Calendar of Events

1999

From the MAI to the Millennium Round; Setting a Different Agenda for Frameworks on Investment and Trade: This international conference will bring together people opposing further economic and financial deregulation and seeking alternatives, which ensure higher standards of living for the world's peoples. For more information contact Gaby Kuppers.

Launching the People's Millennium, Challenging Corporate Control of Food and Agriculture: In an effort to take back the control and responsibility for the intrinsic safety of our food supply, free from contaminating and health-threatening toxics, the conference will focus on the Food Circles approach as offering a practical, hands-on, sensible, grass roots means of working for and attaining sustainable food system. For additional information contact Ben Kjelshus .

Biodiversity and Climate Change - Conservation in the Face of Uncertainty: Scientists, natural resource managers, conservation biologists, and policymakers will explore the consequences of global warming on the planet's biodiversity and address conservation planning in an age of uncertain climatic trends. Please call 212-769-5200 to RSVP no later than April 15. Contact: Lori Rapaport, Center of Biodiversity and Conservation.

The Ownership Solution, Shared Capitalism for the 21st Century: The seminar includes the searchable web site plus a moderated listserv or forum to which the public is invited to participate in conversation with the author. The seminar with Jeff Gates will last for approximately one week starting May 7, 1999. More material about Jeff Gates, his book and his views are found at . To participate in the moderated version of the seminar or to listen, please send the request subscribe sustainable-economics . The seminar is open for subscriptions now but no mail will be distributed until May 7. If you wish to participate in the UN-moderated version of the seminar, SE-Cafe, rather than the moderated version, please send your request subscribe SE-cafe Yourfirstname . If you have questions about the seminar.

Beyond Pesticides - Pollution Prevention is the Cure: NCAMP is teaming up with the California statewide group Pesticide Watch again in 1999 to bring people together for one of the most important pesticide meetings and only national grassroots pesticide conference of the year. For more information, please contact, NCAMP at 202-543-5450.

Keep America Growing - Balancing Working Lands and Development: The objective of the conference is to explore ways of conserving working lands (farms and ranch lands and working forests) while allowing for growth and development to satisfy the needs of our growing population. The conference is structured to focus public attention on the social, economic and environmental issues inherent with the land use changes taking place in America.

The National Low Income Energy Consortium: This conference brings together all segments of the low-income energy community (public, private, and nonprofit) for cutting-edge training, networking and partnership-building, and dialogue to set the agenda for public policies that affect low-income energy consumers. Training topics include: Utility restructuring and its impact on low-income households; Low-income aggregation strategies, energy efficiency/ conservation/ weatherization programs in a time of transition; Maximizing LIHEAP dollars; Coordinating energy and housing resources; Innovative fund-raising and professional development; Consumer education and customer relations to move clients toward self-sufficiency and informed choices; Using performance standards for superior program effectiveness; Technical assistance for nonprofits; The latest from Washington, D.C.; and Educating policy makers.

Community Research Network Annual Conference: This will be an inspiring, interactive, restorative conference, bringing people together from across the US and worldwide to share their experiences with community-based research and to inform a growing movement. Community-based research is research conducted in response to grassroots, community, worker or local government concerns – generally using participatory research processes.

Local Currency Conference '99: Creating a community currency can enable your community to attach a new type of monetary value to useful activity like: volunteer work, community service, work experience, training time, barter exchange of goods or services, starting a small business, and farming and gardening activity.

Working for a Decent Living: Bridging the Gap Between Labor and Community.