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You Have to Give Yourself the Freedom to Dream
by Timothy Lesle -- 09/12/2005 Sun 12noon
Working Smart Session
John Graham, It's All About Leadership

Marshall Ganz on the Key Elements of Organizing
by Timothy Lesle -- 09/11/2005 Sun 9pm
Working Smart Session
Marshall Ganz, What Affects Grassroots Effectiveness

Sierra Club Mutual Funds
by Pat Joseph -- 09/11/2005 Sun 3pm
Exhibits

Politicians Are Our Followers and We Are Their Leaders
by Eric Wesselman -- 09/11/2005 Sun 1pm
Plenary Session
Arianna Huffington, Keynote Speaker

Restoring the Wild
by Marilyn Berlin Snell -- 09/11/2005 Sun 12noon
Visionary Solutions Session
David Foreman, Brigadier General Mike Lehnert, US Marine Corp

Knee-deep Advocacy
by Tom Valtin -- 09/11/2005 Sun 11am
Natural Heritage Session
Water, Water Everywhere

Is the U.S. Model Really Better?
by John Byrne Barry -- 09/11/2005 Sun 11am
Visionary Solutions Session
Alternative Visions: Global Fair Trade—California state Senator Liz Figueroa; Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic Policy and Research; Carla Garcia-Zendejas, Mexican environmental attorney; Larry Fahn, Sierra Club (moderator)

Finding the Nexus
by Tom Valtin -- 09/11/2005 Sun 10am
Plenary Session

Take My President... Please!
by Jon Zilber -- 09/10/2005 Sat 8pm
Plenary Session

We Are at a Defining Moment: Lakoff on Hurricane Katrina
by Timothy Lesle -- 09/10/2005 Sat 8pm
George Lakoff, Master Speaker

Keeping Hope Alive
by Timothy Lesle -- 09/10/2005 Sat 7pm
Visionary Solutions Session
Paul Loeb, Rebecca Solnit, and Mark Hertsgaard

Eating Smart: Alternatives to Industrial Food
by Ethan Klein -- 09/10/2005 Sat 5pm
Living Well Session
Fred Kirshenmann, Guillermo Payet

California Fish and Game
by Pat Joseph -- 09/10/2005 Sat 4pm
Exhibits

Rock On: Women Who Rock
by Tom Valtin -- 09/10/2005 Sat 4pm
Outdoor Adventure Session

RFK on fire
by Cathleen Sullivan -- 09/10/2005 Sat 4pm
Plenary Session
Robert Kennedy Jr.

Let the Words and Rivers Flow: Robert Hass
by Reed McManus -- 09/10/2005 Sat 4pm
Environmental Expression Through Art Session

Taking Money from Criminals
by John Byrne Barry -- 09/10/2005 Sat 4pm
Plenary Session
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Waterkeeper Alliance

Is It Garbage? Or Is It Art?
by John Byrne Barry -- 09/10/2005 Sat 3pm
Environmental Expression Through Art Session
Salvage Artists: From Trash to Treasure—Mike Faruggia, Norcal Waste; Paul Fresina, Norcal Waste Artist-in-Residency Program director; Dee Hippert-Jones, artist-in-residence

Global Warming Takes Center Stage
by Traci Laird -- 09/10/2005 Sat 3pm
Visionary Solutions Session
Jom Motavalli, E/The Environment Magazine; Ron Pernick, Clean Edge; Steve Crowley, Sierra Club (moderator)

Beyond the Fridge: Cartoons and Environmentalism
by Jon Zilber -- 09/10/2005 Sat 3pm
Environmental Expression Through Art Session

Top Priority: New Energy Future
by Debbi Landshoff -- 09/10/2005 Sat 2pm
Direction Setting

Moved by the Spirit
by Lyndsay Moseley -- 09/10/2005 Sat 1pm
Living Well Session
Cassandra Carmichael, Cal DeWitt, Vernon Masayesva

McLibel
by Elisa Freeling -- 09/10/2005 Sat 1pm
Environmental Expression Through Art Session

With Justice for All
by Carl Zichella -- 09/10/2005 Sat 12noon
Visionary Solutions Session
Andy Bessler, Sierra Club; Richard Moore, Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice; Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network

Darryl Malek-Wiley
by Pat Joseph -- 09/10/2005 Sat 12noon
Exhibits

Delegates Choose Clean Energy as Club's Top Priority
by John Byrne Barry -- 09/10/2005 Sat 11am
Direction Setting

Consumer Choices: Less is More, More or Less
by Jon Zilber -- 09/10/2005 Sat 11am
Living Well Session
Fred Kirshenmann, Jim Motavalli, Mindy Pennybacker, and Bob Schildgen: Ten Consumer Choices That Can Change the World

Take Back Our Rivers
by Timothy Lesle -- 09/10/2005 Sat 10am
Chad Pregracke, Master Speaker

Tots (and Children of All Ages) in Tents
by Karina Kinik -- 09/10/2005 Sat 10am
Outdoor Adventure Session

Billionaires for Bush Say: Let the Workers Pay the Tax So Investors Can Relax
by Stephen Mills -- 09/10/2005 Sat 10am
Youth Session
Making Organizing Cool: Andrew Boyd, Billionaires for Bush; Malia Lazu, Cities for Progress; Rachel Ackoff, Sierra Student Coalition (moderator)

Addressing Corporate Power and Accountability
by Kate Truka -- 09/10/2005 Sat 10am
Working Smart Session
David Cobb

Film Festival: Kilowatt Ours
by Tom Valtin -- 09/10/2005 Sat 10am
Film Festival: Kilowatt Ours

Finding Your Muse in Nature
by Joan Hamilton -- 09/10/2005 Sat 10am
Environmental Expression Through Art Session

A Brand New Bag
by Jon Zilber -- 09/10/2005 Sat
Exhibits

Bamboo Voodoo
by Jon Zilber -- 09/10/2005 Sat
Exhibits

Test for Mercury in Style; and Other Observations from the Floor
by Timothy Lesle -- 09/09/2005 Fri 8pm
Exhibits

Art in a Knapsack
by Jim Cohee -- 09/09/2005 Fri 8pm
Environmental Expression Through Art Session
Cathy Johnson, Sketching and Painting in Nature

Expo Overload
by Tom Valtin -- 09/09/2005 Fri 7pm
Exhibits

The Kind of Momentum We Need to Keep: Women's Rights Around the World
by Timothy Lesle -- 09/09/2005 Fri 7pm
Visionary Solutions Session
Ellen Marshall and Sarah Craven, Population Balm: Empowering Women

Organizing — the Comeback Kid
by John Byrne Barry -- 09/09/2005 Fri 7pm
Working Smart Session
Bob Bingaman, Sierra Club; Gina Glantz, SEIU; Naomi Roth, Green Corps

Google Earth
by Pat Joseph -- 09/09/2005 Fri 5pm
Exhibits

The Edible Revolution
by Tom Valtin -- 09/09/2005 Fri 5pm
Alice Waters, Master Speaker

Seeing the Forest and the Trees
by Joan Hamilton -- 09/09/2005 Fri 5pm
Natural Heritage Session
Jim Furnish, Gloria Flora

Leave No Trace: A Couple's Mission to Ensure Our Wilderness Remains Wilderness
by Josh Marcus -- 09/09/2005 Fri 4pm
Outdoor Adventure Session

Local Level Action
by Josh Marcus -- 09/09/2005 Fri 4pm
Working Smart Session
Donna Frye

The Sierra Student Coalition Kindles Green Fire
by Karina Kinik -- 09/09/2005 Fri 3pm
Youth Session

Color Your House Green
by Jennifer Hattam -- 09/09/2005 Fri 3pm
Living Well Session

Mayor Newsom: How Cities Can Lead the Way
by John Byrne Barry -- 09/09/2005 Fri 2pm
Plenary Session
Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco

Bill McDonough Wants to Redesign the Way We Do Everything
by Timothy Lesle -- 09/09/2005 Fri 1pm
Visionary Solutions Session
Bill McDonough, Summit Master Speaker

Consumption, Work-Time and The Environment
by Jennifer Hattam -- 09/09/2005 Fri 1pm
Living Well Session

70,000 to 80,000 Chemicals and Counting
by Tanya Tolchin -- 09/09/2005 Fri 1pm
Visionary Solutions Session
Doris Cellarius, Sierra Club; Kristin Schafer, Pesticide Action; Gregg Small, Washington Toxics Coalition

Time Poverty
by Cathleen Sullivan -- 09/09/2005 Fri 1pm
Living Well Session
John De Graaf, co-author of Affluenza; Joanna Zetterberg, Sierra Club

Now Showing: The Sierra Summit Film Festival
by Adrienne Bramhall -- 09/09/2005 Fri 1pm
At Large

Political Will Is a Renewable Resource
by John Byrne Barry -- 09/09/2005 Fri 1pm
Plenary Session
Al Gore

Visualizing What Could Be
by Tom Valtin -- 09/09/2005 Fri 12noon
Environmental Expression Through Art Session
Robin Chiang

Golden Gate Park Hike
by Julie Heinzman -- 09/09/2005 Fri 12noon
OUTING
Golden Gate Park Hike

Eco-Architect Bill McDonough Designs the Future
by Marilyn Berlin Snell -- 09/09/2005 Fri 12noon
Visionary Solutions Session

The Comedy of Al Gore
by John Byrne Barry -- 09/09/2005 Fri 12noon
Plenary Session

How Good Is Good Enough? A Dialogue with Starbucks
by Elisa Freeling -- 09/09/2005 Fri 10am
Visionary Solutions Session

More Parkland Please!
by Ethan Klein -- 09/09/2005 Fri
Natural Heritage Session
Tom Radulovich, Martin Rosen

Things That Go Bump In The Night
by Paul Rauber -- 09/09/2005 Fri
Outdoor Adventure Session
Jay Baldwin

Theming at the Summit
by Mark Bettinger -- 09/08/2005 Thu 8pm
Direction Setting

Charting an Ideal Future
by Tom Valtin -- 09/08/2005 Thu 8pm
Direction Setting

Voting with Garage-Door Openers
by John Byrne Barry -- 09/08/2005 Thu 6pm
Direction Setting
The Summit's first Deliberative Session, Thursday September 8.

Death to Dandelions - Flower Killers Dig In!
by Peggy Moody -- 09/08/2005 Thu 4pm
OUTING

Voting on Priorities
by Debbi Landshoff -- 09/08/2005 Thu 4pm
Direction Setting

Why Stopping Sprawl Is Important to All Our Campaigns
by John Holtzclaw -- 09/08/2005 Thu 4pm
Direction Setting

Democracy Breaks Out: Direction Setting perspective from Bill Bianchi
by Bill Bianchi -- 09/08/2005 Thu 4pm
Direction Setting
Delegate Direction Setting

A Visit to Angel Island
by Gray Hetherington -- 09/08/2005 Thu 1pm
OUTING

Hiking the Coastal Trail from San Francisco's Cliff House to the Golden Gate Bridge
by Larry Junck, M.D. -- 09/08/2005 Thu 1pm
OUTING

Sutro Baths Legacy Project, Golden Gate National Recreation Area
by Karen Tigges and Michael Woffenden -- 09/08/2005 Thu 11am
OUTING
Outdoor Legacy Project

Getting Ready for Opening Day
by Timothy Lesle -- 09/08/2005 Thu 11am

An Urban Wilderness Outing
by Bill Bianchi -- 09/07/2005 Wed noon
OUTING
Coastal Trail from the Cliff House to the Golden Gate Bridge

Gearing Up
by Adrian Cotter -- 09/07/2005 Wed 8am

Direction Setting Perspective: Debbi Landshoff
by Debbi Landshoff --