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Friday Afternoon and Evening

• Registration and Welcome
• Kelly Sorenson – Conserving California Condors and their Habitat
• Dave Foreman – The Anthropocene and Ozymandias (Evening Outdoor Fireside Chat)

Saturday

• Robert Gifford – Creating Empowering Messages to Shift Human Culture
• William Ryerson – The Role of Entertainment Mass Media in Changing People’s Environmental Behaviors
• Joe Bish – Picturing the Population Issue: Snapshots from Around the World
• Stephanie Mills – Bioregionalism: Keeping Faith with Nature and Place
• Eileen Crist – Freedom, Entitlement, and the Fate of the Nonhuman World
• Video Message from Bill McKibben – What Winning the Climate Battle Looks Like
• Roberto Monge – Special report on the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in Standing Rock, ND
• Sharon Rippner – overview of Citizens’ Climate Lobby Carbon Fee & Divided Initiative
• Protest Song Concert and Beer Garden – Maria Woodson, Bloom, and Ranchers for Peace (Concert $10 cash at the door; $3, $4, and $5 beer on tap for purchase, cash only)

Sunday

• Matt Ritter – will lead a walk through the Pennington Creek Biological Reserve
• Derrick Jensen – The Myth of Human Supremacy
• Manifesto Workshop – Denise Dudley will facilitate a workshop for creating the Deep Ecology Manifesto for Preserving Our Planetary Commons
• Loomio Training – led by Tori Poppenheimer
• Closing

Jerry Mander is unable to present at the Collaboratory due to illness. He will be missed. We wish Jerry a speedy recovery.

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