BALLE10-100

Friday Night Opening Ceremony & Welcome

Speakers: Don Shaffer, Michelle Long, Annie Leonard

Video DVD

$25.00

$25.00

POC12-142

Worker cooperatives – sustainable economic development

Speakers: Kasper Koczab, Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC); Dave Karoly, Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC); Jenny Kassan, Cutting Edge Capital

This session focuses on how worker cooperatives are an integral part of sustainable, local economic development. Areas discussed include the basics of worker cooperatives, the impact of worker cooperatives on local communities/economies, successful models of worker cooperative development (start-ups), and barriers to growing the worker cooperative economy. Resources are available for participants interested in working in/starting a worker cooperative or wanting to support workplace democracy in the Bay Area.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$10.00

$10.00

BALLE10-204

Network Innovation Spotlight: Policy Changes to Support Local Living Economies

Speakers: Leanne Krueger-Braneky, Kimber Lanning

Video DVD

$25.00

$25.00

POC12-132

When the economy’s rotten, sell compost: transforming ecological crisis into community opportunities

Speakers: Kirsten Schwind, Bay Localize; David Kant Wofford, Bay Localize

You’ve heard “crisis=opportunity,” but exactly who is that opportunity for? In this workshop we’ll get an exclusive sneak peak at interactive tools from Bay Localize’s forthcoming second edition of the Community Resilience Toolkit. We explore how the climate and energy crisis is impacting the local economy, and how to create businesses and jobs that make your community ecologically resilient. The key is following the money.

MP3

$7.00

$7.00

POC12-161

B Corporation – a better way to do business

Speakers: Andy Fyfe, B-Lab; Matthew Bauer, BetterWorld Telecom; Timothy Yee, Green Retirement Plans; Jonathan Storper, HansonBridgett; Mike Hannigan, Give Something Back Office Supplies

B Corporations are a new kind of company that uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. They meet transparent and comprehensive standards of social and environmental performance. They also legally expand their corporate responsibilities to include consideration of stakeholder interests. Being the hub of innovation and social enterprise, California now joined six other states to sign Benefit Corporation into law. This panel discusses the why and how to for companies to join this movement and amplify the voice for sustainable business.

MP3

$7.00

$7.00

Subtotal

$74.00