Sunday, April 02, 2006

Bioneers Get Recognition



Bioneers' Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons to Receive Prestigious Global Green Award


Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, the founder and co-producers of Bioneers, will receive Global Green's 2006 Green Cross Millennium Award for Community Environmental Leadership at the 10th Anniversary awards dinner on April 1, 2006 at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Green Cross International was founded by Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union.


Past Millennium Award recipients have included Leonardo DiCaprio, Ted Turner, Joan Bavaria, Paul Hawken, Gary Hirshberg, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Suzuki, Winona LaDuke, Ray Anderson, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, and many more outstanding leaders.


The Global Green Millennium Awards recognize and herald those individuals whose lives and livelihood embody the group's mission of fostering a global value shift toward a safer, more sustainable world. This recognition is intended to inspire, encourage, and celebrate advancements that move others to do the same, or go further. Part of the goal is to further humanity's collective commitment to make these accomplishments the norm rather than the exception. Global Green USA works with governments, industry and individuals. Global Green USA is addressing three great challenges facing humanity: climate change, weapons of mass destruction, and the need for clean water.


Ausubel and Simons founded the Bioneers Conference in 1990 in Santa Fe, New Mexico to highlight practical and visionary solutions for restoring the Earth and people. The conference moved to the Bay Area in 1993. In 2005, well over 3,000 people attended the California gathering, and an additional 8,000 people attended seventeen live simultaneous Beaming Bioneers satellite conferences across the U.S. and Canada. Bioneers also conducts numerous other programs, including an award-winning radio series, television broadcast series, book series, a web site, youth program and food and farming program.


Said Global Green executive director Matt Petersen, "We present this award to you for your efforts through Bioneers, collectively and individually, to create community through the annual conference and connections made through the event, as well as through your ongoing programming. The spirit of humanity you capture is so important to our future, and your gatherings inspire, encourage, and connect. We honor those who are tearing down the walls that stand in the way of a safer, more sustainable world through their innovative designs and leadership."


Said Ausubel and Simons, "We are deeply honored and moved by this award. We will accept it on behalf of our dedicated staff and all the bioneers whose work it is our privilege to represent and serve. At this dangerous moment in human history when we face the ongoing collapse of the planet's life-support systems, it is imperative that we all focus on solutions and roll up our sleeves to solve problems together. The solutions residing in nature consistently surpass our conception of what's even possible. A huge global movement is today arising to restore the Earth and our human communities. We are honored to be a part of it."

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