Schedule

FRIDAY april 13th
Local economy, local food, and
community building
If we continue on the present course, one day we will find that there are no locally owned farms, dairies, or grocers in sight, leaving us beholden to whatever food business is willing to ship us food on their terms.

9:30-11:30 Pre-conference Workshops

Local Business Networks [more info]
A free workshop with Judy Wicks and Michael Shuman about BALLE, the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies.

Educating for Sustainability [more info]
A free workshop for educators with Christopher Uhl addressing how we can teach to help create a sustainable world.

11:30 Registration and Coffee: Hubbell Auditorium

12:30-3:00 Opening and Plenary Talks

Drumming James Holland and students of DAN 342, Creative Improvisation through World Percussion

The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Food Systems Are Beating the Global Competition
Michael Shuman, author of Going Local: Creating Self Reliant Communities for the Global Age, and The SmallMart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition.

Local Living Economies: Green, Fair and Fun
Judy Wicks, founder of the White Dog Cafe in Philadelphia, co-founder of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE).

Discussion and Questions

3:30-5:00 Panels

Local Food Systems

Rebuilding Communities

5:15- Local Food Reception and Banquet

Dinner Talk:
Going Local - The Most Encouraging Change in the American Diet Today
Brian Halweil, author of Eat Here! Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket.


SATURDAY april 14th

Education, Spirit and Action
For all the dash and dazzle the inventions of humankind can never match the complexity and nuance of the sensuous earth, this breathing cosmos that we did not create.

8:00 Registration and Coffee

9:00-10:55 Plenaries

Drumming James Holland and students of DAN 342, Creative Improvisation through World Percussion

Rumors of Unfathomable Things: Climate change and Changing climate of U.S. Politics
David Orr, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies at Oberlin, author of The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift.

Citizen Activism for Environmental Health: The Growth of a Powerful New Grassroots Health Movement
Lois Gibbs, environmental activist who led the fight to clean up Love Canal in Niagara Falls, causing the creation of the EPA Superfund.

11:15-1:10 Plenaries

Performance: Karin Martino and students in DAN218 Dance and Community

Developing Ecological Consciousness: Path to a Sustainable World
Christopher Uhl, Professor of Biology at Penn State and author of the book Developing Ecological Consciousness: Paths to a Sustainable World.

Black and Green: Exploring food access and sustainability in communities of color
LaDonna Redmond, a community food security activist in Chicago, and CEO of The Institute for Community Resource Development (ICRD).

1:10-2:25 Local Food Lunch/Fair

2:25-3:15 Plenary

Between the Body and the Breathing Earth
David Abram, Author of Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World.

3:15-4:30 Panels

Higher Education

Healthy Living Environments

4:30 Closing Session

Happiness, Well-being and What Sustains us
Richard Ryan and David Abram

Performance: Hawaiian Dance and Sustainability
Victoria Kaiulani Visiko and Wayne Kimo Knox and the students of DAN340 Hawaiian Dance Culture

5:15 Reception and Celebration