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Event Schedule Saturday October 17th  2009*  Buy Tickets Now!


 

Time Title Description Presenter(s)
       

9:00-10:00 AM

Plenary Session

Opening Remarks and

Keynote address

 

(Emerson Suites B&C)

 

A Worker-Owned Green Future for All

Welcome: Gay Nicholson, Sustainable Tompkins

Keynote: Omar Freilla, Green Worker Cooperative;

Keynote: Jim Anderson, Ohio Employee Ownership Center

       

10:15-11:15 AM

Concurrent Sessions

Sustainable Economy

 

(Emerson Suites B&C)

Creating a Worker-Owned Green Enterprise, Part I

Omar Freilla, Green Worker Cooperative; Jim Anderson, Ohio Employee Ownership Center

Our Clean Energy Future

 

(Textor Hall Room 101)

Follow the Money - the Federal Stimulus Package and Community Energy Plans

Michael Weber, NYS Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Cabinet; Lee Dillon, Tompkins Community Action

Fortifying Our Foodsheds

 

(Textor Hall

Room 102)

Food Literacy for Active Communities and Active Youth

Antonia Demas and Ariel Demas, Food Studies Institute

Earth Stewardship

 

(Textor Hall Room 103)

Shaleshock and Mountain Justice: Sharing Strategies to Strengthen a Movement

Dave Cooper, Mountain Justice; Lisa Wright, Ryan Clover, Margaret McCasland, Gabriel Piser, Ken Zeserson, Shaleshock

Health & Well Being

 

(Taughannock Falls Room)

Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Marne O'Shea, Physician-Family Medicine; Bethany Schroeder, Ithaca Health Alliance; Tammi Sweet, Heartstone Herbal School

 

Youth Empowerment

 

(Outdoors: Meet in the N. Foyer Registration area)

Walking Two Worlds - A Youth Nature Awareness Program

Primitive Pursuits

Community Building

 

(McDonald Lounge)

Building Strong Ropes to Nature pt. 1 Tim Drake, Jed Jordan, Jason Hamilton
       

11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Concurrent Sessions

Sustainable Economy

 

(Emerson Suites B&C)

Creating a Worker-Owned Green Enterprise, Part II Jim Anderson, Ohio Employee Ownership Center

Our Clean Energy Future

 

(Textor Hall Room 101)

Going Carbon Neutral One Institution at a Time - Higher Ed and the Community

Marian Brown, Ithaca College; Dan Roth, Cornell University; Dave Wall, Onondaga Community College

Fortifying Our Foodsheds

 

(Textor Hall Room 102)

Women Advancing Food and Farming
Julia Reich, Julia Reich Design;  Erica Frenay, NY Beginning Farmer Project; Nancy Taber Richards, Finger Lakes Farmstead Cheese; Jemila Sequeira, Tompkins County Cornell Cooperative Extension

Earth Stewardship

 

(Textor Hall Room 103)

Learning from Past Finger Lakes Resource Use

in Preparation for the Future.

Scott Perez, Cornell University; Rachel Singley, Cayuga Lake Watershed Network

Health & Well Being

 

(Taughannock Falls Room)


Water for Life: The Cultural Significance of Water from a

Navajo and Haudenosaunee Perspective

Gerry Jamieson, Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force; Andrew Curly, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell

Youth Empowerment

 

(Outdoors: Meet in N. Foyer Registration area)

Walking Two Worlds-  A Youth Nature Awareness Program Primitive Pursuits

Community Building

 

(McDonald Lounge)

Building Strong Ropes to Nature pt. 2
Tim Drake, Jed Jordan, Jason Hamilton
       
 12:30-2:00 PM

Lunch

 

(Egbert Hall)

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
 2:30-4:30 PM

Arts & Sustainability

 

(Clark Lounge)

Sustaining Movements: Exploring the Movement Choir as a Way to Integrate Mind, Body, and Community for Collective Action
Colleen Wahl, Move Into Greatness; Amber Espar, Moving On Center
 2:00-6:00 PM

 

 

 

 

 

Beaming Bioneers

 

(Emerson Suites B&C)

JASON MCLENNAN
Living Buildings-The Future of Architecture


LILY YEH
The Rwanda Healing Project: Bringing Hope through Art and Creative Action


JENSINE LARSEN
The Electric Pulse of Women Transforming Our World


ARTURO SANDOVAL
Changing the Axis: Drawing from Mexican and Latin American Cultures to Create a Sustainable Future


DR. ANDREW WEIL
Environmental Health, Environmental Medicine

 

 

Satellite broadcast from Bioneer headquarters

in San Rafael, California.

 

 

View the Bioneer presenters scheduled for Saturday on their main website by clicking here.
       
7:30-9:00 PM  Bioneers Salon

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: The Deep and Boundless Beauty of Your Oceans and Lakes and How We Threaten It

at the Wildfire Lounge (Formerly the Lost Dog), Downtown Ithaca

Dr. Bruce Monger, Dept. Earth and Atomospheric Sciences, Cornell University; David O. Brown, Amphibious Films
9:00 PM-1:00 AM

(((EcoTones)))

Dance Elecktronica

Sounds of Earth, Air, Wind, and Fire

at the Wildfire Lounge (Formerly the Lost Dog), Downtown Ithaca

deep beatZ collective with DJ Laika

     *Schedule subject to change