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Bioneers 2014

10/23/2014

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The Bioneers conference has been meeting for twenty-five years in the San Francisco Bay Area. The following sentiments are by presenters from Sunday, October 19, 2014. john a. powell, Manuel Pastor, Kenny Ausubel, Oren Lyons, Terry Tempest Williams, Wallace "J." Nichols

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Create biodiversity in all we do.


No arguing…Everyone is doing the work that needs to be done, all good and necessary

Importance of seeds to pass on

Planting of seeds, watering them

Singing to plants: that is the catalyst, the spirit side

Be your own leader with a common cause

Put the best into each day, be thankful

We are in the middle of a paradigm shift.

How it goes depends on how we care.

Beloved Community


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Descartes, the body as machine, has defined Western Civilization and how we think and act. Organized around ideas of Descartes perpetuates the idea of individualism.


Who are we as human beings?

“In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule," Pope Francis, 2013

Fear of the other stokes all frustrations

We do things best when we do them together

“Justice is the public face of love.” Cornell West

Willingness to network with other movements

Need a viable underlying economic model

And viable growth strategy

Flow together into a river of change
Support each other

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Are we building an empire or an ecosystem?

How to leverage moments into movements?

Play jigsaw puzzles instead of chess.

Not either or solutions

Create beauty in the world we find ourselves in even though broken


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Human Heart: First place of democracy, our attention, not just our opinion

Heart: dare to be vulnerable in place of power

The Wild/Wilderness is within us and our source of our greatest inspiration. It is in our DNA. What if Wildness is the height of imagination? Can we recompose ourselves in our place? Deeply in our place, our home? A livable future. Reimagine ourselves. Our wild hearts will lead us. In our wild hearts, our cause is the cause of life. Wilderness is our sanity, our survival, seed bed of creativity of what we have yet to imagine. (This is the heart of Passion for Place: Community Reflections on the Carmel River Watershed.   Watershed Arts spiral)



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Learn more about the Sage Grouse here
 The Sage Grouse has the power to stop the oil companies. Animals standing their ground.

We are because of Love

We need to think big enough to not allow species to die

Cessation of new species coming into the world: this is the sadness beyond the sadness of losing species.

 
Are we listening?

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Are we feeling our animal nature, our alchemical nature?

Witness to beauty that remains

Eyes of the future looking back at us…

Protecting what is wild, what is gentle.

Grace in wildness

Mercy in our hands.



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Blue Mind

In the presence of water, Awe moves us from “me” to “we”





When we stand in, near, or on water, passion fills us.

We can build community.

We become creative and innovative.

Neurologically, water is crucial to our well being.


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 It is ok to use the “L” word, Love, in the board room and elsewhere. The message needs to get into the board rooms and the White House.


Remember Gratitude

“I wish you Water.”  Wallace J Nichols


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    Paola Berthoin is the designer/creator/publisher of  Passion for Place: Community Reflections on the Carmel River Watershed. Her focus is inspiring and educating people about the natural world through the arts. She is available to design your book, create (illustrate and write) interpretive materials for your watershed community, consult for healthy gardens, paint a commissioned painting of your favorite place in the Carmel River Watershed and beyond!


    When we allow wildness, our own spirit, to flourish within, we can also respect and allow nature’s spirit, the wild outside, to exist.
             - Paola Fiorelle Berthoin
                                                                                                                                                               

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