DAILY SCHEDULE
We are building in time for networking and initiating your own meetings at this conference. There is always breathing room at Praxis conferences.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6
9:30 am Welcome and Announcements
10:00 Georgia Kelly The Economics of Sustainability: What Would it Look Like? Conference Overview 10:30 Michael Brune America's Energy Future: Cleaner, Better, Brighter
11:00 BREAK Scones and cookies from Arizmendi Bakery, a worker-owned cooperative in San Rafael, will be available at all morning breaks.
11:30 Osprey Orielle Lake Rights of Nature and Earth Economics
12:00 Gar Alperovitz Sustainability: Confronting the System Question hear on
12:30 Janet Redman Progressive Public Policy: How We Get There From Here
1:00 pm LUNCH
2:30 - 4:30 WORKSHOPS - Full descriptions of all workshops are on the Workshops page on this site.
1. Rights of Nature, Communities, and Economics Osprey Orielle Lake and Shannon Biggs
2. Money: The Invisible Operating System Marco Vangelisti
3. Accelerating the Rise of the Not-for-Profit Economy Donnie Maclurcan
4. Move to Amend: Abolish Corporate Constitutional Rights and Money Equals Speech David Cobb and Jessica Munger
5:00 - 7:15 FREE TIME and DINNER
7:30 Lisa Kristine, Conference Artist-in-Residence
7:45 Liher Pillado, Radical Educational Innovation at Team Academy Mondragon University, Spain (an Introduction)
8:00 Richard Heinberg Why Resource Depletion, Climate Change, and Debt Spell the End of Economic Growth
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7
9:30 am Don Shaffer Remaking the Food System: An Integrated Approach to Financing
10:00 Nikki Sylvestri Building Compassion and Discipline in the Climate Justice Movement
10:30 Mayor Gayle McLaughlin The Road to Democracy Runs Through Richmond, CA
11:00 BREAK
11:30 Randy Hayes The Great U-Turn from Cheater Economics to True Cost Economics
12:00 pm Andrew Kimbrell The End of the Age of Capitalism?
12:30 Q & A
1:00 LUNCH
3:00 - 5:00 WORKSHOPS
1. Alternatives to Unbridled Growth Andrew Kimbrell and Randy Hayes
2. Mondragon Team Academy: A Model that Supports Environmental sustainability, social justice and Economic Democracy through Cooperative Radical Innovation of Education - Liher Pillado
3.Pro-Active Leadership Lynne and Bill Twist
5:00 - 7:15 FREE TIME and DINNER
7:30 Jihan Gearon Navigating Contradictions: A Just Transition for the Navajo Nation
8:00 David Korten Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8
9:30 am Mark Hertsgaard Climate Change and the US Petro State
10:00 Michael Peck One Worker, One Vote and the Nationwide Union/Coop Movement
10:30 Ellen Brown How Public Banking Supports Sustainability
11:00 BREAK
11:30 Special Praxis Presentation
11:45 Pio Aguirre The Role of the Credit Cooperative in the Development of Worker-Owned Cooperatives, the Mondragon Case
12:15 PANEL on the Cooperative Model in Europe and the Bay Area Pio Aguirre, Melissa Hoover, Joseph Tuck, Tim Huet, and Michael Peck. Moderator: Georgia Kelly
1:00 LUNCH
2:00 Julianne Maurseth and Georgia Kelly lead a discussion of the Praxis book, Uncivil Liberties: Deconstructing Libertarianism.
3:00 - 5:00 WORKSHOPS
1. How to Start a Cooperative: An Interactive Workshop Sushil Jacob and Ricardo Nunez
2. Beyond Capitalism Marco Vangelisti
3. Move to Amend: Abolish Corporate Constitutional Rights and Money Equals Speech David Cobb and Jessica Munger
4. Additional workshop TBA
5:30 - 7:15 FREE TIME and DINNER
7:30 George Lakoff How Systemic Causation Affects Sustainability
8:10 Mark Z. Jacobson Roadmaps to Transitioning all 50 US states to Wind, Water and Solar Power for All Purposes
8:45 Closing Panel and Q & A with Lakoff and Jacobson
Thursday, October 9 - An Extra Day!
We have reserved 4 breakout rooms for 2-hour sessions, for a total of 12 sessions.This space is designed for participant sponsored meetings, workshops, and campaigns.This is an extra day with no presentations. Some sessions will be announced prior to the conference; others will be created at the conference. These programs must finish by 4:45 pm.
Available times:
9:30 - 11:30 12:30 - 2:00 2:30 - 4:30
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