Symposium Breakouts

SUNDAY, MAY 14, 12:25 - 1:25

1. SUSTAINABILITY AS A DAILY PRACTICE
Adopting a green lifestyle involves learning and applying sustainability principles. Find out about the latest tools and research that will make it easy and fun to be green!
Organization: SustainLane
Presenter: SustainLane staff

2. EDUCATION AS IF THE EARTH MATTERED
What if education started with relationship and the web of life? How would our lives be different? Learning the talking points of sustainability.
Organization: California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)
Presenters: Blair Carter, Kevin Kohley, Karen Chen

3. LOCAL GOVERNANCE GOING GREEN
The Bay Area is leading the way in all kinds of ways; climb on board and start influencing the way
things are done.
Organizations: Oakland Dept. of Sustainability and SF Dept. of the Environment
Presenters: Randy Hayes and SF Env. staff

4. THE GREEN MARKET & THE GLOBAL CITITZENS CENTER
Creating the world we want by applying our principles to our commerce.
Organization: Global Exchange
Presenter: Kevin Danaher

5. MEASURING OUR PROGRESS: THE UN MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
A masterplan has already been created. How are we doing with it? How can each of us help?
Organization: United Nations Association
Presenters: Herb Behrstock, Larry Levine

6. LEVERAGING THE INTERNET—MAXIMIZING OUR COLLECTIVE POWER
We have the tools we need for the changes we want—now we need to learn to use them more
effectively and cooperatively.
Organization: PlanetWork
Panel:
Brad deGraf, Smartocracy
Mark Linksvayer, Creative Commons
David Ulansey, Sixth Extinction Project
Partner, CivicActions LLC
Moderator: Karrie Winn, PlanetWork

7. SPREADING THE WORD—EXPANDING THE REACH OF THE SYMPOSIUM
A Symposium facilitators training program is offered at cost that will enable you to deliver a one-day
Symposium wherever you are located..
Organizations: Sustainable World Coalition and The Pachamama Alliance
Presenters: SWC & Pachamama staff