YES! Magazine http://www.yesmagazine.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 11 to 25. The National Service-Learning Conference http://www.yesmagazine.org/events/the-national-service-learning-conference The largest gathering of youth and adults involved in the service-learning movement.

 "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

]]> No publisher Jane Baumgartner Conference 2010-12-09T20:20:37Z Event The National Conference for Media Reform http://www.yesmagazine.org/events/the-national-conference-for-media-reform At the intersection of media and democracy. The National Conference for Media Reform will be focusing on the intersection of media and democracy, exploring the future of journalism and public media, debating the core technologies and politics shaping media policy, and discussing strategies, actions and movement-building techniques for better media.

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:

http://conference.freepress.net/home

]]> No publisher Emma van Inwegen Conference 2010-12-01T20:57:35Z Event The Economics of Peace http://www.yesmagazine.org/events/the-economics-of-peace October 18-23. Sonoma, CA. Praxis Peace Institute's 2009 conference With a focus on transforming money, rebuilding community, and redefining wealth, the Praxis Peace Institute's 2009 conference will be an in-depth exploration of solutions to the economic crisis. Speakers include David Korten, Vandana Shiva, Dennis Kucinich, James Galbraith, and Riane Eisler. Co-presented with the Rudolf Steiner Foundation, co-sponsored by YES!  www.praxispeace.org

]]> No publisher Audrey Watson Conference 2009-07-14T05:55:00Z Event The 22nd Annual Energy Fair http://www.yesmagazine.org/events/the-22nd-annual-energy-fair Join the Midwest Renewable Energy Association and 20,000 attendees to learn, connect with others and ready yourself for action at home. Each year the MREA Energy Fair transforms rural Central Wisconsin into the global hot spot for renewable energy education. The Energy Fair brings over 20,000 people from nearly every state in the U.S. and several countries around the world to learn, connect with others and ready them for action at home. The Energy Fair is the nation's longest running energy education event of its kind.

The Energy Fair features:

  • Over 275 exhibitors - featuring sustainable living and clean energy products
  • Over 200 workshops - including introductory level to advanced hands-on education: solar, wind, green building, local sustainable food, and more
  • Clean Energy Car Show - featuring demonstration vehicles and exhibitors
  • Green Home Pavilion - emphasizing building and remodeling in a sustainable way
  • Green Building Demos - displaying sustainable building techniques in action
  • Sustainable Tables - including workshops, chef demos, and a farmers' market to bring sustainability to your dinner table
  • Inspirational keynotes, lively entertainment, great food, and local beer

 

For more information, visit: midwestrenew.org

 

]]> No publisher Susan Gleason Conference 2011-05-27T19:03:42Z Event TEDx Bellevue: Sustainable Happiness http://www.yesmagazine.org/events/tedx-bellevue-sustainable-happiness Bringing together local community leaders to engage in ideas worth doing that will make a positive impact in our global community.

YES! Co-founder and Executive Editor Sarah van Gelder is a featured speaker! 

 

The TEDx Bellevue theme for 2012 is Sustainable Happiness — from "someday" to everyday.

 

Why Sustainable Happiness?

Sustainable Happiness means transforming a future ideal into a daily reality. TEDx Bellevue is committed to recreating our communities as places that support balanced lives, workability, and play for generations to come. 


Imagine a society which: 

VALUES MORE THAN
Common good Personal agenda and interests
Balance in all areas of life Narrow focus favoring work productivity
Sustainable well-being for all              Short term profits
Creative pragmatism     Idealism 
Risk for what's possible Settling for what's comfortable
Contribution Material wealth

TEDxBellevue will provide a place for speakers and attendees alike to connect, collaborate, and create a Sustainable Happiness global community with measurable outcomes.

Event Location: 

Cast Iron Studios
10650 Northeast 4th Street
Bellevue, WA, 98004 

September 30th, 2012 
1:00pm-7:00pm (GMT -7hrs)


This event is open to the public. Tickets are available.

For additional details please visit:  www.tedxbellevue.com/

For related readings, see YES! Magazine's Winter 2009 issue: Sustainable Happiness

 

 

]]> No publisher Kate Reingold Conference 2012-09-25T21:45:00Z Event Tapping Into Solutions: The Future of Water http://www.yesmagazine.org/events/tapping-into-solutions-the-future-of-water The Environmental Leadership Program's annual conference. The conference aims to create a dialog between leaders in these sectors and explore their future technical and leadership needs.   By bringing together a diverse group of engineers, lawyers, social scientists, and planners from each of these sectors the Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) and the Switzer Foundation Fellowship Network will work together to forge solutions.  This conference will explore and debate these complex water issues, identify the leadership needed to manage the resource, and offer a framework to illuminate potential solutions at a national conference in Milwaukee.

Water is critical to our lives and livelihoods in countless ways.  Sustainability and access to water are complex issues that intersect with many disciplines and any discussion about climate change, economic development, equity and social justice.  Climate change and adaptation adds yet a new dimension to the exploration of water solutions.   New thinking, new leaders, and innovation will be critical to reducing conflict and ensuring the availability of safe and adequate water supplies while creating new economic opportunities fostering growth in green jobs.  Tapping into Solutions will engage panelists from each sector and the audience in interactive and integrative discussions related to water and climate change, sustainable infrastructure, the nexus between water and energy, and other topics focused on:

  • Quality -- In many areas of the United States and the world, water quality has improved dramatically over the past decades resulting from regulation of point-source pollution, but significant challenges remain to maintain drinking water quality and protect and enhance clean water sources from non-point sources. 
  • Quantity -- Local communities, States, and regions, face many challenges as they attempt to balance water needs for multiple and often competing uses.  Since watershed boundaries rarely mimic political boundaries, trans-boundary water resource management is becoming an increasingly important diplomatic aspect of dealing with water issues.
  • Access -- Society grapples with the question of who owns the water and who is entitled to it and at what cost.  Aligning needs with access and protecting critical ecosystems requires exploration of both the ethical and legal framework associated with access to water.

Each panel discussion will explore and forge solutions and present our findings at the end of the program. Across the country, the creative ideas of individuals and institutions are a testament to ingenuity and dedication in the water sector to find solutions to these complex problems.  Tapping into Solutions will help participants identify opportunities for public leadership in their institutions and communities and encourage attendees to dream big, think abstractly about solutions, and take the calculated risks necessary to implement positive change.

http://www.elpnet.org/events/water

]]> No publisher Jori Saeger Conference 2010-07-14T22:10:00Z Event Taking Root: 5th National Farm to Cafeteria Conference http://www.yesmagazine.org/events/taking-root Farm to Cafeteria is taking root all across the country. Entering its second decade, Farm to Cafeteria is becoming a permanent feature of school meals. It’s now the subject of collaborations with community groups, of state policy, and even of a new national initiative within the US Department of Agriculture.

During the conference, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about initiatives involving pre-school, K-12, childcare facilities, hospitals, colleges and prisons.  One workshop – Farm to School by Land and Sea – will include examples of integrating local seafood into cafeteria menus. Prospects for professional development will abound with short courses on media training, policy advocacy, and research and evaluation.

Raising the voices of youth, two flavor and film contests will kick off the conference. The winners will be awarded from the second annual nationwide Real Food Is… video contest, in which students from kindergarten to college are challenged to consider what “Real Food Is…”  The conference will also host a new opportunity for youth involvement in “Cooking Up Change,” a contest that challenges high school and college students to create healthy school meals, with local items, that can easily be prepared in a school kitchen. Participants will have an opportunity to sample their tasty dishes.

The conference has something to offer everyone, from field trips and short courses to workshops, a sampling of local foods and perhaps best of all…the chance to connect with others.

www. farmtocafeteriaconference.org/5

]]> No publisher sknight Conference 2010-03-30T23:43:19Z Event Sustainable Industries Economic Forum http://www.yesmagazine.org/events/sustainable-industries-economic-forum Keynote speaker Van Jones and sustainable business leaders from dozens of innovative businesses. The Sustainable Industries Economic Forums are annual, high-profile business events. 

The forum features inspiring keynote speakers, audience Q&A and high-powered networking. Now in its 8th year, the event series has featured luminary speakers Cameron Sinclair, Paul Hawken, Ray Anderson, Arianna Huffington, Alex Bogusky governors, mayors, leading economists, and dozens of Sustainable Industries most innovative CEOs. 

 The event's mission is to re-inspire the inspired, connect sustainable business thought leaders, and help get business done.

This year's event features keynote speaker Van Jones, with a focus on the Access Economy.


LOCATION:

McCaw Hall at the Seattle Center, Seattle, WA


TICKETS: 

Tickets must be purchased in advance

 

INFORMATION:

For additional information see:  www.sustainableindustries.com

 

RELATED ARTICLES

See some of Van Jones' recent writing at YES! Magazine

]]> No publisher Sachie Hopkins-Hayakawa Conference 2012-06-13T01:05:28Z Event Seattle+10 People's Summit http://www.yesmagazine.org/events/seattle-10-peoples-summit Join us for a Week of Action (Nov 27 – Dec 5) on the 10th anniversary of the WTO protests and in advance of the U.N. Climate Change conference in Copenhagen. Co-sponsored by YES! Magazine. People’s Summit

The People’s Summit: Global Justice Forward!  The Climate is Changing, it’s Time for Solutions!

The People’s Summit will be a three day Teach-in and Strategy Session at multiple venues in Seattle: Nov 27, 28, 29, 2009!

SCHEDULE -Workshops Schedule Here

Friday Nov 27th:

  • The Yes Men’s new documentary, The Yes Men Fix the World, premieres at NW Film Forum, Screenings at 7 and 9pm, Yes Men in attendance!
  • Amy Goodman speaks at Town Hall! 7pm: Tickets $15 – $25 available at www.kbcs.fm & at the door

Saturday Nov 28th: 8:30 – 5pm Seattle University

8:30 am Registration Campion Ballroom

9:30 am: Welcome and Morning plenary

“The Climate is Changing – It’s Time for Solutions!”

Campion Ballroom

All Workshops are in Pigott Hall

  • 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Workshop Session 1
  • 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lunch Break
  • 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Workshop Session 2
  • 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Workshop Session 3

6pm: Dinner & Evening plenary

“Reclaiming Community”

New Hope Baptist Church, 116 21st Ave, Seattle

Sunday Nov 29th: 9 – 5, Seattle University

9am Registration Campion Ballroom

9:30 Welcome Campion Ballroom

10 – 11:30 Workshop Session 4 - Pigott Hall

11:30 – 12: 45 Lunch

12:45 – 1:45 Strategy Panel

“Catch the Buzz: Cross-Pollinating our Movements”

1:45 – 3:30 Cross-Sector Strategy Session Part 1

2:00 – 3:30 Workshops Session 5- Pigott Hall

3:30 – 5:00 Cross-Sector Strategy Session Part 2

7pm: Closing Plenary: “Global Justice Forward!”

Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave, Seattle

]]> No publisher Susan Gleason Conference 2009-11-13T02:45:00Z Event ReVisioning Value Conference 2010 http://www.yesmagazine.org/events/revisioning-value-conference-2010 The Intersection of Purpose and Profit How do we get the needed resources and talent for solving our most challenging problems? Government, traditional business, and charities can't do it all. This crossroads is an opportunity. Meet pioneers Tamzin Ractliffe, founder of SASIX, and Alex Counts, President of Grameen Foundation, and Don Shaffer, President and CEO of RSF Social Finance as they convene in Portland, Oregon to join 30+ experts from around the world. What they're proposing will change the world.

The one day conference is followed by a day of hands-on workshops and strategic action roundtables designed to help participants apply the ideas offered at the conference to their own organizations and to create real tools and strategies as an outcome. 

ReVV 2010 will:

  • Inform and inspire those interested in financing change through social investing
  • Provide information on how to create new kinds of change organizations, from nonprofits to social businesses
  • Create new tools, formats, structures for social action
  • Build the field for social innovation and sustainable communities


 www.revisioningvalue.org 

]]> No publisher sknight Conference 2010-04-19T22:51:06Z Event Race, Ethnicity & Place Conference http://www.yesmagazine.org/events/race-ethnicity-place-conference Fostering dialogue on a range of issues related to the racial and ethnic transformation of places. The Race, Ethnicity & Place Conference encourages interdisciplinary perspectives, philosophical and methodological diversity, and professional and student perspectives on issues related to the racial and ethnic transformation of places.

The Conference is committed to providing high quality programs and remaining open to broad participation by theoreticians, practitioners, and students. Conference organizers make an effort to rotate among U.S. regions, incorporating a regional focus when appropriate, while maintaining national and international perspectives. 

Major Sponsors
American Geographical Society
Binghamton University, Department of Geography
Binghamton University, Dean of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Tom Boswell, University of Miami
Dr. Peter T. Bronsky
Kent State University, Department of Geography
Texas Christian University, Dean of Arts and Sciences

Co-Sponsors
AAG Ethnic Geography Specialty Group
Applied Geography Conference
Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
Colgate University, Department of Geography & The Upstate Institute
East Carolina University, Department of Geography
Michigan State University, Department of Geography
SUNY Cortland
Temple University, Department of Geography
Texas State University- San Marcos, Department of Geography
The George Washington University, Department of Geography
The Ohio State University, Department of Geography
UNC-Charlotte, Department of Geography
UNC-Greensboro, Department of Geography
University of South Florida, Department of Geography

http://rep-conference.binghamton.edu

]]> No publisher Susan Gleason Conference 2010-02-03T18:56:51Z Event Praxis Peace Institute - Mondragón Seminar 2010 http://www.yesmagazine.org/events/praxis-peace-institute-seminar-in-spain Seminar and Tour of the world's largest consortium of worker-owned businesses. Seminar: The seminar will include 4 days of presentations at the Mondragón education center as well as tours of Mondragon businesses, a youth cooperative, an incubator for cooperatives, and Mondragón University. On the 5th day, Praxis Peace Institute will host a day of discussion and brainstorming about how these ideas can be useful in our communities back home and how we can find support for cooperative business ventures.

Excursions: Included in the program are a dinner in the coastal city of San Sebastian, a visit to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, a trip to the Aranzazu Monastery and Basque Peace Center in the mountains, and visits to other areas of the unique Basque region.

Highlights include:
* The culture and values of Mondragon.
* Visits to cooperative businesses and lectures by their CEOs
* Visit an incubator for new cooperative projects and learn about    the Mondragón Youth Co-op
* A presentation of Mondragon projects for developing countries.
*  Learn about the financial mechanisms of Mondragon: how it works, why it thrives.
*  Mondragon's Corporate Management Model and full employment strategy. While Spain's unemployment rate hovers around 20%, Mondragón's is 0%.
* How Democracy works at Mondragón
* Visit Mondragon University and the education center where the Mondragon movement began.
* Learn how to transfer the Mondragon Experience to your community.

Accommodations:
All participants will stay at the Hotel Mondragon. Daily breakfast and lunch will be included in the hotel and seminar prices. Wireless Internet access is available in all hotel and meeting rooms.

Cost: Shared Room - $2,270  or,  Single Room - $2,700 (Note: If the euro continues to fall, the prices will be lower).

A $500 deposit is required to hold a space on this trip. We plan to take about 22 people, and as of June 1, 2010, we are half full.

Information and online Registration: http://www.praxispeace.org/conference10





]]> No publisher Jori Saeger Conference 2010-07-06T18:35:00Z Event Placemaking: Making It Happen http://www.yesmagazine.org/events/placemaking-making-it-happen A two-day training course focused on how to move ideas into reality for great public spaces. Placemaking: Making It Happen is a new two-day training course focused on how to move ideas into reality by using a place-based management and implementation strategy. Joining PPS in teaching the course are individuals who have direct, hands on experience in applying a placemaking approach to their work.

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

]]> No publisher Susan Gleason Conference 2011-05-27T19:05:52Z Event Nonprofit Technology Conference http://www.yesmagazine.org/events/2011-nonprofit-technology-conference The annual gathering of technologists in the nonprofit field. The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) sparked more than 1,400 nonprofit technologists, decision makers, and nonprofit leaders during their 2010 conference; and they're preparing for a repeat. NTC offers the opportunity to showcase latest products and services for the nonprofit technology sector, while involving the community every step of the way. Goals and budgets of all sizes for sponsorship packages are welcome with the unique opportunity to build leadership communication while having a good time.

Sponsors for the NTC range from Microsoft, to Beaconfire, to Greater Good Network. Sponsors continue to grow in preparation for the 2011 conference in March. The Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) believes that technology allows nonprofits to work with greater social impact. Above all, they pride themselves as a community, eager to continue building communication for an active and improved world.

 

For more information visit http://www.nten.org/ntc

]]> No publisher Jane Baumgartner Conference 2010-09-01T20:05:00Z Event Network of Spiritual Progressives/Tikkun Conference http://www.yesmagazine.org/events/network-of-spiritual-progressives-tikkun-conference-1 Support Obama to BE the Obama the Country Voted For With an understanding of the political realities President Obama has faced in Washington, DC, this conference seeks to cast both a supportive and critical eye on the Obama Administration's actions to date.

The conference will focus on developing positive ideas and programs for a more just and sustainable economy and society, as well as concrete ideas for building global peace and reconciliation. Other key topics include putting single payer health care back into the national conversation, and discussing a proposed constitutional amendment declaring that corporations are not persons and do not deserve the protections of persons. Additionally, attendees will develop inner resources, both intellectual and spiritual, for the long process of creating transformational social change, including the ability to recognize and rejoice in the goodness and love that makes the process of Tikkun-ing (healing and transforming the world) a joyous and nourishing experience.

Speakers, Presenters and Workshop Leaders include:  Congressman Keith Ellison, Rev. Brian McLaren,  Chris Hedges, David Korten, Bill McKibben, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Riane Eisler, Marianne Williamson, Medea Benjamin, Bob McChesney, John Nichols, Sister Joan Chittister,  Sharon Welch, Peter Gabel,  Rev. James Winkler, Rev. Conrad Braaten, John Dear S.J., Rev. Graylan Hagler, Rabbi Arthur Waskow,  Jonathan Granoff, Robert Thurman,  Paul Wapner, Svi Shapiro, Josh Weiner, and Sheri Shapiro.

Workshop topics include:

* A Constitutional Amendment to Declare that Corporations are not Persons

* Afghanistan/Pakistan/Iraq Wars

* Economic Recovery 

* Nuclear Disarmament

* Non-Violent Communication

* Healing Israel/Palestine 

* 2010 Elections

* How to Help Congress Develop a Backbone

* Building Supportive Ties Between Clergy

* A New Bottom Line in our Professions and Businesses

Co-sponsored by The Nation Magazine, YES! Magazine, Peace Action, Pace e Bene, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Code Pink, The Institute for Policy Studies, The Shalom Center, Democracy Matters, OpEdNews, Common Bond Institute, The Metta Center for Nonviolence Education, and 350.org.

www.spiritualprogressives.org

]]> No publisher Susan Gleason Conference 2010-02-03T18:45:00Z Event