BALLE day two

The days are long at BALLE. The morning plenary was a tasty mix of Tom from the RSF social finance fund, followed by Melissa from a biofuel collective in Berkeley that just opened their own service station, followed by Michael from Dressing Room, a restaurant that has been active in farm issues and social justice – leading an innovative program in two for one in food stamps if used at farmers markets, and finally Susan from a textiles hand assembly company that employs women in an economically innovative way. All before 11am.

I then attended a session on BALLE 101 and a session on Slow Money. Both thought provoking but as a reaction instead of a direct learning.

The evening plenary included community based wind power initiatives, tribal lands wind power, and Hunter Lovins on the state of everything.

Enough thinking – we ended the evening dancing to a local band.