Sponsors

BioPharmaceutical Technology Center InstituteKailo FundPromega CorporationSustain DaneOrganic ValleyIsthmus|TheDailyPage.comTrek Bicycle CorporationWilly Street Co-opWords By DesignCenter for Resilient CitiesCity of FitchburgConserve SchoolMadison Area Technical CollegeNelson Institute for Environmental StudiesWhole Foods Market - MadisonWI Sustainable Business CouncilAncora Coffee Roasters - Fitchburg, WIArbor House - An Environmental InnCenter for Biology Education, UW-MadisonEdgewood CollegeGere Tree Care, IncMidwest Organic and Sustainable Education ServicePartners In Place, LLCRapid Improvement Associates, LLCSustainable TimesUniversity of Wisconsin Integrative Medicine ProgramUniversity of Wisconsin - Rock County FoundationUW Credit UnionWisconsin Environmental InitiativeWisconsin Partners for SustainAbility

National Speakers

  • Kenny Ausubel Kenny Ausubel
    CEO & Founder of Bioneers
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  • Brock Dolman Brock Dolman
    Founder of Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
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  • Brock Dolman Jim Garrison
    Chairman and
    President, State
    of the World
    Forum
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  • Annie Leonard Annie Leonard
    "The Story of Stuff" Writer
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  • Joanna Macy Joanna Macy
    Buddhist teacher, Eco-philosopher, Author, and Actvist
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  • Mari Margil Mari Margil
    Associate
    Director of CELDF
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  • Jason McLennan Jason McLennan
    CEO of Cascadia Green Building Council
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  • Michael Pollan Michael Pollan
    Award winning
    author on food
    systems
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  • Jerome Ringo Jerome Ringo
    President of the Apollo Alliance
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  • Nina Simons Nina Simons
    President & Co-
    founder of
    Bioneers
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  • Andrew Weil M.D. Andrew Weil M.D.
    Nation's foremost authority on Holistic Medicine
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  • Lily Yeh Lily Yeh
    Founder of Barefoot
    Artists, Inc.
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Bioneers Store

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Kenny Ausubel Kenny Ausubel
CEO & Founder of Bioneers
Kenny Ausubel is an award-winning social entrepreneur, author, journalist and filmmaker. He is the CEO & Founder of Bioneers, a nationally recognized nonprofit dedicated to disseminating practical and visionary solutions for restoring Earth’s imperiled ecosystems and healing our human communities. He launched the annual Bioneers Conference in 1990 with his producing partner and wife Nina Simons, Bioneers co-executive director.

Kenny serves as executive producer of the Bioneers plenary series airing on Free Speech TV and Link TV. He acted as a central advisor to Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary The 11th Hour, and appears in the film.

Kenny co-founded the national company Seeds of Change in 1989 and served as CEO until 1994 to restore “backyard biodiversity” into the food web through marketing organic, biodiverse heirloom seeds to gardeners.

Kenny has written three books and edited two volumes of the Bioneers book series. For the past four years, Kenny has served as executive producer and principal writer of the award-winning radio series, Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature.

Since the 1970s, Kenny has published articles on topics ranging from alternative medicine and environmental health to social justice and politics. His writings have been published most recently in online media including theHuffington Post, Orion and Alternet and in magazines such as Utne, Explore, Alternative Therapies and Tikkun.

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