University of Detroit Mercy will host the 17th annual Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit conference October 14-15 in the new Student Union on the McNichols Campus. The conference theme for this year is “Earth is our Mentor, Measure and Model.”
The Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit group conducts this conference each year to provide a platform for community members to network and highlight innovative solutions to environmental and social problems with a focus on metro Detroit and Michigan. The mission of this conference and Bioneers Detroit is to promote a sustainable community that fosters life-giving relationships, nurtures connections and celebrates solutions for restoring and healing Earth’s communities.
This year’s conference is particularly noteworthy, given the dramatic changes in the environment taking place throughout the world.
Among the speakers of this year’s conference is Naim Edwards, an environmental steward with science degrees from Morehouse College and the University of Michigan. He directs Michigan State University’s first urban agriculture center, the Detroit Partnership for Food, Learning and Innovation.
Along with a variety of panel discussions, the conference will offer five tours on Friday morning and one on Saturday afternoon.
Tours cover community urban garden projects in Southeast and Northwest Detroit, wastewater recycling, solar projects, as well as an environmental justice tour of key sites of pollution and environmental regeneration in Detroit.
Youth participants will also experience compelling programs on Friday when they arrive with their teachers and on Saturday, when they can attend special youth programming next door to programs for their parents.
Youth will have hands-on experience in generating solar power, cultivating mushrooms, composting, building bird houses and sculpting with clay. One learnshop will be led by GLBD award-winning young environmentalist, Jason Zarate.
Nick Schroeck, Detroit Mercy associate dean of Experiential Education, associate professor of law and conference co-chair, said that Earth “is our model, measure and mentor as we work toward a sustainable, racially equitable, inclusive community that fosters life-giving relationships, nurtures connections, and celebrates solutions for restoring and healing. “
This annual pollinator event is linked to the national Bioneers organization, the Bioneers Collective Heritage Institute.
The mission of this conference is to promote a sustainable community that fosters life-giving relationships, nurtures connections, and celebrates solutions for restoring and healing Earth’s communities.
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