Leadership Summit 2009
Leadership Summit 2009 seeks to build community wealth by catalyzing, connecting, and empowering local leaders dedicated to building healthy economies. This two day sustainability symposium convenes local thought leaders and national experts to assess current challenges, identify community assets, and begin aligning our resources for a prosperous future.
Program highlights include:
Keynote addresses by Michael Shuman, author of The Small-Mart Revolution; Mark Winne, author of Closing the Food Gap
Two world premier film showings:
Polycultures: Food Where We Live, Director Tom Kondilas (Award winning documentary on City Fresh/New Agrarian Center)
Coming Home: E.F. Schumacher & the Reinvention of the Local Economy, Director Chris Bedford (Features local currency)
Breakout sessions Reinventing the Local Economy, and Wholistic Wellness for the Hip-Hop Generation
Connect with individuals, organizations, and programs on the leading edge of community self sufficiency and civic empowerment. Help make food a catalyst for growth in the new economy. Admission is $79.95, and space is limited, so please register soon. For more details, please visit www.leadershipsummit2009.com.
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Groups:
- Main Group
- Circles of Support Pilot Project
- Small Grains Information Clearing House
- Private Institutional food service as a way to initiate local food systems
- Marketing and Education, relative to any foods
- Value-added Processing (all foods)
- Logistics, particularly transportation for increasing volume of local foods
- Consumer-driven production practices, consumer education opportunities, educational needs for the producer
- Expanding meat processing capabilities to meet the needs of consumers, processors, and diverse cultural preferences
- Value added dairy processing
- NEO Food Congress 2008
- Regional, National and International Partners
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leadership summit
we both wish we could have fit it in, a feeling that will return throughout the growing season, but with potatoes, strawberries and all else to plant, we stayed here at home. would love to see that film about polycultures, etc. anyone who attended, please post a summary of your highlights to share around.
michelle
Hey there! Here are some
Hey there!
Here are some rough notes:
http://localfoodsystems.org/wiki/local-economies
Joseph Zarr is going to work that into a blog post and post over at http://www.open-roads.net/profiles/blog/list too