State campaigns to change drug laws are sweeping the nation with the leadership of DPA. Learn how citizens can become engaged to end the failed “war on drugs.”
Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Capitalism 2.0: Cutting-Edge Conscious Entrepreneurship
August 25, 2012 by
Hosted by Deborah Schoenbaum, Multicultural and Diversity Consultant and Faculty at Center for Whole Communities.
With Ken Lee and Caryl Levine, Co-Founders of Lotus Foods; David Lively, Sales and Marketing Vice-President at Organically Grown Company; Bob Gough, Secretary of the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy COUP).
Exemplary, socially conscious entrepreneurs are breaking new ground in sustainability and contributing to the common good with boldly creative business strategies and high-quality products and services. These cutting-edge social ventures change the paradigm of the contract between business and society. They will share their approaches, successes and challenges, from mainstreaming naturally derived pharmaceutical products — to scaling production and distribution of diverse heirloom rice varieties and “More Crop Per Drop”– practices that radically reduce water consumption by an industry that uses a third of all annual freshwater supply — to the full-spectrum sustainability and equity practices of the Pacific Northwest’s largest wholesaler of organic fruits and vegetables and supporter of regional agriculture to how Native American nations are using entrepreneurship to address energy and green building jobs and businesses, such as SAFE: “Training a Workforce, Building an Industry: A trained tribal straw bale workforce can construct sustainable, affordable, future-proofed and energy efficient (SAFE) housing built with low-cost, low-embedded energy, carbon sequestering and high-performing locally sourced materials.”
Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science
August 25, 2012 by
Presented by The Buckminster Fuller Institute. Hosted by David McConville, BFI President.
With 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge finalists: Jason McLennan, founder of the Living Building Challenge, CEO, Cascadia Green Building Council; Cheryl Dahle, founder, Future of Fish.
Fifty years ago the visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller called for a “design science revolution.” The Buckminster Fuller Institute’s Buckminster Fuller Challenge Prize is a clarion call for today’s whole-systems designers to solve the world’s greatest ecological and social challenges. The $100,000 prize aids the further development of a “trimtab” solution that best demonstrates the capacity to catalyze systemic change using Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science. In this session two of this year’s four finalists will share their extraordinary projects.
The Living Building Challenge seeks to set the highest possible level of environmental performance in construction and design to push the building industry to re-imagine itself and dramatically re-frame how human buildings and infrastructure function within ecosystems. Future of Fish is a groundbreaking, pragmatic effort to address the very complex crisis of overharvesting that threatens the world’s wild marine fisheries by incubating highly innovative market based models that can drive seafood sustainability and marine conservation.
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Feminomics: How Women’s Leadership and Whole-Systems Approaches Are Reinventing Economics That Work for All
August 25, 2012 by
With Ai-Jen Poo; Judy Wicks, groundbreaking socially conscious entrepreneur, Co-Founder of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies; Rebecca Adamson, President and Founder, First Peoples Worldwide; Dana Lanza, CEO of Confluence Philanthropy; Farha-Joyce Haboucha, Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager and Director of Sustainability & Impact Investments, Rockefeller & Co, Inc.
At its heart, economy reflects what we value, including both Earth and people. Though many are re-imagining new systems, innovations and forms that can work for all, few are noting explicitly the convergent contribution that women and valuing the feminine and whole systems are making to the field. Join us to explore this terrain with leading-edge innovators and practitioners to inform and clarify new visions for finance, business, economics and culture. Together we’ll investigate, cross-pollinate and surface ideas and observations to inform a collective and viable future vision.
Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Cosmos and Psyche: The Great Transformation
August 25, 2012 by
With Richard Tarnas, author of The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche, professor and founding director of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies; Luisah Teish, author and Ifa-Orisha priestess; Oren Lyons, Onondaga Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan and global indigenous leader.
Brian Swimme is a renowned cosmologist on the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in the Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness program, and author of The Universe Story (with Thomas Berry) andThe Universe Is a Green Dragon.
A growing global consensus is emerging that this moment of planetary breakdown can transform into breakthrough. From scientists to shamans, this crisis is being recognized as a crisis of cosmology — of the guiding cultural narratives whose stories must also now transform because “worldviews create worlds,” as Richard Tarnas puts it. How can diverse cultures’ cosmologies illuminate these breakthroughs for a radical evolutionary transformation?
Author Richard Tarnas suggests that the “disenchanted objectivist world view of modernity that underlies the present crisis is in the process of transcending itself.” That paradigm is becoming a more inclusive cosmology that embraces the creative complexity, aliveness and “ensoulment” inherent in the web of life. He also draws on suggestive evidence that planetary alignments correspond to large-scale human behavior, archetypal cycles that echo and build on prior periods of revolutionary transformation.
Luisah Teish will share her Ifa-Orisha West African cosmology’s perspectives, including that of Oya, the Goddess of Catastrophe who shows how breakdown can lead to breakthrough through making basic structural changes.
Iroquois elder Oren Lyons will depict perspectives on the place of gratitude, ceremony, clear thinking and peacemaking from the Iroquois and other indigenous traditions.
Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
Wiser Together Cafe: Creating Tomorrow Together
August 25, 2012 by
With Dave Shaw, Ashley Cooper and Susan Kelly.
We’ve seen what is possible from the Bioneers, we’ve learned from each other’s ideas and meaningful work, and now we’re ready to take it home. Seeds have been planted throughout the weekend and we need each other to ensure our shared success. How can we play together year round? How might we be anchors for each other and our projects as we serve the future we believe in?
Let’s nourish partnerships and relationships that we can draw upon in the coming months as we ground these possibilities into realities. And let’s meet up again next year to share what we’re learning! Join us for a participant-driven World Cafe conversation about how we can collaborate to shape the future by synergizing the unique gifts of all generations. The Cafe provides a hospitable space for integration and reflection on what is emerging at the conference, building partnerships of personal and professional value, and seeing the collective intelligence become visible before your eyes through graphic recording. Let’s create tomorrow, together!!
World Cafe | 4:30pm-6pm, Sun
Meet and Greet the 2012 Brower Youth Award Winners
August 25, 2012 by
The BYA winners, in their first public appearance, are young activists who have shown outstanding leadership in creating positive environmental and social impacts. Come hear their inspiring stories and have the opportunity to connect with these young activists from all over North America.
Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Campaign Connection: Becoming Beloved Ancestors — Building A Women-Led Civil Rights Movement for Future Generations
August 25, 2012 by
With Carolyn Raffensperger, Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network; and Caroline Casey, creator-weaver-of-context of “The Visionary Activist Show” on Pacifica Radio stations KPFA in the Bay Area and KPFK in Los Angeles.
This organizing and strategizing session will focus on how to launch a women-led rights movement for future generations of all species. We’ll explore visionary new tools, policies and institutions from the local to the international level in a session that pulls together wisdom traditions, the bottom-up organizing of Occupy Wall Street, and new environmental policies.
The Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
What’s Sex Got to Do With It?: Population, Women and the Earth
August 25, 2012 by
Hosted by Anuja Mendiratta of Philanthropic and Nonprofit Consulting.
With Robert Engelman, author and President of Worldwatch Institute; Eveline Shen, Executive Director of Forward Together; John Seager, President of Population Connection; Muadi Mukenge, Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Fund for Women.
As global population exceeds 7 billion, and climate and social instabilities are on the rise, many believe we’re exceeding Earth’s carrying capacity. The pressure to change our social and ecological systems is ramping up, and women sit firmly at the center of it all. Yet who decides how population and reproductive rights change, and how? With such gross inequities and different perspectives as exist between the global North and the global South, the issue of population has long been a “third rail” in the environmental movement. Within the U.S., issues of reproductive rights, health and justice are surfacing painful political and social wounds, as well as cultural divides that are debilitating for our collective progress. Join us to navigate across a diverse spectrum of perspectives to explore and integrate anthropological, geopolitical, ecological and social identity impacts and narratives, while exploring how these various stories may find common ground.
Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
Changing the Story: New Media for Movement Building
August 25, 2012 by
Hosted by Jeremy Kagan, award-winning filmmaker.
With Mathew Gross, new media strategist, former Director of Internet Communications for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign; Shirley Sneve, Executive Director of Native American Public Telecommunications; Ian Inaba, Co-Executive Director of Citizen Engagement Lab.
Bold innovators in new media activism are addressing both the need to change the larger narrative to combat apathy, cynicism, hopelessness and paranoia, as well as to explore how to get your message out and mobilize engagement most effectively in a rapidly shifting media landscape.
Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun
