TRACK ONE--QUALITY OF LIFE/ ROOM 207A
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5
| 9:00 | SETTING THE THEME—John de Graaf |
| 9:30 | MORNING MEETINGS TO DEVELOP CAMPAIGN—SMALL GROUPS AND LARGER DISCUSSIONS |
| 11:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 1:00 | TOWARDS A CARING ECONOMY—Nancy Folbre. How can we measure and reward care-giving?--an introduction to feminist economics. |
| 1:45 | THE FIRST YEARS OF LIFE: CHILDHOOD IN RICH COUNTRIES—Michael Petit, Devra Renner. UNICEF ranks the US 20th of 21 industrial countries for Children’s Welfare. How can we reverse our poor standing? |
| 3:00 | BREAK |
| 3:15 | ECONOMICS AS IF PEOPLE MATTERED—Julie Nelson, Bill Spriggs, Tim Kasser. How can economies be organized to enhance human well-being, fairness and sustainability? How do we get there from here? Have we gotten off track? |
| 4:30 | BREAK |
| 4:45 | THE BASICS: FOOD AND SHELTER—Anna Lappe, Sandra Morgen, Susan Sechler. On hidden hunger in America and efforts across the country working to ensure everyone has access to healthy food and affordable housing. |
| 6:00 | DINNER BREAK |
| 7:30 | NEW PROGRESSIVE ECONOMIC STRATEGIES—Gar Alperovitz. Beyond the Left/Right box. New ways to build a fair and sustainable economy. |
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6
| 9:00 | WHAT DOES FREEDOM MEAN?—Vicki Robin. Is freedom just the absence of controls or the capacity to create a good life? |
| 9:45 | UNHEALTHY AND UNSAFE—Bruce Kennedy, Mark Schapiro. What makes American so unhealthy? Why does the US lag behind Europe in regulating toxins? |
| 11:00 | BREAK |
| 11:15 | THE TIES THAT BIND—FRIENDS AND FAMILY—Bob Drago, Enola Aird, Judith Martin. The Work and Family Bill of Rights. The Mother World and the Money World. Work-Family policies in Canada. |
| 12:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 12:45 | SPECIAL LUNCH TIME SPEAKER — Nic Marks, SHOCKER IN THE UK: THE TORIES ENDORSE QUALITY OF LIFE OVER GDP! |
| 1:30 | THE WORLD OF WORK: PRODUCTIVITY, PARTICIPATION, SATISFACTION— Jerome Segal, Karen Nussbaum, George Cheney. The concept of work within a new economic paradigm. Labor union action in the workplace. New models for organizing work. |
| 2:45 | BREAK |
| 3:00 | LEISURE, NATURE, ART AND CULTURE—John Schmitt, Nichole Shippen, Milenko Matanovic. How does American leisure time compare to other countries? Re-organizing work. Building community through public art. |
| 4:15 | BREAK |
| 4:30 | THE POLITICS OF TIME—John de Graaf, Karen Kornbluh, Anders Hayden. The “Time to Care” campaign. Legislative ideas for improving work-life balance. Seeking “time affluence” in Europe. |
| 5:45 | DINNER BREAK |
| 7:30 | CAPITALISM, 3.0—Peter Barnes. The Sky Trust and other ways to take back our economy. |
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7
| 10:00 | NEIGHBORHOOD MATTERS—Jay Walljasper. What does it take to create livable, sustainable communities? |
| 10:45 | ECONOMICS FOR COMMUNITY BUILDING—Emily Kawano, Ted Howard, Julie Ristau. Toward a “solidarity economy.” Building strong local economies. |
| 12:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 1:15 | SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES—Jay Walljasper, Milenko Matanovic. Ideas from Great Neighborhoods. Using art to encourage sustainability. |
| 2:30 | BREAK |
| 2:45 | THE GOOD LIFE OR THE GOODS LIFE—Juliet Schor. Do Americans consume too much? Do we work too much? How can we change? |
| 3:30 | NEW INDICES FOR PROGRESS—Kristi Laguzza-Boosman, Marque-Luisa Miringoff, Jon Rowe. What’s wrong with the GDP? Other indicators of progress. Towards a national indicators project. |