Featured Speakers for San Francisco Spring 2010
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Ed Begley Jr. Featured
When it comes to taking personal responsibility for the environment,
few individuals can match the record of actor and activist Ed Begley,
Jr. Known for turning up at Hollywood events on his bicycle, he has
served as chairman of the Environmental Media Association and the Santa
Monica Mountains Conservancy. He serves on the boards of organizations
including the Thoreau Institute, the Earth Communications Office, Tree
People and Friends of the Earth. His work has earned both praise and
awards from numerous environmental groups including the California
League of Conservation Voters, the Natural Resources Defense Council,
the Coalition for Clean Air, Heal the Bay, the Santa Monica Baykeeper,
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Medea Benjamin Featured
A human rights and social justice supporter and activist for more than 20 years, Benjamin is coeditor of Stop the Next War Now and cofounder of Global Exchange, Green Festival coproducer.
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Lester Brown Featured
MacArthur Fellow and the recipient of many awards, Brown is founder and president of Earth Policy Institute, founder of the Worldwatch Institute and author or coauthor of 50 books.
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Amy Goodman Featured
Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 800 TV and radio stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of the Podcasts,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.” She is also one of the the first recipients, along with Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald, of the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award, named for ...
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Ralph Nader Featured
Consumer advocate, author and lawyer, Nader is a self-described public citizen with more than 40 years at the forefront of progressive movements.
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Dr. David Orr Featured
Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of environmental studies and politics, special assistant to the president of Oberlin College and a James Marsh Professor at the University of Vermont. He is the recipient of four honorary degrees and other awards including The Millennium Leadership Award from Global Green, the Bioneers Award, the National Wildlife Federation Leadership Award, a Lyndhurst Prize acknowledging “persons of exceptional moral character, vision, and energy.” He has been a scholar in residence at Ball State University, the University of Washington, and other universities. He has lectured at hundreds of colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and Europe. He serves as a Trustee for several organizations ...
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John Perkins Featured
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.
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 more than 30 languages, details the clandestine operations that created the world’s first truly global empire. His book The Secret History of the American Empire provides a compassionate plan for crafting a world that future generations will be proud ...
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Stuart Pimm Featured
Professor Stuart Pimm holds one of Duke University’s most prestigious chairs (The Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology). He is an outstanding ecologist and the world’s leading conservation scientist.
Pimm’s publications are extraordinarily influential. He is one of the most quoted ecologists. In the last decade, has Pimm published more than 100 papers, of which a quarter were in Nature, Science, and PNAS. Two of his four books have appeared since 1991. The Balance of Nature? Ecological issues in the conservation of species and communities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 434 pp. And 2001. The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth. McGraw Hill, New York. (1982) Food Webs, has been re-iss ...
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Joel Salatin Featured
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: JOEL F. SALATIN
Joel Salatin, 51, is a fulltime farmer in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. A third generation alternative farmer, he returned to the farm fulltime in 1982 and continued refining and adding to his parents’ ideas.
The farm services more than 2,000 families, 10 retail outlets, and 30 restaurants through on-farm sales and metropolitan buying clubs with salad bar beef, pastured poultry, eggmobile eggs, pigaerator pork, forage-based rabbits, pastured turkey and forestry products using relationship marketing.
He holds a BA degree in English and writes extensively in magazines such as STOCKMAN GRASS FARMER, ACRES USA, and AMERICAN AGRICULTURALIST.
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Dr. Cornel West Featured
One of America's most provocative public intellectuals, Cornel West has been a champion for racial justice since childhood. His writing, speaking, and teaching weave together the traditions of the black Baptist Church, progressive politics, and jazz. The New York Times has praised his "ferocious moral vision."
Currently the Class of 1943 Professor at Princeton University, West burst onto the national scene in 1993 with his bestselling book, Race Matters, a searing analysis of racism in American democracy. Race Matters has become a contemporary classic, selling more than a half a million copies to date. In addition, West has published 16 other books and has edited 13 texts.
West earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard in th ...
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Philip Aroneanu
Aroneanu is a cofounder of 350.org, where he serves as the youth programs director, Africa / Middle East organizer, and the creative media coordinator.
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Bama Athreya
Executive director of the International Labor Rights Forum, Dr. Athreya joined ILRF in early 1998, just after returning from Cambodia as the AFL-CIO’s country representative.
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Barbara Barker
Barbara Barker, a Florida master gardener and a graduate of the University of Florida, is a garden writer and owner of The Gourmet Gardener.
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Chip Barnes
Barnes is a veteran of the 1990 Persian Gulf war, has an MBA in finance and currently trades the financial markets in addition to promoting sustainable living and working with several animal rescue groups in the Baltimore area.
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Elizabeth Bast
Bast is the international program director at Friends of the Earth. Bast’s work focuses on generating a just and equitable global response to climate change and exposing the relationship between climate change and global economic system.
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Shari Berenbach
Berenbach joined Calvert Foundation as executive director in 1997 with over 20 years of experience in microcredit to international business. At Calvert Foundation, Berenbach has developed innovative financial instruments and partnerships critical to alleviating poverty through the mobilization of retail investment dollars.
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Nadine Bloch
Bloch of Transition Takoma
Park has worked in the peace and environmental justice movements since 1980 as
an organizer and coordinator of creative
nonviolent direct action campaigns, both locally and internationally, marine
and land based.
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Sonia Bunch
Bunch (moderator) is the owner and founder of The EverGreen™ Home. She also manages the company’s organic food line which consists of organic shade grown coffees from Indonesia, Nicaragua, and Ethiopia, and shade grown organic Japanese Green Tea.
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Will Byrne
Byrne is cofounder and executive director of The DC Project, focused on the poverty-reducing potential of the clean energy economy.
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Gillian Caldwell
Caldwell is the campaign director for 1Sky, a national campaign to build a diverse nationwide movement and convince our federal government to tackle the climate crisis and initiate a renewable energy economy by 2010.
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Caroline Casey
Casey is Chief Trickster at Coyote Network News, the Compassionate Trickster astro*politico*mythological news service, and host-creator-weaver-of-context of The Visionary Activist Show on Pacifica Radio Network. Encouraging Pragmatic Mysticism in service to Collaborative Democratic Animism in myriad global venues.
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Sanjay Chandra
Chandra is president of Herndon-based Green Brilliance, a global solar energy firm.
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Larry Chang
Chang (moderator) is an environmental designer, life counselor and founder of EcolocityDC, which seeks to address environmental, economic and social sustainability issues. He has been introducing the Transition model to the Washington region and is particularly focused on urban sustainability through farming and intentional community development.
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Shelley Cohen
Cohen is the senior project developer and greening expert at Ameresco, where she specializes in renewable energy and energy conservation project development.
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Kevin Danaher
Danaher is a cofounder of Global Exchange, the noted human rights organization based in San Francisco, executive coproducer of Green Festival, executive director of the Global Citizen Center and author of Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power among others. Danaher has appeared on television and radio shows around the country. He has published articles in the The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The International Herald Tribune, Harvard Educational Review, The Nation, The Progressive and many others. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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