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  • From: "Amy Little" <amylittle@hvc.rr.com>
  • To: <nefood@elist.tufts.edu>, "'permaculture'" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>, <northeasternpermaculture-owner@lists.riseup.net>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] FW: THIS WEEKEND: Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben and many other amazing speakers at NY Teach-in this weekend!
  • Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 21:29:12 -0400






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collaboration with

The International Center for Technology Assessment, The New York

Open Center and The Schumacher Center for New Economics



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Saturday Oct. 25

10am to 10pm

Sunday Oct. 26

10am to 7pm





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The Great Hall of the Cooper Union

7 E. 7th Street

New York, NY 10003





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Mountaintop Removal





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Cyber Human




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TEACH-IN:


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45 Leading scholars, authors and activists will convene at The Great Hall of
Cooper Union, New York City, for a public "teach-in" on the profound
impacts-- environmental, economic and social-- of runaway technological
expansionism, and cyber immersion; the tendency to see technology as the
savior for all problems. A change of direction is required, returning the
fate of nature to the center of economic and social decision making.








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Save with advance tickets available until October 3rd:

$35 for Saturday / $30 for Sunday / $50 for both /

$25 for students and seniors.

After October 3rd:

$45 for Saturday / $40 for Sunday / $75 for both /

$25 for students/seniors.





Contacts:


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SPEAKERS




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Speakers include: Jeannette Armstrong, Debbie Barker, Chet Bowers, Tom
Butler, Helen Caldicott, Eileen Crist, Marcy Darnovsky, David Ehrenfeld,
Aiden Enns, Bruce Gagnon, John M. Greer, Susan Griffin, Clive Hamilton,
Randy Hayes, Richard Heinberg, Michael Huesemann, Wes Jackson, Andrew
Kimbrell, Dave King, Lisi Krall, Winona La Duke, Neisen Laukon, Jerry
Mander, Bill McKibben, Stephanie Mills, Anuradha Mittal, Pat Mooney, Ralph
Nader, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Koohan Paik, Douglas Rushkoff, Linda Sheehan,
Vandana Shiva, Katie Singer, Gar Smith, Atossa Soltani, Charlene Spretnak,
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Jim Thomas, Bruce Thompson, Mary Reynolds Thompson,
Doug Tompkins, Severine von Tscharner-Fleming, Ralph White, Langdon Winner
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TBA soon. Plus films, workshops and bookstore.







This event comes at a crucial historical moment.



Ecological systems are near collapse--global climate, soils and fertility;
fresh water supply; deep ocean life, forests, biodiversity; diminishing
global food production; and unprecedented rates of species extinctions.
Human life is also threatened by these, as well as by shocking rates of
economic inequality, and the expanding threat of wars to control lands and
scarce resources. But proposed solutions rarely stray off the corporate
message: "Technology will solve our problems. Leave it to technology." We do
not share this optimism.



[When President Truman dropped the A-Bomb, he said "for the good of
mankind." He should have said, "for the good of General Electric" and a new
technological era that brought us hundreds of nuclear power plants including
Fukushima.]




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SUBSTITUTE NATURE



Many in our society see the ecological crisis as a grand new economic
opportunity for growth and profit. If nature is being destroyed, we can
create new nature. Technologies are rolling out to introduce substitute
nature. For example: GEO-ENGINEERING (to "solve" the climate crisis by
"re-seeding" the heavens and inventing techno-climate); GMOs (to re-arrange
the genetics of food, animals, and trees, making them more profitable);
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY (creating new artificial life forms, including genetically
redesigned humans-- taller? smarter? better looking?); and NANO-TECHNOLOGY
(to replace the planet's billion-years-old molecular structures for greater
efficiency.) We prefer the old planet.





We can also look forward to INTELLIGENT ROBOTS on farms and in factories and
homes (eliminating need for human workers!); and vast numbers of MILITARY
AND HOUSEHOLD DRONES, as well as a potpourri of such inventions as Google
glass, driverless cars, app-after-app-after-app, and ever more handy
instruments for cyber-envelopment of our consciousness and everyday lives.
Did anyone ask for these? They are all expressions of science in service to
corporate profit and growth. They do not serve people, but do serve the
needs of desperate capital, running out of nature's resources. Meanwhile,
human experience-- now increasingly embedded within our new global
technological cocoon-- is losing its awareness and connection with nature.
This will not solve our problems. It does not bring us together; it does not
bring happiness. It is isolating our minds and feelings within computer
algorithms. As Sherry Turkle writes, we are now "alone together."



NEW CONSCIOUSNESS



What is needed is new consciousness, and new economic strategies that break
from the assumption of human dominion over nature and the planet
("anthropocentrism"), while rejecting the idea that more technology is the
way to save the world. What is required are new economics that will bring us
together; reforming our economies toward fairness, and placing the health of
nature as the final measure of success.



Tweeting won't save us.



Alternative ideas, policies, programs

and actions will be pursued and

discussed in detail.




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Modern Life








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