Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit

Bioneers conference. Over 400 people attended the two day environmental justice conference, with 230 of those being Middle and High School students. Of those students, 125 of them came from Southwest Detroit schools: Detroit Cristo Rey, Holy Redeemer, and Academy of the Americas.
2024 GLBD Conference

October 17-18
 

The 19th Annual Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Conference:
A Bioneers Pollinators Event

McNichols Campus
4001 W. McNichols Road, Detroit, MI 48221

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Be a positive force in our earth community

The Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit conference is a platform for community members to network and highlight innovative approaches to environmental and social challenges. The conference is for people of all ages who are interested in exploring topics, developing skills and motivating action for the betterment of our One Earth Community.

This is an opportunity for you to to share experiences and learn strategies to ensure that humans are a positive force in our earth community while addressing the critical issues of public health and wellness; racial and environmental justice; indigenous (Traditional Ecological Knowledge, TEK) resource protection and sustainability; fresh water resource and Great Lakes protection; and recycling, food waste reduction and management.

The Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit (GLBD) Conference Committee has chosen the co-chairs for its 2024 conference.

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    2024 Co-Chairs

    The co-chairs and the conference planning committee are working on the annual fall conference which will be held Oct. 17-18 in the Student Union Ballroom on UDM’s McNichols Campus.

    Anita Jones headshotAnita Jones, who has been a presenter at the annual Bioneers Detroit conference, was a dentist before becoming a massage therapist. An activist, she plans the annual Women Walking Woodward event, now in its tenth year. Under her pseudonym of Ruby Woods, she practices storytelling, poetry, long dance ritual and song.

    Theroi Riggins headshotTheroi Riggins '09 works in outreach ministry to Detroit’s Pershing and Osborne schools. She is an alumna of University of Detroit Mercy, where she has been an adjunct faculty member and a doctoral candidate in the AG-CNS DNP program. She is the CEO of Grab Community Outreach Inc., a Detroit nonprofit that provides health promotion and preventative services to underserved communities.

 

attendees of 2022 bioneers conference outside activityThe GLBD Mission

Our mission is to promote a sustainable community that fosters life-giving relationships, nurtures connections and celebrates solutions for restoring and healing Earth's communities.

The GLBD Vision

Our vision is expressed in the preamble of the Earth Charter: "in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms, we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice and a culture of peace."

Past GLBD Conferences

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