The Bioneers community (that means you) has always been at the vanguard of social and environmental movements, especially those that honor Indigenous knowledge to solve the planet’s most pressing challenges. In order to understand how destructive practices continue to persist in America, we need to examine how narratives of “conquest”…

Mer Young is an Indigenous (Chichimeca and Apache) socially-engaged, Southern California-based artist whose body of work includes collages, drawings, paintings, and murals. She is the founder of Mausi Murals, and she has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. …

Patricia Watts, the founder (in 1997) of the groundbreaking, highly influential nonprofit ecoartspace, has been one of the world’s most important curators and leading figures in the “eco-art” movement for over a quarter century — for a detailed bio and information about her organization’s work, see: ecoartspace.org She was interviewed…

Lindsay Wood, widely known as “The Tiny Home Lady,” the founder and CEO of Experience Tiny Homes, is an expert on tiny home design, material/appliance selection and builder analysis. …

Patsy Craig is a curator/producer, author/artist and Indigenous rights advocate who has for over 20 years generated and cultivated a wide range of cross-cultural collaborations in the fields of art/design, music, urbanism, and environmentalism. This output has included publications, exhibitions, and events, including lectures, concerts, symposia, workshops, etc. 6 years…

Patsy Craig is a curator/producer, author/artist and Indigenous rights advocate who has for over 20 years generated and cultivated a wide range of cross-cultural collaborations in the fields of art/design, music, urbanism, and environmentalism. This output has included publications, exhibitions, and events, including lectures, concerts, symposia, workshops, etc. 6 years…

Note: This is an edited version of an interview conducted in October 2022 by Bioneers’ Polina Smith. Veronica Ramirez, an Oakland, CA-based artist of Mapuche/Chilean-Mestizo ancestry, was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been leading public “earth-altar” making (mandalas) for the past 24 years. Polina…

In August, a new children’s book, Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun’s Thanksgiving Story, set out to transform the Thanksgiving story so many Americans take for granted. Keepunumuk creates a new Thanksgiving story that puts Native peoples — and nature — at its heart. Two children from the Wampanoag tribe learn how Weeâchumun (corn)…

Nurturing hope during times of small- and large-scale unrest can feel like an enormous undertaking. When the world around us is underwater, staying afloat is an accomplishment in and of itself. …