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FRIDAY
8:00 - 8:45
Registration/ Welcome
8:45 - 9:00
Opening Remarks - President Dan Garvey
9:00 - 11:40
Satellite Plenaries - Live from San Rafael
- Janine Benyus - What Life Knows
- Wil Bullock - You Are Where You Eat
- Vyacheslav Trigubovich - From Russsia with Snow Leopards
11:40 - 12:00
Break
12:00 - 1:00
Sam Hill A Howard Mechanic - What is Reasonable Growth for Our Area?
Sam Hill B Mary Desautels & Dan Hoffman - Renewable Energy for Beginners
Sam Hill C Dan Dagget - Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature
PAC Andrew Millison - Permaculture in Prescott: The Eco-Hood Project
1:00 - 2:00
Lunch - Locally Catered $7/person
2:00 - 3:30
Meitamei Olol Depash - Bridging Communities: Education through Collaborative and Beneficial Work in Kenyan Communities
3:30 - 3:50
Break
3:50 - 5:00
Plenaries
- Bill McKibben - Global Warming: A Climate of Opportunity
- Diane Wilson - An UnReasonable Woman
5:00 - 7:00
Dinner on your own
7:00 - 10:00
Films (open to the public)
7:00 - 8:30 Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
Thirst
The Yes Men
8:30 - 10:00 Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
The End Of Suburbia
The Power of the Sun
Biomimicry seeks to emulate the time-tested adaptive strategies of many species of plants, animals and microorganisms to transform how we live on this planet. Janine Benyus of the Biomimicry Guild celebrates the newest ancient ideas bubbling up in the natural sciences, illuminating how evolution's wisdom can help us design benign, life enhancing technologies while inspiring us to protect Earth's biodiversity.
Boston's famed Food Project has become a model for integrating food and health, city and country, justice and access. Wil Bullock, a remarkable 24-year-old community leader from Boston's inner city, explores how the Food Project has successfully bridged these worlds and how youth are playing crucial roles in changing the food system.
Since 1917, the former Soviet Union's unique system of "zapovedniks" has forbidden the presence of people in some wilderness areas, except for scientific study. These truly wild, biodiverse nature preserves are under increasing threat from commercial development. The founder of the Altai Foundation, Slava Trigubovich is among the Russian Federation's best-known anti-poaching rangers and advocates for the protection of wilderness and endangered species (including the fabled snow leopard).
The mother of all environmental threats, global warming requires immediate technological and social responses on an unprecedented global scale. Author and environmental activist Bill McKibben, a frequent contributor to a wide variety of publications including The New York Times, explores how humanity is rising to the challenge.
An ad in National Geographic by the American Plastics Council celebrated plastic as the sixth basic food group. These chemicals can change the very character of human societies, producing behavioral abnormalities along with serious health problems. Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper on the Texas Gulf Coast, has used civil disobedience and other nonviolent approaches to stop corporate chemical giants from polluting.
12:00-1:00
Howard Mechanic - What is Reasonable Growth for Our Area?
This workshop will cover the various myths surrounding the growth issue. It will include economic, environmental, and social factors in describing how a sustainable future can be best planned.
Mary Desautels & Dan Hoffman - Renewable Energy for Beginners
This workshop will focus on the basic solar system components, how they work together, and how much does it cost. We will determine whether these components will work for a given person.
Dan Dagget - Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature
In this workshop, Mr. DAgget will discuss how humans are more important to a variety of ecosystems even than animals that have been described as keystone species. Through his feature slideshow, he will show examples of how some of us are still playing those roles and what happens when we remove these keystone humans from the ecosystems they sustain.
Andrew Millison - Permaculture in Prescott: The Eco-Hood Project
This workshop seeks to highlight a local neighborhood based permaculture project involving multiple households and organizations. Permaculture is a system of sustainable design based on the systems and patterns of nature. In America, Permaculture design moves towards relocalization, where we begin to live with the resources available regionally. OUr Project seeks to be an exampl of sustainable living for Arizona's uplands.
2:00 - 3:30
Meitamei Olol Depash - Bridging Communities: Education through Collaborative and Beneficial Work in Kenyan Communities
In May of 2005 a group of Prescott College students traveled to Kenya in order to establish a mutually beneficial research station on Maasai land. This presentation will focus on their efforts to initiate this relationship, their learning, and future plans for this project which focuses on the effects of tourism in this area.
7:30 - 8:30
Morning Yoga (Optional)
9:00 - 11:40
Satellite Plenaries - Live from San Rafael
- Jeremy Narby - Intelligence in Nature
- Carolyn Raffensperger - Bold Precaution
- Omar Freilla - Greening the Inner City
11:40 - 12:00
Break
12:00 - 1:00
Sam Hill A Tony Brown - Designing the 21st Century
Sam Hill B Chris Hoy - The Future of Water
Sam Hill C Mary Desautels & Dan Hoffman - Hybrid Energy Systems
PAC Jim Powers - Peace Dept.
1:00 - 2:00
Lunch - Locally Catered $7/person
2:00 - 3:30
The Human Environment Connection: Hurricane Katrina and the Aftermath
Panel Discussion - Joan Clingan, Randall Amster, Geoff Boyce, Jacob Devaney, George
Seaman, Frank Cardamone, Kathleen Currie, and Pawl Katan
Chip Stearns - Moderator
3:30 - 3:50
Break
3:50 - 5:00
Plenaries
- Thom Hartmann - Beyond Framing
- Rha Goddess - Who’s Got Next?
5:00 - 7:00
Dinner on your own
7:00 - 10:00
Hurricane Benefit concert. Open to the public. Suggested $5-$10 donation
Featuring: Dance, Old Scarecrow
Troupe Salamat
Most High Mountain Ecological Reggae
Boneshakers Funky Brass Band
Prescott Creeks Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
3:00 - 5:00 First Showing
6:00 - 7:00 Public Reception
7:00 - 9:00 Second Showing
(please follow link below for more information)
How can "lowly" slime molds find the shortest route through a maze to a food source every time? Swiss-based Canadian anthropologist, Amazonian indigenous land-rights activist and author of Intelligence in Nature and The Cosmic Serpent Jeremy Narby recently traveled the world to meet shamans and scientists to probe what they understand about the intelligence present in all life forms. He explores how humanity can learn from nature's economy and knowingness in our own search for a sustainable way of life.
The Precautionary Principle is the wellspring of a new political agenda that grows from renewed respect for the natural world, the wealth we hold in common, and our collective responsibilities. Carolyn Raffensperger, executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, has been a leader in seeding the Precautionary Principle in the U.S., and describes remarkable successes in applying it in governments, companies and communities.
Environmental restoration can succeed only if it meaningfully addresses social justice and the elimination of poverty. Omar Freilla, one of the nation's most dynamic and creative young environmental justice leaders, is a founding board member of Sustainable South Bronx and recently launched Green Worker Cooperatives, an inspiring initiative dedicated to the creation of worker-owned, environmentally friendly manufacturing cooperatives in the South Bronx.
"Conservatives" and corporate interests use the powerful tools of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) to define arguments, win elections and persuade the public. To be effective in the public arena, progressives and bioneers must first understand these tools. Thom Hartmann learned NLP 27 years ago as a psychotherapist and advertising agency CEO. He is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host, and award-winning author of 14 books including Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights.
Young women are rising up to take their power, and in doing so they are re-weaving a web of relationship that promises to rock the world. Performing artist, activist and hip-hop entrepreneur Rha Goddess, renowned for her spoken-word dexterity and feisty political consciousness, explores how this generation's daughters are branding their own movement of love, power and freedom.
12:00 - 1:00
Antony Brown - Designing the 21st Century
Many of the environmental challenges we now face were created during the explosive growth during the industrial revolution. As we move into this new century we face an uncertain future tied to a declining natural support system, massive population growth, and increasing demands on all resources. While we have experienced a technological revolution and a communication revolution we continue to apply 19th century methodologies to solving environmental problems. Restoring and regenerating our interdependence with our life support systems will require a dramatic new envisioning of how we live, what materials we use and what kind of “lifestyles” we lead. This presentation explores some of the new emerging possibilities for transforming our future.
Chris Hoy - The Future of Water
The Citizens Water Advocacy Group (CWAG) reviews and analyzes water issues and disseminates information to the public. This workshop will provide you with two things: (a) basic information about our regional water situation; and, (b) a review of some of the social and legal barriers confronting citizens as they try to determine the future of their water supply.
Mary Desautels & Dan Hoffman - Hybrid Energy Systems
Wind and Solar - Natural Partners, advanced design of hybrid systems
Jim Powers - The Peace Department
2:00 - 3:30
Moderator: Chip Stearns The Human Environment Connection: Hurricane Katrina and the Aftermath, a Panel Discussion
This panel will be composed of those who have been effected by or who are currently dedicated to the relief effort in the Gulf Coast Region. The intention of this panel is to bring the stories from this region into our community and to leverage resources here to support communities effected by the tragedy. We will examine the event from a socio-environmental and political, as well as personal perspective.
7:30 - 8:30
Morning Yoga (Optional)
9:00 - 11:40
Satellite Plenaries - Live from San Rafael
- Michael Abelman - Field of Plenty
- Ohki Simine Forest - Return of the Ancient Council Ways
- Andy Lipkis - Restoring Los Angeles
11:40 - 12:00
Break
12:00 - 1:00
Sam Hill A Joe Pacal & Carol Palmer - Sustainable Agriculture on the Rez
Sam Hill B Mary Desautels & Dan Hoffman - Advanced Renewable Energy Systems
Sam Hill C Heather Honea - Americas Apollo Project for the 21st Century
PAC Juanita Hull-Carlson - Teaching by Being
1:00 - 2:00
Lunch - Locally Catered $7/person
2:00 - 3:30
John Perlan - Forest Journey
3:30 - 3:50
Break
3:50 - 5:00
Plenaries
- David Orr - The Fifth Revolution
- Bernice Johnson Reagon - “And there are those of us who straddle…”
5:00
Closing Ceremony
Using stories and pictures, Michael Ableman, founder and executive director of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens and author/photographer of From the Good Earth and the new Fields of Plenty, takes us to visit some of the most innovative individuals growing food today Ñ master farmers, food artisans, and those using their farms as platforms for social and ecological change.
Of Canadian Mohawk descent, Ohki Simine Forest went to study with Mongolian shamans and ultimately moved to Chiapas, Mexico, where she was initiated into the world of Mayan healers. In 1994, she created a spiritual center in Chiapas and a nonprofit aimed at helping Mayan indigenous communities. She explains the vital importance of the Mayan resistance and the applicability of their ancient council ways as a model for all humanity.
As a teenager, Andy Lipkis learned that smog was killing the forests of Southern California. He and his friends began planting and caring for trees, and were dubbed the "tree people." More than 30 years later, Andy's pathfinding efforts have proven the feasibility of making large cities sustainable, and have resulted in the planting of two million trees, the education of one million schoolchildren, and, most recently, the retrofitting of a portion of Los Angeles to function as an urban forest watershed.
From the perspective of the sustainability of human life on the Earth, what does it mean to be intelligent? And what does the answer imply for education, learning and research? David Orr, professor and chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College, is an award-winning scholar and leader in the sustainability movement, renowned for his seminal work on environmental literacy in higher education and on ecological design.
A legendary composer, singer, historian, music producer, author and cultural activist whose career stretches over more than four decades, starting with her participation in the Civil Rights Movement, Bernice Johnson Reagon has received major recognition from the most prestigious institutions in the land for her pathfinding work as a scholar, teacher and artist in the history and evolution of African American culture.
12:00-1:00
Joe Pacal and Carole Palmer - Sustainable Agriculture on the Rez
This workshop will give an overview of sustainable agriculture on the Navajo and Hopi reservations. It will give a cultural/historical perspective of what is happening now and look into the future of agriculture on the Reservations.
Mary Desautels & Dan Hoffman - Advanced Renewable Energy Systems (bad time)
This workshop will cover grounding theory, batteries and system sizing, and will prepare you with the necessary knowledge to fashion your own solar power system at home.
Juanita Hull-Carlson - Teaching by Being (Great for Youth!)
This hands-on workshop will explore art as a consciousness raising tool. How do you harness art for activism? And how do you make activism fun? What is cool junk and how cool is it? Come play and you’ll see.
Heather Honea - America’s Apollo Project for the 21st Century
Clean energy is no longer just "an environmental program." It is a strategy for America to revitalize its economy and ensure our national security. The United States has an opportunity to invest in the growing global markets of the future, rebuild the infrastructure of our communities, and increase the efficiency and productivity of our economy. Join a discussion on how top-down national vision meets bottom-up community organizing and finds success through coalitions.
John Perlin - “A Forest Journey”
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