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Frances Moore Lappé

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Welcome to the Virtual Slow Living Summit!

When we started planning for this year’s Slow Living Summit we had no idea we would have to completely change the way we presented our panels and speakers. And while it was disap-pointing to not be able to get together in person this year, we have even greater gratitude and appreciation for all our speakers and sponsors this year. Working together, smoothing out the wrinkles, and implementing new and exciting ideas, we are able to provide a rich tapestry of topics and speakers and widen our audience to include national and international attendees.

COVID19 may have stopped us from gathering, but it has not stopped us from thriving. Together, we’ve cre-ated an amazing line-up of speakers and topics that are compelling and relevant to these unique times. We will be joining many of our speakers and panelists in more intimate settings than the usual conference stage, and this only seems fitting, since we are now asked to examine ourselves, our systems, our habits, and each other more closely. In conversations we’ve had with our keynote speakers and panelists, a common theme is unfolding: How can we emerge from this multifaceted global crisis with a plan for a better future? What should we keep, and what should be dismantled? One thing is clear, we won’t go back to normal.

What is Slow Living?The point of Slow Living is not to do less, or to do things more slowly — it’s to do your work mindfully, with the good of the community, the bioregion and the planet in mind. When we Live Slow, we give back and become more strongly connected to the Earth, to our communities, to our neighbors and to ourselves. For entrepreneurs, this means considering more than just one “bottom line”.

Strolling of the HeifersIn addition to the Summit, our year-round programs support our mission of connecting people with healthy local food, facilitating innovation and entrepreneurship in the farm/food sector, and supporting the develop-ment of stronger local food systems and healthy, connected and resilient communities.

Windham GrowsOur six-month farm and food business accelerator provides the mentorship, resources and support entrepreneurs need to take their business to the next level.

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Windham Grows Helps Regional Food and Agriculture Entrepreneurs Through COVID-19 Economic Fallout

The COVID-19 crisis has hit food and agriculture businesses especially hard. In response to the suddenly changed landscape for farmers and food entrepreneurs, and with the help of sponsors like Pete and Gerry’s Organics, TD Bank, the Thompson Trust, and WhistlePig, Windham Grows is offering business recovery and resiliency consulting to local food and farm businesses free of charge.

“While the best way to slow the spread of the disease is social distancing, the unfortunate economic consequence is leading to the biggest economic slowdown since the great depres-sion,” said Windham Grows Program Manager, Peter Doran. “We saw a lot of our past

Windham Grows participants really struggling and we knew we had to help.”

“The most immediate help we can offer is business counseling to help our local food and farm businesses rebound, recover and regain momentum,” said Lissa Harris, Executive Director of Strolling of the Heifers, parent organization of Windham Grows. “Many of our event sponsors have diverted their sponsor dollars to helping us bring this program to as many people as possible.”

“TD Bank has been supporting Strolling of the Heifers Parade & Festival and Slow Living Summit for over 10 years, “ said Phil Daniels, Market President, TD Bank. “With the cancellation of the parade and festival we felt shifting our funding to business recovery and resiliency consulting to local food and farm business made great sense. TD is committed to driving positive change through working collaborations that enrich the lives of our communities across Vermont, and we are honored to be a part of this effort.”

The counseling will focus on adaptability in a rapidly changing market, in addition to long-term growth. Consultations will be provided by Windham Grows staff, as well as a cadre of experienced consultants who have a long professional history with the Windham Grows program. The Windham Grows team of consultants will be able to provide valuable assistance in determining changes in customers, distribution channels, labor, procedures, marketing and branding, and financial management. Clients will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Summit Schedule Full Details on page 9

Thursday, Jun 4, 20201:00 PM Keynote Speaker: Frances Moore Lappé

3:00 PM Keynote Speaker: Bill McKibben

Friday, June 5, 20201:00 PM Keynote Speaker: Tom Newmark

3:00 PM. Keynote Speaker: Sandra Steingraber

5:00 PM Happy Hour!

Monday, June 8, 2020 1:00 PM. Panel: Food Justice and Climate Change

With Tatiana Abatemarco, Conor Floyd,Migrant Justice

3:00 PM. Topic: Ben & Jerry’s – Reducing Our Carbon

Footprint

Rob Michalak

Tuesday, June 9, 20201:00 PM Panel: Financing Farming

Julie Snorek, Nico Lustig, Nic Cook, Jesse McDougall

3:00 PM. Panel: Agricultural Policy in a Time of

Uncertainty

Lt. Gov David Zuckerman, Theresa Snow, Caroline

Gordon, Lindsey Berk

Wednesday, Jun 10, 20201:00 PM. Panel: Cooperative Ownership

Addie Rose Holland, Matt Cropp, Bonnie Hudspeth,

and Robert Miller

Thursday, June 11, 20201:00 PM. Pete & Gerry’s Organic Eggs - Green Tea

Akaylah Glidden, Christina Lorrey

3:00 PM. Karen Washington, Rise and Root Farm:

Virtual Farm Tour

Karen Washington

5:00 PM Happy Hour!

Friday, June 12, 2020 1:00 PM. VBike - How We Move on This Earth & Why

That Matters

Dave Cohen

3:00 PM Nature’s Design Principles for Regenerative

Systems

Dr. Katherine von Stackelberg

Join Us for Happy Hour!The Slow Living Summit always features a cocktail hour – a chance to mingle infor-mally with aother ttendees and speakers to share ideas and tasty snacks! This time for networking has been an important feature of the Summit, and many friendships and collaborations have been born from it. We encourage you to participate in our two Virtual Happy Hours after the sessions on Friday, June 5, and Thursday, June 11. We’ve even created a cocktail recipe for you to enjoy at home! Cheers!

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Thursday, June 4

1:00-2:30 PMFrances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé will explore how “following the food” can help us grasp the roots of the climate cri-sis—with its health impacts worsen-ing Covid-19 impacts—that lie with-in our failing mindset about democ-

racy, the market system, and the meaning of free-dom. She’ll share her own beginning almost 50 years ago when the world was gripped by fear of scarcity and share her journey to move from a mindset of scarcity toward that of alignment with nature—including human nature. She will close by probing the meaning of courage in this do-or-die moment for our planet.

3:00-3:45 PMBill McKibben

There are no silver linings to a pan-demic, but if we’re going to go through this kind of trauma we might as well learn some things--here’s my sense of what we should be thinking about as we come out of quarantine. Reality is real, since

we’ve delayed so long speed now matters, and sol-idarity is most important of all.

Friday, June 5

1:00-2:30 PMTom Newmark

Climate change, soil health, food security, and…pandemics? Is there a connection, and even more impor-tantly is there a possibility that restoring biodiversity with regenera-tive agriculture might help reduce the threat of future disease out-

breaks? Tom will explore these topics, along with discussing the evolution of the modern regenera-tive agricultural movement.

3:00-4:30 PMSandra Steingraber

Solving for Pattern in a Time of Emergency: Food, Farming, Fracking, Climate, COVID, and Justice

American agriculture rides a tan-dem bicycle with a the fossil fuel

industry—with natural gas-derived anhydrous ammonia used to fertilize crops and petroleum-derived pesticides sprayed to protect them. The result is a public health crisis climate crisis that threatens the future of food production and drives wildlife and human populations to migrate and col-lide with each other in ways that accelerate the jump of infectious pathogens from animals to peo-ple. The resulting pandemic threatens to crash eco-nomic systems, further reveals instabilities in our human food systems, and targets exploited food workers throughout the food distribution chain—from farm laborers to meatpackers to grocery store clerks. The pandemic, as well as the climate crisis that underlies it, is a race, poverty, and justice issue.

Meanwhile, U.S. oil and gas extraction activities are expanding into agricultural lands, contaminating soil, introducing invasive weed species, and divert-ing water for irrigation and livestock to fracking operations to blast even more fossil fuels out of the ground. Studies from across the nation show death, neurological disorders, aborted pregnancies, and stillbirths in farm animals that have come in contact with drilling wastewater. Fracking operations invali-date organic certification and industrialize farm country that bring ecological and monetary harm to farmers.

Biologist Sandra Steingraber brings an agroecolog-ical perspective to all these disparate issues, exploring how we can, in the language of farmer and author Wendell Berry, solve for pattern rather than single outcomes and put in motion a ramifying set of solutions. Of special interest will be Green New Deal, the climate justice movement, and their combined potential to redesign US agriculture.

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Summit ScheduleMonday, June 8

1:00-2:30 PMPanel: Social Justice & Climate Change

Food justice asks the questions: where does injustice live in our food system and what would a just food system look like? Climate justice asks the questions: who is responsible for climate change and who will bear the brunt of the effects of climate change? Food and climate justice bring our attention to ways in which we can work to create more equity and fairness for those left on the fringes of the local food movement. In this panel, we will share three approaches to food justice and how they create more resilience in the face of climate instability.

Tatiana Abatemarco will speak about the community engaged food studies program at Bennington College, which has a goal of addressing food insecurity in Bennington County. Migrant Justice will share their work to ensure human rights for migrant workers on Vermont farms. Conor Floyd of Food Connects will share their work with Food Connects to create a Farm to School program to increase fresh food access and food educa-tion to children in Windham County. Together, they will consider their vision of a food and climate just future where everyone has food access and human rights.Tatiana Abatemarco, Conor Floyd, Migrant Justice

3:00-4:30 PMBen & Jerry’s

Ben & Jerry’s has an ambitious plan to reduce its car-bon footprint that follows the guidance of global experts and includes Science Based Targets along with social and economic justice components. Rob Michalak, Ben & Jerry’s Social Mission Special Projects Director, shares the company’s path and plan. Rob MalachikRob Malachik

Tuesday, June 9

1:00-2:30 PMPanel: Financing Farming

How can different financial models help fund farming. Co-op models and Regenerative Farming?Julie Snorek, Nico Lustig, Nic Cook, Jesse McDougall

3:00-4:30 PMPanel: Agricultural Policy in a Time of Uncertainty

What does the future of feeding ourselves look like

when faced with pressing issues of climate change and a global pandemic? A small group of farmers, activists, and advocates come together to discuss just that. While the global food supply has become increasingly consoli-dated, productive, and wasteful, its destruction of eco-logical, social, and economic systems has also increased. What is being done, advocated for, and advanced in this time of such local to global uncertainty and how can we ensure environmental and social stewardship when sup-porting our future subsistence when advocating and enacting policies.Lt. Gov David Zuckerman, Theresa Snow, Caroline Gordon, Lindsey Berk

Wednesday, June 10

1:00-2:30 PMPanel: Cooperative Ownership with Real Pickles & Vermont Employee Ownership Center

The cooperative model has long been recognized for its resilience in challenging times. Crises have historically spurred waves of cooperative entrepreneurship, as peo-ple come together to meet their shared needs in a dem-ocratic and equitable way. In this session, attendees will learn about how different kinds of co-ops are weathering and responding to the challenges of the COVID-19 cri-sis, as well as how they are engaging with the work required to increase the resilience of their organizations and communities in facing the Climate Crisis. Moderated by Matt Cropp of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center, panelists include Addie Rose Holland of the Real Pickles worker co-op, Bonnie Hudspeth of the Neighboring Food Co-op Association, and Robert Miller of VSECU.Addie Rose Holland, Matt Cropp, Bonnie Hudspeth, and Robert Miller

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Thursday, June 11

1:00-2:30 PMPete & Gerry’s Organic EggsGreen Tea, Pete and Gerry’s Green initiative. Clean up day video and photos!

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Summit Scheduleties through food and farming. Our current and previous farming related affiliations include: Just Food, Farm School NYC, Ecostation:NY, Bushwick Campus Farm, Black Urban Growers, Crock and Jar, La Familia Verde Community Garden coalition, GrowNYC. We have worked with community gardens and urban farms in NYC and beyond, and we have dedicated our lives to increasing the number of people growing and eating good food. We care about justice and equity and in building a strong local food economy. We came togeth-er with a common dream, to continue our food justice work by growing food and community beyond the city boundaries. We believe we can accomplish more together than any one of us could do on our own.Karen Washington

5:00-6:30Happy Hour

Friday, June 12

1:00-2:30 PMHow We Move on This Earth & Why That Matters

Join in an exploration into how our mobility choices influence our human perceptions and worldviews and ultimately our communities and our environment. Taking a deep dive into the dynamics of our bodies and our essential human capacities to sense and interact with the ecological and social places we inhabit, we’ll explore the often overlooked magic of what happens when we are in the act of transportation and the ways that we ourselves are potentially transformed by it.

Additionally, we’ll consider how the automobile has sub-verted a multitude of our embodied human connections to the world and has perhaps radically undermined our ability to authentically respond to climate change. Calling on material from legends, literature, cinema, neuropsychology, philosophy and other sources, we’ll attempt to uncover a general theory of what it means for us to move on this Earth. We’ll also consider practices we might bring forward into our daily lives and our com-munities to bring a a greater sense of depth and mean-ing to our everyday mobility.Dave Cohen

3:00-4:30 PMNature’s Design Principles for Regenerative Systems

Climate change, locust plagues in Africa, emerging novel viruses such as Covid-19, widespread environmen-tal degradation, planetary boundaries (e.g., Rockström et al. 2009; Steffen et al. 2015): there are all symptoms

of the true underlying problem — our flawed relation-ship with the natural environment. But we only have to turn to the natural environment to see the solutions. Even as we recognize human well-being and our social and economic systems depend entirely on natural sys-tems, we continue to experience unprecedented envi-ronmental challenges largely as a consequence of unsus-tainable interactions with nature. “Sustainability” has entered our lexicon, but the word itself does not specify sustainability of what and for whom over what time peri-od? In this talk, I argue that sustainability has little mean-ing in and of itself and that regenerative solutions that follow design principles emerging from natural systems are by definition indefinitely sustainable. I use the design principles that we followed in planting our permaculture orchard to highlight these issues. Extractive capitalism and large-scale, commodity-based, resource- and ener-gy-intensive farming are not regenerative and conse-quently lead to adverse outcomes. Nature’s design prin-ciples provide a blueprint for regenerative economic and social systems embedded within the biosphere.Dr. Katherine von Stackelberg

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Bill McKibbenBill McKibben is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org and the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in

Vermont. He was a 2014 recipient of the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ and the Gandhi Peace Award. He has written over a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature, published 30 years ago, and his most recent, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

Frances Moore LappéFrances Moore Lappé is the author or coau-thor of nineteen books, including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. Her lat-est work is Daring Democracy: Igniting

Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want, coauthored with Adam Eichen, focusing on the roots of the U.S. democracy crisis and how Americans are

creatively responding to the challenge. Frances is co-founder of Oakland-based Food First and the Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé. The recipient of nineteen honorary degrees, Frances has been a visiting scholar at MIT and

U.C. Berkeley and in 1987 received the Right Livelihood Award, often called the “Alternative Nobel.”

Tom NewmarkTom Newmark was CEO of the dietary sup-plement brand New Chapter, which was acquired by Proctor & Gamble in 2012. Since that time Tom has focused on envi-

ronmental activism with specific attention on regenerative agriculture. Tom is the co-owner of Finca Luna Nueva Lodge, a farm and ecolodge in the mountainous rainforest of Costa Rica that teaches regenerative agriculture. www.fincalunanuevalodge.com He is the co-founder and board chair of The Carbon Underground, co-founder of the Soil Carbon Initiative and a founding member of that standard’s Design Team, past board chair of the Greenpeace Fund USA, and a founding member of the Leadership Council of the Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems at California State University – Chico. He is also the past board chair of the America Botanical Council, pub-lisher of the peer-reviewed journal HerbalGram. In his past he was also a corporate attorney and entrepreneur, from which he claims to be recovering.

Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D.Biologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. writes about cli-mate change, ecology, and the links between human health and the environ-

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Lindsey BerkACORN Network and Origins of FoodLindsey is a local foods advocate, environ-mental activist and agritourism entrepreneur. After spending seven years in marketing,

advertising and PR in the private sector, Lindsey escaped the cubicles of New York City to find herself nestled in the vines of Mendoza’s wine country as a harvest intern. What was meant to be a five month hiatus became a four year journey around Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. A few life-changing roles working with a Peruvian disaster relief organization, a Guatemalan coffee cooperative, and

various WWOOFing properties locked her into the good food movement for good. In 2015 Lindsey and her partner Matthew founded Origins of Food, a food justice-focused agritourism company, working to reconnect people with where food comes from. Lindsey is on the Planning Committee of the International Workshop on Agritourism, an active member of Extinction Rebellion Vermont and the Vermont Farm to Plate Network, and a volunteer facilitator for the Good Grief Network.

Dave CohenDave Cohen is an integrative psychothera-pist in Brattleboro, Vermont (davecohen-counseling.com) specializing in approaches in mind/body modalities and ecopsycholo-

gy. He is also the founder and director of VBike (vbikesolu-tions.org), an advocacy organization focusing on introduc-ing and educating Vermonters on new bike design and technologies for everyday bicycle transportation. Through a unique state contract, VBike provides free bike consulta-tions for state residents, a program that was recently fea-tured in the internationally-released cargo bike documen-tary, Motherload. Dave has over 35 years of experience in projects to promote everyday alternative transportation, including the founding of Pedal Express in Berkeley, CA, a bicycle delivery service utilizing a fleet of cargo bikes to haul loads typically carried by vans and trucks. Pedal Express gained national recognition for its innovative busi-ness model and creative partnerships and continues to serve the East Bay community in its 25th year since its founding.

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Nicholas CookNicholas Cook has been working at Cedar Circle Farm, a certified organic vegetable and fruit farm, located in the upper valley for over 15 years. Cedar Circle operates a

farm stand, coffee shop, attends two local farmers markets and hosts an array of educational programming for chil-dren and adults. For the past six years he has been lead-ing a team in developing a long-term plan for the farm’s field production to transition to a regenerative no-till soil management system. His approach to managing soil health on the farms 45+ acres of diversified production has a strong focus on biological diversity, both above and below the soil. Nic lives on the farm, with his wife Anya, their two-year-old son Finn and their dog Emma.

Matt CroppMatt Cropp is the Co-Executive Director of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center, which supports the transition of businesses to broad-based ownership by employees via

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Conor FloydAs Farm to School Program Manager at Food Connects, Conor works with teachers, administrators, and school nutrition profes-sionals to create nutrition education, devel-op school gardens and composting,

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Akaylah GliddenMarketing and Events Coordinator, Pete and Gerry’s Organic EggsAkaylah joined the Pete and Gerry’s flock in May of 2017, with a B.S. in Nutrition and EcoGastronomy from the University of New

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Bruce HennesseyBruce Hennessey, along with his partner Beth Whiting, and a host of talented young farmers, has run Maple Wind Farm in Richmond and Bolton, VT for the last 20 years. The farm produces 100% grass fed

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guide, classroom teacher and experiential educator in locations across the U.S. and around the world. On those excursions he experienced firsthand compelling evidence of climate change and now deals with the consequences of those changes on his own farm. Bruce now focuses on building soil, and educating farmers and consumers to do the same by participating in local, regional and national events.

Addie Rose HollandAddie Rose Holland is co-owner and co-founder of Real Pickles Co-operative, an organic food manufacturing company pro-ducing naturally fermented pickles from

Northeast-grown ingredients. In 2013, after over a dozen years in business, Addie Rose and co-workers used an innovative community financing tool to convert Real Pickles to a worker-owned co-operative. The business now thrives with a vision for building a better food system, securing good local jobs, and staying rooted in the values of equity, solidarity and democracy. Addie Rose also serves as Deputy University Director at the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, based at UMass Amherst.

Bonnie HudspethBonnie Hudspeth leads Co-operative Development for the Neighboring Food Co-op Association (NFCA), a network of more than 35 food co-ops and start-up ini-

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tiatives with a combined membership of over 150,000 people across Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Eastern New York. NFCA supports the growth, innovation, and shared suc-cess among our member food co-ops in the Northeast United States. Prior to joining the NFCA, Bonnie served as Project Manager for the Monadnock Food Co-op, creating the founding organizational structure and overseeing pre-operational development and fundraising to create a co-operatively owned grocery store in Keene, NH that opened in April, 2013. She serves as Vice President of the Board of The Cooperative Fund of New England (CFNE), a community development loan fund that facilitates social-ly responsible investing in co-operatives, community-ori-ented nonprofits, and worker-owned businesses in New England and adjacent communities in New York. Bonnie holds a master’s degree in Sustainable Community Development through Antioch University New England.

Christina LorreyChristina has been an asset to Pete and Gerry’s for 4.5 years, taking the lead in the planning of many company-wide events, and fulfilling her duties as the IT Manager. While Pete and Gerry’s is a B Corp and has

always had a focus on sustainability, there is still a large

amount of waste, in several different forms, that gets pro-duced each day. Knowing this, it was evident there was still more work to be done to further reduce the compa-ny’s footprint. With the support of company leadership, in the winter of 2019-2020, Christina headed up Pete and Gerry’s very first Green Team. She explains that, “ I look at our waste production as another product we produce and I challenge myself to find a better way to deal with each and every item.” With this mindset and the help of the rest of the Green Team, the company has already started making a dent in some of their biggest waste producers and they look forward to continuing to do so.

Nico LustigNico Lustig is an Associate Attorney with the law firm Dunkiel Saunders Elliott Raubvogel and Hand, PLLC. Nico’s profes-sional mission is to use the law to create social enterprises that strengthen communi-

ty and cultivate a healthy environment. Nico entered the legal profession with a background in cooperative man-agement, food business consulting, and organic agricul-ture. Nico helps many businesses, mainly farmers and food entrepreneurs, to move through the life cycle of busi-ness creation, growth, and succession, with a special focus on supporting businesses as they navigate the FDA,

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Jesse McDougallJesse McDougall is co-owner of Studio Hill—a 4th-generation family farm and a Savory Institute Influencer Hub. Since 2012, Jesse and his wife, Cally, have used holisti-cally-managed livestock to rebuild soil,

increase biodiversity, increase water infiltration and reten-tion, and sequester carbon across 100 acres of their 270-acre farm. Jesse is an accredited professional holistic man-agement educator and is working to rebuild farming infra-structure in the northeast. He, and his wife, Cally, live with their two children on the farm in Shaftsbury, Vermont.

Rob MichalakRob Michalak is the Global Director of Social-Purpose Impact for Ben & Jerry’s. From 2006 to 2017, Rob led a process of reinvigorating Ben & Jerry’s Social Mission,

following the acquisition of Ben & Jerry’s by Unilever in April of 2000. The goal of the process was to ensure that Ben & Jerry’s Social Mission thrives in balance with the Company’s Product & Economic Missions. Rob’s current focus is on identifying how Ben & Jerry’s can achieve bet-ter outcomes from the Social Mission initiatives the Company is investing in and prioritizing. Ben & Jerry’s Social Mission works to create innovative ways that the business can apply its many resources to achieve positive social, economic and environmental change in the world and make progress on the company’s sustainable corpo-rate concept of “linked prosperity,” which is the ambition that as the company prospers, its stakeholders prosper equitably as well. Rob served as Ben & Jerry’s PR Czar from 1989 – 1998. Rob left Ben & Jerry’s for a little bit from 1999 – 2006, to get back into broadcasting and independent productions. Prior to working at Ben & Jerry’s, Rob worked in broadcast news, public affairs and independent productions from 1980-1989.

Robert MillerRobert Miller is President and Chief Executive Officer for VSECU, a member-owned cooperative and not-for-profit credit union in Vermont. VSECU serves nearly 70,000 members with more than $875 mil-

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lion in assets, 190 employees, and 9 branch locations statewide. Rob graduated from the University of Vermont and started a career in financial services with Citibank in New York and Chicago. He relocated back to Vermont as a state employee and public servant; working for the Vermont Department of Economic Development where he ultimately served as Commissioner. Prior to joining VSECU, Rob spent over a decade in executive roles in the institu-tional investment management industry with Dwight Asset Management (now Goldman Sachs) and Conning.

Julie SnorekAs a social ecologist, Julie Snorek has been developing an intricate understanding of social, ecological, and political transitions in the Sahel and Sahara where she has lived and worked for over twelve years with rural,

nomadic and semi-nomadic societies. Throughout her research, Snorek strives to engage in a co-production of knowledge and to support and enhance practices of sus-tainability. Her interests and expertise include: soil regen-erative agro-ecologies, feminist political ecology, environ-mentally-induced migration, climate change as it relates to conflict and cooperation dynamics, the links between hegemony, militarization, and extractive economies, the governance of common pool regimes, social and environ-mental justice movements, and just transitions or ‘alterna-tives’ to development. Along with her work in the Sahel, Snorek collaborates with ENVS professors and local part-ners to understand how social institutions like ubuntu sup-port water management South Africa and Namibia. Snorek cut her teeth as a field biologist in the Alaska Marine Wildlife Refuge and served as a land and water manager for the US Peace Corps and AmeriCorps. During her doc-torate, she served as a fellow for the United Nations University: Institute for Environment and Human Security in Germany and was hired to advise several international non-governmental organizations in Africa. She holds a PhD in Environmental Science and Technology from the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and speaks six languages including two West African languages.

Theresa SnowFounder & Executive Director, Salvation FarmsTheresa has worked in Vermont’s agricultural sector for more than 20 years. She founded

Salvation Farms in 2004, receiving both regional and national awards including the Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility’s Young Changemaker Award. Theresa has a degree in Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management from Sterling College, has worked for Vermont agricultural businesses like Pete’s Greens and High Mowing Organic Seeds, and filled a Director of Agricultural Resources position with the

Vermont Foodbank. Theresa has co-facilitated a national working group focused on infrastructure needs to manage farm surplus with the Harvard Food Law & Policy Clinic, served as an advisor for a World Wildlife Fund directed research project looking to maximize farm resources in America, and was selected to be a founding Board Member of the national Association of Gleaning Organizations. In Vermont, her work has included service to more than 100 farms, engaging community members in thousands of hours of volunteer opportunities, providing millions of servings of surplus produce to marginalized populations, offering technical assistance to partner orga-nizations, and collaborating with diverse partners from inmates to state agencies. Theresa has a steadfast convic-tion for the responsible stewardship and use of our natural resources with a parallel dedication to the engagement of individuals across the socio-economic spectrum in the work that she leads.

Dr. Katherine von StackelbergDr. Katherine von Stackelberg is a Principal at NEK Associates LTD, a small firm incorpo-rated in Massachusetts specialized in devel-oping risk-based modeling tools to support sustainable environmental decision-making,

and the co-owner of a permaculture apple orchard, Echodale Farms LLC (@echodale_farm), in northern Vermont. She is also a Research Scientist in the Department of Environmental Health and is a research affiliate at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis (HCRA) at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and co-leader of the Biogeochemistry of Global Contaminants Group(BGC) at Harvard University. Dr. von Stackelberg has 30 years of experience designing and implementing human health and ecological risk assessments, focused on inte-grated, risk-based modeling approaches to support sus-tainable environmental decision making. She has pub-lished on ecological resilience, the use of uncertainty anal-ysis in decision making, bioaccumulation modeling, and use of decision analytic approaches to integrate ecosys-tem services and risk assessment for more effective deci-sion making. Dr. von Stackelberg served on the Board of Scientific Counselors at the U.S. EPA for six years and was Chair for the last three. She led the effort to explore the use of decision analytic tools and methods to support environmental decision making within the U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development. She is a member of the Scientific Advisors on Risk Assessment for the European Commission in Brussels and recently completed service on a National Academies of Science Committee on Interventions to Increase the Resilience of Coral Reefs. She teaches a course on socio- ecological systems and sustain-ability that uses systems analysis to explore transformative and regenerative futures.

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Karen Washington Rise and Root FarmKaren Washington has lived in New York City all her life, and has spent decades pro-moting urban farming as a way for all New

Yorkers to access to fresh, locally grown food.Karen has been a resident of the Bronx for over 34 years, although in 2015 she began living part time in Orange County, NY near the farm. Since 1985 Karen has been a community activist, striving to make New York City a bet-ter place to live. As a community gardener and board member of the New York Botanical Gardens, Karen worked with Bronx neighborhoods to turn empty lots into community gardens. As an advocate, she stood up and spoken out for garden protection and preservation. As a member of the La Familia Verde Community Garden Coalition, she helped launched a City Farms Market, bringing garden fresh vegetables to her neighbors. Karen is a food advocate and trainer leading workshops on food growing and food justice for community gardeners all over the country. Karen is the former president of the New York City Community Garden Coalition, a group that was founded to preserve community gardens. She also co-founded Black Urban Growers (BUGS), an organization of volunteers committed to building networks and communi-ty support for growers in both urban and rural settings. In 2012 Ebony magazine voted her one of their 100 most influential African Americans in the country, and in 2014 she was awarded with the James Beard Leadership Award.

VT Lt. Gov. David ZuckermanDavid Zuckerman is the co-founder of Full Moon Farm, a NOFA-certified organic farm in Hinesburg, Vermont.Inspired by then Congressman Sanders, David first ran for the Vermont

House in 1994 while enrolled at the University of Vermont. He lost by 59 votes but came back two years later to become the fourth Progressive Party member ever to serve in Montpelier.David served for fourteen years (1997-2010) in the Vermont House of Representatives representing the City of Burlington in Chittenden 3-4. He served on the Natural Resources and Energy Committee (6 years), Agriculture Committee (6 years, 4 as Chair) and Ways and Means Committee (2 years). David’s leadership spans a number of issues including renewable energy, affordable housing, liv-able wages, cannabis reform, GMO legislation, universal healthcare, progressive taxation, marriage equality, and end of life choices.David served in the Vermont Senate as a Progressive/Democrat for two terms, from 2012-2015. He served as Vice-Chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and on the Senate Committee on Education.In 2016, David was elected Lieutenant Governor as a Progressive/Democrat. On January 5, 2017, he was sworn in as the 80th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont.He lives with his wife and daughter in Hinesburg, Vermont.

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BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION is a community media center serving eight towns in southern Windham County, Vermont. Our mission is to pro-mote civic engagement and transparency, and to empower community members to share their knowledge, views and creativity, without prejudice. As the one and only television outlet for the area, BCTV covers municipal government meetings, educa-tional matters, and documents local events and activities. BCTV also provides equip-ment and training that allows community members to create content, reaching view-ers on cable channels 8 and 10 and at brat-tleborotv.org.

The BRATTLEBORO REFORMER launched as a weekly in 1876 and published daily since 1913, serves Brattleboro and sur-roundings with award-winning journalism. It is the only newspaper with the name “Reformer” in the United States. The Reformer is part of New England Newspapers Inc., which includes also the Bennington (VT) Banner, The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield MA, and the Manchester (VT) Journal, and a bi-monthly lifestyles magazine, UpCountry. The Banner and the Reformer were named first and second, respectively in general excellence in 2018 by the Vermont Press Association.

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of the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery and who do not treat their cows with the synthet-ic hormone rBGH. Ben & Jerry’s products are distributed nationwide and in selected foreign countries in supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores, franchised Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shops, restaurants and other venues. Ben & Jerry’s, is a Vermont corpora-tion, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unilever, and a certified B Corp, operating its business on a Mission Statement emphasizing a sus-tainable concept of linked prosperity for stakeholders throughout its three mission pil-lars of product quality, economic reward and progressive social change. Contributions in 2018 made via the employee-led Ben & Jerry’s Foundation totaled over $3-million. Additionally, the company makes significant product donations to community groups and nonprofits both in Vermont and across the nation. For more, please visit www.benjerry.com.

At CLEAN YIELD, we help our clients meet their long-term financial goals while making a positive difference in the world. For more than three decades, we have built custom portfolios for our clients that actively channel investment dollars toward a more just and environmentally sustainable economy. Clean Yield has facilitated impact investments worth over $15 million, invested on behalf of more than 50 clients in over 30 impact investment offerings. We co-founded Slow Money Vermont, actively participate in the Vermont Farm to Plate Network, and are incorporated as a Vermont Benefit Corporation. Clean Yield has approximately $285 million under management.

FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (FCCDC) is the place to go for business counseling, capital and connections in Western MA. The FCCDC’s Western MA Food Processing Center provides solutions for farms and food entrepreneurs throughout New England. Our team will work with you to bring value added, season extended, and specialty food products to market. Fully certified commer-cial kitchen available for you to get started right. Are you seeking opportunities to grow a food business? Learn more at www.fccdc.org

GRAFTON VILLAGE CHEESE The Windham Foundation works to preserve and enhance the social, economic, and cultural vitality of Vermont’s smaller communities and their rural way of life, especially within and around the town of Grafton, Vermont. The Foundation focuses on Vermont’s histo-ry, natural resources, and agrarian traditions. The Windham Foundation is an operating foundation. It operates the Grafton Inn which has been open for over 200 years, the Grafton Village Cheese Company which has made award-winning artisanal cheddar for over 50 years, and the Grafton Trails and Outdoor Center. The Foundation operates these social enterprises to ensure that the region’s and the state’s rural economy remain viable.

The LINTILHAC FOUNDATION’S central purpose is to support organizations that are making sustainable, positive change for Vermont’s environment and its people and providing Vermonters the information and resources they need to control their environ-mental destinies and strong traditions of democratic engagement. Our core giving areas are: Water Quality, with a special focus on advocacy and science; Energy, including nuclear-free awareness and promotion of renewable energy; Conservation, especially recreational access to lands and integrative land use planning.

NEW SOCIETY PUBLISHERS has been publishing books to build a new society for over 30 years. We are an activist, solutions-oriented publisher focused on bringing you tools for a world of change. THE PORCH CAFÉ AND CATERING is a family-run eatery in the north end of Brattleboro comfortably positioned on Putney road with convenient parking. We prepare fresh food in house and source ingredients and inspiration from local prod-ucts and producers. The Café is a staple in the community; a great place to stop by for an espresso drink and egg sandwich on your way to work or settle into a booth to have a lunch meeting or swing by for a sweet treat. In our catering department, we focus on cus-tomizing our fresh meals into your weddings,


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TRUST COMPANY OF VERMONT is employee-owned and Vermont-based in perpetuity. We offer both clients and staff a stable environment where relationships can endure for generations. Our 24 professionals practice the crafts of trust administration and investment management with the knowl-edge and skill to promote individual client objectives with flexibility and focus. Several of the founders of The Trust Company of Vermont were responsible for the creation of one of the first socially responsible Common Trust Funds in the country.

THE VERMONT AGENCY OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD & MARKETS facili-tates, supports and encourages the growth and viability of agriculture in Vermont while protecting the working landscape, human health, animal health, plant health, consum-ers and the environment.

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PRICE CHOPPER, MARKET 32 AND THE GOLUB CORPORATIONThe Golub Corporation operates supermar-kets under the Price Chopper, Market 32 and Market Bistro banners in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. We exist to help people feed and care for themselves and their families. As an innovative retailer of products and services, we recognize that consistently satisfying our customers is key to our success. We are committed to serving our: Customers by providing an overall experience that earns their long-term loyalty.Teammates by fostering a challenging, cul-turally diverse, friendly, participative, and rewarding environment. Communities by working in partnership to enrich and improve their quality of life. Shareholders by delivering a fair return on investment over the long term. We will always remember that Price Chopper/Market 32 exists both because of and for our teammates and the people we serve.

LATCHIS ARTS Welcome to where Cupid and Eros meet Clio, in our Greco Deco Theatre. The Latchis Main Theatre has stood as is since 1938 and is a member of the League of Historic American Theatres. Bedecked with Greek murals by the Hungarian-American painter Louis Jambor, swaddled in velvet curtains, and accented with a panoramic view of the Zodiac on the ceiling, our performance space has wel-comed the likes of Rosanne Cash, Collegiate A Capella champions, and the New England Center for Circus Arts. Beginning with Vaudeville and silent films, our stage has shown exceptional music, art, and moving pictures to Southern Vermont for over sev-enty years.

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FARM TO PLATE is Vermont’s statewide food system plan legislatively directed to increase economic development and jobs in Vermont’s farm and food sector and improve access to healthy local food for all Vermonters. The ten year Farm to Plate Strategic Plan to strengthen the working landscape, build the resilience of farms and food enterprises, improve environmental quality, and increase healthy, local food access for all Vermonters is being implemented by the Farm to Plate Network—over 350 farm and food sector businesses, non-profits, institutions, and government agencies from across the state. Farm to Plate is coordinated by the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund, a non-profit organization based in Montpelier, Vermont. Learn more at www.VTFarmtoPlate.com.

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PUTNEY MOUNTAIN WINERY AND SPIRITS Founded in 1998 by Kate and Charles Dodge, Putney Mountain Winery and Spirits makes award-wining artisanal wines, liqueurs and sparkling cider. Twenty years later we still make our beverages from the bounty of produce grown on local and regional family farms of this region. Our wines have been described in the press as “extraordinary,” “love at first taste,” and even “an intensely remarkable treasure”. Windham Grows has helped us develop a business plan for future distribution.

REAL PICKLES is a small, worker-owned cooperative based in western Massachusetts producing pickled products that are raw, vin-egar-free, and 100% organic. Our products are made using the traditional natural fer-mentation process that has been used for centuries all over the world. In support of a regional food system, we buy all of our veg-etables from family farms in the Northeast and sell our products only within the Northeast. For more information please, visit www.realpickles.com.

SISTERS OF ANARCHY ICE CREAM Unlike most ice-cream companies, we don’t throw around ‘farm-to-cone’ just because it’s a catchy phrase. Our ice cream is, truly, farm-to-cone, made on-site at Fisher Brothers Farm in Vermont, almost entirely with flavor elements grown on the farm by the ice cream makers.

STAKEHOLDERS CAPITAL is a wealth man-agement firm committed to integrating our clients’ values with their financial goals. We serve investors concerned not just with how their portfolio is doing, but what it is doing, to the environment, and to society. We offer comprehensive financial planning and pride ourselves on being at the center of our cli-ents’ financial lives. By combining traditional investment strategies with in-depth knowl-edge of socially responsible and impact investing, we create portfolios unique to each client’s individual goals and risk toler-ance. Investments are carefully selected within a sophisticated framework of broad-based global diversification. Stakeholders Capital also provides access to high-impact, private and local investment opportunities to

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THE VERMONT EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CENTER is a statewide non-profit whose mission is to promote and foster employee ownership. We provide information and resources to owners interested in selling their business to their employees, entrepre-neurs who wish to share ownership broadly at start-up or in the future, and employee groups interested in purchasing a business.

VERNAL VENTURES was established in 2017 to invest in early-stage companies solving environmental problems in the food system and energy sectors. We work with entrepreneurs creating a healthier and more sustainable food system and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

YANKEE FARM CREDIT is a farmers credit cooperative. It is part of the national Farm Credit System created by Congress in 1916. Yankee Farm Credit provides $450 million in loans to 1,300 customers throughout Vermont and neighboring counties in New York and New Hampshire. The association also provides financial services including recordkeeping, tax preparation, and crop insurance. Yankee Farm Credit serves all types of agriculture including the forest products industry. The cooperative is owned by its member-customers and gov-erned by farmer-directors. A portion of profits is returned to members as patronage refunds. For more information please see www.yan-keefarmcredit.com.

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