Global Climate Change and Capitalism
Friday, July 30 - Monday, August 2
Epworth Center, High Falls, NY
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FRIDAY, JULY 30
4:00. REGISTRATION BEGINS AND CONTINUES ALL WEEKEND
6:00. DINNER
7:00 – 9:00.
The DAVID GORDON LECTURE
CLIMATE CHANGE:
BARBARISM OR SOCIALISM
MINQI LI, University of Utah
9:15 – 11:00. Informal socializing: catching up with old friends, getting to know new ones.
8:00 – 8:45. BREAKFAST
7:00 – 9:00.Plenary 1:
CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Joel Kovel, editor Capitalism Nature Socialism; author The Enemy of Nature
Climate Change: the Legacy of Capital
Brian Tokar, Director of the Institute for Social Ecology
Apocalypse and Utopia in Today's Climate Movement
Diana Wu, Amherst College
A New Environmentalism: US Grassroots Approaches to Justice and Ecology
9:15 – 12:00. ENTERTAINMENT.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 1
6:00. DINNER
7:00 – 9:00. Plenary 2:
CONFRONTING CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN'T
Michael Dorsey, Assistant Professor & Director of Climate Justice Project, Dartmouth College
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Carbon Market Galaxy and the Sagas of Climate Justice
Helen Scharber, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Economists for Equity and the Environment
Cap and Divident: Climate Policy for the People
Rachel Smolker, Co-Director of Biofuelwatch; Organizer, Climate SOS
Renewable Energy: False Solutions and Real Potential
MONDAY, AUGUST 2
See you all next year!
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