Work That Reconnects Intensive Aug 2008
Doing the Work That Reconnects
This group is for participants in the Aug 2008 Intensive facilitated by Joanna Macy, Fran Macy, and Doug Mosel at Land of Medicine Buddha near Soquel. For more info about Joanna's work, please see www.joannamacy.net
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Created: Aug 18, 2008
Updated: Jan 22, 2009
Membership: Invitation Only
Semi-Private
Biofuels: Energy, Food and People
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Through four speaker presentations and a dynamic Q&A session this upcoming FREE community event will explore the following questions: What are biofuels? Will they really replace gasoline? What do they mean for my community? For the planet? Are they really "green"? This event is one in a monthly series of free EcoNow events that seek to facilitate networking, education and collective action to achieve sustainability and social justice. EcoNow events are video and audio recorded, and these recordings are made available on the EcoNow website along with related educational materials provided by the speakers.
SPEAKERS:
- Tad Patzek
– Professor of Geoengineering at UC Berkeley – Presenting on
the science behind biofuels and other energy sources.
- Miguel Altieri
– Professor of Agroecology at UC Berkeley – Presenting on
the impacts of biofuels on food security and the alternatives developed by
small peasant growers to secure food sovereignty and resist the expansion of
the industrial-corporate agricultural model.
- Eric
Holt-Gimenez – Executive Director of Food First – Presenting on
biofuels and the corporate transformation of our food and fuels systems.
- Judith Mayer
– Project Coordinator of the Borneo Project - Presenting on
palm oil biodiesel from a Borneo perspective.
Past events have attracted a broad cross-section of the public, including local politicians, professors, business owners, non-profit leaders, scientists, students and more.
Free food and drink
will be provided.