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.

How are local and socially minded businesses organizing themselves to promote the common good? Hosted by Don Shaffer of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE); with social entrepreneur and BALLE co-founder Judy Wicks of Philadelphia’s White Dog Café; Just Desserts founder Elliot Hoffman of New Voice of Business; and Native American Ashoka fellow and Alaskan social entrepreneur Dune Lankard. (A2)

Suddenly clean tech has gone from fringe to binge, but will we achieve the massive shift to renewable energy in time? Hosted by Tom Van Dyck, senior vice president for wealth management at Royal Bank of Canada; with Mark Donohue, the venture capitalist founder of Expansion Capital Partners; Jack Hidary, an entrepreneur in the finance and technology sectors, and co-founder of SmartTransportation, a nationwide organization encouraging clean technology in the transportation and housing sectors. (A7)

Highly efficient, benign, non-toxic technologies that mimic how nature operates are emerging to transform our economy and our lives. Moderated by Kasey Arnold-Ince, communications director of PAX Scientific; with Paul Anastas, renowned founder of green chemistry; inventor Jay Harman, founder of PAX Scientific; and Mark Dorfman of the Biomimicry Guild. (A11)

A Special Presentation of the Tides Foundation and the Women Donors Network. New types of relationships among philanthropy, activism and systemic change are emerging among donors who have harnessed their financial resources, connections and skills in their quest to contribute to the progressive movement in strategic ways, and activists who work with donors as full partners on every aspect of this evolving working model. With: Connie and Jonathan Cagampang Heller and Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion and Wendy Wolf and Kathy Bonk of the Communications Consortium Media Center. Facilitated by Donna Hall, Women Donors Network and Berit Ashla, Tides. (B15)

Movements are arising throughout the Global South to reverse centuries of exploitation and challenge dire human rights and environmental abuses. These struggles have profound relevance to the fate of global ecosystems and the future of humanity. Hosted by Eric Leenson of Progressive Asset Management; with renowned activists Ka Hsaw Wa and Katie Redford, co-founders of EarthRights International, which fights human rights and environmental abuses by governments and corporations around the world. (A20)

Imaginative entrepreneurs are converting challenges into solutions by creating fairtrade networks, triple bottom-line business models and redirecting financial flows for the common good. Hosted by Chet Tchozewski, executive director of Global GreenGrants Fund; with Donna Frank, owner of A Shared Blanket Gallery in Durango, CO; David Bronner, CEO of the mission-driven iconic business, Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, Inc; and fair-trade innovator Priya Haji of World of Good. (A21)

Visionary innovators are using a wide range of strategies to compel corporations and high finance to do the right thing. Hosted by Kevin Danaher, founder of the leading fairtrade nonprofit Global Exchange; with Tom Van Dyck, a senior vice president at the Royal Bank of Canada on greening the electronics industry; Morgan Simon of the Responsible Endowments Coalition on efforts to shift university portfolios to responsible investments; and Michael Marx, executive director, Corporate Ethics International, on a strategy to build a unified citizens’ movement to bring corporations back under democratic control. (B19)

2007 Fall Conference