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Berkeley, California, USA 2012

Conference

March 23rd – 25th, 2012

David Brower Center

Berkeley, CA

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Manish Jain: Modern Schooling and the Corporate Agenda.

Sulak Sivaraksa: The Structural Violence of the Global Economy

Richard Heinberg: The End of the Line for Economic Growth.

Rebecca Tarbotton: Globalization as Driver of Environmental Decline.

Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Overview of Localization.

Annie Leonard: moving from consumer to citizen.

Stacy Mitchell: Local revival: building a decentralized economy.

Azby Brown: Lessons from Preindustrial Japan.

Judy Wicks: An Entrepreneur’s Persepctive on Building the New Economy.

Carol Black: Reclaiming Our Children, Reclaiming the World

Gustavo Esteva: Challenging the Institutional Production of Truth.

Yoji Kamata: The Localization Movement in Japan.

Vandana Shiva.

Yet We Sow: Voices of Organic Farmers After Fukushima.

Bill McKibben.

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Annie Leonard

is author and host of The Story of Stuff and director of The Story of Stuff Project.
She has also worked with the Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption, GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives), Health Care Without Harm, Essential Action and Greenpeace International.
www.storyofstuff.com

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Anuradha Mittal

is founder and director of the Oakland Institute and an international expert on trade, development, human rights and agriculture issues. She was named as the Most Valuable Thinker in 2008 by The Nation magazine. Mittal is the author of many books on agriculture and economic development.
www.oaklandinstitute.org

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Azby Brown

a native of New Orleans, is an artist and designer who has lived in Japan since 1985. He is the author of Small Spaces and Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan. On the faculty of the Kanazawa Institute of Technology since 1995, he is the director of the KIT Future Design Institute in Tokyo.

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Charles Eisenstein

is a speaker and writer focusing on themes of human culture and identity. He is the author of several books, most recently Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible. His background includes a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Yale, a decade in Taiwan as a translator, and stints as a college instructor, a yoga teacher, and a construction worker. He currently writes and speaks full-time. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and four children. Read more about Charles at http://charleseisenstein.net.

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Charles Simmons

teaches journalism and media law at Eastern Michigan University. He is the Co-Chair of the Committee for the Political Resurrection of Detroit and is on the board of directors of Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice. He writes for national and international media and academic journals.

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Gustavo Esteva

has co-founded several Mexican, Latin American and International NGOs and networks, and received Mexico’s National Prize of Political Economy for his contribution to the theory of inflation. He is active in Zapatismo, a movement for protecting the rights of indigenous peoples.
http://gustavoesteva.org

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Helena Norberg-Hodge – Byron Bay, Australia

A pioneer of the new economy movement, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the recipient of both the Right Livelihood Award and the Goi Peace Prize. She is the founder and director of Local Futures (formerly ISEC) and the International Alliance for Localization. She produced and co-directed the award-winning film The Economics of Happiness, and is the author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures. Helena is also a founding member of the International Forum on Globalization, the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, and the Global Ecovillage Network.

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Joanna Macy

is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, she has created a ground-breaking framework for personal and social change. Her work helps people transform despair and apathy into constructive, collaborative action.
www.joannamacy.net

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Judy Wicks – Philadelphia, PA

Author, activist, entrepreneur, and a pioneer in the local food movement, Judy Wicks founded Philadelphia’s iconic White Dog Cafe in 1983. She is the founder of Fair Food Philly and the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, and co-founder of the nationwide Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). Good Morning, Beautiful Business, Judy’s acclaimed memoir, won a national gold medal for business leadership.
www.livingeconomies.org

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Koyu Furusawa

holds a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Kyoto University. He is on the faculty of the Economics department at Kokugakuin University and Chief Executive of the Japan Center for Sustainable Environment & Society (JACSES). He has a special interest in grassroots farming initiatives and their potental to revolutionize agriculture in Japan.

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Maria Gastelumendi

is originally from the Highlands of Peru and now owner of Rising Loafer Cafe and Bakery in Oakland, California, which hosts regular Occupy Oakland meetings. She is active in the Occupy Local Business Liaison Committee and the Non-Violence Caucus of Occupy Oakland.
www.therisingloafercafe.com

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Megan Quinn Bachman

is a peak oil writer and educator who serves on the board the Association for the Study of Peak Oil – USA and teaches global ecology at Antioch University – Midwest. She also co-wrote and co-produced the award-winning documentary, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil.

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Rebecca Tarbotton

is Executive Director of Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and former Project Coordinator at ISEC. Under her direction, RAN challenges corporate power in order to protect endangered forests, transform dirty energy expansion into a clean energy future, and combat global warming.
www.therisingloafercafe.com

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http://ran.org

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Richard Heinberg – Sebastopol, CA

Richard Heinberg is a Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels. He has authored more than a dozen books and has written for Nature, The Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor and many other publications. He has delivered hundreds of lectures on energy and climate issues to audiences around the world.

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Ross Jackson

is an economist, chair of Gaia Trust, co-founder of the Global Ecovillage Network and Gaia Education, expert on foreign exchange markets, owner of organic foods wholesaler Urtekram, and author of Occupy World Street: A Global Roadmap for Radical Economic and Political Reform.
www.gaia.org

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Stacy Mitchell

is a senior researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, directing initiatives on community banking and business. She is author of Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses and chairs the American Independent Business Alliance.

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www.newrules.org

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Sulak Sivaraksa

is an activist and social critic and the author of more than a hundred books in Thai and English. In 1995 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize. He works to revive the socially engaged aspects of Buddhism.
www.sulak-sivaraksa.org

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