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Chicago 2008
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 Rickie Byars Beckwith, Music and Arts Director for Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City, California, composes and performs moving, melodic music "to inspire deep feeling in the heart and to bring joy to the earth." She has produced six CDs that are favorites to thousands. Her most recent project, Supreme Inspiration, was produced by her daughter, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and led to her first music video, Alle-Alleluia.
Rickie's extensive body of work inspires spiritual communities around the world. "Spirit encourages me to be a voice of inspiration and to bring 'water to a dry land,'" she said. Described as an "intuitive channel of healing music," Rickie has performed at five sessions with His Holiness the Dalai Lama -- twice ...
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 Born, raised, and continuing to live & work in the South Bronx, Majora Carter travels the world in pursuit of resources to improve the quality of life in her environmentally challenged community. She founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 after writing a $1.25M Federal Transportation grant to design the South Bronx Greenway with 11 miles of bike and pedestrian paths connecting neighborhoods to the rivers and to each other - securing over $20M to begin construction in 2008.
She has created riverfront parks and green roofs, dramatically increased the number of trees in the South Bronx, worked to remove an underused expressway in favor of positive economic development, and successfully implemented the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Trai ...
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 Amy Goodman began her career in community radio in 1985 at Pacifica Radio's New York Station, WBAI. She produced WBAI's Evening News for 10 years. In 1990 and 1991, Amy traveled to East Timor to report on the US-backed Indonesian occupation of East Timor. There, she and colleague Allan Nairn witnessed Indonesian soldiers gun down 270 East Timorese. Indonesian soldiers beat Amy and Allan, fracturing Allan's skull. Their documentary, "Massacre: The Story of East Timor" won numerous awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, the Armstrong Award, the Radio/Television News Directors Award, as well as awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, and the C ...
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 Thom Hartmann, who started in radio in 1968, is also is an internationally known speaker on culture and communications, an author, and an innovator in the fields of psychiatry, ecology, and economics. The co-founder (with his wife, Louise) of The New England Salem Children’s Village (1978) and The Hunter School (1997), he has led national innovations in the areas of residential treatment for abused children and private/public education for learning-disabled children.
Hartmann is the four-time Project Censored Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of nineteen books currently in print in over a dozen languages on five continents. He is the former executive director of a residential treatment program for emotionally disturbed ...
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 Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) is an internationally respected Native American and environmental activist. She began speaking about these issues at an early age, addressing the United Nations at the age of 18, and continues to devote herself to Native and environmental concerns, as well as political and women’s issues.
The Harvard-educated activist is the founding director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, the co-chair of the Indigenous Women’s Network, and the program director of Honor the Earth where she provides vision and leadership for the organization’s Regranting Program and its Strategic Initiatives. In addition, she has worked for two decades on the land rights issues of the White Earth Reservation, including litigation. ...
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 Mosley Braun is a former United States Senator, former US Ambassador to
New Zealand and Samoa, and the founder and president of Good Food
Organics. She is an American politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate
from 1993 to 1999. She was the first, and to date, the only, African
American woman elected to the United States Senate, the first
African-American senator to be elected as a Democrat, and the first female senator from Illinois. From 1999 until 2001, she was the United States Ambassador to New Zealand. She briefly participated as a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
 Greg Palast is a New York Times-bestselling author and a journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation as well as the British newspaper The Observer. His work frequently focuses on corporate malfeasancelabor unions and consumer advocacy groups. Notably, he has claimed to have uncovered evidence that Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, and Florida Elections Unit Chief Clay Roberts, along with the ChoicePoint corporation, rigged the ballots during the US Presidential Election of 2000 and again in 2004 when, he argued, the problems and machinations from 2000 continued, and that challenger John Kerry actually would have won if not for disproportional "spoilage" of Democratic votes.
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Paynter is the founder and CEO of Care2, the largest online social
network for conscientious people with more than 7 million members and
250 nonprofit partners.
 John Perkins, a former economic hit man, is a founder and board member of Dream Change and the Pachamama Alliance, nonprofit organizations devoted to creating stable, sustainable, and peaceful worlds. He has lectured and taught at universities on four continents including Harvard, Wharton, and Princeton, and is a champion of environmental and social causes. His other books include Shapeshifting and The World Is As You Dream It.
John Perkins’s Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller lists and has been published in over 30 languages, details the clandestine operations that created the world’s first truly global empire. His new book, The Secret History of the American Empire (Jun ...
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 A founder of Open city, an art and literary journal, Pinchbeck has
written for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Salon, and many other
publications.
 Bruce is the CEO and Founder of a G.A.P Adventures, a small group adventure travel company which has won numerous awards for their sustainable travel philosophy for the past 17 years such as Ethics in Tourism, Conde Nast's Green List & Millennium Ethics In Action Award.
G.A.P. Adventures offers 1000 trips to 100 countries. Bruce will discuss how he became an eco pioneer of low impact tourism such as travelling in small groups, taking local transportation and staying at locally owned accommodations. We particpate in a Carbon Offset Program. G.A.P. Adventures participates in a Carbon Offset Program and has a charitable foundation, Planeterra, which gives back to the international communities we visit, such as a Women's Weaving Project in P ...
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 In business since 1980, Paul Stamets has run Fungi Perfecti®, a family-owned, environmentally friendly company specializing in using gourmet and medicinal mushrooms to improve the health of the planet and its people. We are leaders in a new wave of technologies harnessing the inherent power of mushrooms and fungal mycelium worldwide. Fungi Perfecti® is Certified Organic by the Washington State Department of Agriculture. Paul has published 5 books, and soon a 6th, entitled Mycelium Running, a book of mycological rescue for healing habitats and increasing sustainability using low-tech techniques for restoration of damaged ecosystems. Paul has received several environmental awards, and recently has been awarded a breakthrough patent for replac ...
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 Having spent her early childhood in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, and having returned twice to Iraq since the U.S.invasion, Dr. Wasfi has a first-hand understanding of the invasion’s devastating repercussions. In this insightful talk, you will learn more about the invasion’s negative impact on the people and land of Iraq. Wasfi will share a host of evidence for ending the U.S. occupation. Wasfi studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She now give talks around the country about the devastation caused by the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
 Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation commercial fisherwoman and mother of five, has been an activist since 1989. Since the publication of her book, An Unreasonable Woman in 2005, her story has been featured in news media around the world, including The Washington Post, The Diane Rehm Show, PBS Now, Democracy Now! and The Bob Edwards Show. Her awards include: AlterNet’s Eco Hero Award, the National Fisherman Magazine Award, Mother Jones’s Hell Raiser of the Month, CodePink Woman of the Year, Louis Gibbs’ Environmental Lifetime Award, Louisiana Environmental Action (LEAN) Environmental Award, the Giraffe Project’s Jenifer Altman Award, Ethecon’s Blue Planet Award, and the Bioneers Award.
 Abdulhadi is Urban Program Coordinator for Angelic Organics Learning
Center, working with community food systems projects, training urban
farmers, and building healthy local food systems.
 Sharif Abdullah is an author, trainer and a leading catalyst for inclusive social, cultural and spiritual transformation. Sharif teaches groups and individuals how to understand and practice inclusivity – the connection with all other beings.
His books include The Power of One: Authentic Leadership in Turbulent Times and Creating a World That Works for All. He is the founder and president of Commonway Institute and the originator of the Commons Café dialog process and the Common Society Movement. He serves on the adjunct faculty at Portland State University (Conflict Resolution Department) and Lewis & Clark College.
Sharif has criss-crossed the planet, taking his inclusivity work to over twenty-five different countries and close to 10 ...
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 Allen is Projects Manager for Growing Power, and has combined her
farming heritage with her degree in art therapy to establish local
urban food systems.
 Mark Anielski is the author of The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth, which was published in June 2007 by New Society Publishers. Mark is a well-being economist, entrepreneur, professor and president of Anielski Management Inc. which specializes in measuring quality of life and sustainable well-being. In the 2004, Adbusters magazine recognized Mark as a “rising star” amongst international progressive economists. He has pioneered natural capital accounting in Canada and alternative measures of economic progress, including the US Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) and the Alberta GPI Sustainable Well-being measurement system. For 14 years he served as senior economic policy advisor to the Alberta Government. He is currently advisi ...
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 Apollo is the founder and executive director of Access Granted, a company designed to provide advanced technology, ecology, and body-mind education in urban locations worldwide.
 The Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium is led by a
team of co-facilitators who are volunteers, moved by their own
experience of the Symposium to share this material with audiences in
their own communities. Events are lead by ordinary folks for whom
spreading this message of hope and inspiration answers their own call
to live lives of meaning and contribution in these challenging times.
Here at the Chicago Green Festival the team is lead by June Holte, a
remarkable example of this. Since coming to her first Symposium, in
August of 2007, June has committed her life to bringing this message to
10,000+ individuals in 20 states in the Heartland and the South.
She has already co-facilitated 20 events in seven states ...
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 Bach is the author of seven consecutive bestselling books. His latest book is
Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Ways to Save the Earth (and Get Rich Trying).
 A human rights and social justice supporter for more than 20 years, Medea Benjamin is coeditor of Stop the Next War Now and a cofounder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK. Click here to see her talk.
 Michael began his career as a stockbroker. After five years of managing
portfolios, he decided to pursue his interest in environmental
protection and study Environmental Planning.
Upon receiving a Masters Degree in Urban and Regional Planning, Michael
held several positions within local and regional governmental
organizations in Iowa in solid waste management planning and education.
Michael recently moved to Chicago where he initially worked for the
Chicago Park District as a Project Manager in Capital Construction.
During his tenure at the Park District, he managed several large-scale
capital improvement projects, including the reconstruction of South
Lake Shore Drive, which runs through historically significant Burnham
and J ...
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 Having received a master’s degree from the London School of Economics, Biggs is currently the director of the Local Economy Project for Global Exchange. She is currently working on her book, Minding Our Own Business.
 Annie is the editor and producer of Care2's Healthy Living channels and Health and Wellness Series newsletters. Bond teamed up with Maid Brigade to promote awareness of “true green” cleaning and what consumers should look for when selecting authentically green products and services, like Maid Brigade’s Green Clean Certified ™ system. She brings over 20 years of experience as a leading authority, writer and editor about the connections between the environment, personal health and well-being. Annie has authored four books, including her most recent work, Home Enlightenment: Practical, Earth-Friendly Advice for Creating a Nurturing, Healthy, and Toxin-Free Home and Lifestyle (Rodale, 2005). She has also written Better Basics for the Home (Thr ...
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