Key leaders illustrate promising initiatives and the main challenges in the “greening” of capitalism. Hosted by Amanda Joy Ravenhill, professor of Sustainable Management, Presidio Graduate School. With: David Levine, co-founder/CEO, American Sustainable Business Council; Oren Lyons, global indigenous leader, co-founder, Plantagon vertical greenhouses for urban farming; Danna Pfahl, VP of Stakeholder Engagement, Future 500.
Location: Sausalito Room
Three leading innovators show how to transform the food system to expand local economies and nurture vibrant community cultures. Hosted by Arty Mangan, Director, Bioneers Restorative Food Systems program. With: Michael H. Shuman, expert on community economics, author of Local Dollars, Local Sense; Severine v T Fleming, farmer, activist, filmmaker, founder of Greenhorns; Karen Brown, Creative Director of Center for Ecoliteracy.
Location: Showcase Theater
How are media innovators propelling social change by reaching out to diverse constituencies and across political divides? Hosted by Jeremy Kagan, award-winning filmmaker, USC professor and founder of Change Making Media Lab. With: Bryan Welch, Publisher and Editorial Director, Ogden Publications (Mother Earth News, Mother Earth Living, Utne Reader); Arisha Michelle Hatch, Managing Director of Campaigns, ColorOfChange.org; and Joshua Fouts, Executive Director, Bioneers.
Location: Santa Rosa Room
How might our culturally inherited myths and symbols be limiting—or expanding—our stories, options and realities? Explore this dynamic terrain through a multi-cultural lens. Hosted by Anneke Campbell, author, activist, filmmaker. With: Jean Shinoda Bolen, author, Jungian therapist, activist; Luisah Teish, teacher/storyteller/priestess in the Ifa Orisha tradition; Sri Swamini Svatmavidyananda, teacher of Vedanta and Sanskrit, resident Acharya of the Arsha Vijnana Gurukulam.
Location: Epiphany Theater
Visionary mycologist Paul Stamets, founder, Fungi Perfecti, author of landmark books including Mycelium Running, explores the leading edges of his research and current applications using fungi for restoring the biosphere and human health.
Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
Tim Merry the Slam Poet Harvester weaves the morning’s highlights into bardic verse.
Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
Introduction by Owsley Brown, Chair, Festival of Faiths
For 45 years, Reverend Cecil Williams, founder and Minister of Liberation of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco, and its founding President Janice Mirikitani have created 87 groundbreaking programs to provide human services to some of the Bay Area's most disenfranchised communities. These renowned faith-based pathfinders share their visions and strategies to address the pollution, economic injustice, neglect and apathy that confront poor communities.
Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
Fourteen-year-old indigenous environmental activist and rapper Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Youth Director of Earth Guardians, has organized rallies, actions, demonstrations and events, and spoken globally. His generation is rising up to defend our future.
Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and Itzcuauhtl Roske-Martinez
Earth Guardians write and perform original message-driven eco hiphop music to inspire and educate their peers and adults into positive, creative action to protect the Earth and their Future. They have performed at universities, schools, the United Nations, conferences and high profiles events throughout the US and in other countries world wide. HBO will be releasing their new music video "Be the Change" on December 15, 2014.
Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
Introduction by Travis Forgues, dairy farmer/board member, VP of Farmer Affairs, Organic Valley
In the next 20 years, farmland ownership will shift on a continental scale—400 million acres, yet 70% of American farmland is owned by people 65 and older. How can we help young, motivated agrarians survive daunting structural obstacles and become successful farmers to whom retiring organic farmers can transmit their wisdom? How can we invest in the democratization of our land base? These questions drive Agrarian Trust, started by by Greenhorns founder Severine v T Fleming, one of the most dynamic leaders in the young farmers’ movement.
Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
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