I flew down to Pasadena today for the Fortune Brainstorm: Green conference.
There's tons of interesting stuff on the agenda -- a mix of corporate types and NGO types, technology and policy topics.
I'm moderating a panel on Monday night called "Meet the Rabble Rousers," an informal discussion wherein activists answer questions about the rabble they've roused. It stars Mike Brune of the Rainforest Action Network, Sister Patricia A. Daly of the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment, John Passacantando of Greenpeace USA, and musician/activist/author Chuck Leavell.
The panel starts at 9:30pm, after an entire day of presentations, a performance from Shawn Colvin, a dinner, and cocktails. I'm hoping that instead of being tired and ready to go to bed, people will be mildly inebriated and ready for a lively discussion!
Mon. and Tues. are packed -- I'll try to send a few things in, but you'll likely have to wait for the wrap-up on Wed.
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caniscandida Posted 6:48 pm
20 Apr 2008
If you have a free moment, DR, please ask Sister Patricia to write us a message on some historic Christian approaches to environmentalism and animal-care.
And, more cautiously, please ask John Paasacantando about Greenpeace's role, in theatres in which Sea Shepherd seems to have "seized the moral high road," as they say.
And by the way, it is way too penitential to hold back cocktails till 9:30 PM.
Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.
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LGT Posted 12:05 am
21 Apr 2008
That's an interesting phrase! Would it be appropriate then to call the corporations whose boots are licked "earth f*cking, corporate boots," EFCB?
Here's a question for the Fortune Brainstorm GREEN <;-) with their mix of EFCB corporations and the EFCB-sellout NGO types:
... if the catastrophic changes that are engulfing us could somehow be mitigated, slowed down or stopped [sic]... if a new world could be created [sic], as if by an act of divine intervention [sic] offering a sizable number of communities the luxury of a future, would those communities then allow the same old global EFCB corporations [and their EFCB-sellout NGOs] reiterate the same old algorithms that are about to checkmate humanity?
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wgartist Posted 12:37 am
21 Apr 2008
Wow. We really ARE doomed.
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caniscandida Posted 3:16 am
21 Apr 2008
But WGArtist makes an interesting understated point. I believe Seattle and LA are connected by Amtrak.
Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.
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