Community Conversations: Being a Good Ancestor: Post-Petroleum Agriculture and the Just Transition with Winona LaDuke
At Bioneers we have an amazing community-discerning, engaged, committed, and reflective. These Community Conversations are an opportunity for us to come together around key topics to talk about what has real meaning and value to us. Stimulated by a brief “keynote,” or “conversation starter,” and captured by a creative “synthesis” from talented young spoken word artists, these community conversations offer a place to bring your best thinking forward in creative and innovative ways. Join us, and weave your heart, mind, and voice into the collective braid!
How can we be good ancestors for our future descendants? Winona LaDuke will kick off the session by sharing about her recent work supporting the Just Transition through post-petroleum agriculture (aka, the “New Green Revolution”), hemp in the materials economy, and building inter-tribal councils. This community conversation can take inspiration from her example and explore how we too can contribute to the just transition we are living right now, and what being a “good ancestor” means to us. With: Winona LaDuke, internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy and food systems, Executive Director at Honor the Earth; Amy Lenzo, weDialogue and the World Cafe Community Foundation; David Shaw, Santa Cruz Permaculture & UCSC Right Livelihood College; and “harvest” by spoken word artist Jahan Khalighi.
December 6th | 2:00 pm to 3:45 pm
Panelists
Winona LaDuke
Executive Director
Honor the Earth
Winona LaDuke, an international thought leader on climate justice and renewable energy, is a rural development economist working on issues of economic, food, and energy sovereignty. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, where she leads several organizations, including: Honor the Earth, Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute, Akiing, and Winona's Hemp, all of them devoted to developing and modeling culture-based sustainable development strategies utilizing renewable energy and sustainable food systems. She is also a leading figure in the work of protecting Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering and has authored six books, including: Recovering the Sacred, All our Relations, Last Standing Woman, The Winona LaDuke Chronicles, and, most recently: To Be a Water Protector.
Amy Lenzo
World Cafes
Amy Lenzo, who pioneered the World Cafe online process and has hosted hundreds of online World Cafes with people from all over the world since then, has been hosting conscious online engagement for over a decade and has been a cutting-edge leader in creating distinctly human interactive online spaces that help us connect with ourselves, each other and the natural world.
David Shaw
Founder
Santa Cruz Permaculture
David Shaw, a whole systems designer, facilitator, educator, and musician, founded Santa Cruz Permaculture and the UCSC Right Livelihood College, a partnership with the “Alternative Nobel Prize.” He supports communities locally and globally to transform their shared future through strategic dialogue and collective action.
Jahan Khaligi
Program Manager
Chapter 510
Jahan Khalighi, a poet, educator and community arts organizer, is a Program Manager and teaching artist with Chapter 510, a made-in-Oakland, CA, youth creative writing and publishing center, for whom he facilitates creative writing and poetry workshops for youth in schools, community centers and juvenile detention centers across California. Jahan is an alumni of June Jordan's Poetry For The People program at UC Berkeley under the mentorship of Aya De Leon, and a former member of the Eugene Poetry Slam Team. His poetry has been featured on TEDx and Whoa Nelly press online journal.
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