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> 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.
>
>
> 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.
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> 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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> 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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