The esteemed Oakland-based multicultural youth dance and performance troupe always gets standing ovations. It’s the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Arts Company!
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:35am, Sun
‘Shafts of Light: Nature’s Temple’ film
August 29, 2012 by
With Louis Schwartzberg
This internationally recognized artist of film, internationally known for his astonishing stop-action, slow-motion visual poetry of nature, will premiere an astonishing visual feast of light in nature.
Restoration Nation Theater | 9am, Sat
R. CARLOS NAKAI
August 29, 2012 by
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
Regeneration
August 19, 2012 by
by Paul Hawken.
Paul Hawken is a visionary social entrepreneur, the award-winning author of multiple landmark books includingBlessed Unrest, The Ecology of Commerce and Natural Capitalism (co-author), and the Co-Founder of OneSun, a radically innovative solar energy technology company.
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:45am, Sun
Flavas of a Whole Community: Ingredients for Food Access in Historically Under-Invested Communities
August 7, 2012 by
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
Drug War, Drug Peace
August 7, 2012 by
by Ethan Nadelmann.
Introduction by Jodie Evans, Co-Founder CODEPINK: Women for Peace
The world’s leading proponent of sane drug policies will ask us to imagine a world in which criminal laws and institutions play little role in drug control policy. What do we risk? What do we gain? What do we fear? And what can we do? Ethan Nadelmann is the Founder and Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the failed “War on Drugs” and its extreme racial injustices, social harms and costs.
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:05am, Sun
A Caring, Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century
August 7, 2012 by
with Ai-Jen Poo. Introduction by Nina Simons
One of the nation’s most effective and dynamic young labor leaders will present the vision of Caring Across Generations, a new national coalition of 200 advocacy organizations working together for a dignified quality of life for all Americans. Its purpose is to transform some of our most fundamental social and economic challenges — jobs, long-term care and immigration — into opportunities for innovation and solutions that benefit everyone. Selected in 2012 as one of Time’s 100 most influential global leaders, Ai-jen Poo is Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, working to give domestic workers basic workers’ rights, and Co-Director of Caring Across Generations.
Restoration Nation Theater | 10:00am, Sun
The Whole Fracking Enchilada
August 7, 2012 by
by Sandra Steingraber. Introduction by Charlotte Brody, Director of Chemicals, Public Health and Green Chemistry at the BlueGreen Alliance
This award-winning author, biologist and specialist on environmental health will explore the threats to climate and public health from extreme energy extraction including hydraulic fracturing (fracking). From strip-mining of frack sand in Wisconsin which releases carcinogenic silica dust into the air — to the deep-well injection of fracking waste in Ohio which has been linked to earthquakes — these new methods of blasting hydrocarbons from the earth are shock-and-awe operations. Of particular interest in this talk are the living organisms that inhabit Earth’s deep geological strata. Far from being inert, our nation’s bedrock is an underground “coral reef” of microbes, another invisible ecosystem that’s linked in ways not yet fully understood to life here on the sunlit surface of our planet. Sandra Steingraber is a Ph.D. biologist, author and 2011 recipient of the Heinz Award for her research and writing on environmental health. She donated the $100,000 cash prize to the fight against hydraulic fracturing, convening the grassroots coalition New Yorkers Against Fracking. In 2010, her book Living Downstream on the environmental links to cancer was released as a documentary film. Her most recent book is Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis.
Restoration Nation Theater | 9:20am, Sun
Toxic Culture: How Materialistic Society Makes Us Ill
August 7, 2012 by
The Canadian physician and best-selling author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts is a brilliantly original thinker on addiction, trauma, parenting and the social context of human diseases and imbalances. Contrary to the assumptions of mainstream medicine, he asserts that most human ailments are not individual problems, but reflections of a person’s relationship with the physical, emotional and social environment, from conception to death. Mind and body are not separate in real life, and thus health and illness in a person reflect social and economic realities more than personal predispositions. In other words, personal responsibility cannot be separated from societal responsibility and changing the world.
Restoration Nation Theater | 12:20pm, Sat
The Challenge of Sustainable Development: New Models
August 7, 2012 by
by Marina Silva
Introduction by Atossa Soltani, Founder and Executive Director of Amazon Watch
The legendary Amazonian defender of the rainforest and its peoples was the first rubber tapper ever elected to Brazil’s federal Senate, served as Minister of the Environment under Lula, and ran as the 2010 Green Party Presidential candidate, gaining as astonishing 19 percent of the vote. She will depict how we can balance protecting the Amazon and other vital ecosystems with sane development that brings people out of poverty without destroying the environment.
Restoration Nation Theater | 11:05am, Sat
