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High Thinking, Simple Living 2008 - A New Hope for the End of Poverty Through Green Sustainable Development Date: November 25, 2008 - 3:00 PM Place: Hall of the Americas, OAS Building Washington, DC Opening Remarks by Richard M. Huber, Principal Environmental Specialist Department of Sustainable Development (0'31'') Opening Remarks by Ambassador Jorge Reynaldo Cuadros Anaya, Chairman of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Bolivia to the OAS (9'15'') Remarks by Alexander Petroff, President of Working Villages International. Village self reliance – a new development model (29'19'') Remarks by Dr. Peter V. Schwartz, Associate Professor of Physics at California Polytechnic State University. Appropriate technologies for communities in the developing world (24'11'') Remarks by Dr. Duncan Earle, Consultant for Jadora International, Working Villages and the Library of Congress. Decoupling from structural injustice in 21st Century Latin America  (28'59'') Questions and Answers (40'02'') Closure Remarks by David Hatch, Assistant Deputy Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)  (9'23'')