Sixth Annual Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference - Nelson Institute | Community

Registration Opens
Exhibit Area Opens
Coffee, tea and juice will be available

Welcome
Gregg Mitman, Interim Director, Nelson Institute

Facing Limits: From the Age of Abundance to the Age of Scarcity
Donald Worster, Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Kansas and author of The Wealth of Nature, Nature's Economy and other books; PRESENTATION

Getting to Plenitude: Building a Small-Scale, Low-Impact, High-Satisfaction Economy
Juliet Schor, Boston College economist and author of True Wealth, The Overworked American, and The Overspent American; PRESENTATION

Refreshment Break and Exhibits

Gross National Happiness in the Kingdom of Bhutan
Lyonpo Yeshey Zimba, Minister of Works and Human Settlement in the Kingdom of Bhutan

Envisioning a Fairer Future, One Story at a Time
Julia Alvarez, author of A Wedding in Haiti, Saving the World and other books

Lunch

Concurrent Sessions

Garrett Hardin's Challenge: Sustainability, Private Property and Social Justice

Harvey Jacobs, Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Nelson Institute, UW-Madison (Moderator); PRESENTATION
Stephen Malpezzi, Professor, Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, UW-Madison; PRESENTATION
Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold Foundation and Director of Conservation Biology and History, Center for Humans and Nature
Stanley Temple, Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation, UW-Madison and Senior Fellow, Aldo Leopold Foundation; PRESENTATION
Matthew Turner, Professor, Department of Geography, UW-Madison; PRESENTATION

Urban Agriculture, Food Security and Community Transformation

Steve Ventura, Professor, Environmental Studies and Soil Science; Director, Nelson Institute Land Tenure Center (Moderator)
Jill Jacklitz, Executive Director, Community Groundworks, Madison
Stephanie Calloway, Food and Environment Coordinator, Core/El Centro, Milwaukee; PRESENTATION
Robert Pierce, Market Manager, South Madison Farmers Market; Consultant, Growing Power Madison and Badger Rock Middle School Garden; PRESENTATION
Marcia Caton Campbell, Milwaukee Director, Center for Resilient Cities; PRESENTATION

How We Treat Work and How Work Treats Us: Wisconsin's Changing Employment Landscape

Jeanan Yasiri Moe, Development Coordinator, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison (Moderator)
Teresa Adams, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering; Director, National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education; Chair, Nelson Institute Transportation Management and Policy Program, UW-Madison; PRESENTATION
Marshall Heyworth, Chief Operating Officer, QTI Consulting, Madison
Mike Ivey, Business Reporter, The Capital Times
Katie Bittner, Corporate Trainer, Kwik Trip, Inc.

Environment and Mindfulness: Traditions and Practices

Tristin Marotz, Nelson Institute Undergraduate Programs Coordinator, UW-Madison (Moderator)
Sister Lynn Smith, Director of Membership, Holy Wisdom Monastery; PRESENTATION
Carmen Alonso, Clinical Psychologist, Madison Psychiatric Associates and UW Health
John Francis, Visiting Associate Professor, Nelson Institute, UW-Madison; "Planetwalker"
Mark Blumenfeld, Director of Practice and Education, Madison Shambhala Center and Windhorse Retreat Center

Inspiring Change through Film and New Media

Peter Boger, Ph.D. Candidate, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison (Moderator)
Chris Bocast, Ph.D. Candidate, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison
Jessica Duma, Undergraduate, Human Geography & Environmental Studies, UW-Madison
Kevin Gibbons, Ph.D. Candidate, Geography, UW-Madison
Marya Johnston-McIntosh, M.S. Candidate, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison
Leah Wachowski, Undergraduate, Environmental Studies & Gender and Women's Studies, UW-Madison

Matters of Time: Tension and Alignment in Cycles of Business, Environment and Culture

Larry Nesper, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UW-Madison (moderator)
Rob Nixon,Professor, English and Environmental Studies, UW-Madison; Author, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Cal Dewitt, Professor, Environmental Studies, UW-Madison; Co-founder, Evangelical Environmental Network; PRESENTATION
Cyrus Hester, Environmental Specialist, Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa; PRESENTATION
Carl Korfmacher, President, Applied Ecological Services, Inc

Building Social Capital, Health and Well-Being through Sustainable Development and Transportation

Steve Hiniker, Executive Director, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin (Moderator)
Maggie Grabow, Ph.D. Candidate, Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, UW-Madison; PRESENTATION
Jonathan Patz,Director, Global Health Institute; Professor, Environmental Studies and Population Health Sciences, UW-Madison; PRESENTATION
William Sullivan, Professor, Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Refreshment Break, Exhibits and Reid Bryson Poster Session

Global Stewards Sustainability Prize Award Announcements

Sustainable Capitalism: Lessons and Opportunities
Daniel Oros, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; PRESENTATION

Plenary Panel: Sustainability, Security and Happiness on a Finite Planet

Gregg Mitman, Interim Director, Nelson Institute (Moderator)
Julia Alvarez, author of A Wedding in Haiti and other books
Daniel Oros, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology, Boston College; author of True Wealth and other books
Lyonpo Yeshey Zimba, Minister of Works and Human Settlement, Kingdom of Bhutan
Richard J. Davidson, William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry; Founder and Chair, Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Adjourn

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