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Paul Hawken

Paul Hawken's speech at the 2006 Bioneers conference.
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2008 Baltimore Bioneers Speakers – Local

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Judy Wicks

Topic: To Be announced

Judy Wicks (www.judywicks.com), owner/founder of Philadelphia's 24-year-old White Dog Cafe (www.whitedogcafe.com), is a national leader in the local, living economies movement. Co-founder/co-chair of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), founder of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, and president of White Dog Community Enterprises (a nonprofit dedicated to building a local living economy in the Philadelphia region), Judy has won numerous awards, including the James Beard Foundation's Humanitarian of the Year and the Living Economy Award from Business Ethics Magazine.

Judy Wicks spoke at the 2007 National Boners Conference.

Wallace J. Nichols, Ph.D.

Topic: To Be announced

Wallace Nichols (www.wallacejnichols.org) is a scientist, ocean activist, author and a dad. He's senior scientist at the Ocean Conservancy and a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences. He works with many non-profit organizations, youth, fishermen and researchers around the world to build an Ocean Revolution. He's especially fond of sea turtles.

Wallace spoke at the 2007 National Boneers Conference.

Mike Tidwell, founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network

Topic: To Be announced

Mike Tidwell is founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (www.chesapeakeclimate.org), a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness about the impacts and solutions associated with global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and DC. He is also an author and filmmaker who predicted in vivid detail the Katrina hurricane disaster in his 2003 book Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast. His newest book, focusing on Katrina and global warming, is titled The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities. Tidwell’s most recent documentary film – “We Are All Smith Islanders” – vividly depicts the dangers of global warming Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. In 2003, Tidwell received the Audubon Naturalist Society’s prestigious “Conservation Award."