Beyond Seattle:
WTO/IMF/World Bank Activism and the Net
The Internet played a major role in organizing the Seattle WTO protests that have dramatically reinvigorated environmental and social justice activism. Representatives of 3 of the key groups involved in Seattle and in resistance to a corporate-dominated "new world economic order," who made highly creative and effective use of this new medium, discuss their cyber-strategies and their visions of future activist uses of the Net. Allan Hunt-Badiner web designer for RAN; Richard Plevin, Electronic Communications Director of Global Exchange; and Sheri Herndon and Shane Korytko of the Seattle-based Independant Media Center, which provided groundbreaking live webcasts of the demonstrations.

GIS in Ecology & Conservation Biology
Geographic Information Science has found a wide variety of uses from conservation biology and natural resource inventory to resource management as well as many other environmental applications. This session will bring together representatives from several different institutions currently using GIS for environmental projects to discuss their own work as well as the general state of GIS technology and its applications.
Chris Davis - CommEn Space
Pliny Fisk - Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems
Jan Hauser - Sun Microsytems
John Radke - UC Berkeley

Art in the Post-Human Matrix:
Digital Artist, 'Media Breeder', one of MIT Media Lab's first instructors and creator of the astonsihing and immense Web Jam ritual 'Organisms' in Williamsburg Brooklyn, Ebon Fisher joins Terra Nova founder/editor, fluid musician, nimble philosphy professor and writer on technology and ecology, David Rothenberg as they share their ground breaking work and explore, with Planetwork co-founder Elizabeth Thompson, the liminal zone where art, ecology and cyberspace fruitfully mate. The discussion will mutate and evolve to include the aesthetics of living systems, networks as a new cultural paradigm, subjective ecosystems, a network-oriented ethics for cyberspace and the crucial role of the artist in the creation of a sustainable global culture.

Youth, Media & Gaia
Unreflective consumer/media culture is a driving force in the global eco-crisis. Young people are one of the largest demographic groups targeted by the consumer/media industry. This panel will explore issues concerning the need for teaching media literacy to youth to empower them with tools for telling their own authentic stories and making sense of the world around them. We will examine ways in which youth media literacy and access to the tools of production can be leveraged to assist progressive ecological programs and stimulate social awareness and action. Ronan Hallowell, Kenji Williams and Zakary Zide.

EDF's Action Network: Activist Email Tools
Ben Smith will demonstrate and discuss Action Network, a new Webby nominated, web-based email action alert tool developed by Environmental Defense. Nearly 400,000 environmentalists have signed up to receive email action alerts from Action Network's partners, nearly 30 local and national environment and population groups from around the country. Action Network's unique email to fax technology allows citizens and activists to send personalized messages to any politician or decision maker, simply by replying to their email. Organizations sending action alerts can get real-time, detailed response rate reports so they can truly track the progress of their action alerts. Action Network will be part of My World, a new environmental information portal aimed at a mainstream audience, reaching out beyond the core of those who consider themselves environmentally committed. Ben will conduct an online tour of Action Network, demonstrating how both organizations and activists use the system. Workshop participants will see Action Network's front-end public pages, as well as the password protected back-end management features. Workshop participants will get both a snapshot of how one dynamic email activist tool works, but also how their own organizations can use this and similar tools.