The BECC Conference is convened by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE), University of California, and the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC), Stanford University.
For more information, visit: www.beccconference.org
]]>The 2011 TimeBanks Conference will provide an opportunity for individuals, youth, families, communities, states, and countries across the world to come together to share and learn more about time banking from one another.
TimeBanks will unveil the newly enhanced Community Weaver 2.0 and showcase its capability to support time banking as a critical social networking tool and technology that partners with the principles of Timebanks to re-balance our core values and organize to support humanity, transform local and global economies, environment, and promote the well-being and sustainability of future generations and our planet.
The 2011 Conference will include plenary sessions, concurrent workshops, an exhibit hall, networking opportunities, and organizing as a collective movement for change and further the development of sustainable solutions through time banking for the future.
High lights of the conference will include:
For more information, visit: tbusaconference.org
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Art of Community events bring together a wide range of committed individuals for an immersive, educational experience.
Participants will include members of many types of intentional communities (ecovillages, cohousing, urban coop houses, student coops, etc.), community seekers, students, community organizers, and people interested in the basic principles of living more cooperatively
For more information, visit: artofcmty.com
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Ecovillages act as research and training centres for sustainable development within wider society.
The hosting Ecovillage of Tamera serves as a living example and field of practice for the themes of the conference.
The themes of this year’s conference include:
For more information, visit: gen-europe.org
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Creating great public spaces that relate to the community and user depends on an effective implementation strategy, including how those spaces will be managed. In the end, good management is why a public space succeeds or fails and why people come to it or why they stay away. This training course will describe the roles that different types of public space management organizations play, complemented by lessons learned from experts with hands on experience implementing improvements and managing public spaces. Also included are narrated site visits to a few of the best managed spaces in New York City and numerous opportunities for networking, including an optional welcome reception the evening of June 8.
The course will feature presentations by PPS staff, along with Norman Mintz, industrial designer, historic preservationist and designer of public space amenities, Eldon Scott, Director of Urban Space Management and developer of “lighter, quicker, cheaper” projects, and Alan M. Hantman, FAIA,10th Architect of the US Capitol and former Vice President of Architecture, Construction, and Historic Preservation at Rockefeller Center.
For more information, visit: pps.org
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For more information, visit: midwestrenew.org
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The Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy supports an economy that utilizes cooperative and democratic organizational structures to support equitable systems for exchanging goods, services & products and stewardship of the commons for mutual benefit by all. Organizers of the ECWD believe that democratic workplaces are the fundamental building blocks that power our work towards economic, social, and environmental justice and solidarity.
For more information, visit: east.usworker.coop
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sixth annual gathering of Netroots Nation (formerly known as the
YearlyKos Convention) will include panels led by national and
international experts; identity, issue and regional caucuses; prominent
political, issue and policy-oriented speakers; a progressive film
screening series; and a concentrated gathering of progressive bloggers.
The origin of Netroots Nation is traced to a time when a tremendous and growing number of citizens gathered every day in the virtual world to raise their collective voice and proactively influence their government. That group is broadly called the Netroots and has since grown to include progressive organizations and politicians who use new media technologies to communicate with their constituents.
Netroots Nation is a project of Bloggerpower.org, a 501(c)4 organization, with the generous support of the Netroots Arts and Education Initiative (NAEI).
For more information visit www.netrootsnation.org
The conference will feature:
• 80 speakers
• 16 main-stage events and off-site celebrations
• 24 breakout sessions
• 3 local living economy tours
• 3 pre-conference workshop intensives:
Accelerating Community Capital
How to Build a BALLE Network
Network Leaders Exchange
For more information visit: http://www.livingeconomies.org/
]]>Conference proposals are due by January 21, 2010.
Free Minds, Free People brings together teachers, high school
and college students, researchers, parents and community-based
activists/educators from across the country to build a movement to
develop and promote education as a tool for liberation.
The
2009 conference featured more than 60 activities, including workshops,
panels, and local community site visits with 40 presenting organizations
and 450 attendees.
If interested in applying to present at this event, see the Call for Proposals here: http://www.edliberation.org/fmfp-2011/call-for-proposals-1
]]>"The conference is top notch … it thoroughly meets the needs of teachers, administrators, and most importantly the students." - Nancy DiNunzio, Director of Operations, LEAD Academy
The National Service-Learning Conference focuses on service-learning as a way of teaching and learning that builds academic skills and citizenship while addressing community needs in a genuine way. It convenes teachers and other service-learning practitioners, administrators, researchers, policy-makers, youth leaders, parents, program coordinators, national service members, community-based organization staffs, and corporate and foundation officers. With more than 200 workshops, it provides access to new ideas and networking opportunities.
The conference has drawn an impressive array of speakers starting with Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich in 1989, and in later years, President Bill Clinton, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Senator Harris Wofford, Senator Paul Wellstone, Senator Dave Durenbuger, Senator John Glenn, Jane Goodall, Dr. Alec Dickson, Dame Elisabeth Hoodless, John Bridgeland, Alan Khazi, Gerda Weisman Klein.
Each year the conference features over a dozen on-site opportunities to serve the local community. Past on-site projects have included International Sharing and Caring Mural, Sewing for Others Hygiene Care Kits, Family Care Packages, More than Warmth Quilts, Be Aware Bracelets, Operation Goody Bag, just to name a few.
Serving the host community is part of the history of the conference. Along with on-site opportunities, conference attendees are encouraged to go off-site and get their hands dirty. Off-site projects have included Habitat for Humanity projects, Ronald McDonald House, EarthMatters, Youth Opportunity Center, Homelessness Projects, Save the Bay, and many others.
For more information visit http://nslc.nylc.org/index.php
]]>People everywhere believe that reforming the media is the first step in transforming democracy. They have joined a growing movement to demand better news, more independent and community media, and an open and accessible Internet.
We're bringing all of these people together under one roof. That's what the National Conference for Media Reform is all about.
For more information:
]]>Join the Annual New Partners for Smart Growth in Charlotte for the latest in smart growth, including the latest research, cutting-edge implementation tools and techniques, best practices, model projects, policies and codes, and new partners. Most importantly, this dynamic event offers the opportunity to network and coordinate with peers as well as practitioners from many different disciplines.
The conference will draw a national audience of local elected officials and city and county staff; professionals in planning, transportation, public health, landscape architecture, parks and recreation, and crime prevention; realtors, bankers, advocates for youth, seniors, equity and environmental justice, labor representatives, school leaders and staff, and others committed to building safer, healthier and more livable communities everywhere.
For more information visit http://www.newpartners.org
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In 2010, the Transition Fair's keynote speaker is Richard Heinberg, a journalist, educator, and author of The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies and Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World.
Event co-sponsors include Alliance for Sustainability, Center for Energy and Environment, Gardening Matters, and many more!
Volunteers from the Cocoran, Powderhorn, Phillips, Seward, Longfellow, Standish Ericson and other Twin Cities neighborhoods will meet with volunteers from local congregations, immigrant associations, garden clubs and student volunteers to plan how each neighborhood can build local resilience and find ways to thrive as we adapt to climate change, peak oil and economic disruption.
This event will take place in the South High School Auditorium at 3131 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55407.
For more information visit
http://www.afs.nonprofitoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={6B8C71B3-2046-4331-AF4F-B7CCFFD094F0}
“With Kamau Bell, Rich Medina and the other stars performing at Facing Race, this conference is not to be missed! Looking forward to sharing the stage with these phenomenal change-makers.” Chris Rabb
Racial justice activists from across the country are meeting in Chicago for Facing Race 2010, the largest multi-racial gathering in the country for organizations and individuals committed to change. Sponsored by Applied Research Center, publisher of ColorLines.com and the nation’s leading think tank on race, the conference offers discussions on today’s hot-button race issues in the US that ColorLines.com covers every day.
Facing Race 2010 will present a series of plenary sessions, an array of workshop topics, a film series, and an arts and culture component, guided by three thematic tracks: racial justice policy change, strategic communication and media, and community organizing.
Keynote speaker for Facing Race will be Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University. There will be artists, DJ Rich Medina, W. Kamau Bell, Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, and John Murillo, performing, as well as the Colorlines Crew presenting throughout the conference.
To register or for more information visit http://colorlines.com/archives/2010/09/facing_race_2010_chicago.html