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By DON CUDDY
doncuddy@s-t.com
October 22, 2010 12:00 AM

NEW BEDFORD — The annual Bioneers by the Bay conference, sponsored by the Marion Institute, comes to downtown New Bedford starting today, and organizers have been working around the clock to ensure everything is in place.

By Curt Brown
cbrown@s-t.com
October 25, 2010 12:00 AM

NEW BEDFORD — Humanitarian Greg Mortenson wrapped up the Marion Institute's sixth Bioneers by the Bay conference Sunday with an inspiring message about the need to increase educational opportunities globally.

NEW BEDFORD — Greg Mortenson, author of “Three Cups of Tea,” Annie Leonard producer of “Story of Stuff,” and Van Jones, pioneer in human rights and the clean-energy economy will lead the list of speakers for the Sixth Annual “Connecting for Change: A Bioneers by the Bay Conference.”

GateHouse News Service
Posted May 10, 2010 @ 06:00 AM

MARION — The Marion Institute’s Sustainable Screening Series will present a free screening of the film FRESH Thursday, May 13, from 7 to 9 p.m. The screening will be followed by a question and answer session with Sarah Cogswell of SEMAP, Ann Richards, a community activist from Fairhaven, and Dr. Kumara Sidhartha, M.D. The screening and panel discussion will take place at Tabor Academy, Lyndon Hall South in the Academic Center, 85 Spring St.

ISM*  (*Inspired by Slow Money)
Shelburne Farms, Vermont
June 9-11, 2010 

2009 Southcoast Woman of the Year, Desa van Laarhoren

PETER PEREIRA

By BECKY W. EVANS
revans@s-t.com
January 03, 2010 12:00 AM

Free opening event to feature Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) new film ACID TEST and former pro-basketball player turned urban farmer Will Allen New Bedford, MA – October 7, 2009 – With the Obama Administration focused on creating a thriving green economy, the environmental movement is gathering at Bioneers by the Bay: Connecting for Change (www.connectingforchange.org) to urge increased personal and civic action for a more sustainable and equitable world.

NEW BEDFORD — A film and lecture investigating what ocean acidification could mean for sea scallops that make this city the nation's most valuable fishing port will start next week's Bioneers by the Bay: Connecting for Change.

You need a lot of descriptive words – including visionary and quirky – to the increasingly popular Bioneers movement that is looking to solve some of the world’s most urgent environmental and social problems.