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Water Fight!
Fracking, Food, Art & Economy
May 16, 2011
Agenda
1:30 pm
REGISTRATION
SCREENING
Standing on a Stone*
Paul Ryan, Video Artist
The Unfractured Future
Tracy Basile and Scott Halfmann, Filmmakers
Hydrofracking Explained
Chelsea Crisafulli and Shannon Vermeulen, Student Project
School of Constructed Environments, Parsons The New School for Design
2:00 pm
OPENING
Jean Gardner, Professor
School of Constructed Environments, Parsons The New School for Design
Joel Towers, Executive Dean
Parsons The New School for Design
Hilary Baum, Founder
Baum Forum
2:15 pm
PART 1
How do we navigate a fractured social landscape?
Anna Lappé, Author
Small Planet Institute and Small Planet Fund
Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director
Food and Water Watch
Tracy Carluccio, Deputy Director
Delaware Riverkeeper Network
Ken Jaffe
Slope Farms
Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney
Natural Resources Defense Council
Q & A
3:30 pm
INTERMISSION
Standing on a Stone*
Paul Ryan, Video Artist
3:45 pm
PART 2
How do we navigate a fractured economy?
Paul Bermanzohn, MD
Lois Gibbs, Executive Director
Center for Health, Environment & Justice
Miriam MacGillis , Director
Genesis Farm
Conversation:
David Levine, Co-Founder and Executive Director
American Sustainable Business Council
Cecil Corbin-Mark, Deputy Director/Director of Policy Initiatives
WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Wes Gillingham, Program Director
Catskill Mountainkeeper
Severine von Tscharner Fleming, Director
"The Greenhorns" National Young Farmers Coalition
Leo Miller, Student Leader
Eugene Lang College
4:45 pm
PART 3
How do we navigate a world turned upside down?
Laura Simms, Storyteller
William Morrish, Dean
School of Constructed Environments, Parsons The New School for Design
Wendy Brawer, Founder and Director
Green Map System
5:30 pm
FOOD, DRINK and NETWORKING
Pick up your refreshments in the Canteen, sign petitions in the Courtyard, and extend the program’s discussions in networking hubs focusing on Fracking, Food, Art and Economy.
*On March 23rd, 2003, during the run-up to the war in Iraq, video artist Paul Ryan stationed himself atop a large stone on Halibut Point, along the Coast of Cape Ann, Mass. D uring the flood tide, with a hand held camera, he recorded the breaking surf.
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