Portland, Oregon, USA 2015

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Opening Evening

Saturday

Closing

Adebayo Clement-Akomolafe

Derek Rasmussen

Ellen Brown – USA

Manish Jain – India

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Plenary Sessions (slides & transcripts)

Workshops (slides, presentation, community organizers kit)

Plenary Sessions (slides & transcripts)

Workshops (slides, presentation, community organizers kit)

The 4th Economics of Happiness Conference took place in Portland, Oregon from February 27th to March 1st, 2015. The program included plenaries, panels, interactive workshops and other participatory sessions.

The wide range of inter-connected topics included:

local food, public policy, democracy, local business, the commons, cooperatives, local finance, spirituality, connecting to nature, economic indicators, health, education, bridging the North-South divide, the new economy movement, climate justice, cultural diversity, biodiversity, environmental justice, income inequality, and the impact of the economy on our psychological well-being.

For proceedings, including slides and talk transcripts, view here:

Bayo Akomolafe: Transcript of plenary talk

Ellen Brown: Plenary slides ( 2 mb)

Jihan Gearon: Plenary slides

Richard Heinberg: Plenary slides

Manish Jain: Transcript of plenary talk

Sandra Lubarsky: Plenary slides

Camila Moreno: Plenary slides

Janelle Orsi: Plenary slides

Michael Shuman: Plenary slides

Nicole Chaland: Community Organizers Kit

Michael Shuman: Workshop slides

Brian Smith: Workshop presentation

Donnie Maclurcan: Summary of workshop topic

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Helena Norberg-Hodge

Plenary 1

Camila Moreno
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Manish Jain
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Chet Bowers
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Ellen Brown
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Plenary 2

Jihan Gearon
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Derek Rasmussen
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Sandra Lubarsky
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Bayo Akomolafe
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Plenary 3

Michael Shuman
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Richard Heinberg
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Carol Black
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Janelle Orsi
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Plenary 4

Donnie Maclurcan
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Catherine Ingram
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Cameron Whitten
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Severn Cullis-Suzuki
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Plenary 5

John de Graaf
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Charles Eisenstein
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Helena Norberg-Hodge
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Bayo Akomolafe (PhD) is an ethnopsychotherapeutic researcher, lecturer and author from Covenant University in Nigeria. He is an international speaker, poet and activist for radical systemic shifts in current social, political and economic configurations. He is Coordinator of the International Alliance for Localization. His is an emerging voice in the world calling for a new forms of consciousness by turning to each other in small ways, and reconnecting with our “shamanic effusiveness and utter magnificence.” Bayo and his “life-force,” Ej, are currently on an enchanted journey to reclaim their lives and intimacy with the earth, with community, and with a larger palette of possibilities. He is writing his second book, And We Shall Dance with the Mountains and a novel, The Boy Who Stayed Outside. Ej and Bayo are ecstatic parents of a girl, Alethea-Aanya.

Derek Rasmussen is a meditation teacher and activist. He lived in Iqaluit, Nunavut, for twelve years, and he provides policy and legal research for the Inuit group Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. His PhD research studies ways activists and educators can cultivate compassion, loving-kindness, sympathetic joy and equanimity—the four emotional meditations of Buddhism.

https://sfu.academia.edu/DerekRasmussen

http://www.umass.edu/cie/beyond_freire/#Derek

Ellen Brown (USA) is the founder of the Public Banking Institute and the author of a dozen books and hundreds of articles. In her best-selling Web of Debt (2007, 2012), she analyzed the Federal Reserve and “the money trust,” showing how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves – and how we can get it back. In The Public Bank Solution (2013) she traced the evolution of two banking models – public and private –and explores contemporary public banking systems globally.

Ellen ran for California State Treasurer in 2014 and garnered a record number of votes for a Green Party candidate. You can read her blog or listen to her biweekly radio program “It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown” on the Progressive Radio Network.

is a leading voice for the regeneration of diverse local knowledge systems, cultural imaginations, and the deschooling of our lives. He is the Co-Founder and coordinator of the Udaipur-based Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development, and the co-founder of some of the most innovative educational experiments in the world: Swaraj University, the Jail University, the Creativity Adda, the Learning Societies Unconference, the Walkouts-Walkonnetwork, Udaipur as a Learning City, and the Families Learning Together network. He recently helped to launch the global Ecoversities Network. Manish is the editor of several books on learning societies, unlearning, gift culture, community media, and tools for deep dialogue. Read more about Manish here.

Download conference program here

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