Care and Social Ecology

Program, Christiania

The Power of Community

10.00-10.05 The blessing for the day
 
10.00-10.10 Singing with Mariama
 
10.10-10.30 Barbara Stützel, Zegg
’The Power of Community – What life do we really need?’
 
10.30-10.50 Macaco & Capra
’Damanhur Community’
 
10.50-11.00 Singing with Mariama
 
11.00-11.20 Albert Bates, The Farm:
’The 40-year history of my ecovillage’
 
East West, Spiritual response to climate change and its social impact.
 
11.20-11.50 The Divine Feminine
An Essential Force In Addressing Climate Change.
dialogue between:
Sr. Joan Chittister, Benedictine Nun, Renowned Author, Prominent Voice in Interfaith Affairs & Swamini Pramananda Saraswati, Educator & Leader in pollution reduction of the Ganges River, India
 
11.50-12.00 Singing with Mariama
 
12.00-12.55 ‘Buddhist Voices Respond to Climate Change’
Moderator: Acharya Judy Lief, Author, Buddhist Teacher, Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, USA
 
Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Phra Dharmakosajarn, Director, Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University (MCU), Thailand
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, Theravadin Buddhist Monk & Scholar, Co-Author of A Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change, USA
Zarko Andrecevic, Chan Buddhist Teacher, Croatia
Bikkhu Buddharakkhita, Founder, Uganda Buddhist Centre in Kampala, Uganda
Venerable Dharmeswar Sraman, Representative, Supreme Patriarch of Bangladesh
Venerable Chang Wen, DDMBA
 
12.55-13.10 Jonathan or Tine, from Friland: 'Play with us'
 
14.00-14.15 Funeral of the day: ‘Self Sufficiency’
Ceremony toaster: Mariama.
 
14.20-15.10 ‘The Spiritual Dimensions of Climate Change’
Moderator: Andrew Harvey, Spiritual Teacher & Author, Architect of Sacred Activism, UK/USA
 
Responses:
Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, Former Sec. General, The National Council of Churches, USA; Co-founder, Religious Partnership for the Environment; Chair, Global Peace Initiative of Women
Swami Veda Bharati, Vedic Scholar & Hindu Meditation Master, India
Richard Cizik, Fellow at the Open Society; Founder, New Evangelicals, USA
Michael Kagan, Co-founder of the Jewish Climate Initiative,
Sheikh Saliou Mbecke, Sufi Leader, Senegal
 
UNITY AND SOCIAL HEALING
 
15.10-15.30 Karen Abrahamsson (Fornyet Energi/Renewed Energy) on the successful development strategies of the 1930s in Denmark
 
15.30-15.50 Felicya Suskiewich, HOV, Herfra og Videre, Christianias Beboerrådgivning
 
15.50-16.10 Playing social games with Jonathan, Friland.
 
16.10-16.30 Preben Brandt on ‘Homeless Groups’
 
16.30-16.50 Søren Hansen, Hertha Communty (antroposofic)
“The 3. Way, Integrating normal people into the daily life of the so-called weak handicapped people
‘An ecovillage challenge to take social responsibility – to integrate many weak groups into our communities to show another way than institutions.
 
16.50-17.15 Erling Deigaard, Ecovillage Andelssamfundet Hjortshøj
The social challenges of the modern world and how they are dealt with in eco-villages, so that creates a new life and meaning in the society

SOCIAL ECOLOGY, CLIMATE CHANGES AND POVERTY
 
19.00-19.20 Hosszu Zoltan, Krihna EcoValley, Hungary (200 inhabitants): 
 'The foundation of all principles of the Social Sustainability'
- (Community development, community service, collective responsibility, the protection of individuals, families, communities and the environment)

19.20-19.40 Ibrahim Tagola, Mali People’s Center, Mali
‘Poverty Challenges in Mali’
 

19.40-20.00 Ismaël Diallo, President of Senegal Network:
‘The social challenges in the senegalese eco-villages’

20.00-20.20 Prachar Hutanuwatr, Leader, Wongsanit Ashram (Buddhist), Thailand:
'Social ecology, consciousness and responsibility'
- Helps people in Thailand and neighboring poor countries.
 

20.20-20.40 Victor Leon Ades, Brasil Ecovillage Network and Ecovila Clareando
'Social challenges related to climate and culture change in Brasil’
 
20.40-21.00 Carlos Prado, Bolivia,
'Social Ecology of holistic thinking in Quetchua Culture about how social conditions reflect nature and how nature reflects the social conditions'
- That in relation to poverty and the multicultural social challenges in Bolivia and opportunities in the holistic care '

21.00-22.00 May East & Victor Ades
'Making a circle dance with a focus on gender'

22.05 – 23.00 David Rovics, politisk troubadur fra USA