Redefining the American Dream
This conference will be held at Airlie House in Airlie, Virginia, April
23-25, 1995. It is intended to be a lively forum for discussing
how to achieve sustainable patterns of consumption in the United States.
There is growing awareness that the scale of human consumption and
enterprise are root causes of ecological damage. Yet our economy and
culture have literally institutionalized consumption and growth as the
bedrocks of modern industrialized life. Redefining the American
Dream will attempt to move beyond an analysis of these problems to a deeper
discussion of strategies for change. The Conference Planning Group wants
to spark a public dialogue on individual and corporate patterns of
consumption in the United States. This conference will help set the
stage for launching one or more educational and action-oriented
initiatives with mainstream America.
A carefully selected group of people from a variety of esctors, including
academia, business, government, environmental gorups, labor, religious
organizations, and consumer groups, will be invited. To ensure a
collaborative and participatory atmosphere, attendance will be limited to
approximately 75 people.
Confirmed Participants
Rebecca Adamson
- President, First Nations Development Institute
Gar Alperowitz
- President, National Center for Economic Alternatives
Matthew Arnold
- President, Management Institute for Environment
Peter Bahouth
- Executive Director, Turner Foundation
Patricia Bauman
- President, the Bauman Foundation
Cliff Benzel
- Executive Vice President, Evangelicals for Social Action
Brent Blackwelder
- President, Friends of the Earth
Elissa Blanchard
- Associate, Global Development and Environment Institute,
Tufts University
Hooper Brooks
- Program Officer, Surdna Foundation
Ruth Caplan
- Coordinator, Economics Working Group
Diana Chambers
- Executive Director, Servant Leadership School
Vicki Dompka
- Senior Program Associate, Population & SUstainability
Program, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Faye Duchin
- Director, Institute for Economic Analysis, New York
University
Alan Durning
- President, Northwest Environment Watch
Robert Engelman
- Director, Population and Environment Program, Population
Action International
David Gershon
- President, Global Action Plan
Andy Goodman
- Executive Director, Environmental Media Association
Neva Goodwin
- Director, Global Development and Environment Institute,
Tufts University
Paul Gorman
- Executive Director, National Religious Partnership for the
Environment
Alisa Gravitz
- President, Co-op America
Wade Green
- Advisor, Rockefeller Financial Services
Jean Halloran
- Director, Consumer Policy Institute
Ted Halstead
- Executive Director, Redifining Progress
Jacqueline Hamilton
- Director, Population, Consumption & Environment Initiative,
Natural Resources Defense Council
Arthur Hanson
- President, International Institute for Sustainable
Development
Richard Harwood
- President, The Harwood Group
Mark Hertsgaard
- Freelance Writer,
Michael Jacobson
- Director, Center for the Study of Commercialism, Center for
Science in the Public Interest
Ann James
- Consultant, Office of Sustainable Development &
Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce
Will Keepin
- Program Director, Positive Futures Project
Robert Lilienfeld
- Editor, Use Less Stuff Report
Marianne Manilov
- Co-Director, Unplug
William McDonough
- Dean, Uni ersity of Virginia School of Architecture
Donnella Meadows
- Professor, Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College
Josephine Merck
- Trustee, Merck Family Fund
David Mermin
- The Harwood Group
Margaret Morgan-Hubbard
- Executive Director, Environmental Action
William Rees
- Founder, Ecological Footprint, University of British
Columbia
Vicki Robin
- Co-Founder, New Road Map Foundation
Amy Salzman
- Senior Program Officer, Consumption, World Wildlife Fund
Juliet Schor
- Director of Women's Studies, Harvard University
William Shireman
- President, Global Futures
Edward Skloot
- Executive Director, Surdna Foundation
Ian Yolles
- Vice President, Marketing, Patagonia
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