National Bioneers 2008 Plenary Speakers (via Satellite Broadcast)
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Ray Anderson is the most successful visionary "green business"
leader in America, founder and chairman of Interface Inc., the
world's largest manufacturer of modular carpet and a leading
producer of commercial fabrics.
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Sandra Steingraber, dubbed
"the new Rachel Carson" by the Sierra Club, is an
ecologist/biologist and cancer survivor, an internationally
recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and
reproductive health, and the author of several books, including the
award-winning, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and
the Environment and Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to
Motherhood.
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Erica Fernandez, 18, born and
raised in Michoacán, Mexico until age ten, is a remarkable young
environmental activist in Oxnard, California, who, initially
motivated to fight air pollution because of her asthma, helped
mobilize her whole diverse community to defeat the placement of a
liquefied natural gas facility just offshore.
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Kavita N. Ramdas, the president and CEO of the Global Fund for
Women, is one of the most effective international leaders working to
empower women around the world by increasing girls' access to
education, defending women's health and reproductive rights,
preventing violence against women, and advancing women's political
participation at all levels.
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Naomi Klein, one of the most
important political and economic thinkers of our time and a
penetrating critic of global corporate capitalism's excesses, is a
Canadian activist, investigative journalist, filmmaker and author of
bestselling books such as No Logo, and, most recently, The Shock
Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
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David Orr, chair of the renowned Environmental Studies Program at
Oberlin, is one of the nation's most important pioneers in the
sustainability movement, in environmental literacy in higher
education and in ecological design. He is the author of the
profoundly influential books, The Nature of Design, Earth In Mind;
Ecological Literacy; and The Last Refuge.
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Greg Watson, long one of the
most effective, leading-edge environmental leaders on the East
Coast, has gone from community organizing in Boston to leading
initiatives for The Nature Conservancy and the New Alchemy Institute
to becoming Commissioner of Massachussetts' Department of
Agriculture to being the first Director of the Massachusetts Office
of Science and Technology to now taking the helm of one of the
nation's most important alternative energy projects, the Offshore
Wind Collaborative.
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Dune Lankard, a native
Athabaskan Eyak from the Copper River Delta of Alaska, was a
commercial fisherman in Prince William Sound when the Exxon Valdez
disaster made him an activist and social entrepreneur, dedicating
his life to protecting human rights and the environment. Selected by
Time magazine as one of its "Heroes of the Planet," he is a
co-founder of the RED OIL Network (Resisting Environmental
Degradation of Indigenous Lands).
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Lucas Benitez, co-director of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, is
helping lead one of the most important labor struggles in recent
U.S. history. A farmworker from Guerrero, Mexico, he came to the
U.S. on his own when he was 16 to help support his five brothers and
sisters. By organizing fellow migrant farmworkers, Lucas helped
secure the first wage increase for tomato pickers in 20 years and
exposed and stopped two slavery
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Paul Stamets is one of the world's most brilliant explorers of the
fungal realm, author of six books including Mycelium Running: How
Mushrooms Can Help Save the World. His work is leading to cascades
of potentially world-changing nutritional, medicinal and
environmental technologies.
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Janine Benyus is dazzlingly brilliant naturalist and the author of
six books, including the groundbreaking Biomimicry: Innovation
Inspired by Nature. She is co-founder of the Biomimicry Guild, which
helps designers, engineers and community leaders "consult life's
genius for more graceful ways to live on earth."
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Rick Reed is a
leading figure in RE-AMP, a seven-state network of nonprofits and
foundations, striving for Midwest leadership in 21st century clean
energy by reducing electricity sector global warming pollutants 80
percent by 2030.
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Rebecca Moore, an eco-activist and engineer, manages the Google
Earth Outreach program, which supports activists, communities and
indigenous peoples around the world in learning how to apply
Google's mapping tools to the world's pressing problems in areas
such as environmental justice, cultural preservation, conservation
and creating a sustainable society.
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