Thanks again to everyone for making the 2011 Bioneers in Alaska conference a huge success!  Over 275 people attended 21 workshops, heard 12 plenary speakers, and enjoyed 2 national keynote speakers.

Your shared energy and wisdom are now working beyond the conference, in the community, through various organizations. Many are moving forward with local sustainability efforts.

Details on Bioneers 2012 will be posted as soon as available.  Please check back at this site for more information, including the possibility of monthly workshops in 2012.

Meanwhile, please keep in touch via our Bioneers in Alaksa Facebook page.

Thanks again, everyone, for all you are doing to promote sustainability in Alaska, and beyond.

2011 Local keynote speakers:

Tim Meyers
Sustainable Agriculture in Rural Alaska – an organic farmer in Bethel, Tim now exports to Anchorage! Focus is on using natural material to build soil fertility into rich, vital ecoysytems to produce healthy fruits and vegetables.

Thomas Elpel:
The New Era of Self-Sufficiency – a Montana-based author and botanist, Elpel connects the dots from wilderness survival to sustainable living, showing how the quest for survival in nature functions as a metaphor for living that empowers us to see new solutions in the modern world.

Tamarack Song:
Remembering: a Key to Weathering the Changes — an inspiring storyteller, wilderness guide and naturalist from Wisconsin, Tamarack works to bridge the ancestral ways to live in both natural and modern worlds.

Local Workshops ~ Choose from 20+ local workshops on ways to practice sustainability in daily Alaskan life – from home-building and urban farming, to sustainable heating or living off the grid!

Live Plenary Speakers Telecast from Mainstage : ifteen inspiring speakers, telecast from national Bioneers stage, including:

Gloria Steinem:
When Women Are People…&Corporations Are Not: Why the First Inequality Will Also Be The Last (feminist, social ,environmental justice activist)

Philippe Cousteau:
Continuing Legacy: Building a Sustainable World in the 21st Century, (environmental advocate, explorer, conservationist, grandson of French explorer, Jacques Cousteau.)

Paul Stamets
Solutions from the Underground: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (nationally acclaimed inspiring fungus expert)

Register NOW! (Regular rates end soon):
A variety of registration options accommodate various levels of participation. Your registration helps cover speaker costs, live satellite telecasts, and helps ensure sustainability for Bioneers in Alaska into the future:

• Attend a keynote event for only $ 10
• Register for the full conference $180
• Daily walk-in rates range from $20 to $120