Economics of Happiness
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The Economics of Happiness

Wednesday, April 13th 7:00pm
Hubbard Auditorium, 2nd Floor
56 Main St. (side door) Owego, NY 13827

Tickets:
FREE for members of Binghamton Rising ($25 per year; $20 for seniors and students)
$15 suggested donation for all others (part of the proceeds go to the International Society for Ecology and Culture)

Synopsis:
“Going local” is a powerful strategy to helprepair our fractured world—our ecosystems,our societies and our selves.

A central paradox defines our time: althoughthe economy is growing, we are workinglonger and longer hours and our new comfortsand luxuries have not brought us happiness.While the ever-expanding global economy iscreating immense wealth for the few, it isleaving the majority worse off. Climate change,unstable financial markets, growing inequality,senseless war, fundamentalism: people knowsomething is fundamentally wrong. Across theworld they are coming together in the spirit ofresistance and renewal. A movement isgrowing to re-create more just and sustainablecommunities and re-invent economies basedon a new paradigm--an economics of happiness.

The Economics of Happiness describes a worldmoving simultaneously in two opposingdirections: while government and Big Businesspush for a globalized economy based on hightechnology and increased trade, people all overthe world are working from the grassroots tonurture smaller scale, ecological, localeconomies.

We hear from a chorus of voices from sixcontinents including Samdhong Rinpoche, thePrime Minister of Tibet's government in exile,Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, David Kortenand Zac Goldsmith. The Economics ofHappiness restores our faith in humanity, andchallenges us to believe that it is possible tobuild a better world.

Sunday, March 27th
9 am to 4 pm
CVI Building, Liberty, NY
$25 full day registration with lunch

Producers, processors and purchasers of local food are invited to this annual business-to-business conference in the Catskills/Hudson Valley region. Organized by the Pure Catskills Buy Local Campaign, the event will serve as both an educational and networking opportunity for key players in local food across our region. The day will include panel discussions featuring farmers and business people from across New York State, workshops related to direct-sales marketing of farm products, a lunch of local food and an afternoon tradeshow for farmers and buyers.

Full conference and registration details are available at purecatskills.com. The fee to register is $25 before March 22nd. Early registration is strongly encouraged as the event regularly sells out. For more information, contact Challey Comer at ccomer@nycwatershed.org or (607) 865-7090.