By: Dekila Chungyalpa
The Sikkim-born Director of the World Wildlife Fund’s Sacred Earth program engages with faith leaders and institutions in Asia and around the world to address environmental decline and restore communities. Environmental advisor to His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, she works with communities in the Himalayas, the Mekong, East Africa and the Amazon, and helps mobilize Buddhist and interfaith collaborations for healing the Earth.
Dekila Chungyalpa | Faiths for Conservation: The Hope of A New Environmental Movement
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Billy Parish | 100% Clean Energy For and By The People
June 10, 2013 By
By: Billy Parish
This leading young change-maker turned entrepreneur is showing how, in this generation, we can shift from fossil fuels to a world 100% powered by clean energy, and we can do it in a way that makes all of us richer, healthier and happier. The only way it will happen is if we get involved and take power into our own hands. Solar Mosaic, the company he co-founded, is employing revolutionary crowdfunding techniques to democratize investment opportunities and spread distributed energy.
Ilarion Merculieff | The Womb At The Center of the Universe
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Introduction by Nina Simons
This Aleut traditional messenger offers indigenous perspectives –bringing ancestral wisdom to guide us through modern times. The elders say that the leadership of women is paramount if we are to successfully transform civilization to conserve Earth’s capacity to sustain Life. Ilarion has served his people, and other indigenous peoples locally, nationally, and internationally for 35 years in diverse leadership capacities, including as the first Alaska Native Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development.
Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Asa Needle | Toxic Soil Busters: Urban Soil Remediation.
June 10, 2013 By
Youth Leadership Focus with Brower Youth Award winner, Asa Needle | Toxic Soil Busters: Urban Soil Remediation.
Performance by Climbing PoeTree | Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman
June 10, 2013 By
Performance by Climbing PoeTree | Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman, award-winning spoken word duo, committed organizers and boundary-breaking soul sisters.
Danny Glover | Reimagining Citizenship, Democracy and Nature
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By: Danny Glover
The beloved actor and progressive elder shares the long view of how change happens, and how we are called upon today as never before to reclaim our rights and responsibilities as citizens. He scans the horizon of the arc of justice and the convergence of the movements to restore justice and nature.
Darren Doherty | Regrarianism: Re-booting Agriculture for the Next 10,000 Years
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By: Darren Doherty
Introduction by Brock Dolman, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Large-scale modern agriculture is the world's largest industry and the most ecologically destructive human activity. One of the world's most brilliant and accomplished Regenerative Agriculture practitioners who has worked on thousands of projects on five continents will describe how "Regrarianism" can reverse this destruction and usher in a new regenerative future for our food systems.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Motherhood and Leadership
June 10, 2013 By
The Executive Director of Green For All shares her deeply personal journey of how the experience of becoming a mother has created a new sense of urgency in her work to create a healthier and more just planet. She reveals how the challenges of parenting have stretched and transformed her approach to leadership.
Tom B.K. Goldtooth | Stopping the Privatization of Nature and Commodification of Mother Earth
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Introduction by Melissa Nelson, The Cultural Conservancy
The Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network weaves together the voices of Indigenous peoples who are asking the world to reevaluate our relationship to Mother Earth, to turn away from destroying, privatizing and commodifying nature, and to turn instead to indigenous wisdom with "indigenuity." We can fashion sustainable solutions and re-sacralize our relationship to Mother Earth.
