Category: Events

Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit conference this weekend

The Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit will be hosting their fifth annual conference this weekend. "Bioneers" as they call themselves promote practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth's ecosystems and healing our human communities. Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit helps promote collaboration and networking among southeast Michigan individuals and organizations working on sustainability and eco-justice issues.

The workshops will be held at Marygrove College with tours nearby. The tours highlight places including: WARM Training Center, urban garden tours put on by the Greening of Detroit and a Riverwalk tour given by the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. The one I am most interested in and will be attending is the Cass Community Social Services'Mudmats from Tires - Recycling Motown Style.' They train and employ homeless people to make mudmats out of abandoned tires that they recycle. Two subjects close to my heart.

There are also three days worth of speakers on subjects such as permaculture, sustainability, health and energy.

Saturday and Sunday are also filled with workshops from presenters speaking on local economies, food, transition, beekeeping, communities, small farms and a whole lot more!