Sunday, September 30, 2007
Northampton Center for the Arts
Preliminary Schedule
- 9:00 AM -- Registration Begins
- 10:00 AM -- Welcome and introduction (setting the context for the day)
- 10:15 AM -- Plenary presentations, 15 min. each, 25-30 min. at the end
for Q&A with all plenary speakers:
A. Peak Oil & Global Warming [Nat Fortune, Smith College Physics Professor, MCHC, Shays2]
B. Reclaiming & Redefining Democracy [Carolyn Toll Oppenheim, Shays 2]
C. Local Energy Conservation & Production [Lynn Benander, Co-op Power]
D. Sustainable Agriculture & Food Security [Jack Kittredge, NOFA/Mass]
E. Revitalizing Local Economies [Michael Garjian, E2M]
- 12 Noon -- Lunch / networking / tabling
- 1:00-2:25 PM -- Breakout Session 1
- Sustainable Energy Production & Conservation [Lynn Benander (Co-op Power), Nat Fortune (MCHC), Peggy MacLeod (Center for Ecological Technology), Suel Bartone (Easthampton Master Plan Committee)]
- Local and Sustainable Agriculture & Food Security [Jack Kittredge (NOFA/Mass), Annie Cheatham (CISA), Jill Stein (MCHC), Ben Grosscup (NOFA/Mass), Helen Harrison (Food Bank of Western Mass)]
- E2M: A model for revitalizing local economies [Michael Garjian (E2M)]
- 2:30-3:55 PM -- Breakout Session 2
- Reclaiming & Redefining Democracy[Carolyn Toll Oppenheim (Shays2), Ward Morehouse (Shays2), Jill Stein (MCHC), Ben Grosscup (NOFA/Mass)]
- Revitalizing Local Economies [Michael Garjian (E2M), Joanne Campbell (Valley CDC), Julie Graham (UMass Professor of Economic Geography), John Reske (UMass 5 College Federal Credit Union)]
- Achieving Justice in Relocalized Communities [Jon Weissman (Western Mass Jobs with Justice), Helen Harrison (Food Bank of Western Mass), Emily Kawano (Center for Popular Economics), Ruth Trujillo (Greensboro Justice Fund)]
- 4:00-5:00 PM -- Keynote -- Frankie Moore Lappé
- 5:00-6:00 PM Book signing / tabling / music / kids art
Sponsored by
the Mass. Coalition for Healthy Communities.
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For more information on Relocalization visit
http://www.masschc.org/Relocalization.html.
