This event was recorded live. As some feminist epistemologists (Gilligan, Belenky et al.) have taught us, seeing and seeking connections seems to be women’s ways of knowing. Our economics is lived in real complex communities. Our goal is to model how women can talk together and learn together about traditionally male territory still new to most women. Together we can construct a fuller knowledge and set of values now omitted from the mainstream “free market.” To that end, we're making the webinar—and will make all of them moving forward—available here for viewing forevermore.
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What is security? On whose account? Our species faces a climate crisis, a water and food crisis, and a demented delusion that humans are natural overlords of earth’s domain.
T-Rex probably believed that too. Then the weather got really bad...
An Economy of Our Own gathered some of the earthiest women we know to talk about sustaining our weather, our water, and our food. This talk provides solutions for climate change, rooted in current extractive agricultural & water policy, and resource-grabbing for private profit. It's a huge set of topics, but these just the women to help us make sense of it.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS:
Didi Pershouse, an AEOO board member, and founder of the Land and Leadership Initiative, an online school, moderated the conversation. She is the author of: The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities; and Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function.
Dr. Sabine O'Hara is Dean and Director of Landgrant Programs for the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia. Widely known for her expertise in sustainable economic development and global education, she’s a former president of the International Society for Ecological Economics.
Monique Verdin is with WECAN (Women's Earth Climate Action Network), their Program Leader for the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Program for the Mississippi River Delta Region. Author of Return to Yakni Chitto: Houma Migrations, she’s an interdisciplinary storyteller, documenting the complex relationship between environment, culture, and climate in southeast Louisiana.
Gwendolyn Hallsmith is an AEOO board member, author of The Key to Sustainable Cities and co-author of Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies and founder of Global Initiative and Vermonters for a New Economy. She's currently organizing a Regeneration Revolution whose earth-friendly, anti-racist principles are linked here.
We also share a short video about Tope Fajinbesi of Dodo Farms in Maryland’s Agricultural Reserve. She's an accountant, teaching at the Institute for Applied Agriculture and sits on the board of Future Harvest, another organization working to sustain life from the ground up.