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🐠 Registration for #Bioneers2026 is OPEN! 🐠

Join us for the 37th annual Bioneers Conference this March in Berkeley, where visionary thinkers and doers gather to defend the web of life and build a more just, life-honoring world. Learn more: buff.ly/oXzb4Yx
Products are getting worse by design. For tech companies, it’s paying off.
In a new Bioneers interview, Cory Doctorow gets to the root of the crisis — going beyond blaming “bad CEOs” to unpack how today’s system is stripped of competition, regulation, and labor power. Read now ➡️ buff.ly/TxW2xfr
January 15, 2026 at 3:12 PM
👂Listening to our animal kin implies an extraordinary opportunity for care — but also profound risks, particularly when mediated by tech like machine learning.
January 14, 2026 at 3:31 PM
If you’re looking for a place to learn deeply, revive your spirit, feel less alone in the work, and plug into movements that matter, Bioneers is the place.

We’d love for you to experience it with us, March 26 to 28 in Berkeley, CA! 🌎 Explore speakers and more: buff.ly/bBhz8Hr
January 13, 2026 at 3:03 PM
⛰️ Last year, a Colorado mountain was recognized with legal ownership of itself, under the guardianship of an Indigenous-led council.

What does “Land That Owns Itself” mean for the Rights of Nature and Land Back movements? Read the full interview with CDER’s Thomas Linzey ➡️ buff.ly/P9tWZpG
January 12, 2026 at 3:05 PM
🧘🏼‍♂️ Rediscover the body’s deep intelligence with Amber Gray in the Bioneers course 🌟Our Right to Embody 🌟.

Learn more & register: www.bioneerslearning.org/our-right-to...

#Polyvagal #SomaticPractice #EmbodiedLeadership #AncestralConnection #AmberGray #BioneersLearning
January 8, 2026 at 3:13 PM
In a Bioneers interview, Mona Shomali (Director of the New Leaders Initiative at Earth Island Institute) discusses the difference between asking youth to “save the world” and encouraging them to use their skills & creativity to make a paradigm shift. Read now: buff.ly/e74XeJl
January 2, 2026 at 3:03 PM
🌎 2025 Rewind: Your favorite Bioneers newsletter of the year.

Our most-opened newsletter spotlighted something the Bioneers community cares deeply about: the power of local leadership in a rapidly changing climate. Read their stories: buff.ly/FcNSynV
December 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🌎 2025 Rewind: Your most-listened-to Bioneers podcast episode of the year.

Hear seed-savers & Indigenous language champions reflect on the words, stories, songs and ideas that influence our very conception of nature, and our place within it.

🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/imZZZLO
December 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🌎 2025 Rewind: Your most-read Bioneers article of the year.

@ProjectCETI.bsky.social Founder & President David Gruber shares how they’re using advanced machine learning & state-of-the-art gentle robotics to translate the clicks and codas of sperm whales.

🐋 Read now: buff.ly/qIVKZqG
December 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🌎2025 Rewind: Your most-viewed Bioneers video of the year.

Yurok leader & Ridges to Riffles Executive Director Amy Bowers Cordalis shares the story behind the Klamath River restoration and why it matters far beyond the Klamath Basin.
Keep watching: buff.ly/KZfD38o
December 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🐠 Bioneers 2026 will reignite our shared energy, creativity, and commitment to change.
Join us March 26–28 in Berkeley, CA!

🎟 Explore speakers & get your ticket:
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December 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We’re overjoyed to welcome Leah Penniman back to the Bioneers stage this March!

A Black Kreyol farmer, author, mother, and visionary food justice leader, Penniman has spent 25 years tending the soil and organizing for an anti-racist, life-honoring food system. ✊🏾🌾
December 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🌾In a captivating new interview with Bioneers, Crystal Manuel shares her remarkable healing journey after a health crisis, leading to the launch of Gruff Grains, their award-winning business producing the nutrient-dense ancient grain, farro: buff.ly/X7ReyRd
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🐕 Does your dog sense a whole other layer of reality?
🌱 Can a plant make choices?
🐘 What if elephants use names?

Dig into Earthlings, wrapped — the stories of intelligence in nature you loved the most this year ➡️ buff.ly/dRGqkR5
December 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Plastic pollution is accelerating faster than ever — fueled by decades of greenwashing from companies like Coca-Cola. 🗑️♻️

In his new piece for Bioneers, Scott Hochberg (Earth Island Institute) breaks down their far-reaching legal strategy, taking Big Plastic to task. Read now: buff.ly/lqiDYNl
December 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Explore Polyvagal-informed somatic and movement practices as a pathway to embodied resilience in the Bioneers Learning course 🌟 Our Right to Embody 🌟 with somatic psychotherapist and movement therapist Dr. Amber Elizabeth Gray.

🧘🏽 Learn more & register: buff.ly/fuiZNDw
December 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🙌⛰️ On June 7, 2025, a Mountain in the San Luis Valley became the first mountain in the United States to legally own itself. Read about Sacred Contract’s Land That Owns Itself program in an interview with cderrightsofnature.bsky.social's Thomas Linzey ➡️ buff.ly/uRXIzJy
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🪸This March, we reunite in Berkeley to reignite our shared energy, creativity, and commitment to change. These extraordinary keynote speakers are leading the way:

🐠Terry Tempest Williams — Naturalist, Award-winning Author of “Refuge” & “The Hour of Land”
December 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🐠 Registration for #Bioneers2026 is OPEN! 🐠

Join us for the 37th annual Bioneers Conference this March in Berkeley, where visionary thinkers and doers gather to defend the web of life and build a more just, life-honoring world. Learn more: buff.ly/oXzb4Yx
December 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
👚 Microfibers — tiny threads shed from our clothing, many of which are plastic — have quietly become one of the most pervasive forms of pollution in the world. 🌏 5 Gyres is exposing the science — and simple, everyday solutions. Read an interview: buff.ly/hZqryZS
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
☣️ In a conversation with Bioneers, investigative journalist Mariah Blake discusses how the chemical industry and the U.S. government have known the dangers of PFAS for decades — and their origins tracing back to the secret laboratories of the Manhattan Project. Read now: buff.ly/K7KiEcE
December 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Investigative journalist Mariah Blake reveals that the chemical industry and the U.S. government have known the dangers of “forever chemicals” for decades — a scheme that dates back to the Manhattan Project. ☣️📚Read an excerpt from “They Poisoned the World”: buff.ly/eLjzS9v
December 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
💩Once a space for discovery, connection, and creativity, it’s become increasingly extractive and disheartening — a pattern Cory Doctorow has coined ✨enshittification✨. Read an excerpt from his new book: buff.ly/ksZ5y7m
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🌽The pop culture story of the First Thanksgiving, often told to children in grade school, is a myth. For the true story, read our conversation with Chris Newell (Passamaquoddy, Akomawt Educational Initiative) on re-Indigenizing history: buff.ly/ZPVQ3ZQ
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
On Thanksgiving, how can we teach children to express gratitude to native plants, animals, and peoples — without shying away from America's true colonial history? 🌽 Explore 3 easy, Indigenous-informed practices for kids: buff.ly/nPbQCBO
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM