Western and Indigenous Approaches to
Economy, Ecology & Community

Past presenters - 2002 Ecology 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.

Gregory 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.