Better World Forum April 21-22, 28-29

 

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER

 Participants from six continents and over 80 nations around the world unite via an online, virtual conference and exposition featuring an array of distinguished leaders and teachers on the cutting edge of cultural, economic, environmental and political change.

• Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu

• Bill McKibben (President and Co-Founder of 350.org, a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis)

• Dot Maver (President of the National Peace Academy, USA; Executive Director of the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding; Coordinator of Push4Peace.org; Former Executive Director of the Peace Alliance; and National Campaign Manager of Kucinich for President, 2004)

• Jack Healey (Former Executive Director of Amnesty International USA and Founder of Human Rights Action Center)

• Carol Barbeito (President and Managing Director of Earth Protect)

• Mahesh Pradhan (Head of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Education and Training Unit)

• Danny Schechter “The News Dissector” (Documentary Filmmaker, TV Producer, Editor of MediaChannel.org)

• Benjamin Barber (Distinguished Senior Fellow at Dēmos, president and founder of theInterdependence Movement, and Walt Whitman Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University. Dr. Barber is the author of 17 books, including the classic Strong Democracy, the international best-seller Jihad vs. McWorld and most recently, Consumed)

• Rev. Deborah Moldow (Representative to the UN of the World Peace Prayer Society, Co-chair of the International Day of Peace NGO Committee and serves on the bureau of the Committee of Religious NGOs; Deborah is also an ordained interfaith minister.)

• Kathy Davis (Producer and Public Affairs Director of WBAI Pacifica Radio)

• Stephen Dinan (CEO of The Shift Network and a member of the prestigious Transformational Leadership Council and Evolutionary Leaders groups)

• Occupy Movement Organizers

• Peggy Duvette (Executive Director of Wiser Earth)

• Thom Bond (Internationally Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer who studied with, and is a close associate of, the creator of NVC – Marshall Rosenberg)

• Jeunnesse Park (Food and Trees for Africa)

• Gustav Grob (President of the International Clean Energy Consortium Geneva)

• and many many others!

Besides interactive online seminars, there will be screenings of films as well as opportunities for participants to network with the presenters and with each other. This Forum will bring thought leaders and solution providers together with community activists and all who are concerned about the direction our society and world are going in.

And there will be over 100 Student Groups participating from dozens of countries in North & South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.

From Vision to Action, topics such as:

• Where are the new green jobs and how do we train people for them?

• Be The Media: How Independent Media and crowd-sourcing are getting the truth out

• The Present and Future of the Occupy Movement

• Can young people turn the tide – from revolution to evolution?

• How and when will green technology become mainstream?

• How to create the Shift: from your inner life, to grassroots activism, to international social change

• How can we end the scourge of war?

• How can communicating with compassion change your personal life, your work life and the world?

• How Interfaith Dialogue and inclusive spiritual values can create bridges of understanding, even as extremist rhetoric dominates the media

• Grassroots practices to green your marketing campaign

• The movement to ensure women have equal representation at all levels of governance

• You are the Gift: How to listen to your heart and true calling to be a gift to others and the world

• Good business practices that make a better world

• How the swarm can enable empowering new media

• Technology that empowers global change

• Artists and filmmakers use their talents to create a new world

• What is organic architecture and how does it fit into the eco system?

• Linking the world’s grassroots networks to create unprecedented change

You will hear from and work with leaders and pioneers who are utilizing their passion and talents to make the world a better place, both individually and collectively. You will find out and understand the realities and obstacles that people are faced with as well as new solutions that can overcome those obstacles. You will take away knowledge and insights on how to effectively and productively enable the growth of your vision, your organization and your network – from idea to movement!

Tickets and Registration The entire cost to attend the Forum on all 4 days is $39USD until April 12th and $49USD afterwards. To register, go to: www.BetterWorldForum2012.com/page/register