Bioneers Conference brings visionaries to Cleveland
Submitted by Leslie Kleinman, Bioneers Cleveland

If you are passionate about restoring the health and vitality of the living world, you truly must make plans to attend all or part of this outstanding event. For the past 18 years, Bioneers — or biological pioneers — has brought together key innovators throughout North America who are changing the story of the planet from fear and destruction to hope and restoration.

Register today to participate in this three-day whirlwind of national and local workshops, beamed to Cleveland for the first time and focused on changing the way we solve our most pressing problems. The national presentations will be downlinked via satellite from 1- 5:30 p.m. each day with local workshops and tours presented in the mornings.

The conference will open Friday, October 19, when Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Andrew Watterson, the city's sustainability program manager, will address the conference. David Cooperrider, Case Western Reserve University's nationally recognized expert on business sustainability, will give the keynote address on "Designing a Toolkit for Building a Better World: Business, Peace, Community, and the Environment."

Other topics include: No Child Left Inside; Seeds the Creator Gave Us; Earth Rights; Creating Green Affordable Housing; People, Planet and Profit; Heathy Worker/Healthy Business; Local Living Economies; Birthing a New Politic; Food Activism; The Biomimicry Revolution: Imitating How Nature Does it; Green the Ghetto; Your Local Food Shed; Education for a Sustainable World; and Race, Power and Restorative Justice.

For more local information and the full conference program, go here. Or see the national conference site here.