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Bioneers is a fertile hub of innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. 🌱Articles, podcasts & more: bioneers.org

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · May 6

▶️ 🌱 We're thrilled to announce that the full collection of keynote sessions and performances from the Bioneers 2025 is now available for you to watch and share! Explore the Bioneers 2025 Media Hub: bioneers.org/2025talks/?u...

2025 Talks - Bioneers

It has never been more important to harness the brilliance and grit of our community. Through inspiring talks, deep discussions, collaborative workshops, the unique Indigenous Forum, eye-opening art, ...

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · 3d

🍒 In California’s Central Valley, $300K in cherries rotted as 70% of farmworkers, terrified by ICE raids, stayed home. Built on essential laborers with few rights, the farm economy is cracking under fear. Read Arty Mangan’s piece on justice & change: buff.ly/FBaQerO

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · 4d

“This #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we invite you to listen to Indigenous wisdom & remember the history Indigenous Peoples have endured.

Hope is scarce but essential. It fuels resilience & makes the impossible possible.”
— Bioneers Indigeneity Team

✨ Explore Indigenous stories: buff.ly/pnh5igH

Bioneers @bioneers.org · 5d

Join the Bioneers community for an evening where art meets activism — creativity fueling resilience, resistance & new possibilities.

Plus, each ticket = a raffle entry for a Bioneers Conference pass! 🎟️ Get yours: buff.ly/AT60nDd

Bioneers @bioneers.org · 6d

👏 Congratulations to our friend @tobykiers.bsky.social — evolutionary biologist & Executive Director of @spun.earth — on being named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! 🌍✨

🍄 Read more about her work: buff.ly/HOU1qb7

🍄 Watch the full Bioneers session with Merlin Sheldrake buff.ly/u4W8Plk

Bioneers @bioneers.org · 8d

🎬✨ This Indigenous Peoples’ Month, explore powerful films by Indigenous creators — many from the Bioneers community — celebrating resilience, survival & ecological wisdom. Watch trailers & host screenings in your community, school, or workplace. 👉 buff.ly/RTzMLYz

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · 9d

In the hidden green of African forests, chimpanzees perform acts that look startlingly familiar: they doctor themselves. 🌍 Keep exploring in an interview with researcher Elodie Freymann 👉 buff.ly/RO5KpJg

Bioneers @bioneers.org · 10d

#LeadingFromTheFeminine #Moonrise #FeminineLeadership #EmbodiedWisdom #WomenWhoLead #SacredLeadership #CollectiveWisdom #TransformativeLeadership #Bioneers

Bioneers @bioneers.org · 10d

🥀 For 20+ years, Nina Simons & Anneke Campbell have shared friendship, meals & creative sparks. In the latest Leading From the Feminine, they explore “Re-Inventing Leadership from the Inside Out,” with prompts & media to bring ideas alive. ✨ Read & subscribe: buff.ly/NvOOrVa

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · 11d

📢🌏Land conservation is something we should all talk about.
Founder of Art into Acres @Haley Mellin yields her creative talents to generate a cultural tributary of philanthropy to land stewardship — and helping preserve 6.45 million acres in 2024 alone.
▶️ Watch more: buff.ly/jpWNX6a

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · 14d

#Bioneers #Radio #Podcast #DrJaneGoodall #RememberingDrJaneGoodall #DrJane #Chimpanzees #Primatology #Kinship

Bioneers @bioneers.org · 14d

In honor of the late, legendary primatologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall, we’re resurfacing a treasured Bioneers interview. 💚

🎧 Tune into the Bioneers podcast episode “Tears in the Eyes, Rainbow in the Heart” here, or wherever you get your podcasts 👉 buff.ly/ldsfEVL

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · 14d

🌱💭 Can a plant adapt, remember, or even make choices?
Dig into this article, reposted with permission from The Nature Institute, to explore how plants interact with their environments and reconsider what we mean by “intelligence.” 👉 buff.ly/QPOpTJb

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · 16d

#GreenEnergyTransition #China #Bioneers #EcologicalCivilization #MaryEvelynTucker #SpongeCities #Seeds

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · 16d

Chinese ecological bright spots featured this issue of the Bioneers Pulse:
🌏 Confucian insights about the harmony of humans and nature
🌳 Kongjian Yu’s “sponge cities”
🌱 The ancestral knowledge held in seeds
Read now: buff.ly/eIQwrnE

Bioneers @bioneers.org · 17d

🕊️ Explore sacred activism & relational leadership through collaboration & restoration with Nina Simons & Deborah Eden Tull in their upcoming Bioneers Learning course.

Learn more & register: buff.ly/9y6P7aZ

Bioneers @bioneers.org · 18d

China’s paradox: the world’s leading investor in renewable energy — and its largest consumer of coal.

🌏 ☯️ In a new interview, Mary Evelyn Tucker of @religion-ecology.bsky.social explores the idea of “ecological civilization” & shares Confucian wisdom on harmony with nature: buff.ly/1GtsIxa

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · 22d

#BioneersLearning #RightsOfNature #RoN #CenterForDemocraticAndEnvironmentalRights #EnvironmentalLaw #CommunityRights #CivilRights

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · 22d

Take the next step to protect nature in your community. 🌎

The seminar “Rights of Nature 201: Moving Campaigns Forward” w/ @cderrightsofnature.bsky.social leaders offers focused guidance on organizing, drafting, and advancing #RightsOfNature campaigns—locally & beyond.
🌱 Learn more: buff.ly/E5E5D3b

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · 23d

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · 23d

🐒⭐️ In “Echoes of Our Origins,” Shirley C. Strum reveals how baboons build their societies not on dominance and violence, but on cooperation, reciprocity, and relationships. Read about baboons’ “Golden Rule,” power, gender, and community in this Q&A: buff.ly/Lf3FF4i

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · 25d

#BioneersLearning #Biomimicry #NbS #NatureBasedSolutions #Biometric #Ecology #BiomimicryInstitute

Bioneers @bioneers.org · 25d

Let nature be your instructor for innovation.

🦋 Led by Andrew Howley of @Biomimicry.bsky.social, this 4-week Bioneers course will equip you with the tools to reframe challenges through nature’s lens. Learn more & register: buff.ly/IRAAvtX

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · 29d

In this four-week guided reading series, Sonali Sangeeta Balajee & Ginny McGinn invite us to explore how the rising energy of #Yin — rest, receptivity, & inner spaciousness — is reawakening in our lives & systems.

🌗 Learn more: buff.ly/qBOCMTb

#BioneersLearning #YinYang #TaoTeChing

Bioneers @bioneers.org · Sep 17

@ThirdActOrg.bsky.social Co-Founder @BillMcKibben.bsky.social explains: We’re at a dire point in the human story, with temps higher than they’ve been in 125k years, but we have one secret weapon: the sudden & rapid drop in the price of energy from the sun. ☀️ Keep watching: buff.ly/XzvVhh1

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Bioneers @bioneers.org · Sep 16

From March 26–28, 2026, Bioneers will return to the East Bay for our 37th Annual Conference: a gathering of people who refuse to give up. 💥 Want exclusive discounts? Sign up for our lowest ticket prices & early program announcements: buff.ly/Mkl7sL0

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