The 24th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
Saturday, October 23, 2004, 10 AM-5 PM
First Congregational Church, Main Street
Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Featured Speakers:

Oren Lyons is Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy). Through the United Nations and other international forums he has been active in international indigenous rights and sovereignty issues. He is an Associate Professor in the American Studies Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. As publisher of Daybreak, a Native American news magazine, he has given voice to the traditional practices and concerns of indigenous peoples on this continent. He edited Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations, and the U.S. Constitution published in 1992.

Judy Wicks is founder of Philadelphia’s twenty-one year old White Dog Cafe, known for its advocacy of local organically raised food and for the farmers who grow such food. The adjoining Black Cat retail shop specializes in locally made products and fair trade goods. The White Dog Cafe Foundation distributes twenty percent of the restaurant’s profits to support a range of Philadelphia non-profits and reflects Judy’s passion for environmental, peace, and social justice issues. A leading national spokesperson for the importance of creating healthy local economies, Judy’s experience with her own business led her to found the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), a two-and-a-half year-old national organization with chapters in over fifteen cities. Her awards include the prestigious Business Enterprise Trust Award, founded by Norman Lear, for creative leadership in combining sound business management with social vision, and Business Ethics magazine’s first “Living Economy Award.” With Chef Kevin von Klause, she co-authored White Dog Cafe Cookbook: Multicultural Recipes and Tales of Adventure from Philadelphia’s Revolutionary Restaurant.

Stephanie Mills has been a writer and editor of matters ecological, bioregional, social, and political for the past thirty years. Famous for her commencement address at Mills College in 1969, “The Future is a Cruel Hoax,” she went on to serve as the editor of Co-Evolution Quarterly, Not Man Apart, California Tomorrow, Earth, and Earth Times. Mills’s 1989 Sierra Club book, Whatever Happened to Ecology?, is widely regarded as a singular voice of sanity and a moving personal statement of a woman on the ecological frontiers. Her 2002 book, Epicurean Simplicity, explores the grace and freedom of the simple life. Mills has been named by Utne Reader as one of the world’s leading visionaries. She is currently writing a biography of Robert Swann.