The theme of this year’s lectures and presentations will be:

• Social and Environmental Justice
• Ecological Economics Education, Practice and Communication
• Rethinking Economics and Redefining Progress
• Planning, Policy and Strategies for Resilience.
• Balancing the Scale
• Solving Real Problems

We are excited to have a number of passionate and compelling speakers joining us. Other speakers scheduled to appear include:

• Dr. Peter Victor, founding president of the Canadian Society of Ecological Economics, Molson Prize recipient and author of “Managing without Growth. Slower by Design, not Disaster.”
• Dr. Stephen Quilley, Director of Development for the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI) and core faculty for the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR).
• Dr. Nancy Olewiler, Professor in the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University, commissioner on Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission, member of the National Statistics Council and Chair of Canada’s Macroeconomic Accounts Advisory Committee.
• Dr Rees is a long-term member of the Global Ecological Integrity Group, a Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute, a founding member and past President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics and founding Director of the OneEarth Initiative.
• Dr. Peter Brown, Research Scholar at the Center for Humans and Nature in New York, and founder of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, as well as the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.  Currently a professor at McGill University.
• Dr. Jon Erickson, Emmy Award winning producer, author and Professor of Ecological Economics and the Interim Dean of the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont.
• Carol Anne Hilton, MBA is the CEO of Transformation an award winning Social and Economic development company. Carol Anne is a recognized leading First Nation’s business entrepreneur with a Masters Degree in Business Management from the University of Hertfordshire, England. Carol Anne is from the Nuu chah nulth Nation.
• Mark Anielski is an expert in measuring the sustainable well-being of communities, having developed the Genuine Wealth model and Genuine Progress Indicators (GPI) as new well-being evaluation tools. He is also recognized as one of the world’s experts in valuing nature’s capital in national income accounts and greening the GDP of nations.
• Peter Timmerman is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University Toronto. His main areas of research currently include environmental philosophy and ethics, with special reference to topics such as nuclear waste management, climate change, and ecological economics.

The conference is looking to communicate ecological economics to new audiences, particularly business professionals.  For complete information about the event, speakers and the deadline for proposals, please visit http://www.canussee2015.org/.  This is a great opportunity to learn from the leaders today and plan for tomorrow while strengthening your network and corporate sustainability plan.  As a participant, you will be able to attend all the sessions, presentations and networking events.  We hope to see you in Vancouver this October for CANUSSEE 2015!