PLENARY
SESSIONS (Sessions
are one-tape sets for $10.00 unless otherwise indicated)
|
QTY |
ID# |
TITLE/PRESENTER(S) |
|
001 |
Joel
Salatin - "Future Farming of America"
Wes Jackson - "Solving the 10,0000 Year-Old Problem of
Agriculture" |
|
002 |
Paula Gunn Allen -
"Sacred
Nature: Gender & Spirit in American Indian Thought"
Alice Walker - "What
the Spirits are up to: Poetry, Ancestors, Politics & Play" |
|
003 |
William McDonough -
"Designing
the Next Industrial Revolution" |
|
004 |
Michael Lerner -
"The Age
of Extinctions & the Emerging Environmental Health Movement"
Rebecca Adamson - "First
Nations & the Future of the Earth" |
|
005 |
Paul Stamets
- "The Fungal
Restoration & the Earth’s Natural Internet"
David Korten "Creating
the Post-Corporate Society" |
|
006 |
Anita Roddick -
"Using
Business for Social Change" |
|
007 |
Dave Foreman -
"The
Re-Wilding of the World"
Steven Foster - "The
Herbal Renaissance" |
|
008 |
Terri Swearingen -
"Why I
Went to Jail to Protect My Daughter from Toxic Polluters"
JL Chestnut - "Bringing
Justice to African-American Farmers" |
|
009 |
Julia Butterfly Hill -
"Direct
Action on Behalf of the Earth" |
|
RECORDED
WORKSHOPS
~ October 20 |
QTY |
ID# |
TITLE/PRESENTER(S) |
|
010 |
*MARQUEE: Restoration All-Stars
- Co-sponsored
by Whole Earth and hosted
by editor and field biologist Peter Warshall, this three-hour "Festival of
Restoration"
offers on-the-ground successes from some of the leading heroes of restoration. With
legendary prairie
bioneer Wes Jackson, rangeland renewer Dan Dagget, LA River restorer
Lewis MacAdams, Mattole salmon
watershed conservationist Freeman House, and EPA
Colorado River revivalist Eugenia McNaughton.
*(2
tape set for $20.00) |
|
011 |
Women Writers and Restoration
-
Leading
activist-artists Alice Walker and Paula Gunn Allen explore the role of
women educators and writer/artists in creating a life-affirming, Earth-honoring
culture. |
|
012 |
Drylands Permaculture -
Vint
Lawrence, solar designer and founder of New Mexico’s Apache Creek
Ranch,
shares hands-on expertise for permaculture techniques suited to arid bioregions.
|
|
013 |
Urban Design: Creating the
Eco-City -
Eco-city
visionaries Richard Register and Kirstin Miller show how to roll back
sprawl and reshape cities as creatively sculptured, healthy, living organisms,
sustainably
integrated into the larger ecosystem with greenways and wildlife
corridors.
|
|
014 |
Fair Trade and Financial
Activism -
One
antidote to the exploitive and environmentally destructive corporate
domination of global commerce is to build "Fair Trade" and to invest our
money in
equitable enterprises. Learn pragmatic steps with Global Exchange’s
Kevin Danaher, Walnut Securities’ socially
responsible investment specialist
Lincoln Pain and Co-op America’s Alisa Gravitz. |
|
015 |
Environmental Justice: Local
& Global Dimensions -
Co-sponsored
by Project Underground
Whether it’s toxic dumping in poor communities of color in the U.S.
or the
ravages of drilling and mining in Nigeria, Burma or the Amazon, marginalized
people pay
the price for "prosperity." Learn effective strategies to limit and stop
injustice with host
Carwil James, Project Underground’s oil campaigner, Henry Clark,
Executive Director of the West County
Toxics Coalition, and Goldman Prize winner,
tireless West Virginia-based anti-incinerator campaigner
Terri Swearingen.
|
|
016 |
United Plant Savers: Conserving
our Botanical Heritage -
Join
plant people extraordinaire Rosemary Gladstar and Steven Foster to
review
the urgent efforts underway by UpS and others to save medicinal plants from
overharvesting and habitat loss, plus what you can do to help. |
|
017 |
Human Cloning & Germ-Line
Alteration -
Genetically
modified humans? Influential scientists want to begin creating
genetically
engineered children and human clones. Activists Richard Hayes and Marcy Darnovsky
and author Richard Heinberg (Cloning the Buddha) explain what’s at stake and why we
need to act
soon to avoid being pushed over irreversible thresholds. |
|
019 |
Re-Inventing Design -
Leading
visionary architect William McDonough chronicles the revolution in
industrial
design that is eliminating the very concept of waste while creating jobs,
sustainable
profits and environmental restoration. |
|
020 |
Move the Money: Using Business
to Redirect Social Policy -
Entrepreneurs
and tireless social-justice advocates Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's
and
Anita Roddick of The Body Shop describe their various efforts to use business for
social
change, such as Ben's Move the Money campaign to deflect wasteful military spending
into
crucial social programs. |
|
021 |
Voluntary Simplicity -
Betsy
Taylor |
|
022 |
Waterworld: The Patterns of
Nature -
Water
magician Jennifer Greene brings her astounding pictorial odyssey
through
the world of liquid magic and offers a Biodynamic view of the molecular wonders
at the heart of self-repair. She also shows highly practical approaches to
water
restoration. |
|
023 |
Cancer Salves: A Botanical
Approach to Treatment -
Author
Ingrid Naiman explains the rarely used but very effective caustic
herbal-mineral
agents documented to effectively treat skin cancers and other external
conditions.
She also discusses her unique work reconstructing valuable traditional cancer remedies. |
|
024 |
Thundering Hooves, Chicken
Tractors and the Seventh Generation -
Joel
Salatin, the Shenandoah Valley’s stand-up genius of
"alternative farming," shows
his extraordinary system of rotational grazing and other Earth magic that produce
healthy herds, rich topsoil and robust economics.
|
|
025 |
Building an Organic Seed
Industry -
This
special session - complemented by a follow-up planning meeting -
brings
crucial developments to light on how farmers are self-organizing to create a
commercial
supply of organic seeds, and to develop more diverse, resilient strains
of cereal grains.
Especially in the context of genetic engineering, the need has
never been greater to assure a supply of organic seeds
with more genetic variability,
now lacking to farmers. Join Fred Kirschenmann and his allies from
the Northern
Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society and NC+ Organics to learn about farmer-owned
organic seed
coops and breeding organic varieties. |
|
026 |
Visionary Activism -
Mythological
astrologer Caroline Casey takes the high road to illuminate the Big
Wheels of cosmic re-shuffling calling for planetary restoration.
This popular author
(Making the Gods Work for You) and KPFA radio coyote brings levity to gravity and
always lands with amazing insights on The Meaning Of It All.
|
|
027 |
Youth Activism
-
Adam
Werbach, the dynamic former youngest-ever President of the Sierra
Club, joins
tree-top heroine Julia Butterfly Hill to envision how best to mobilize the future
through
the passion and energy of committed young people.
|
|
RECORDED
WORKSHOPS
~ October 21 |
QTY |
ID# |
TITLE/PRESENTER(S) |
|
028 |
*MARQUEE: Globalization and the
Environment -
Co-sponsored
by the International Forum on Globalization with host Jerry Mander,
with David Korten, author of The Post Corporate World; The Body Shop
founder
and renegade businesswoman Anita Roddick; Canada’s author-activist
Tony Clarke
and NYU Professor of Media Ecology Mark Crispin Miller. This
three-hour session
assembles leading opponents of corporate monopoly and antidemocratic
institutions
such as the WTO, IMF and the World Bank. They share their analyses and
strategies
to resist the new Robber Barons and the commodification of life.
*(2
tape set for $20.00) |
|
029 |
Where the Tree of Knowledge and
the Tree of Life Intertwine -
Ancient
metaphors address the cultural reality of what it means to be major
participants
in creation, as humanity has done with agriculture. Join renowned author and
educator
Wes Jackson to explore the challenge of practicing agriculture without destroying
biological diversity.
|
|
030 |
Native American Women’s Vision
-
North
American indigenous women leaders offer First Peoples’ perspectives
on solutions
to the environmental crisis, with First Nations Development Institute’s
Rebecca Adamson,
educator and White Corn entrepreneur Yvonne Dion-Buffalo, author Paula Gunn Allen
and
Melissa Nelson of theCultural Conservancy. |
|
031 |
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired
by Nature -
Many
of the greatest technological breakthroughs of the next century will
come from
emulating the incredibly sophisticated organizing principles and chemistry found in
life
itself. Join Janine Benyus, author of the highly influential book Biomimicry,
to examine sustainable solutions
using nature as model and mentor. |
|
032 |
The Altered States of America:
Indigenous Shamanic Sacraments -
According
to many observers, the ancient relationship between the peoples and
sacred shamanic hallucinogens of the Americas - peyote, ayahuasca and psylicibin
mushrooms - helps maintain a balance with the natural world. Join ethnobotanist
Kathleen Harrison
and mycologist Paul Stamets for a visionary tour of the
phyto-geography of consciousness. |
|
033 |
Covering the Land: Environmental
Journalism -
The
publishers of two exemplary journals, Ed Marston of High Country News
which
reports the West, and Fred Walters of Acres USA, voice of Eco-Agriculture, reveal
that
in-depth, leading-edge environmental journalism can have a decisive impact. |
|
034 |
Biodynamic Agriculture -
Fred
Kirschenmann, the country's largest Biodynamic (BD) grower, joins BD
farmer
and certifier Gena Nonini for a compelling exploration of this remarkably
sophisticated
holistic system that harmonizes the human, animal, plant, soil and spirit realms to produce
exceptionally nourishing food and environmental regeneration.
|
|
035 |
Antibiotic Herbs -
The
overuse of conventional antibiotics is giving rise to deadly
antibiotic-resistant
infections. There are benign and effective herbal alternatives for treating many
of
these ailments. Join celebrated herbalist and author Stephen Buhner for this
hands-on tour of the
botanical antibiotic medicine chest.
|
|
036 |
The Environmental Movement and
the Internet -
Co-sponsored
by PlaNetwork, this session demonstrates how the Internet is proving
an invaluable tool for activists. Co-producers of PlaNetwork Jim Fournier and
Elizabeth Thompson join former Environmental Defense Fund web wizard Bill Pease,
Josh Knauer, founder
of Envirolink.org and GreenMarketplace.com, and Earth Island’s
Brian West to look at the
future of "green" use of the Net.
|
|
037 |
Safe as Milk? RBGH as the First
Mass Medical Experiment of GMO Food -
Dr.
Samuel Epstein, a leader in the struggle against recombinant Bovine
Growth
Hormone (rBGH) and an expert on the deleterious effects of GMO Foods on human
health,
points to the fact that this genetically engineered hormone has been widely
present in the food
supply since 1983. He chronicles this mind-boggling classic case
history of suppressed data and corporate crime used to gain regulatory
approval.
|
|
038 |
Restorative Solutions: a Bio-Jam
on Economics, Biology & Culture -
Join this conversation among
friends Hunter Lovins, Co-Author of Natural Capitalism
and Co-CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute, Peter Warshall, Janine Benyus
and Dan Dagget,
who'll be talking about Natural Capitalism, Biomimicry, Eco-Results,
and implementing
solutions that are restorative and can reconnect people, community and
land.
|
|
039 |
Restoring the Feminine -
Where
women lead, environmental and social improvement follows. As we
restore
value to the feminine principle, it alters the shape of our institutions,
societies,
and our lives. A stirring conversation among authors Susan Griffin, Paula Gunn Allen,
and China
Galland, moderated by producer Nina Simons.
|
|
040 |
Latin American Permaculture
-
Join
Ali Sharif, a pioneer of Latin American permaculture now working in
Brazil,
for a stunning pictorial tour showing the art of integrating human life into a
sublime,
ecologically balanced, edible landscape in tropical conditions.
|
|
041 |
Architecture and Climate Change
-
Casey Coates Danson |
|
042 |
Social Change Strategies:
Learning from the Ganges Campaign -
In
this participatory workshop with global social change activist Fran
Peavey, we will
learn how the valuable lessons gained in the campaign to clean the Ganges river
in India
can be applied in other struggles. |
|
043 |
Assuring a Future for Black
Farming in the US -
Join
African-American attorney J.L. Chestnut and Ralph Paige, founder of
the Federation
of Southern Cooperatives, to review the historic victory on behalf of
black farmers in
the largest class-action suit in U.S. history on grounds of institutional racism.
Where in
1900 there were about one million black farmers, about 10,000 remain today, fewer
than
175 of whom are under age sixty. How do we secure a future for black farmers
in the
U.S.?
|
|
044 |
Don’t
Just Surf, Make Waves -
Join
Josh Knauer, founder of Envirolink.org, GreenMarketplace.com and
Networkforchange.com for a down-and-dirty workshop for activists to help them
harness the
latest tools and resources of the Internet for environmental and social change. |
|
045 |
Utopian Legacies -
Iroquois
historian and leader John Mohawk unravels the tragic paradox of
Western
civilization: How utopian ideals have repeatedly resulted instead in genocide
and
repression. Mohawk argues that persecution, oppression and intolerance
will continue
until humanity embraces a pluralistic outlook. |
|
RECORDED
WORKSHOPS
~ October 22 |
QTY |
ID# |
TITLE/PRESENTER(S) |
|
046 |
*MARQUEE: Nature and Spirit -
For
many people, our commitments to conservation and restoration are
informed
by our deep spiritual connection to nature. This session assembles a stellar panel
of
inspired leaders from a broad spectrum of faiths to share views on our role as
human beings in the great web
of life. With author/educator and priest Matthew Fox,
author China Galland, Reverend Peter Kreitler,
Native American historian John Mohawk,
pagain author and activist Starhawk and African spiritual teacher
Luisah Teish.
*(2
tape set for $20.00) |
|
047 |
The Gaia Hypothesis Revisited
-
The
publication of the Gaia Hypothesis -- that the biosphere is a
self-regulating
"superorganism" -- was among the landmark scientific ideas of the late 20th century.
Join NYU Earth-system scientist and leading ecologist and author Tyler Volk
(Gaia’s Body) for a
spirited conversation with biologist Peter Warshall to understand
where the hypothesis stands over twenty
years later and where biosphere science
is headed. |
|
048 |
Preventing Breast Cancer -
Dr.
Samuel Epstein, among the world’s most deeply informed experts on
the causes
and prevention of cancer and a leading critic of the "cancer
establishment," offers
both personal and political approaches to preventing the epidemic of breast cancer.
|
|
049 |
The Ecozoic Artist: Creating for
Earth & Spirit -
This
dynamic session explores how art can be an exquisite vehicle to unite
science,
activism and spirituality for ecological and cultural healing. Moderated by
artist
elder Jo Hanson with environmental artist and educator Jackie Brookner and
performance artist and
world-wheel project creator Vijali.
|
|
050 |
Black Farming with the
Federation -
In
the southeastern U.S., African-American farmers still work the land
their ancestors
received through the Slave Land Grant 130. Ben Burkett and Virgil Smith
of the
Federation of Southern Cooperatives hold an open discussion of the Black farmer
experience
and what it takes to survive, thrive and maintain ownership of their land. |
|
051 |
Media, Culture and the
Environment -
The
creative use of independent media can have a profound effect in
nurturing
and stimulating positive change. Join Nina Utne of Utne Reader and Michael Toms
of New Dimensions Radio to explore how alternative media are filling the void
left by the
National Entertainment State of corporate infotainment. |
|
052 |
The Restoration of Hemp -
Industrial
hemp is an incredibly versatile crop that has enormous potential as a
source of environmentally benign textiles, paper, energy, oil and foods. Hosted
by activist-attorney David C. Frankel. Join Tierra Madre's Joe Hickey,
nutritional
specialist from Spectrum Organic Products Rees Moerman, and irrepressible business
activist Anita
Roddick, who has boldly put hemp in products and provocative ads.
|
|
053 |
Herb Seed Diversity -
Renowned
seed collector and Horizon Herbs founder Richo Cech, a formidable
authority on medicinal plants, stresses the importance of planting a wide diversity
of herbs
to preserve ecological health. A seasoned grower, Richo presents a
hands-on approach to enhancing
diversity in the garden and keeping ancient healing
wisdom alive. |
|
054 |
The Re-Wilding of North America
-
Earth
First! founder Dave Foreman brings a visionary initiative endorsed by
conservation biologists to "re-wild" our continent with biological corridors that
could save large mammals and the ecosystems with which they've co-evolved.
|
|
055 |
Green Plans in Action -
Director
of San Francisco's Department of the Environment Francesca Vietor and
acclaimed author Mark Hertsgaard (Earth Odyssey), proponent of a Global Green
Plan,
look at practical solutions in place or on the way from green plans.
|
|
056 |
Reforming Bay Area Transport
-
There
are no automobile-based solutions to the growing problems of sprawl
and congestion; these crises require severe changes in our live-work-commute
and land-use
practices. Join Roy Nakadegawa and David Schonbrunn, Bay Area
transportation activists who will
discuss the factors involved in the search for
solutions. Moderated by Walnut Securities’ Lincoln
Pain.
|
|
057 |
Training Activists for Direct
Action -
Eco-heroine
Julia Butterfly Hill and John Sellers of the Ruckus Society (that so
effectively prepared hundreds of activists for the WTO and IMF protests), discuss
the
tactics and strategies of effective non-violent direct action, including training
camps and rules of
engagement.
|
|
058 |
The Fungus Among Us -
Myco-magician
Paul Stamets reveals his latest discoveries on how the fungal
kingdom
transforms poisonous wastes, dramatically enhances companion planting
in the
garden, and regenerates human health. This stuff is so remarkable that it’s
over the leading
edge… |
|
059 |
Gaian Aesthetics -
Join
Peter Warshall and soundscape designer Bernie Krause to see and hear
why
"beauty" is a biological sensibility and not a purely human construct. Four billion
years of evolution have graced Earth’s creatures with an extraordinary palette
of sounds, colors
and shapes, a planetary aesthetic that human artists remain
intimately though often unconsciously
connected to. |
|
060 |
Women Organic Food Entrepreneurs
-
Leslie
McEachern, owner/operator of Angelica Kitchen, NYC’s premier whole
foods restaurant; food activist and chef to the stars Donna Prizgintas; and
Northern
California’s Flea Street Café owner Jesse Cool discuss the struggles
and joys of keeping small,
ethically driven nutritionally-based enterprises thriving.
|
|
061 |
The Rise of Green Energy -
Replacing
fossil fuels with non-toxic, sustainable alternatives is one of the
keys to
reversing planetary environmental degradation. Join solar expert and
author
John Perlin and Jeff Oldham, manager of the Design & Consulting Group at Real Goods,
to examine
the current status of "green energy."
|
|
062 |
Wildlands as Garden: Indigenous
Agroecology -
The
indigenous peoples of North America have been masterful cultivators of
the
landscape
and developed highly sophisticated growing methods for entire ecosystems.
Join restoration ecologist Dennis Martinez and Greg Smitman of the Intertribal Agricultural
Council to explore efforts to keep these vital traditions alive and well.
|
|
063 |
Alternative Cancer Therapies
-
Just
as the War on Cancer has emerged as a "qualified failure,"
unconventional
treatments are rising in scientific validation and popularity. Epidemiological
researchers
Gar and Christeene Hildenbrand and cancer patients’ advocate
Frank Wiewel review the current state
of knowledge about the efficacy of
alternative approaches to treating cancer as well as illustrating
political strategies
for making these treatments more widely available in the U.S. |
|
064 |
Digging Behind Environmental
News -
Co-sponsored
by Mother Jones, with publisher Jay Harris, with Democracy Now’s
ace
reporter Amy Goodman, and John Stauber of PR Watch, learn how courageous
independent investigative reporting still gets done despite the concentration of
mainstream
media in mega-corporations. This is the news behind the news of how
spin doctors subvert the story
with cloaking devices such as covert corporate PR
campaigns.
|
|
065 |
Creating Community Currencies
-
An
interactive workshop designed to demystify the monetary system and the
global
economy, explain the benefits of local currencies, and give us the tools to set
up
our own local currencies. With Carol Brouillet, a leading figure in the community
currency
movement, Maria Gilardin, founder of T.U.C. Radio, and David Melly of
Berkeley Region Exchange and
Development. |
|
066 |
Closing Ceremony |
|
PLENARY
VIDEOS (all plenary
videos are available @ $30.00 each + $4.00 shipping & handling)
SPECIAL: COMPLETE PLENARY VIDEOTAPE SET FOR $220
|
QTY |
ID# |
TITLE/PRESENTER(S) |
|
V01 |
Joel Salatin -
"Future
Farming of America"
Wes Jackson - "Solving
the 10,0000 Year-Old Problem of Agriculture" |
|
V02 |
Paula Gunn Allen -
"Sacred
Nature: Gender & Spirit in American Indian Thought"
Alice Walker - "What
the Spirits are up to: Poetry, Ancestors, Politics & Play" |
|
V03 |
William McDonough -
"Designing
the Next Industrial Revolution" |
|
V04 |
Michael Lerner -
"The Age
of Extinctions & the Emerging Environmental Health Movement"
Rebecca Adamson - "First
Nations & the Future of the Earth" |
|
V05 |
Paul Stamets
- "The Fungal
Restoration & the Earth’s Natural Internet"
David Korten -
"Creating
the Post-Corporate Society" |
|
V06 |
Anita Roddick -
"Using
Business for Social Change" |
|
V07 |
Dave Foreman -
"The
Re-Wilding of the World"
Steven Foster - "The
Herbal Renaissance" |
|
V08 |
Terri Swearingen -
"Why I
Went to Jail to Protect My Daughter from Toxic Polluters"
JL Chestnut - "Bringing
Justice to African-American Farmers" |
|
V09 |
Julia Butterfly Hill -
"Direct
Action on Behalf of the Earth" |
|
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