Paul Stammets

• Kingdom -> Kindom
• 30% of human DNA is the same as fungi
• fungi are 90-100 million years old
• 1 cu in of soil has 8 miles of mycelium cells
• mycelium are sentient – aware of surroundings
• 1 cell wall thick – catch water and filter micro nutrients/spongy
• mycelium network similar to internet model
• first land-based life
• “microzoic fungi will inherit the earth”
• Largest living thing on earth is 2400 acres/2200 year-old fungi
• Strong enough to push through asphalt
• Initiator of habitat restoration
• has patent that can eradicate any queen-based insect colony using 1cent of material
• Friend of Dr. Weil
• Bioshield Department – NPR interview
• Fumitopsis officianis (can treat smallpox) only found in old-growth forest -> save old-growth for national defense
• 51 years old
• “Life Box” – The way to re-green the planet. Cardboard box which has mycelium impregnated. Add soil, water, seeds. 6-8 weeks later harvest!
• First got turned on to nature in kindergarten, watching a planted sunflower plant’s leaves turn to the sun.
• “Myconol” – using mycelium to break down carbs + yeast = alcohol (fuel)
• Wants to make Healing Arts Centers (aka Mushroom Centers)

Sarah Crowell

• People learn using words, numbers, movement, sound, images, and spaces
• Project Destiny – 18 years old, working with 15 schools in East Bay
• Satisfaction study, in 1956 US pop peaked in satisfaction.
• Need real personal contact
• Spend <-> Distract cycle of consumerism
• Project Destiny is a “stew” – it takes years to build trust
• Fear is naturally easier to tap into than Bliss (“Emotion Game”)

Michael Pollan

• America is in “Deep Fat”
• 3/4 of the sewers in America are at 1/2 capacity, clogged with fat (from fast food?) which produces increasing number of sewage spills
• Stonyfield yogurt – blueberries come from Canada, Strawberries from China, and Milk powder from New Zealand
• The difference in experience/community between shopping at a farmer’s market and a supermarket
• 17% of the energy use in US is for Food distribution
• Farmer Market size has doubled twice in the last 10 years
• Get local support for the Farm Bill = Food Bill. No more corn/soybean subsidies.

James Hillman

• We are paralyzed by too much self-awareness
• Need to separate mind from action
• Math should be considered a foreign language in school – lots of learning issues
• Capitalism, by its very definition, is no guarantee of security
• The job of “education” is long-term job placement

Lois Gibbs

• Love Canal
• Found out that poisoning people is not illegal (if you have a permit)
• Corporate license – allowed to take babies vs. hunting license (not allowed to hunt babies)cost benefit analysis includes cost of human life
• Science is not enough
• Anti-pvc campaign (pvcfree.com) (movie)
• Precautionary principle: If safer, must use technology

Joan Blades

Peggy O’Mara

Gary Ruskin

• Traits of healthy families: appreciation on a regular basis, commitment (to each others’ welfare), communication (free-flowing), time with each other, spiritual wellness, and coping ability (ask for help)
• Traits are undermined by consumerism, materialism, (lack of) health insurance, not enough money, and lack of paid (family) leave
• salary.com calculates a mother’s worth is $131,000/year
• Genius is a happy accident. Parents are amateurs
• No evidence-based health-care
• Joan Blades (momsrising.org / moveon.org), Berkeley Systems, Mediate Your Own Divorce, Motherhood Manifesto
• breastfeeding symbol contest
• Many mothers are one sick child away from being fired
• Gary Ruskin – Commercial Alert
• Marketing-related diseases (33% of children in US are obese/overweight)
• “Born to buy”

Rachel Naomi Remen

• Mastery -> Mystery
• Read Hippocratic Oath Prayer
• Tikkun Olam
• Bless (out load) others (including strangers)
• Grandmother Spider – web of connection
• Kabbalah – “Everything has a dream in itself”
• All life needs from us is our faithfulness
• Anger is a tool of change
• Lamed-Vav (36) – # of people capable of carrying the suffering of the world. Since no one knows who they are, need to have compassion for everyone
• Commitment to future patients – “May you find in me a mother’s healing”
• Wholeness of world one heart at a time

Maria Elena Durazo

• Cesar Chavez
• Apollo Alliance
• Attempting to unionize truck drivers for ports
• Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class — And What We Can Do About It

Spencer Beebe

• Ecotrust
• Natural Capital Center, Portland (1st environmental bank)
• “Bumble” – dog’s name
• Fire on raft floating down the Columbia (to make s’mores)
• Competitive advantage: bioregions > nation-state
• Should copy nature – there’s no other model!
• Jane Jacobs
• Tom Linzey
• New Mythology
• Local movements: forest, banking
• “Follow The Fish” -> Salmon Nation
• Progress Traps
• 5 year-olds know more than experts?
• We live in an “orange society” (segment everything) – should live in an “apple” society
• “To Save the Environment — Stay Home”
• “If you’ve come here to save me go home now. If you see yourself in me, maybe we can work together”

Sof?Æa Quintero

• Women earn 2/3 of men in business, yet only 1/4 in the arts
• Hip-hop fiction
• “Black Artemis”
• “Divas Don’t Yield”, “Picture Me Falling”, “Burn”, etc.
• Chica Luna – the F Word (Feminist)
• Invisible or targeted choices?
• Can engage people on diff levels: individual, collaborate, or entrepreneurial
• Commercial consciousness
• I’m not here
• Need to meet people where they are to take them someplace better
• Wants to create a “Sundance Festival” for women of color

Paul Hawken

• Positive Social Change
• “Blessed Unrest”
• Van Jones
• Enlightenment is not the goal – Charity is
• NGO
• Golden Rule
• All life is sacred
• Committee responsible for our children
• Salmon Nation
• Create conditions that are conducive for life
• Can no longer import our lives
• Spiritual awakening (Karen Armstrong)
• A tree cut down by a logger should affect a black child as much as a black child cut down by a gun should affect a logger
• Powerful words (Rosa Parks): There comes a time…
• Compassion
• Environmental/Social Justice Movement
• Immune system response
• We are born with altruism
• We have a quadrillion cells