SEEDS 2009 Weekend Workshop Schedule
This year SEEDS has brought its Weekend Workshops together around two interrelated but distinct issue areas, in the form of two day-long programs. The first program, which begins on Saturday, Sept. 12, focuses on the way in which social ecology may further develop and inform activism within the growing climate justice movement. The second program, on Sunday, Sept. 13, is focused on a redefinition of community development that culminates with a roundtable discussion on community self-management.
We're also expanding our workshop offerings this year by presenting a day-long program entitled Vision for Vashon and Beyond on Friday, September 11 that highlights community transition and transformation, grass-roots sustainability efforts, and organizing skills.
This program is intended as a follow-up event to the Vision for Vashon Process. Friday evening Dan Chodorkoff, co-founder of the Institute for Social Ecology, will give a public talk on Social Ecology and the Triple Crisis: Saving the Planet and Ourselves at 7 pm at the Land Trust Building.
Friday, Sept. 11
Radical Sustainability and Resilience
Beall Greenhouses:
9:00 am Introduction, Bob Spivey
Global warming, peak oil, transition communities and the social ecology vision
10:00 am Grace Gershuny & Mark Musick
Redesigning food systems
11:00 am SEEDS staff
Community energy
12:00 pm Caleb Summers & Jenn Coe
Radical Sustainability Took Kit
1 pm Lunch On Site
2 – 5 pm Bill Moyer & John Sellers
Organizing tools and strategies for the transition
Land Trust Building:
7 – 9:30 pm Dan Chodorkoff
The Reconstructive Vision of Social Ecology
Saturday, Sept. 12
Building a Climate Justice Movement Focus
8:00 am Breakfast provided on site
9:00 am – 10:30 am Seeds of a New World
Brian Tokar & Marguerite Tingkhye
Examines local/global grass-roots efforts to create ecological alternatives.
10:45 am – 1:30 pm Ecological Design, Sustainable Land Use, and Food Security
Grace Gershuny & Emet Degirmenci
Explores how we may work with the land to support local food security and ecosystem diversity in the face of climate change.
1:30 pm Lunch provided on site
2:30 – 4:15 pm Media and Movement
Amoshaun Toft
Helps participants understand and develop framing and narrative strategies for use in mobilization and public education, with a focus on issues of crucial importance to the ecological crisis.
4:30 – 6:00 pm Social ecology and climate change activism, roundtable discussion
Dan Chodorkoff, Brian Tokar & Grace Gershuny
Sunday, Sept. 13
Redefining Community Development Focus
8:00 am Breakfast provided on site
9:00 – 10:30 am Activist Art in Community
Beverly Naidus & Annie Brule
Provides an introduction to eco-art and cultural work strategies for empowering communities.
10:45 – 1:30 pm Building Allies – Creating Community
Bill Aal & Margo Adair
Uses innovative and life-affirming methods to help participants envision steps toward building strong alliances for justice.
1:30: Lunch provided on site
2:30 – 4:15 pm Community /Women’s Health
Bob Spivey
Examines issues of gender oppression, racism, prenatal health, the effect of discrimination on fetal health, and taking local collective responsibility for our health care.
4:30 – 6:00 pm How can we get there? Roundtable discussion
Dan Chodorkoff, Lloyd Strecker & Grace Gershuny
Examines the political element of ecological reconstruction, moving through a re-definition of “politics,” examining past efforts, and working toward principles and proposals for concrete action toward community self-management.
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