Speakers & Program
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Matt Bauer (BetterWorld Telecom, Lowcountry Local First) and Jamee Haley Lowcounry Local First) with a warm welcome and some background on what Charleston has to offer...
Joseph Riley*, Mayor of Charleston on Charleston's efforts to build a local green economy...
Annie Leonard (Story of Stuff) on a post-consumer society...
David Orr, (Oberlin College, Down to the Wire, Confronting Climate Collapse and The Nature of Design) on ecological design for communities...
Eric Henry (TS Designs), Ronnie Burleson (Cotton Grower), and Brian Morell (Mortex Apparel) on Cotton of the Carolinas and supply chains for local living economy manufacturing...
Lily Yeh, (The Village of Arts and Humanities, Barefoot Artists) and Baye Adofo-Wilson (LPCCD) on the arts as a tool for community economic development...
Dr. Mark Albion (Babson College, Net Impact, The Good Life) on the next generation of entrepreneurs...
David Korten (Agenda for a New Economy, The Great Turning) on instilling living economy values in our new economy...
Michael Shuman (BALLE, Small-Mart Revolution) and a panel of the nation’s most inspirational food and farming entrepreneurs explaining how their business models re-build local food systems and develop local living economies...
Don Shaffer (RSF Social Finance) and Woody Tasch (Slow Money Alliance) on how to make local investing in locally owned businesses possible...
Marjorie Kelly (Tellus Institute, The Divine Right of Capital) with Lyle Estill (Piedmont Biofuels, Small is Possible) on reinventing growth through rural and urban economic renewal built on collaboration among small businesses...
Michelle Long (BALLE, Sustainable Connections) and Judy Wicks (BALLE, White Dog Cafe) on BALLE's role in supporting the grassroots movement for local living economies...
Elissa Sangalli-Hillary (Local First West Michigan), Kimber Lanning* (Local First Arizona) and other BALLE network leaders on their work to build local living economies in their communities...
And many more!
Conference Schedule
Breakout Sessions and Tracks
- Increasing the Performance of your Triple Bottom Line Business
- Local Living Economy Business Models
- Sustainable Economic Development
- Building a Thriving Network
- Resources for a Local Living Economy (LLE)
- Harnessing Community Capital
- Supply Chain Models for LLE Manufacturers
Pre-Conference Workshops and Tours
- Training Workshop: "Building a Local BALLE Network" (May 20th)
- Community Tours of Charleston's Local Living Economy (May 20th & 21st) - full tour descriptions coming soon!
- BALLE Network Leaders Meeting (May 21st)
- 4th Annual Manufacturing Track (May 21st)
Session Proposal Process
Proposals are now under review! Thanks to everyone for submitting such incredible ideas - we will respond to everyone in the next couple weeks and post sessions soon. Please send urgent questions to Mary Rick, mary [at] livingeconomies.org.
