Program

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

5:30am
Birding

8:00am
Breakfast
Ad hocs

9:00 – 9:30am

Keynote Address
Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman is an op ed columnist for the New York Times and is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 papers, and is the founder of “new trade theory,” a major rethinking of the theory of international trade. In 1991 he won the John Bates Clark Medal, an award given by the American Economic Association in recognition of an outstanding economist under the age of 40.

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Paul Krugman

9:30 – 11:00am

Featured Conversation

Beyond Borders: Power -- Whose Planet?

The 21st century opened with a new global redistribution of power well underway. The private sector, the nation-state, international institutions and non-governmental organizations are all facing new opportunities and new challenges to their accustomed roles. As engaged environmentalists, what is our task? Where are the points of leverage as we work to apply, focus and build our sector's power to ensure that the security of the planet is a public priority?

SPEAKERS

Van Jones is the founder and national executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC). Headquartered in San Francisco, EBC challenges human rights abuses in the U.S. criminal justice system. Born in rural west Tennessee in 1968, Van has graduated from the University of Tennessee at Martin and Yale Law School.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and author, best know for her book on corporate globalization, No Logo. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications including The Nation, The New Statesman, Newsweek, the New York Times, The Village Voice, Ms., and Saturday Night. She writes a weekly column in The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. She lives in Toronto.

Eli Pariser is the campaigns director of MoveOn.org, an internet-based organization of over 2.1 million people worldwide. Eli joined MoveOn.org after starting 9-11Peace.org, a website advocating a multilateral, rule-of-law based response to the events of September 11th that attracted the attention of millions of people. Eli recently led MoveOn’s antiwar campaign.

Carl Pope has been executive director of the Sierra Club since 1992. He also serves, or has served, on the Boards of the California League of Conservation Voters, Public Voice, National Clean Air Coalition, California Common Cause, Public Interest Economics, Inc., and Zero Population Growth. He is also the author of two books.

FACILITATOR

Steve Curwood is executive producer and host of Living on Earth, a radio show that has been running on NPR and related stations since 1991. He has been a journalist for more than 20 years. Steve is the recipient of a 1992 New England Environmental Leadership Award for his work on promoting environmental awareness.

11:00 – 11:30am
Participant Designed Dialogue: Beyond Borders: Power — Whose Planet?

Noon – 1:00pm
Lunch

1:30 – 3:00pm

Featured Conversation

Beyond Borders: The Commons

"The commons" is a social regime for managing resources and forging a community of shared values. This term is being revived to provide an alternative analysis of resource management while advancing an agenda to honor civic, environmental and human values in tandem with the market. Not merely the “tragedy of the commons,” a term long used by conservatives to denigrate collective management and champion laissez-faire policies, the commons is an alternative paradigm that holds possibilities for defending “common assets” like public lands, agriculture, human genes, the electro-magnetic spectrum, the atmosphere and water. This session will explore the history of the commons, the range of current activism on its behalf, and promising new opportunities for advancing this framework.

SPEAKERS

Maude Barlow chairs the Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest public advocacy organization. She is a director with the International Forum on Globalization, a research and educational institution opposed to economic globalization, and is co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, an international movement to stop the commodification of water. Maude is the best selling author of 14 books.

David Bollier is a public interest strategist, journalist, activist and consultant. His recent work has focused on reclaiming “the American commons,” the publicly owned assets and communities that create wealth and social benefits through non-market means. His critique of the commons is set forth in his new book Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth (Routledge).

Mark Dowie is the former editor-at-large of InterNation. His critical history of the American environmental movement, Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1995. Dowie then returned to MIT to research foundation philanthropy, his research was published as American Foundations: An Investigative History.

Daniel Pauly devoted his early career to developing new approaches for fisheries research and management in data sparse settings, especially developing tropical countries; his work has led to software and scientific databases used worldwide. His current work, concentrating on ecosystem-based fisheries management, has led to concepts that now influence much research in marine biology.

FACILITATOR

Christina Desser, coordinator of Funder’s Working Group on Emerging Technology, works with foundations regarding the environmental, cultural and political implications of biotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics and other new technologies. She recently co-edited Living with the Genie: the Quest for Human Mastery. She serves as a commissioner on the California Coastal Commission.

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Sea Around Us Project

1:30 – 3:00pm

Concurrent Sessions

Environment and Business: Winning Solutions for Change

We often face situations where corporate actions and environmental interests are in opposition. Despite the “win-win” rhetoric, the challenges are real and the solutions often elusive. There are many committed individuals on both sides, often facilitated through leaders in academia, working toward the “triple bottom line.” Initiatives around climate change mitigation and clean air have provided considerable promise in this regard. This session will be an interactive discussion with four innovators from around North America: two Canadians and two Americans; two practitioners and two academics. Join in the discussion on using the market and corporate partnerships to improve and advance environmental successes.

SPEAKERS

Reid Detchon coordinates the activities of the Energy Future Coalition for the Better World Fund in Washington, DC. He served as director of special projects in Washington for the Turner Foundation, managing grants for environmental advocacy and averting climate change. Prior jobs include Washington lobbyist, federal renewable energy official, Bush ’88 speechwriter, senate aide and journalist.

Andrea Larson is a professor and co-founder of the Ingenuity Project at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. She has taught entrepreneurship, ethics and sustainable innovation (combining economic, environmental and social considerations into business strategy) for 15 years in the MBA program and in executive education.

Ian Morton is executive director and founder of the Clean Air Foundation and the Healthy Indoors Partnership. He focuses on market-based public engagement programs that improve in air quality. He helped establish the Lung Association’s C.A.N. DO, the Clean Air Partnership, the Skies Above Canada Foundation, and the Environmental Centre for New Canadians.

David Wheeler is director and Haub professor in business and sustainability at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. He advises the governments of Canada and the UK, is a visiting professor at Kingston University Business School (UK), and serves on the advisory boards of Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, Real Assets and SustainAbility.

FACILITATOR

Bruce Lourie is executive director of the Richard Ivey Foundation. Previously, he ran an environmental consultancy specializing in partnerships with corporations, nonprofits and government. He managed the Laidlaw Foundation’s environment program and founded the Sustainability Network. He has expertise in mercury pollution and energy policy, and has served on numerous boards.

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Energy Future Coalition

Invasion of the Biodiversity Snatchers!

What’s responsible for the listing of nearly half of threatened and endangered species, costs $137 billion a year in the US alone, and covers at least 4,600 acres of land a day? Give up? It’s invasive species, one of two top threats to global biodiversity. (Fragmentation of habitat is the other.) Yet relatively little is being done about them. Join us to learn about the kaleidoscope of aquatic and terrestrial invasive species issues, review the legislative landscape, cover opportunities for nontraditional alliances, and talk solutions. Just for fun, we’ll break in the middle of the workshop for What’s My Vector?, an interactive game show.

SPEAKERS

Allegra Cangelosi is senior policy analyst for the Washington, DC-based Northeast-Midwest Institute, which is closely affiliated with the bipartisan Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition. She staffed Senator John Glenn’s authorship of the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990, and leads and participates in numerous work groups seeking policy solutions to invasive species.

Greg Ruiz is a senior scientist invasion biology at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and is a participating faculty member with the marine estuarine and environmental science program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He serves on numerous invasives work groups and commissions at international, national and regional levels.

FACILITATOR

Denis Hayes, President and CEO of the Bullitt Foundation, served as national coordinator of the first Earth Day and still chairs the board of the International Earth Day Network. He has been director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, practiced law, taught engineering at Stanford, and published widely on environment and energy.

Moving for Change: Catalyzing Environmental and Social Justice

Movement-building has always been important for achieving social change. Through the lens of successful environmental justice and sustainable development initiatives in Africa, Asia and the Americas, this session will examine key aspects of this model of organizing, and explore reasons why it remains relevant within today’s global political-economic context. Following a brief overview, a discussion will include questions and comments from participants, and link social movement approaches explicitly to civil society organizing for environmental health and justice in the context of contemporary global events, from the World Social Forum to the WTO to the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

SPEAKERS

Juan Carlos Houghton has served as organizer, trainer and researcher with ONIC since 1995, working on armed conflict, trade, and indigenous territorial and environmental issues. A former union activist, he has worked with social movements nationally and regionally, and is an international coordinator of the Convergence of Movements of Peoples of the Americas.

Bobby Peek, the director of GroundWork, has received international recognition for his campaigning work in the South Durban industrial basin around toxic industry and waste issues. He has also been active in campaigning locally and internationally around the Thor Chemicals debacle and is a recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize.

FACILITATOR

Beverly Bell, director of the Center for Economic Justice, is an advocate, organizer, analyst and writer. She has collaborated for more than two decades with social movements throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern Africa and the US. Her work has focused on human rights, democratic participation, just economies and women’s empowerment.

Salmon Farming: Boon or Bane?

The alarming expansion of salmon farming has ushered in a new era of fisheries exploitation. Governments, eager to take advantage of this seeming economic boom, have moved quickly to subsidize the industry and ignore long-term environmental impacts. Countries with a longer history of salmon farming with open-net, cage, sea-based aquaculture systems such as Chile, Norway, Scotland and Ireland provide examples of the negative impacts the industry has on the wild marine ecosystem. This session will look at the global context of the sea based aquaculture industry, the associated environmental impacts, industry trends, scientific data, and local campaigns to confront the issues.

SPEAKERS

Marcel Claude is founder and executive director of the Terram Foundation, and former director of the Chilean Central Bank’s Natural Resource Accounting Department. Marcel speaks about the impacts of salmon farming on the Chilean environment and the global expansion of the industry.

Jennifer Lash is the executive director of the British Columbia-based Living Oceans Society and a founder of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform. Jennifer lives in the British Columbia coastal community of Sointula where she sees first hand the impact of salmon farming.

FACILITATOR

Tim Draimin is the founding executive director of the Tides Canada Foundation. He works to expand charitable support for environmental and social justice causes. Salmon farming is a priority area of funding for his foundation. Tim has over 25 years experience in the charitable and nonprofit sector in Canada and abroad.

3:00 – 5:30pm
National Gallery of Canada Walking Tour
The Byward Market Walking Tour

3:30 – 5:00pm

Concurrent Sessions

Corporate Accountability in a Globalized Economy

For a generation policy advocates and activists have been working to make social, labor and environmental concerns central to the corporate bottom line. We are getting good at it, and just in time. In this workshop, we will explore the new face of corporate accountability campaigns. What does it mean now that corporations are truly global, and how are campaigns successful?

Learn about supply chain vulnerability, deep transparency, better governance, and the increasingly sophisticated network of campaigners who are coordinating global strategies on targeting, research, exposure, direct action, negotiations, multi-stakeholder standards, monitoring and verification schemes, and institutions for accountability.

SPEAKERS:

Dara O'Rourke is a professor of environmental and labor policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He conducted research in Vietnam, and has done consulting for the United Nations, the World Bank and the US Environmental Protection Agency. His research focuses on strategies for preventing adverse environmental and social impacts of industrial activities.

Bobby Peek has received international recognition for his campaigning work in the South Durban basin around toxic industry and waste issues. He has also been active in campaigning locally and internationally around the Thor Chemicals debacle. He is a recipient of the Goldman Foundation award.

FACILITATOR

Heeten Kalan is a senior program officer for environmental justice at the New World Foundation. In 1993, Heeten founded the South African Exchange Program on Environmental Justice. He has worked extensively on environmental issues, economic justice and corporate accountability.

The Face of Climate Change: Stories and Strategies

Climate change–and the fossil fuel lifecycle propelling it–is undermining the health of people, animals and ecosystems around the world. This workshop will make personal and vivid the experiences and perspectives of communities threatened by climate change and the fossil fuel age. It will highlight opportunities to support affected communities and their efforts to press for more effective national and global responses. It also will highlight strategies being developed by groups around the US to move that country forward on more humane and eco-friendly energy paths.

SPEAKERS

Michel Gelobter is executive director of Redefining Progress (RP), an activist think-tank dedicated to shifting the economy and public policy towards sustainability. He has served as a professor at UC Berkeley, Rutgers and Columbia University; he co-founded the Community-University Consortium for Regional Environmental Justice (CUCREJ); and he was director of environmental quality for the city of New York.

Rosemarie Kuptana is executive assistant with the Centre for Traditional Knowledge at the Canadian Museum of Nature. Formerly, she served as president of the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada (ITC), the national political voice of Inuit in Canada. Her career includes work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, and work to advance Inuit rights.

Marcus Schneider is a program officer at the Energy Foundation, which works to promote a sustainable energy future. He oversees the climate program (funded by the Packard Foundation) to spur state and regional climate change actions, and jointly manages the Foundation’s national policy and analysis sector.

FACILITATOR

Amelia Salzman is a consultant for the Wallace Global Fund, overseeing their climate and energy grantmaking. Previously, she was a senior program officer at World Wildlife Fund and an attorney for the US Department of Justice’s environment division. Amy has a law degree from New York University and a bachelor’s degree from Brown.

RELATED LINKS

Redefining Progress
Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative
A Fair Climate For All - may be downloaded from http://www.rprogress.org/publications/afairclimateforall.pdf
The Economists' Statement on Climate Change
"What's Fair? Consumers and Climate Change" - may be downloaded from http://www.redefiningprogress.org/publications/pdf/wf_consumers.pdf

Indigenous Voices: Perspectives on Globalization, Conservation, Self-Determination and Collaboration

This session will present indigenous voices from North and South America and the Philippines. Panelists will speak on globalization and its accelerated pressures on indigenous peoples livelihoods, cultures and sovereignty; conflicts between environmental groups and indigenous peoples and how they can be prevented through collaborations that support common interests; and how indigenous peoples living in or near areas of high biodiversity play a role in the sustainable existence of the land. Panelists will discuss how grantmakers can best support indigenous peoples, either directly or via their intermediary NGO partners in land conservation and ecosystem management.

SPEAKERS

Jean La Rose is an indigenous Arawak and the program administrator for the Amerindian Peoples Association in Guyana. She works with Amerindian communities to halt mining, logging and other environmentally destructive practices in their territories, and to secure rights to traditional lands. She was a winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2002.

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is the director of Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples International Center for Policy Research and Education) in the Philippines. She represents the Kankana-ey Igorot peoples and is a global leader of indigenous opposition to the World Bank and the WTO.

Alvin Warren, a member of the Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico, assists indigenous peoples with mapping, protecting and recovering legal title to their traditional lands and resources. He successfully led his Pueblo’s efforts to regain over 5,000 acres of their ancestral homeland-their largest land reacquisition in almost a century.

FACILITATOR

Rebecca Adamson, a Cherokee, is founder and president of First Nations Development Institute and founder of First Peoples Worldwide. She has worked directly with grassroots tribal communities, and as a national advocate of local tribal issues for over 25 years.

Power to Shape the Debate: How Foundations Can Help Position Environmental Issues for 2004

The 2004 elections will have a major impact on the future of environmental policy. Although foundations cannot seek to influence the outcome of those elections, they can help make the environment an issue and encourage candidates to take environmental concerns seriously. One speaker will present the perspective of state-level organizing on behalf of the environment. Two experienced political strategists-one who bridges environmental concerns and the Hispanic community, another representing Service Employees International-share insights on how to do this effectively.

SPEAKERS

Jim Baca, New Mexico’s natural resource trustee, has served as mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands, and director of the Bureau of Land Management. Baca is on the boards of the Wyss Foundation, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and the Council of the Wilderness Society.

Gina Glantz has served as national campaign manager for Bill Bradley’s 2000 presidential campaign, and as national field director for the 1984 Mondale/Ferraro campaign. Since 2001 she has been assistant to the president of SEIU for Strategic Issues and Political Action, working to advance issues of concern to working families.

Ed Zuckerman has served as executive director of the Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues, a clearinghouse for the State Leagues of Conservation Voters, since July 2001. Prior to managing the Federation, Ed served for seven years as the director of Washington Conservation Voters and WEAVE.

FACILITATOR

Bill Roberts is executive director of the Beldon Fund, which seeks to build a national consensus to achieve and sustain a healthy planet. Before joining Beldon in 1998, Bill was EDF’s director of strategic communications (two years) and legislative director (six years). Bill serves on the board of the League of Conservation Voters.

Shutting Down Coal: A Health Campaign Success

Mainstream health groups working with environmental activists have achieved impressive success in Ontario on a campaign to shutdown all of Ontario’s coal-fired power plants. The political debate has shifted from doubting the necessity of shutdown to negotiating the date at which the plants should be closed. The Ontario Medical Association (as the health messenger), and the Ontario Clean Air Alliance (as advocacy campaigner), are responsible for the success. This session will explore the strategies and tactics behind the campaign, particularly the role of the medical community, successful messages, campaign tactics, targeted polling and strategic economic analysis.

SPEAKERS

Ted Boadway is a physician and executive director of health policy at the Ontario Medical Association, where he has led involvement in environmental health. He was responsible for the policy statement “Health Effects of Ground-Level Ozone, Acid Aerosols & Particulate Matter,” and for developing the interactive software program “Illness Costs of Air Pollution.”

Raví Mark Singh is membership and communications coordinator of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance and a program manager with EnerACT. He has worked with nonprofit organizations in leading roles for 10 years. He is a director of Food For Thought, a community care organization serving the York University and Jane/Finch communities in north Toronto.

FACILITATOR

Shona MacLachlan is program coordinator of the Laidlaw Foundation’s environmental contaminants and children’s health program. The foundation is a leader in Canada in supporting health organizations to promote environmental protection. Shona has a masters in environmental studies and has worked for the past 15 years as an environmental planner and university course director.

RELATED LINKS

Ontario Clean Air Alliance

What is Movement Building Anyway? Making Collaborations that Work

What does it take, at the level of personal skill and group process, to build a movement? What can foundations do to help grantees build relationships and collaboration across the divides of geography, power, background and issue? As environmentalists, we face declining funds and ever-more-powerful collaborations among interests working to reverse the hard-won victories of the last 30 years. This workshop will look at organizational efforts to create lasting alliances designed to reverse this trend and restore the balance of power in favor of the environment and social justice.

SPEAKERS

Karen Mahon is executive director of the Vancouver-based Hollyhock Leadership Institute and board member of the Ruckus Society. She is the former managing director of Greenpeace Canada and led the campaigns to protect Clayoquot Sound and the Great Bear Rainforest.

Alta Starr is senior program officer for the New World Foundation in New York City, and a trustee of the Needmor Fund. She is launching a program (working title: the Sustainability Initiative) designed to address issues of movement sustainability and effectiveness.

FACILITATOR

Ann Leonard is a board member for the South Asia grantmaking division of the Global Greengrants Fund. She is co-coordinator of the Global Alliance for Incineration Alternatives and founder and director of the Multinationals Resource Center.

5:00 – 6:00pm
Receptions

Funders Network on Trade & Globalization
Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders
Sustainable Consumption & Production Funders

6:30 – 8:00pm
Dinner

8:00 – 9:00pm
Fireside Chat

9:00 – wee hours
Dance Party

Come kick up your heels with Betty and the Bobs, a Toronto-based favorite. This ensemble blends their unique talents to cast old classics in a new light. Come dance to country, blues, R & B, gospel, jazz and good old rock-n-roll. You'll get to enjoy their original sound, as well as some of the best-remembered hits from the last thirty years.