Register now for the Surviving Climate Change roundtable in St. Louis. Only $4 – but it goes up after May 15! Please send the information to anyone you know who might be interested.

*Surviving Climate Change: Producing Less and Enjoying it More*

The effects of climate change, peak oil and toxic production are here. We know it every time we see news of weather disasters and disappearing species. We feel it every time we buy gas. We hear it every time a child uses an asthma inhaler.

Solutions are here, also. But meaningful changes are being stubbornly ignored by government, big business and big enviro:

* A genuine effort at reducing greenhouse gases would require food to be grown within 100 miles of where it is eaten.

* A serious climate change program would stop funding the 800 military bases which ensure a continuous flow of oil to the US.

* The most energy efficient homes are homes that have no heating system at all.

* The most energy efficient cars are those that are replaced by trains, buses, bicycles or feet.

But how do we create a society without individual cars and the expanding mountains of garbage that are the real causes of environmental catastrophe? How do we reduce production without worsening the lives of low income Americans and the poor throughout the world? Is the production of luxury, waste, plastic food and unnecessary transport and construction so monstrously large that eliminating it could actually allow for an increase in necessities and a 30 hour work week?

On June 27-29, 2008, we will meet in at Webster University [470 E. Lockwood Ave.] St. Louis to discuss remaking American society. The focus will be on developing solutions, rather than repeating the problems we all know exist. We will seek solutions that alter the structure of US society rather than personal lifestyle changes.

The meeting will be organized as a roundtable [rather than a conference]. We assume that many participants will have as much to contribute as speakers. Panels will have as much time for discussion as presentations.

Please send the registration form and notice the time-sensitive registration fees. You can register on-line at www.gateway-greens.org If you need information about lodging near Webster University, please email chicherio@aol.com

Sponsored by /Synthesis/Regeneration: A Magazine of Green Social Thought/ and the Webster University Department of History, Politics and International Relations

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Registration for Surviving Climate Change: Producing Less and Enjoying it More

June 27-29, 2008, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri

Name: _________________________________________

Address: _______________________________________

City/State/Zip: ___________________________________

Phone[s]/email: __________________________________

Make out a check and send it to:

Gateway Green Alliance, P.O. Box 8094, St. Louis MO 63156

Enclose registration fee: $4 if before May 15: $10 if before June 15, $25 after June 15

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*Surviving Climate Change: Producing Less and Enjoying it More*

Roundtable Schedule

*Friday, June 27, 2008*

6:00 – 10:00 pm: Dinner/informal get-together

*Saturday, June 28, 2008*

7:30 – 8:30 am: breakfast

8:45 – 10:15 am: Panel 1. Sustainable food systems

10:30 – noon: Panel 2: Quality health care for all

noon – 2:00 pm: lunch

2:00 – 3:30 pm: Panel 3: Earth, air, forests and water

3:45 – 5:15 pm: Panel 4: Redesigning cities and homes

5:15 – 7:15 pm: dinner

7:15 – 10:00 pm: Panel 5: Energy conservation and renewable energy

*Sunday, June 29, 2008*

7:30 – 8:30 am: breakfast

8:45 – 10:15 am: Panel 6: The economics of less stuff and better lives

10:30 – noon: Panel 7: Reversing wealth inequality between people and countries

noon – 2:00 pm: lunch

2:00 – 3:30 pm: Panel 8: Overcoming barriers to environmental sanity

3:45 – 5:15 pm: Wrap-up “plenary”

Those speaking, commenting and facilitating at the roundtable include:

digger, (aka Daniel Romano), Confluence

Wes Jackson, The Land Institute

Fredrick D. Carter, Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Renewable Living

Stan Cox, The Land Institute

David Henry, Executive Director of Walkable St. Louis

Dr. Rosa Kincaid, M.D., Kincaid Medical Associates

Erin O’Reilly, RN, MSNR, IBCLC La Leche League Leader.

Jifunza C.A. Wright M.D., M.P.H., Holistic Family Medicine Healthy Lifestyle and Prevention Center

Abbe Sudvarg, M.D., Board Chair of the Peace Economy Project

Marti Crouch, Wild Mushroom Inspector

Mark Donham, Heartwood Program Director

Jim Scheff, Missouri Forest Alliance

Kathleen Logan-Smith, Missouri Coalition for the Environment

Ralph Wafer, AIA Architecture and Planning

Pam Talley, Coalition to Fight Eminent Domain Abuse, St. Louis

Darin Triplett, National Organization of Minority Architects

Dan Hatch, Hatch Design Studio, Chicago

Tim Montague, Environmental Research Foundation

Tim Montgomery, TMA Architects LLC

Rob Sadowsky, Chicagoland Bicycle Federation

Jeff Howard, School of Urban &Public Affairs, University of Texas at Arlington –

David Orr, Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College, Ohio -

Don Fitz, Co-/ Synthesis/Regeneration: A Magazine of Green Social Thought/

Ben Wuloo Ikari, Ogoni Children's Cultural and Fundamental Rights Council

David Schweickart, Loyola University, Chicago

Mitchell Szczepanczyk, Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society

Ben West, Community Arts and Media Project

Lori Reed, American Friends Service Committee, St. Louis

Fredric Raines, Washington University, St. Louis

Elizabeth Fattah, Green Party USA

Carmelo Ruiz, Puerto Rico Project on Biosafety

Zaki Baruti, Universal African Peoples Organization, St. Louis

Jane Anne Morris, Corporate Anthropologist, Madison, Wisconsin.

Kim Scipes Purdue University North Central

Mary Ann McGivern, Peace Economy Project, St. Louis

Brian Tokar, Director, Institute for Social Ecology