We are not planning any in-person events for most of 2021. All upcoming meetings will be held on Zoom.
IMPORTANT: Registrations must arrive one half hour prior to event in order to guarantee entrance. If we are unable to connect you, a YouTube video of the program will be sent to you within 24 hours. Tickets are non-refundable.

All previous programs (listed below under Past Events) are available on our private YouTube channel for the same price as the original program. You can order the YouTube link by typing in the name of speaker and by Clicking Here.

FRIDAY, MARCH 12 at 4:00 pm PST
$15 for Praxis Members ($20 for non-members) Registration: Click Here

DAVID KORTEN

Eco-nomics for an Ecological Civilization

David Korten (MBA, PhD) is an internationally-known author, speaker, engaged citizen, and former Harvard Business School professor. He lived and worked in international development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America for 30 years on a mission to end global poverty by spreading the secrets of U.S. business success. He now works to raise global consciousness on the social and environmental devastation wrought by the unrestrained abuses of power practiced by transnational corporations. His focus is on building understanding and commitment to humanity's imperative to transition to an Ecological Civilization, one that is grounded in strong local communities and supported by institutions, technology, and infrastructure. He issues a bold call to replace Wall Street's phantom wealth machine with a new financial system devoted to the needs of the real wealth Main Street economies. He is currently framing a life-centric Eco-nomics to displace the money-centric Ego-nomics that celebrates potentially terminal economics dysfunction.

David is co-founder of YES! Magazine, president of the Living Economics Forum, and a member of the Club of Rome. He writes a regular column for YES! and is the author of numerous books, including Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth; Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth; and the international best-seller, When Corporations Rule the World.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 19 at 4:00 pm PST

$15 for Praxis Members ($20 for non-members) Registration: Click Here

ELISABET SAHTOURIS

Elisabet Sahtouris is an evolutionary biologist, futurist, and sustainability consultant to businesses, government agencies, and other organizations. She has worked in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Europe, Asia, and Africa. She holds a PhD in evolutionary biology from Dalhousie University in Nova, Scotia, Canada and is on the faculty of Chaminade University in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she teaches in the School of Business & Communication MBA program. She is helping redesign the program for entrepreneurship in local living economies. She is a citizen of the U.S. and her native Greece.

Elisabet has appeared in several documentary films and is the author of Earth Dance: Living Systems in Evolution, A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us, Biology Revisioned, Gaia's Dance: The Story of Earth and Us, and others. She is an unusual mix of evolutionary biologist and engaging storyteller, able to weave a compelling narrative about our evolutionary process and its cooperatives nature through time.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 26 at 4:00 pm PST
$15 for Praxis Members ($20 for non-members) Registration: Click Here

LENNY SIEGEL

Life-long Activism for Peace, Justice, and the Planet: The Struggles Continue

From radical activist to becoming a member of Mountain View's planning commission, city council, and finally presiding as Mayor of this Silicon Valley town, Lenny Siegel's activism has spanned many roles through the years. In addition to being a key player in Stanford University's anti-war movement in the 60s and early 70s, Lenny was a leader of the Stanford chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Stanford Anti-Draft Union, and the April Third Movement. He also coordinates a national network of Stanford Alumni activists who have been meeting every five years and sharing information via e-mail.

Lenny is the author of the just-published Disturbing the War: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford out of Southeast Asia. He has been President of the Pacific Studies Center, has served as Executive Director of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight, and he is also one of the environmental movement's leading experts on military environmental issues. He has founded several non-governmental organizations, including the Mountain View Housing Justice Coalition, Mountain View Voices for Peace & Justice, and the Alliance for a New Moffett Field. His other books include The High Cost of High Tech, and The Dark Side of the Chip. A life-long activist, Lenny was a Bernie Sanders delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 2016.

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Other Praxis Events:

Friday, March 5 at 4:00 pm PST - Praxis Discussion meeting - Free for Praxis Members

Sunday, March 7 at 1:00 pm PST - Praxis Book Club meets
We are reading various books by Hannah Arendt and reporting on them.

PAST EVENTS
YouTube Video links for most of these programs are available, but you must register for them and put the name of the speaker in the Events box. Register Here.

Friday, Feb. 26 - ELLIE COHEN
The Path to Net-Negative Emissions by 2030: The Solutions Exist

Friday, Feb. 19 - ANDREW KIMBRELL
The Great Transformation II - Toward an Ecological Society

Friday, Feb. 12 - DAVID TALBOT
The David Talbot Show

Friday, Jan. 29 - PETER BARNES
Our: The Case for Universal Property

Jan. 22 - ANU PARTANEN
Learning From the Nordic Countries

Friday, Jan. 8 -ELLEN BROWN
A Financial Reset for the People

Friday, Dec. 11 - MARJORIE COHN
Could Trump Still Steal the Election? The Attempted Coup

Friday, Nov. 27 - HAZEL HENDERSON
Fixing the Money Meme

Friday, Novenber 13 - Public Banking Panel
Sushil Jacob, Chris Petlock, and Shelly Browning
How we can finance the Green New Deal, Affordable Housing, Infrastructure Repairs, and more.

Friday, October 23 - MARY MCDEVITT, M.D. - FREE
Presentation on COVID and the Vaccines in Development

Friday, Oct. 16 - Uncivil Liberties: The Pitfalls of Libertarianism
Ben Boyce, Gus diZerega, Barry Spector - Moderator: Georgia Kelly

Friday, Oct. 9 - NINA SIMONS
Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature

Friday, Oct. 2 - DAVID TALBOT
The 2020 Presidential Race, the Back Story and Related Themes from his Books

Thursday, Sept. 24 - THOM HARTMANN
The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream

Thursday, Sept. 17 - ERIC UTNE
Feeling Hopeless? Embrace it. And, then Take Action

Thursday, Sept. 3 - NORMAN SOLOMON
Report on the Democratic National Convention and Plans for the 2020 Election

Friday, August 21 - GEORGIA KELLY
The Mondragón Cooperatives and Social Transformation

Friday, August 7 - RICHARD TARNAS
Is Humanity Going Through an Initiatory Crisis?

Friday, July 31 - SUSAN NEIMAN
Learning From the Germans

Friday, July 24 - SWAMI BEYONDANANDA, aka Steve Bhaerman

Friday, July 17 - RIANE EISLER, Nurturing Our Humanity, author of "The Chalice and the Blade

Friday, June 26 - GAYLE MCLAUGHLIN, Former Mayor of Richmond, CA
How a Progressive Alliance Can Change Culture

Friday, June 19 - Economic Cooperation: Worker Ownership in NY, CA, and SPAIN
With Omar Freilla, Ana Aguirre, and Tim Huet

Friday, June 12
SAM KEEN - Sometimes "Nothing" is a Real Cool Hand, A Philosopher's Perspective

Friday, May 29, 2020
DAVID COBB - Cooperation Humboldt: A solidarity Economy

May 15, 2020
NORMAN SOLOMON - Progressive Politics and Obstacles in the Democratic Party

Friday, May 7, 2020
JODIE EVANS (Code Pink) & LEONARDO FLORES - Time for a New Good Neighbor Policy, Hands off Latin America

Friday, May 1, 2020
DAVID & FRAN KORTEN - From Emergency to Emergence: Defining the Opportunities

Friday, April 24 - Special Earth Day program on Zoom
RICHARD HEINBERG - Earth Day 50 Under Lockdown: Ecology During and After the Pandemic

Friday, April 17, 2020 - On Praxis Zoom series
FRED FREUNDLICH, on the Mondragón Cooperatives in Spain

Friday, April 10 - On Praxis Zoom series
TOM GRECO - Beyond Money

Friday, March 27 - On Praxis Zoom series
JEREMY LENT, Cultural Historian

Thursday, March 5, 2020
FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ

Sunday, February 9, 2020
DAVID TALBOT

Sunday, November 10, 2019
GEORGE LAKOFF, Cognitive Scientist, author

June 16 - 22, 2019 - Mondragón, SPAIN
Mondragón Seminar & Tour

Saturday, April 13, 2019
PETER GABEL, author and founder of New College of CA

Tuesday, April 23, 2019
MICHAEL BRUNE, Executive Director of the Sierra Club

Sunday, January 27, 2019
GAYLE MCLAUGHLIN, Former Mayor of Richmond, CA and founder of the California Progressive Alliance

Sunday, December 2, 2018
H. BRUCE FRANKLIN, Cultural Historian and Author

Monday, October 22, 2018
GAR ALPEROVITZ, Historian and Political Economist

October 22, 2018
ELLEN BROWN, Attorney, Co-Founder of the Public Banking Institute, Author

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