Green Festival San Francisco
There is a great line up for this years Green Festival, San Francisco, November 14-16th. I have listed out the my picks below of the “not to miss” sessions. I have seen many of the speakers before but, I am still psyched to hear the latest updates from them on the world transforming. I have not seen Jill Bolte Taylor before except on TED (), looking forward to her talk. Awesome to have Agape represented with the extremely talented spirit of Ricki Byars Beckwith. Her song the “The Earth will live again”, I could listen to on repeat for days. I am also really excited to see Jared Blumenfeld’s presentation, he is a sharp guy and I interested in seeing how he plans to bring technology and sustainability together for innovation in the city of San Francisco. I met with Jared while organizing The Big One Convergence this summer and found him very helpful, collaborative and cool. All the rest are pretty much the rock stars & heroes in this movement. Come get your fill, and then step up to your leadership role in this movement, we all need to step up. For inspiration check out Tribes, came across it this last weekend.
Friday 3PM – Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stoke of Insight – How to get your brain to do what you want it to do (Consciousness), Mezzanine
Friday 4PM – Daniel Pinchbeck, Open City – Toward the Next Age (Consciousness), Mezzanine
Friday 6:30PM – Chuck D, Public Enemy & Drew Dellinger, Poets for Global Justice – Word to the Mother <earth> (Culture), Gift Center
Saturday 3PM – Charles Halpern, City University of New York – Making waves and riding the currents: activism and wisdom (Activism), Mezzanine
Saturday 4PM – Alisa Gravitz, Co-Op America – Taking the LEAP: Converging solar, efficiency and plug-in hybrids (Renewables), East Hall
Saturday 5PM – Paul Stamets, Fungi Perfecti – Mushrooms can save the World (Sustainability), Mezzanine
Saturday 5:30PM – Joey Shepp, Green Maven – The Green Web: advancing sustainability on the internet (Web3.0), East Hall
Saturday 6:30PM – Rickie Byars Beckwith, Agape – Supreme inspiration: bringing water to dry land (Spirit), Gift Center
Sunday 12PM – Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange – Building the Green Economy (Sustainability), Mezzanine
Sunday 1PM – Van Jones, Green For All – The Green Collar Economy (Social Justice), Gift Center
Sunday 2PM – Amy Goodman, Democracy Now – Standing up to the madness: ordinary heros in extraordinary times (media), Gift Center
Sunday 3PM – Jared Blumenfeld, SF Environment – Saving the Planet 2.0 (Sustainability), East Hall
Sunday 4PM - Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange – Iran, Iraq and the peace movement (Peace), Gift Center
Sunday 4PM – Jamais Cascio, Center for Responsible Nanotech, Green Futures (Climate Change),
Sunday 5PM – Alli Chagi-Starr, Green For All – Solving climate change and poverty in our lifetime. (Social Justice), Mezzanine
- Prevent Bee-Line buses and MTA from increasing
- Japanese daycare teaches racial slurs!Tell them to stop
- Asunción Rengifo Marin : Peru
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Noah | Nov 13, 2008 | Reply
You totally left out the whole Youth Unity Tent, and all the amazing workshops going on there. I would def suggest Sat: 4:00 Mental Health and Food from an Indigenous Perspective
Indigenous Permaculture Program, and 5:00 Addressing the Urban Environment: Ending Violence in Our Communities
Turf Unity Youth.
admin | Nov 14, 2008 | Reply
Good point Noah, there are a lot of additional amazing learning experiences to explore at the event. I saw Ash Eldridge last night and know he is doing a water ritual before he performs at the event on Sunday. I may have got the time wrong for Jill Bolte Taylor’s talk today as well. Web says she is on at 3PM, printed schedule said 5PM.