At 5pm on Friday, October 11th, a panel discussion titled  “Divestment Meets Local Reinvestment” will explore the relationships between fossil fuel divestment, resilient local economies, and local investment.
The panel will be held in the UVM Davis Center’s Maple Ballroom.
Speakers include Maeve McBride (coordinator of 350 Vermont), Bruce Seifer (author of Sustainable Communities: Creating a Durable Local Economy, and former assistant director of Burlington’s Community & Economic Development Office), and Michael Shuman (nationally-acclaimed author of Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity, and director of research for Cutting Edge Capital and the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies).

This event represents a broadening of the fossil fuel divestment movement beyond the normal environmentalist critique and into the realm of local economics. It is an attempt to force these two worlds to collide and foster a more rigorous discourse with regard to where we put our money.

The event is a part of New Economy Week, and is sponsored by the following organizations: the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund, the Flexible Capital Fund, Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility, the Donella Meadows Institute, Global Community Initiatives, Gross National Happiness USA, Green Mountain Global Forum, the New Economics Coalition, Digalicious, Student Climate Culture, 350 Vermont, and Vermonters for a New Economy.

The event is FREE! and include free food and music by the Bumping Jones!