>  
> Greetings!  the EcoFair is coming up next week on the MUM campus and 
> at other venues in Fairfield, and we have excellent late-breaking 
> news.  In addition to a full lineup of speakers and events, we have 
> just finalized arrangements for a visit and addresses by Hunter 
> Lovins.  Hunter and her ex-husband Amory Lovins, were co-founders of 
> the Rocky Mountain Institute, and authors of many books, including 
> Natural Capitalism.  We will have much to learn from each other!  Read 
> more details below.
>  
> Enjoy!
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>  
>  
> 1.  EcoFair 2003!  Celebrating the Earth, Organizing for Sustainability
>  
> The eco fair is coming up over Memorial Day weekend (May 23-26).  It 
> starts Friday morning, May 23, and you can find all the details at 
> http://www.eco-fair.org/.    You can see the schedule at:  
> http://www.eco-fair.org/schedule.htm.  Please check it out and tell 
> all your friends! 
>  
> Below find information on the key speakers.
>  
> 2.  Hunter Lovins
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> L. Hunter Lovins, Esq., is known worldwide as the co-founder of the 
> Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and co-creator of the concept of 
> Natural Capitalism. In 1982 she created RMI with Amory Lovins and 
> proceeded to lead that organization as its CEO for Strategy for 20 
> years. Under her leadership, RMI grew intoan internationally 
> recognized research center, widely celebrated for its innovative 
> thinking in energy and resource issues. 
>  
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> Upon her departure from RMI in June of 2002, Hunter joined with 
> partners to found the Natural Capitalism Group (NCG: 
> www.natcapgroup.org), a non-profit organizationdedicated to 
> disseminating the principles of Natural Capitalism around the 
> world. First outlined in the book Natural Capitalism (by Hunter 
> Lovins, Amory Lovins, and Paul Hawken), these principles demonstrate 
> how it is possible for businesses to increase profitability and 
> competitive advantage by behaving responsibly towards both nature and 
> people.
>
>  
>
> Description of Keynote Address, Friday evening, May 23.
>
> Natural Capitalism: Protecting the Environment at a Profit
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>  
>
> Natural Capitalism is a whole-systems approach to doing business that 
> enables companies to increase profitability and competitive advantage 
> by behaving responsibly towards both nature and people. The approach 
> consists of four primary principles:
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>  
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> 1.    Radically increase resource efficiency. Through fundamental changes 
> in production design and technology, it is possible to make natural 
> resources stretch 5 to 10 times further than before, and even more. 
> 2.    Shift to biologically inspired production models. The benign 
> productive processes of living things can guide industrial innovation 
> and teach us how to close production loops, thus eliminating waste and 
> toxics.
> 3.    Invest in restorative practices. Any good capitalist reinvests in 
> productive capital. Businesses are finding an exciting range of new 
> cost-effective ways to restore and expand the natural capital directly 
> required for operations and indirectly required to sustain the supply 
> system and customer base.
> 4.    No net loss of natural or social capital. To achieve genuine 
> prosperity and an economy worth sustaining, it is essential to ensure 
> that neither form of capital is diminished.
>
>  
>
> Together, the principles of Natural Capitalism provide the foundation 
> for a complete rethinking of business. They show how, contrary to 
> conventional wisdom, far greater profits are to be achieved through 
> protecting and enhancing nature, culture, and community than by 
> harming them. 
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>  
>  
> 3.  Tad Hargrave,Innovator and Social Entrepreneur
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> "Tad Hargrave has the unique ability to combine fun and excitement 
> with consciousness and the courage to take a stand for ones beliefs. 
> Mix all of these together and what you will find is a recipe that is 
> sure to inspire and motivate young people to become magnificent 
> leaders on the personal, community, and global levels."
> Julia Butterfly Hill, author, The Legacy of Luna and One Makes The 
> Difference
>
>  Tad Hargrave, 27, has been a change maker since he was 19 when he 
> founded The School Revolution, which empowers students with resources 
> to transform their schools.
>
> He served as Development Director for Youth for Environmental Sanity 
> (YES!) starting in 1996. In 1997, he founded YES!'s Facilitation 
> Trainings and in 1999 he founded Youth Jams.
>
> Most recently, he started a consulting practice called The Leverage 
> Crew that offers helps social entrepreneurs, locally owned and small 
> business to attract avalanches of perfect customers with the same or - 
> often - much less effort.
>
> He is an accomplished magician, musician and improv comedian. He was 
> recently featured in the book Global Uprising and was chosen as one of 
> thirty leading young visionaries in North America by Utne Reader 
> magazine in their September, 2002 edition.
>
>  
> 4  Marc Companion, Educator, Oceanarks.org

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> www.oceanarks.org
> Marc designs and builds educational ecosystems, teaches ecological 
> design theory and practice, and develops curriculum and education 
> programs for schools, universities and environmental organizations. 
> Marc spent five years living and working in East Africa on community 
> development and environmental programs in Kenya. 
> Marc will be hosting a 2-day workshop open to the general public on 
> how to make a living machine (a biological water filtration system). 
> He will be giving a presentation on the concept behind this innovative 
> machine and the revolutionary changes it's making in the field of 
> treating waste while building ecosystems
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> Other major research and educational programs included participatory 
> on-farm research and demonstration programs and evaluation of impacts 
> of sustainable agriculture on quality of life of farm families and 
> others in rural communities.
> Dr. Ikerd was project leader for a three-state, five-year program, 
> with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which linked 
> sustainable agriculture and sustainable community development.
>
> Since retiring from the University in early 2000, Ikerd serves on 
> boards of directors and advisory counsels for several nonprofit 
> organizations dedicated to the sustainability of American agriculture 
> and rural communities.
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>  
>
> 6.  Ronnie Cummins, Writer, Activist, and Organizer

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Philip Scott
"Evil triumphs when good people do nothing!"  (From the Scarlet
Pimpernel)
I support Howard Dean for President 2004!
http://www.deanforamerica.com/


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