Great Lakes Bioneers

Straight from the Headwaters we have this year’s plenary speakers.

You’ll recognize a few of the speakers, but many from this year’s list are first time presentations at the Bioneers conference. For complete lsit and tentative schedule, visit: Bioneers Plenary Speakers

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TBYT (timeday.org), a nonprofit, launches a national campaign for mandating 3 week minimum vacation for all American workers. The US is the only industrial nation that fails to legally protect its citizens’ vacations. Last year, 25 percent of American workers got no paid vacation at all, while 43% didn’t even take a solid week off.

“Three week vacations have proven to be a boost to productivity and profits at enlightened American firms with that policy. Performance goes up when people come back from a vacation,” said Joe Robinson, author of Work to Live. “In the knowledge economy, the source of true productivity is a refreshed and energized mind.”

“What we’re asking for is quite modest when you consider that residents of most industrial countries get five or six weeks off and that the absolute minimum in Europe is twenty days of paid vacation after the first year on the job,” said Take Back Your Time’s Executive Director Lisa Stuebing.

Contact:

Lisa Stuebing
Seattle, WA
Take Back Your Time, Executive Director
206-524-6788
lisa@timeday.org

Anyone interested in Carpooling from Northern Michigan???

DIANE WILSON, Author, founder of Code Pink, Environmental & Peace Activist will speak on THURSDAY, MAY 10, at 7:00 pm in the General Lectures Building NW corner of Warren and Anthony Wayne Drive/ Third Avenue, Wayne State University Campus, in Detroit. This event is FREE and open to the public. Copies of An Unreasonable Woman will be available for signing at the event. This will be an exciting event and a great opportunity to see how one person can make a difference and truly change the world. This talk and booksigning are co-sponsored by the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Wayne State University and The Book Beat bookstore.

Diane Wilson was a 2005 Bioneers Plenary Speaker.

“We’re losing ground. This planet is losing ground. So things need to happen and they need to happen quick. Our message should be loud and clear there comes a time when the home needs protecting and the line needs drawing and anybody that dares cross it acts at their own peril.” — Diane Wilson