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Let's discuss ideas and action regarding sustainability in an urban environment. What unique challenges do we face as we pursue the sustainable lifestyle?
Global Collaborative Day of Engagement at David Brower Center
June 28, 2009 from 2pm to 6pm
The Global Collaborative is a peer learning community comprised of 15 YES! Jam alumni/facilitators from 12 nations and working in a variety of fields including indigenous rights, environmental protection, and social justice. Visit our website for ...
Environmental movements must include marginalized communities. With Jones now part of the current Obama administration, our invisible population must be included in the "green" revolution. Many urban communities place the "undesired" industries sm...
BALLE Conference: Rising to the Challenge at Denver, CO
May 21, 2009 to May 23, 2009
BALLE's 7th Annual Conference will be in Denver, Colorado, one of America's leading cities committed to economic sustainability.
We invite you to join fellow business owners, community investors, economic development experts, and sustainability l...
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Welcome to the new bioneers.org!
Welcome to the new Bioneers.org! In preparation for the 2009 Bioneers Conference, our tech team has been working to build a powerful new website designed specifically for your goals.
Our new site:
- Provides timely and relevant news from all over the world
- Focuses on what's important to you -- conference, radio, and presenters
- Highlights your stories and comm
Posted on June 17, 2009 at 11:00pm —
A Note On Our New Bioneers Home... Farmer's Market Santa Fe
We've left our country home in Lamy, New Mexico, and have moved into the new LEED certified Santa Fe Farmers Market Building. Bioneers has always had a commitment to and focus on food issues, and our move is an ideal cultural and issues-based fit.
Please note our new address:
1607 Paseo De Peralta #3
Santa Fe, NM 8750… Continue
Please note our new address:
1607 Paseo De Peralta #3
Santa Fe, NM 8750… Continue
Posted on May 9, 2009 at 12:00am —
Explore Our Annual Report -- Bioneers Year Book
This year's annual report -- our Year Book -- shares some 2008 stories as well as a stroll down memory lane. Highlights include:
- Going local with Beaming Bioneers
- Social media outreach
- Sharing content with colleges and high schools
- International efforts
Posted on May 8, 2009 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment
We Want Your Opinion
As we reflect on 20 years of Bioneers history--and look to the future of our work--we want to hear from you.
Please share your thoughts with us by taking a brief survey. To show our appreciation for your time… Continue
Posted on April 22, 2009 at 1:30pm —
Delusions of Normality
Ever feel weird and different? Not to worry. As Bioneers Associate Producer J.P. Harpiginies depicts in his jaw-dropping new book Delusions of Normality, the U.S. citizenry is whacked out. From sex and money to drugs and belief systems (aka b.s.), weird is the new norma… Continue
Posted on April 17, 2009 at 1:30am —
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- At 6:06pm on December 14, 2008,
Tim Anderson said… - In the end,
we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dear Friends, Community Organizers, Visionaries, Superheroes, and everyone who loves life:
This letter has four parts:
What's Going On
What's In It for Us?
What Do I Do?
What's the Plan?
What's Going On:
We're all aware of the political, economic, and environmental events converging at this historical crossroads. Even though most of us know that we could solve every solvable problem on the planet for 10% of what we spend on the world's military, the world seems stuck. Like so many of you, we've wondered for years how a revitalized democracy or a nonviolent mass movement or even love itself could ever take hold.
But during this past year, hope for a brighter future has surprised and shocked and sometimes even frightened us.
A very improved consensus governance system called Dynamic Self-Governance, or Sociocracy is a missing puzzle piece, a catalyst that will enable us to effectively and efficiently work together. Every week one of us sees a new application of Sociocracy, a new project, a new way to bring humanity together.
And we have created an exciting, elegant, plan for a sustainable future. It's based on the nerve-like, deeply interwoven network of life and friendship in which we all move. The human body politic has been suffering in its sleeping, but it starts waking now with you.
It's time to take a massive Next Step Together. That step is to powerfully connect everyone who chooses a sustainable future for the planet into a cohesive global decision-making structure—starting with the people you already know.
This is the next evolutionary step. We might never take it. Or we might take it after we've killed billions more people and wrecked essential planetary life support systems. Or we might take it now.
We've combined the most essential and practical strategies for building a sustainable, just earth. Now let's implement them. Really.
What's In It For Us?
A life.
A practical alternative to empire, terrorism, corporatism, racism, classism, pollution, starvation, poverty, war, violence, rape, neglect, madness, disease, isolation, fear and powerlessness
Safety in numbers
Fun
Community
Meaning
Security
Freedom
Sustainability
HOPE
Your fair share of power -- the deepest democracy imaginable
A job -- we are all working on it and we need to and plan on get paid soon
An honest shot at creating and relaxing in a just world -- No kidding!
The knowledge that you acted powerfully when you were called to
What Do I Do?
a) Learn more about the Next Step Together at: http://nextsteptogether.net
b) Join the Next Step Together group on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24568801853 Then, using this letter, invite everybody you know to do the same. (Got issues with Facebook? See below.) We'd like a million people in the Facebook group by October 8. (Call the person who send you sent you this letter if you need support accessing Facebook!)
c) Get involved with the Implementation Circle process. We need local organizers, web designers, programmers, economists, event planners, activists, donors, thinkers, writers. Everyone. You have needed skills, resources and people to bring into the circle. Call or write us!
What's The Plan?
a) Gather massive numbers of already connected people in the Next Step Together Group on Facebook.
b) Implement a sociocratic governance system, connecting every Friend Group into an elegant, organic decision making structure, creating a super-majority of people who are willing to focus their power for the greatest good. Each of us will govern with equal power.
c) Once we have critical mass, we'll collectively consent to our next, efficient, giant steps using all the creativity, innovation and skill we have. We'll act together, nonviolently, in overwhelming numbers, and make pivotal, systemic change quickly.
This is the fastest way to create the world we want.
It seems wildly optimistic, because the human family is drowsy, just waking up. But, in their hearts, everybody really wants a safe, fun, fair world. Everybody. At least 20% of us are already ready, eager, and gathering for this. 60% of the population will join us quickly if the 20% of us with active hope and vision act powerfully now. The 80% will then offer the remaining 20% consideration and kindness no sane person could refuse, because, in sociocracy, everyone must consent to every major policy.
Welcome to the beginning of giant, fast, smart love power!
We look forward to seeing your wonderful face in the Next Step Together group!
Very hopefully,
Tim Anderson, Teri D. Ciacchi, Bradley K. Ehrlich & Robyn Lynn
- At 10:04am on December 2, 2007,
Eric Hjerstedt Sharp said… - Stumbled upon your page. Although Ashland Wisconsin's sustainable agriculture atmosphere is quite different than New Mexico's; it is thriving and growing.
If you're ever on the shore of the Big Lake (Superior) check us out. Meanwhile, keep up the interesting posts.
- At 1:50pm on November 20, 2007,
Job van Weelden said… - Hi Chantal, Thank you for doing the job! My heart jumps with joy when I see all these people in the Bioneers community. I am sure I will learn a lot every time I come back.
Greetings from 3 meters below sea level,
Job.
- At 5:30pm on November 13, 2007,
Miss Maia said… - Woo Hoo! Raise the roof!
Thanks for the photo compliment. I have a feeling I will be "wasting" many productive work hours posting my pics.
- At 10:45am on November 3, 2007,
K.Sivasubramanian said…
- Thank you very much for welcoming me to the network. I am new to the online networking groups and I would like to learn more about this and learn more from this. Hope you all will guide me.
- At 3:31pm on October 30, 2007,
roberto said… - Hi Chantal. Thanks for the welcome and thank you sooo much for setting this up. You have jump started something that the organization has been craving to do. I look forward to working with and getting to know you better,
- At 3:48pm on October 26, 2007,
kenny ausubel said…
- hey Chantal. figuring out how to do this! thanks! looks like most of my new friends are already friends!
thx
kenny
- At 6:10pm on October 25, 2007,
kelli said…
- hey chantal, it was great to meet you at bioneers! and i guess i'll be seeing you again in a couple of months. i love watching this site expanding, and more people joining. again, kudos to you! cheers!
- At 5:00pm on October 25, 2007,
Rex Jones said…
- At 5:05pm on October 24, 2007,
GinnyPal said…
- Hey Chantal
I sat down last night to start working my way around this site and I got so excited that I ended up being awake until after midnight.... I had promised myself that I would get a good night's sleep after flying in from CA and going in to work early on Tuesday, but this totally sucked me in....thank you for bringing this to life - you are my hero -
Ginny
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