BRATTLEBORO — The Strolling of the Heifers Slow Living Summit has announced that the plenary sessions featuring its most prominent speakers - including Diet for a Small Planet author Frances Moore Lappé - will be open to the public, with an optional donation of $10 requested at the door.
All plenaries are held in the Latchis Theatre on Main Street; there will be a registration/information desk there as well, staffed during most Summit hours.
All plenaries will be emceed by Lori Hanau of Global Round Table Leadership of Keene N.H. She will also lead the final plenary on Friday afternoon - an important group discussion on what we've learned about Slow Living and where we're going: “What are the next questions?”
She will also introduce, at each plenary, leaders of brief tone-setting moments, some of them with music, to help participants be fully receptive.
Wednesday evening plenary - The quest for sustainability: What do we do now? (6:30-8:30 p.m.)
• Jonathan Lash, President of Hampshire College, former head of the World Resources Institute.
• Robert Repetto, senior fellow at the United Nations Foundation, author of America's Climate Problem: The Way Forward.
Thursday morning plenary - Reconnecting Farmers, Eaters and Healthy Communities (8:30-10 a.m.)
• Frances Moore Lappé - author of Diet for a Small Planet and EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want; founder of the Small Planet Institute.
• Judy Wicks - author of Good Morning, Beautiful Business: The Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepreneur and Local-Economy Pioneer; founder of the White Dog Café, Philadelphia; co-founder of Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), as well as founder of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia and Fair Food.
Thursday afternoon plenary: Slow Design: The impact of mindful design on the quality of public spaces and their communities. (1:45-3:15 p.m.)
• Jonathan Fogelson, designer, Michael Singer Studio, Wilmington, designer and project manager of large scale landscape and infrastructure planning projects (www.michaelsinger.com); Rosanne Haggerty, President, Community Solutions, New York, MacArthur Fellow, Ashoka Senior Fellow and a Hunt Alternative Fund Prime Mover; Rasmia Kirmany-Frye, Director, Brownsville Partnership, Community Solutions.
Friday morning plenary: Transitioning to a new economy (8:30-10 a.m.)
• Gus Speth, Vermont Law School, environmentalist, Tina Clarke,Transition Massachusetts trainer; moderated by Chuck Collins, Director of the Institute for Policy Studies program on Inequality and the Common Good.
Friday afternoon closing plenary: “What are the Next Questions?” (3:25-5:30 p.m.)
A full-group summing-up session, moderated by Lori Hanau, founder of Global Round Table Leadership, with musical participation by Erica Wheeler, Amelia Struthers and Mike Mrowicki.
For a complete schedule, visit www.slowlivingsummit.org/session-details-2013.