Category: Speaker

Fred Colgan

October 30, 2016

Fred Colgan from InStove (www.instove.org) will be bringing a demonstration model of their newest stove – a 20 liter version of the larger units. This one is designed to be carried as checked baggage without oversize or overweight fees, so it works really well for taking stoves to projects around the world. Also, Fred’s wife, Lise, will share her Africa experiences from a woman’s perspective. InStove implements safe, clean, and highly efficient institutional cookstoves and allied technologies in an integrated approach to serving the world’s poorest communities.

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Humanist Community Forum (2016-10-30): InStove (Fred and Lise Colgan) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

Susan Gerbic

October 16, 2016

Susan Gerbic will be presenting on the fun and follies of the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia project (giving an overview as well as a few key examples of recent work). Ms. Gerbic will also be keen to answer all your Wikipedia questions. You should leave this lecture knowing a lot more about the 10th most popular website, and how important its use is to educating the world.

 

Humanist Community Forum (2016-10-16): Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia (Susan Gerbic) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

Byron Kerr

October 9, 2016

Byron Kerr from LifeRing Secular Recovery (www.lifering.org) will discuss the work of LifeRing, which is an abstinence-based, worldwide network of individuals seeking to live in recovery from addiction to alcohol or to other non-medically indicated drugs. LifeRing offers peer-to-peer support that encourages personal growth and continued learning through personal empowerment (e.g., by developing, refining, and sharing personal strategies for continued abstinence and crafting a rewarding life in recovery).

 

Humanist Community Forum (2016-10-09): Is addiction a choice, a disease, or a morality issue? (Byron Kerr) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

Laurie Powell

October 2, 2016

Doctor of Psychology Laurie Powell is a local Humane Educator for the Ethical Choices Program (http://www.ethicalchoicesprogram.org/), an international non-profit that shares information about the impact of modern animal agriculture on human health, the environment, and the welfare of other species. The program provides free presentations to high schools, colleges, and adult organizations, empowering viewers to make more thoughtful and responsible food choices. By providing only current research and information, they help others examine their food choices in a nonjudgmental, honest and respectful way.

Fred Edwords

September 25, 2016

The American Humanist Association uses “Good without a God” as its motto. But how does one actually do that? Doesn’t morality require some absolute point of reference, such as a god? If not, where do moral values come from? And without that ultimate reference point, how can we argue that one course of action is more virtuous than another? Fred Edwords (former AHA Executive Director, Humanist magazine editor, and United Coalition of Reason national director, and current AHA director of planned giving) will show how our laws, ethics, and morality turn out to be rooted in human experience and make no sense outside of it.

 

Humanist Community Forum (2016-09-25): The Human Basis of Laws and Ethics (Fred Edwords) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.