Rally Roundtable w/ Kevin Danaher, co-Founder of Global Exchange

Dr. Kevin Danaher manages the Outreach Program of the San Francisco Department of the Environment.  He is a co-founder of Global Exchange (1988), co-founder of TransFairUSA (1997), founder and Executive Co-Producer of the Green Festivals (2001).  Dr. Danaher has published numerous articles and is the author and/or editor of thirteen books, including his two latest: “The Green Festival... [read more]

Dr. Kevin Danaher manages the Outreach Program of the San Francisco Department of the Environment.  He is a co-founder of Global Exchange (1988), co-founder of TransFairUSA (1997), founder and Executive Co-Producer of the Green Festivals (2001).  Dr. Danaher has published numerous articles and is the author and/or editor of thirteen books, including his two latest: “The Green Festival Reader: Fresh ideas from Agents of Change”; "Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots". This presentation will balance the notion that the planet's biological systems are collapsing due to human practices with the many green economy ventures that are sprouting up from the grassroots.  "Social enterprise activists are creating a triple-bottom-line enterprise model that synergizes social justice, environmental restoration, and profitability, creating enterprises that make better profits healing nature than destroying it.  Given that world population will top out at around 9 billion, we need to accelerate the transition to sustainability or face the collapse of civilization as we know it."   Roundtable Questions: What ways are you trying to reduce your resource footprint? (Americans are 5% of the world's population, consuming 25% of the world's resources) The three main sectors--government, non-profits, enterprise--tend to be in silos and not cross-fertilize with each other. How can we strengthen the "4th Sector"--the place where the sustainability people in each of the three main sectors come together in collaborative networks? "If you start using the word GOD as a verb instead of a noun, how does that affect your day-to-day treatment of other living things.?" (Unpack the word "others" in the Golden rule to mean all species.)

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