From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>, "international Permaculture List" <permaculture@openpermaculture.org>
Subject: [permaculture] 2008 unMoney Convergence April 14th-16th, 2008 Seattle, WA
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:51:45 -0800
2008 unMoney Convergence
April 14th-16th, 2008 | Seattle, WA
http://unmoney.wik.is/
On April 14th a group of social-entrepreneurs, academics, economists,
bankers, philanthropists, business men and woman, system changers,
lenders, borrowers and barter-ers will gather in Seattle for the 2008
unMoney Convergence to engage in an evolutionary conversation on money.
Other topics covered will include micro-credit, slow money, local
currencies, complementary currencies, time dollars, retail trade
exchanges, LETS, state of the art transaction software and hardware
technologies, money and spirituality, ecological accounting, social
venture and entrepreneurship, monetary theory, value network mapping,
equity sharing, energy backed currency, organizational structures,
gift economies, and barter.
Most of the conference will be participant driven, the agenda will be
created live over the course of the event by those attending. We
will be predominantly using Open Space Technology to organize
ourselves. Everyone attending is welcome to present or lead a
discussion about the topics they are interested in. Feel free to add
a workshop and/or dicussion you would like to attend, facilitate or
lead on the <http://unmoney.wik.is/Proposed_Topics>Proposed Topic
page.http://unmoney.wik.is/Proposed_Topics
Pre-Scheduled Speakers:
H<http://www.hazelhenderson.com>azel Henderson*, Co-Executive
Producor, <http://ipbcorp.com/ethicalmarkets.com/>Ethical Markets,
author of Creating Alternative Futures, Beyond Globalization, Ethical
Markets Growing the Green Economy, and the Power of Yin.
*presentation will be conducted by video conference on an overhead screen
Cost:
Pricing has changed! Early bird registration price is now $125 until
the 29th. After the 29th the price will go up to $160.
What you get - 6 meals: Dinner on Monday night, Breakfast, Lunch,
Dinner Tuesday, Breakfast and Lunch Wednesday, great space near
downtown with internet connectivity, professional unconference facillitation.
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