by Rhiannon Tomtishen and Madison Vorva. 
These Brower Youth Award winners, two high school best friends, will describe their campaign with Rainforest Action Network to safeguard habitat for Orangutans and preserve rainforests by ending use of palm oil by the Girl Scouts and others.

Restoration Nation Theater | 11:50am, Fri

by Nina Simons.

by Kenny Ausubel.

With Sarah Skenazy and Shana Rappaport

Opening and final closing of plenaries by R. CARLOS NAKAI
– The world’s premier performer of the Native American flute, of Navajo-Ute heritage, will open and close the conference with spontaneous music fitted to the energy.

Restoration Nation Theater | 9am, Fri

by Nikki Henderson 

Introduction by Arty Mangan, Bioneers Food and Farming Director 

This nationally recognized young leader of the food justice movement will explore how we can all support the development of healthy communities and combat childhood malnutrition, diet-related diseases and food injustice. She will show how we can use the creation of “good food” systems to heal historical traumas around race, class, power and privilege in a spirit of collaboration and “ally-ship.” She is the Executive Director of the groundbreaking Oakland-based People’s Grocery, among the West Coast’s most significant on-the-ground food justice organizations. She works with Michael Pollan and Alice Waters, among others.

Restoration Nation Theater | 10:25am, Fri

by Carol Jenkins 

Introduction by Nina Simons 

As perhaps never before in our history, Americans are at war — with one another. Divided by race, class, gender, faith and rigid politics, our media has failed us. Instead of the Public Square of information, we increasingly retreat to our own de facto segregated sources of opinion. In this crucial election year of 2012, can we revive the Public Square, and, if not, what happens? Carol Jenkins is an Emmy award-winning former journalist and producer, and founding President of the Women’s Media Center, the groundbreaking nonprofit aimed at increasing coverage and participation of women in the media. In that WMC role, she conceived the acclaimed Progressive Women’s Voices media leadership program, and acquired and expanded SheSource as the largest portfolio of women experts in the country. She will explore how to regenerate the public information commons in this polarized age.

Restoration Nation Theater | 11:20am, Fri

by Michael Brune 

Introduction by James Gollin, Rainforest Action Network President 

Hungry for good news? Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune will tell the story of how an inspiring grassroots coalition has achieved hundreds of victories against Big Coal over the last several years. He will depict a new, localized approach to fighting climate change effectively and outline what each of us can do to help clean energy such as solar and wind become the dominant source of power by the end of this decade. The Beyond Coal campaign, including recent funding of $50 million from Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City, has helped block 166 (and counting) new coal plants over the past decade, with major impacts on reducing global greenhouse gas and mercury emissions. The Mother Jones magazine headline says it all: “How a Grassroots Rebellion Won the Nation’s Biggest Climate Victory.” In 1999, while working at Rainforest Action Network, Michael Brune ran a successful campaign that pressured Home Depot stores to stop purchasing and selling wood from old-growth forests. Time magazine listed this as its top environmental story of that year. He is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Daily Kos. In 2008 he published the book Coming Clean — Breaking America’s Addiction to Oil and Coal.

Restoration Nation Theatre | 12:10pm, Fri 

by Greg Sarris, Ph.D. 

Introduction by Melissa Nelson, Professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State

The Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and professor of Native American Studies at Sonoma State University will describe how his people (descendants of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo) are using their understanding that they have always been a part of the natural world to embark on a major commitment to position themselves as “keepers of the land” once again. Using ancient ethics and aesthetics of place, bolstered by casino revenues, the 1,300 member tribe has partnered with county and state officials to secure and restore large tracts of open space, as well as to convert local farms to the production of organic produce for the low-income and needy, thus creating a model of local restoration and sustainability.

Restoration Nation Theater | 9:55am, Fri