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Portland, Oregon, USA 2015

Conference

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:

Plenary Sessions (slides & transcripts)

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

Workshops (slides, presentation, community organizers kit)

Nicole Chaland: Community Organizers Kit

Michael Shuman: Workshop slides

Brian Smith: Workshop presentation

Donnie Maclurcan: Summary of workshop topic

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Opening Evening

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Saturday

Plenary 1

Camila Moreno

Manish Jain

Chet Bowers

Ellen Brown

Plenary 2

Jihan Gearon

Derek Rasmussen

Sandra Lubarsky

Bayo Akomolafe

Plenary 3

Michael Shuman

Richard Heinberg

Carol Black

Janelle Orsi

Plenary 4

Donnie Maclurcan

Catherine Ingram

Cameron Whitten

Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Plenary 5

John de Graaf

Charles Eisenstein

Closing

Helena Norberg-Hodge

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Speakers

Bayo Akomolafe

Adebayo Clement-Akomolafe

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.

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Cameron Whitten

is a civic entrepreneur, storyteller, and economics student at Portland State University. His passion of advocating for human rights and underrepresented voices was catalyzed in 2011, the year the Occupy Movement was born. Cameron engages his community in social justice through his service as Board President of Know Your City, and a number of other nonprofit, civic, and political causes in Portland.

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Camila Moreno

works with social movements in Brazil and Latin America on social and environmental dimensions of biotechnology and agribusiness expansion in the region. Her main areas of study, writing and activism in recent years have been on the territorial impacts of development policies and emerging schemes associated to the green economy.

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Carol Black

Education analyst, television producer and director of the film Schooling the World.

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http://schoolingtheworld.org/blog

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Catherine Ingram

is the author of Passionate Presence, In the Footsteps of Gandhi, and A Crack in Everything. A former journalist specializing in issues of consciousness and activism, she has internationally led retreats and public sessions of Dharma Dialogues since 1993 and is founder and president of Living Dharma, an educational nonprofit organization.

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http://www.dialogueswithcatherine.com/

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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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Chet Bowers

Esteemed thinker in the fields of education, ecology, technology and the commons. Author of Let Them Eat Data and Revitalizing the Commons.

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www.ecojusticeeducation.org/

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Derek Rasmussen

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

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

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Ellen Brown – USA

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.

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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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Janelle Orsi

Janelle Orsi is a lawyer, advocate, writer, and cartoonist focused on cooperatives, the sharing economy, urban agriculture, shared housing, local currencies, and community-supported enterprise. She is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Sustainable Economies Law Center and author of Practicing Law in the Sharing Economy (ABA Books 2012).

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http://janelleorsi.com/

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Jerry Mander

Jerry Mander is Chair of the International Forum on Globalization, encouraging global resistance to advancing corporate rule since 1993. An ex-advertising executive, Mander is also a best-selling author. Titles include: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977);  In the Absence of the Sacred (1989); The Case Against the Global Economy (1996); and, recently The Capitalism Papers-Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System (2013).

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http://www.undueinfluence.com/mander.htm

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Jihan Gearon

Executive Director of Black Mesa Water Coalition. Jihan is Diné (Navajo) and African American and works on connecting the issues of energy development in Indigenous communities to larger social justice movements and common strategies.

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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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Manish Jain – India

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.

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Michael Shuman – USA

Economist, attorney, author, and leading visionary on community economics. Author of ten books, including: Local Dollars, Local Sense; The Small-Mart Revolution; Going Local; and The Local Economy Solution. He is also Director of Local Economy Programs for Neighborhood Associates Corporation, a founding partner of Local Analytics, and an Adjunct Professor at Bard Business School.

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https://bealocalist.org/michael-schuman

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Richard Heinberg

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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Sandra Lubarsky

Sandra Lubarsky is chair of the Goodnight Family Department of Sustainable Development at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina where she teaches courses on beauty and sustainability, environmental humanities, and strategies for reenchantment. She has authored three books and currently writes on aesthetics and sustainability as well as sustainability and higher education.

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http://sd.appstate.edu/faculty/sandra-lubarsky-department-chair

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Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Severn Cullis-Suzuki is a culture and environmental activist and writer. She is the host of the APTN TV series Samaqan – Water Stories, board member of the Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society and the David Suzuki Foundation, and a council member of Earth Charter International.

 

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Vicki Robin

Vicki Robin is co-author of the perennial best-seller, Your Money or Your Life, and author of the new book, Blessing the Hands that Feed Us; lessons from a 10-Mile Diet. She created the 10-Day Local Food Challenge to help eaters kick-start their local food shift. Her TEDx talk is on “Relational Eating.“

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Yoram Bauman

An environmental economist and professor at the University of Washington, co-author of The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change, and world’s first and only “stand-up economist.”

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www.standupeconomist.com

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Program

 

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