Whether or not you attended the conference this year, you’re invited to the first post-conference gathering of bioneers! This is a chance to get elbow-deep into the topics you care about most.
Share your ideas in break-out sessions based around your favorite workshop topics and local movements. Join in with scheduled sessions or create your own in the open space!
$5 to $10 Sliding scale donation
For more information contact the Neahtawanta Center: (231) 223-7315 or (800) 220-1415 or center(at)nrec.org
Get Involved in Building Community Resilience
Discussion + Action:
Let’s keep the bioneers energy going! Invite your friends! Help spread the word!
Featured presentations & workshops:
First session:
• The Grand Vision, an update on the vision that will guide the Grand Traverse area in sustainable growth (http://thegrandvision.org)
• Vermicomposting (building a worm bin): Becky Jo Farrington, Environmental Education Manager at Urban Options, in Lansing will lead a workshop on how to build a vermicompostingbin or “worm bin.” Participants will have a hands-on experience in observing live red-worm and other worm bin animals as well as gain knowledge of the “garbage cycle” as it relates to food waste and how they can reduce their impact on our waste stream. (http://www.urbanoptions.org)
• Bay Bucks, our local Traverse area currency, led by author, activist and Bay Bucks board member, Stephanie Mills (http://Baybucks.org)
• Wellness Based Healthcare with Anne Hughes; continuation of the discussion from the workshop at the Great Lakes Bioneers Conference -- workshop summary from the conference.
Second session:
• Creating a Green Marketplace, where sustainable products and ideas can be shared with the community; by Maura Breenan, local activist and attorney
• Transition Town, led by Steve DeGoosh, professor of geography, planning and sustainability courses at Northern Michigan University and founder of Transition UP and Transition Marquette (http://transitionus.org)
• Growing Canola for Biodiesel: Bill Koucky, Leelanau County farmer, will talk about his experience producing canola oil from locally grown canola to be used as a fryer oil for food and then recovering the used oil to produce biodiesel. This keeps the biodiesel sustainable and local. He has planted, harvested, crushed seeds to oil, and produced biodiesel from the local crop on his own as well as encouraging other local farmers to grow canola as well.
• Water issues - Terry Swier and other local water activists; continuation of the discussion from the Great Lakes Bioneers Conference. (http://www.savemiwater.org)
Open Space
- Biodynamic Farming with Jayne Leatherman Walker and Angela Macke
- Powershift TC with Julia Hemphill
- Northwest Earth Institute Discussions Courses with Lisa Franseen
- and more
After the Post Conference please join us
-ISLAND benefit with Michael Beauchamp and the Barn Roughs
7 to 9:30 PM at Artcenter Traverse City in the Village at Grand Traverse Commons.
Come celebrate with Michael Beauchamp and the Barn Roughs — two hours of great old timey music! Enjoy an intermission wine tasting from Leelanau Peninsula Vintner's Association, a chance to peruse the Artcenter galleries and to meet area artists at work.