FRIDAY, 12 JUNE 2009



Welcome
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Welcome! Set up your tents and sleeping bags to get ready for a wonderful sleep in the beautiful surroundings of Entropy Pawsed.

This is a particularly special evening for all of us to come together because June 12th, 2009 is the sixth year anniversary of the International Couchsurfing Day.

SATURDAY, 13 JUNE 2009

Tea, Coffee and a Self-Guided Walk in the woods for Early Risers
7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.

Reuniting, Recreating and Relocalizing 2009 Grand Opening
Brunch
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. (The main course of Brunch will take place from 8am-9am, and fruit will be left out from 9am-10:00am)

Personal Introductions and Networking Circle
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Light Snack to Go
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.


INTRO to Entropy Pawsed, the site of Reuniting, Recreating and Relocalizing 2009
12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.



The Entropy Pawsed mission is to offer educational opportunities demonstrating simplicity in living with a deep ecology perspective so that we may leave a reasonable world for all children of future generations.





Workshop: Beyond Reporting the News: Is the second stage of the progressive movement to help create independent, self-sustainable activist communities rather than to simply criticize our oppressors?
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Description of workshop:

Has the use of progressive, independent media to simply criticize our oppressors causing globalization to decrease? When we witness that 51 of the world’s largest economies are now multinational corporations rather than countries, the answer becomes self-evident. In this course we will cover four elements. First we will briefly cover the collectives and communities which live and work together that have used Media to empower their communities rather than to simply criticize the unjust power structure of globalization. Second, we will discuss how creating multiracial, multicultural communities and non-traditional cohousing activist groups may be the most effective means of using time, rent, utilities, gas and volunteers in long-term organized resistance activities. Third, we will cover the need to internationally network those groups in order to prevent the traditional fragmentation amongst community-based media activist groups in order to enable those communities to most effectively confront the pillars of globalizations. And fourth, we will have break out action groups and an open forum to discuss some of the most effective methods used to create a multicultural, multiracial community-based media activist group. This session should also particularly benefit those who desire to learn about financially realistic means of increasing multiracial diversity in their communities and organizations worldwide.
Presented by T. Love of the Peace Communities

Paradox, Prevention, and Poetry
3:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Choose two words that have absolutely nothing in common. Galaxy and automatic? Yogurt and puffin? Epidemiology and poetry? Let's make a connection between those last two. Do you think we can? After a year of public health graduate school, something I learned in the first week is still on my mind and I'd like to share it with you. There's honest to goodness good news in the realm of prevention; no jaded outlook or low expectations are necessary. It's empowering, energizing, intuitive (sometimes) and we're going to use Latin poetry by Horace to help us remember it.
Presented by Lauren Sontag






Amazing Campfire Dinner
6:00 pm


SUNDAY, 14 JUNE 2009


Keeping it Loose
9:00 am to 11:00 am Programming based on participant interest. Possible topics include details of our various systems - rainwater collection, humanure, mini-solar power: small scale gardening; food preservation techniques; wild edibles; chicken husbandry; heating with wood; water conservation techniques.

Group clean-up
11:00 am - 12:00 noon

Magical Wrap up, Photos
noon

Head for Home
12:30 pm

The Reuniting, Recreating and Relocalizing 2009 Conference is officially over at 12:30pm.

After the conference is done, conference participants have the option of independently taking a self-guided trip to the World Famous and Magical Blackwater Falls of West Virginia.

• Driving directions from Entropy Pawsed to Blackwater Falls
• Blackwater Falls State Park Map & Trail Guide (PDF)
• Blackwater Falls State Park web site
  
  
  Blackwater Falls is named for the falls of the Blackwater River whose amber-colored waters plunge five stories then twist and tumble through an eight-mile long gorge. The "black" water is a result of tannic acid from fallen hemlock and red spruce needles. The falls, as seen below, are one of the most beautifully exotic waterfalls in the world.