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Green Chemistry: Better Living Through Nature

Janine Benyus, President of the Board, Biomimicry Institute
Dr. Paul Anastas, Director for the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering; Professor in the Practice of Green Chemistry, Yale University
Beverley Thorpe, Director, Clean Production Action (International)
Dr. John Warner , President and Chief Technology Officer, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry

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Long Time Coming: Bernard Lafayette's Civil Rights Journey

Bernard Lafayette's full interview

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Resilience: Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times

Crawford Stanley (Buzz) Holling, Emeritus Eminent Scholar and Professor in Ecological Sciences, University of Florida
Dr. Brian Walker, Honorary Post-retirement Fellow CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra, Australia
Dr. Carl Folke, Editor-in-Chief Ecology and Society, Resilience Alliance, Sweden
Charles Redman, Director, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
Will Steffan, Director, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
Dr.Frances Westley, Chair, Social Innovation Generation (SiG), University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

The following conversations were also recorded at the conference, but were not included in the full program.

Dr. Gary J. Martin, Director, The Global Diversity Foundation, Marrakech, Morocco
Katrina Brown, Leader, International Development Research Programme, Tyndall Centre University of East Anglia, U.K.
Dr. Stephen Carpenter, University of Wisconsin
Dr. J. Marty Anderies,Asst. Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
Charles Perrings, Professor of Environmental Economics at Arizona State University

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A Diamond in the Rough: Chemicals, Community and Environmental Equity in Louisiana's Cancer Alley

Mike Algero, Jim Hazlett, Steve Lerner, Margie Richard, Beverly Wright

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A Hunger to Farm: Immigrant Farmers in America

Juan Marinez, Assistant Director for Outreach with Cooperative Extension, Michigan State University

Michael Yang, Program Representative, UC Cooperative Extension

Chou Xiong, Program Representative, UC Cooperative Extension

Gus Schumacher, Former Undersecretary for Farm & Agricultural Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Maria Moreira, Farmer, U.S. Dairy Farm; Departmental Assistant, University of Massachusetts, Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences

Suliman Kamara, Farm & Marketing Cooperative Coordinator, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, Tufts University

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A Magnetic Field of Dreams: The Pragmatic Passion of the Social Entrepreneur

Gary Cohen, Ann Cotton, Bill Drayton, Sally Osberg, Kailash Satyarthi, Nina Smith

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A River runs Through Us: Rangeland Rebellion

Stoney Burk, Marian Doane, Bruce Farling, David Stalling

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A Sense of Place

Larry Cleverley, Betsy Marston, Ed Marston

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A Story of Self-Chosen Simplicity

Sharif Abdullah

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Abused and Abandoned: Breaking the Cycle of Violence Against Women

Nawal Ammar, BryAnn Chen, Visaka Dharmadhasa, Shazia Khalid, Khalid Khwaja, Ritu Sharma

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Across the Great Divide: American Youth Reach Out to the Muslim World

Seth Green, President of Americans for Informed Democracy
Radeyah Hack, Regional Director of Americans for Informed Democracy
Lucas Welch, President of Soliya
Jake Hayman, International Coordinator for One Voice
Becca Hartman, Development Associate for Interfaith Youth Core
Usra Ghazi, Lauren Parnell, Leadership for Interfaith Youth Core
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Ain't You Gotta Right to the Tree of Life? Uprooting Poverty, Planting Prosperity

Mohammad Akhter, Ari Ariyaratne, Scott Jackson, Mahendra Lohani, Minor Sinclair, Ray White

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An Arab Perspective on Middle Eastern and World Events

Rami Khouri

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Analyzing a Political System Steeped in Influence Peddling

Dan Briody, Marjorie Kelly

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Ancient Forests: Saving the Elders

Patrick Anderson, Michael Brune, Adrianna Hoffman, Rick Klein, Aaron Sanger

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Ancient Persia, Modern Iran: Radiance, Repression and Transcendence

Hamid Tehrani, Persian Service Editor for Global Voices Online
Rouhollah K. Ramazani, Professor Emeritus of Politics at University of Virginia
Richard Bulliet, Professor of History Middle East Institute, Columbia University
Arash Naraghi, PhD candidate of philosophy at University of California, Santa Barbara
Houra Yavari, Senior Staff Associate at Columbia University, Center for Iranian Studies
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Bad Medicine: Overusing Antibiotics

Interview with Bill Niman, Rancher and Founder of Niman Ranch, and Nicolette Hahn Niman, Rancher, Lawyer, and Author of Righteous Porkchop
Dr. Stuart Levy, Professor of Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Medicine, Tufts School of Medicine
Dr. Lance Price, Director, Center for Metagenomics and Human Health, The Translational Genomics Institute
Dr. Jay Graham, AAAS Science and Technology Fellow
Dr. Marion Nestle, Paulette Godard Professor, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, New York University
Frederick Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University

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Beauty In Broken Places: The Healing Arts of Lily Yeh

Lily Yeh, founder, Barefoot Artists; co-founder, The Village of Arts and Humanities, Philadelphia

Her entire interview was used in this program. She spoke at the Bioneers gathering in 2009. Her 20 minute speech can be heard by clicking here.

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Behind America's Iron Curtain: Reforming the U.S. Prison System

Tommy Escarcega, Kamau Marcharia, Bob Roberts, Regina Stevens, Terrance Stevens

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Birth Pains: A Cry for Healthy Mothers and Healthy Families

Elizabeth Bocaletti, Mary Beth Powers, Diana Romero, Gillian Slinger, Francisco Songane

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