 Changing Actions in a Changing Environment Saturday, April 21, 2007 12:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. 4101 University Ave., San Diego, CA Cost: $10 for online pre-registrants (or $15 at the door) - Free for Point Loma students, faculty and staff - Feedback Form 2007 The Lifestyles for a Sustainable World Symposium seeks to gather those from the San Diego community in order to search together for more hopeful and sustainable ways to live in our world. We find ourselves in a cultural and economic context where our everyday habits, household practices, congregational lives and business practices on the whole participate unreflectively in the gluttony of our modern hyper-consumer world. We hope to find practical ways to choose new creation and hope rather than continuing in patterns that are destructive to the environment and exploitative to our brothers and sisters around the globe. We come together for this event to better understand how to live out sustainable practices in our lives and identify the powers that influence our choices. We hope to create space for dialogue between people with different stories, to experience the interplay between spirituality and sustainability, and to find practical actions for our own lives as well as ways to be a part of greater societal and structural change. We’ll have two keynote speakers, relating sustainability to the scientific forces behind our changing environment and to our spiritual and faith practices and beliefs, workshops that look at both the theory and practice of sustainable living, and conclude with a common meal where together we can review what we have learned and begin to practice these lifestyles of sustainability. Publicity information
Registration and exhibits (12:30 pm)
Gathering activities, ritual (1 p.m.)
First Keynote Speaker (1:20 p.m. – 2:05 p.m.)Mike Mooring: Climate Change and a Christian Response 
| Dr. Mike Mooring is a Professor in the Biology Department at Point Loma Nazarene University, where he teaches ecology and environmental biology. He is active in wildlife research, and he and his students are currently studying the genetics and behavior of American bison during the summer months. For the past 10 years, Dr. Mooring has been teaching his students the Biblical principles of creation care at PLNU, and is currently Co-Chair of the Resource Stewardship Task Force. As a practicing ecologist and Christian, he is committed to bringing the urgency of the current climate crisis to the attention of the faith community. Dr. Mooring is married and has two young children. |
Second Keynote Speaker (2:35 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.)Lauren Van Ham: Spirituality and Sustainability 
| Lauren has just begun work as a Sustainability Trainer with Act Now, contracting with businesses to green their operations. Having worked previously as an interfaith chaplain at St. Mary's Hospital, San Francisco, she now thinks of herself as a chaplain to the Earth. She has also served as the director of Green Sangha, a spiritually engaged environmental organization using Buddhist practices. Lauren lives simply in a shared household in Berkeley, CA. She has a degree in theatre from Carnegie Mellon, in spirituality from University of Creation Spirituality, and in ministry from Interfaith Seminary in Berkeley.
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Workshops (3:40 p.m. – 6 p.m.) - Advocating for “Green” – Engaging the Political Structure on Environmental Justice Issues
- “Why Keep California Agriculture Free From Genetic Engineering”
- Mobilizing Communities for Change: A Look at How the Rural Poor Have Overcome Poverty and Environmental Devastation
- Sustainability in the Media
- Global Warming: A Scientific and Biblical Perspective
- Growing Prayers – A workshop in writing prayers and liturgies that lift up creation care themes, for private devotion and public worship
- Creating An Eco-nomically Sustainable Future
- Simple Living: A Personal Story and Naked Numbers
- Meat Consumption and Vegetarianism: The Why & The How Of It
- Sustaining and Protecting Life: Nonviolent Peaceforce
- Container Gardening: City Farmers
Common meal with discussion, art and music (6:10 p.m. – 6:50 p.m.) Sending ritual (6:50 p.m. – 7 p.m.) We will conclude with a time of networking and fellowship as well as clean up from 7 to 7:30 p.m. We hope you’ll join us for this day! |