The Water of Life: Peril & Promise in the 21st Century

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The Water of Life: Peril & Promise in the 21st Century
September 4-7, 2003
3rd Annual Century of the Environment Conference
Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY

Robert Kennedy, Jr. - Ralph Nader - Vandana Shiva
Winona LaDuke - Satish Kumar - Anita Roddick
John Todd - Tony Clarke - Maude Barlow

Cosponsored by Omega Institute and Resurgence Magazine
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Water. No matter who we are, where we live, and what we do,
life depends on it. Clean water is the basis for health,
biological diversity, and the very survival of the earth's
ecosystems. Yet freshwater--once thought of as an
inexhaustible resource--is fast becoming polluted,
controlled, diverted, and scarce in regions all over the
world. The World Water Council projects that by 2025, much
of the planet's population (including that of the U.S.) will
suffer severe water scarcity. The vice president of the
World Bank has stated, "The wars of this century will be
about water."

The United Nations has proclaimed 2003 as the International
Year of Freshwater, encouraging governments, businesses, and
activists to address the impending global water crisis. To
this end, Omega Institute and Resurgence magazine are
presenting this 3-day event with an emphasis on promising
and creative solutions to the vital challenges of
sustainable freshwater management, protection, and use.

Political, environmental, and social activists; teachers,
business leaders, healthcare professionals, scientists,
religious leaders and anyone else concerned with future
generations are invited to attend.

For further information and registration via e-mail, please
contact Omega at [email protected] Mention the code
03SMRESEO to receive the discounted tuition rate of $250.
Housing and commuters fees additional. Ask about special
student discount.


Speakers include:

Robert Kennedy, Jr. - chief prosecuting attorney for
Riverkeeper, and senior attorney for the Natural Resources
Defense Council

Ralph Nader - United States Presidential candidate in 1996
and 2000, social and environmental activist

Vandana Shiva, Ph.D. - physicist, ecologist, internationally
renowned activist, author of Water Wars

Winona LaDuke - Ralph Nader's running mate for the Green
Party presidential campaigns, winner of Reebok Human Rights
Award

Satish Kumar - author, editor of Resurgence magazine, winner
of J.B. Foundation International Award for Promoting
Gandhian Values

Anita Roddick - founder of The Body Shop and Children on the
Edge, activist

John Todd - internationally recognized biologist, president
of Ocean Arks International, cofounder of the New Alchemy
Institute

Tony Clarke - director of the Polaris Institute of Canada,
coauthor of Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft
of the World's Water

Maude Barlow - national chairperson of the Council of
Canadians--Canada's largest public advocacy group, writer,
policy critic

Kirkpatrick Sale - journalist, editor, environmental
activist, and author of Dwellers in the Land and The Fire of
His Genius


Workshop Leaders:

Andrew Revkin - New York Times reporter and author of The
Burning Season, Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast

David Rothenberg - associate professor of philosophy at the
New Jersey Institute of Technology and founding editor of
Terra Nova.

Susan Witt - executive director of the E. F. Schumacher
Society

* With support from: Lifebridge Foundation, E.F. Schumacher
Society, International Forum on Globalization, E Magazine *


About Omega

Omega Institute is the nation's largest holistic education
provider. Founded in 1977, Omega now welcomes thousands of
participants to its 140-acre campus in Rhinebeck, New York,
to conferences held nationwide, and to retreat centers in
California, the Caribbean, and Costa Rica. Through a
partnership with The Crossings, Omega will open a new
center in the Hill Country outside Austin, Texas in
September, 2003. Drawing on the world's ancient wisdom
traditions, as well as modern insights into science,
medicine, and spirituality, Omega offers workshops,
retreats, and wellness vacations that awaken the best in the
human spirit.


About Resurgence magazine

Since 1966, the British magazine Resurgence has been a
source of optimistic yet pragmatic ecological and cultural
discussion about sustainable development, environmental and
spiritual awareness, local economies, community supported
agriculture, ecological building, sacred architecture, and
deep ecology.

Special Discount for Sustainable Hudson Valley and Clearwater Members
Special tuition $250 (regularly $375)

Manna Jo Greene, Environmental Director
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
112 Market St.
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
[phone] x113 Fax:(845)454=7953
[email protected]

[izzie]

1. I have said it here and to my family over and over...

Water will be our next war and relly big thing. From it being sold off to the corp. who will be able to sell it back to you at any cost to world wide lack. There is already a move on these group like Gat etc. Some thing about Can. being forched to sell water to some place. My family thinks I am nuts but it is on the way. Just see who wins when a Ken Lays sees a profit from your water dept and what that voted in member will do when he sees the money and power it will bring him. Look at the West now.It has started and is on the back burner. Not a thing people think about but it is coming. Just think how you could live with one gal. of water a day and had to pay high price for it.