Monday, March 26, 2012
Progressive Opportunities Conference: AUDIO
Listen to All the Conference Sessions Here!
Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:49 PM
The 2012 Progressive Opportunities Conference showcased the best work of nonprofits, companies, unions, activists, and government leaders, looking to shed light on some of our most pressing economic issues. The Conference sought to create an opportunity to network and exchange ideas, arming attendees with new tools to make positive economic change.
Event Website: www.ProgressiveOpportunities2012.com
All Recording were compiled by hungrymindrecordings.com
Read the recent East Bay Express article on the event.
This is an alphabetical listing by Session Title
(HINT:We realize this is a long list of 24 sessions, so we recommend searching for specific Sessions within this blog entry. Press Ctrl + F (OR on a Mac: Command+F) and type in the name of the topic or Speaker you are looking for. This will allow you to find the section you are looking for.)
– public banks, worker cooperative banks, and progressive banking practices.
This presentation will be a discussion of how Wall Street private bankers control the amount of money in circulation and how alternative banking models can be used to fund loans for homeowners, students, entrepreneurs, and businesses on Main Street.
Speaker - Marc Armstrong, Executive Director, Public Banking Institute; Susan Harman, Public Banking Institute; Esther Park, Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, RSF Social Finance; Mike Leung, Lead Organizer, Worker Cooperative Federal Credit Union
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saving money, energy, and time while promoting creativity and collaboration through remote, flex-space, and other progressive workplace models. The number one contributor to carbon and environmental emissions in the U.S. is squarely rooted in how we work. Work-related activity creates over 90% of the carbon emissions and pollution in the U.S., with buildings and transportation accounting for almost 75% of the total...
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B Corporations are a new kind of company that uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. They meet transparent and comprehensive standards of social and environmental performance. They also legally expand their corporate responsibilities to include consideration of stakeholder interests.
Speakers – Andy Fyfe, Community Development, B Lab – B Corporation; Michael Hannigan, President, Give Something Back Office Supplies; Matthew Bauer, President, BetterWorld Telecom; Timothy Yee, President, Green Retirement Plans; Jonathan S. Storper, Partner, Hanson Bridgett, LLP
Speakers presented by – Faculty Member at the Presidio Graduate School
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Bikenomics – how biking will save the planet, our pocketbooks, and our local economy
Numerous studies from around the county and around the world show that investments in better biking pay off for cities in health outcomes and a boost to business. Speaker – Renee Rivera, Executive Director, East Bay Bicycle Coalition
Speaker presented by - Pamela Evans, Coordinator for Alameda County, Bay Area Green Business Program
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Two related trends in American political, economic, and community life over the last thirty-five years pose a huge challenge to all of us committed to progressive growth of an America constituted of vibrant local living economies.
Speakers – Mark McLeod, Executive Director, Sustainable Business Alliance of Oakland/Berkeley; State Senator Loni Hancock
Speakers presented by - Winston Burton, Economic Development Director, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS)
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Community currencies can boost a local economy by recirculating wealth locally and rewarding important community work that needs to be done.
Speakers – Guillaume Lebleu, Bernal Bucks; Jessica Nowlan, Hope Solutions Merchant Services; Erin Kilmer-Neel, Oakland Grown Gift Card; Charlie Rebich, Oakland Acorn/Oakland Grown Gift Card; Mira Luna, Bay Area Community Exchange Timebank
Speakers presented by – Amy Barr, Sustainable Business Alliance
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Learn about innovative fundraising tools, public policy challenges and solutions, new financing vehicles, and local investment clubs.
Speakers – Mary Rick, VP, Marketing and Community, The Hoop Fund; Elizabeth Ü, Founder & Executive Director, Finance for Food; Jenny Kassan, Cutting Edge Capital; Arno Hesse, Slow Money Northern CA Speakers presented by – Ariane Michas, Community Alliance with Family Farmers
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Discuss more real world examples and how to bring these tools and ideas to your community.Speakers – Mary Rick, VP, Marketing and Community, The Hoop Fund; Elizabeth Ü, Founder & Executive Director, Finance for Food; Jenny Kassan, Cutting Edge Capital; Arno Hesse, Slow Money Northern CA
Speakers presented by – Ariane Michas, Community Alliance with Family Farmers
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Economic development for our communities – the potential of decentralized energy systems
Localized energy systems can address both the climate crisis and economic crisis of our cities, rolling back greenhouse gas emissions and providing clean energy jobs.Speaker – Al Weinrub, Coordinator, Local Clean Energy Alliance
Speaker presented by - Carroll Moore, Organizer, East Bay Green Drinks
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How might we pursue improvements in education, the arts, health, well-being, freedom, and happiness without depending upon ever-expanding consumption? What does a transition to a new economy look like that doesn’t depend on a model of growth based on cheap energy, reckless consumption and financial speculation?
Speaker – Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
Speaker presented by – Ed Church, Executive Director, Institute for Environmental Entrepreneurship
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Do you know the appropriate financing and business training options for your small business? Have you been denied for a bank loan and don’t know where to turn? Are you a start-up or growing business struggling to access capital? This session will provide information and resources to help you find the right type of capital that your small business needs to start or grow. It will also introduce you to business training resources that can take your business to the next level.
Speakers – Sean Murphy, COO, Inner City Advisors; Kelly Lovlien, Marketing and Operations Manager, Working Solutions; Alejandro Velez, Co-Founder, Back to the Roots
Speakers presented by - Salvador Menjivar, Executive Director, One PacificCoast Foundation
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A documentary film preview and discussion. It’s an issue-oriented, no-holds-bar show with no preconceived expectations, no party lines, and certainly no cheerleading – because they have beef with everybody, including themselves.
Speakers - W. Kamau Bell, Nato Green, Evan Donn, Mike Paunovich
Speakers presented by - Rachel Swan, Music Editor, East Bay Express
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There are numerous studies demonstrating how “buy local” campaigns benefit communities; Learn the economics behind the localization movement and how you can personally participate in shifting dollars locally.
Speakers - Linda Currie and Susan Silber, Transition Berkeley; Carolina Miranda, Sustainable Business Alliance; Erin Kilmer-Neel, Oakland Grown; Hut Landon, SFLOMA
Speakers presented by - Samee Roberts, Manager, Community & Economic Development Agency, City of Oakland
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Small business owners can learn about a new technology that promotes their business through a unique collaboration between East Bay Express, local business associations, business districts, and all their social networking channels. This tool is super easy to use and saves merchants money and time in promoting their businesses while vastly expanding their marketing reach.
Speakers – Shahbano Imran and David Tolioupov, Founders, LocalOn; Shari Godinez, Executive Director, Koreatown Northgate Community Benefits District
Speakers presented by – Terry Furry, Sales & Marketing Director, East Bay Express
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A new replacement theory of investment which puts sustainability and people’s true needs at the heart of investment strategies.
Speakers – Jay Youngdahl, Fellow, Initiative for Responsible Investment, Harvard University and President, East Bay Express; (Responder) Ed Church, Executive Director, Institute for Environmental Entrepreneurship
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The non-profit industrial complex, cooperatives, and how to include your friends in the (food) revolution
overview of the cooperative business model with a variety of examples, and help participants think of ways to directly create a more cooperative economy. We will also discuss the role of non-profits and the tax shelters that support them in creating value for our communitiesSpeaker - Yoni Landau, Co-Founder and Chief Evangelist, CoFED (The Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive)
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Slow Money. ACRES USA calls it a “movement.” NPR calls it a “revolution.” One thing is for sure: what began with a book and a set of ideas three years ago has blossomed into a network of investors, philanthropists, farmers, entrepreneurs, and everyday folks who are concerned about where their food comes from and where their money goes.
Speaker – Woody Tasch, Founder and Chairman, Slow Money
Speaker presented by – Temra Costa, Sustainable Food Advocate and Author of Farmer Jane
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Changing public policy through advocacy in Sacramento and Washington is essential for building a robust and sustainable economy.Speakers – Scott Hauge, President, Small Business California and Cal-Insure; David Brodwin, American Sustainable Business Council
Speakers presented by – Beth Gelfand, Operations Manager, Bay Area Green Tours
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Join key public officials in a conversation about the opportunities for the East Bay to thrive with a sustainable economy and environment. The crisis of climate change calls for resilient local action – hear what our representatives are doing to increase clean energy and energy efficiency at the state and local levels. The East Bay and the city of Oakland is facing a crossroads, with the elimination of redevelopment agencies, but with opportunities for an urban renaissance ?
Speakers – Andy Katz, Director, East Bay Municipal Utility District; Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, Representing the 14th District, State of California
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What is the role of unions in a new economy? How should new economy advocates think about this?
Speakers – Carl Hall, Media Workers; John Logan, Director of Labor and Employment Studies, San Francisco State University; Cindy Chavez, South Bay Labor Council (invited); Andreas Cluver, Building and Construction Trades Council of Alameda County; Keiranne Steele, Associate, Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld; Jay Youngdahl, President, East Bay Express and Partner, Youngdahl & Citti, P.C.
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Sharing is a key ingredient in the transition to a more sustainable world. Car sharing, shared housing, barter networks, gift circles, shared food gardens, meal sharing, community energy projects, cooperatives, etc...
Speaker – Janelle Orsi, Director, Sustainable Economies Law Center and Law Office of Janelle Orsi
Speaker presented by - Marissa LaMagna, Executive Director, Bay Area Green Tours
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When the economy’s rotten, sell compost: transforming ecological crisis into community opportunities
You’ve heard “crisis=opportunity,” but exactly who is that opportunity for? In this workshop we’ll get an exclusive sneak peak at interactive tools from Bay Localize’s forthcoming second edition of the Community Resilience Toolkit. Speakers – Kirsten Schwind, Program Director, Bay Localize; David Kant Wofford, Program Associate, Bay Localize
Speakers presented by - Carla Mays, Social Innovations Strategist, Founder of the Social Innovations & Investor Resource, Steering Committee of Bay Localize
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Why Occupy changes everything and how to join with Occupy to build powerful coalitions for change
how citizen action has altered the regional and national discussion on our economy, prompted individual and collective change, and has the potential to further promote our transformation to a new more just and sustainable economy.Speakers - Sara Mizner, Occupy Oakland; Phoebe Sorgen, Occupy Berkeley; Maria Gastelumendi, Rising Loafer Cafe & Bakery; Scott Rossi, Occupy San Francisco
Speakers presented by – Susie Cagle, Freelance Journalist
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This session will focus on how worker cooperatives (workplaces owned and controlled by their workers) are an integral part of sustainable, local economic development.Speakers – Dave Karoly, Staff, NoBAWC; Kasper Koczab, Staff, NoBAWC and East Bay Express; Jenny Kassan, Cutting Edge Capital; Paul Knowles, Rainbow Groceryn
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