Thursday, October 16, 2008
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9:00am - 5:00pm
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PRE-CONFERENCE INTENSIVE:
Eco-Schools: Educating for Sustainable Communities
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9:00am – 5:00pm
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PRE-CONFERENCE INTENSIVE:
Creating and Implementing National Green Plans: How Countries Are Succeeding
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Friday, October 17, 2008
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Plenary Sessions
9:00am - 1:00pm
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Opening remarks from Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons
PAUL STAMETS
Solutions from the Underground: Using Fungi to Help Save the World
ERICA FERNANDEZ
Si, Se Puede! (Yes, We Can!)
RAY ANDERSON
Sustainability in Action
KAVITA RAMDAS
Shakti, Shanti, Sangam: Power, Peace and the Politics of Change
ALEXANDRA COUSTEAU
Saving Our Water Planet
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Afternoon Sessions
2:45 - 4:15 pm
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Leveraging Business Innovations for Environmental Breakthroughs (A1)
Green Cities Initiatives (A2)
What's Democracy Got To Do With It? Politics and Environment (A3)
Seeding the Future: Seed Saving and Biodiversity Gardening (A4)
Women Rising Globally (A5)
Resilience Thinking: Adapting to System-Shifting Social and Ecological Change (A6)
It Takes a Movement to Save the Planet: Race, Class, and the Power to Transform (A7)
Re-Naturing Education (A8)
Re-cycling Energies: Food as a Tool for Youth Engagement and Empowerment (Y1)
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Afternoon Sessions
4:30 - 6:00pm
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How Mushrooms Can Save the World (B1)
National Green Plans: Are California and the US Ready? (B2)
Digital Oasis: Online Networks, Blogging & Fast-Forward Change (B3)
Greening Urban Organizing: The Convergence of Justice and Environment (B4)
Edgewalking: Risk-taking, Pushing the Envelope and Cultivating Fertile Ground (B5)
Children and Nature (B6)
Food and the Triple Global Crisis: Climate Change, Peak Oil, Resource Depletion (B7)
Mirror of Heaven, Embodiment of Earth (B8)
Native Oceans: Coastal Indigenous Communities in Response to the Ocean Crisis (Y2)
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Evening Events
4:30 - 7:00pm
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Moving Image Festival Screening:
Our Land, Our Life/South Central Farm: Oasis in a Concrete Desert
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Moving Image Festival Screening:
Sleep Dealer
Youth and Social Justice Film Screening:
Talkin' Water/BAVC Shorts
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
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Plenary Sessions
9:00am - 1:00pm
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Opening remarks from Chief Oren Lyons
JANINE BENYUS
Nature's 100 Best: Top Biomimicry Solutions to Environmental Crises
DUNE LANKARD
Sustainable Solutions Over Centuries: A New Business Model
DAVID ORR
Some Like It Hot, But Lots Don't: The Changing Climate of US Politics
GREG WATSON
Twelve Degrees of Freedom: Lessons Learned from Thirty-five Years of Environmental Activism
SANDRA STEINGRABER
The Environmental Life of Children -- From Placenta to Puberty
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Afternoon Sessions
2:45 - 4:15 pm
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Changing the Political Climate: Large-Scale Climate Initiatives (A9)
How Many? How Much? (People and Stuff) (A10)
Encyclopedia of Life: The Web of Life Meets the Worldwide Web (A11)
iTube, YouTube, WeAllTube: Digital Media and Distribution Innovations (A12)
National Truth & Reconciliation with First Peoples (A13)
The Leading Edges of Green Building (A14)
Women, Science and Nature (A15)
Knowing Our Foodsheds, Localizing Our Food Systems (A16)
Eco-Artists. Free Radicals. Agents of Change (A17)
Herb Walk (A18)
Education IS Empowerment! Youth Empowering Youth to Stop Climate Change (Y3)
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Afternoon Sessions
4:30 - 6:00pm
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Nature's Operating Instructions Meet the Original Instructions: Biomimicry and Traditional Indigenous Knowledge (B9)
Protecting Our Most Vulnerable: Toxics and Kids' Health (B10)
Fossil Fools: Resisting the World's Worst Petro-Fiasco (B11)
Green For All: The Vision and Practical Progress of Green-Collar Jobs (B12)
It's All Connected: Nurturing Networks and Redistributing Power (B13)
Ashoka Social Entrepreneurs: Advancing Sustainable Resilience (B14)
Watershed Guardians: Take Charge (B15)
Latin American Agroecology (B16)
The Wolf Chiefs: Visionary Council Ways to Heal Society (B17)
"I am Planet Earth": Using the Arts for Social, Spiritual and Environmental Empowerment (Y4)
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Evening Events
4:30 - 7:00pm
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Moving Image Festival Screening:
Escape from Suburbia/Story of Stuff
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Evening Events
6:30 - 8:00pm
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Seed Exchange (C1)
Farmers and Food Guardians Reception & Dinner (C2 - reception)
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Evening Events
7:30 - 10:00pm
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Moving Image Festival Screening:
Phoenix Dance/Life. Support. Music.
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Evening Events
8:03-9:00pm
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Restoring the Waters of Life to Democracy with Caroline Casey (C3)
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
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Plenary Sessions
9:00am - 1:00pm
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Opening remarks from Nina Simons
LUCAS BENITEZ
Fighting for Justice for Farmworkers
CHRISTINE LOH
The "Development" Imperative for Asians
NAOMI KLEIN
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
REBECCA MOORE
Google Earth: Visualizing Change, Mapping the Future
RICK REED
Collaborating on a Grand Scale: Think Systematically and Act Collaboratively
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Afternoon Sessions
2:45 - 4:15 pm
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Nature's Best: Biomimicry's Climate-Change Solutions (A19)
Food Justice, Labor Equity: Farmworkers, Immigration and NAFTA (A20)
Women and Money: How Women are Transforming Economics, Values and Power (A21)
Google Earth Outreach: High Tech Hits the Ground Mapping (A22)
Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Myth, Nature and Culture (A23)
Biocultural Diversity: Adaptability Lessons from Biology and Indigenous Cultures (A24)
Studying the Healing Power of Psychedelics (A25)
Sustainable MBA Programs: Changing Business for Good (A26)
Youth Rising, Youth Leading: Stories from the Brower Youth Awards Recipients (Y5)
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Afternoon Sessions
4:30 - 6:00pm
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North, South, East to the West: Global Eco-Power Politics (B18)
Changing the Climate: Large-Scale Collaborative Strategies for Clean Energy (B19)
Google Earth Outreach Meets Grassroots Community Organizing (B20)
Follow the Slow Money: Patient Capital & Local Living Economies (B21)
Cooking Up a Revolution: Chefs to Go (B22)
The End of Environmental Journalism (B23)
Renewing Native American Food and Seed Sovereignty (B24)
The Greening of Medicine: Leading-Edge Models of Health Care (B25)
Democratic Education and the Ecological Citizen (Y6)
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Evening Events
4:30 - 7:00pm
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Moving Image Festival Screening:
Election Day/Shock Doctrine
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Monday, October 20, 2008
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9:00am - 5:00pm
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POST-CONFERENCE INTENSIVE:
Biomimicry's Climate-Change Solutions: How Would Nature Do It?
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9:00am – 5:00pm
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POST-CONFERENCE INTENSIVE:
Mapping Solutions to a Positive Future
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