The Environmental Network

by kiwanja

Date: Thursday 2nd June, 2011
Venue: Aspen Environment Forum, Aspen, Colorado
Chair: Ned Breslin
Speakers: Ken Banks, William Powers, Courtney Hight, Charles Porch

The Environmental Network

“Recent social movements in North Africa and the Middle East have shown the power of social media and mobile devices to accelerate change at the grassroots level. What lessons does that experience hold for the environmental movement? Can Facebook and Twitter somehow catalyze an environmental revolution as well – and is it happening already?”

Ken Banks is Founder of kiwanja.net/FrontlineSMS

William Powers is a prize-winning writer and author of the New York Times best-seller “Hamlets BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age”

Courtney Hight is the Co-Director of Energy Action Coalition and Power Shift

Charles Porch heads up Facebook’s efforts to help non-profits utilise the platform

Ned Breslin is CEO of Water for the People

The 2011 Aspen Environment Forum is presented by the Aspen Institute in partnership with National Geographic, and provides a critical framework for committed voices to address a significant milestone: A global population of 7 billion and how to reconcile Earth’s finite resources with its ability to sustain our expanding human needs.

9 comments

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2 Fr@nthro { 06.14.11 at 11:43 am }: #anthro blog post: The Environmental Network: Date: Thursday 2nd June, 2011 Venue: Aspen Environment Forum, As… http://clct.me/j93w0
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5 Appropriate technology: Lessons from nature | Build it Kenny, and they will come... { 08.18.11 at 11:48 am }: [...] which focused on the use of social media in the environmental movement. (You can watch the video here, or read my summary of whole the event here). Many people had already made their minds up that [...]
6 Innovation: Taking cues from nature { 08.18.11 at 3:49 pm }: [...] which focused on the use of social media in the environmental movement. (You can watch the video here, or read my summary of whole the event here). Many people had already made their minds up that [...]
7 Appropriate technology: Lessons from nature – News Watch { 08.31.11 at 8:39 am }: [...] which focused on the use of social media in the environmental movement. (You can watch the video here, or read my summary of whole the event here). Many people had already made their minds up that [...]
8 Thomas Hémery { 01.31.12 at 7:45 pm }: The use of social media in the environmental movement – video http://t.co/Imee5nHO or @kiwanja post summarizing http://t.co/55GQ3kLD
9 Thomas Hémery { 01.31.12 at 8:38 pm }: Very interesting for @katausten @jmatsushita @ktmckenna @gaelletags @laure914 http://t.co/xNDmWpaV #socialmedia #environment