for utilities, state legislatures and regulatory agencies, and authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) to better enable the safe and efficient buildout of EV charging infrastructure. It is the third paper in IREC’s Paving the Way paper series, which explores pathways and considerations for transitioning to electrified transportation in a manner that is equitable, efficient, and beneficial to the grid. Download it for free at: https://irecusa.org/resources/paving-the-way-emerging-best-practices-for-electric-vehicle-charger-interconnection/. 

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A hybrid seminar co-organised by Undisciplined Environments will bring together scholars and activists to discuss alternatives to dominant energy "transition" plans.

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Cinco municipios rurales de la Cordillera Central de Puerto Rico han logrado el reconocimiento federal por alentar la adopción local de energía solar. Barranquitas, Ciales, Morovis, Orocovis y Villalba recibieron la designación de Bronce a través de SolSmart, un programa nacional que ayuda a los gobiernos locales a reducir las barreras al crecimiento de la energía solar.

SolSmart está dirigido por IREC y la Asociación Internacional de Administración de Ciudades/Condados (ICMA), y financiado por la Oficina de Tecnologías de Energía Solar del Departamento de Energía de Estados Unidos. El programa ofrece asistencia técnica gratuita para ayudar a las comunidades a satisfacer sus necesidades energéticas utilizando energía solar y tecnologías relacionadas, como el almacenamiento de baterías.

Los cinco municipios son los primeros en Puerto Rico en lograr la designación de SolSmart, uniéndose a más de 450 comunidades en 43 estados, el Distrito de Columbia y las Islas Vírgenes de Estados Unidos. Las comunidades celebraron este logro en un evento realizado hoy en Orocovis.

“Estoy orgulloso de que Orocovis y tantos municipios vecinos en la Cordillera Central de Puerto Rico estén apoyando activamente la expansión de la energía solar en nuestras comunidades. Este es un paso más para ayudar a nuestra Isla a lograr el uso de energía 100% limpia para el año 2050”, dijo el alcalde de Orocovis, Jesús Edgardo Colón Berlingeri, quien fue el anfitrión de la ceremonia de homenaje a los municipios.

“Estamos muy emocionados de reconocer a las primeras comunidades en Puerto Rico por sus logros en energía solar”, dijo Theresa Perry, directora de programas de IREC. “Estos gobiernos locales están sentando las bases para un futuro energético sostenible que ayudará a reducir las facturas de energía para los residentes y las empresas, al mismo tiempo que mejora la resiliencia de la comunidad”, manifestó.

El Instituto de Tecnología y Seguridad de la Construcción (IBTS), brindó un amplio apoyo de asistencia técnica para ayudar a estas comunidades a cumplir con los criterios para la designación de SolSmart. IBTS brindó orientación personalizada a los municipios; dirigió una sesión de capacitación sobre planificación, permisos e inspección para sistemas solares a gran escala; organizó un taller informativo para la comunidad empresarial y el público en general; y ayudó a las comunidades a promover el programa en las redes sociales.

“Como organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a fortalecer a nuestras comunidades, nos llena de aliento cuando los vemos dar pasos tan grandes hacia el desarrollo de su resiliencia”, dijo Agnes Crespo, directora de la Región de Puerto Rico de IBTS. “Estamos orgullosos de lo que han logrado estos municipios y esperamos que sirvan de inspiración a todas las comunidades de la isla para garantizar que la energía solar sea accesible para todos los residentes”, agregó.

Estos cinco pueblos son miembros del Consorcio Energético de la Montaña, que está en proceso de desarrollar un sistema de microrredes para crear una mayor resiliencia energética. Cada municipio también lanzó una página de Facebook para informar al público sobre las oportunidades locales de energía solar.

El programa SolSmart está abierto a todos los municipios de Puerto Rico. Las comunidades interesadas en unirse al programa y recibir asistencia técnica sin costo pueden comunicarse con SolSmart@IRECUSA.org.

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Five rural municipalities in Puerto Rico have been designated by the IREC-led SolSmart program for their efforts to encourage solar energy growth at the local level. These communities are the first in Puerto Rico to achieve SolSmart designation, joining over 450 municipalities, counties, and regional organizations across 43 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Led by IREC and the International City/County Management Association, SolSmart provides free technical assistance to help local governments reduce barriers to solar energy use. The five Puerto Rico communities—Barranquitas, Ciales, Morovis, Orocovis, and Villalba—celebrated their achievement at a May 10 event in Orocovis.

“I am proud that Orocovis and so many neighboring municipalities in Puerto Rico’s Central Mountain Range are actively supporting the expansion of solar energy in our communities. This is one step closer to helping our Island achieve 100% clean energy use by the year 2050,” said Orocovis Mayor Jesús Edgardo Colón Berlingeri.

“We are so thrilled to recognize the first communities in Puerto Rico for their solar energy accomplishments,” added Theresa Perry, Program Director at IREC. “These local governments are laying the groundwork for a sustainable energy future that will help reduce energy bills for residents and businesses, while also enhancing community resilience.”

The Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS) also provided extensive technical assistance support to help these communities meet the criteria for SolSmart designation. IBTS provided one-on-one guidance to municipalities; led a training session on planning, permitting, and inspection for large-scale solar systems; hosted an informational workshop for the business community and the general public; and assisted the communities with promoting the program on social media.

“As a non-profit organization devoted to strengthening our communities, it fills us with encouragement when we see them make such great strides towards building their resilience,” said Lic. Agnes Crespo Quintana, director of the IBTS Puerto Rico Region. “We are proud of the accomplishments these municipalities have made,” she added, “and hope they serve as inspiration to all communities on the Island to make sure solar energy is accessible to all residents.”

All five communities are members of the Municipal Energy Consortium of the Mountain Region, which is in the process of developing a microgrid system to create greater energy resilience. Each municipality also launched a Facebook page to inform the public about local solar energy opportunities.

SolSmart is one part of IREC’s expansive work in Puerto Rico to help make communities more resilient through solar power and storage. IREC’s Puerto Rican Solar Business Accelerator program is involved in several innovative projects to spur the development of a robust Puerto Rico solar industry and workforce.

The SolSmart program is open to all municipalities in Puerto Rico and across the United States. Communities interested in joining the program and receiving no-cost technical assistance can contact SolSmart@IRECUSA.org.

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On Wednesday, May 25, the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) made several changes to the state’s rules governing how distributed energy resources (DERs), such as rooftop solar panels and energy storage systems, connect to the state’s electric distribution grid. The revisions to Illinois’ interconnection rules include a number of positive developments that will streamline the interconnection process and reduce the time and cost to connect clean energy to the grid. They will also make it easier to utilize energy storage and provide increased transparency about interconnection review results. 

The changes reflect current best practices established through a collaborative research and policy project by utilities and clean energy advocates that resulted in a toolkit of solutions for improving the interconnection of energy storage projects (“the BATRIES Toolkit”). As one of the first states to incorporate these energy storage interconnection best practices, Illinois continues its role as a leader in climate change solutions. These changes build upon the landmark Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) Illinois passed last year, one of the nation’s most comprehensive state climate and energy laws.

“These interconnection governance changes are necessary for the future of our energy grid and set the stage for groundbreaking programs promised by CEJA,” said Will Kenworthy, Regulatory Director at Vote Solar. “The ICC’s changes enable the renewable energy projects from CEJA to easily integrate into the grid and provide clean, reliable energy for all.”

These improvements resulted from the engagement of several public interest groups including the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC), the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), Vote Solar, and NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council). “These cutting-edge updates to the interconnection process in Illinois will make it possible to add more renewable energy to the state’s grid and offer a model for other states that want to lead the way to a clean energy future,” said IREC Regulatory Vice President Radina Valova. 

“Illinois is taking another step towards its clean energy future by improving how solar and storage on homes and businesses connect to the grid,” said Toba Pearlman, Senior Attorney & Renewable Energy Advocate at NRDC. “These revisions save time and money for customers connecting to the grid while balancing grid safety.”

One of the key changes establishes protocols for utilizing some of the unique characteristics of energy storage that will make it possible for the state’s grid to accommodate higher levels of renewable energy. That’s because, when paired with energy storage, DER projects can limit the amount of energy they send onto the grid (“non-export” and “limited-export” projects). The amount of electricity a project will send to the grid is a key factor in whether it can interconnect without the need for lengthy study or costly equipment upgrades to ensure grid safety and reliability. Projects that export less or no electricity to the grid are less likely to cause issues. 

Because energy storage is a newer technology, most interconnection rules do not yet recognize the possibility of limiting export or have guidelines for handling such projects. The revised Illinois interconnection rules now recognize limited- and non-export projects and establish different review approaches that reflect a project’s limited export amount, where appropriate, when assessing potential grid impacts. 

There are several other noteworthy developments in the revised interconnection rules, including: 

• Improvements to the way projects are “screened” for potential grid impacts, which will result in fewer projects being required to go through time-consuming and costly study processes before being approved to interconnect. 
• Requirements for utilities to provide greater information transparency to interconnection applicants, including details on grid constraints that prevent their projects from proceeding as designed, and more detailed cost and timeline estimates. 
• A new pathway for developers to modify their pending DER projects in response to information on grid constraints, allowing them to improve their likelihood of approval without having to withdraw and reapply, as has historically been the case.

All of these changes are expected to allow more projects to successfully interconnect and to increase the pace at which renewable energy can be added to Illinois’ distribution grid. 

“This will put more renewable power on the grid faster and cheaper, while still maintaining safety and reliability,” said Environmental Law & Policy Center Staff Attorney Erica S. McConnell. “The people of Illinois want clean power. We want it for our climate, for our public health, and as a way to take control of our energy bills. These rules will make that happen more quickly, efficiently and safely.”

While an excellent starting point, one area where the changes fell short of public interest groups’ recommendations is in regard to data reporting requirements for the state’s utilities. The Commission declined to require more detailed reporting requirements that would help the Commission and interested stakeholders ensure the interconnection process is functioning well and that utilities are delivering on their required obligations. Lack of data on utility performance metrics in the interconnection process is a common problem that prevents accountability and improvements. 

IREC, Vote Solar, ELPC, and NRDC applaud the Commission’s ruling and the resulting improvements in interconnection policy in Illinois that will enable faster growth of clean energy resources in the state. Several other additional changes were included that are not discussed in detail here; the partners are available for comment. 

About IREC: The Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) builds the foundation for rapid adoption of clean energy and energy efficiency to benefit people, the economy, and our planet. Its vision is a 100% clean energy future that is reliable, resilient, and equitable. IREC has been trusted for independent clean energy expertise for nearly 40 years, since its founding in 1982. For more information, visit www.irecusa.org or follow IREC on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook. 

About ELPC: ELPC is the Midwest’s premier environmental legal advocacy organization. We use the power of the law and strategic advocacy campaigns to create climate change solutions, advance clean energy, protect public health, and preserve the Midwest’s wild and natural places. For more information, visit www.elpc.org. 

About NRDC: NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) is an international nonprofit environmental organization with more than 3 million members and online activists. Since 1970, our lawyers, scientists, and other environmental specialists have worked to protect the world’s natural resources, public health, and the environment. NRDC has offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Bozeman, MT, and Beijing. Visit us at www.nrdc.org and follow us on Twitter @NRDC.

About Vote Solar: Vote Solar works state by state to repower our communities with sunshine and build a thriving clean economy with affordable solar energy for all. We use a winning combination of deep policy expertise, coalition building, and public engagement to help build a strong, just, and inclusive 100% clean-powered future. Learn more at https://votesolar.org/ and follow us on Twitter @VoteSolar.

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By Gemma Gasseau.
The book “Public Water and Covid-19: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings”, discusses how the Covid19 outbreak has underlined once again the importance of water and other basic services for human life, and re-opened the debate on the role of the state in managing such services.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — June 6, 2022
Contact: Sumer Shaikh, Green New Deal Network, sshaikh@greennewdealnetwork.org, 774-545-0128 

Green New Deal Network Applauds Biden Administration’s Move to Invest in Renewable Energy 
Investments defend communities against corporate utilities who keep throwing lifelines to outdated, toxic, and expensive fossil fuel infrastructure

Washington D.C. — Today, the Green New Deal Network (GNDN) applauds the Biden Administration’s move to spur investment in clean energy technologies, especially solar panels, by invoking the Defense Production Act.  

The leadership demonstrated by the President puts us on a path to ensure that monopoly utilities stop making imprudent energy choices at the cost of our wallets, health, and environment. Despite solar being the cheapest form of energy in the US, we only generate 2.8% of our electricity from solar with the majority of our power coming from fossil fuels. While utilities have continued turning over a profit on expensive fossil fuels and increased demand due to extreme weather events, 28% of Americans skipped out on buying basics like food and medicine to pay their utility bills in 2021. Our continued over reliance on fossil fuels hurts more than just our wallet; in 2021, 40 percent of Americans were found to be breathing unhealthy air with people of color 61 percent more likely to live in a county with unhealthy air than white people.

A transition to clean energy would reduce the cost of energy, while also protecting the planet and its people. A just transition and deployment of renewables must support working families by creating local, union-protected renewable energy jobs, stop the development of any new fossil fuel infrastructure, and ensure benefits of clean energy investments reach the often low-income, Black, and Brown communities who live in the shadow of fossil fuel polluters. 

GNDN coalition members issued the following statements:

“President Biden must take action at the scale that science and justice demand. Today’s executive action by the Biden administration to help unlock the potential of clean energy is what we need more of to address the climate crisis, create a better future for our communities, support domestic manufacturers, and aid our allies abroad by weakening the fossil-fueled war in Ukraine,” said Anusha Narayanan, Climate Campaign Director at Greenpeace USA. “This announcement demonstrates President Biden’s ability to ramp up the transition to renewable energy. Now he needs to go even further by invoking the Defense Production Act across all clean energy sectors, declaring a climate emergency, and addressing the root of the climate crisis by beginning an immediate and equitable phaseout of domestic fossil fuel production.” 

“The climate crisis deserves nothing less than urgent action, and today’s announcement by the White House shows that President Biden is fully capable of taking such steps. With this good news we compel the President to ensure that the rights of Indigenous people are fully respected when it comes to the extraction of rare minerals associated with solar energy development. Furthermore, we look forward to seeing the President now assert his authority to declare a climate emergency and stop the expansion of fossil fuels, for the healthy future of Mother Earth and the next seven generations of life,” said Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director at Indigenous Environmental Network.

“We are in a climate emergency — an emergency we can only confront when our government steps up and launches a WWII scale mobilization to justly transition to renewable energy. This is a great step by the administration, and we urgently hope to see even more significant executive actions follow,” said Varshini Prakash, Movement Executive Director at Sunrise. “We’re one step closer to a Green New Deal, but we need much more leadership like this. Now Biden must follow through and use his executive power to secure funding and ensure every worker can join a union and is paid a living wage. Our lives and our future depend on it.”

Mary Small, National Advocacy Director at Indivisible said, “President Biden’s order to invoke the Defense Production Act, paving the way for a transition to clean, affordable, and reliable energy, signals that the administration is not only receiving the calls from people around the country who have been voicing concerns regarding the state of our climate – it shows that President Biden is listening and ready to take action.This Executive Order will massively ramp up production of clean energy technology and infrastructure, create good jobs with strong labor standards, and spur the creation of a just energy system that centers environmental justice. Climate action is just one of many areas in which President Biden can make huge progress, right here and now, with the stroke of a pen. It’s exciting to see President Biden use his position to move yet another priority on Congressional Progressives’ list and the Indivisible movement’s agenda within the White House.” 

“The Sierra Club applauds President Biden for taking the necessary action to support the solar industry, the 230,000 Americans who work in it, and our national climate goals. While this action  will provide a measure of desperately needed certainty in the solar supply chain and allay some concerns, today’s efforts do not conclude the issue at hand,” said Matthew Bearzotti, Deputy Legislative Director at the Sierra Club. “President Biden was right to take critical action to minimize the effects of the ongoing solar inquiry, which has already resulted in layoffs, stalled construction of new solar projects, and a delay in coal plant retirements. Now, Commerce Secretary Raimondo must prioritize concluding a fact-based inquiry at the earliest possible moment as the administration continues to usher in the clean energy economy.”

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About the Green New Deal Network

The Green New Deal Network is a nationwide network of organizations committed to transforming our politics and economy with policies that address the climate crisis, that create good, union jobs, and that repair past harm and advance justice. The Network includes coalitions in 25 states, as well as a coordinating team of 15 national organizations: Center for Popular Democracy, Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Greenpeace, Indigenous Environmental Network, Indivisible, Movement for Black Lives, MoveOn, People’s Action, Right To The City Alliance, Service Employees International Union, Sierra Club, Sunrise Movement, US Climate Action Network, and the Working Families Party.

Karen Davis, who leads a weekly banner action calling for breaching of the Snake River Dams, created this compelling music video. Take a listen, then join Karen on a Seattle overpass, by emailing info@backbonecampaign.org

The desperately needed radical change in humanity’s environmental and socio-political behaviors requires a transformation of our core attitudes toward the “feminine” (in all its forms) at the deepest levels of our psyches. Women on the frontlines are often both the main victims of climate impacts and leaders in the struggle for climate justice. Zainab Salbi has dedicated her life to empowering women around the globe, and she has now co-founded Daughters for Earth, a dynamic new campaign to mobilize women worldwide to support and scale up women-led efforts to protect and restore the Earth.

This week, we explore how women’s leadership is transforming the movement for climate justice, balancing action in the world with individual healing, and creating more resilient networks and communities. 

Zainab Salbi – Daughters for Earth

As climate change and the destruction of Earth’s lands, waters and wildlife accelerate, women around the world are the most impacted, but they are also the frontline warriors fighting to protect our future. Unfortunately, their work and leadership are often not seen, appreciated, or funded. In order to address that marginalization, female leaders in the women’s rights, environmental and philanthropic sectors came together to found Daughters for Earth (under the auspices of the visionary philanthropic organization, One Earth). A co-founder and leader of this new initiative is Zainab Salbi, a widely celebrated humanitarian, author, thought leader, and journalist. In this presentation, Zainab explores the interconnection between our personal search for healing and how we face the challenges of climate change.  

Watch here.

Daughters for Earth: Women and the Climate Change Movement

Women all over the globe, especially in the “developing world,” are the ones who most often bear the brunt of having to contend with the radical disruptions visited upon their families and communities by climate change and environmental degradation, yet women’s voices are far too often ignored. Furthermore, climate change and physical and psycho-spiritual health are almost always discussed as separate issues, but the personal and the political, the heart and the mind are not just interconnected, they are all one. In this discussion, Justin Winters, Zainab Salbi, Helena Gualinga, Kahea Pacheco, and Nina Simons explore the impact of climate change on women and how to assure their full inclusion in all climate solutions, how these struggles relate to the personal search for healing, and what it will take to create authentic global change. 

Watch here.

Take Action: Support These Movements

Daughters for Earth | A women-led campaign that is bringing together women’s rights, environmental and philanthropic sectors to address the marginalization of women in climate change action.

Women’s Earth Alliance | An organization that identifies grassroots women leaders fighting for climate justice and invests in their long-term leadership through training, funding, and connecting them to a network of support.

Amazon Watch | An organization that works to protect the Amazon’s ecological systems by partnering with Indigenous leadership and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, and corporate accountability.

One Earth | A nonprofit organization working to accelerate collective action to solve the climate crisis through groundbreaking science, inspiring media, and an innovative approach to climate philanthropy.

Nature, Culture & the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership, 2nd Ed. – Launching June 7th!

We are excited to announce that the second edition of Nina Simons’ book, Nature, Culture & the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership, is launching on June 7 and is now available for pre-order! Nature, Culture & the Sacred offers practical guidance and inspiration for anyone who aspires to grow into their own unique form of leadership on behalf of positive change. Join Nina on an inspiring journey to shed self-limiting beliefs, lead from the heart and discover beloved community as you cultivate your own flourishing and liberation.

Pre-order here.

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Women all over the globe, especially in the “developing world,” are the ones who most often bear the brunt of having to contend with the radical disruptions visited upon their families and communities by climate change and environmental degradation, yet women’s voices are far too often ignored. Furthermore, climate change and physical and psycho-spiritual health are almost always discussed as separate issues, but the personal and the political, the heart and the mind are not just interconnected, they are all one. In this session, a panel of leading women activists explores the impact of climate change on women and how to assure their full inclusion in all climate solutions, how these struggles relate to the personal search for healing, and what it will take to create authentic global change.

With: Zainab Salbi, co-founder, Daughters for Earth; Nina Simons, co-founder, Bioneers; Justin Winters, co-founder and Executive Director, One Earth; Kahea Pacheco, Co-Director, Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA); Helena Gualinga, co-founder of Polluters Out.

This discussion took place at the 2022 Bioneers Conference.

PANELISTS

Zainab Salbi, a celebrated humanitarian, author, and journalist, co-founder of DaughtersforEarth.org, “Chief Awareness Officer” at FindCenter.com, and host of the Redefined podcast, founded Women for Women International, an organization to help women survivors of conflicts, when she was 23, and built the group from helping 30 women to reaching nearly half a million and raising tens of millions of dollars to help them and their families rebuild their lives. The author of several books, including the bestseller, Between Two Worlds and, most recently, Freedom Is an Inside Job, she is also the creator and host of several TV shows, including #MeToo, Now What? on PBS.

Learn more about Zainab Salbi at her website.

Kahea Pacheco (Kanaka ‘Ōiwi), an advocate for Indigenous people’s rights, intersectional environmentalism and climate justice, is Co-Director of the Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA), which she joined in 2011 as a Legal Research Intern after graduating from law school. At WEA, Kahea has over the years, among other achievements, facilitated legal advocacy partnerships for Indigenous women-led environmental campaigns and co-led a partnership with the Native Youth Sexual Health Network to develop the “Violence on the Land, Violence on our Bodies” report and toolkit.” Kahea, who has lived and traveled around the world, currently serves on the Advisory Council for 1t.org (the trillion trees platform of the World Economic Forum) and on the board of Planet Women, and is a Program Advisor to Jane Goodall’s Trees for Jane campaign.

Helena Gualinga is an Indigenous youth environmental and climate justice advocate from the Kichwa community of Sarayaku. She is a co-founder of Polluters Out and is a Young Women Project Lead with WECAN. Her work and story is featured in the recently released documentary, “Helena from Sarayaku,” which premiered at the DC Environmental Film Festival.

Justin Winters, the co-founder and Executive Director of One Earth, a philanthropic organization working to galvanize science, advocacy and philanthropy to drive collective action on climate change, is focused on creating a vision for the world in which humanity and nature coexist and thrive together, based on three pillars: 100% renewable energy; protection and restoration of 50% of the world’s lands and oceans; and a transition to regenerative, carbon-negative agriculture. Prior to One Earth, Justin served as Executive Director of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation for 13 years, where she awarded over $100 million in grants across 60 countries.

Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers and its Chief Relationship Strategist is also co-founder of Women Bridging Worlds and Connecting Women Leading Change. She co-edited the anthology book, Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and most recently wrote Nature, Culture & The Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership. An award-winning social entrepreneur, Nina teaches and speaks internationally, and previously served as President of Seeds of Change and Director of Strategic Marketing for Odwalla. (ninasimons.com)

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As climate change and the destruction of Earth’s lands, waters and wildlife accelerate, women around the world are the most impacted, but they are also very often the frontline warriors fighting to protect our future. Unfortunately, their work and leadership are often not seen, appreciated, or funded. In order to address that marginalization, female leaders in the women’s rights, environmental and philanthropic sectors came together to found Daughters for Earth (under the auspices of the visionary philanthropic organization, One Earth).

A co-founder and leader of this new initiative is Zainab Salbi, a widely celebrated humanitarian, author, thought leader and journalist. When she was 23, she began her trajectory by founding Women for Women International, a groundbreaking organization that helped hundreds of thousands of women survivors of conflicts. Now she has gone on to an illustrious career in media and activism, including Daughters for Earth. Zainab explores the interconnection between our personal search for healing and how we face the challenges of climate change.

This talk was delivered at the 2022 Bioneers Conference.

Zainab Salbi, a celebrated humanitarian, author, and journalist, co-founder of DaughtersforEarth.org, “Chief Awareness Officer” at FindCenter.com, and host of the Redefined podcast, founded Women for Women International, an organization to help women survivors of conflicts, when she was 23, and built the group from helping 30 women to reaching nearly half a million and raising tens of millions of dollars to help them and their families rebuild their lives. The author of several books, including the bestseller, Between Two Worlds and, most recently, Freedom Is an Inside Job, she is also the creator and host of several TV shows, including #MeToo, Now What? on PBS.

Learn more about Zainab Salbi at her website.

EXPLORE MORE Nature + Justice + Women’s Leadership: A Strategic Trio for Effective Change

In this panel from the 2021 Bioneers Conference, Osprey Orielle Lake, Amisha Ghadiali, Naelyn Pike, and host Nina Simons discuss why the combination of honoring, respecting and learning from nature, being motivated by a deep quest for justice, and cultivating the leadership of women can provide a potent, three-pronged strategic path for getting us to a world we want.

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson – The Feminist Climate Renaissance: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

A Feminist Climate Renaissance is emerging in the movement for climate justice as women––specifically women of color––are transforming how we approach a life-giving future for all. In this keynote address, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson talks about the emerging Feminist Climate Renaissance and draws on wisdom from an anthology by women climate leaders she co-edited with Katharine Wilkinson, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis.

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Although there is still a long way to go, representation for people of color and other marginalized communities in media and our government is an important leap toward dismantling systemic violence. However, as the US becomes more diverse, growing resentment among some White people is feeding a narrative that the White community stands to lose their entitlement to power and privilege. This anger is thriving in a surging White nationalist movement. 

In his new book, Empire of Resentment: Populism’s Toxic Embrace of Nationalism, UC Berkeley scholar Lawrence Rosenthal takes us behind the headlines to the realm of human emotion to understand the resentment underpinning the growing White nationalist movement. In these three excerpts, Rosenthal explores the anger and resentment that has coalesced among members of the White community who feel deprived of their birthright.

Lawrence Rosenthal is the Founder and Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies, a research unit founded in 2009 and dedicated to studying right-wing movements in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Copyright © 2020 by Lawrence Rosenthal. This excerpt originally appeared in “Empire of Resentment: Populism’s Toxic Embrace of Nationalism,” published by The New Press and reprinted here with permission.

Othering Nationalism

At the international level, too, the current synthesis of ideological nationalism and anti-immigrant populism of which Trumpism is a part differs from twentieth-century fascism. Unlike Communism which developed a Communist International, and unlike Socialism which developed a Socialist International, there was never a viable Fascist International. There are several reasons for this, but one reason, given the nature of identity formation, stands out from the others. Nationalism based purely on the nation-state breeds identities that necessarily come into conflict with similarly defined nationalisms. This is especially true when those nationalisms are bellicose and assert the superiority of one’s own nation…. 

But today’s version of populist nationalism has overcome this problem. How? The nationalists in country after country share a Common Other. And through their “othering,” the Nationalist International has forged a Common Identity. This is the crucial difference in identity formation that distinguishes current populist nationalism from the fascist nationalisms of the interwar years of the twentieth century. With a Common Other you get a Common Identity. With a Common Identity you have the makings of a Nationalist International.

The shared Other of the Nationalist International are immigrants and refugees. Almost always dark skinned. Often of different religions. And largely hailing from places like the Middle East and Africa. The USA has an othering specialization in refugees and immigrants from Latin America. The Nationalist International’s political opposition are the “politically correct” multiculturalists and feminists, whom the nationalists often call Cultural Marxists, or the global liberal elite, or simply the globalists, whose power and international organizations—like the European Union—are in the nationalists’ crosshairs. 

The shared identity of the Nationalist International, what its various branches see themselves standing for, goes by many names. Sometimes they are the defenders of Western civilization. Or of Western culture. Or European civilization. One American alt-right group called itself Identity Europa. In Europe, as well as in the United States, some simply call themselves Identitarians. Or Generation Identity. 

In the same vein, branches of the Nationalist International see themselves as the defenders of Christian civilization. Or the defenders of traditional values. These are the movements that breed a special animus for gays and feminists. In Poland, the ruling party, Law and Justice, grounds its populist nationalism in its Catholic culture. At its party’s convention in March 2019, the party’s leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, declared war on the “gay threat.” 

At the top of this food chain is Putin’s Russia. More than any other populist leader in Europe, Putin is operating with a geopolitical strategy in mind. He loosely follows the theories of his “brain,” the eccentric political philosopher Alexander Dugin, who is something of a cross between Steve Bannon and Rasputin…

The Road to the Tiki Torches

One acute observer of this​​ propensity was Steve Bannon. According to Joshua Green: 

Back in 2007, when he’d taken over Internet Gaming Entertainment, the Hong Kong company that systemized gold farming in World of Warcraft and other massively multiplayer online games, Bannon had become fascinated by the size and agency of the audiences . . . 

It was an observation that would stay with Bannon through his Breitbart days and into the Trump campaign. In 2016, “He wanted to attract the online legions of mostly young men he’d run up against several years earlier, believing that internet masses could be harnessed to strike a political revolution.” He would find a way to leverage the subculture into the alt-lite. 

The prequel to the transformation of the alienated into the alt-lite was Gamergate. With Gamergate the subculture morphed, turning into the kind of identity group that has come to the fore with the right-wing populism of the Tea Party and Trump eras. Unlike identity groups like women or gays, which organized on the basis of deprivation (of justice, equality, etc.), this was an identity group organized on the more acid basis of dispossession, of the feeling of having had something taken away. Identity followed from the furious sense of what was taken away. Unlike the alt-right, whose identity was based on whiteness, for this subculture the identity was based on maleness. For the alt-right the Other were immigrants and people of color. For the alienated young men, the Other was women. This is the identity, and the Other, that would follow them into becoming the alt-lite. 

The Gamergate spark was a boyfriend spurned. The ex-girlfriend was a game developer who came out with a game called Depression Quest that dealt with the psychological condition of depression. This aroused displeasure in the subculture; gaming was supposed to be about simulated violence and Depression Quest seemed to introduce a strain of political correctness into a hostile environment. Gamergate broke when the ex-boyfriend reacted to a gaming reporter’s mention of Depression Quest and this reporter subsequently became the developer’s new boyfriend. The incensed ex published a 9,500-word screed about their breakup; his inclusion of her emails, texts, and other communications foreshadowed the tsunami of trolling and doxxing that made Gamergate infamous and frightening. Above all, the ex accused her of sleeping with the reporter to obtain a good review of the game. The scale and the viciousness of Gamergate was astonishing. Not merely the developer, but female journalists who covered the case, were subject not only to months of trolling and doxxing, but to rape and death threats. Beyond simply having to alter or abandon their online identities, in some cases these women, whose addresses were made public, were forced out of their homes. 

For Steve Bannon, Gamergate was a confirmation of his ideas about the political potential of alienated young men. Gamergate could be a gateway drug to political mobilization. 

(Grayed Out) Illiberalism

At its heart, paleoconservative and anti-immigrant nationalism dissented from the liberal point of view in seeing the underpinning of democracy as traditional, rather than as propositional. It was not the words that were contained in America’s founding documents that defined the nature of American democracy; but it was the culture, religion, and ethnicity of the authors of those words that formed the enduring and immutable basis of that democracy. Propositional national feeling in this view is spiritually unsatisfying and leaves the body politic vulnerable to political correctness. Trumpism represents a radicalization of this point of view: It suggests not merely that liberalism has misunderstood and distorted the essential premise of the American nation, but that in its globalist hegemony since 1945, encompassing both Democratic and orthodox Republican thinking and policy—and in particular with its current multiculturalism, gay and feminist political correctness, and, above all, its openness to immigration—liberalism has brought the country to the point of an existential crisis. 

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EXALT hosts a one-day webinar conference “Green Extractivism & Violent Conflict” on June 17, 2022. This conference organized by EXALT (The Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative) will explore the multifaceted connections between ‘green extractivism’ and violent conflicts. The speakers will offer fresh empirical and theoretical insights into the ways ‘decarbonization’, ‘green growth’ and climate change mitigation policies shape and are shaped by dynamics of conflict and violence. Starting at 8.45am CEST, it features three plenaries and 16 papers across 4 panels. The full program is […]

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This article is reposted from sustainableherbsprogram.org. Read the original article here.

Like many, I was always struck by the many different sides of the late Steven Foster, especially by both his incredibly rigorous intellect and his deep appreciation for the beauty of plants and how his photographs so powerfully bring their spirit of the plants to life. 

And so, several years ago, I asked him how he did it and what, especially, the spirit of the plants meant to him. I forgot I had the file until searching his name in my computer to write something after his death. I came across these reflections that he shared in an email in 2019, lightly edited by me, as he so lightly edited so many of the things I have shared on this website. –AA

Dear Ann,

Thanks for your kind words. A walk in the woods, or going out to look at plants, has been a conundrum, often a struggle, in the sense that my left brain lights-up and I’m experiencing plants in “thinking terms”; therefore, a walk in the woods can be anything but relaxing. I’m analyzing, looking at morphological detail, conjuring-up scientific names, processing whatever information comes up in association. Then in looking for something specific to photograph, I’m analyzing the light, calculating dimensional distance and angles, rubbing my chin to think about all of these things at once.

After that processing, though, I can switch to my right brain. When it comes time to actually photograph an individual plant, plant part, or habitat, when all that thinking and computing is done, I’m there with the plant, experiencing it as one being to another.

I don’t have to think about the camera or the photography at that point, because I have enough experience that that equipment simply becomes an extension of myself. I don’t have to think about it.

I can turn off my mind and just see beauty as revealed by the plant. My purpose is to share that moment with the world. It is not unusual to be with a single plant for an hour or more in that context.

I was just thinking about this a couple of days ago, being in the forest and realizing that just experience — no books, no Google — had given me an acute sense of familiarity (i.d.) of woody plants without leaves at this time of year. Hence, I can easily pick out the endemic new species Ozark leatherwood (Dirca decipiens), for example, by just glancing at it through the understory. That’s where knowledge has morphed into awareness. There’s no teaching that.

Part two of the first question, is that I now go on hikes with the intention of just being in wild places with the herbalist/scientist/photographer/writer mind turned off within me, practicing “no mind” with a focus centered on the third eye to see without seeing. To see without thinking. Just be. Camera, equipment, field guides, extraneous stuff left at home (except for my iPhone, of course).

Approaching the World with Awe

On the second question, to quote Will LaPage (once the director of NH State Parks, and an author of many books on parks policy), “Without knowledge there is no appreciation. Without appreciation there is no conservation.” Being aware, I suppose, is simply approaching the world with awe. Rather than just using the “five senses” one has to ask questions to gain knowledge, then develop experience from the appreciation that knowledge garners. It means experiencing the world with more than an open mind, but an open heart and believing in one’s own intuition, listening within, in order to move beyond the ordinary experience of the world. Of course, all easier said than done…especially in a man’s body and social condition.

Best,

Steven

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In the first of a series of articles exploring the basics of organising our workplaces, James Reed, a Fellow Worker from Clydeside IWW outlines what a union actually is and explores why you should consider forming one in your workplace or community.

You might not know much about trade unions, or maybe you’ve only ever seen them on the news. Or maybe you just joined the one in your workplace when you started the job, but you’ve not heard much about what it’s for or what it’s doing. 

You might hear of strikes and union victories in other places, but think that sort of thing isn’t possible where you are. Or maybe you want to do things like that at your job too, but just don’t know where to start.

Not to worry: this article is for you.

What is a trade union?

So, what is a trade union?

At its most basic, a trade union is an association of workers who have gotten together to fight for improvements to their pay and their working conditions. Maybe they are calling for a wage rise, for layoffs to be halted, or for an end to bullying and harassment by managers.

Maybe the aim is as simple as winning some break time during a hectic shift. Whatever the reason, the point is that a group of workers are taking action together. 

Some trade unions are very large, with thousands of members and branches in workplaces all over the country. Some can be much smaller, made up of only a few branches or perhaps just the staff at a single shop.

They can be made up of one profession, like a teacher’s union, or they can contain multiple different professions.

Any group of workers at any workplace can form a union. The first step is gathering together like-minded co-workers around a demand, and then working out how that demand can be won.

Of course, maybe you know what you’d like improved, and maybe you grumble about it with your friends when the manager isn’t nearby. But you might not see what collective action could do that you couldn’t by yourself. So:

Why should you join a union?

Simple: Because there is strength in numbers. If you have a problem in your workplace and you are facing it by yourself, you might get lucky with the decisions of an HR department on your behalf, or you might be lucky enough to have a manager who’s sympathetic and ready to argue your case.

But few of us work in such convenient conditions, and even if we do, there is no guarantee that we will get what we hope for from the official channels. Besides, let’s face it – decisions like redundancies, site closures and pay cuts are handed down from up above, so it’s not like a friendly middle-manager can do much for you anyhow when it comes to big disputes. 

For those with the economic security or flexibility to take a leap of faith, there might be the option of looking for a better job elsewhere. But not everyone is able to take a chance like that, especially with the cost of living crisis. This is what faces the lone worker when they want to change things – they can put their hopes in the company, they can move, or they can stick where they are, pissed off but living with it for the forseeable.

What’s the alternative? 

Unity!

Alone, a worker has little power.

But when workers combine, they gain strength – not just from sheer numbers, but from how a united workplace can take actions a single person couldn’t, like strikes.

This is when workers decide to stop working, and not go back to their posts until they have won their demand. Because it is our labour that produces the profit for the bosses and the shareholders, we can withhold that labour, bring business to a halt and strike a blow against their profit.

The capitalist might not care if you tell him a sob story, but if you hit him in the wallet, he’ll listen! 

But in order to succeed, a strike requires that as many workers as possible take part.

Obviously, if it’s just you and a couple of your pals going on strike, then business can go on as usual, and you can easily be isolated and punished by management. But if a majority of the staff go out with you, and stay out, then no work can be done.

This is why unions matter, because they are a tool which helps the workers organise themselves, collect together their shared demands, and wage a united struggle for them.

By Lucia Alexandra Popartan and Camil Ungureanu.
As part of the current global trend towards the “museification” of water and processes of re-municipalization, the politics of memory of hydraulic infrastructures and water resources has become a key battleground between corporations and transformative socio-political movements. These struggles in cities such as Barcelona show the relevance of complementing the spatial turn in political ecology and urban geography with a temporal turn.

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Over the course of the five days and forty miles of the Vanguard's Big Climate Problem walk, we were joined by 300 people. In the month since, we've all been integrating what we learned on the walk and using our time together to energize us for the next chapter of the Vanguard S.O.S. campaign. We're happy to share the reflections of two of our walk participants, Marcelle and JJ, below.

Bioneers 2022 provided us a much-needed opportunity to gather with our community, learn from one another, and find inspiration that will direct us toward world-changing action in the year ahead. As Karen Washington said, “Forget about ‘a seat at the table.’ Let’s get our own table, and make our own seats. We don’t need to be asking to be let in.”

This week, we’re excited to introduce our first set of Bioneers 2022 keynote recordings. Keep reading to hear from Enric Sala, Maxx Fenning, Angela Glover Blackwell, Kenny Ausubel, and Nina Simons.

Angela Glover Blackwell – Transformative Solidarity for a Thriving Multiracial Democracy

True solidarity requires stitching together what appears separate into a powerful, magnificent whole. The honed, deliberate, transformative practice of solidarity produces an exhilarating recognition of our interconnectedness and interdependence—essentials for thriving democracy. Angela Glover Blackwell, a renowned civil rights and public interest attorney, longtime leading racial equity advocate, and founder (in 1999) of the extraordinarily effective and influential national research and action institute that advances racial and economic equity by “Lifting Up What Works,” PolicyLink, discusses transformative solidarity and why it’s necessary for a thriving multiracial democracy.

Watch Angela’s keynote here.

Enric Sala – Protecting Our Life Support System: Challenges and Opportunities in Marine Conservation

World-renowned National Geographic Explorer in Residence Enric Sala launched the National Geographic Pristine Seas project in 2008 to explore and help inspire the protection of the last wild places in the ocean, an absolutely critical last-ditch effort to prevent the complete unraveling of global marine ecosystems. Made up of an extraordinary team of scientists, conservationists, filmmakers and policy experts, Pristine Seas has helped protect 6 million square kilometers of ocean habitat (more than twice the size of India!). Partnering with 122 different organizations and agencies across 23 countries, its work has inspired the establishment of some of the largest marine reserves in the world. In his Bioneers 2022 keynote, Enric discussed the vital importance of healthy oceans to humanity’s future and what Pristine Seas hopes to accomplish in the years ahead.

Watch Enric’s keynote here.

Maxx Fenning – Inheritance

Gen Z has come of age in a world fraught with systemic injustice, a looming climate emergency, and constant attacks on democracy itself. With a generational psyche bred online, young people are able to communicate, learn, organize, and take action in ways never seen before. Maxx Fenning, founder and President of PRISM, a nonprofit organization that works to expand access to LGBT-inclusive education and sexual health resources for young people in South Florida, discusses his experiences standing on the shoulders of a decades-long fight for LGBT rights and how to help pass on the torch to this new wave of young activists.

Watch Maxx’s youth presentation.

Navigating the Nexus – Nature, Culture & the Sacred

“If you’re at all like me, you may be having trouble finding your way through the challenging confluence of crises we are facing these days.” Currently, we are all living at the nexus of numerous converging cataclysms and seemingly insurmountable challenges. In her keynote address, Bioneers Co-founder Nina Simons touches on the support we need to traverse the maze we are all finding ourselves in. 

Read more here.

Dancing on Thin Ice

“As our misbegotten, archaic institutions and structures continue to crumble, it opens up the space for authentic metamorphosis.” We face the threat of being devoured by the weight of corporate greed, exploitation, and climate change or an opportunity for a regenerative and equitable future. In his keynote address, Bioneers Co-founder Kenny Ausubel outlines some of the challenges we face as well as the movements opening spaces for a regenerative future. 

Read more here.

Nina Simon’s New Book is Launching June 7!  Nature, Culture and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership, 2nd Ed.

Nature, Culture and the Sacred offers practical guidance and inspiration for anyone who aspires to grow into their own unique form of leadership on behalf of positive change. Join Nina on an inspiring journey to shed self-limiting beliefs, lead from the heart and discover beloved community as you cultivate your own flourishing and liberation.

We are excited to announce that the second edition of Nina’s book, Nature, Culture and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership, is launching on June 7 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon! 

Support the San Francisco Conservation Corps

We’re grateful to the San Francisco Conservation Corps for sponsoring Bioneers 2022! The SFCC motivates and connects youth with inspiring work, quality education, and a better future.

Learn more about how to support their work here.

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