Schedule is subject to change

FRIDAY:

Ongoing activities throughout the day include food, tables, booths, and
music by the Troubadours of Divine Bliss

james hansenjohn-francis-ph.djessica-rimingtonmalika duttgary hirshberg

11:30am-11:45am ARRIVAL & LIVE MUSIC by The Sirens
11:45am-12pm WELCOME - Ben Evans & Teddie Phillipson-Mower
    w/ Open Ground's Don Boklage (Strickler Hall)

12-4pm  NATIONAL PLENARIES
· JAMES HANSEN (NASA Goddard Director)
   - Human-made Climate Change: A Moral, Political and Legal Issue
· JOHN FRANCIS (The Planetwalker)
   - Redefining Environment
· JESSICA RIMINGTON (Founder of One World Youth Project)
   - Mobilizing the World's Youth
· MALLIKA DUTT (Founder and Exec. Dir. of Breakthrough)
   - Changing the Frame - Media, Arts and Culture as Tools for Public Dialouge
· GARY HIRSHBERG (CEO of Stonyfield Farm)
   - Win7 Economics: Restoring Natural Order as If People Mattered


4-4:30pm  LIVE KEYNOTE

· ANDY MAHLER (Founder of Heartwood)
   - May the Forest Be With You

4:30-5:30pm  BREAKOUTS
· Planetwalking & Powershifting - Danielle & Fred Hillenbrand
· 10-10-10 Global Work Party Feedback - Drew Foley et al.
· A Planetarium Journey Through the Universe and Earth
   - Dr. Keith Mountain & Drew Foster (Planetarium)
· UofL Climate Action Plan - Dr. Justin Mog, Larry Owsley, Dr. Rodger Payne, Dr. Paul Salmon

5:30-6:30pm  BREAKOUTS
· Panel: From Coal Ash to Coal-Free - Lauren McGrath, Tom FitzGerald, Jeff Biggers, TBA
· Beyond Food Miles - Dr. Michael Bomford
· FILM: The Art of Walking - intro by Danielle & Fred Hillenbrand (Planetarium)

FIELD TRIPS:
· 2:30-4pm  UofL Sustainability Tour (walking)- Justin Mog & Russ Barnett
· 4:30-6:30pm  Environmental Justice Tour (bus) - Russ Barnett

EVENING EVENTS:
· 7-8:50pm  FILM: YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip (preview cut)
   - followed by Q&A w/ Director Ben Evans (*Planetarium)
· 7:30 -8:45pm FILM: The Art of Walking - intro by Danielle & Fred Hillenbrand (Strickler)
· 9-10:45pm  FILM: Carbon Nation (*Planetarium)
· 9-10:30pm  FILM: Low Coal (Kentucky Premiere) - (Strickler Hall - explicit content)

* there is a $3 ticket price for evening films in the Planetarium ($5 for both)


SATURDAY:

Ongoing activities throughout the day include food, tables, booths, art
and Yoga courtesy of SHINE & Louisville Yoga Co-op

elizabeth Lindseypeter-warshallMary Gonzalesjohn warnerandy lipkis

Watch out for SWAMPY!!!
No...actually find him because he has a lot of interesting things to say about wetlands, energy, sustainability, etc.  He will entertain and educate throughout the day.


MORNING EVENTS:
· 9-10am  Morning Stretch/Yoga - courtesy of SHINE & Louisville Yoga Co-op
· 9-11am  Seed/Harvest Swap & Re-skilling Fair including: 
Steve Paradis
of Fresh Start Grower's Supply on Keeping Urban Chickens

Sally and Adrianne Moss
with their spinning wheel and loom
 
Margaret Shea of Dropseed Native Pant Nursery
will share her methods for collecting

      and storing seed and demonstrate processing seed for storage
Darleen Horton
Environmental Education Resource Teacher, Cane Run Elementary

      will offer a session on Art from Trash (including Garden Art)

Transylvania University
will be making rain barrels.

15 Thousand Farmers
will be exploring square foot gardening
      Michael McDonough will explore Earth-building
      Go Batty with Tiffany Fuits' bat-houses
      Plus - Julie Shinton-Fried of Brightside, along with youth participants, will present on
       the Youth Summit
· 9-11am  Dumpster Dive with GRASS (Group Recycling and Sustainable Solutions),
   a UofL Student organization

· 9:30-10am  Field Trip to Manual Garden (raised beds and sheet gardening)
   - Manual Environmental Club.
Meet in front of the Planetarium at 9:25 AM.

10-11am  BREAKOUTS
· Resilient Communities and Sustainable Berea - Dr. Richard Olson
· Polar Bear Explorer - Emily Goldstein

11-11:30am  LIVE KEYNOTE
· JEFF BIGGERS (David Brower Award-winning author & activist)
   - Replanting our Roots in a Carpetbagger Nation


11:30-3:30pm  NATIONAL PLENARIES
· ELIZABETH K LINDSEY (Award-Winning Filmmaker)
   - Navigating An Ancient Future: The Compass of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
· PETER WARSHALL (Co-Director of Dreaming New Mexico)
   - Dreaming New Mexico: An Age of Local Foodsheds and A Fair Trade State
· MARY GONZALES (California Director of Gamaliel Foundation)
   - The Environment and Its Relationship to Equity and the Economy
· JOHN WARNER (Founder of Green Chemistry)
   - Intellectual Ecology: Green Chemistry and Biomimicry
· ANDY LIPKIS - (Founder of TreePeople)
   - Engaging Nature and Community to Protect and Heal

3:30-4:30pm  BREAKOUTS
· GreenConvene & AIA 2010 Preview - Maria Koetter, Chris Bowling
· Where Do We Go From Here: College/University Reception & Discussion
   - facilitated by Prof. Peter Schwartzma
n
· E3 - Energy, the Economy and the Environment - Building Resilience for a
   Sustainable Community
- Terrell Holder
· Magnificent Mushrooms - Eric Osborne
· Energy-Efficient, Green Design for New and Existing Homes - Gary Watrous
       
4:30-5:30pm  BREAKOUTS
· Renewables in KY - David Brown Kinloch
· Composting: Completing the Life Cycle of Food (90 minute walk & talk) - Brian Barnes
· Wild in the City - Dr. Tommy Parker, Biologist and researcher in Environmental Justice
   
5:30-6:30pm  BREAKOUTS
· Food and Faith: Community Gardening in Urban Settings
   - Lauren Argo (Fest. of Faiths), Pat Williamson (LAMP Ministries), Vivian Collins (Coke   
  Memorial Church), Andy Wolak (New Roots), and Mason Roberts (Louisville Grows)
· Hard Choices:  A Land Use Simulation - Betsy Ruhe
· Embodied Value and Sustainable Rejuvenation: Portland
   -  Martina Kunnecke, Gary Watrous, Haven Harrington, and Jackie Green

· Environmental Leadership and Decision Making for Kids - Beth Bell

6:30-7:30pm Local, Slow Community Dinner and Discussion
   - Chef Jim Whaley, Manual High School Environmental Club, and others

EVENING EVENTS:
7:30-8pm  Perspectives on Sustainability and Politics in Louisville
   - a dialogue with Jackie Green
8-9:30pm  GREEN SLAM - a must-see smorgasbord of viral videos, stories, mini-presentations, and performances from environmental leaders around the region
9:45-10:30pm  LIVE MUSIC: The 23 String Band


SUNDAY:

Ongoing activities throughout the day include food, tables, booths and art
with music by the Troubadours of Divine Bliss

lynne twistjohn-a.-powellgloria-feldtanthony cortesejane goodall

MORNING EVENTS:
9-10am  Yoga for the Earth - courtesy of SHINE & Louisville Yoga CoOp
10-11am  Opening Circle: Celebrating Earth Community
   - facilitated by Jud Hendrix, Mark Steiner, and Marilyn Stoner

11-11:20am
  LIVE KEYNOTE
· HARRY PICKENS (Renowned Educator & Jazz Artist)
   - Our Time Is Now

11:20-12pm  OPEN SPACE INTRODUCTION & CREATION
· facilitated by Howard Mason, Harry Pickens, and Mark Steiner

12:05 -2pm  NATIONAL PLENARIES
· LYNNE TWIST (Co-Founder of The Pachamama Alliance)
   - Changing the Dream: The Pachamama Alliance
· john a. powell (Executive Director of Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity)
   - Dance Like You Matter in an Intra-Related World
· GLORIA FELDT (Women's activist, writer, speaker and commentator)
   - Riding the Leadership Wave

2-5pm  United Nations Day PEACE FAIR    
Hosted by Bluegrass Technical & Community College - Dr. Rebecca Glasscock
Sustainable Agriculture Louisville - Stephen Bartlett
The Anne Braden Institute
The Muhammad Ali Institute
The Muhammad Ali Center
Kentucky Division United Nations Association of the United States of America


2:15-2:55pm  OPEN SPACE SESSIONS

3-3:35pm  NATIONAL PLENARY 
· ANTHONY CORTESE (Co-Founder of the AASHE)
   - From Leonardo da Vinci to Higher Education: Lead Us to Survive and Thrive

3:40-4:20pm  OPEN SPACE SESSIONS

4:25-4:45pm  REPORT OUT FROM OPEN SPACE SESSIONS

4:45-5:30pm  NATIONAL PLENARY
· JANE GOODALL, Ph.D, DBE (Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace) - Gombe and Beyond: The Next 50 Years

5:30-6:30pm  FINAL PERFORMANCE
· HARRY PICKENS and THE LOUISVILLE LEOPARD PERCUSSIONISTS

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  Ben Evans at 917-657-7253 / ben@yert.com
Teddie Phillipson Mower at 812-361-4594 / t.phillipsonmower@louisville.edu


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