Retreat at-a-Glance

Pre-Retreat Day Trips

Saturday, September 24

• Travel the Apple
• Cocktail Party with Friends of the High Line

Sunday, September 25

Food, Glorious Food
Green Assets
Revitalizing Two Rivers and a Region
Up the Hudson

Fall Retreat

(time to be determined)
Diversity Workshop for Funders

Institutes

8:30 – 10:00 am

• Blaming the Developer and Other Environmental Heresies: Effective Ways to Talk about Land Use
• Off the Defensive: Farm Policy and the Environment—A Way to Progress

10:30 am – 12:00 pm

• Aqua Es Vida: Grants to Protect Water Resources
• Winning Federal Pollution Control Measures: A Retrospective and Prospective Look
  

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 pm

• The Healthiest Groundswell: Grantmaking Where Environment Meets Health
• It Can Happen Here: Leveraging Overseas Leadership on Sustainability

3:30 – 5:00 pm

• Bringing it Home: Creating a World without Environmental Human Rights Violations
• Gaps and Overlaps in Funding Environment, Peace and Security

6:00 – 8:00 pm

• Opening Reception featuring Slow Foods

Monday, September 26

6:45-7:30 am
Bodymind Motion Class

7:00 – 8:00 am
Breakfast

8:00 – 8:15 am
Welcome

8:15 - 9:00
Keynote Address: James Forbes

9:00 – 10:00 am
We Can Get There from Here: Setting an Agenda for EGA to Craft a Positive Environmental Future
Day One: Movement and Looking Ahead

10:30– 12:30 am
Keynote Address and Discussion: Al Gore

12:30– 1:30 pm
Lunch
Political Lunch

2:00 – 3:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions

• Building Power to Win: Inter-Movement Strategies for Environmental Change
• It’s Gettin’ Hot in Here: Building a Movement for Climate Justice
• The Literal and Figurative Story of the Computer
• Red States, Blue States, Many Roads to Green States
• Sovereignty in a Globalized World: Where Food, Farmers and Funders Fit In
• Strategies for Creating Resilient Human and Ecological Systems

3:30-5:00 pm
Open Time

5:30-7:00 pm

Artists of the Hudson Valley Reception

6:00 – 7:00 pm
EGA Working Groups Receptions

7:00 – 8:00 pm
Dinner

8:00-10:00 pm
Cultural Evening featuring Pete and Toshi Seeger and NYC Green Hip Hop Poets

Tuesday, September 27

6:45-7:45 am
Bodymind Motion Class

8:00 – 9:00 am

• Breakfast
• Ad Hocs

9:00 – 10:30 am
Featured Conversation: Confronting the Growth Taboo—Environmental Consequences of a Global Economy Predicated on Unending Growth

11:00 am – 12:30
Concurrent Sessions

• Breaking Through: Going Beyond Issues to Move Values through Culture
• Intuition: The Open Secret of Effective Grantmaking
• Massive Debt as an Environmental Issue
• New Constituencies: Speed Dating or Long-Term Relationships?
• Not the Usual Suspects: How the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders RedefinePolitical Power
• The Perfect Storm: The Convergence of China’s and Wal-Mart’s Growth Ambitions

12:30– 1:30 pm
Lunch

4:00 – 5:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions

• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime… Funding Environmental Media
• I’m No Environmentalist! I’m Doing Community-Based Work
• Market Campaigns as Tools for Environmental Advocacy: Hope or Hype?
• The Millennium Assessment and New Ecological Visions: Novel Solutions for Living on the Planet
• On What Theory Do We Stand? Ecological Economics vs. Libertarian Economics
• Step out of Your Role, Step into Your Issue

7:00 – 8:00 pm
Dinner

8:30– 9:20 pm
Comedy featuring Kate Clinton

9:30– wee hours
Dance Party

Wednesday, September 28

6:45– 7:45 am
Bodymind Motion Class

8:00 – 9:00 am

• Breakfast
• Ad Hocs

9:00 – 10:30 am
We Can Get There from Here: Setting an Agenda for EGA to Craft a Positive Environmental Future
Day Three: Movement and Next Steps

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Keynote Address: Wangari Maathai

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Lunch and Closing

Post-Retreat Day Trip
Wednesday, September 28
Getting Back: Sam's Point Preserve