Bioneers UPRISING – November 4

Tickets are now on sale for Central Coast Bioneers 2017, which will be held 9am to 5pm, Saturday, November 4 at the SLO Guild Hall, 2880 Broad Street in San Luis Obispo.  Featured will be the following keynote talks from the National Bioneers Conference, held October 20-22, 2017 in San Rafael:

Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! Covering the Movements in Changing America

Suzanne Simard – Lessons from the Forest: How Trees Communicate and Help Each Other

Heather McGhee – A New “We the People” for a Sustainable Future

Jeremy Narby – Beyond the Anthropo-Scene

John Wick & Calla Rose Ostrander – Carbon Farming (followed by local speaker Tim LaSalle, Professor Emeritus of Cal Pol and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Regenerative Agriculture Initiative, CSU Chico, focused on regenerating soils and drawing down atmospheric CO2 levels).

Mariel Nanasi – Truth to Power: Taking on Coal & Nuclear Domination (followed by local speaker April Price, Renewable Energy & Efficiency Specialist for Santa Barbara’s Community Environmental Council, who  will report on the CEC’s ongoing efforts on a coalition to move forward 100% renewable energy goals in the San Luis Obispo-Santa-Barbara-Ventura region).

Exhibitors will be on hand in the grove.  The Volumes of Pleasure bookstore will return and lunch will be catered by Javed Kabob Paradise.

Tickets are $45 in advance for adults, $25 for students, and can also be used for admission to Empower.SLO Advanced Activism Training, running concurrently at the Guild Hall.  Go to https://ecologistics.org/ for more information or to register or for information on how to be an exhibitor.

Central Coast Bioneers is a local, self-organized Bioneers Resilient Communities Network Event. To learn more about Bioneers, visit www.bioneers.org