Ecocity World Summit
- Conference Venues
- April 22-23
- Academic & Talent Scouting Sessions: UC Berkeley Extension South of Market Center, 95 Third Street (at Mission), San Francisco. 415-284-1081. www.unex.berkeley.edu
- April 24-26
- Ecocity World Summit Main Conference: Nob Hill Masonic Center, 1111 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94108. 415-292-4702. www.masonicauditorium.com
Located atop Nob Hill in one of San Francisco's oldest and most celebrated neighborhoods, the Nob Hill Masonic Center is a versatile facility hosting a variety of events. Its intimate auditorium and convenient location have made it the concert hall of choice for performing artists. The cable car runs outside the front door, and the views are spectacular. There's no other facility in the city quite like it.
2008 Sessions Presentation Archive
- Here you will find a growing library of Ecocity World Summit Main Conference and Academic Sessions slideshows. We will be adding to this archive and updating it frequently over the next few weeks. We hope this archive will serve as a useful resource to those who attended Ecocity Summit 08, and also for those who were unable to attend but are interested in the information presented.
- FRIDAY, APRIL 25, MAIN CONFERENCE SLIDESHOWS pg 3 (keep checking back as we complete the inventory)
- Africa in the World
- Humanity's birthplace and last refuge of the "mega fauna" we were born with is under extreme stress and doesn't deserve it. What could change and improve in the future as most of the world, and places like Lagos and Cairo, expand and expand? Serigne Mbaye Dine, traditional village leader, Yoff, Senegal, has answers from a deep history of his traditional village exploring ecovillage approaches. Mike Korchinsky of Wildlife Works based out of San Francisco, has organized local African crafts to support wildlife protection in Kenya. Rosemary Enie from Cameroon can tell us about how women, water and related environmental and economic issues weave into the themes of the conference. Moderator: Arthur Monroe, Registrar, Oakland Museum of California.
1. Mike Korchinsky
- Nature Resurgent
- People have intruded very substantially upon nature almost everywhere. Yet in some places nature is supported again and returns. What do we do to make "nature resurgent"? What are the different dynamics in urban and rural settings? Have we gone too far in urbanization and disinvestment in villages, people moving to the cities, then spreading back out into the suburbs to encroach of both nature and food producing land? Can we redesign cities, — and maybe rethink villages — to allow a resurgence of nature? Whitney Dotson, Board Member, Citizens for Eastshore Parks (CESP) and Audubon Society, President of Parchester Village Council, North Richmond Open Space Alliance, has been working to restore the North Richmond shoreline of San Francisco Bay. Charlie Huzinga, co-founder of Agua Para La Vida, brings water to rural farmers in Nicaragua where there is a mix of lessons in what works to provide clean water — which starts with maintaining natural areas with little disturbance from people. Thus as a matter of health for people, he works to restore and maintain the health of the environment up hill from the beneficiaries of his work. In the South San Francisco Bay, large scale commercial salt evaporation and extraction has been going on for decades. But recently, David Blau, Senior Vice President for Environmental Planning of the landscape architecture firm in San Francisco, EDAW, has designed and is in the process of turning this commercial zone into native species salt marches. Moderator: Lesley Estes, Watershed Program Supervisor, Oakland, CA.
- 1. David Blau, EDAW
- Land and Water Conservation and Stewardship, Friday, April 25, Grace Cathedral
- To prevent that "You don't know what you've got 'till it's gone" moment, it pays to protect what we cherish right now. Champions in exactly that are Huey Johnson, founder of Resource Renewal Institute where he furthers Green Plans world wide and founder also of Trust for Public Land. Will Travis is Director of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, now facing climate change and rising waters. David Lewis heads the organization Save the Bay, that actually did save the Bay, and continues on as its constant advocate. Now they look into the crystal ball with tools to change what they see in there.
- Moderator: Helen Burke, Berkeley Planning Commission
1. Will Travis, Bay Conservation and Development Commission-
2. David Lewis, Save the Bay
