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RVML Resource Center 2002-2007 Calendar Archives 23 August 2005, Tuesday |
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Lecture: Global Trends and Local Choices by Jan Spencer
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: RVML Event Center - 258 A St, Ashland
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Lecture: Global Trends and Local Choices By Jan Spencer & Ravi Logan
Free admission, donations appreciated.
Presentation Description:
The presentation is intended to give practical and programatic direction to a fundamental culture change. The premise is that our existing market based economic system and the consumer culture, its most notable product, has delivered to us intolerable degradation to the environment, the human spirit and the entire world community.
Global trends including climate change, affluence/militarism, peak oil, US pop culture invasion, population increases are all combining to create a level of social, political and economic instability that, with thought and care, could be made use of for a profound move towards a green New Culture. Ideals of Eco Humanism will be described as basic to guide a New Culture.
Derived from Permaculture principles, the presentation will describe thoughtful changes from one's self outwards to one's home, neighborhood, community, bio region and beyond. These changes relate to democratic decision making, personal accountability, economic conversion, education/communication, environmental restoration, urban land redesign and more.
The second part of the program will be a narrated slide show that will illustrate real life examples of good works representing the "zones" described above. These good works can serve to inspire others to adapt positive ideas and strategies towards a positive New Culture. Bits and peices of New Culture already exist such as progressive cultural initiatives, thoughtful urban redesign, Permaculture designs, green economics and more. What they need to grow is recognition, nurturing and replication.
Presenters' Biographies:
Jan Spencer:
Jan Spencer has lived in Eguene for 13 years. He is active with community affairs as a board member of his neighborhood association, a member of the Metropolitan Policy Organization Citizen Advisory Committee on transportation. He is on the steering committees of both the Eugene Permaculture Guild and Citizens for Public Accountability, a Eugene activist group focusing on land use, water quality and public process. Jan initiated the first "Citizens State of the City", a progressive citizens' version of the mayor's yearly report on the state of Eugene. A former speaker at the Citizens' State of the City is now mayor.
Past years have included nearly five years out of the country in New Zealand, all over Europe, Central America, East, Central and South Africa. These travels reflect a keen interest in global politics and Geography, in which Jan has a BA degree. Not to mention surfing.
Other highlights include living 2 years in a rural commune in the Arkansas Ozarks, bike touring in France, Austria, Greece, Sardegna and Corsica and converting his 1/4 acre suburban property in Eugene into a Permaculture Shangri-la featuring solar redesign, permaculture land scape/garden, rain water storage, driveway removal and much more. Jan is a professional artist, painting both murals and framed art.
In more recent years, Jan has gained a keen interest in urban land use along with enhanced focus on global trends. He is a consistent advocate, well known in Eugene, for thoughtful community and personal responses to those trends such as downsizing one's lifestyle and being an active participant in promoting a humanistic and ecologically sensible culture.
He is a primary organizer for this year's NW Permaculture and Bio Rgional Gathering in September and participant in witing the South Willamette Valley Green Paper. He has made numerous presentions, been on panels, has written published articles on a variety of contemporary political, economic and cultural issues. Jan is the organizer for Eugene's popular Lane Use Bike Tour, a bike tour visiting local New Culture Sites in Eugene.
Contact Information:
Jan Spencer
541 686 6761
spencerj@efn.org
Ravi Logan
Ronald (Ravi) Logan is a yoga and meditation teacher with a deep interest in social transformation. In addition to teaching practical techniques for the integrated development of vital, spiritually receptive human beings, he is also well-versed in the perennial wisdom of yoga philosophy.
Ravi has deep interest in the relevance of spiritually-oriented humanism to social renewal. He is the author of PROUT: A New Paradigm of Development, a forthcoming book on a new political paradigm which is based on spiritual-humanist values.
Ravi has lectured internationally on yoga and on new paradigm social theory, including presentations at the annual convention of the American Association of Transpersonal Psychology, and at symposia in Copenhagen, New Delhi, and Birobidzhan, Russia. In the early 1990s, he traveled internationally presenting the seminar, "Future Visions".
Ravi is the cofounder and program director of the Dharmalaya Center for Human Development in Eugene, Oregon, a unique facility that promotes wholesome human development in personal and social spheres of life, as well as modeling sustainable living practices. In addition to offering programs at Dharmalaya, he is an adjunct instructor in the University of Oregonā?Ts Mind-Body Program.
His current community involvements include: steering committee member, Eugene Permaculture Guild; organizing committee, Northwest Regional Permaculture Conference; co-host, Global Trends talk show; staff, Oregon Country Fair Community Village; and co-author of the South Willamette Green Paper. And he is on the leadership collective of the Prout Institute, which is responding to global problems by giving vision, hope, empowerment, and constructive solutions on the basis of a new paradigm of development.
Contact Information:
Ronald (Ravi) Logan
356 Horn Lane
Eugene OR 97404 USA
541-344-0553
ravi@dharmalaya.org
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Tuesday evening event formats:
1) Video/Discussion Format:
60 Minute video
10 Minute break
50 Minute discussion
2) Lecture/Presentation Format:
90-120 Minute presentation including break and Q&A period.
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