9:00am - 1:00pm :: PLENARY SESSIONS - LIVE SIMULCAST FROM THE BIONEERS CONFERENCE

Traditional Welcome to his people's ancestral lands by Chairman Greg Sarris of Federated Indians of

Graton Rancheria, Coast Miwok/Southern Pomo Nations.

Opening remarks from Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, founders of Bioneers.

BROCK DOLMAN :: Basins of Relations: A Reverential Rehydration Revolution

Permaculturist and watershed wizard Brock Dolman shows how the future lifeboat we’ll need is shaped exactly like our local watershed. He wields his dazzling poetics to tell us how we can engage with the spirit of Planet Water, create waterliterate human settlement patterns, and regenerate ecological integrity and social resiliency to prepare for the climate changes ahead.

KARI FULTON :: Youth Redefining Environmentalism, Reclaiming our Futures

This inspiring Brower Youth Award winner and national campus campaign coordinator for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative describes how the Youth Climate Movement is creating a more unified and inclusive environmental movement for the 21st century.

JACK HIDARY :: From Small Steps to the Energy Revolution

How do we move rapidly from 1% solar and wind energy in the U.S. to 50%? To 100%? Is this just a fantasy? One of the nation’s leading technology entrepreneurs, co-founder of SmartTransportation.org and chairman of Americans for CleanEnergy.org, explains what we have to do politically, economically and socially to realize that necessary revolution.

[Introduction by Alaskan Indigenous activist Dune Lankard]

SARAH JAMES :: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: Report from the Arctic

The revered Gwich’in Elder from Alaska, who has won many awards for her work to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling, including the Goldman Environmental Prize, depicts how her people are being severely impacted on the front lines of rapid climate change, and how they are responding.

MICHAEL POLLAN :: In Defense of Food: The Omnivore's Solution

The leading American thinker about our relationship to food, Michael Pollan is the author of such seminal classics as In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire. He explores what the industrialization of food and agriculture has meant for our health and happiness as eaters. He surveys the landscape of the growing national movement to redesign the food system.

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1:00pm - 2:30pm :: LUNCH

2:45pm - 5:30pm :: LIVE SPEAKERS IN LOS ANGELES / AFTERNOON SESSIONS

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION IN LOS ANGELES

HILARY NORTON :: Executive Director, FastLA.org

Hilary Norton's career spans nearly two decades in public policy, community development, land use, and transportation planning. Ms. Norton's work for Mayor Tom Bradley, Councilmembers Mark Ridley-Thomas, Richard Alarcon, Richard Alatorre, and Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, Central City Association, and in the private sector provided multiple perspectives on Los Angeles' transportation system and its importance to our future mobility, economy and quality of life.www.fastla.org

RUSSELL VARE :: Renewable Energy Analyst: Los Angeles Community College District

A self-proclaimed environmentalist and tech-geek, Russell Vare has dedicated his work to renewable energy since 2003. He has worked in both policy development and implementation of sustainable technologies, including solar PV and hydrogen fuel cells. He received his Master's in Public Policy at UCLA and a BA in Economics from UC Santa Barbara. www.laccdbuildsgreen.org

STEVEN CANNISTRACI :: Head of Mechanical Support and Development Section, City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation [LADOT], Transit Bureau:

Mr. Cannistraci has over 30 years of experience in vehicle maintenance, design, fabrication and procurement. He is a passionate supporter and facilitator of innovative technologies and designs; including leading-edge transit vehicle hybrid-electric drive systems. He has conceptually designed such systems since the beginning of his career and led the Department into demonstrating such technology since the mid-1990's www.ladottransit.com

DENNIS ALLEN :: Executive Director: LAStreetCar.org

Allen has an extensive background in real estate development and project management, having previously worked as a Director of Acquisitions and Development for locally based Kor Group, where he was instrumental in redeveloping many of Downtown Los Angeles' historic landmarks into mixed-use residential and retail projects. Allen is a graduate of USC and longtime resident of the Los Angeles region. www.lastreetcar.org

ALEX FAY :: LA Mayor's Office, Clean Tech/Zip Car Liaison

Alex Fay serves as the Clean Tech Liaison in the Office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. In this capacity, he works to stimulate the local economy by developing Los Angeles as a global capital for the research, production, and deployment of environmentally friendly technologies.

NURIT KATZ :: UCLA Sustainability Coordinator

As UCLA's first Sustainability Coordinator Nurit Katz is working to foster partnerships among academic, research, and operational departments at UCLA to further sustainability on campus and train the leaders of tomorrow. Before starting in this position she founded the Sustainable Resource Center to provide resources for the community on sustainability and then served as President of the Graduate Students Association and helped to develop new interdisciplinary graduate program-Leaders in Sustainability. Her essay on transit-oriented development was published in the UCLA Anderson Forecast's "Solutions for our City". Nurit holds and MBA and a Masters in Public Policy from UCLA.

ERIC MANN :: Director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles and a founder of the Bus Riders Union.

The Strategy Center is a "think tank/act tank" that trains organizers and initiates high visibility environmental justice, mass transportation, and civil rights campaigns. The BRU is the largest mass transportation group in the U.S. Mann has been a civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, labor, and environmental organizer for over four decades. In 2001, he was a delegate to the U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa and returned to South Africa in 2002 as part of a Strategy Center delegation to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannensburg. Mann is the co-host of the weekly KPFK radio show, Voices from the Frontlines. He has published more than 200 articles and has written six books. www.thestrategycenter.org

DENNY ZANE :: Move LA

Denny Zane is the Executive Director of Move LA, an organization working to coalesce environmental, labor, business, community and student leaders and organizations to ensure sufficient, and robust transit system for Los Angeles County. Move LA played a key role in moving Measure R, which provided for a half-cent sales tax increase for transportation purposes, onto the Los Angeles County ballot and will generate nearly $40 billion in new transportation dollars over 30 years. Zane is also formerly the Mayor and for 12 years a city councilmember in Santa Monica, California, and formerly Executive Director of Coalition for Clean Air. www.movela.org

5:30pm - 7:30pm :: COCKTAIL RECEPTION hosted by:

7:30pm - 11:30pm :: HIGHLIGHTS + FILM

SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE BIONEERS PLENARIES

FUEL :: Directed by Joshua Tickell

Record high oil prices, global warming, and an insatiable demand for energy: these issues will be the catalyst for heated debates and positive change for many years to come. 2008 Sundance award-winning film Fuel exposes shocking connections between the auto industry and the government, while exploring alternative energies such as solar, wind, electricity and non-food-based biofuels. Josh Tickell and his Veggie Van take us on the road as we discover the pros and cons of biofuels, how America's addiction to oil is destroying the U.S. economy and how green energy can save us, but only if we act now. www.thefuelfilm.com