Coming soon! Oil and Water: Can They Mix? Western and Indigenous Approaches to Economy, Ecology and Community.

October 28th - Nov. 1st, 2006

La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico

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SEED Graduate Institute presents
Global Ecology: A Multicultural Approach

May 23-26, 2002

Global ecology is an issue that affects us all, regardless of race, ethnicity, or economic class. It is also an issue that has tended to divide the world, and will continue to do so, as long as people in power abuse the Earth for short-term financial gains. How do we confront the entrenched problems in our world society, and begin to reverse the inequities that currently exist?

What is needed is a new definition of what it means to be civilized, a definition that includes the conservation of the Earth and all its creatures, and a new recognition of the interdependence of ecological responsibility. Fortunately, in recent years, with increasing communication among the peoples of the Earth, we are seeing an increase in the awareness of the urgency of change. People in power who desire change are beginning to realize that it is often the disenfranchised peoples of the Earth who have the greatest storehouse of wisdom in caretaking of the land and sea. There is a growing group of people who are truly engaging in dialogue, not to misappropriate knowledge or power, but for the intended benefit of all.

The conference will have a multicultural panel with experts on Global Ecology and on the process of multicultural problem solving. The method is one of Dialogue – of deep listening and mutual respect for the people at the conference and the different points of view that may be expressed. The panel and the audience will be encouraged to enter the dialogue without any preconceptions of what may transpire. The subject matter itself may be provocative, and individual participants may have deeply felt emotions and feelings that must be respected. Deep listening requires that the panelists and audience suspend judgment and explore new ways of thinking and problem solving.

Who Should Come to this Conference

People with a Desire to Heal the Earth, people interested in addressing the injustice in Intercultural relations, people interested in judicious use of the worlds’s natural resources, people interested in the process of Dialogue, ecopsychologists, People in the field of diversity work, people interested in becoming part of the solution – Cultural Creatives, - people who think out of the box, Open Minded People of all races, cultures and enthnicities.

Schedule of Events:

Registration:
5-7pm, Thursday, May 23rd, Friday, May 24th, 8am-11am:
Thurs,May 23,7pm: Multicultural Concert (included in Conference Admission)

Opening Remarks: Mayor Martin Chavez, Fri, May 24,9:15am

9:45am: Keynote Address Carl Frankel: “Sustainable Business: An Oxymoron?”

11am: Keynote Address: Rabbi Gershon Winkler: "One Planet; One Family
The Interdependence of Ecological Responsibility and Cultural Diversity"

12:15pm - 1pm: Lunch Break (Lunch on May 24th included in Conference
Admission)

1pm: Keynote Address: Kiyoko Fujui: Cultural Dominance and Subordinance: Moving from Hierarchy to Power Equity

2:15pm: Keynote Adress: Jesse Wolf Hardin: The Spiritual Heart of
Environmental Activism

3:45pm: Keynote Address: David Abram: "Everything Speaks: the Rejuvenation of Oral Culture as an Ecological Imperative"

4:30pm: Keynote Address: Leon Secatero: "Indigenous Prophecies: The Next 500 Years"

5:30-7pm: Dinner Break

7pm - 10pm: Dialogue Leroy Little Bear, Moderator

Sat, May 25th
9:00am: Dialogue Continues
12:00 noon: Lunch Break
1:30pm: Dialogue Continues
5:00 - 7pm: Dinner Break
7pm-10pm: Dialogue Continues

Sun, May 26th
9:00am-12noon: Dialogue Conclusion
12 noon: Lunch Break
1:30-4:30pm: Open Space Technology (Members of the Audience Convene Own Dialogue Sessions)
4:30pm: Closing Ceremony

Early Discount Registration by March 1, 2002: $295

Registration Received by April 1, 2002: $325

Registration After April 1, 2002: $345

One day pass: $125

PHONE 505-792-2900

 

2002 Conference Keynote Addresses:
One Planet; One Family
The Interdependence of Ecological Responsibility and Cultural Diversity
Rabbi Gershon Winkler

Cultural Dominance and Subordinance:
Moving from Hierarchy to Power Equity
Kiyoko Fujiu

The Spiritual Heart of Environmental Activisim
Jesse Wolf Hardin

Indigenous Prophecies: The Next 500 Years
Leon Secatero

Everything Speaks: the Rejuvenation of Oral Culture as an Ecological Imperative
David Abram

Sustainable Business: An Oxymoron
Carl Frankel

Issues and Topics for Discussion
Global Economics • Biotechnology • Farming and Food Resources • Urban Ecology • Environmental Justice • Indigenous Rights • Building Community Wildlands Restoration • Permaculture • Deep (BioCentric) Ecology • Ecosophy • Marine Life Advocacy • The Effects of Racism and Anti-Racism Work • Human Rights Issues • Juvenile Advocacy
Power and Privilege • Sustainable Economic Development and more

Confirmed Participants:

Leroy Little Bear, Moderator
Blackfoot, Former Director of Native Studies, Harvard University

David Abram
Author of The Spell of the Sensuous, Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human world, listed by Utne Reader as one of a hundred leading visionaries currently transforming the world.

Joseph Rael
Picuris, Ute, author of Being and Vibration, and six other books

Leon Secatero
Canoncito Navajo, Ceremonial Leader, former organizer of the Council of Indigenous Elders of North America.

Rabbi Gershon Winkler
Scholar, Rabbinic Trickster, co-founder of Walking Stick Foundation, Native American-Jewish partnership, author of The Sacred Stones and 10 other books.

Jesse Wolf Hardin
Deep Ecologist, author of Kindred Spirits, Sacred Earth Wisdom, environmental activist.

Rianna Moore
Corporate Organizational Development and Diversity Consultant.

Maurine Renville
Local psychotherapist, writer/publisher.

Kyoko Kasai Fujui
Japanese/American Diversity Consultant, Interned in Japanese-American Camps, WWII.

Victor Lewis
Author of The Color of Fear, African-American, Cherokee, Diversity Consultant.

Greg Cajete
Santa Clara, author of The People's Ecology, Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence, Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education, Head of Native American Studies Program, UNM.

Frances Harwood
PhD, University of Chicago, Cultural Anthropologist, Founder of Environmental Studies Program, Naropa, President and Dean of Ecoversity.

Merida Blanco
PhD, Stanford, cultural anthropologist specializing in intercultural communication.

Gus Jacacci
Futurist, author of CEO [Chief Evolutionary Officer], former colleague of Bucky Fuller, Barbara Marx-Hubbard.

Gail Thomas
Urban Ecologist, Director of Center for the City, Dallas, co-founder of the Dallas Institute of the Humanities.

Nancy Maryboy
Dine/Cherokee Cosmologist.

Amber
Kitty Randall, Wiccan, Amber is the author of several popular non-fiction books on Paganism and Wicca, including True Magick, Covencraft, Candlemas (with Azrael), and Moonrise.

Amethyst First Rider
Creator of Trickster Theatre.

Robert Sardello
author of Love and The World, others, co-founder of the Dallas Institute of the Humanities.

Molly Brown
Ecopsychologist, author with Joanna Macy of Coming Back to Life:Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World, Growing Whole: Self-Realization on an Endangered Planet, others.