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Port Townsend, Washington, USA 2017

Conference

Let’s create an economy that works for us all!

On October 27th, 2017 the Economics of Happiness conference was held at the Fort Worden, a beautiful State Park on Puget Sound in Port Townsend, Washington and was jointly organized by Local Futures, the Living Economies Forum, and The Happiness Project.

During this two-day conference we discussed, discovered and devised better systems for now and the future. The program included plenaries, panels, interactive workshops and other participatory sessions.

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The wide range of inter-connected topics included: the New Economy movement, income inequality, local food and regenerative agriculture, public policy, local business, cooperatives, Transition Town initiatives, community-sourced finance, connection to nature, education, intentional communities, climate and environmental justice, and the impact of the economy on our psychological well-being.

Listen to podcasts of the plenary talks and the Rethinking Prosperity workshop

For more information on the conference, go to www.brownpapertickets.com/event

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Brandy Gallagher – Shawnigan Lake, BC

Brandy Gallagher is the founder of OUR Ecovillage, a 25-acre sustainable village community in British Columbia. OUR Ecovillage is founded on permaculture principles and aims at social, ecological, and economic well being.

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David Korten – Bainbridge Island, WA

David Korten is co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine, president of the Living Economies Forum, an associate fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies and a member of the Club of Rome. His books include Agenda for a New Economy and the international best-seller When Corporations Rule the World.

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Deric Gruen

Deric Gruen manages the Rethinking Prosperity project at the University of Washington Center for Communication and Civic Engagement. He consults on initiatives at the intersections of equity, environment, and the economy. Current projects include Front and Centered, a coalition working for equitable and effective state climate policy in Washington State and the Seattle Good Business Network’s Local Economy Leaders Lab. Deric is a Board member of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI).

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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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John de Graaf – Seattle, WA

John de Graaf is an author, filmmaker and Executive Director of Take Back Your Time. He is a co-founder of The Happiness Initiative and recently served as an advisor to the government of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness proposal for the United Nations. Among his many documentary films is the influential and popular Affluenza.

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John Lupinacci – Seattle, WA

John Lupinacci is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Thought in Education at Washington State University. His research focuses on how people learn to both identify and examine the destructive habits of modern human culture. He is the co-author of Ecojustice Education: Towards Diverse, Democratic and Sustainable Communities.

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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.
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Larkin Stentz – Long Beach, WA

Larkin Stentz has been the steward of Green Angel Gardens organic farm and sustainable living center for the last 11 years in Long Beach Washington. During this time over 125 interns and woofers from around the world have trained there. Over the past 20 years Larkin has taught Bio-intensive food production in elementary schools, high schools, and junior colleges. He is a board member of Washington Tilth Producers, a concert and recording artist, writer and devoted spiritual seeker.

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Laurence Cole

Laurence Cole has the extraordinary gift of bringing people together in group song. Part of his mission is to re-acquaint people with their birthright and natural ability to make beautiful and meaningful sound together. Group singing is one of the most ancient and primal ‘technologies of belonging’ that we humans have been using since our earliest times, possibly before speech itself. When we make joyous and passionate song together, it nourishes our souls and offers an enlivening gift back to the natural world that made us and gives us our sustenance and our very being.

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Michael Ableman – Saltspring Island, BC

Michael Ableman is an organic farmer, speaker, photographer and author. His books include From the Good Earth, Fields of Plenty, and Street Farm. Considered one of the fathers of the urban agriculture movement, Michael is the recipient of an environmental leadership award from the governor of California, the SUSTIE award from the Ecological Farming Association, and a Food Hero award from Eating Well magazine.

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Rachel Maxwell – Seattle, WA

Rachel Maxwell is the co-founder of Community Sourced Capital (CSC), a community-based crowd-sourced lending platform that helps people share their money with businesses they know and love. In three years CSC deployed almost two million dollars in 100 loans to neighborhood businesses involving over 6,000 people.

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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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Sarah van Gelder – WA

Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and editor-at-large of YES! Magazine, and the author of The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000 Mile Journey Through a New America. She is also the editor of Sustainable Happiness: Living Simply, Live Well, Make a Difference, and This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99 Percent Movement.

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