At Bioneers 2026, acclaimed science writer, teacher, and activist @michaelpollan.bsky.social joined psychologist and emotion researcher Dacher Keltner for a far-ranging conversation on one of humanity’s oldest mysteries: consciousness itself. 🚪 🧠 Listen now: buff.ly/wxRdK7w

The Real Organic Project is fighting to protect what “organic” originally stood for: 🌱 growing in healthy soil 🌱 raising animals on pasture 🌱 nutrient-dense food 🌱 supporting farmers and community 🔗 🍅 Read more: buff.ly/PdY2W2s

With increasing fragmentation, many of us don't know how to move past our differences. In “The Power of Bridging,” @obi-belonging.bsky.social Director john a. powell offers an actionable path through "bridging" that helps us coexist & imagine a story where we all belong. Read more: buff.ly/9YRJkO8

🕷️ 🤏 Peer into the fascinating little world of “Portia” jumping spiders—from their clever camouflage to their cunning attack routes and smokescreens—in this @knowablemag.bsky.social story: buff.ly/CaQqOtn

As a pioneering organic farmer, Bob Cannard has spent decades observing how healthy ecosystems naturally regulate themselves. “We can’t cultivate those plants with an attitude of adversity,” he teaches. 🪲☘️ Keep reading: buff.ly/XXOCNRv

✊ 🪙 According to Saru Jayaraman (One Fair Wage), we can rally working people to defend democracy and the web of life — but only if democracy delivers the conditions people need to survive and participate, including a living wage. ▶️ Watch more: buff.ly/xbdU0qj

At the 2026 Bioneers Conference, activist Saru Jayaraman, policy expert Angela Glover Blackwell, & journalist @rajpatel.org explored how economic insecurity, low wages, & systemic barriers limit who can participate in democracy & what it'll take to change that. 🔗 Read the article: buff.ly/5a0E46b

In this excerpt from “A World Appears,” @MichaelPollan.bsky.social explores the emerging science of plant cognition & the possibility that problem-solving, memory, & even forms of consciousness may be more widely distributed across the living world than we’ve assumed. 📗 Keep reading: buff.ly/ViVnNUw

▶️ 🌱 We're thrilled to announce that the full collection of keynote sessions and performances from #Bioneers2026 is now available for you to watch and share! Explore the Bioneers 2026 Media Hub: buff.ly/DUeLyaL

Cristina Jiménez Moreta, co-founder of @unitedwedream.org, has spent her life working to transform that reality, drawing on her own experience growing up undocumented and her years of organizing to build collective power. 🔗 Keep reading: buff.ly/fcusmVT

🐝 In this conversation with Bioneers, Krystle Hickman shares what she’s learned through native bee photography: when we prioritize habitat, biodiversity, and whole ecosystems over single-species solutions, resilience follows. 🔗 buff.ly/SpCdjAs 📸: All photos credited to Krystle Hickman

Brett KenCairn reframes the #ClimateCrisis as one rooted not only in emissions, but in the widespread degradation of living systems — and points toward #LandRestoration as a path forward. 🌏 🔗 Read an edit transcript of his Bioneers 2026 keynote: buff.ly/D4dcr43

“If all we do is play defense, we will lose. We need a proactive vision that is bold, that shows people we are fighting,” says Saru Jayaraman, President of One Fair Wage. 🔗 Read more highlights from her Bioneers keynote: buff.ly/MO4iV8F

🌵 @NinaSimons.bsky.social spoke with Terry Tempest Williams, one of America’s most beloved and revered nature writers. 🎧 Tune into the new Bioneers podcast episode, “A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams,” here or wherever you get your podcasts: buff.ly/pCDG5rF

🌱🎧 “Nature’s Genius” Podcast Season 2: Full Series Now Live! 🎧🌱 Stream all 6 episodes, exploring how the symphony of life holds the solutions we need to balance human civilization with living systems: buff.ly/jztDSVK

“The Glorians are reaching out to us, inviting us to engage,” says #TerryTempestWilliams. “If we are present, we will know what to do.” ✨▶️ Keep watching her #Bioneers2026 keynote: buff.ly/kVyqmE7

This May, explore allyship with Indigenous Peoples in the Bioneers Learning course 🔥 Being a Good Relative. 🔥 Learn more & register: www.bioneerslearning.org/being-a-good...

Being a Good Relative: Allyship with Indigenous Peoples

In this course, the Bioneers Indigeneity Program team, Alexis Bunten and Nazshonnii Brown-Almaweri will lead you through a comprehensive learning journey to understand and come to embody what it means...

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In the course 🔥 #BeingAGoodRelative 🔥, the Bioneers Indigeneity Program Team will lead you in building authentically respectful and meaningful partnerships with Indigenous Peoples. 🔥 Learn more & register: buff.ly/wKxRiEX

On the occasion of the publication of her most recent book, “The Glorians — Visitations from the Holy Ordinary,” Terry Tempest Williams engaged with Bioneers Co-Founder @NinaSimons.bsky.social in deep conversation. Read it here: buff.ly/YxTqec3

This June, join @kevinjohnfong.bsky.social for the Bioneers course, #TheFiveElements. Across 4 interactive sessions, we’ll explore how Water, Wood, Fire, Earth & Metal shape behavior, communication, conflict & collaboration. 🌸 Learn more & register: buff.ly/aO1iNDI

🌱 Green Chemistry: Nature’s Molecules, Materials and Methods 🌱offers an accessible look at how chemistry works, why #GreenChemistry emerged as a needed course correction & how it can guide the creation of safer, smarter materials for a regenerative future. 🧪 Learn more & register: buff.ly/URViT1J

In this sweeping keynote, @michaelpollan.bsky.social explores a profound shift underway in science and culture: the expanding recognition of consciousness in animals (and perhaps beyond), alongside the rise of artificial intelligence. 🧠🔗 Keep watching: buff.ly/8wJulEJ

🌼 In this excerpt from “How Flowers Made Our World,” David George Haskell introduces us to the cranefly orchid, illustrating how flowers are active participants in complex ecological exchanges — even exploiting the very creatures they depend on. Keep reading: buff.ly/SzpyOdS

For decades, Gary Farmer has helped open space for Indigenous voices across film, television, and media. Today, he calls for something deeper than representation: control over narrative itself. 💬🔗 Keep watching: bioneers.org/gary-farmer-...

Have you saved your spot for our next Bioneers Learning Book Club? 📚 We’ll peer deeply into @MichaelPollan.bsky.social’s newest release, “A World Appears.” Cost: $20 April 27: 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. PT May 4: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. PT (author in attendance) 🔗 👁️ Learn more & sign up! buff.ly/ciIYTHF

✊🪙 Drawing from her leadership with One Fair Wage and the growing #LivingWageForAll campaign, Saru Jayaraman connects the fight for economic dignity — fair wages, stable livelihoods, and the ability to meet basic needs — to the future of democracy itself.

In their Bioneers course on #GreenChemistry, Drs. John Warner & @amycannon.bsky.social (@beyondbenign.bsky.social) will explore how nature’s patterns (building, breakdown & renewal) can help us design products to be safer & more sustainable from the start. 🧪 Learn more & register: buff.ly/qaoRluf

In the course 🔥 #BeingAGoodRelative 🔥, the Bioneers Indigeneity Program Team will lead you in building authentically respectful and meaningful partnerships with Indigenous Peoples. 🔥 Learn more & register: buff.ly/wKxRiEX

🎧⛰️ In a new Bioneers podcast episode, “The Native American LandBack Movement Reaches Urban America,” hear from Corrina Gould, a celebrated activist of the First Peoples of the Bay Area and a leader in the #LandBack Movement: buff.ly/gaXXWEG

🪸 On our final day of #Bioneers2026, there’s a deep sense of shifted perspective and renewed inspiration. From green chemistry to food systems, Indigenous rights to consciousness, today’s conversations continue to stretch what we know & imagine. Follow along on Instagram for more: buff.ly/JcR4cQJ

🌊🚣 Coley Kakols Miller tells the emotional story of joy and struggle in freeing the Klamath River at #Bioneers2026.