Conference
Scheduled Presentations:
| Presentation | Starts | Ends | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday's Opening Remarks | 2006-10-20 10:00 | 2006-10-20 10:34 | Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons |
| How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World | 2006-10-20 10:35 | 2006-10-20 11:00 | PAUL STAMETS The visionary biologist, mycologist and author of Mycelium Running reveals astonishing evidence of how nature's solutions surpass our conception of what's possible to radically restore ecosystems and human health. |
| The Courage to Walk in Beauty: Creating Space for Young People to Find Truth and Power | 2006-10-20 11:10 | 2006-10-20 11:35 | SARAH CROWELL The dynamic executive director of Oakland's acclaimed Destiny Arts Center reveals the unstoppable power and beauty of empowering multicultural young people through dance, theater, and violence prevention and youth leadership classes. |
| Beyond the Bar Code: The Local Food Revolution | 2006-10-20 12:25 | 2006-10-20 12:50 | MICHAEL POLLAN The brilliant New York Times writer and bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire once again bounds outside the box to depict the profound societal transformation underway that is irrevocably changing the way we eat and grow our food. |
| Accentuate the Positive: Reclaiming the Country from the Nation | 2006-10-20 13:00 | 2006-10-20 13:25 | JAMES HILLMAN The renowned Jungian scholar and author brings his vast knowledge to bear on some of the deepest psychological, political and cultural trends in the U.S. that uncover a decisive battle for the very soul of the country. |
| 25 Years of an Inspirational Journey: From Love Canal to the Nation | 2006-10-20 13:35 | 2006-10-20 14:00 | LOIS GIBBS The legendary grassroots champion of environmental justice describes how society is moving away from counting the bodies resulting from bad industrial and pollution policies, to prevention, precaution and other winning strategies for a healthy, safe and economically sound future. |
| Nature's Operating Instructions: True Biotechnologies (A1) | 2006-10-20 15:45 | 2006-10-20 17:15 | Three brilliant leadingedge inventors and engineers jam on clean tech, with mycologist and mycotechnologist extraordinaire Paul Stamets; natural treatment systems engineer Michael Ogden, founder of Natural Systems International; and inventor-entrepreneur Jay Harman, founder of PAX Scientific. (A1) |
| The Legacy of Love Canal: Birthing a Movement (A2) | 2006-10-20 15:45 | 2006-10-20 17:15 | Love Canal helped spawn widespread resistance to industrial polluters and environmental injustice. With legendary Love Canal grassroots activist Lois Gibbs; Peter Montague, one of the most respected pollution fighters in the U.S., editor of the indispensable Rachel's Environment & Health News; Patrick Reinsborough of smartMeme, which specializes in storybased strategies; and precautionary principle advocate and executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, Carolyn Raffensperger. Moderated by Charlotte Brody, executive director of Commonweal. (A2) |
| Women Farmers: Cultivating the Web of Nourishment (A3) | 2006-10-20 15:45 | 2006-10-20 17:15 | Women play a vital role in ecological agriculture as leaders, sustainers and innovators. With Dru Rivers, a founding member of Full Belly Farm in the Capay Valley, CA; Linda Halley, farm manager for the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens, Goleta, CA, who previously farmed in Wisconsin for 15 years; and Johari Cole, an organic farmer, microbiologist and member of the Pembroke Farmers Cooperative, a Midwestern African American organic farmers collective. (A3) |
| Leveraging Giving to Accelerate Change: Philanthropic Innovations (A4) | 2006-10-20 15:45 | 2006-10-20 17:15 | Artful innovations are potentizing philanthropic giving. Moderated by Donna Hall, executive director of the Women Donors Network; with philanthropist and cocreator of Play Big, Carol Newell; legendary philanthropist and social entrepreneur Joshua Mailman; and Cheryl King Fischer of the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund. (A4) |
| Internet Interventions and Cyberspace Strategies (A5) | 2006-10-20 15:45 | 2006-10-20 17:15 | Progressive cybernauts are radically restructuring the worlds of news, politics and social relationships with innovative socialchange cyberstrategies. Hosted by Independent Media Institute Executive Director Don Hazen; with Kieran Lal, systems design engineer and "open source" exponent; Brad Friedman, subversive blogger (Bradblog) and investigator; and John Lorance, associate director of the TechCommons program at CompuMentor. (A5) |
| Municipal Mojo: Toward Sustainable Cities (A6) | 2006-10-20 15:45 | 2006-10-20 17:15 | Some of the Bay Area's city governments are leadingedge pathfinders in innovative urban sustainable management initiatives, creating models the rest of the country can draw from. With Berkeley's Mayor Tom Bates, who has a long record of highly effective pro-gressive environmental and social initiatives in local and state government; Randy Hayes, Oakland's former director of sustainability and current executive director of the International Forum on Globalization; Arlene Rodriguez, program officer for the environment at the San Francisco Foundation and commissioner for the environment for the City/County of San Francisco; and Nancy Sutley, deputy mayor for energy and environment in Los Angeles. (A6) |
| Different Strokes: CrossCultural Land Management (A7) | 2006-10-20 15:45 | 2006-10-20 17:15 | Come hear about an array of highly sophisticated approaches to land management and restoration, drawn from both indigenous practices and contemporary innovations. Hosted by conservation activist Peter Warshall; with Miguel Santistevan of the New Mexico Acequia Association, a permaculturist who works with the Traditional Native American Farmers Association; George Snyder, of Louisiana Choctaw-Cherokee descent, land manager for Mountain Wolf Ranch in Occidental, CA; and Lani Malmberg, a former rancher who uses 1,200 grazing goats for ecological restoration in ten Western states. (A7) |
| Diversity: What Is It, and How Do We Get It? (A8) | 2006-10-20 15:45 | 2006-10-20 17:15 | An open conversation about diversity, in which participants create a common language and develop strategies to create diversity in their own work. Facilitated by Los Angeles community activist Neelam Sharma, whose work helps remove inequalities and systemic barriers to sustainable communities; and LaDonna Redmond, director of an urban farming and local food distribution project in Chicago. (A8) |
| SourceWatch: A Hands-on Workshop in Citizen Journalism (Part 1) (A9) | 2006-10-20 15:45 | 2006-10-20 17:15 | Join author/activist John Stauber, founder of the Center for Media and Democracy, as he and the staff of the center demonstrate how you can use SourceWatch, a powerful free tool for web-based investigative reporting. SourceWatch enables activists and citizen journalists worldwide to collaborate in creating and updating articles on the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. Note: This is a double session. (A9) |
| Herb Walk (A10) | 2006-10-20 15:45 | 2006-10-20 17:15 | Get outdoors with Kami McBride, a teacher of herbal medicine since 1988 includ-ing at the UC Nursing School and Stanford Hospital. Kami teaches herbology as a relation-ship with the Earth and a way of life. (A10) |
| Thinking Like Cathedral Builders: Green Building and Business for the Long Term (B1) | 2006-10-20 17:30 | 2006-10-20 19:00 | Discover groundbreaking approaches to building buildings, justice and community. With John Abrams, co-founder and CEO of South Mountain Company, a thirtyyearold, employee-owned green design and building company on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. (B1) |
| The Globalocal Food Movement: Act Globally, Eat Locally (B2) | 2006-10-20 17:30 | 2006-10-20 19:00 | People around the country and world are reconnecting food to place, community, health and justice. With renowned author and investigative journalist Michael Pollan; Brian Halweil, senior researcher at the Worldwatch Institute and author of Eat Here; and Neva Hassanein, professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Montana, community organizer and author of Changing the Way America Farms. (B2) |
| Shamanic Plants and the Fate of the Earth (B3) | 2006-10-20 17:30 | 2006-10-20 19:00 | Shamanic botanical traditions and modern reinventions propose that certain plants may offer people a direct line to a profound ecological intelligence. Hosted by Bioneers Associate Producer J.P. Harpignies, editor of Shamanic Plants and the Fate of the Earth; with ethnob-otanist, artist and plantperson extraordinaire Kat Harrison; CODEPINK cofounder, and board member of the Drug Policy Alliance, Jodie Evans; and Erik Davis, editoratlarge of Evolver magazine and author of The Visionary State: A Journey Through California's Spiritual Landscape. (B3) |
| Restoring Family Values: Empowering Working Mothers and Rejecting the Commercialization of Childhood (B4) | 2006-10-20 17:30 | 2006-10-20 19:00 | Moderated by Mothering magazine's Peggy O'Mara; with Joan Blades, cofounder of MoveOn.org and the new organization MomsRising.org, and coauthor of the new Motherhood Manifesto; and Gary Ruskin, executive director and cofounder of Commercial Alert, a leader in resisting the effects of advertising on children and public health. (B4) |
| New Tools for Conservation Biology and Environmental Justice (B5) | 2006-10-20 17:30 | 2006-10-20 19:00 | Conservation biologists are joining with technologists, indigenous peoples and EJ advocates to map integrated solutions in the spaces where we live, work, learn and play. Hosted by Jon Christensen, research fellow at the Center for Environmental Science and Policy at Stanford; with Google Earth software developer and forest activist Rebecca Moore; Erika Zavaleta, landscape ecology specialist for the global biocultural initiatives of the Christensen Fund; and Alvin Warren, lt. governor of Santa Clara Pueblo, and associate project director of the Indigenous Communities Mapping Initiative. (B5) |
| Building Bridges, Cultivating Coalitions, Busting Silos (B6) | 2006-10-20 17:30 | 2006-10-20 19:00 | Diverse constituencies are teaming up for more effective systemic, collaborative change. With Rick Reed, senior advisor to the Garfield Foundation, leading its collaborative clean ener-gy initiative; and Jean Caiani, program officer for water with the Panta Rhea Foundation, who is working with funders and NGOs to build and sustain longterm policy change on national and global water issues. (B6) |
| Mainstreaming Sustainability: Big Dogs Enter the Fray (B7) | 2006-10-20 17:30 | 2006-10-20 19:00 | What are the virtues and challenges of very big players entering the clean/alternative energy and technology field? With Tom Van Dyck, founder of the Philanthropic & Social Investment Consulting Group at Piper Jaffray, a major force in California's Million Solar Roofs success; James Gollin, board chairman of Rainforest Action Network, which success-fully pressured Citibank, Home Depot and Goldman Sachs to "do the right thing;" and Dan Shugar, president of PowerLight, a solar energy company. (B7) |
| When Stories Change, the World Changes (B8) | 2006-10-20 17:30 | 2006-10-20 19:00 | A freerange jam on changing the cultural stories that drive our society, with author, psy-chologist and radio host Thom Hartmann; psychologist and social thinker James Hillman; author and Air America Radio Nation host Laura Flanders; Michel Gelobter of Redefining Progress; and food activist and author Anna Lappé. (B8) |
| Speaking — and Listening — Across the Divides (B9) | 2006-10-20 17:30 | 2006-10-20 19:00 | Red/Blue. Rich/Poor. The issues we all care about are dying on rhetorical battlefields in an un-civil war of words. How can we speak our truth without polarizing? Learn ways to pose questions that open minds and hearts; turn down the heat when tempers flare; turn polarization into inquiry; and move your message nonviolently. Facilitated by Vicki Robin, visionary thinker and cofounder of Conversation Cafés and Let's Talk America. (B9) |
| SourceWatch: A Handson Workshop in Citizen Journalism (Part 2) (B10) | 2006-10-20 17:30 | 2006-10-20 19:00 | See Friday, 2:45, A9, for more info. (B10) |
| Local Living Economies: Green, Fair and Fun | 2007-10-19 12:25 | 2007-10-19 12:50 | JUDY WICKS Fabled entrepreneur and activist tells her story of moving beyond responsible business practices to working cooperatively with other entrepreneurs and citizens to build whole economies based on love of nature and community. |
