Friday: Wind Energy in Michigan, Tobcacco Control as an Environmental Issue, Wild Weeds: Medicine in your backyard
Saturday:Growing Healthy Communities Out of Corporate Dominance, Fresh Food, Good Health, Strong Communities, The Outdoor Classroom
Sunday:Incorporate Activism into Family Life, Home Canning, Living Oceans: What We Can All Do to Sustain Marine Biodiversity
Local Keynote speakers :
Friday:
Marty Heller
Re-Creating a Local Food Culture and
Why We all Need to Get Involved in
Reshaping the Federal Food Bill
(a.k.a. Farm Bill). Heller is an organic vegetable
farmer in Leelanau County. His turning
point as a Bioneer came in 1998 when,
after completing a PhD in Pharmaceutical
Biotechnology, he traveled to India
to work with activists resisting genetic
engineering in agriculture....
Saturday:
Peter McCreedy
We Are Wild: Habitat Destruction and
the rise of Bioneers.
Doom and Gloom? No Way! Peter McCreedy has stone tools, the
sound of water and other practical solutions
from the Great Lakes State. Plus, he’ll
give an update from the Detroit Bioneers...
Sunday:
Laurie White
Travel as a River-—The Making of
Refusing to Be Enemies —the Zeitouna
Story
Filmmaker and Flint native, Laurie White
will share her experience of producing
the documentary film, Refusing to Be
Enemies, which follows Zeitouna, a group
of women of Palestinian and Jewish descent
through a dialogue process as they
struggle to understand the conflict in the
Middle East and find common ground...
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