Events

Harmony Festival 2009 - Great Line-up of Transition Speakers

Start: Jun 12 2009

This year, Harmony Festival has a great line-up of Transition-related speakers and panels on several stages. Take a peek at the program and visit the Harmony Festival website for more on this 3-day event.

View the full speaker schedule here.

Printable schedule here.

Headliner Transition Speakers:

Joanna Macy
Starhawk
Richard Heinberg

FRIDAY June 12

Simran Raphaell
Fermenting our way to an Earth Saving Revolution
GREEN PAGODA
Friday 3:45-4:45 pm

Renewable Energy
GREEN PAGODA
Friday 6:45-7:30 pm

Miguel Lom Elliot
Living Earth Structures
GREEN PAGODA
Friday 8:30-9:30 pm

SATURDAY, June 13

Joanna Macy
The Great Turning: The Best Ever Chance to Discover Our Courage, Beauty, and Solidarity
EARTH TEMPLE DOME
Saturday 12:45-1:45 pm
JOANNA MACY is a teacher, author, and the creator of the Work That Reconnects. Drawing from Buddhist practices, systems theory, and love for life, her workshops empower environmental and social activists worldwide. Her many books include Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World; World As Lover, World As Self; Widening Circles, A Memoir; and translations of Rilke's poetry. She feels that this is the time to hone ourskills and relationships for the transition to a life- sustaining civilization. Ms. Macy will be speaking about The Great Turning: The Best Ever Chance to Discover Our Courage, Beauty, and Solidarity.www.joannamacy.net <http://www.joannamacy.net/>

Lori Grace Star with Penny Livingston-Stark
Living Green and Loving It! Pathways to Abundant Living
GREEN PAGODA
Saturday 2:15-3:15 pm
LORI GRACE STAR was trained by Al Gore at Climate Project headquarters. She offers presentations in the Bay Area and beyond about climate change and reducing our carbon footprint. PENNY LIVINGSTON-STARK is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer and speaker. Penny has been working professionally in the land management and development field for 25 years and has extensive experience in all phases of ecologically-sound landscape design.She is the founder of Sustainable Living Designs.

Permaculture All-Star Panel
Food Forests Across America
withErik Ohlsen,Benjamin Fahrer, and others
GREEN PAGODA
Saturday 3:30-4:30 pm

Derek Huntington & Go Local
Where is Your Money?
GREEN PAGODA
Saturday 4:45-5:45 pm

Max Myers
Permaculture Pathways to Relocalization
GREEN PAGODA
Saturday 11:45 am-12:45 pm

John Valenzuela &Sage Mata
Creating an Eco-Village from the Earth Up
GREEN PAGODA
Saturday 1:00-2:00 pm

Kyle Collins
Enlisting Fungi As Our Allies in Sustainable Culture
GREEN PAGODA
Saturday 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Global Warming Panel Discussion
AMBIOTICA LOUNGE
Saturday 6:00-7:00 pm

SUNDAY, June 14

Starhawk
Mother Earth's Transition Team
EARTH TEMPLE DOME
Sunday 1:15 - 2:15 pm
and
Transition to Sustainability Panel Discussion
EARTH TEMPLE DOME
Sunday 5:45 - 6:30 pm
We live at an awesome moment in history. The dire reality of climate change challenges us to remake our society and to do it quickly. If we fail, we'll suffer destruction on a global scale. But this threat is also a great opportunity-to create a new world of true abundance, rooted in community and ecological balance. How do we join Mother Earth's Transition Team? What shifts in consciousness do we need to make and what actions do we need to take? How do we nurture resilient communities locally and create justice globally to heal our world? STARHAWK committed global justice activist and organizer, is the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and the award-winning Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising. Her latest is Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature. She is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, is a highly influential voice in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion, and has brought many innovative techniques of spirituality and magic to her political work.
www.starhawk.org

Richard Heinberg
Economic Crisis, Peak Oil, and the Transition to Sustainability
EARTH TEMPLE DOME
Sunday 5:00 - 5:45 pm
and

Transition to Sustainability Panel Discussion
EARTH TEMPLE DOME
Sunday 5:45 - 6:30 pm
The world economic crisis represents the collapse of history's biggest Ponzi scheme--a global system of leveraged debt based on perpetual fossil-fueled growth. Now that the era of growth is over, how can we transition to post-carbon energy sources while building resilient and sustainable local economies?RICHARD HEINBERGis widely regarded as one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators. He is a full-time Senior Fellow at Post Carbon Institute, and the award-winning author of eight books Including:The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies; Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World; The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse; and Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines.
www.richardheinberg.com

Transition to Sustainability Panel Discussion
with Starhawk, Richard Heinberg, Andy Langford, Liora Adler, Jennifer Gray, and Penny Livingston-Stark
Moderated by Scott McKeown
EARTH TEMPLE DOME
Sunday 5:45 - 6:30 pm
We are facing one of the greates challenges in human history as we shift away from dependence on cheap fossil fuel to a more sustainable economy. Come hear a panel of experts and activists as they discuss the Culture of Transition and what is needed for a successful migration to a post-carbon world.

Pachamama Alliance
Awakening the Dreamer Symposium
AMBIOTICA LOUNGE
Sunday 3:00-5:00 pm
Ifyou are tired of the gloom, doom and crisis you see in the news, come and learn about the "un-named movement" and the new possible future to live into. We guide you through an inquiry from "Where are we? " and "How did we get here?" to "What is possible for the future" and "What can I do?"The Symposium brings hopeful new perspectives and possibilities,Creating abold newfuture.Spend the afternoon being awakened, challenged, and enlivened with a new possibility that makes real your vision for the future. Including video commentary by Paul Hawken, Julia Butterfly Hill, Van Jones, Desmond Tutu, and many more.Join us to explore a new global visionbuilt on Sustainability, Spiritual Fulfillmentand Social Justice.
awakeningthedreamer.org

Andy Langford and Liora Adler
Cultural Remediation: Gaia University and the Global EcoVillage Network
GREEN PAGODA
Sunday 2:15-3:15 pm
ANDY LANGFORD & LIORA ADLERarethe co-founders of Gaia University, based in the San Francisco North Bay. Since 1993, Andy has been founder and CEO of The Permaculture Academy of Britain which now has over 160 graduates in five countries. Since 2000, Ms. Adler has been on the Board of Directors and NGO Representative to the United Nations, Global Ecovillage Network, where she is currently an Advisory Council Member.
www.gaiauniversity.org

Jennifer Gray
Transition Town movement
GREEN PAGODA
Sunday 11:45 am-12:45 pm
JENNIFER GRAYis one of the pioneers of the Transition Town movement in the UK, a practical, positive and inclusive process that is being used by communities all over the world to facilitate the creation of vibrant and resilient communities. She will give an informative and inspiring talk on how the Transition model can work to effectively engage a community in tackling the challenges of peak oil and climate change.
www.transitionus.org

Bioregionalism: Earth-Based Action for a Sustainable Culture
GREEN PAGODA
Sunday 3:30-4:30 pm

Harmony Festival 2009 - Great Line-up of Transition Speakers

This year, Harmony Festival has a great line-up of Transition-related speakers and panels on several stages. Take a peek at the program and visit the Harmony Festival website for more on this 3-day event.

View the full speaker schedule here.

Printable schedule here.

Headliner Transition Speakers:

Joanna Macy
Starhawk
Richard Heinberg