This panel discusses global warming, explains why it is really a crisis, and shares recent updates with regard to both the weather and politics. Tania Levi, Portia Sinnott and Trathen Heckman discuss and answer questions about how we can take effective action against this very real threat... Tania and Portia will be focusing on reducing CO2 through appropriate waste management and Alice through improving electrical efficiency. Tray will talk about home gardens and permaculture and maintaining a spiritual perspective through all of these changes.

How would you like to look and feel 15 to 20 years younger? Learn health secrets Hollywood celebrities, professional and Olympic athletes are using to reverse the aging process naturally! Learn the latest in Rife electro magnetic and infrared therapies that are making dramatic impact on tissue and bone regeneration. Learn why methylation is the most important tool your body needs to support your DNA, mitochondria and cell regeneration. Learn about the world's healthiest foods that support the methylation process to enhance health youth and longevity. The panel will close with the latest scientific news on telomere and stem cell research. Learn about the healthiest diets, vegetarian vs. meat, spiritual nutrition, the importance of exercise, how to lose weight and keep it off, and the latest research on alternative cancer therapies. You'll learn the truth about human growth hormone: who should take it and why?

Today human society faces three grave perils: widening social inequality, radical environmental destruction and deepening despair. From the heart of urban America, new voices are rising & proposing creative and holistic solutions for this triple-crisis. One such voice belongs to eco-visionary, civil rights attorney and powerhouse public speaker, Van Jones.
Van Jones offers comprehensive solutions and inspirational models. His visionary proposals answer the call for expanded opportunity, ecological sustainability and renewed hope. His upcoming book, Green Collar Jobs: How to Beat Global Warming, Cut Poverty and Unite America insists that by coming together we can create a green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty and reinvigorate democracy in the United States.

We are living in times of unprecedented loss and destruction, in the face of which it can seem that nothing we do is nearly enough. Is it possible to live with this pain so that it becomes a force? So that we become more alive than we are afraid? Is it possible for our grief to become a source of passion, power and creativity? For our despair to awaken new life in us, and for our love and wisdom to become the dominant energy of our lives? This workshop is about facing the pain of our times, and responding with vitality, compassion, and, yes, even joy.

Barbara will screen her highly acclaimed new movie Our Story, the first DVD in her Humanity Ascending Documentary Series. Humanity Ascending is breathtaking in its scope, startling in its clarity, and gloriously hopeful in its thoughts about tomorrow, demonstrating once again why Barbara Marx Hubbard is considered a global treasure and one of the greatest visionaries of our time. Following the movie she will discuss the critical mess we are finding ourselves in at this stage of humanity's journey and her belief that we are on the threshold of giving birth to a universal humanity within ourselves and the world.

Many people of faith and goodwill are concerned about the way religion is being invoked in the U.S. to justify war, bigotry, and repressive social and economic policies. Rabbi Michael Lerner has co-founded the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP), an interfaith, international organization, to challenge the misuse of God and religion by the right and to create a voice for a spiritual left in this country. The old bottom line of power, domination, and wealth needs to be challenged, and a new bottom line of love, compassion, generosity, non-violence, and ecological sanity needs to be put in place.

So, you think George Bush is an evil sonovabitch? After you hear Palast, you'll think worse—and have the awful facts to back it up. Author of the huge bestsellers, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse, America's best investigative reporter—and the funniest (Randi Rhodes), Palast will reveal the sordid secrets and strange tales of a White House gone wild. Laugh, then scream.

Understanding how change occurs in nature, and how Mother Earth designs co-evolving, inter-dependent systems, can help us be better designers of change ourselves. When working to transform our personal hurts and heal the huge wounds our society inflicts on the Earth and other human beings, our connection to Earth is our deepest source of hope, renewal, and strength. This workshop, drawing on Starhawk's book Earth Path, weaves together ritual and stories to help us connect more deeply with the great transformative powers of nature, and to bring those creative energies fully alive in ourselves, to restore healing, justice, and balance.