Please review these speaker ideas and add your comments below. What are we missing? What are your favorites? Can some things be combined or wait until next year? What speakers do you recommend for particular topics?
KEY:¶
Goals of our programming
Speaker Directive
(ACTION) compelling, transformative, imperative – Make calls for action
or
(DISCUSSION) stimulate dialogue, discussion – Frame as a question
We want topics that address 2 or more of these broad issues:
(T) Timely (a topic that is of genuine value or service right now for the state of our economy or our new political reality)
(SJ) Social Justice (equality, inviting everyone’s perspective/gift on sustainability, resource justice)
(Y) Youth (inviting youth participation in sustainability & democracy)
(DIY) Do it Ourselves/Skill Development (community & household level action, meeting our own needs)
(L) Local Connections (What’s happening here, How do local concerns tie to global issues?)
Individuals¶
- Amy Goodman BIO
Radio Host: Democracy Now!
Standing up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times
(ACTION)(T)(SJ) - David Korten BIO
Author: The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
Topic: “Post Bail-Out: Stop Doing Business as Usual”
(ACTION)(T) - Lawrence Lessig BIO
Author – Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, Educator: Stanford Law School
Topic: Internet Consumer Rights
(DISCUSSION)(T)(Y)(SJ) - Paul Stamets BIO
Author: Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World, Founder: Fungi Perfecti
Topic: Mushrooms Can Save the World
(DISCUSSION)(DIY)(L) - Malkia Cyril BIO
Founder and Executive Director: Center for Media Justice
Providing training and tools to help grassroots (particularly youth) activists bring about racial and economic justice through media change
(ACTION)(T)(SJ)(Y)(DIY) - Alex Steffan BIO
Co-Founder: WorldChanging
Cutting edge ideas and innovation
(DISCUSSION)(T)(Y)(L) - Medea Benjamin BIO
Co-Founder: CODEPINK & Global Exchange
(ACTION)(SJ)(DIY) - Vicki Robin BIO
Author: Your Money or Your Life!
(ACTION)(T)(DIY) - Kevin Danaher BIO
Co-Founder Global Exchange - Danny Glover BIO
Actor, Activist - Cecile Andrews BIO
Author: Slow Life & Circle of Simplicity - Demali Ayo BIO
author, speaker, artist, performer, and catalyst for change
Topic: Post-Race America? Racism in the Age of Obama - Bryant Terry BIO
Author: Vegan Soul Kitchen (VSK): Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine - Alisa Gravitz BIO
Why Green? 101 (passports to green – fundamentals class)
(T)(DIY) - John de Graaf BIO
Author: Affluenza, Founder: Take Back Your Time
Topic: Recreation – What do we do with the time we take back?
(T)(SJ)(DIY) - Tom Watson EcoConsumer
Title: The Consumption Conundrum – Buying green without buying too much
Description: A green sensibility can help insulate us from economic turmoil. With our choices – to buy or not to buy, and what to buy – we can improve our own personal financial outlook, and the overall economic climate. Learn about specific, innovative ways to go green and make the economy work for you. - Dune Lankard Link
Dune Lankard is turning conservation into an economic and political opportunity for the indigenous people of Alaska. - Clayton Thomas-Muller BIO
Clayton Thomas-Müller of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, Canada, is the indigenous oil campaign organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network. He works across Alaska, Canada and the lower 48 States of the US with grassroots indigenous communities to defend their human and environmental rights against transnational oil corporations. Clayton has been recognized by Utne magazine as one of the top 30 under 30 young visionary activists in the U.S.. Sue Supriano interviewed him at Bioneers where he was a presenter. - Malkia Cyril BIO
Title: Media Power Is One Path to Justice
Description: Across the nation communities of color, poor people, and other disenfranchised communities
face serious barriers to public participation and democratic inclusion. Building media power through
digital inclusion content standards and fights for representation strengthens not only our 1st amendment rights
but also our ability to participate as full citizens of the world. In every community, in every city grassroots organizers
are developing and implementing solutions to the problems of media bias and regressive media policy
together they are transforming an exclusive elite media system into an inclusive democratic tool for justice. - Laura Flanders BIO
Laura Flanders is the host of "GRITtv"* the new, daily, news-discussion and take action program seen on Free Speech TV (Dish Network ch. 9415) and online at the popular blog site Firedoglake.com as wel as at GRITtv.org. She also serves as the host of RadioNation, the nationally-syndicated weekly radio program of the Nation Magazine. - John Perkins Website
John Perkins’s classic exposé, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, spent over 70 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and is published in more than 30 languages. His follow-up, The Secret History of the American Empire, provides a plan for creating a sustainable, just, and peaceful world. He is the author of Shapeshifting, The World Is As You Dream It, and other books on indigenous cultures and personal transformation; is a founder and board member of Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, nonprofit organizations devoted to establishing a world our children will want to inherit; and has lectured at universities in many countries. - Belvie Rooks BIO
Belvie Rooks is a writer, an educator and a television producer. In 1984, Ms. Rooks was a founding member of Wild Trees Press, a small, award-winning literary publishing company founded by Alice Walker. In 1997, she was a principal writer and co-creator (with Danny Glover and Jaws star Roy Scheider) of a theatrical piece entitled Who’s gonna be there? Who’s gonna be there? co-starring Danny Glover and Roy Scheider that was performed in Sag Harbor, at the historic Bay Street Theater. Who’s gonna be there? also marked Ms. Rooks’ debut as a director. - Alice Waters BIO
Chef, author and farmer’s market advocate – Chez Panisse
PANELS:
- Green Living Project: Sustainability Across Africa
Multi-media presentation featuring unique sustainability projects across Africa. A journey across Southern Africa visiting eco-tourism, wildlife conservation, renewable energy, and community development programs.
Rob Holmes, Green Living Project
(SJ)(DIY) - Building a Network of Sustainable Communities: Local Responses to Global Issues
Sustainable Communities All Over Puget Sound (SCALLOPS) started in 2006 with three sustainable town groups (Bainbridge, Ballard, Port Townsend) that wanted to expand into a network of regional sustainable towns and share resources. After two short years of organizing, the number of sustainable towns in the Puget Sound region has grown to more than 60. Learn why SCALLOPS is growing so rapidly and how you can become involved in your own town and in SCALLOPS.
Vic Opperman, co-founder SCALLOPS, Sustainable Ballard
Neva Welton, co-founder SCALLOPS, Sustainable Bainbridge
Jenny Heins, Sustainable Ballard
Bill Reiswig, Sustainable West Seattle
(T)(DIY)(L) - Making Things Happen
On a rare occasion, we see leaders emerging to take bold steps to creating a better world. Join Conlin and the Schaffers as they share their visions of a brighter future and some of the steps they have taken to get us there. You’ll feel your own intentions inspired into action.
Richard Conlin (Seattle City Council)
Ethan & Sarita Role Schaffer (www.GrowFood.org)
(T)(L) - Stories of “Undriving”
Walk, bike, bus, skip the trip, telecommute. What drives us to leave the car behind? Sometimes it’s curiosity, creativity, courage or confidence. Panelists will share stories of Undriving—getting around without a car and loving it—and their resulting discoveries. Get inspired to reduce car use for your health and for the health of the planet.
Julia Field (Undriving)
Carla Sauter (Buschick)
Cathy Tuttle (Spokespeople)
David Mozer (Ibike International)
(T)(DIY)(L)
Status: Confirmed - Farming, Climate Change and Social Justice
As our recent flooding suggests, climate change is impacting our region, usually with the greatest effect on those who can least afford it. Join panelists as they discuss the challenges of local farms and the innovative ways that our communities are supporting and strengthening our local foodshed.
Rosalinda Guillen, Community to Community
Seth Caswell, Chefs Collaborative Link
Mary Embleton, Cascade Harvest Coalition CHC
Sue McGann, Marra Farm
(T)(SJ)(L) - Environmental Education: Is (our typical) environmental education good for students? As Keith points out “connecting our kids to the natural world is critical to restoring communities, reducing domestic violence, building relationships, and acknowledging and healing historical injustices.” What are we doing to bridge environmental understanding with our young people’s cultural realities? Explore how mulitcultural enviromental education is using strategies to create a healthier planet for everyone.
Running Grass, Founder & Director Three Circles Center BIO
Jourdan Keith, Founder & Director Urban Wilderness Project BIO
Marcia Rutan, Founder Washington Green Schools - Socially Responsible Investing
Fran Teplitz, Co-op America will moderate and identify ways for individuals to become involved in socially and environmentally responsible investing.
Fran Teplitz – Socially Responsible Investing Director Green America
Bruce Herbert – Newground Investments
Eric Smith – Goodfunds Wealth Management - What does green art & entertainment look like?
From photographers to musicians, artists are considering and responding to environmental and social issues. Join our panelists as they talk about materials, subject and audience, and how they use their talents to make it green.
Kuros Zahedi – mixed media
John Ullman – Seattle Folklore Society
Grace Stahre – Hazelwolf Environmental Film Network
(SJ)(Y)(DIY)(L) - What can Youth Do?
Young people today are powerful advocates for social change. Hear what local youth are doing to bring about community renewal, environmental protection and social transformation.
Cham Na, Power of Hope
Khatsini Simani, Power of Hope
Toby Crittenden, Washington Bus
Alexander Meas, Youth Media Institute
(T)(SJ)(DIY)(Y)(L) - Talk, talk, talk. What good is it?
This panel highlights some local groups who are using discussion and dialogue as tools for world changing. Join us for an exploration of ways that people are coming together to talk and listen, with the goal of creating connection and moving forward in a powerful new direction.
Susan Partnow – Communication Cafes, Compassionate Listening
Teure Sala – NVC Freedom Project
Lang Marsh – Sustainable Seattle - Sustaining quality (local) journalism in the new media ecology
The recent downfall of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, along with scores of other newspaper closures and bankruptcies, has focused attention on an unfortunate reality: some of our most important media institutions for local journalism and national/international coverage are in dire trouble. Yesterday’s media economic models are proving not to sustain the kind of quality, accountable journalism that we need to serve civic engagement, not to mention visions for progressive social change. This session will engage the audience in conversation with a few journalists and media practitioners who are envisioning and developing new media models for serving local communities, and reinventing journalism for a generation of change.
Stephen Silha, Journalism that Matters
Naomi Ishisaka, One Northwest
Moderator: Jonathan Lawson, Reclaim the Media - Keeping It Real, Keeping It Green
A new generation of leaders are expanding the frame around green to include under-served communities. Learn about innovative youth empowerment and green career programs, as they discuss their successes and challenges and explore how to engage people of color in the growing green economy.
Zakiya Harris, Grind for the Green
Pandora Thomas, Global Exchange
Julie Chang-Shulman, 206 Zulu
COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER¶
hosted by SCALLOPS (Sustainable Communities ALL Over Puget Sound)*
Share your stories with us about what is going on in YOUR sustainable community! After the conference, we’ll post the best ideas on our SCALLOPS Web site.
12-6 p.m. Saturday, March 28: Getting Ready
Our sessions are interactive – not just speakers or questions and answers – we want to hear from you!
12 p.m. Community Preparedness (90 minute session)
Discuss ways that our communities can prepare to be as self-sufficient as possible. Topics include: water storage, emergency power, food preservation, emergency kits, forming support networks with your neighbors, and successful partnering with Seattle’s Office of Emergency Preparation.
Jon Alexander, Sunshine Construction
Mary Heim, Sustainable Wallingford
Deborah Stinson, Local 2020
Jennifer Mackley, Church of the Latter Day Saints
Diane Dondero, Babes in Belts (invited)
2 p.m. Carbon Neutral Food Systems (90 minute session)
Join us to explore the exceptional vision of a local petroleum-free food system … a new project involving Sail Transport Network (fossil fuel-free cargo transport), SCALLOPS communities and Spokespeople (a neighborhood biking group) all working together to deliver goods and local produce throughout Puget Sound. Councilman Conlin (author of the recently-passed Local Food Action Initiative) joins us to share his vision and guidance for what lies ahead.
Dave Reid, Founder, Sail Transport Company
Vic Opperman, Executive Director, SCALLOPS
Richard Conlin, Seattle City Council President
Cathy Tuttle, Spokespeople
4 p.m. SCALLOPS Summit (90 minute session)
Bring your ideas to SCALLOPS Quarterly Summit! Represent your sustainable community group or learn how to start your new sustainable community – we will have Summits on both Saturday and Sunday and you are welcome to come one or both days. Created as a support and resource network, SCALLOPS Summits encourage town groups to share best practices, troubleshoot challenges, collaborate on projects together and get inspiration from each other. SCALLOPS is as much about resource sharing and education within our SCALLOPS family as we are a citizen’s congress on sustainability within Puget Sound.
Saturday Night/ Offsite Location
SCALLOPS Recognition Awards Party and Fundraiser
Details at the Community Action Center, scallopswa.org, or greenfestivals.org/seattle.
11 a.m.- 5 p.m. Sunday, March 29: Getting to Work
Our sessions are interactive – not just speakers or questions and answers – we want to hear from you!
11 a.m. SCALLOPS Summit (90 minute session)
Bring your ideas to SCALLOPS Quarterly Summit! Represent your sustainable community group or learn how to start your new sustainable community. Created as a support and resource network, SCALLOPS Summits encourage town groups to share best practices, troubleshoot challenges, collaborate on projects together and get inspiration from each other. SCALLOPS is as much about resource sharing and education within our SCALLOPS family as we are a citizen’s congress on sustainability within Puget Sound.
1 p.m. Economic Justice: Green Jobs, Green Business (90 minute session)
In the new green marketplace, there are great opportunities for new jobs that support sustainable food, energy and conservation systems. Learn about some of the programs in place and coming up, and share your ideas for ways to improve our community infrastructure and support our neighbors.
Tammy Morales, Seattle King County Acting Food Policy Council
Khepra Ptah, Projects SWITCH and Got Green?
Julie Anderson, Washington State Community Trade and Economic Development
Jessica Finn Coven, Climate Solutions
Mike Nelson, Washington State University’s Northwest Solar Center (invited)
3 p.m. The Seattle SWITCH Program (90 minute session)
Join the SWITCH Project this Earth Day, April 25, 2009! Be part of this year-long citywide effort to install over one million CFL bulbs in more than 20 communities. Through the partnership of Moontown Foundation and SCALLOPS, the SWITCH project will be the first of a series of programs working with our communities, government, utilities, non-profits and businesses toward installing low-cost weatherization, energy, and water conservation products (Switch Kits), services, and educational materials through neighbor-to-neighbor outreach, education, and volunteer service. You will not want to miss the recognition party Earth Day evening, open to all volunteers involved in this great effort!!
Stacy Noland, Founder & Chairman, Moontown Foundation
Vic Opperman, Executive Director, SCALLOPS
*Founded in 2007, award-winning non-profit SCALLOPS has grown to over 65 sustainability town groups as neighbors join up and work with their communities to take action locally for the sake of our planet. Focused primarily on radical energy conservation, SCALLOPS success has grown quickly from innovative neighbors bringing about action from important ideas. Local action is leading to powerful neighborhood projects that in turn are building a strong regional sustainability network. scallopswa.org
GREEN HOME STAGE¶
Saturday
12:00:00 PM A Call to Action: Green Bag Fee
Heather Trim/Ellie Rose, Green Bag Fee Campaign organizers
Seattle’s Mayor and City Council voted in favor of a Green Fee that will place a 20 cent fee on all single use bags. (We currently use 1 million plastic bags each day in Seattle alone). Then the Exxon-funded American Chemistry Council spent $180,000 in three weeks to stop the bill and send it to a ballot. Hear arguments for and against the green bag fee, the history of this action in Seattle and other cities, and the buildup to the ballot vote in August.
01:00:00 PM Gardening for Wildlife
Emily Bishton, Seattle Tilth Garden Educator & Green Light Gardening
The beauty of songbirds, butterflies, and beneficial insects is ample reason to create a wildlife-friendly garden, but there’s so much more to the picture! When you provide good habitat for birds and beneficial insects, they will in turn provide you with natural pest and weed control, increasing your garden’s health while decreasing your maintenance time. This workshop will teach you about plants and design techniques that attract these delightful creatures. More info about Seattle Tilth: www.seattletilth.org.
02:00:00 PM Green Home Remodel
Thor Peterson, Synthesis Consultants
Our homes are one of the biggest financial investments of our lives. Homes also take a big environmental toll on the environment; the good news is that eco-renovation can save in operating and maintenance costs and create a healthier environment at the same time—all while reducing your home’s environmental footprint. This workshop will help you prioritize activities and develop a strategic plan for eco-renovating over time, so ring note taking materials!
03:00:00 PM Your Healthy Home
Aileen Gagney, MArch, MFA, GA-C, Healthy Home Specialist
Learn how your behaviors and the products you use inside your home can impact air quality and affect your family’s health. Gagney shows how to eliminate or lessen our exposure to indoor pollutants and offers low-cost solutions for improving your home environment.
04:00:00 PM A Sustainable Home
Pam Burton/Jeremy Smithson, Puget Sound Solar
Smithson & Burton will share the basics components of remodeling a 100 year old home to conserve & produce energy with the ultimate goal of making the home net zero. Owners of Puget Sound Solar designers of domestic solar water and electric systems. Puget Sound Solar has installed over 300 kilowatts of photovoltaics on homes and businesses and 50 solar water systems in the Puget Sound area.
05:00:00 PM Electric Vehicles 101
Daniel Davids, Plug-In America & Steve Lough, SEVA
Davids and Lough cover the basics of Electric Cars including their history, how they work, how they compare to other cars, and what options are currently or soon to be available (car models and conversions).
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Sunday *
*01:00:00 PM Bringing Home Baby
Stephanie Antoinette Horace
Green’ parenting is both safe and simple. Discover easy tips and tricks to promote and protect your families’ health, home and environment. Learn inexpensive techniques to manage pests, simple solutions to clean your home, shopping tips to ensure nutritious eating habits and how to be wise with plastics.
02:00:00 PM Composting for Apartment Dwellers
Seattle Tilth Garden Educator
A workshop for apartment and condo dwellers that have limited space, but want to recycle their food scraps into rich compost. We will address the special needs of small space and indoor food composting and show you how you can make your own indoor compost bin. Come see how easy it is to get started composting in your home. More info about Seattle Tilth: seattletilth.org.
03:00:00 PM King County’s Eco-Cool Remodel Tool
Patti Southard, King County GreenTools and Matt Freeman-Gleason, ecohaus
Take a tour through our virtual house and find ways to green up your next home remodeling project. You’ll find tips and resources ranging from selecting healthy paint products, to what you should consider when replacing your furnace, upgrading your kitchen or landscaping your yard. Green home remodeling creates healthy, comfortable spaces that can save you money, increase your home’s value and help protect the environment.
04:00:00 PM 1, 2, 3 Grow a Garden
Seattle Tilth Garden Educator
Homegrown organic veggies aren’t as hard to come by as you think. All you have to do is prepare your soil, plant the crops and maintain your plot. Join us for this hour-long clinic and see how simple it is to start growing food in your sunny garden. Don’t miss the Seattle Tilth Edible Plant Sale on May 2nd and 3rd to shop for all of the veggie plants, compost and fertilizer you need to get started! More info about Seattle Tilth: seattletilth.org.
05:00:00 PM Go Green with Passive Solar
Chris Herman, Snohomish County PUD Solar and Emerging Technologies Senior Program Manager
Solar energy is being utilized effectively all over our rainy region to heat homes, make electricity, and heat water. Herman will explain how it works, show what it looks like and talk about conservation and passive solar changes that can make a big impact on your heating bill. Instructor is a certified building designer, owns a professional business and has been designing solar homes and remodels since 1987.
FAIR TRADE PAVILION¶
Saturday
12:00:00 PM What is Fair Trade?
Yochi Zakai, Green America
Join Green America’s Fair Trade Program as we explore commerce that focuses on producer empowerment, equality and economic development.
01:00:00 PM Fair Trade Coffee
Melanie,Cafe Mam
Join Café Mam to start off the Fair Trade Pavilion with stories from the coffee producing cooperatives of native Mayan farmers living in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. The growers, primarily of the Mam, Tzetzal and Mochó peoples, are organized according to egalitarian, democratic ideals. Start your Greenfestival experience with Cafe Mam’s freshly brewed coffee.
02:00:00 PM Exploring the Birthplace of Tea
Sean O’Leary, Rishi Tea
Yunnan, China, considered the birthplace of tea, is home of the Jingmai Mangjing Antique Tea Garden. Jingmai is also home to the Dai and Bulong ethnic minorities who have cultivated organic tea for thousands of years. After visiting this highly impoverished province, Rishi Tea established the Jingmai Mangjing Fair Trade Tea Project in 2003. Explore southwestern Yunnan and the success of this Fair Trade project through a presentation by Sean O’Leary, Art Director and Photojournalist for Rishi Tea.
03:00:00 PM There’s Nothing Fair about Free Trade Agreements
Stephanie Celt, Director, Washington Fair Trade Coalition
Explore the effects of Free Trade Agreements on farmers and workers in the global south, as well as the unequal distribution of benefits and burdens in the United States. From access to medicines to labor and environmental rights, discover the inequalities in current trade agreements and the promise of a global Fair Trade movement with Stephanie Celt of the Washington Fair Trade Coalition.
04:00:00 PM Organic Fair Trade Chocolate
Joseph Whinney, Theo Chocolate
Founder Joseph Whinney discusses the history of Theo Chocolate, from Pioneering the manufacture and supply of organic chocolate products to importing organic and Fair Trade cocoa beans. Join Seattle’s local chocolate company to sample some delicious Fair Trade treats.
05:00:00 PM Eco-Certified Fair Trade Sports
Scott James, Fair Trade Sports
Join Seattle’s Scott James and kick sweatshops off the playing field with eco-certified Fair Trade sports balls and uniforms.
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Sunday *
*12:00:00 PM Fair Trade in Palestine: A Vehicle for Social and Economic Empowerment Ursula Smircich, Canaan Fair Trade
Canaan Fair Trade will discuss their work with the olive farmers of the Palestinian Fair Trade Association. Participants will enjoy samples of Canaan’s Olive Oil.
01:00:00 PM Change With CHOCOLATE: A Sweet Way to Make a Difference
Sara Litke, Fair Trade Activist, Global Exchange
Want to feel good about eating that chocolate bar? Learn how you can help promote environmental and economic sustainability, education for kids, and an end to abusive child labor on cocoa farms.with sweet and simple actions in your own community, ranging from buying Fair Trade certified chocolate to informing educators about our innovative Fair Trade Cocoa Curriculum (written in partnership with Evergreen State College’s Master in Teaching program, in nearby Olympia, Washington) to participating in Global Exchange’s Sweet Smarts Fair Trade campaign.
02:00:00 PM FILM: Ants that Moved Mountains
Ants that Moved Mountains is an inspirational tale about how the Nueva Vida Fair Trade Cooperative, formed in the aftermath of hurricane Mitch, has helped improve the lives of women in Nicaragua.
03:00:00 PM What is Fair Trade?
Yochi Zakai, Green America
Join Green America’s Fair Trade Program as we explore commerce that focuses on producer empowerment, equality and economic development.
04:00:00 PM 62 Years and Counting: Ten Thousand Villages and the Fair Trade Movement
Ian Ford and Stacie Ford-Bonnelle, 10,000 Villages
Learn how one Mennonite volunteer, selling needlework in her church basement, started Ten Thousand Villages, the oldest fair trade organization in the United States and Canada. Join Ian Ford to explore the world of Fair Trade Crafts available at Ten Thousand Villages, recognized as one of “World’s Most Ethical Companies” by The Ethisphere Institute and Forbes Magazine.
MUSIC STAGE¶
SATURDAY
12:00 PM Paula Boggs
www.myspace.com/paulaboggs
With a gift for melody and orginal, intelligent lyrics, the unique and authentic voice of singer-songwriter Paula Boggs makes for a compelling performance experience."
1:00 PM Christina Orbe
www.myspace.com/cristina
Cristina Orbé is a rare find. Her music is political, conscious, sensual, poetic, intelligent, and human.
2:00 PM Power of Hope Youth
http://powerofhope.org/
The Power of Hope unleashes the positive potential of youth through arts-centered intergenerational and multicultural learning programs that value self-awareness, leadership, community and social change.
3:00 PM Evan Flory Barnes
www.myspace.com/theteachingmusic
Flory-Barnes is a young dynamo on the local scene, the go-to bassist of a vast array of leaders.
4:00 PM Correo Aereo
myspace.com/correoaereo
World Music Trio performs traditional music of Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina, and Peru.
5:00 PM EQLateral
http://eqlateral.com/
Hypnotic electro-classical soundscapes of masterful strings, driving, electronic rhythms and an utterly ethereal voice.
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SUNDAY
12:00 PM Kane Mathis
www.kairarecords.com/kanemathi
Performing on the 21-string Mandinka Harp and the Turkish Oud, Kane Mathis renders compelling interpretations of these traditional musics.
1:00 PM Rafe Pearlman
www.rafepearlman.com/music.html
In a powerful form of musical redemption, Rafe Pearlman entrances audiences with his rarified vocal harmonics, emotionally intelligent songwriting, and magnetic performance style.
2:00 PM Adrian Xavier
http://www.adrianxavier.com/
Takes music to new heights, bridging musical styles to create music that relates to people all over the world.
3:00 PM Laura Piece Kelly
http://www.piece.be/
Laura “Piece” Kelley is an internationally recognized spoken word poet, hiphop artist, music producer, and educator from Seattle.
4:00 PM Paula Maya
http://www.paulamaya.com/
Paula Maya is the music of the future. She is a stellar singer, prolific songwriter and virtuoso keyboardist with a very fresh and unique sound" Bill White, music critic for the PI & Seattle Sound Magazine
5:00 PM Jonny Hahn
info@jonnyhahn.com/
Pianist-Singer-Songwriter, has been street performing at the Pike Place Public Market since 1986.
KIDS ZONE¶
STAGE (same schedule for both days)
11:00:00 AM Green Kids Earth Pledge
Global Exchange
Start the day with the Green Kids Earth Pledge, uniting kids worldwide as they do their part to live green! Kids also get to make their own Green Kids Earth Badge.
12:00:00 PM Don’t Squish That Bug!
Creepin’ Critters with Lisa Taylor and Jessica Heiman
Explore the insect world. Learn about the bugs and spiders in your garden through song, story and dance.
01:00:00 PM Stories of Nature
Wilderness Awareness School educators
02:00:00 PM Slimy Creatures
Creepin’ Critters with Lisa Taylor and Jessica Heiman
An adventure in slime! Explore the slippery world of slugs, snails and worms through song, story and demonstration
03:00:00 AM Fair Trade Chocolate Campaign
Global Exchange
If you could make a better life for families a world away just by changing the chocolate you eat, would you do it? Learn about Global Exchange’s Fair Trade Chocolate Campaign and what you can do to promote justice for all.
04:00:00 PM Kids Climate Change Challenge
Julie Hall, author of A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids, and Sarah Lane, Editor in Chief of Green Goat Books
05:00:00 PM Green Kids Earth Pledge
Global Exchange
End the day with the Green Kids Earth Pledge, uniting kids worldwide as they do their part to live green! Kids also get to make their own Green Kids Earth Badge.
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ACTIVITY AREA (same schedule for both days)
11:15:00 AM Green Kids Earth Pledge
Global Exchange
After taking your pledge, make your Green Kids Earth Badge.
12:30:00 PM Coloring
Organic Valley, City of Seattle
01:30:00 PM Nature Crafts
Wilderness Awareness School
02:30:00 PM Storytime
Global Exchange
Enjoy stories from the Green Festival Environmental Library.
03:30:00 PM Nature Crafts
Wilderness Awareness School
*05:15:00 AM Green Kids Earth Pledge
Global Exchange
After taking your pledge, make your Green Kids Earth Badge.
Sustainable Ballard’s Undriver Licensing Station
Do your part for the planet! Make a pledge to reduce your car use in April and get your official Undriver License along with free bus tickets from King County METRO (while supplies last). Undriving is a program of Sustainable Ballard and Urban Sparks. Undrivers have free license to reconsider transportation choices on a daily basis, experiment with different ways of getting around, and share discoveries with others. All ages welcome. Get creative about getting around! $5 suggested donation.
and Undriver Resource Center
Pick up great resource information about getting around in Puget Sound, and the many options available to Undrivers! Bike and pedestrian maps, ferry, train and bus tips and schedules, rideshare information, trip planning, incentive programs and more. Undrive by bus, bike, foot, train, ferry, rideshare…..
Urban Alchemy: Trash into Art
with artist Kuros Zahedi
Turning trash into a work of art represents what humanity is capable of: transforming ugliness into beauty, the damaging into the beneficial, and the fragmented into the whole. History has handed us an aching world and the opportunity to imagine, and then create something more ideal. Often, by the time a piece is finished, the place which was cleaned for it has started to become dirty again, but like an acupuncture needle, a subtle good has been done. The gesture of cleaning a place and turning the garbage into art is tiny in relation to the enormous challenges facing humanity today, but Urban Alchemy is a metaphor, it is a symbolic act of healing."
You can find out more about Kuros on his website at
kuroszahedi.com.
Conversation Cafe
Bring conversation and connection to your organization, community and workplace with the Conversation Cafes model to increase community, connection and capacity for change.
Experience Conversation Cafes at Green Festival:
A Conversation Cafe will begin each hour at tables outside the speaker rooms. Festival goers are invited to continue the topics that have been introduced by Green Festival speakers.
The simple Conversation Café process is the gateway to dialogue – the easiest way to bring people into deep dialogue: Agreements, Talking Object, circle of 6 to 8 people with a host – two rounds with the Talking Object, then open Conversation, and then a final round of reflection with the Talking Object. This simple but robust structure brings the group to a generative space – transforming ordinary chitchat to deeper connection and meaning. Each participant leaves with a little card that describes the process – so they are then fully empowered/orientated/capable of spreading the practice as a host. Thus this becomes a Conversational Literacy movement… a core capacity for vital democracy and collective intelligence.
Pachamama Alliance
Awakening The Dreamer, Changing The Dream Symposium
The Symposium explores the link between three of humanity’s most critical concerns: environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. Using video clips from some of the world’s most respected thinkers, along with inspiring short films, leading edge information and dynamic group interactions, the Symposium allows participants to gain a new insight into the very nature of our time and the opportunity we have to shape and impact the direction of our world with our everyday choices and actions.
Pecha Kucha
www.pecha-kucha.orgPecha Kucha (the Japanese for the sound of conversation) gathers creative individuals to share their work and ideas in an informal environment. Pecha Kucha Night was conceived in 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (from Klein Dytham architecture, in Tokyo), as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to showcase their ideas, visions, work/areas of curiosity.
The Green Festival Edition of Pecha Kucha will feature local green building designers. Pecha Kucha Night is non profit and is now running in 155 cities globally.
Pecha Kucha Night is for CONTENT and not profit. As always – thank you for your amazing support.
Shorts Film Festival (Sunday 4:00pm 90 MINUTE PROGRAM)
hosted by Hazelwolf Environmental Film Network
Enjoy a selection of the best short films from the 2008 Hazelwolf Environmental Film Festival.
Papiroflexia (3 min, USA) Animation
Papiroflexia (Spanish for “Origami”) is the animated tale of Fred, a skillful paper folder who could shape the world with his hands. Originally created as a poem by the director, it was turned into a short animated film in the UCLA Animation Workshop. (Joaquin Baldwin, 2007)
Thorn to Be Wild (10 min, USA) Youth Film
A student-directed short documenting the ongoing restoration of Seattle’s largest forest, the West Duwamish Greenbelt. It tells the story of the Nature Consortium’s volunteer-fueled efforts to replace harmful invasive species with a diversity of long-lived native trees and understory plants. The film paired students from Seattle-area schools with local filmmakers and environmental activists. Includes original songs and scoring by youth. (Teen students with Carey Christie, 2008)
Shifting Currents (15 min, USA) Youth Film
A student-produced documentary of Eagle Harbor High School’s involvement with the federal removal of two dams on the Olympic Peninsula’s Elwha River. Mentored through Bainbridge Island Television and based at Olympic Park Institute, the students highlight the journey of the river as well as their reflections on issues of social justice and environmental sustainability. The film became more than a document of the students’ activities on the Elwha and their respect for the involvement of the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe in river renewal; it became their statement about the need for change. Shifting Currents represents not only the shifts in the river as the dams are removed but also a shift in a generational attitude toward environmental issues. (Eagle Harbor High School, 2007)
Íslenska: On the Road to Unearth Iceland’s Secrets (27 min, France, USA) Short Film
Lured by timeless volcanoes, sweeping glaciers, and medieval landscapes, three journalists and friends descend on Iceland, an island of mystery and intrigue, isolated high in the North Atlantic Ocean, cresting the artic circle. The trio aims to ski the country’s impressive volcanoes’ glaciers and share a lighthearted journey together. But they are also committed to unearth Iceland’s untold stories, whether it’s the overwhelming forces of nature, the country’s remarkable sustainable energy usage, or secret myths sewn in the tapestry of the culture for hundreds of years. (Cécile Cusin, 2007)
Lednice / The Fridge (7 min, Czech Republic) Animation
A short, metaphoric film about global warming. What would happen if, one day, a man forgets to close his fridge? At first, when climate inside the fridge begins to change, everything seems so positive. All is sprouting and blossoming, chickens hatching from the eggs…. But soon the new inhabitants of the fridge face incipient catastrophe. (Lucie Stamfestova, 2007)
The Ordinary Heroes of Afghanistan (21 min, India)
Operating with the conviction that ‘experts’ don’t have all the answers and technology can be demystified, the Barefoot College applies entrepreneurial creativity to the most complex development problems, yielding extraordinary results. The film shows how the Barefoot College works with five villages in Afghanistan to train Barefoot Solar Engineers in India. (Bunker Roy, 2006)
