ISEC Diary of Events 2004

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Date Type of Event

Public Event

Organisers / location
23 January, 2004 Ecofarm Conference workshop
Registration required
Katy Mamen will lead a workshop with Eileen Brady of Ecotrust called "Local Food Systems: Their Place in the Global Economy," from 10:30 AM to Noon. For more information see www.eco-farm.org, or Phone: (831) 763-2111.
30 January, 2004 ISEC Local Food Slide Show
No
Katy Mamen will present ISEC's "Local Food, Globally" slide show at Berkeley Youth Alternatives.
7 February, 2004 ISEC Local Food Slide Show
Yes, cost $10
Diana Deumling will present the "Local Food, Globally" slide show from Noon-1 PM at the Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Education Center, at 559 College Avenue in Palo Alto. For more information Phone: (650) 493-6072.
26 February, 2004 ISEC presentation
No
Becky Tarbotton will present to Environmental Science and Environmental Studies classes at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA.
13-14 March, 2004 Local Food, Global Prosperity poster display at GEAN Conference
Yes
ISEC's Local Food, Global Prosperity poster series will be on display at the national conference of GEAN, the Genetic Engineering Action Network, University of California, Berkeley; March 13 Evans Hall; March 14 Genetics and Plant Biology Building.
17 March, 2004 Workshop for farmers
No
Helena Norberg-Hodge presents a free workshop for farmers called "The Benefits of Selling Locally" at Coffs Harbour Botanic Gardens, New South Wales, Australia, from 2:00-3:30 PM. Contact 02 6648 4665 for details.
18 March, 2004 Helena Norberg-Hodge talk
Yes
Helena Norberg-Hodge will give a public talk titled "Peeling Back the Layers: the Global Benefits of Local Food" at Coffs Harbour Botanic Gardens, New South Wales, Australia, from 6:30-8:30 PM. Contact 02 6648 4665 for details.
19 March, 2004 Helena Norberg-Hodge talk
Yes, $3 donation
Helena Norberg-Hodge will speak at the Bellingen Neighbourhood Centre, Senior Citizens Room, New South Wales, Australia, from 7:00-9:00 PM. Contact 6648 4665 or 6655 9555 for details.
23 March, 2004 ISEC Local Food Slide Show
Yes
Presentation titled "Building a Local Food Economy" at the First Lutheran Church, 1114 W. Traverse Road, St. Peter, Minnesota, beginning at 7:00 PM.
24 March, 2004 ISEC Local Food Slide Show
No
ISEC CA staff will present the "Local Food, Globally" slide show for the Eco-Stewards committee of the Montclair Presbyterian Church, Oakland, California from 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM.
6 April, 2004 Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market tabling and talk
Yes
Katy Mamen will be tabling at the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market in San Francisco, CA from 10:00-2:00 PM, and will give a talk from 12:00-1:00 PM titled "Local Food in a Global Market."
12 April, 2004 ISEC Local Food Slide Show
No
ISEC CA staff will present the "Local Food, Globally" slide show for an Earth Sciences class at the University of California, Berkeley.
17 April, 2004 Ethnic Feast; Helena Norberg-Hodge talk
Yes
Helena Norberg-Hodge will give a talk at the Ethnic Feast, a festival of local food, artists, music, and community activity in Byron Bay, Australia. Contact Cheze at 02 6687 1910 for details.
22 April, 2004 Earth Day Local Food, Global Prosperity poster display
Yes
ISEC's Local Food, Global Prosperity poster series will be on display at the University of California, Berkeley's Earth Day celebration, from 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, outside lower Sproul on the campus of UCB.
24 April, 2004 Earth Day Local Food, Global Prosperity poster display
Yes
ISEC will have a table and the Local Food, Global Prosperity poster series will be on display at the Berkeley Farmers' Market Earth Day celebration, from 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Center Street between Martin Luther King and Milvia in Berkeley, CA.
26-29 April, 2004 Helena Norberg-Hodge lectures
Yes
Helena Norberg-Hodge will give a series of lectures on the University of California campuses as part of the Education for Sustainable Living Program: at UC Santa Cruz on Monday April 26th from 6-8 PM; UC Berkeley on April 27th from 6-8 PM; UC Davis on April 28th from 5-7 PM; UCLA on April 29th from 9-11 AM; and UC Santa Barbara on April 29th from 4-6 PM. For more information see www.eslp.net
29 April-2 May, 2004 Helena Norberg-Hodge speaks at conference
Registration required
Helena Norberg-Hodge will speak at a conference sponsored by the Institute for Nonviolent Economics, called "A Better New Mexico is Possible! Countering Globalization and Building Our Local Economy," held April 30-May 2 at the Forum, The College of Santa Fe. To register, visit http://www.nonviolenteconomics.org/Events/Events.htm or call: (505) 995-9793.
4 May, 2004 Report Launch, San Francisco
Yes; $5-$10 donation requested
Helena Norberg-Hodge, Anuradha Mittal, and other experts will help launch ISEC's new report, "Ripe for Change: Rethinking California's Food Economy", highlighting connections among major crises in our food system and explaining how shifting support from global to local would have immense benefits for California and beyond. 7:00 PM at the Ferry Building (on Embarcadero at the bottom of Market St.), San Francisco, California. This event is co-sponsored by CUESA, the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture. For more information, call ISEC at 510-548-4915.
6 May, 2004 Report Launch, Berkeley
Yes; $5-$10 donation requested
Helena Norberg-Hodge will give a talk and help launch ISEC's new report, "Ripe for Change: Rethinking California's Food Economy" at 7:30 PM at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, Fellowship Hall, 1924 Cedar St. (at Bonita), Berkeley, California. For more information, call ISEC at 510-548-4915.
6 May, 2004 Helena Norberg-Hodge talk
Yes
Helena Norberg-Hodge will give a talk in the Multipurpose Room of the Sonoma State Student Union, Sonoma State University, CA, at 1:00 PM. Contact Mary Gomes at 707-664-2173 or mary.gomes@sonoma.edu for more information.
7-9 May, 2004 Retreat with Helena Norberg-Hodge and others
Registration required
Helena Norberg-Hodge will join other presenters at "Hidden Connections: An Intergenerational Forum on Science, Spirituality and Sustainable Living," a conference retreat sponsored by the Institute of Reverential Ecology, held at Zaca Lake Retreat Center - Santa Barbara/Los Olivos. To register, visit http://www.reverentialecology.org or call: (805) 565-2321.
12 May, 2004 Foundation for Global Community talk by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Yes, $10 donation requested (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Helena Norberg-Hodge will give a talk at the Foundation for Global Community, 222 High St., Palo Alto, California, 7:00-9:00 PM. For more information, e-mail Susan Stansbury at sstansbury@globalcommunity.org
Wednesday, May 19th @ 7pm -- $5 Suggested Donation
19 May, 2004 Bluestockings bookstore talk by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Yes, $5 donation requested (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Globalization vs. Community: Helena Norberg-Hodge will give a talk at Bluestockings bookstore in New York City, addressing why a shift towards grassroots based, strong local economies may be one of the most effective strategies to achieve widespread social change and ecological renewal. 7pm at Bluestockings bookstore, 172 Allen St. between Stanton and Rivington, 212-777-6028.
20-23 May, 2004 BALLE conference
Registration required
Helena Norberg-Hodge will give a keynote address on Friday May 21st from 7:30-9 PM, at "Creating Local Living Economies," the second annual conference of BALLE, the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, held in Philadelphia, PA. To register, visit http://www.livingeconomies.org. For more information call Merrian Fuller at: (215) 386-9224 ext. 124, or email her at merrian@sbnphiladelphia.org
29 May, 2004 Event with Helena Norberg-Hodge and others
Yes
ISEC, Resurgence and The Ecologist present "Science, Culture and Society: Perspectives from Tibet, Ladakh, India and The West," an afternoon with Samdhong Rinpoche, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Zac Goldsmith, and Satish Kumar. The event is from 3-6:30 PM (doors open at 2:30 PM), at The Faulkner Hall, Maria Assumpta Centre, 23 Kensington Square, Kensington. £10.00 (pay at the door). RSVP and Inquiries to Peter Lang: peterlang@resurgence.org or Phone: 0208 809 2391.
4 June, 2004 ISEC workshop at Reclaim the Commons Teach-In
Yes
Katy Mamen and Becky Tarbotton will present a workshop titled "Rethinking California's Food Economy" as part of a teach-in for Reclaim the Commons, a mobilization to confront the biotechnology industry's "BIO 2004" meeting in San Francisco. Friday, June 4, 11:30 AM, location to be announced (please check back soon). For more info., visit www.reclaimthecommons.net
10 June, 2004 California Community Food Security Summit
Registration required
Katy Mamen will present at a workshop titled "Global vs. Local: How does the global food system affect local food security?" on Thursday, June 10 at 1:30 PM as part of the 2nd annual California Community Food Security Summit: Taking Back the Food System: Organizing for Food Justice in California, June 10-11 at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. The Local Food, Global Prosperity poster series will also be on display. For more information and to register, visit: http://www.foodsecurity.org/california/cfjc_summit2004.html
4 July, 2004 Local Food - An Environmental Necessity
No
ISEC's Robert Cook will present a talk at Euro-Toques Food Forum and Fair - Brook Lodge Hotel, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.
2-6 September, 2004 Local Food, Global Prosperity Poster Display
Yes
Visit the "New Face of Farming", hosted by Community Agriculture of Columbia County at the Columbia County Agricultural Fair. Chatham, NY. For more info, visit www.columbiafair.com.
11 September, 2004 Conference: The Great Rethinking
Yes
Helena Norberg-Hodge will be giving a talk with a discussion at this conference in Oxford, UK, at 2:30 pm. Her talk is entitled "Ancient Futures: Towards an Economics of Happiness. For more information, contact Rachel at r.sykes@isec.org.uk.
17 September, 2004 Rethinking California's Food Economy
Yes
Katy Mamen will discuss the globalization of California's food economy and strategies for bringing the food economy home. Santa Rosa Junior College, 2070 Lark Hall. Santa Rosa, California. 12:15 pm. For more information contact ISEC.
23 September, 2004 Food for the Next Generation
No
Helena Norberg-Hodge will speak at the Rathbone Greenbank Ethical Investor Day at Ryton Organic Gardens near Coventry, UK, home of the Henry Doubleday Research Association.
2 October, 2004 Local Food, Global Prosperity poster display
Yes
Come celebrate Columbia County's farms and forests at FarmFest, held at the Columbia County Fairgrounds in Chatham, NY. For more information, contact realfoodnetwork@taconic.net
14-17 October, 2004 Event with Helena Norberg-Hodge
Yes, registration required
Helena Norberg-Hodge will be a speaker at the Global Women's Gathering in Phoenicia, New York. The conference brings together indigenous women elders from around the world with western women elders who have challenged the limitations of our social system. For more information, please visit www.globalwomensgathering.org.
19 October, 2004 Local Food, Global Prosperity presentation
Yes, registration required
ISEC's US Director, Steve Gorelick, will make this presentation at the Northeast SARE conference entitled "Setting the Table: Tools and Techniques for a Sustainable Food System". 8:00-9:30 pm at the UVM Conference Center in Burlington, VT. For more information, contact vernon.grubinger@uvm.edu.
21-25 October, 2004 Globalization and Shattered Rural Economies: Experiences of Sustainable Tourism
Yes, registration required
Helena Norberg-Hodge, joined by ISEC's Becky Tarbotton, will be facilitating a workshop at the Terra Madre World Meeting of Food Communities in Turin, Italy. Contact ISEC for more information or visit www.terramadre2004.org.
9 November, 2004 Talk by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Yes
Helena Norberg-Hodge will give a talk entitled Buddhist Economics: A Path to Solving Social and Ecological Crisis at Sharpham College, Devon. Contact ISEC for more information.
17 November, 2004 Talk by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Yes
Helena Norberg-Hodge will be speaking at the University of Missoula, Montana. Her talk is entitled Globalization versus Community. Contact Jill Davies at rivercare@blackfoot.net for details.
18 November, 2004 Talk by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Yes
Helena Norberg-Hdge will be speaking at the Exchange Conference Center in Hamilton, Montana at 7 pm. Contact Jill Davies at rivercare@blackfoot.net for details.
19 November, 2004 Talk by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Yes
Helena Norberg-Hodge will be speaking at Salish Kootenai College, Arlee, MA, to all students & staff, at the Beaverhead Bldg, Room 115. The event starts at 1 pm. Contact Jill Davies rivercare@blackfoot.net for details.
19 November, 2004 Talk by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Yes
Helena Norberg-Hodge will give a public lecture at Salish Kootenai College at 6 pm. contact Jill Davies at rivercare@blackfoot.net for more information.
22 November, 2004 ISEC Presentation
No
Katy Mamen will present the findings of Ripe for Change: Rethinking California's Food Economy to the Athenian School. 9:30 a.m. Danville, California.
29 November, 2004 Talk by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Yes
Helena Norberg-Hodge will be giving a talk etitled 'Local Food, Global Prosperity' at the Unitarian Center, Ashland, Oregon. 7.30 pm. Contact r.sykes@isec.org.uk for details.
30 November, 2004 Talk by Helena Norberg-Hodge
Yes
Helena Norberg-Hodge will be speaking about the 'Economics of Happiness' at the First Unitarian Church, Portland, Oregon, at 7 pm. Tickets are available at the door, at the EJAG table in Fuller Hall or by calling the church office at 503-228-6389.
1 December, 2004 ISEC Local Food Presentation
No
Katy Mamen will present the findings of Ripe for Change: Rethinking California's Food Economy at UC Berkeley. 4 pm.
  Roadshow (description)
Poster Exhibition:
 
An exhibition of twenty A2 full colour posters, illustrating the points covered in the report Bringing the Food Economy Home, which contains many hard facts and figures around the globalisation of food, and analysis of related social, environmental and economic issues.

For further details on any event, please contact ISEC

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