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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally - Outstanding Youth at Bioneers '06 |
by Marisssa Landrigan
From October 20-22, 2006, hundreds of environmental activists from all over the country gathered in small workshops, and via satellite, for the sixteenth annual Bioneers conference. On the same weekend at one of the satellite conferences in Bozeman, Montana, in one of those small workshops, a seventeen year-old girl with purple hair named Devon Trapp spoke the sentence that was in everyone’s head: “I’m not alone.”
Devon Trapp and Chris Newhouse, high school students from Livingston, Montana, were attending the Northern Rockies branch of the Bioneers conference for the first time, but their commitment to the environmental movement represents the spirit of Bioneers. Designed as a national gathering of scientific and social innovators, Bioneers is the place where all voices are heard and honored. By connecting local visionaries and national activists like Amy Goodman, the conference hopes to directly implement the idea of thinking globally and acting locally.
Not long ago, Devon Trapp was a cutter. She’d fallen into the wrong crowd, had run away from home twice, and was, as a last resort, sent to a wilderness camp, where she found her calling. After sharing her experiences with her friend Chris, the two have dedicated their lives to advocating for the preservation of the Earth. Both Devon and Chris understand the deep spiritual connection that comes from a greater awareness of nature, and both were shocked to find, when they attended the Bioneers conference, that there were many other people who felt the same.
The focus on community building that led Devon from wilderness camp to leadership retreats to the conference will be continued this spring, as Chris hopes to raise the money to attend Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School, then return to Montana and teach others what he has learned. Most importantly, these youth took the overarching message from the conference that it is possible to change the world—with passion and a smile. “We believe positivity changes people,” Devon says. “We hope to be so positive and exciting that people who meet us will want to generate change.”
Contact: Bioneers
Tel: 1-877-BIONEER
Web: www.bioneers.org
From October 20-22, 2006, hundreds of environmental activists from all over the country gathered in small workshops, and via satellite, for the sixteenth annual Bioneers conference. On the same weekend at one of the satellite conferences in Bozeman, Montana, in one of those small workshops, a seventeen year-old girl with purple hair named Devon Trapp spoke the sentence that was in everyone’s head: “I’m not alone.”
Devon Trapp and Chris Newhouse, high school students from Livingston, Montana, were attending the Northern Rockies branch of the Bioneers conference for the first time, but their commitment to the environmental movement represents the spirit of Bioneers. Designed as a national gathering of scientific and social innovators, Bioneers is the place where all voices are heard and honored. By connecting local visionaries and national activists like Amy Goodman, the conference hopes to directly implement the idea of thinking globally and acting locally.
Not long ago, Devon Trapp was a cutter. She’d fallen into the wrong crowd, had run away from home twice, and was, as a last resort, sent to a wilderness camp, where she found her calling. After sharing her experiences with her friend Chris, the two have dedicated their lives to advocating for the preservation of the Earth. Both Devon and Chris understand the deep spiritual connection that comes from a greater awareness of nature, and both were shocked to find, when they attended the Bioneers conference, that there were many other people who felt the same.
The focus on community building that led Devon from wilderness camp to leadership retreats to the conference will be continued this spring, as Chris hopes to raise the money to attend Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School, then return to Montana and teach others what he has learned. Most importantly, these youth took the overarching message from the conference that it is possible to change the world—with passion and a smile. “We believe positivity changes people,” Devon says. “We hope to be so positive and exciting that people who meet us will want to generate change.”
Contact: Bioneers
Tel: 1-877-BIONEER
Web: www.bioneers.org
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