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Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary 2010
At The State Theatre
Monday, April 30
6:00 - 9:00 PM
6-6:30 PM: Empowering Our Local Economy
Keynote speaker: Stephanie Mills
Learn about our local currency and alternatives to Wall St. greed
6:30-8:30 PM: Screening of the film: Inside Job
This is a fundraiser for Bay Bucks
to expand awareness and grow the circulation of our local currency.
Sponsored by Bay Bucks and The State Theatre.
Get your free tickets at the theatre box office.
www.baybucks.org
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Wednesday, May 2,
6 - 9 PM
Milliken Auditorium at the Dennos Museum Center
Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City
$5 @ the door
This highly relevant two-part PBS documentary brings a comprehensive and timely presentation that takes a close look at our country's current electric energy status and the challenges we face.
Click here for more details.
Admission is FREE with the ticket that can be downloaded and printed here.
If you don't download a ticket, there will be a $5 charge at the door.
Walk Ins Welcome - All Area Students Free
Sponsored in part by Traverse City Light & Power
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Climate Impacts Day
350 Photo
(and optional pot luck in the park)
at the Open Space
Saturday, May 5, 2012
12:00 Noon
Bill McKibben and the folks at 350.org have wisely decided that it is time to "connect the dots" on climate change. So, they are asking all those communities that have experienced extreme weather due to climate change (and those who stand in solidarity) to gather for a "350 photo" on May 5th. More than one hundred events have been planned worldwide. 350.org will use the photos to "connect the dots" and illuminate the devastating effects that climate change is already having globally. For more information, go to www.climatedots.org.
In the past few months, northern Michigan has suffered a devastating snowstorm with record breaking power outages, and a record shattering heat wave, all within a span of two weeks! In honor of this, we invite photo participants to wear their winter hats or beach wear, or both! Hey, why not have a little fun with it? The photo should only take 30 minutes or so, but you are invited to hang around for a potluck at Clinch Park, and enjoy local music.
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Greetings!
It's time to start getting excited about the line up of 2012 Bioneers Speakers! These presenters will be beamed in live from California and broadcast in Milliken Auditorium at our local Conference here in Traverse City, October 19-21.
Scroll down to see a preview of the first 10 confirmed presenters! Or visit the National Bioneers homepage.
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| Mike Brune |
Mike Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, will describe how one of the biggest, oldest and most influential grassroots environmental
groups in the nation is working to end coal in
the U.S. withinadecade, without question the most successful such work in the country. As the country's leading climatologist Dr. James Hansen has pointed out, stopping coal is a climate imperative, now. Powered by a recent $50 million grant from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mike Brune is leading the Sierra Club's national campaign, which has already produced impressive results. There will also be a Campaign Connection on how you personally can help stop coal.
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Bill McKibben
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Bill McKibben, the renowned journalist, activist and author who co-founded 350.org with a handful of student activists and helped make it the most exciting and effective global citizen movement to address climate change yet seen, will describe the group's campaigns, including stopping the Keystone XL pipeline for the most climate-wrecking "dirty" oil from Canada's Tar Sands. Against all odds, McKibben and 350.org halted what seemed like a sure thing -- at least for now. Bill's reporting helped expose the faulty review process by the State Department and the crony capitalism behind it. 350.org will also participate in a Campaign Connection to help you make a decisive difference.
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Gabor Maté
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Gabor Maté, a celebrated Canadian doctor who specializes in the study and treatment of addiction and Attention Deficit Disorder, will draw crucial connections among the health of the mind, body and human communities. His landmark book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts explores how our childhood experiences can program neurological and psychological mechanisms that can lead to addiction, abuse, ADHD and other disorders. Addressing them, he says, requires us to change our society so that it offers far better support to children and families. A pathfinder in mind-body medicine, Dr. Matédescribes how "adverse childhood experiences" (ACEs) can be reversed and healed.
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Ethan Nadelmann
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Ethan Nadelmann, the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, is the leading figure in the U.S. and world to end the "War on Drugs." As the world comes to recognize that the Drug War is a bust, Ethan is at the forefront of developing and securing a sane drug policy that will address the injustices that disproportionately impact people of color and low-income communities, while saving huge amounts of money, redirecting law enforcement toward greater priorities, and curtailing environmental harms. A spellbinding speaker, he will present an overview of the emerging paradigm shift on drug policy across the political spectrum that has most recently gained the support of several Latin American national leaders and even the Christian evangelist Pat Robertson.
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Gretchen Daily
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Gretchen Daily, Bing Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Biology at Stanford and co-director of the Natural Capital Project (among many other affiliations), has devoted her illustrious career to aligning economic forces with conservation. An ecologist by training, she works globally with leaders to advance practical approaches to environmental challenges. Among her most important contributions is groundbreaking work on quantifying the production and value of ecosystem services across landscapes, and on new policy and finance mechanisms for integrating the values of natural capital into major decisions. Just as market forces power much of the biosphere's destruction, she shows how they can be transformed to produce virtuous cycles of restoration and jobs.
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Nikki Henderson
|  Nikki Henderson is executive director of the groundbreaking Oakland, California-based People's Grocery, among the West Coast's most significant on-the-ground food justice organizations. People's Grocery helps West Oakland residents with community gardens, access to fresh organic food, education on diet-related disease and food justice, small business incubation, and leadership trainings. Nikki is currently collaborating with Michael Pollan and Alice Waters on an Edible Education course at UC Berkeley, co-teaching with Pollan on the rise and future of the food movement with guest lecturers Eric Schlosser, Alice Waters, and Carlo Petrini. She has worked closely with Van Jones and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins at Green for All for a green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty. In 2009, Nikki co-founded Live Real, a national collaborative of food movement organizations committed to strengthening and expanding the youth food movement in the U.S. She has a Master's degree in African American Studies from UCLA. |
Fletcher Harper
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Fletcher Harper is an Episcopal priest and executive director of GreenFaith, a dynamic action-oriented interfaith environmental coalition. An award-winning spiritual writer and nationally recognized preacher on the environment, he has developed a range of innovative programs to make GreenFaith a leader in the fast-growing religious-environmental movement. Founded in 1992, GreenFaith inspires, educates and mobilizes people of diverse religious backgrounds as environmental leaders. Through religious-environmental education programs, greening the operations of religious institutions and the homes of its members, and legislative advocacy and values-based environmental activism, GreenFaith helps religious institutions and people of all faiths put their belief into action for the Earth. A graduate of Princeton University and Union Theological Seminary, Fletcher served as a parish priest for ten years and in leadership positions in the Episcopal Church prior to joining GreenFaith.
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Ai-jen Poo
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Ai-jen Poo, co-director of Caring Across Generations, is one of the most dynamic young leaders working to include new constituencies in the labor movement and to build broad coalitions and alliances. Caring Across Generations is a national coalition of 200 advocacy organizations working together for a dignified quality of life for all Americans. Ai-jen is also director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, a national alliance of domestic workers in 19 cities and 11 states, working to gain respect, recognition, and protections for America's 2.5 million domestic workers, among the most disenfranchised groups in the nation. |
Carol Jenkins
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Carol Jenkins is a leading advocate for women's rights around the world, and an award-winning writer, producer and media analyst. As an Emmy-winning former television journalist and now head of her own production company, Carol Jenkins Media, she was founding president of the groundbreaking non-profit the Women's Media Center, co-founded by Gloria Steinem. The Center was created to increase coverage and participation of women in the media in the U.S. and worldwide. Her current service focus is on the health of girls and women globally, and she chairs the board of the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF USA). She takes an active role on several boards and advisory councils, including with Humane Farm Animal Care, the national certification organization; Out of the Blue Films, a non-profit nurturing documentaries on important topics; The Alliance of Women Film Journalists; and The Center for Partnership Studies.
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Greg Sarris
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Greg Sarris is among the most dynamic leaders working to reestablish the rights of California's Native American tribes and revitalize their cultures and economies. He is a member and current Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria in Northern California, a college professor, author and screenwriter. With his leadership, the Graton Rancheria Nation have helped create innovative, large-scale multi-stakeholder land conservation successes in Northern California. He was chosen in 2005 to fill the Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Sonoma State University. He was formerly the Fletcher Jones Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and a full professor at UCLA for ten years.
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