Sustainable Gardeners and Farmers

Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 6:30 p.m. Lecture
Economics for the 21st Century: Creating a Collective Vision for a Sustainable Future
with Joshua Farley, PhD, and David Korten, PhD

Why do we need to imagine our future vision collectively?A broad, overlapping consensus around the goal of sustainable development is emerging but society still lacks a clear unified vision of what it entails. Ecological economics argues that without a coherent, relatively detailed, shared vision of what a sustainable society would look like, there will be no political will or united effort to take us from here to there. For the sake of future generations, we need to create one.

Dr. Joshua Farley, professor of Community Development and Applied Economics at the Gund Institute at the University of Vermont, and Dr. David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World and The Great Turning and cofounder of Positive Futures Network, will talk about envisioning a desirable, sustainable future and provide us with rich perspectives on potential economic models while addressing such critical questions as: What are the components of a new economy? What does it look like? What has to be done to create it?

Town Hall Seattle, Downstairs (119 Eighth Avenue, Seattle)

Pre lecture reception begins at 5:30 PM

Admission is $15 at the door.

Sponsor:

The Seattle Biotech Legacy Foundation

Cosponsors:

Center for Creative Change, Antioch University Seattle
The Russell Family Foundation

Organized By:

The Institute for Children's Environmental Health (ICEH)