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Event Schedule Friday October 16th  2009*  Buy Tickets Now!


 

Time Title Description
Presenter(s)
8:00-8:45 AM

Morning Practice

 

(Klingenstein Lounge)

Introduction to Aromatherapy: Scents to Awaken

Hallie Sawyer
       
9:00-9:10 AM

 Welcome and Opening Ceremony

 

(Emerson Suites B&C)

Welcome to Conference &

Traditional Haudenosaunee Opening Ceremony

 Welcome: Gay Nicholson, Sustainable Tompkins

 Ceremony: Representative of Haudenosaunee

9:10-10:00 AM

Plenary Session

Keynote Address

 

(Emerson Suites B&C)

Learning from Nature: Ecological Design for Sustainable Systems

Introduction: Charlie Trautmann, Sciencenter

Keynote: Jonathan Todd, Todd Ecological Design

       

10:15-11:15 AM  

Concurrent Sessions

Sustainable Economy

 

(Emerson Suites B&C)

Doing the Right Thing in the Marketplace - Why Being Fair Matters to Us
Rev. Ken Clark, Cornell United Religious Work; Ben Ho, Johnson School of Management; David Sloan Wilson, Binghamton Univ. Evolutionary Studies Program

Our Clean Energy Future

 

(Textor Hall Room 101)

How Should it Grow? Biofuels in Upstate New York

Krys Cail, Consultant; Larry Walker, Cornell Northeast Sun Grant Initiative Institute; Peter Woodbury, Cornell University

Fortifying Our Foodsheds

 

(Textor Hall Room 102)

Follow the Field Crop: From Local Practices to Regional Style

Thor Oechsner, Oechsner Farm and Farmer Ground Flour; Erick Smith and Tycho Dan, Cayuga Pure Organics 

Earth Stewardship

 

(Textor Hall Room 103)

Mountaintop Removal Roadshow:

“The Mountain Justice Movement.”

Dave Cooper, Mountain Justice

Health & Well Being

 

(Clark Lounge)

 

Changing Landscapes: A Creative Movement Workshop for Healing and Celebration 

 

Lisa Tsetse, Dance and Movement Educator

       

11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Concurrent Sessions

Sustainable Economy

 

(Emerson Suites B&C)

Building a Sustainable Economy for the Finger Lakes Region

Antonio Bento, Cornell Applied Economics and Management; Susan Christopherson, Cornell City and Regional Planning; Tristam Coffin, Alternatives Federal Credit Union

Our Clean Energy Future

 

(Textor Hall Room 101

The Smart Grid and Smart Communities:  A Blueprint for Smart Jobs

Linda Hartsock, Center for Clean Tech Entrepreneurship

Fortifying Our Foodsheds

 

(Textor Hall Room 102)

Regional Explorations, Innovations and Strategies

Patrick Martins, Heritage Foods USA; Carlo Peretti, New York Wine and Culinary Center; Becca Jablonski, Madison County Agricultural Economic Development

Earth Stewardship

 

(Textor Hall Room 103)

Changing Our Minds: Thinking Skills for a Regenerative Future

Karryn Olson-Ramanujan, Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute

Health & Well Being

 

(Klingenstein Lounge)

Health Care Reform: Will it Provide Access and be Sustainable?

Rebecca Elgie

       
12:30-2:00 PM

Lunch

 

(Egbert Hall)

Lunch with topic tables on our shared future
Hosted by Cornell and Ithaca College students
12:30-6:00 PM

Sustainability Marketplace

 

(North Foyer & Emerson Suites A)

Exhibit Hall of Green Entrepreneurs and Innovators Making Our Future Hosted by the Green Resource Hub
2:00-6:00 PM

 

 

 

 

Beaming Bioneers

 

(Emerson Suites B&C)

BROCK DOLMAN
Basins of Relations: A Reverential Rehydration Revolution


KARI FULTON
Youth Redefining Environmentalism, Reclaiming our Futures


JACK HIDARY
From Small Steps to the Energy Revolution


SARAH JAMES
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: Report from the Arctic


MICHAEL POLLAN
In Defense of Food: The Omnivore’s Solution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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San Rafael, California.

 

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6:00-7:30 PM Receptions
Receptions for interest groups

Green Resource Hub's Sustainable Enterprise Network (Clark Lounge)

NY Interfaith Power and Light & Interfaith Action for Healing Earth (Klingenstein Lounge)

       
    * Schedule Subject to change