Global Expertise Meets Local Challenges at Baltimore Bioneers Events

This fall, a brilliant assembly of global and local environmentalists, healers, and business and community leaders will gather once again in Baltimore to discuss practical environmental, social, and economic solutions for our planet…and for our city.

The second annual conference, “Baltimore Bioneers ‘08: Cultivating Change. Inspiring Solutions.” will take place from Friday, November 7 through Sunday, November 9, 2008 at the University of Baltimore.

Along with international and local speakers, live panel discussions, workshops, and entertainment, the Baltimore event will also feature screenings from the national Bioneers conference, held in October in San Rafael, California.

Like the national event, the Baltimore Bioneers conference will offer answers to global issues. At the same time, national and regional speakers will apply a local lens to topics such as:

• Energy production methods that dramatically reduce global warming pollutants


• New, nontoxic technologies that emulate nature’s design genius


• The best green business practices


• Practical approaches to building conservation-based, cooperative communities


• New strategies for safeguarding human rights and the environment


• Creative new approaches to art from environmental, socio-political, and spiritual perspectives


• Emerging perspectives on health care that merge ancient and modern healing practices and address the new diseases resulting from environmental destruction

Featured among the national experts slated to speak at the Baltimore event are:

• Judy Wicks, founder of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) and owner/founder of Philadelphia’s White Dog Café


• Wallace J. Nichols, Ph.D., senior scientist at the Ocean Conservancy and research associate at the California Academy of Sciences


• Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and author of The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities

And with the Conference approaching quickly, the Cultivating Change team is ramping up activity with a lively schedule of seminars and salons.

Be sure to check out their website - http://www.cultivatingchange.org or their FaceBook page: Baltimore Bioneers: Cultivating Change, Inspiring Solutions - and keep up with the latest developments on their brand-new blog, Baltimore Bioneers Cultivating Change.

Co-sponsoring the event are the Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance, Tai Sophia Institute, The Urbanite and the Baltimore chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.

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