Second Annual

Chesapeake Bioneers Conference

October 14-16, 2005at The University of the District of Columbia

Visionary Practical Solutions for Restoring the Earth and Its People

Bioneers Mission

To disseminate environmental solutions and strategies to national and global audiences to educate, inspire and equip individuals, groups, companies and institutions toward effective action to restore the Earth and her peoples;

To develop and spread model economic strategies for ecological agriculture, environmental restoration and community self-reliance that conserve biological and cultural diversity, and that strengthen traditional, indigenous and restorative farming practices;

To promote understanding of the human-nature relationship and revitalize our cultural and spiritual connection with the natural world;

To conduct public education designed to engage people through conferences, workshops, and the media and by creating model projects;

To bring together people and information for the purpose of creating an effective program to restore health to the Earth and her peoples;

To develop and spread model economic strategies for ecological agriculture, environmental restoration and community self-reliance; and

To promote understanding of the human-nature relationship in order to revitalize our cultural and spiritual connection with the natural world.

“Despair shows us the limit of our imagination.

Imaginations shared create collaboration,

and collaboration creates community,

and community inspires social change.”

– Terry Tempest Williams, from The Open Space of Democracy, Bioneers 2004

This event is hosted by the Agriculture Experimental Station at UDC. For information about the program, see: www.UDC.edu.

About Bioneers For 16 years, the Annual Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California, has assembled leading scientifi c innovators and environmental visionaries who offer practical solutions to pressing environmental and social problems. For the fourth consecutive year, Bioneers Conference plenaries are being broadcast live via satellite in North American communities, who organize events to complement the national plenaries, with workshops tailored to the needs of their bioregions.

Bioneers is an educational nonprofi t organization founded in 1990 to promote practical environmental solutions and inno-vative social strategies for restoring the Earth and its com-munities. Its mission is accomplished through educational programs, media outreach and communications, youth and women’s initiatives, fellowships and grants.

The Chesapeake bioregion is one of the world’s most bounti-ful ecosystems. Within its borders, national decision mak-ers have a powerful impact. The University of the District of Columbia (UDC), Second Annual Chesapeake Bioneers Conference host, is a historically black university and is the only public institution of higher education in Washington, DC Representatives from non-government organizations, governmental agencies, local and national organizations, and private businesses throughout Chesapeake region have been invited to this regional conference. Participants will take away ideas, models, tools and resources for building alliances, improving the environment and the world.

Wholeness for HumanityWholeness for Humanity (WFH), is the offi cial coordinator, for the Chesapeake Bioneers Conference. Founded by Greg Drury in 1991, WFH is dedicated to increasing accessibility to integrative medicine, holistic health, wellness, ethics and spirituality. Core activities include conference planning, a monthly luncheon lecture series, and networking of people sharing values of promoting health, sustainability, spiritual development and cultural connectedness.

WFH partners with governmental and non-governmental organizations, institutions, communities and individuals. By connecting the dots among intimately related issues and subcultures, WFH serves as a learning portal, exposing people to ideas and strategies they might not have otherwise considered. Groups that have participated with WFH include the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Washington Area Spiritual Network, DC Sustainable Business Network, Friends of the Earth, Citizens for Better Health, GreenFest DC, DC Earth Week (an activity of the DC Energy Offi ce), National Youth Service Day, Points of Light, and the Community Art Block Project (a DC Parks and Recreation program). Greg Drury is one of the founders of the Chesapeake Bioneers and currently serves as Administrator for the organization.

Wholeness for Humanity4545 42nd Street NW, Suite 300 • Washington, DC 20016

202-686-9813 • Fax 202-686-6439www.WholenessforHumanity.com

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Dr. Gloria S. Wyche-Moore serves as the Associate Dean of Research and Associate Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Community Outreach and Extension Services. Her tenure at the University of the District of Columbia has spanned more than three decades, serv-ing as a Professor in the Department of

Biological and Environmental Sciences and Assistant Dean in the College of Life Sciences. Dr. Wyche-Moore has also served as the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors for the Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center, former director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Project Director of USDA’s Strengthening Grant, a Cafritz Foundation Fellow, and Project Director of a NASA grant, “Anacostia River Institute for Remote Sensing.”

Dr. Bobby William Austin is Vice President for University Relations and Communications at the Univer-sity of the District of Columbia. He brings an extensive background as a sociologist, foundation executive, college administrator, editor and policy consultant in Education and the Humanities to his work. Dr. Austin was the found-ing President of the Village Foundation where he served for fi ve years. He is the Chairman of the Planning Com-mittee on the Status of African American Men, convened by Congressman Danny Davis, (D) Ill. He is a recipient of the Kellogg National Fellowship Award and is listed in Who’s Who in Black America, Outstanding Young Men of America, the International Dictionary of Biographies and the International Edition of Men of Achievement. Austin is a Mahatma Gandhi Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Dr. Austin serves as a board member for the National Housing Trust, the Council for the Advancement of Adult Literacy, and the World Policy Board of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Robert Johnson, DC Dept. of HealthMaya, Elephants’ WisdomFrankie Lind, BiodieselPeggy McConnell, Effective Living Strategies, Intl.Phil Mendelson, DC CouncilmemberSara Montag, Roots & ShootsDan Morhaim, MD, Maryland House of DelegatesGlen O’Gilvie, Earth Conservation CorpsMartin Ogle, Northern Virginia Park SystemJane Osborne, Religious Partnership/AnacostiaDr. William Lawrence Pollard, UDC PresidentBernie Prince, FreshFarm MarketsRev. Terry Provance, Oiko CreditKevin John Richardson, PoGo Organic FarmKim Rush, National ArboretumJoel Salatin, Polyface FarmBill Sanda, Weston Price FoundationJim Schulman, Community ForkliftErik Schwartz, IntefFaith WorksSara Standish, SustainUSDaniel Swartz, GWIPLJosh Tulkin, CCAN & SustainUSUDC Student Government panelistsReuven Walder, SeaWebMarsha Weiner, Slow FoodBarry Wind, Progressive Asset Management

Local Speakers:Erik Assidourian, Worldwatch InstituteBill Aiken, Soka Gaikka Intl.Richard Albright, DC Dept. of HealthJoan Barbaucher, CalvertGroupChuck Clinton, DC Energy Offi ceDC Armory Residents from Hurricane KatrinaEdgar Cahn, Time Dollar InstituteMichael Campbell, Chesapeake Bioneers AdvisorDoug Cohen, USPartnership/Sustainable DevelopmentKate Davenport, SustainUSDave Deppner, Forest GardenRobert Duggan, Tai SophiaAmtchat Edwards, George Washington Carver Outdoor SchoolCharles Eisenstein, Penn StateHedieh Fakriyazdi, GMU, Baha’i CommunityIan Fisk, Net ImpactAriele Foster, Community HarvestChris Fullerton, Tuscarora Organic Growers Coop.Dawn Gifford, DC GreenWorksBridget Gray, Earth Conservation CorpsEd Grusheski, Philadelphia Water DepartmentJenny Guillaume, National ArboretumSuzanne Hunt, BiodieselBill Hutchins, Helicon WorksTalia Ichtertz, Eco-Ventures International

2005 Speakers and Partner Organizations

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2005 Partner Organizations*:American Institute of Architects – Committee on the EnvironmentAustralian EmbassyCanadian EmbassyCasey Trees Endowment FundChesapeake Bay FoundationChesapeake Climate Action NetworkCo-op AmericaCopy ConnectionDC Department of Parks and RecreationDC Energy Offi ceDC Environmental NetworkDC Executive Offi ce of the MayorDelegate Dan Morhaim (Baltimore) Earth Conservation CorpsEarth Day NetworkEarthomeEpiscopal High SchoolFriends of the EarthGreater Washington Interfaith Power & LightGreenbelt MovementInterstate Commission on the Potomac River BasinInstitute of Noetic SciencesJane Goodall Institute – Roots & Shoots

National Speakers via Satellite:Michael Ableman • Janine Benyus • Wil Bullock • Ohki Simine Forest • Omar Freilla • Rha Goddess • Thom Hartmann • Andy Lipkis • Bill McKibben • Jeremy Narby • David Orr • Carolyn Raffensperger • Bernice Johnson Reagon • Vyacheslav Trigubovich • Diane Wilson

Jewish Youth Philanthropy InstituteLifePagesNational Foundation of Alternative MedicineThe Peace AlliancePoGo Organic FarmPoints of Light FoundationPolyface Farm Religious Partnership for the Anacostia RiverRestaurant Nora’sSierra Club MD–DC–VASt. Columba’s Episcopal Church –Environment CommitteeTabard InnU.S. Partnership for the Decade of Education for Sustainable DevelopmentUniversity of the District of Columbia – Agriculture Experimental StationU.S. National Arboretum – Washington Youth GardenU.S. Peace GovernmentVedic ArchitectureWashington Area Spiritual NetworkWeston Price FoundationWhite Dog CaféWise WomenWorldwatch Institute

* Wholeness for Humanity has partnered Chesapeake Bioneers with these organizations in 2005 to create events in the metropolitan DC area.

Friday

4:00-6:30pm Registration open4:30-5:30pm Wine and cheese reception5:30-6:30pm I-Groups Session, Intergenerational Learning6:00-6:30pm Welcome, UDC President Pollard

6:30-10:30pm – PLENARIES (via satellite)Janine Benyus – What Life Knows: New Ideas From Biology Wil Bullock – You Are Where You EatVyacheslav Trigubovich – Russian Snow LeopardsBill McKibben – Global WarmingDiane Wilson – An UnReasonable Woman

Saturday

8:30-9:00am Registration open8:30-9:30am I-Groups Session, Intergenerational Learning9:00-9:30am Address, Chuck Clinton, Dir., DC Energy Offi ce

9:30-11:00am Local Speakers & WorkshopsEarth Conservation • Body, Health, Nutrition • Power of Youth: School Gardens, Sustainable Organizing, Liberation • Roots & Shoots (Jane Goodall Youth Programs) • Food: Good Tasting and Good for You/Slow Food • Growing Urban Food • Local Organic Farmers, Organic Restaurants

11:00-11:30am Break, Informal I-Groups Meet 11:30am-12:00pm Brown Bag Lunches

12:00-4:00pm – PLENARIES (via satellite)Jeremy Narby – Intelligence In Nature: A Predator’s InquiryCarolyn Raffensperger – The Precautionary Principle Omar Freilla – Greening the Inner City: Jobs, Health, Justice Thom Hartmann – Reframing Political “Messages”Rha Goddess – Feminine-Centered Leadership in Hip Hop Era

4:00-4:15pm Break 4:15-4:45pm Plenary: US Partnership/Sustainable Development

4:45-6:15pm Local Speakers & WorkshopsSustaining Urban & Rural Forest Ecosystems • Global Warming • Climate Challenge on Campus • Organics You Want • Organic Farmers markets, School programs • Water: From River to You • Hurricane Katrina/Evacuees • Michelle Ava Dance

6:15-7:30pm Dinner Break at area restaurants with I-Groups

7:30-9:00pm Local Panel: Urban Socio-economic Programs Glen O’Gilvie – Earth Conservation CorpsDan Morhaim, MD – Maryland Delegate/Environment HealthEdgar Cahn – TIMEBankMichael Campbell – Chesapeake Bioneers AdvisorTalia Ichtertz – Eco-Ventures International/Youth Programs

9:00pm Open Bioneers Party!

Schedule of Events at a GlanceSunday

8:30-9:00am Registration open8:30-9:00am I-Groups Session, Intergenerational Learning9:00-9:30am Address: DC Councilmember Phil Mendelson

9:30-11:00am Local speakers & workshopsCreating a Green Economy • Sustainable Business Map • Corporate Social Responsibility • Effective Living Strategies • Soil, Nutrition and Food • Organics, Biodiversity & Farming • BioDiesel • Benefi ts, Coop’s, Production • Green Building • Alternative Media/Social Responsibility • Science/Philosophy of Gaia Theory

11:00-11:30am Break, Informal I-Groups Meet 11:30am-12:00pm Brown Bag Lunches

12:00-4:00pm - PLENARIES (via satellite)Michael Ableman - Frontiers of American AgricultureOhki Simine Forest - Return of the Ancient Council Ways Andy Lipkis - Restoring Los Angeles/Healing Nature of CitiesDavid Orr - Evolution of Ecological Design IntelligenceBernice Johnson Reagon - “...those of us who straddle...” 4:00-4:30pm Music Performance 4:30-6:00pm Local Speakers & WorkshopsLiving Systems/Organic Farming • InterFaith Panel/Faith Based Presenters • Green Investing • Protecting Oceans, Chesapeake Bay • Camping with Purpose 6:00-6:30pm Group Coordinators Launch I-Groups from Con-ference into the World

6:30pm Conclusion

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I-Groups Description

I-Groups, also known as “Integrative Groups”, will be an inte-gral part of this years’ Bioneers Conference. Youth and adults alike, will be partitioned into small groups to develop action plans to take back to their local communities. Attendees will be encouraged to engage in a series of planning and workshop sessions that will foster networking, consultation, and most importantly, intergenerational learning. I-Groups will serve as agents that help create resources and bonds between individuals – two elements that contribute towards the success and longevity of grassroots projects. The enrichment of sustainable community activities through integrative collaboration and cooperation will lead the dialogue surrounding all I-Groups activities.

“I love tenderly prepared, nutrient dense food, not manu-factured, highly processed foods,” says Bill Sanda, Executive Director of the Weston A. Price Foundation. a food/nutrition education, research/advocacy non-profi t. The foundation supports accurate nutrition education, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture feeding of live-

stock, community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies. It maintains that modern technology should be harnessed to serve the wise, nurturing traditions of our ancestors and that science and knowledge can validate those traditions.

Friday

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Friday4:00-6:30pm Registration open4:30-5:30pm Wine and cheese reception

5:30-6:30pm I-Groups Session (Integrative), Groups for Intergenerational Learning

6:00-6:30pm Welcome to Conference by UDC President William L. Pollard 6:30-10:30pm PLENARIES from NATIONAL CONFERENCE (via satellite)

Janine Benyus – What Life Knows: New Ideas From Biology That Could Change the World. The Bio-mimicry Guild seeks to emulate the time-tested adaptive strategies of many species of plants, animals and micro-organisms to transform how we live on this planet. Janine celebrates the newest ancient ideas bubbling up in the natural sciences, illuminating how evolution’s wisdom can help us design benign, life enhancing technologies while inspiring us to protect Earth’s biodiversity.

Wil Bullock – You Are Where You Eat: Growing Urban Food and Community. Boston’s famed Food Project has become a model for integrating food and health, city and country, justice and access. Wil, a remarkable 24-year-old community leader from Boston’s inner city, explores how the Food Project has successfully bridged these worlds and how youth are playing crucial roles in changing the food system.

Vyacheslav Trigubovich – From Russia with Snow Leopards: The Future of Wilderness Protection. Since 1917, the former Soviet Union’s unique system of “za-povedniks” has forbidden the presence of people in some wilderness areas, except for scientifi c study. These truly wild, biodiverse nature preserves are under increasing threat from commercial development. The founder of the Altai Foundation, Slava Trigubovich is among the Rus-sian Federation’s best-known anti-poaching rangers and advocates for the protection of wilderness and endangered species (including the fabled snow leopard).

Bill McKibben – Global Warming: A Climate of Fear and Opportunity. The mother of all environmental threats, global warming requires immediate technological and social responses on an unprecedented global scale. Author and environmental activist Bill, a frequent contributor to a wide variety of publications including The New York Times, explores how humanity is rising to the challenge.

Speakers’ Bios Schedule

Tai Sophia is the meeting point of ancient healing traditions from East and West (Chinese Tai, “great”; Greek Sophia, “wisdom”). This “great wisdom” is the foundation of Tai Sophia’s mission, programs, and services. For 30 years, Tai Sophia has empowered

individuals and communities to reconnect with nature and healing, recover our ancestors’ wisdom, practice the arts of living and dying, and to care for and serve one another. Its educational programs/of-ferings incorporate nature’s wisdom, the ancient healing traditions, modern science, and transformative practice. Tai Sophia has graduate programs in Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, & Applied Healing Arts.

Roots & Shoots® engages youth through com-munity service and learning. Dr. Jane Goodall’s global program emphasizes that knowledge leads to compassion, which inspires action. Roots & Shoots groups care for the human community, animals, and the environment. They foster respect for all living

things, promote understanding of all cultures, and inspire individuals to take action to make the world better for people, animals, and the environment. The Roots & Shoots program began when 16 students gathered with Dr. Goodall on her front porch in Dar es Salaam, Tan-zania in 1991. The students were fascinated by animal behavior and concerned about the state of the environment. Since then, Roots & Shoots has spread rapidly. More than 6,000 groups – ranging in size from two to 2,000 – have registered in more than 87 countries.

Sara Montag is Roots & Shoots Membership Coordinator, having started as intern, then becoming a special projects consultant. She has been working at the Jane Goodall Institute for one and one-half years and spent this summer working with Roots & Shoots groups in Tanzania.

Ariele Foster is the Local Food Alliance Pro-gram Director for Community Harvest in Washing-ton DC. A native of rural Virginia, Ariele graduated from Hampshire College in 2001, where she studied sustainable agriculture and wrote her thesis on im-plementing local food systems in the context of in-creasing globalization of agriculture. For four years

she worked on organic farms in California, Massachusetts and Costa Rica. She also has an extensive background advocating environmental justice around climate and clean energy issues. Ariele speaks fl uent Spanish and Portuguese, and wants to start a sustainable agriculture education center on her family’s farm and teach internationally.

Saturday

Diane Wilson – An UnReasonable Woman: UnReasonable-ness and Where It Gets You. An ad in National Geographic by the American Plastics Council celebrated plastic as the sixth basic food group. These chemicals can change the very character of human societies, producing behavioral abnormalities along with serious health problems. Diane, a fourth-generation shrimper on the Texas Gulf Coast, has used civil disobedience and other nonviolent approaches to stop corporate chemical giants from polluting.

Saturday8:30-9:00am Registration open

8:30-9:30am I-Groups Session (Integrative), Groups for Intergenerational Learning

9:00-9:30am Opening Address by Charles J. “Chuck” Clinton, Director, DC Energy Offi ce: How our contribu-tions to the environment and world create an inherent sense of self; how DC Energy Offi ce ushers that along. Chuck Clinton has served as DC Energy Offi ce’s director since its creation in 1978. DCEO operates conservation and low income fuel assistance programs and administers the State Energy and Weatherization Assistance Programs; operates the Residential Energy Assistance Challenge federal grant program and several DOE-funded BioMass/Alternative Fuel Vehicle programs. DCEO publishes the District’s Comprehensive Energy Plan; participates in PSC regulatory proceedings; updatsg/implements DC’s contingency plans for petro-leum shortages, electricity brownouts, natural gas interruptions; and administers the Reliable Energy Trust Fund, including 16 education, energy effi ciency, assistance programs, all to help DC citizens adapt to deregulation of electricity.

9:30-11:00am Local Speakers & Workshops

Spoken Word: Earth Conservation Corps.

Your Body, Your Health: Robert Duggan,Tai Sophia; Bill Sanda, Weston A. Price Foundation.

The Power of Youth/School Gardens: Kim Rush & Jenny Guillaume; Sara Standish; Charles Eisenstein; Sara Montag.

Food: Good Tasting and Good for You: Marsha Weiner, Slow Food; Chris Fullerton, Tuscarora Organic Growers Cooperative; Ariele Foster, Community Harvest.

11:00-11:30am Break, Informal I-Groups meet 11:30am-12:00pm Brown Bag Lunches

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Schedule Speakers’ BiosSara Standish works with New Ventures, World Resources Institute and volunteers with SustainUS. In 2004-05, Sara worked with youth leaders to engage young scientists, policymakers, and educa-tors and to foster peer-to-peer learning on sustain-

ability issues. She helped develop the youth-led organizational model for SustainUS. She manages the New Ventures project mentoring program, connecting business school students with environmental entrepreneurs. New Ventures supports environmentally sustainable enterprises in emerging economies.

Marsha B. Weiner, Regional Governor of Slow Food USA, says we need to recover the art of savoring our food. Slow Food USA is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production; to revival of the kitchen and table as centers of pleasure, culture, and community; to the invigoration of regional, seasonal culinary traditions; and to living a slower and harmonious rhythm of life. Marsha is a freelance writer and producer.

Kimberly Rush has worked with the US National Arboretum’s Washington Youth Garden for over 5 years and direct-ed the program for the last three. She was Assistant Director for Garden Harvest,

Baltimore, an organic farm that donates fresh produce to emergency food agencies. Jenny Guillaume has been Program Coordinator for the US National Arboretum’s Washington Youth Garden since fall 2003. She was Garden Coordinator for Hilltop Community Garden in Lewiston, Maine. Her favorite vegetable is okra––southern fried!

Michelle Ava approaches move-ment as a healing art. With a Masters degree in dance education from The George Washington University, she has been a vital force in Washington, DC dance and holistic communities for

over three decades. She is an innovative dance educator, choreog-rapher, bodywork therapist and spiritual teacher. She has dedicated her work to fusing modern dance with yoga, meditation and spiri-tual practice to assist others to discover their creative expression.

With a vision of creating “dance for everyone”, she founded Joy of Motion Dance Center in 1976 where she served as Artistic Direc-tor until 1990. Michelle is Founder and Artistic Director of Ava Dance, an organization that provides opportunities and environ-ments for self-learning, building connectiv-ity and deepening community through the expression of movement. Her private practice in Dance Coaching is located in the Cleveland Park section of Washington D.C.She is currently co-producing SpiritDance, a seasonal community gathering featuring improvisational dance and live music.

Saturday

12:00-4:00pm PLENARIES from NATIONAL CONFERENCE (via satellite)

Jeremy Narby - Intelligence In Nature: A Predator’s Inquiry. How can “lowly” slime molds fi nd the shortest route through a maze to a food source every time? Swiss-based Canadian anthropologist, Amazonian indigenous land-rights activist and author of Intelligence in Nature and The Cosmic Serpent Jeremy recently traveled the world to meet shamans and scientists to probe what they understand about the intelligence present in all life forms. He explores how humanity can learn from nature’s economy and know-ingness in our own search for a sustainable way of life.

Carolyn Raffensperger - Bold Precaution: The Precau-tionary Principle Gains Traction. The Precautionary Prin-ciple is the wellspring of a new political agenda that grows from renewed respect for the natural world, the wealth we hold in common, and our collective responsibilities. Caro-lyn, executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, has been a leader in seeding the Precau-tionary Principle in the U.S., and describes remarkable successes in applying it in governments, companies and communities.

Omar Freilla - Greening the Inner City: Jobs, Health, Justice and the Environment. Environmental restoration can succeed only if it meaningfully addresses social justice and the elimination of poverty. Omar, one of the nation’s most dynamic and creative young environmental justice leaders, is a founding board member of Sustainable South Bronx and recently launched Green Worker Cooperatives, an inspiring initiative dedicated to the creation of worker-owned, environmentally friendly manufacturing coopera-tives in the South Bronx.

Thom Hartmann - Beyond Framing: How Deep Neuro- Linguistic Programming Is Used to Communicate Political and Ecological “Messages”. “Conservatives” and corpo-rate interests use the powerful tools of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) to defi ne arguments, win elections and persuade the public. To be effective in the public arena, progressives and bioneers must fi rst understand these tools. Thom learned NLP 27 years ago as a psychotherapist and advertising agency CEO. He is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host, and award-winning author of 14 books including Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights.

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Speakers’ Bios ScheduleIn 1989 Dave Deppner founded Trees for the Future to help people suffering from horrible environmental conditions. He worked in the Peace Corps and dedicated his life to helping people and the environment. Dave has planted for more than 30 years in many countries. His vision has become a reality and thousands have been helped in a sus-tainable way. Dave and his wife Grace are pioneers in helping the neediest areas of the world become

self-reliant through reforestation and sustainable agriculture. Their partnership has opened doors and created lasting friendship with local groups and individuals around the globe. Dave suggests some actions to reduce global warming: use fossil fuels more effi ciently; save old growth forests, cut sustainably; plant trees when you travel; plant 1 tree every 2,000 miles by automobile; plant 1 tree every 1300 miles by plane; plant 1 tree every 100 gallons of gasoline; and plant 1 tree every 1000 kilowatt hours.

Josh Tulkin has been working on environmen-tal issues since he became president of the San Ma-teo High School Eco Club his junior year of high school. At Pomona College Josh has been strongly involved in clean energy politics and global warm-ing campaigns. He began his work when he joined a campaign against the Global Climate Coali-tion, an industry group that denies the existence

of global warming. The following year Josh joined with 250 other youths in The Hague, the Netherlands for the 6th World Confer-ence on Climate Change, trying to pressure his government to take a stronger stance. As an intern at Greenpeace the following summer, Josh designed the student Clean Energy Now handbook and helped coordinate the youth delegation to the following Climate Conference in Bonn, Germany. Last spring Josh was elected the Environmental Affairs Commissioner of Pomona College. Through this position and his seat on the newly formed Claremont Colleges Environmental Review Committee, Josh plans to pressure the schools to incorporate more sustainability and green design into their building guidelines and foster an environment of greater student participation in campus planning.

Biodiesel, a fuel made from vegetable oil, runs in any unmodifi ed diesel engine. Biodie-sel can be made from any virgin vegetable oil pressed straight from the seed such as soy, sunfl ower, canola, coconut and hemp. It can also be made from recycled cooking oils. Beef tallow and fi sh oil can even be used to make

biodiesel. Its use dates back over 100 years when Dr. Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine to run on fuels such as coal dust suspended in water, heavy mineral oil, and ...vegetable oil! His fi rst engine experiments were catastrophic failures. But his engine at the 1900 Paris World Exhibition was running on 100% peanut oil.

A Historical Fact Worthy of Note...

Saturday

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Schedule Speakers’ BiosRha Goddess - Who’s Got Next?: Cultivating Feminine-Centered Leadership in a Hip Hop Era. Young women are rising up to take their power, and in doing so they are re-weaving a web of relationship that promises to rock the world. Performing artist, activist and hip-hop entrepreneur Rha, renowned for her spoken-word dexterity and feisty political consciousness, explores how this generation’s daughters are branding their own movement of love, power and freedom. 4:00-4:15pm Break

4:15-4:45pm Featured Local PlenaryThe US Partnership for Sustainable Development: Doug Cohen, State of the Moment for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. Highlights of the Action Teams and Core Projects in The Higher Ed, Living Institutions, Business/Sustainable Enterprise, Youth, Faith, and K-12 Sectors of the Partnership.

4:45-6:15pm Local Speakers & Workshops

Sustaining Urban and Rural Forest Ecosystems: Dave Deppner - “Forest Garden” projects, their income-generating and environmental benefi ts; aspects of this con-cept address concerns : growing crises in water-retention, global climate change, rapid increase in fossil fuel prices.

Global Warming: Josh Tulkin, CCAN & SustainUS – The Campus Climate Challenge: Join the fi ght against global warming.

Getting the Organics You Want: Ann Yonkers and Marga-ret Barker: FreshFarm Markets; Ed Huling, New Farms.

Water: From River to You: Ed Grusheski, Philadelphia Water Department.

Hurricane Katrina: DC Armory Resi-dents displaced from New Orleans; UDC Student Government speakers/panelists.

6:15-7:30pm Dinner Break, area restaurants w/ I-Groups

Washington DC’s Freshfarm Market at Dupont Circle is a splendid showcase for some of America’s fi nest foods, and it can be found in this modest-sized but splendidly stocked market. The Dupont circle market began as an arm of American Farmland Trust, and then became an independent concern run by its founders, Ann Yonkers and Bernie Prince. Located in a grassy park, it offers the Sunday shopper some extremely beautiful foodstuffs and fl owers. Free-range chicken, turkey, pheasant, quail, organic beef, and rabbit fi lled out the meat side of the market, while the dairy consisted of fresh moz-zarella, ricotta, goat’s milk yogurt, and goat cheese. The fresh ricotta alone would make me a faithful shopper if I needed any prompting. Delicate, milky, pure, fresh ricotta cheese is, like a big Brandywine to-mato, a market treasure that is impossible to fi nd in your supermarket.

Doug Cohen has helped organizations incorporate leadership intelligence in the workplace/community life for over 20 years. Doug supports environmental stewardship and sustainable development through design/facilitation of cross-sector initiatives. He designed youth Sustainability Literacy programs for the 2005-2014 Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. Co-Chair of National Youth Initiatives, US Partnership, Doug helped develop the National Youth Council for Sustainable Development. In June 2005, the Youth team collaborated with the City of San Francisco to coordinate the Youth Track conference for World Environment Day. The team contributed to the UN Environment Program’s Region of North America strategy for environmental/sustainability education for the Decade. Doug is working with the US Partnership’s Youth Team on a strategy to devel-op leadership capacity of American youth who will lead the societal shift to integrate sustainable practices into all human endeavors.

Ed Grusheski has been General Manager, Public Affairs Division, of the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) since 1999. He has previously served as a Museum educator at Boston Children’s Museum, the New Jersey State Museum, Philadelphia’s Civic Museum and Port of History Museum, and was Director of PWD’s Water Works Interpretive Center. Educated at the Boston Latin School, Georgetown University, and the University of Pennsylvania, he serves on many task forces and committees, includ-ing the PA Department of Environmental Protection’s Coastal Zone Management Steering Committee, the Schuylkill River Heritage Corridor Urban Gateway Task Force, and the PWD Water Quality Education Community Advisory Committee. Ed serves on the Board of Directors of the Fairmount Park Commission’s Fund for the Water Works. He is the President of the Oliver Evans Chapter of the Soci-ety for Industrial Archeology, and serves on the Strategic Planning Committee of the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary.

For the past 7 years, writer/educator Margaret A. Barker has served as coordinator of Cornell University’s Kids Growing Food program, most recently focusing on school food garden programs for DC public schools in collaboration with DC Agriculture in the Classroom, the American Institute of Wine and Food and Fresh Farm Markets.

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Speakers’ Bios Schedule7:30-9:00pm Local Urban Socio-economic Programs Panel

Glen O’Gilvie – Earth Conservation Corps (ECC)Glen O’Gilvie became President and CEO in 2004, succeeding Bob Nixon, ECC’s founder and now Chairman. Glen brings over

11 years’ expertise in youth development to ECC. His most recent post as Program Offi cer for The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region’s Youth Development Initiative positions him well to continue ECCs’ mission. At The Com-munity Foundation, he worked with more than 70 youth challenging them to seek solutions to com-munity needs through comprehensive leadership and grantmaking training. Glen was responsible for

growing the organization’s grant program, which builds the capac-ity of nonprofi t organizations around the region. Prior to joining the Community Foundation, Glen served as National Coordinator for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial’s, RFK Fellows/AmeriCorps education enrichment programs and as Director of Washington, DC operations. He supervised a staff of program and assistant directors, developed and implemented the Washington, DC program, and managed pro-gramming in Los Angeles and San Francisco. “There is nothing more important than helping develop young people and working to improve the health of our environment. The work these youth accomplish here now will not only be of benefi t to us, but will benefi t future generations.” Glen received his Master of Education, Guidance, and Counseling and Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and resides with his wife Heidi and daughter Delaney.

Dan Morhaim, MD – Maryland House of Delegates

Edgar Cahn – Time Dollar Institute

Michael Campbell - Chesapeake Bioneers Advisor

Talia Ichtertz - Eco-Ventures International, Youth Environmental Training Programs 9:00pm-open Bioneers Party!

Talia Ichtertz, of EcoVentures International, graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service with a degree in Science, Technol-ogy, and International Affairs and a concentration in Environmental Studies. EVI supports sustainable livelihoods and communities through training, mentoring, connect-ing, and inspiring young people to develop as environmentally, socially committed entrepreneurs. Talia has worked on EVI’s Environmental Entrepreneurship Workshops, Sustainable Business Assessment and Assistance Youth Training Program, and Sustain-ability Learning Journey.

Dan K. Morhaim, MD, has served on the Maryland House of Delegates, District 11, since 1994 and has been re-elected for the 2002-06 term. He has chaired Health/Government Operations and Health Care Delivery/Finance committees. His

many council assignments have included Infant Mortality, Attention Defi cit Disorder Council, Aquaculture, Recycling, and the Demo-cratic State Central Committee. Dan gained his MD degree from New York Medical College in 1975. He was emergency physician for the Veterans Administration Hospitals and a faculty member of University of Maryland’s School of Medicine. He is founder of the Professional Emergency Physicians, a medical group at six hospitals employing over 90 physicians. In his spare time, he serves as Fire Surgeon with the Baltimore County Fire Department and as a coach for girls’ softball and basketball. He lent his medical expertise to the Maryland-Kuwait Health Care Task Force.

The Earth Conservation Corps, a nonprofi t founded in 1989 as a White House domestic policy initiative, provides hands-on environmental education, job training and community service programs for disadvantaged youth ages 17-25. Some 45 ECC youth members are inducted into the full-time program in July and graduate in May. The program counts over 300 graduates with an 85% success rate of Corps members who go on to higher educa-tion, are gainfully employed, or stay involved in their community.

The Time Dollar Institute was created in 1995. In 1980 Dr. Edgar S. Cahn, author of Our Brother’s Keeper, and founder of the Antioch School of Law, had a heart attack. Recuperating, he dreamed up Time Dollars™ to replace massive government spending cuts on social welfare, to pay people for what needs to be done. In 1987 at the London School of Economics, Edgar explained why the currency should work. Back home he put service credits into opera-tion. Foundation funding for Time Dollar Exchanges dried up in the mid 1990’s, followed by a time of determining what made Time Dol-lars/Time Banking unique tools for social change. A 1997 Time Dollar convention helped new/surviving groups identify “what works.” The Time Dollar Institute became the hub of a small network of indepen-dent Time Dollar Exchanges around the country. Edgar developed the theory of Co-Production outlined in his book, No More Throw Away People (2000; re-issued in 2004), which became the framework for Time Dollars. The Institute is now working to spread the concept of Time Dollars and Co-Production. Efforts include short trainings for organizations, partnership with universities to build Time Dollars and Co-Production into course curricula, and long-distance learning.

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Chesapeake Bioneers Board of Advisors

Larry Bohlen (founding member) provides leadership and strategic support to numerous food safety and environmental organizations. For fi ve years he led Friends of the Earth’s Health and Environment Programs to protect people against pesticides, genetic contamination and other pol-lution. With more than 14 years of experience as an advocate, he served as the director of the

group’s Safer Food, Safer Farms Campaign and the coordinator of the D.C. Environmental Network. He was a founding member of the Genetically Engineered Food Alert Coalition, a national organization providing critical public accountability of the biotechnology industry and government regulators. He is the founder and current coordina-tor of the Mad Cow Prevention Alliance, and a founder and current chair of Chesapeake Bioneers. Larry graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and a concentration in Philoso-phy from the University of Maryland. He has held environmental positions with the American Lung Association, the Coalition to Save Belt Woods, and served as a volunteer with the Sierra Club for over 10 years, co-founding the Club’s Challenge to Sprawl Campaign. He also worked as an aerospace engineer for NASA.

Michael Campbell (founding member) has been involved in the organic gardening movement for a long time. After receiving a BA in Cultural Pluralism and Native American Studies from Humboldt State, Arcata, CA, he studied organic gardening with Alan Chadwick for two years. He has taught gardening at the Windstar Foundation and built green homes in Taos, NM. He later re-

turned to school and received a PhD in Agricultural Education from Iowa State. Following that, he worked for the Maryland Extension Service in Baltimore, where he helped create the SOUL (Save Our Urban Lands) project. He is currently the Project Administrator at Fox Haven Farms, in rural Maryland.

Darcey Rakestraw is a communications pro-fessional with seven years’ experience in public/in-vestor relations and public affairs. Prior to joining Worldwatch, Darcey worked at the Embassy of Ethiopia in Washington, D.C. as press offi cer, where she developed and implemented commu-nications strategies to increase the understanding

of the developing country’s government policies among key U.S. institutions, the press and public. Prior to that, Darcey worked at a small Internet investment bank providing investor relations services during the “dot-com” boom, and was an Account Executive at a New York City-based public relations fi rm focused on the luxury travel and home furnishings markets. Darcey is a holistic health counselor and graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City. In her spare time, she teaches whole foods cooking classes. She is passionate about clarifying the links between human health and the health of our planet—the fact that the vitality of our ecosystems and the quality of the food, water and air we consume has a direct impact on our health and wellbeing. Darcey is a graduate of Vassar College with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science.

Reuven Walder combines his scientifi c, activ-ist and media background to empower others to take an active role in habitat protection, education and policy issues. Currently at SeaWeb and one of this years presenters, he has more than 15 years experience conducting research on an array of spe-cies including salmon, seabirds and marine mam-mals in several ecosystems. He has worked for government agencies and non-profi ts alike and has worked on wide array of research and restoration projects from the Canadian Arctic to Baja California. He is also an experienced environmental educator for 14 years. Reuven has an MS in Marine Ecology from Moss Landing Marine Laborato-ries and currently lives in Rockville, Maryland.

Ed Huling spent the past 25 years in ex-ecutive roles for entrepreneurial companies dedicated to protecting the environment and improving the nutritional content of food. Ed is currently developing a new farming system, which he calls “Nutri-Farming”. His goal is to insure both superb fl avor and high nutritional value in the fruits and veg-etables, and to eliminate the toxic chemi-

cals from the growing process. As part of this effort he is producing organic vegetables on two farms in Pennsylvania. He markets his produce to Whole Foods Markets and restaurant distributors in NY, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Prior to farming, Ed served as a board member for Earthfoods Associates, an innovative consult-ing fi rm assisting farmers with biological and natural approaches to agricultural problems. Ed also spent a year leading a research project at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This research tested different methods of farming to determine which of these resulted in crops with the highest nutritional content. His USDA research also documented the dramatic decline in nutritional value of our food during the past 60 years. In the early 90’s, Ed opened one of the fi rst restaurants in the Washington DC area featuring organic ingredients. He is still an owner and a member of the Board of Directors of this popular, award-winning restaurant, “Thyme Square.”

Greg Drury (founding member and administra-tor) started his path as a meditator at 15 years old and then graduated from Maharishi International University in Fairfi eld, Iowa in 1981. He is a mas-sage and Reiki therapist, yoga teacher, dancer and fi tness junkie. He is founder and director of Whole-ness for Humanity (WFH). WFH is dedicated to increasing accessibility to integrative medicine, holistic health, wellness, ethics and spirituality. WFH provides corporate education and wellness programs. Greg hosted the radio program entitled “Wholeness for Humanity” an hour-long call in talk show with such prestigious guests as Larry Dossey, Joan Borysenko, Caroline Myss and Richard Barrett. He is also a Lay Minister for hands-on-healing and is currently a member of The Order of St. Luke’s of the Physician. Other affi liations include United Religions Initiative, St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, Maharishi Peace Palace, Points of Light Foundation and Interfaith Conference.

Joel Salatin is a third-generation alternative farmer with his wife Teresa and family, in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. His Polyface Farm serves some 400 families and 30 restaurants with salad bar beef, pastured poultry, eggmobile eggs, pigaerator pork, forage-based rabbits, pastured turkey and for-estry products. Polyface Farm has been featured in Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, and

Gourmet. Joel was profi led on the Lives of the 21st Century series with Peter Jennings on ABC World News. Joel writes for Stockman Grass Farmer, Acres USA, and American Agriculturalist magazines. The author of fi ve books, his latest, Holy Cows and Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer’s Guide to Farm Friendly Food, brings producers and patrons together in understanding and appreciation. He speaks on issues, from “creating the farm your children will want” to “mak-ing a white collar salary from a pleasant life in the country.”

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Speakers’ Bios ScheduleSunday8:30-9:00am Registration open8:30-9:00am I-Groups Session, Intergenerational Learning

9:00-9:30am Opening Address, DC Councilmember Phil Mendelson - DC Environment

Phil Mendelson was fi rst elected to the City Council in 1998. He chairs the Judiciary Commit-tee, and is a member of the Education, Librar-ies and Recreation and Government Operations committees. He represents the Council at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Govern-ments. Phil has been active with District issues

since 1975 when he joined the McLean Gardens Residents Associa-tion fi ght to save that 43-acre housing complex from destruction. He ran for a seat on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission in 1979 and continued to serve as an ANC Commissioner until he took offi ce as an At-Large member of the Council in 1999.

Phil believes government should be an honest, effi cient service de-liverer; DC should help those least able to help themselves develop self-suffi ciency skills and end the poverty cycle; and do this without increasing taxes on middle/upper income residents. DC must model service delivery in public education, safety, and health.

9:30-11:00am Local speakers & workshops

Creating a Green Economy: Kate Davenport, SustainUS, Sustainable Business Map; Ian Fisk, DC Small Business Network; Erik Assidourian, Worldwatch Institute, Corpo-rate Social Responsibility; Peggy McConnell, Effective Living Strategies, Intl., Tuscon, AZ, explores Thinking Globally and Acting Locally with joy, prosperity, and diver-sity, for sustainable economics and humanitarian service.

Soil, Nutrition and Food: Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm, Organics, Biodiversity & Farming; Kevin John Richardson, PoGo Organics.

BioDiesel: Frankie Lind, PoGo Organics; Suzanne Hunt, Biofuels Project Manager, WorldWatch Institute.

Green Building: Dawn Gifford, DC GreenWorks; Jim Schulman, Community Forklift; Bill Hutchins, Helicon Works; Allison Archambault, Gridpoint, Inc.

Alternative Media/Social Responsibility: Bridget Gray, AmeriCops members present Earth Conservation Corps media/press coverage, show media/camera technique.

The Science and Philosophy of Gaia Theory: Martin Ogle, Northern Virginia Park System.

11:00-11:30am Break, Informal I-Groups meet11:30am-12:00pm Brown Bag Lunches

Kate Davenport chairs Washington DC’s SustainUS Chapter, a youth-led non-profi t bringing youth expertise into sustainable devel-opment issues by grassroots campaigns/partici-pation in international events. Kate has worked with youth leadership and confl ict resolution training and international development issues. She works with EVI’s environmental entrepreneurship programs and helped design the Environmental Enterprise Development Initiative in Tanzania. She worked in China and Southern/Eastern Africa on Environmental and Economic Development projects and organized the Tufts University delegation to the 2002 World Summit on Sus-tainable Development.

Peggy McConnell, of Tucson, AZ, works with Effective Living Strategies, Intl. She develops well-ness programs for schools and corporations on burn-out, ADD, restructuring, change improvement, and post-traumatic stress syndrome. She has developed and taught corporate global leadership/ team build-ing skills and meditation courses for many years.

Martin Ogle, Chief Naturalist for Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority since 1985, has BS and MS Degrees in Wildlife Biology from Colorado State University and Virginia Tech, respectively. He has been presenting lectures and courses on Gaia Theory for about 15 years.

Allison Archambault has studied and worked in aspects of solar energy in Africa, the Caribbean, and US. She currently works for GridPoint, Inc., a DC-based technology company which facili-tates renewable energy adoption for home owners and small businesses. GridPoint builds intelligent energy management (IEM) products to reduce electricity costs, improve power reliability and

itemize energy consumption. Its IEM appliances, the size of a small refrigerator, provide traditional and renewable energy users with in-stant, automatic backup power based on high-capacity, battery-based technology.

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Schedule Speakers’ Bios12:00-4:00pm PLENARIES from NATIONAL CONFERENCE (via satellite)

Michael Ableman - Field of Plenty: A Farmer’s Journey to the Frontiers of American Agriculture. Using stories and pictures, Michael Ableman, founder and executive director of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens and author/photographer of From the Good Earth and the new Fields of Plenty, takes us to visit some of the most in-novative individuals growing food today — master farmers, food artisans, and those using their farms as platforms for social and ecological change.

Ohki Simine Forest - Return of the Ancient Council Ways: Indigenous Survival in Chiapas. Of Canadian Mohawk descent, Ohki went to study with Mongolian shamans and ultimately moved to Chiapas, Mexico, where she was initi-ated into the world of Mayan healers. In 1994, she created a spiritual center in Chiapas and a nonprofi t aimed at help-ing Mayan indigenous communities. She explains the vital importance of the Mayan resistance and the applicability of their ancient council ways as a model for all humanity.

Andy Lipkis - Restoring Los Angeles: Healing the Na-ture of Our Cities. As a teenager, Andy learned that smog was killing the forests of Southern California. He and his friends began planting and caring for trees, and were dubbed the “tree people.” More than 30 years later, Andy’s pathfi nding efforts have proven the feasibility of making large cities sustainable, and have resulted in the planting of two million trees, the education of one million schoolchil-dren, and, most recently, the retrofi tting of a portion of Los Angeles to function as an urban forest watershed.

David Orr - The Fifth Revolution: The Evolution of Eco-logical Design Intelligence. From the perspective of the sustainability of human life on the Earth, what does it mean to be intelligent? And what does the answer imply for edu-cation, learning and research? David, professor and chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College, is an award-winning scholar and leader in the sustainability movement, renowned for his seminal work on environmen-tal literacy in higher education and on ecological design.

Bernice Johnson Reagon - “and, there are those of us who straddle...”. A legendary composer, singer, historian, music producer, author and cultural activist whose career stretches over more than four decades, starting with her participation in the Civil Rights Movement, Bernice has received major recognition from the most prestigious institutions in the land for her pathfi nding work as a scholar, teacher and artist in the history and evolution of African American culture.

Central Park Zoo’s Wildlife Theater company present interac-tive short shows using drama, puppetry, games and songs that make learning about wildlife entertaining and insightful. The Adventures of Captain Cocoa features super-hero Captain Cocoa on an adventure

to save the rainforest, only to discover it might be the common person who can really save the day. (To book Wildlife Theater, contact Alison Saltz, 212-439-6450.)

Suzanne Hunt of Worldwatch Institute, brings to Biofuels projects her experience from watershed management planning in New York State and sustainable forestry in Pennsylvania, to teaching salt marsh ecology in North Carolina, to working with Costa Rican farmers on a conservation/development project. Suzanne’s interest in renewable energy and environmental responsibility led her introduce biodiesel at her family farm, Hunt Country Vineyards, and to research the viability of biodiesel production to operating wine-making ma-chinery. Suzanne is currently helping found an organization in Wash-ington, DC to teach inner city children how to turn waste grease from restaurant kitchens into a cleaner-burning fuel for their school buses.

Bill Hutchins, founder of Helicon Works, Archi-tecture and Education, offers his clients expertise in combining environmentally sensitive architecture and building practices with spiritual and psycho-logical wisdom. Based in Takoma Park, Bill does this work locally and throughout the country, via workshops and helping clients create their home.

For more info visit his website, www.HeliconWorks.com.

Dawn Gifford, Executive Di-rector of DC Greenworks, has 15 years experience in Permaculture, LID, landscape design, horticul-ture, agriculture, arboriculture, vocational education, business and workforce development, and community organizing. Dawn

graduated cum laude from the University of Maryland with dual de-grees in Latin American Studies and Women’s Studies, and a minor in Botany. She has advanced certifi cation in Permaculture Design and Instruction, Landscape Architecture, Organic Agriculture, and Arboriculture. She taught remedial math and horticulture for seven years in area high schools before becoming Education Director at Garden Resources of Washington in 1997. In 1999, Dawn opened the DC offi ce of Community Resources Chesapeake under the trade name DC Greenworks. She became its Executive Director in 2003. Dawn is a member of the DC Urban Forestry Technical Advisory Board and the Federal Reserve Bank Small Business and Agriculture Advisory Council. A DC native, Dawn takes a holistic approach to the region’s greenspace, and focuses her work around community ownership, long-term environmental and economic sustainability, and achievable results.

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Speakers’ Bios Schedule4:00-4:30pm Music performance 4:30-6:00pm Local speakers & workshops

Living Systems: Kevin John Richardson, PoGo Organic Farm.

Kevin Richardson designs buildings using natural materials and sustainable systems. His Local Solutions in Anchorage, Alaska, uses regional alter-natives in community building/energy issues. Kevin helps produce “compost tea” and uses a biological approach to plant/land management. He works with

Pogo Sherwood, Pogo tree experts, Acme Biomass Reduction, to provide Washington, DC with compost tea production, application services, and educational opportunities. Their services include using compost/compost tea and fungi in storm water management, slope stability, sediment and erosion control, water fi ltration, bioremedia-tion, and ecological restoration. Kevin is developing BENEFIT!, a plant/land management program using biologically active products produced at Pogo’s farm.

Faith and Sustainability Panel: Erik Schwarz, InterFaith Works, moderates this panel of faith based presenters: Dan-iel Swartz, Greater Washington Interfaith Power & Light; Hedieh Fakhriyazdi, Baha’is of the US; Jane Osborne, Religious Parthership on the Anacostia; Bill Aiken, Soka Gaikka Intl., USA Buddhist Association.

Green Investing: Joan Barbaucher, CalvertGroup; Rev. Terry Provence, Oiko Credit; Barry Wind, Progressive As-set Management.

Our living Seas - Ocean Impacts, Solutions and Look-ing Ahead: Reuven Walder, SeaWeb; Richard Albright and Robert Johnson, DC Department of Health - Effects of Toxic Dumps in the Chesapeake Bay.

Camping with Purpose: Amchat Edwards, George Wash-ington Carver Outdoor School.

6:30-6:30pm Regional and Community Action Planning: Doug Cohen and Hedieh Fakriyazdi, I-Groups Coordinators, will launch I-Groups from conference into the world.

6:30 Conclusion

Rev. Terry Provance, Executive Director of Oikocredit USA, Washington, DC, has worked to increase investments, infrastructure and publicity for the socially responsible, development-focused, religious-based organization. Ordained in the United Church of Christ, Terry pastored a UCC congregation

in Pittsburgh for 5 years. He administered an international program in Cleveland for 10 years before joining Oikocredit. Terry has visited over 100 countries for peace, economic justice, disarmament and racial equality. He has worked for the National Council of Churches, Presbyterian Church USA, American Friends Service Committee and the Unitarian Universalist Association and received an MDiv from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and an MA in Christian Social Ethics from the Graduate Theological Union.

Rabbi Daniel Swartz is coordina-tor of Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light, which works with congregations and faith-based organizations in DC to help promote sustainable energy use and progres-sive policies. Rabbi Swartz has worked with faith communities on environmental issues,

including climate change, children’s environmental health, and envi-ronmental racism.

Amtchat Edwards had his fi rst camping experi-ence at age 9 with the George Washington Carver Outdoor School. At 25, he continues to learn with the school, as the Education Coordinator. Full time Out-reach and Education Coordinator for the Student Con-servation Association’s DC regional offi ce, Amtchat is commited to working with youth in the outdoors until

he has heard “all of the stories that the trees have to tell.”

Barry Wind is a full service, fee-based fi nan-cial advisor with a strong commitment to socially responsible investing (SRI). He offers a full range of SRI services, including comprehensive fi nancial planning and asset management. He also offers clients community investment and philanthropic giving alternatives. Barry is a member of two na-tional networks of SRI advisors, Progressive Asset

Management and the First Affi rmative Financial Network. Profes-sionally licensed as a Registered Representative and Registered Investment Advisor, he has a Master of Management degree with a concentration in Public and Nonprofi t Management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Erik Schwarz directs Interfaith Works, a non-profi t which part-ners faith communities with service/interfaith organizations, to do hands-on service/social action projects. He is active with the Board of United Religions Initiative DC, Executive Committee for the National Days of Youth Service, Interreligious Council, and the Ecu-menical Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. Erik is Episcopal Chaplain, Washington Home and Hospice. He served at the InterFaith Conference and the Washington National Cathedral.

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Schedule Speakers’ Bios

Robert Johnson works as a lab Microbiologist, developing monoclonal antibodies for treatment of se-rious diseases, and in the public health fi eld evaluating indoor environments hazardous exposures He blends research interests of biodefense, chemical exposures and infectious disease with his artistic photographic eye, seen at www.Colorspace.us.

Dr. Richard D. Albright, DC’s chemical wea-pons and ordnance expert, has a Masters from George Washington University and a Doctorate from Wayne State University. He wrote a book on chemical wea-pon site cleanup; has testifi ed before Congress, state government, and in federal court on environmental

issues. He has been on Russian TV and been interviewed in Australian and Canadan press. His work has been featured in The Washingtonian Magazine, The Washington Post, Northeast Ohio News Herald, and The Kansas City Star. He serves on Interstate Technology/Regula-tory Council Teams concerning Unexploded Ordnance, Perchlorates and Small Arms Range Remediation. He has worked for 20 years to restore the Chesapeake Bay.

Hedieh Fakhriyazdi is a Global Affairs student at George Mason University and an active member of the Bahá’í community. After high school, Hedieh devoted a year serving at a Bahá’í Radio Station and teaching children’s virtue classes in rural Chile. Her interests are human rights, environmental advocacy, and mentoring youth.

Bill Aiken is Public Affairs Director for Soka Gak-kai International-USA (SGI-USA), a diverse Buddhist community active in peace, cultural exchange and edu-cation for sustainable development areas. He was an advisor to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. He has lectured at DC area colleges/universities.

Jane Osborne coordinates the Anacostia River Religious Part-nership, bringing faith congregations together to clean up and advo-cate for the river. The Partnership collaborates with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Earth Conservation Corps, Casey Trees, and the Anacostia Watershed Society, to provide service opportunities, con-ducts educational boat trips on the Anacostia and, this fall, is opening the Saturday Environmental Academy, an environmental education program for 7th and 8th graders from the larger DC area. Jane retired from the U.S. Public Health Service in 2000 and is an organization development consultant and personal coach.

Reuven Walder runs SeaWeb’s Marine PhotoBank Program, a free image library to inspire and empower the ocean conservation community. He has worked in research/restoration to recover sensitive species/habi-tats from the Arctic to Baja, CA, with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, California Re-gional Water Quality Control Board, Californiau uni-versities, non-profi t and private entities. An environmental educator, Reuven has motivated individuals with a conservation message. He spent four years with California’s Turtle Island Restoration Network, protecting endangered salmon and sea turtle populations/habitats.

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Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light (GWIPL) is a non-profi t initiative that helps congregations, religious institutions and others in the Washington, D.C. area work for a more just, sustainable and healthier creation by reducing the threat of global warming. It is a part of a network of Interfaith Power and Light’s across the country and offers concrete opportunities for congregations and individuals to protect creation.GWIPL is a project of the Churches’ Center for Theology and Public Policy. The InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington is also a co-sponsor. GWIPL also works closely

with the Religious Partnership for the Anacostia and the DC Department of Energy’s Green Faith Program.GWIPL is part of a national movement, with additional Interfaith Power and Light programs currently in 16 states and more in formation.

To fi nd out more about these, go to GWIPL’s website: http://www.gwipl.org/default.asp

Public Policy and Advocacy

People and institutions of faith can make a difference through their actions to conserve energy and through the purchase of green energy. But we can also make a difference by speaking up for policies that will ensure a just, sustainable future for all of creation.

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our numerous partners in the Chesapeake Watershed region

on health, environment, social justice, peace and spirituality

Chesapeake Bioneers extends a Special Thank You to our Conference volunteers!

Chesapeake Bioneers 2005 Sponsors

Angel (donation valued at $2500 or more)Bon Appetit Terrie CliffordLouise Mitchell

Founders’ Circle(donation valued at $1000 or more)Firtzi CohenIrene CroweDean & DelucaDC Energy Offi cePlum DesignPoGo Organic Farm

Hearts of Change(donation valued at $500 or more)Australian EmbassyGreen Mountain CoffeeHonest TeaNora’s Restaurant

Sustainer(donation valued at $250 or more)Coppi’s OrganicSt. Columba’s Episcopal Church

Supporter(donation valued at $100 or more)Ed Huling

Saturday Night, 9:00 -

Open Bioneers Party!

I-GROUPS FORMED, FILMS, EDU-TAINMENT throughout the weekend:Wildlife Conservation Society – Central Park Zoo’s Environmental Theater • Ester Francis – Song Cycle on Earth/Human Relations • Doug Stoup – IceAx, Program on Extreme Wilderness • Michelle Ava, Drumming and Dance

FILM SCREENINGS:

Friday6:30 pm – 7:15 pm “We are all Smith Islanders” (35 minutes)

7:15 pm – 9:00 pm “Endangered Species” (97 minutes)

9:00 pm – 10:00 pm “Alone Across Australia & Messages from the Tarkine” (55 minutes)

Saturday10:00am - 11:30 am (Film Screening with Bob Nixon, Filmmaker) “Anacostia: Restoring the People’s River” (37 minutes)

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm “The Next Industrial Revolution” (55 minutes)

1:00 pm – 2:15 pm “Being Caribou” (72 minutes)

2:15 pm – 4:15 pm “The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream” (78 minutes)

“Destination Earth” (a 1956 vintage fi lm made by the American Petroleum Institute) (14 minutes)

“In the Suburbs” (a 1957 vintage fi lm made by Redbook) (19 minutes)

Sunday12:00 pm – 12:45 pm “We Are All Smith Islanders” (35 minutes)

12:45 pm – 1:25 pm “Anacostia: Restoring the People’s River” (37 minutes)

1:25 pm – 2:25 pm “The Next Industrial Industry” (55 minutes)

2:25 pm – 3:45 pm “The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream” (78 minutes)

Program design and editing contributed by Betty Plummer, Plum Design, Arlington, VA.

2005 National Bioneers Conference

Explore the connections between the issues that matter most today: Environmental Sustainability • Health • Social Justice • Peace

Engage in a fertile, local network of individuals and groups passionate about renewing our world

Get inspired with new ideas, successful models, tools, resources

Connect with local visionaries and innovators in green business, organic farming and food, education, sustainable architecture and building, and more....

Join and launch important local projects

Enjoy innovative music, dance, and theater

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Education & Advising

High Quality Compost & Facilities

Worm Castings, Liquid Worm Castings

Humic Acids, Cold Water Sea Kelp & High Protein Meals

Aerated Compost Tea Production & Application

ACT Production Equipment

Chesapeake Bay SafeEffective Nutrient Management

Non Toxic & Chemical Free

Soil Blends & Installation

Slope Stability, Sediment & Erosion Control

Stream Bank Renovation

BioRemediation & Ecological Restoration

Water Filtration

The Biological Approach to Plant & Land Stewardship