Simple Living High Thinking 2008 Conference

Tuesday, November  25, 2008

 Hall of the Americas/OAS

1.  Inauguration

·     Richard Huber, Principal Environmental Specialist, Department of

    Sustainable Development/OAS. Video.

2. Welcome remarks

·    Amb. Reynaldo Cuadros, Chairman of the Permanent Council and

   Permanent Representative of Bolivia to the OAS. Video.   

3. Lecture   

·   Alexander Petroff, President of Working Villages International. Village self reliance – a new development model . l Video

·   Dr. Peter V. Schwartz, Associate Professor of Physics at California Polytechnic State University. Appropriate technologies for communities in the developing world . l Video

·   Dr. Duncan Earle, Consultant for Jadora International, Working Villages and the Library of Congress. Decoupling from structural injustice in 21st Century Latin America . l Video

4. Closure Remarks.   

·    David Hatch, Assistant Deputy Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). Video

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