Former Green Party gubernatorial candidate delivers Bioneer keynote

For the fifth year running, Knox College is hosting the Prairie Fire Bioneers Conference.

This year’s conference, which draws crowds from surrounding schools and communities, kicked off Friday with green-focused plenary speakers and a viewing of the 2015 film on the economy of climate change, “This Changes Everything.”

Yesterday night was headlined with a presentation by Rich Whitney, who most recently ran for Governor of Illinois in 2010 as a Green Party candidate.
Whitney expounded the folly of both Democratic and Republican parties to a lecture hall full of listeners in the Ford Center for Fine Arts.

“In general, the Green Party, because we are free, we’re not prisoners of the corporate minded thinking of the democrats or the republicans,” Whitney said. “We can embrace these sound public policy ideas and fight for them. I think that’s pretty huge. Also the positive side, we have our values. We have a political party based on unifying core principals and values to promote the common good.”

Throughout the presentation, Whitney denounced current politics surrounding militarism, economics, and especially the environment.

The Bioneer conference continues today with more yoga, speeches, and various workshops on campus.

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