Beyond Oil Bellevue
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Featured speaker: Sonia Shah, author of Crude: The Story of Oil
Fenwick Hall, Bellevue First Congregational Church
Event Agenda
Event emcee: Bruce Welti , Seattle Chapter, Northwest Earth Institute
2:00 – 2:20 Introductory remarks
2:20 – 3:10 Keynote – Sonia Shah
3:10 – 3:40 Questions and Answers (please step up to the floor microphone)
3:40 – 3:50 “Pass the Hat” Appeal, Acknowledgements, Workshop orientation
3:50 – 4:00 Break and head to workshops
4:00 – 5:00 Concurrent, interactive workshops on solutions
Presenters and moderators on reverse
1. Community Solutions: Food, Energy and Housing Fenwick Hall
2. Pending and Hopeful National Legislation Room 100
3. Solutions From Around the World Lindegren Hall
5:00 – 5:10 Break and reconvene
5:10 – 5:25 Reports from workshops
5:25 – 5:30 Next steps and closing comments
5:30 Adjourn
This event made possible with the support of the Ploughshares Fund
“If we make no effort to change direction, we will end up where we are heading” -- Chinese Proverb
Sonia Shah is an investigative journalist and author of Crude: The Story of Oil, which The Nation has called "required reading," and The Body Hunters: Testing new drugs on the world's poorest patients , which Publishers Weekly called a "trenchant expose." A former writing fellow of The Nation Institute and the Puffin Foundation and editor of the Nuclear Times, her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, the Boston Globe, The Nation, New Scientist, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a book about malaria for Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
www.soniashah.org
~ T h e W o r k s h o p s ~
Workshop #1: COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: FOOD, ENERGY, AND HOUSING
Fenwick Hall Moderator: Peggy Hotes
Kate Halstead is a long-time farmer and farming advocate from the Carnation area and currently farms Rocky Prarie Herb Garden in Monroe. She is a founding member and current president of Snoqualmie Valley Tilth, editor of Tilth Producers of Washington Journal, and has been an organizer of many of the farmer's markets throughout the region.
Dan Freeman of Dr. Dan’s Alternative Fuelwerks began offering biodiesel in the Puget Sound area in 2001 as a way to make a difference, and has worked long and hard to grow the local biodiesel industry. Puget Sound has the largest concentration of individual users in the nation; Fuelwerks is the oldest and largest retailer. Dan's ultimate goal is Washington grown, produced, and consumed fuel.
Tom Warner began working for the Seattle Gas Company in 1950 when he moved to Seattle. Tom has developed many innovations for home heating, including a convection air current system that makes the house feel it is warm outside. An anti-war activist since the 50s, Tom is now secretary of the Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee.
Workshop #2: PENDING AND HOPEFUL NATIONAL LEGISLATION
Room 100 Moderator: Martin Chaney
Margaret Kitchell, MD is Co-chair of the Energy & Peace Committee of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility. A Seattle area psychiatrist, Margaret is WPSR’s expert on global warming and she was a founding member of Feet First, the Puget Sound pedestrian advocacy organization. Margaret is also working on a project with Public Health-Seattle & King County called “Promoting Healthy Built Environments.”
Bill Nerin is presently on the board of Washington Public Campaigns, working to pass a law for public funding of campaigns for statewide elections. Bill went to Mississippi on a voter rights project in the ‘60s, and he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma Dept. of Human Relations.
Judith Shattuck is presently the Washington state organizer for Progressive Democrats of America and special projects coordinator for Washington State Peace Alliance, whose mission is to create a cabinet-level Department of Peace. Judith is a member of Evergreen Peace & Justice Community and serves on the Progressive Caucus of the Washington State Democratic Central Committee.
Workshop # 3 SOLUTIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Lindegren Lounge Moderator: Wilda Luttermoser
Mark Jensen is active with United for Peace of Pierce County, ( http://www.ufppc.org ) where he leads a weekly book discussion group on issues including peak oil, the oil industry, climate change, resource wars, international law, Iran, and the role of corporations. He teaches French language and literature at Pacific Lutheran University.
Thank you
. . . to the Organizational Sponsors of Beyond Oil - Bellevue:
Bastyr University Student Physicians for Social Responsibility
Church Council of Greater Seattle www.thechurchcouncil.org
Eastside Earth Education
Eastside Fellowship of Reconciliation www.eastsidefor.org
Evergreen Peace and Justice Community www.epjc.net
Northwest Earth Institute www.nwei.org
Veterans for Peace–Chapter 92 www.vfp 92 .org
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility www.wpsr.org
Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation www.scn.org/wwfor