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SOLUTION COUNCILS

Together, we build a better world for humanity. Based on your passion and experience, you will engage with local and global citizens, experts, artists, philanthropists, business leaders and other diverse stakeholders, moving from facilitated dialogues on Day 1 to committed action by Day 3,to co-create hands-on solutions to the most pressing issues of our time.

FIVE TOPICS

1. Beyond Climate Change: Oceans, Bio-diversity & the 6th Mass Extinction

Co-Chairs & Expert Delegates: Stephan McGuire - Founder, CSAfrica / Co-Producer, 11th Hour; James Hanusa
350 Advocate, Change Collective; Osprey Orielle Lake - Director of Women's Earth & Climate Caucus, State of the World Forum; Eric Corey Freed - organicARCHITECT +

2. Redefining Human Security: Women's Health, Child Development & Hunger

Co-Chairs & Expert Delegates: Torkin Wakefield - Founder/CEO, BeadforLife; Scholastica Sylvan Kimaryo - Former UNDP Deputy Regional Director for Africa / TGS Programme Chair; Julie Castro Abrams - CEO, Women's Initiative

3. Conflicts of Scarcity: Environmental Resources, Population & Human Rights

Co-Chairs & Expert Delegates: Lucia De Garcia - Laureate Poet/ President and CEO of Élan International; John Perkins - New York Times Bestselling Author / Former Economic Hitman; Niurka - "Master of Supreme Influence" +

4. Guarding our Freedoms: Speech, Press, Self-Governance & Technology

Program Co-Chair: Holly Mosher - Filmmaker for Change; Moderator: David Gibbons - Journalist, IN DISCUSSION Radio; Peggy Duvette - Executive Director, WiserEarth; John Raatz - Founder, Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment (GATE); John Perry Barlow - Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation +

5. Shifting Economies of Scale: Local Currencies, Global Markets & Bio-regional Trade

Program Co-Chair: Sarah Noyes - Common Good Bank; Expert Co-Chairs: Marvin T. Brown - Author, Corporate Ethics; Tony Livoti - President, Monterey Bay International Trade Association (MBITA); Greg Wendt - Director of Sustainable & Responsible Investing, EP Wealth Advisors +

Self-selected registered participants and leaders in each Topic will be supported by expert facilitator/moderators moving each Solution Council through three days of the worlds most advanced social innovation processes. Through diversified, hands on collaboration experience, participants will have the opportunity to exchange resources, ideas, and commit to hands-on solutions that will be implemented around the year. Measurable outcomes will be supported via online collaboration tools leading up to Local Summits in 2011 and The Global Summit III in 2012.

In January 2007, in a common, yet separate effort to improve the state of the world, both the World Economic and World Social Forums were held - one in Switzerland, the richest country on earth, and one in Kenya, East Africa, flanked by civil wars, droughts and refugee camps.

Both forums held meetings on how to increase GDP for those living below a dollar a day. Yet, those with the economic and political force to shape global policies were at one event, while those most affected were at another. In the midst of this disparity, the threat of increasing Climate Change, depletion of the earth’s primary resources and other environmental challenges, hung in the balance.

To address the growing social divides and communication gulfs between the powerful and those working on the front lines, a new, remarkably inclusive framework for collaboration is called for.