The Case of Tuvalu #COP29

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference #COP29 in Baku, Rising Nations Youth Delegate Grace Malie discusses the future of Tuvalu and other island nations

The Case of Tuvalu #COP29

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference #COP29 in Baku, Rising Nations Youth Delegate Grace Malie discusses the future of Tuvalu and other island nations in the face of climate impacts with Valerie Hickey, Global Director, Environment Department, the World Bank. #climatechange #climateaction #pacificislands 

Amelia Southern-Uribe, 21, grew up in various parts of the US South, always in communities that were at increased environmental risk, including one community hard hit by the Deepwater Horizon

Amelia Southern-Uribe, 21, grew up in various parts of the US South, always in communities that were at increased environmental risk, including one community hard hit by the Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010. Living in these communities helped them recognize early on that environmental justice is connected to the liberation of immigrants, people of color, queer people, and members of other marginalized communities.

In 2019, Southern-Uribe founded the first Arkansas chapter of Zero Hour, an organization dedicated to environmental justice. The chapter, in Fayetteville, AR, created a model for the growth of chapters in nearby Bentonville and Conway, putting Arkansas on the map for Southern climate activists.

However, Southern-Uribe wanted to do more to combat Arkansas’s low rankings in education (49th in the nation), knowing that racism, injustice, and environmental neglect are all exacerbated by the educational disparities faced by youth in marginalized communities. So, in 2022, they co-founded Roots magazine, which disseminates regional and generational environmental knowledge and amplifies the voices of BIPOC Southern individuals. Roots, which has since published two editions, also provides free art supplies to writers and artists to help them translate their stories into mediums such as visual art, music, essays, and recipes. Within its pilot year, Southern-Uribe raised more than $7,800 to distribute free copies of the magazine to students, changemakers, and community members across the state.

Thank you to New Yorker Magazine, BP and NOAA for select photo and video clips.

One of the Southeast U.S.’ and Gulf South's most renowned veterans of climate justice struggles as an activist, community organizer, coalition-builder, and award-winning litigating

One of the Southeast U.S.’ and Gulf South's most renowned veterans of climate justice struggles as an activist, community organizer, coalition-builder, and award-winning litigating environmental and human rights attorney, Colette Pichon Battle, born and raised in Bayou Liberty, Louisiana, focuses on creating spaces for frontline communities to gather and advance climate strategies that help them steward their water, energy, and land responsibly. She draws from her decades of experience fighting for equitable climate resilience to unearth historic lessons and exposes the root causes of the inequities and imbalances that characterize our relationships to the natural world and to each other. Colette argues that we must expand our understanding of what a genuine Climate Justice movement needs to encompass if we are to succeed in innovating a better future, and why such struggles as gender and migrant justice are inextricably connected to human rights for clean air, clean water, sovereign land, and community control of justly-sourced sustainable energy.

This keynote talk was delivered at the 2024 Bioneers Conference.

Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage, Director of the Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley, founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Center and author of four books including: One Fair

Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage, Director of the Food Labor Research Center at UC Berkeley, founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Center and author of four books including: One Fair Wage: Ending All Sub-minimum Pay in America, is one of the most creative and effective labor organizers of our era.

Here she speaks to us about her work organizing restaurant and other low-wage workers over the last 20 years and the incredible moment of historic worker revolt currently underway in the United States, one that could have enormous implications for both climate justice and for our democracy.

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Introducing the UIA World Congress of Architects CPH 2023. See the challenges facing architecture, inclusivity, and sustainability in the 21st Century. The UIA World Congress takes place in

Introducing the UIA World Congress of Architects CPH 2023. See the challenges facing architecture, inclusivity, and sustainability in the 21st Century. The UIA World Congress takes place in Copenhagen, July 2-6, 2023. SUSTAINABLE FUTURES LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND

Register now for the 2023 Conference! https://conference.bioneers.org/

Join us for three days of riveting talks and movement building with hundreds of visionary leaders, artists and

Register now for the 2023 Conference! https://conference.bioneers.org/

Join us for three days of riveting talks and movement building with hundreds of visionary leaders, artists and solutionaries! Tickets are going fast, get yours now!
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As Bioneers rolls into our 34th annual gathering, the big wheels of massive change are turning.

Climate disruption bears down daily, and there’s a widely felt morning-after awakening that it’s going to crash the economy and bring civilization to its knees. Although the regime shift to renewables is now an accelerating inevitability, it’s going to take relentless political action. To beat the clock, we also need to override the doom loop of delay and propaganda the desperate fossil fuel industry will keep pushing.

Meanwhile, the unprecedented movements of the past decade for liberation, justice and multicultural democracy are swelling to challenge the right-wing populist and neo-fascist forces underwritten by cynical plutocratic elites. “Make feudalism great again” is proving to be a marketing challenge. Something’s gotta give.

At the core is a crisis of democracy: a radical disconnect between the world people want and the world corporations and their client governments have hijacked. The climate crisis and the inequality crisis are the same crisis. Our separation from nature and our separation from each other are the same dis-integration. The choice is clear: nihilism or regeneration. Shattering or wholeness.

For over three decades, the Bioneers Conference has served as a trellis on which this visionary movement of movements has grown and grown together around authentic “solve-the-whole problem” solutions.

Especially in these darkest of times, we come together to regenerate and celebrate. We invite you to join forces with the Bioneers community of leadership in this time when we’re all called upon to be leaders.

Learn more at https://conference.bioneers.org/

Between the Ukrainian crisis and the resulting fossil fuel shortages and price surges in Europe, compounded by the intensification of climate change terrifyingly visible all around us, the U.S.

Between the Ukrainian crisis and the resulting fossil fuel shortages and price surges in Europe, compounded by the intensification of climate change terrifyingly visible all around us, the U.S. seems stuck in an impossible conundrum: More domestically produced oil and gas is needed in the short term, but the science couldn’t be clearer that production needs to rapidly wind down in order to avoid catastrophe. Drillers claim that over time new technology will allow them to decarbonize hydrocarbons, but there’s absolutely no reason or evidence to believe them. Fossil fuel companies have long sought to confuse and mislead the public and have intensely lobbied against any meaningful climate action. They need to be stopped, but business-as-usual climate policy offers few good options.

As one of the nation’s greatest investigative journalists and experts on climate politics, Kate Aronoff explores how policymakers’ toolbox will have to be expanded so that we can carry out a managed, orderly decline and ultimate end of the fossil fuel era, while giving us all a stake in our energy future.

Visit http://www.bioneers.org to watch more talks and discussions from the 2022 conference.

Kevin Patel, a 21-year old LA-based Climate Justice activist extraordinaire who passionately demands that youth be listened to right now, not marginalized as “leaders of tomorrow," recounts

Kevin Patel, a 21-year old LA-based Climate Justice activist extraordinaire who passionately demands that youth be listened to right now, not marginalized as “leaders of tomorrow," recounts his own health challenges growing up in heavily polluted South Central Los Angeles and insists that climate action and ending racial and class disparities have to be inseparably linked in our movements.

Visit http://www.bioneers.org to watch more talks and discussions from the 2022 conference.

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

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. Learn more at http://www.bioneers.org