Cory Doctorow

The “Enshittification” of Everything

Renowned science fiction author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow assures us that it’s not our imaginations: the internet does indeed suck now. Cory argues that we can – and we must – break free of the prison policymakers built for us and create a new internet that is fit to serve as the digital nervous system of this fraught young century.

Gary Farmer

A Change Has Gotta Come

Gary Farmer has been a groundbreaking figure in prying open doors for Indigenous contributors to the performing arts. He explores why it is more important than ever for Native people to control their own narratives, in an era in which our collective survival will depend on our learning to put the Earth first.

Corrina Gould

We Are Nature

Corrina Gould, Tribal Chairwoman for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation and Co-Director of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, welcomes guests onto her ancestral homelands, inviting remembrance and return to right relationships in a time of societal change.

Ferris Jabr

Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

Ferris Jabr, NYT bestselling author and one of our most celebrated scientific writers, explains how, over billions of years, microbes, plants, fungi, and animals radically altered the continents, oceans, and atmosphere, transforming what was once a lump of orbiting rock into our cosmic oasis. Life is Earth and Earth is life.

Saru Jayaraman

What has Democracy Done For Me Lately? Engaging Working People in the Fight to Save Democracy

Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage, one of the most effective, tireless advocates for working people in the nation, says we can rally many working people to the urgent defense against plundering kleptocratic authoritarianism, but only if we demonstrate to them that democracy is worth saving by making it responsive to their economic struggles.

Cristina Jiménez Moreta

Mass Deportations: A Tipping Point Moment for All of Us

With federal incursions tearing through communities and new detention centers coming online, we may feel powerless, but we’ve seen communities courageously rising up to defend their neighbors. Cristina Jiménez Moreta says this is a tipping point moment, and we need to draw from examples of historic change that started in the margins of society.

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Coley Kakols Miller

Undam the Klamath: The Fight Isn’t Over Yet

After the largest dam removal project in U.S. history in which four out of six dams were removed from the Klamath River, an intertribal cohort of Indigenous youth became the first people in over a century to descend a 310-mile stretch of the river. Coley Kakols Miller shares her personal story of participating in that journey.

Brett KenCairn

Nature-based Climate Solutions—Centering Life to Heal the Planet

Brett KenCairn, founding Director of the Center for Regenerative Solutions, challenges the conventional understandings of the causes and solutions of climate change and its fixation on carbon and technology. Brett points to our ability to build a global movement, community-by-community, to harness nature’s power to regenerate landscapes at a scale.

Julian Brave NoiseCat

The Epic Misadventures of the Trickster Coyote

Julian Brave NoiseCat, activist, author, filmmaker, and multi-hyphenate storyteller and artist from the Secwépemc and St’at’imc nations, makes the ancient but ever potent “Coyote Story” archetype, one of the most significant oral traditions in human history, come to vivid life to shed light on our current situation and possible paths forward in these trying times.

Raj Patel

Food Solidarity vs Fascism

As we face authoritarian oligarchy, we can learn a great deal from how food workers confronted fascism a century ago. Raj Patel, a leading expert on sustainable food systems and tireless advocate for food justice, shares how these inspiring movements show how we can draw on the best human impulses to build economic systems built on solidarity and mutual aid.

Leah Penniman

Free the People! Free the Land!

Locally and globally, land and food have been leveraged as tools of oppression, but they can also be portals for liberation. Groundbreaking Black Kreyol farmer and food justice activist Leah Penniman offers us living proof that when Land is reunited with her people, mutual thriving can flourish in the form of solutions to climate chaos and food apartheid.

Michael Pollan

A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

Michael Pollan, one of the nation’s most influential non-fiction writers and investigative journalists, traces his six-year quest to solve the greatest mystery in nature: how, and why, are we conscious?

Nina Simons

Living Between Paradigms

In this talk, Nina Simons begins by acknowledging the extraordinarily challenging period we are traversing and the inevitable anxiety and fear it generates in all of us. She then shares a variety of strategies and perspectives that help her re-center herself, reconnect to the web of life, and regain the ability to carry on the struggle for a better world.

Samantha Skenandore

Re-Evolving Indigeneity to Save our Planet

Samantha Skenandore, of Ho-Chunk and Oneida ancestry, says that if we are to have a chance of reversing the destructive path our world is currently on and ushering in a genuinely nature-honoring era, we need to empower the extraordinary crop of young leaders, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, now emerging on the scene.

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Jasmine Smith

Living Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams, While Being the Voice of the Voiceless

Jasmine Smith, 16, a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee and founder and Chair of NAIWA Daughters, issues a bold call to restore Indigenous youth to their rightful place as valued leaders, knowledge-holders, and essential advocates for the living world.

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Kyle Trefny

When Orange Skies Clear

Kyle Trefny was 18 years old in 2020 when skies over much of the Pacific Coast turned orange with wildfire smoke. He shares how that moment led him to become a wildland firefighter and to join other youth in creating FireGeneration Collaborative, dedicated to building a future beyond intense wildfires and their devastating health impact.

John Warner

Biomimicry at the Molecular Level—Inventing a Sustainable Future

John Warner, one of the co-founders of the field of “Green Chemistry,” shares his vision of drawing from the molecular design genius of nature, which has been running countless chemistry experiments for nearly 4 billion years, to create products and technologies that provide for human needs without contaminating the biosphere and endangering our health.

Terry Tempest Williams

The Glorians Are Among Us

In this time of political and climate chaos, as we seek beauty and cohesion wherever we can find its glimmer, Terry Tempest Williams focuses on “The Glorians,” the overlooked presences—animal, plant, memory, moment—that reveal our shared vulnerability and interconnectedness with the natural world and how they can inspire us to carry forward with grace.