Michigan Bioneer of the Year Award Announced...
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Bioneer of the Year Award Goes to Stephanie Mills
The Great Lakes Bioneers are pleased to announce that Stephanie Mills will receive the annual Bioneer of the Year Award, to be given at the Environmentalists of the Year celebration, Friday, April 18th from 6 – 9 pm at the Waterfront Conference Center in Traverse City. The awards ceremony and reception are open to the public.
Bioneers are those who disseminate environmental solutions and strategies to local and regional audiences in order to restore the Earth and her peoples. The Great Lakes Bioneers host an annual conference in Traverse City, to be held October 17-19 this year (www.glbconference.org).
The Bioneer of the Year Award is given to a person whose life-work embodies the bioneer principles of interconnectedness, development of healthy relationships, and respect for the inherent intelligence of all life and ecological systems.
Stephanie Mills, local author, editor, thinker, speaker, and activist, embodies all of these principles. Mills has been engaged in the ecology movement for more than thirty years, and in 1996 was named by Utne Reader as one of the world's leading visionaries. Mills has concerned herself locally and in her writing with the fate of the earth and humanity. Her recent books, Epicurean Simplicity and Tough Little Beauties use lyrical prose that brings big topics to a personal level.
Environmentalist of the Year Awards will also be presented by the Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council. Former director of Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources, Dr. Howard Tanner, will present the keynote speech.
Local foods will be featured during an opening reception from 6-7 pm. The event is open to the public, and admission is $20 at the door, $10 for seniors and $5 for children. Call 231-929-3663 for more information.
