Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
123 Some Street
Events at This Location:
David Orr Keynote Address: Is There a Future for Our Democracy? Why Everything Depends on the Answer
October 18th | 9:40 am to 10:00 am
Monika Bauerlein Keynote Address: The News We Deserve?
October 18th | 12:10 pm to 12:45 pm
Jerry Tello Keynote Address: Recovering Your Sacredness
October 18th | 11:00 am to 11:30 am
Bill McKibben Keynote Address: Changing the Climate: What We’ve Learned in the Last 30 Years
October 19th | 9:45 am to 10:15 am
Valarie Kaur Keynote Address: Breathe! Push! The Labor of Revolutionary Love
October 19th | 10:15 am to 11:10 am
Paul Hawken Keynote Address: Drawdown | The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
October 19th | 11:45 am to 12:20 pm
Isha Clarke Youth Leadership Presentation: A New Era of the Climate Justice Movement
October 20th | 11:20 am to 11:30 am
Eve Ensler Keynote Address: The Alchemy of the Apology
October 18th | 11:30 am to Noon
Terry Tempest Williams Keynote Address: Erosion
October 18th | 10:00 am to 10:30 am
Mishka Banuri Youth Leadership Presentation
October 19th | 11:40 am to 11:55 am
brandon king Keynote Address: Making the Transition from Extraction to Regeneration
October 20th | 9:50 am to 10:15 am
A performance by Oakland’s own incomparably dynamic and uplifting Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company
October 19th | 11:10 am to 11:40 am
A Neo-shamanic Transformative Journey Through Arctic Sounds
October 20th | 10:30 am to 10:45 am
Tim Merry
October 19th | 12:30 pm to 12:45 pm
Tim Merry
October 18th | 12:30 pm to 12:45 pm
Tim Merry
October 20th | 12:20 pm to 12:30 pm
INTRINSIC: A Performance by Climbing PoeTree
October 18th | 10:45 am to 10:55 am
Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree
October 18th | 8:45 am to 9:00 am
Welcome by Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, Bioneers founders
October 18th | 9:10 am to 9:15 am
Opening Remarks by Nina Simons, Bioneers co-founder and Chief Relationship Strategist
October 18th | 9:25 am to 9:40 am
Julian Brave Noisecat Youth Leadership Presentation: The Indigenous Renaissance
October 18th | Noon to 12:10 pm
Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree
October 19th | 8:45 am to 9:00 am
Welcome by Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons
October 19th | 9:00 am to 9:10 am
Opening Remarks by Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers CEO and founder
October 19th | 9:05 am to 9:20 am
Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree
October 20th | 8:45 am to 9:00 am
Welcome by Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons
October 20th | 9:10 am to 9:15 am
Grief, Sacred Rage, Reckoning and Revolutionary Love
October 18th | 2:45 pm to 4:15 pm
Round Table—Beyond Capitalism and Socialism: Inventing the Regenerative Economy
October 20th | 2:45 pm to 4:15 pm
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
October 19th | 2:45 pm to 4:15 pm
Round Table—Transformative Climate Action: “Solve-the-Whole-Problem” Approaches
October 19th | 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Heather McTeer Toney Keynote Address: Moving Past Stereotypes: Climate Action IS the Social Justice Issue of Our Time
October 19th | 9:20 am to 9:45 am
Leila Salazar-Lopez Keynote Address: The Amazon at a Tipping Point: Can We Turn It Around?
October 20th | 9:25 am to 9:50 am
Opening Ceremony by L. Frank Manriquez
October 18th | 9:15 am to 9:25 am
Closing Remarks by Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons
October 20th | 12:30 pm to 12:35 pm
Closing Performance by Oakland’s own Thrive Choir
October 20th | 12:35 pm to 12:45 pm
Demond Drummer Keynote Address: A Green New Deal
October 20th | 10:45 am to 11:15 am
Casey Camp-Horinek Keynote Address: Aligning Human Law with Natural Law
October 20th | 11:50 am to 12:20 pm
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