Workshop Schedule

The large-scale Sustainable Peralta spring conference has been rescheduled for September of this year.

In place of the full conference, Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel will lead a workshop for us entitled “Building Leadership for Sustainable Metropolitan Communities,” an interactive multi-media workshop based on case studies featured in the forthcoming publication Breakthrough: Stories and Strategies for Building Sustainable Communities (2008 MIT Press).

Time

Activities
8:30

Continental Breakfast

9:000

Keynote Lecture

The Earth, The City and the Hidden Narrative of Race

Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel , Sustainable Communitites Initiative

Carl Anthony is a seminal figure in the environmental justice movement, who founded Earthjustice's Urban Habitat program, describes his recent work with the Ford Foundation to bridge urban communities of color with environmental initiatives while reviving vital environmental cultural traditions.

Paloma Pavel is the founder of Earth House, since 1990 conducting local, national and international projects in a variety of print and visual media. Earth House, based in Oakland, CA, has worked with a series of environmental sustainability groups in the Pacific Rim, including Cambodia and Japan, and in the US supporting organizations working on issues of health, justice, education, legal services and metropolitan development.
10:00

Participant Workshop

Building Leadership for Sustainable Metropolitan Communities

This workshop is open to all participants in the Earthday Conference, including students, faculty, administrators and community. This interactive multi-media workshop is based on case studies featured in the forthcoming publication (2008 MIT Press) Breakthrough: Stories and Strategies for Building Sustainable Communities (edited by Dr. Pavel).

Workshop participants are invited to explore transformative strategies that have been effective in regional contexts throughout the United States:

  1. The positive power of 'Saying No' to destructive practices
  2. Tools for getting grounded in multi-racial communities of the 21st Century
  3. Reaching for new horizons in just sustainability and regional leadership
  4. Getting to Yes through framing winning strategies for sustainability

Through multi-modal approaches (including digital stories, charts and graphs, and interactive exercises) participants will apply lessons learned to their own context and challenges.

12:00

Reception at Self-Reliant House, and Landscape/Horticulture Greenhouse
cityscape