SUSTAINABLE REGIONS AND GLOBAL TRADE

A workshop on global trade and its relation to socially, ecologically, and economically sustainable regional development - at both ends & everywhere in-between.

• Presentations, Discussions, Updates, Training, Networking, Exhibits, Site Visits

• February 17-18, 2006 - School for International Training (SIT) - Brattleboro, Vermont, USA

ginvermontworkshop@sit.edu www.sit.edu www.greeningofindustry.org

Program

Posted February 15, 2006, 12:00pm EST – subject to change

 

Friday, February 17, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

Pre-Workshop Program

 

9:00am

Registration opens for the day.

Rotch Learning Center, SIT Campus

 

 

 

9:00am

–3:00pm

“Open Concept Bazaar” – Displays, exhibits, posters, etc., including:

·          Fair trade apparel displays: Eric Henry, President, T.S. Designs (www.tsdesigns.com).

·          CLEA: Child Labor Education Action, Brattleboro Union High School, posters and bake-sale.

·          Supply-chain modeling software demonstration, Lise Laurin, Earthshift.

·          Oxfam.

Rotch 108/109

 

 

(Lunch at own discretion.  SIT’s International Center Dining Hall is open.)

 

12:30pm

Excursions depart SIT campus.

SIT International Center, Main Entrance

 

 

 

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Excursion 1: “The Development and Industrial History of Brattleboro and Windham County, Vermont”

Talk by Wayne Carhart, former president of the Brattleboro Historical Society

Hooker-Dunham Theater, 139 Main Street, Brattleboro

 

 

 

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Excursion 2: Visit to Delta Campus (www.deltacampus.com)

Hosted by Bob Johnson, Omega Optical, and Gordon Bristol, Delta Campus

Delta Campus,  21 Omega Drive, Brattleboro

4:00pm

Break: Coffee, tea

Rotch Lobby

 

 

 

 

Workshop, Day 1

 

4:30pm

Welcome, Workshop Challenge, Setting the Agenda:

Needs, Trade, and Sustainable Prosperity.

 

Welcome to Vermont: The Vermont Case.

·          Ralph Meima, Workshop Co-Chair, SIT

 

The Greening of Industry Network: 15 Years, and counting.

·          Kurt Fischer, Workshop Co-Chair, Greening of Industry Network

 

The School for International Training: What is World Learning?

·          Adam Weinberg, Provost, SIT

 

Globalization and the Need for Universal Standards.

·          Michael Baram, Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts.

Rotch 108/109

5:15pm

Plenary Panel

“The Example of Vermont: Global Go-Getter or High-Cost Hinterland?”

·          Kevin Dorn, Secretary, The Agency of Commerce and Community Development, State of Vermont.

·          Joe Famolare, Chairman of the Board, Brattleboro Foreign Trade Zone .

·          Chantal Line Carpentier, Head, Environment, Economy and Trade, North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Quebec.

Rotch 108/109

6:30pm – 7:30pm

Reception

International Center, Room 101

 

 

 

 

Saturday, February 18, 2006

 

 

Workshop, Day 2

 

8:00am

Coffee, tea with light breakfast

Rotch Lobby

 

 

 

8:45am

Workshop Call to Order

·          Ralph Meima, Workshop Co-Chair, SIT

·          Kurt Fischer, Workshop Co-Chair, Greening of Industry Network

Rotch 108/109

9:00am

Morning’s Welcome

“Perspectives on Trade and Development from the Global Campus”

·          Aqeel Tirmizi, Chair, Master of Science in Management, SIT

Rotch 108/109

9:15am

Plenary Panel

“What is Sustainable Regional Development?”

·          Jason Roeder, Deputy Secretary, Office for Commonwealth Development, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

·          Jeanette White, State Senator, Windham County, Vermont

·          Peter Lowitt, Sustainable Devens/Devens Enterprise Commission, Devens, Massachusetts

Rotch 108/109

10:15am – 10:30am

Break: Coffee, tea

Rotch Lobby

10:30am

WORKSHOP TRACK 1:1 – “Globalization + Sustainability as a Conceptual Challenge”

·          John Dulmage, Flat Earth Solutions,

·          Trudy Heller, Executive Education for the Environment, Swarthmore, PA

·          (Facilitator: Terry Porter)

Rotch 108

 

WORKSHOP TRACK 1:2 – “Institutions & Issues of Global Trade”

·          Chantal Line Carpentier, North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Montreal, Quebec, Canada

·          Mark Joyce, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

·          (Facilitator: Frances Hines)

Rotch 109

 

WORKSHOP TRACK 1:3 – “Practical Applications of Fair, Ethical, and Sustainable Trade”

·          Jacob Park, Assistant Professor, Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont

·          Chris Pyatak, Sales Manager, Mocha Joe’s Coffee Roasters, Brattleboro, Vermont

·          Lise Laurin, Earthshift, Eliot, Maine

·          (Facilitator: Ralph Meima)

Rotch 209

12:00pm – 1:15pm

Lunch

International Center Dining Hall

 

 

 

1:15pm

Plenary Presentation: Case Study –

"Manufacturing and Selling a $4 T-shirt in a $1 world."

Eric Henry, President, T.S. Designs, Inc., Burlington, North Carolina

 

Rotch 108/109

2:00pm

WORKSHOP TRACK 2:1 – “Thinking Critically about Trade & Development in a Sustainable Future”

·          Philip Vergragt, Tellus Institute, Boston, Massachusetts

·          Joseph Sarkis, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts

·          Terry Porter, SIT

·          (Facilitator: Trudy Heller)

Rotch 209

 

WORKSHOP TRACK 2:2 – “International Trade as a Regional Economic Development Strategy”

·          Joe Famolare with other board members, Brattleboro Foreign Trade Zone

·          Dana Eidsness and Ariana Monti, Vermont Global Trade Partnership

·          Bob Johnson, Omega Optical, Brattleboro, Vermont

·          Gordon Bristol, Delta Campus, Brattleboro, Vermont

·          (Facilitator: Ralph Meima)

Rotch 108

 

WORKSHOP TRACK 2:3 -  “Livelihoods & Social Justice in Low-Cost Trading Countries”

·          Emmanuel Raufflet, HEC-Montréal, Québec

·          CLEA (Child Labor Education Action) students volunteers from Brattleboro Union High School, with Julie Franzini (advisor), SIT

·          Stephanie Demmons, Make Trade Fair,  Oxfam America, Boston, Massachusetts

·          (Facilitator: Jacob Park)

Rotch 109

3:30pm

Coffee, tea

Rotch Lobby

 

 

 

3:45pm – 4:30pm

“Until We Meet Again” – Summing Up & Discussion of Next Steps

Ø       Frances Hines, Research Manager, Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS), Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

Ø       Kurt Fischer, Workshop Co-Chair, Greening of Industry Network

Ø       Ralph Meima, Workshop Co-Chair, SIT

Rotch 108/109

5:00pm

Adjourn.  Farewell Gathering (Cash bar)

McNeill’s Pub,

90 Elliot Street, Brattleboro