Biographies of Participants
TOM ATHANASIOU
EcoEquity
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In the late 1990s,
Tom Athanasiou began
to focus on the justice aspects of the
climate crisis. In 2000, with Paul Baer,
he founded EcoEquity, an activist think
tank focused on the development and
promotion of fair and potentially viable
approaches to climate stabilization. He
has been extremely active in the global
climate justice movement and was one of
the organizers of the Climate Action Network’s 2002 Climate Equity Summit in Bali. Also in 2002, with Baer, he co-authored Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming. Since then Tom has co-coordinated the "Greenhouse Development Rights" group, which aims to develop an international climate protection framework designed to clarify the real challenge—holding global warming below a catastrophic level while at the same time preserving the right of all people to more than merely bare-bones “human development.” In
his spare time Tom is developing
a new book, the working title of
which is A New Deal for the Greenhouse Century.
MEGAN QUINN BACHMAN
Community Solution
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Megan Quinn Bachman is the outreach director of The Community Solution, a non-profit organization in Yellow Springs, Ohio which promotes the re-emergence of the small community and a more agrarian and equitable low-energy-use way of life as the solution to Peak Oil. She has been writing and speaking on peak oil and its community-based solutions for more than four years. She served as master of ceremonies for the First, Second, and Third U.S. Conferences on Peak Oil and Community Solutions in Yellow Springs and at the Peak Oil and Environment conference in Washington, DC in May 2006. Megan graduated with a degree in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she studied peak oil and its implications for U.S. foreign policy and studied abroad at the University of Havana in Cuba. Her articles on peak oil have appeared in Communities magazine, Permaculture Activist, Vermont Commons, Kindred and WellBeing. Megan co-wrote and co-produced her organization's new documentary, "The
Power of Community: How Cuba
Survived Peak Oil."
MAUDE BARLOW
Council of Canadians
National chairperson of The Council
of Canadians, Canada’s largest citizens’ advocacy organization with members and chapters across Canada, Maude Barlow is also the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project which works to stop commodification of the world’s water. She serves on the boards of the International Forum on Globalization and Food and Water Watch and is a councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. Maude is the recipient of numerous educational awards and has received honorary doctorates from six Canadian universities for her social justice work. In addition to being nominated for the “1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005” she is a recipient of the “2005/2006 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship” and the “2005 Right Livelihood Award”. She is the best selling author or co-author of 16 books, including Too Close For Comfort: Canada’s Future Within Fortress North America; and Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop Corporate Theft of the World’s
Water (with Tony Clarke), now
published in 47 countries. Her
latest is Blue Covenant: The
Global Water Crisis and the Fight
for the Right to Water.
DEBI BARKER
International Forum on Globalization
While working for the Foundation
for Deep Ecology in 1993, Debi
Barker helped to organize seminal
meetings of NGO leaders concerned
about globalization, out of which
the IFG was created in 1994.
She is the author of a new IFG publication—The
Rise and Predictable Fall of
Industrial Agriculture and co-authored
Invisible Government-The World Trade Organization:
Global Government For The New Millennium
with Jerry Mander and has edited
several IFG publications including Blue
Gold: The Global Water Crisis and the Commodification
of the World's Water Supply and Views From
the South. She serves on the board of the Center for Food Safety
and was a former board member of the Sustainable Cotton Project.
DAVID BATKER
Earth Economics
David Batker is the founder and executive director of Earth Economics. He completed his graduate training in economics under Herman Daly, one of the world's foremost ecological economists. Dave has taught in the Training Department of the World Bank, and has worked for Greenpeace International, specializing in trade and international finance. He also worked for two years with the Rural Reconstruction Movement, a Philippine non-profit group dedicated to ecologically sound community-based development. David's responsibilities as a member of the board of directors are focused primarily on fundraising, outreach, public relations, administration, budgetary management, strategic planning and board development.
WALDEN BELLO
Focus on the Global South
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Walden Bello is executive director
of Focus on the Global South,
a research, analysis, and advocacy
institute based in Bangkok, Thailand,
and a board member of the International
Forum on Globalization. He is
the author or co-author of ten books on
Asian economic and political developments,
as well as numerous articles in international
periodicals and magazines, including Foreign
Policy, World Policy Journal, and Le Monde Diplomatique. His book
Dragons In Distress: Asia's Miracle Economies In Crisis, published
in 1990, is widely regarded as a classic that "predicted" the collapse of the East Asian economies in 1997. A Siamese Tragedy: Development And Degradation In Modern Thailand, is a bestseller that has been described by Asiaweek as the book to read "if you want to understand where Thailand went wrong." Formerly
executive director of the Institute
for Food and Development Policy,
Walden also currently serves
as a professor of sociology and
public administration at the
University of the Philippines.
TOM BUTLER
Foundation for Deep Ecology
Conservation activist and writer
Tom Butler helped found the journal
Wild Earth in 1991, and served
as its editor from 1997–2005. His book Wild Earth: Wild Ideas for a World Out of Balance collected essays from the journal’s first decade and featured the writings of numerous conservation visionaries. Tom was a co-founder and continues to serve as a board member of the Northeast Wilderness Trust, the only regional land trust in the northeastern United States focused exclusively on protecting forever-wild landscapes. He currently works on editorial and ecological projects for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Tom’s forthcoming book, in collaboration with landscape photographer Antonio Vizcaíno,
celebrates natural areas protected
through private philanthropy.
He is presently editing a book
on the ecological and social
consequences of mountaintop-removal
mining in Appalachia.
JOHN CAVANAGH
Institute for Policy Studies
John Cavanagh is IFG board president and director of the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies. He is co-author of eleven books on the global economy, including Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible and Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order. He has written hundreds of articles in such publications as the Washington Post, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and The Nation. John has worked as an international economist for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and for the World Health Organization.
TONY CLARKE
Polaris Institute
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A long time political activist, Tony
Clarke is the director of the Polaris Institute in Canada, which works
with citizen movements to develop tools and strategies for challenging
corporate power in public policy making on key issues, both nationally
and internationally. At present, this work includes both energy and
water issues. On energy, he is actively involved in developing national
and U.S. related campaign work to stop the massive Canadian tar sands
production which has become the number one source of foreign oil imports
to the U.S. On water, he has done extensive campaign work on bottled
water, water privatization and bulk water exports and is now working
with partners in the global south in building regional movements to
address the new water wars emerging between city and countryside. Tony
is the author or co-author of several books including Blue Gold:
The Battle Against the Corporate Theft
of the World’s Water (with Maude Barlow) and Inside the Bottle: Exposing the Bottled Water Industry. He is also a member of the IFG board of directors.
JARED DUVAL
Sierra Student Coalition
Climate activist Jared Duval is the author of an upcoming book on solving the climate crisis, reinvigorating citizen-based democracy, and achieving sweeping reforms of the American political system. His book argues that a just and sustainable 21st century can be achieved if the current generation commits to urgently reclaiming our future through a newly broad-based and transformational approach to organizing and politics. From 2005 to September 2007 Jared was the national director of the Sierra Student Coalition, the national student chapter of the Sierra Club and the largest student environmental organization in America. Jared also served as the co-chair of the Steering Committee for the Energy Action Coalition, a coordinating body for the youth climate movement in the United States and Canada. Jared graduated summa cum laude from Wheaton College in 2005 and is a David Brower youth award winner, a two-time Morris K. Udall Scholar, and a Harry S. Truman scholar
JOSHUA FARLEY
The Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
University of Vermont
An assistant professor in Community
Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration, Joshua Farley is also a fellow of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics (GIEE) at the University of Vermont. His interdisciplinary academic background includes degrees in biology, international affairs and neoclassical economics. Distressed that neoclassical economics ignores physical and ecological principles as well as issues of social justice, Joshua taught himself ecological economics, and with Herman Daly has authored one of the first textbooks in the field. Interested in both theory and applications, he has been involved with a number of problem-based projects around the world. Prior to his current job, he served as program director of the Centre for Rainforest Studies in Yungaburra, Australia, and executive director of the University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics. He serves on numerous boards— the
Robert Schalkenbach Foundation,
Earth Economics, and the U.S. Society
for Ecological Economics, as well
as the directory board of the Scale
Project.
ROSS GELBSPAN
heatisonline.org
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Ross Gelbspan was a reporter and editor for 31 years at The Philadelphia Bulletin, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. At the Globe, he conceived, directed and edited a series of articles that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984. Following his retirement from daily journalism, he published The Heat Is On: the Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription. In 2004, he published a second book, Boiling Point, which received the lead review in the Sunday New York Times Book Review section. The review was written by Al Gore. Boiling Point was also rated one of the top science books of 2004 by Discover magazine.
Recently, Ross was one of several
climate advocates featured in
a new film, "Everything's Cool." He has traveled and spoken extensively on the climate crisis, including appearances at The World Economic Forum, Renaissance Weekend, “Nightline,” “All Things Considered,” “Talk of the Nation,” "Now", "Frontline," and “ABC World News Tonight.” His
articles on the climate issue
have appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The American Prospect and
a number of other newspapers
and magazines. Ross has met privately
with executives of Shell/EGYPT
in Cairo, ExxonMobil and several
other oil companies – and attended
several rounds of international
climate negotiations. He maintains
the website www.heatisonline.org.
SUSAN GEORGE
Transnational Institute
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Susan George is the author of
more than a dozen books and is chair
of the Planning Board of the
Transnational Institute, a decentralized
fellowship of scholars living
throughout the world whose work
is intended to contribute to
social justice and who are active
in civil society in their own countries.
Susan served as vice- president of
ATTAC France (Association for Taxation
of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens).
Her most recent book is Nous, Peuples
d'Europe, which will also be published
in Spanish and English. Her most recent
book in English is Another World is
Possible if.... Her academic degrees
are in French/Government (B.A. Smith
College, USA); Philosophy ([Licence ès Philsophie, Sorbonne) and Political Studies (Doctorate, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, University of Paris). Her current work concerns various aspects of neoliberal globalization—particularly the World Trade Organization, international financial institutions and North-South relations. She helped to lead the campaign in France to defeat the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and is now engaged in the campaign to democratize the WTO, including the movement of "GATS-Free Zones" to
which over 1500 local governments
in Europe now belong.
TOM GOLDTOOTH
Indigenous
Environmental Network
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Tom B.K Goldtooth is the national
coordinator of the Indigenous
Environmental Network, which
is an alliance of Native grassroots
groups and communities working
on environmental issues. He has been a leader within Native social, economic
and environmental justice movements for over 20 years. During the 1990s, he provided
local, regional, national, and international leadership to Indigenous Tribal
Nations and Native grassroots communities concerning environmental protection
policies on and near Native lands. From the historic 1991 People of Color Environmental
Justice Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., to the present he has been an
activist, advocate, organizer and policy maker within the environmental justice
movement both within Native communities and beyond. He has been involved in building
coalitions and linkages between the Native community, people of color communities,
and environmental and health organizations. Tom is a founding board member of
the Washington Office on Environmental Justice (WOEJ), the Environmental Justice
Fund Initiative, the Great Lakes Regional Indigenous Environmental Justice Advisory
Council Sub-Committee on Waste Facility and Siting, and has been instrumental
in the creation of the Indigenous Sub-Committee at the WOEJ to address environmental
justice issues impacting Tribal Nations.JEFF
GOODELL
Author
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind
America's Energy Future is Jeff Goodell's latest book, which was chosen
as one of the best nonfiction books of 2006 by Kirkus Reviews. He
is the author of three previous books, including Sunnyvale, a memoir
about growing up in Silicon Valley that was selected as a New York
Times Notable Book. Our Story, an account of the nine miners trapped
in a Pennsylvania coal mine, was a New York Times bestseller. He is
a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a frequent contributor
to the New York Times
Magazine
CLAIRE GREENSFELDER
Plutonium Free Future
Claire Greensfelder is currently working as coordinator of
the Energy and Climate Policy Working Groups and Director of Development and Communications for the International Forum on Globalization while also serving as a director of Plutonium Free Future/INOCHI – a Japanese/US campaign to promote safe energy and the abolition of nuclear power and weapons. Formerly Nuclear Free Future Campaign director for Greenpeace USA. Greensfelder is a lifelong peace and ecology activist and writer. She has worked as staff or consultant to some three dozen non-governmental organizations, including Friends of the Earth, the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), the UC Berkeley Peace and Conflict Studies Program, the Sierra Club and the Foundation for Social Innovations: US/USSR. She is co-author of Plutonium Free Future’s popular Safe Energy Handbook (translated in 14 languages) and is an occasional programmer for KPFA-Pacifica Radio in Berkeley, California where she produced and hosted “Living in the Nuclear Age” from 1986-1990. She recently collaborated with US Congresswoman Barbara Lee to establish the Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Center for Nonviolence, Equality, Youth and Ecology in Oakland, California. Claire holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a Diplôme Supérieure from the Université Aix-Marseille
in France.
RANDY HAYES
International Forum on Globalization
Long-time activist Randy Hayes is founder and board president of Rainforest Action Network, and senior staff
with IFG. Believing that the international and national levels have failed to date to orchestrate the shift to a
deeper ecological sustainability, Randy calls for a green city-led, bottom-up movement to revolutionize the
economy. He sees this as our best shot to protect the large natural systems that nurture all life as well as to
foster dignified lives for all people. Randy is a veteran of many high-visibility corporate accountability
campaigns and has advocated for the rights of Indigenous peoples. He worked as the president to the City of
San Francisco Commission on the Environment and director of sustainability in the office of Oakland with
Mayor Jerry Brown. Randy has a master’s degree in environmental planning
from San Francisco State
University; his master’s thesis was the award-winning film The Four
Corners, which won the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award for “Best Student Documentary” in
1983. He is a contributing author
to Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible.
RICHARD HEINBERG
Author
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Richard Heinberg is the author of six books including The Party's Over: Oil: War and the Fate of Industrial
Societies, Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, and The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan
to Avert Oil Wars. He is a journalist, educator, editor, lecturer, and a core faculty member of New College of
California, where he teaches
courses on “Energy and Society” and “Culture, Ecology
and Sustainable
Community.” Richard’s monthly MuseLetter was nominated in 1994 by Utne Reader for an Alternative Press
Award and has been included in Utne's annual list of Best Alternative Newsletters. His essays and articles
have appeared in many journals including Z Magazine, The Futurist, Earth Island Journal, Wild Matters,
Alternative Press Review, and The Sun.
MARY ANNE HITT
Appalachian Voices
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Mary Anne Hitt is the executive director of Appalachian Voices, a nonprofit organization that brings people
together to solve the environmental problems having the greatest impact on the central and southern
Appalachian Mountains. Mary Anne is currently a fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. Her
previous experience includes working as executive director of both The Ecology Center and the Southern
Appalachian Biodiversity Project. She was a recipient of the Len and Sandy Sargent Environmental Advocacy
Award at the University of Montana, where she received her Master's of Science in environmental studies, and
was a Whittle Scholar at the University of Tennessee and founder of the campus organization Students
Promoting Environmental Action in Knoxville. She grew up in the mountains of east Tennessee, just outside
Gatlinburg and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
ROB HOPKINS
Department of Philosophy
University of Sheffield
Currently researching a Ph.D. at Plymouth University, Rob Hopkins is looking at how communities can
prepare for climate change and peak oil. Hopkins is also founder of Transition Town Totnes, the first transition
town project in the UK, and publishes www.transitionculture.org, a blog exploring the aforementioned issues.
A teacher of permaculture and practical sustainability for over 10 years, Hopkins has built with strawbales and
cob, and has a particular passion for walnut trees.
WES JACKSON
The Land Institute
One of the pioneers of sustainable agriculture, Wes Jackson is a geneticist-agronomist and co-founder and
president of The Land Institute. He earned a B.A. in biology from Kansas Wesleyan, an M.A. in botany from
University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. in genetics from North Carolina State University. He established and served
as chair of one of the U.S.'s first environmental studies programs at California State University-Sacramento
and then returned to his native Kansas to found The Land Institute in 1976. He is the author of several books
including New Roots for Agriculture and Becoming Native to This Place and is widely recognized as a leader
in the international movement for a more sustainable agriculture. Life magazine named Wes Jackson as one of
18 individuals they predict will
be among the 100 "important Americans of the 20th century." In
the November
2005 issue, Smithsonian named
him one of “35 Who Made a Difference.” He is a recipient
of the Pew
Conservation Scholars award (1990), a MacArthur Fellowship (1992), and Right Livelihood Award, known as
“Alternative Nobel Prize” (2000).
MARTIN KHOR
Third World Network
Formerly a professor of political economy, Martin Khor is president of the Third World Network-Penang,
Malaysia, the developing world’s leading organization focused
on global economic policies,
with offices in
Asia, Africa, and South America. An adviser to several United Nations commissions, he served as research
director of the Consumer’s Association of Penang, as well as
vice-president of Sahabat Alam
Malaysia (SAM)
and Friends of the Earth-Malaysia. Martin won the Right Livelihood Award in 1988. He is the author of
numerous books and articles regarding trade, the environment, and the Malaysian economy, and is currently
the editor of Third World Resurgence and Third World Economics magazines. His books include The WTO
and the Proposed Multilateral Investment Agreement: Implications for Developing Countries and Proposed
Positions and The Malaysian Economy: Structures and Dependence. For the past several years, Martin has
been in Geneva monitoring the WTO's pre-ministerial negotiations. He is a member of the board of directors
for the International Forum on Globalization.
Q’ORIANKA KILCHER
Indigenous Activist, Actress,
and star of “The New World”
Q’orianka Kilcher is a Peruvian/American actress, singer/songwriter
and activist of Quechua/Huachipaeri
and
Swiss/American descent, known
for her starring role as Pocahontas
in Terrence Malick’s film “The
New
World.” At age 17 she is an award-winning actress who has received high critical acclaim. Q’orianka
is
committed to using her celebrity to speak out on Indigenous peoples rights, environmental sustainability,
corporate accountability and basic human rights. As youth ambassador she lends her voice and gives
presentations to various organizations such as Amazon Watch, Amnesty International, the Interethnic
Association on the Development
of the Peruvian Amazon (AIDESEP),
Thursday’s Child, the Community
School Of the Arts Foundation and many others. A driving force in encouraging positive environmental
choices for youth, she is the
world’s first teenager to drive a zero emissions hydrogen fuel
cell car and is the
founder of ‘on-Q initiative’ a youth-driven grassroots
organization dedicated to fostering
social change by
supporting environmental, human rights and indigenous issues through youth empowerment, education, media
support and grassroots campaigns.
JUTTA KILL
FERN (Forests and the European Union Resource Network) / SinksWatch Initiative
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FERN is a non-governmental organization
that works to achieve greater environmental
and social justice, focussing
on forests and forest peoples'
rights in the policies and practices
of the European Union. Jutta
Kill, whose formal education
is in forest ecology, has worked as climate
campaigner for FERN since 2000 and is co-founder
of the Durban Group for Climate Justice.
FERN’s climate campaign has contributed significantly to the Durban Group critique of carbon trading as an unsuitable instrument to tackle climate change in a just and effective manner and has become a leading voice in exposing the failings of carbon ‘offset’ schemes and proposing just and effective alternatives to offset trading. Since 2005, FERN’s
climate campaign has begun to document
and analyze the impacts on local
livelihoods of EU biofuel targets
and why such an approach is likely
to exacerbate the forest crisis
and delay meaningful action towards
a climate-proof transport and
energy policy in the EU.
MICHAEL KLARE
Peace and World Security Studies
Hampshire College
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Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies, a position he has held since 1985. Before assuming his present post, he served as Director of the Program on Militarism and Disarmament at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. He has written widely on U.S. defense policy, the arms trade, and world security affairs, including such books as: Blood
and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences
of America’s Growing
Dependency on Imported Petroleum; Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict; and Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws. Michael is also the defense correspondent of The Nation, and a contributing editor of Current History. He has also contributed articles to Arms Control Today, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harper's, International Security, Issues in Science and Technology, and many other journals. He serves on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association, and the advisory board of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch; he is also a member of the Committee on International Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Michael received his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University in 1963 and 1968, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute in 1976.
DAVID KORTEN
People-Centered Development Forum
"Humanity's Epic Choice"
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Author of When Corporations Rule the World, an international bestseller that helped expose the economic injustice being advanced through free trade agreements, Dr. David Korten has over thirty-five years of experience in preeminent business, academic, and international development institutions as well as in contemporary citizen action organizations. He is founder and president of The People-Centered Development Forum, a global alliance dedicated to the creation of just, inclusive, and sustainable societies through voluntary citizen action, co-founder and board chair of Positive Futures Network, and publisher of YES! A Journal of Positive Futures,
a quarterly magazine. David earned
an MBA and Ph.D. from Stanford
University, served as a faculty
member at Harvard University’s
Graduate School of Business,
and conducted research at the
Harvard Institute for International
Development. He served as a Ford
Foundation project specialist
in Manila and as Asia Regional
Advisor on Development Management
for the US Agency for International
Development. Along with his long-standing
commitments and active involvement
in organizations engaged in creating a better future, David most
recently wrote The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.
SMITU KOTHARI
Intercultural Resources
Smitu Kothari is one of the founders
of Lokayan ("Dialogue of the People"), and Intercultural
Resources, two
centers in Delhi promoting exchange between non-party political formations and concerned scholars and other
citizens from India and the rest of the world. Trained in physics, communications and sociology, he is a
political organizer in ecological, cultural and human rights issues striving to collectively forge a national and
global alternative that is socially just and ecologically sane. He has been a visiting professor at the Tata
Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi and at Princeton and
Cornell universities. He is the president of the International Group for Grassroots Initiatives, and a
contributing editor of The Ecologist and Development. His critiques of contemporary economic and cultural
development, the relationship
of nature, culture and democracy,
developmental displacement, people’s
governance and social movements have been widely published. Among the books he has edited are: The Value
of Nature: Ecological Politics in India, Voices of Sanity, In Search of Democratic Space, Out of the Nuclear
Shadow (with Zia Mian), Rethinking Human Rights: Challenges for Theory and Action, and The Non-Party
Political Process: Uncertain Alternatives (with H. Sethi). He is currently working on two books, Ecological
Justice: Nature, Culture and Democracy and Freedom Struggles: Adivasi Movements in India.
STEVE KRETZMANN
Oil Change International
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Steve Kretzmann is executive director of Oil Change International, which he founded in order to carry out
strategic, systemic campaigns
focused on the oil industry—such as Separation of Oil & State
and End Oil Aid.
Described by Rolling Stone magazine
as “a whip crack petroleum economics analyst,” he has
worked on
energy issues and the global oil industry for the last seventeen years. After eight years with Greenpeace USA,
Steve served as the environmental advisor to Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni
People in Nigeria, and was a co-founder of the human rights and environmental organization Project
Underground. In 1997, he conducted the first independent soil and water samples in Ogoni, which proved the
Ogoni claim of Shell's pollution and double standards on their land. While at the Institute for Policy Studies,
Steve helped coordinate a global
civil society effort to engage in
the World Bank’s Extractive
Industries
Review, which recommended an end to Bank support for coal and oil projects. He has authored numerous
articles and reports and is a regular commentator on issues of corporate accountability, transparency, the global
oil industry, environmental and human rights.
FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ
Small Planet Institute
The author of sixteen books, beginning with the 1971 three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet, Frances
Moore Lappé awakened a whole generation to the human-made
causes of hunger and the significance
of our everyday choices. Her
newest book, Getting a Grip: Clarity,
Creativity, & Courage in a World Gone Mad,
is forthcoming in October 2007.
In 2002, Frances and her daughter
Anna Lappé published the
30th anniversary sequel to Diet, entitled Hope’s
Edge: The Next Diet for a Small
Planet; the
two are also co-founders of the
Cambridge-based Small Planet
Institute. In 1975, with Joseph
Collins she launched the California-based
Institute for Food and Development
Policy (Food First) to educate
Americans about the causes of
world hunger. In 1990, Frances
co-founded the Center for Living
Democracy, and she served as
founding editor of the Center’s American News Service,
which placed stories of citizen
problem solving in nearly half
the nation’s largest
newspapers. Among her other books
are World Hunger: Twelve Myths and Rediscovering America’s
Values. She has received 17 honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions, including the University of Michigan, Kenyon College, Allegheny College, and Lewis and Clark College. In 1987, Frances became the fourth American to receive the Right Livelihood Award.
SARA LARRAIN
Chile Sustentable
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Co-founder of the Chilean national political party, the Partido Alternative de Cambio, Sara Larrain coordinates the Chilean Ecological Action Network, founded the Chilean office of Greenpeace International and was also the leading independent candidate in the 1999 Chilean presidential election. Sara's top priority is to expose the reality of the neoliberal development model as manifest in the Chilean experience. With long experience in the
peace, human rights and environmental movements Sara has seen and criticized the model from numerous points of view. After years of working on single issue campaigns, she has concluded that single issue victories really change very little so long as the development model itself remains intact, and is working to accomplish this through Chile Sustenable and as a board member of the International Forum on Globalization.
ANNIE
LEONARD
Funders Working Group for Sustainable Consumption and Production
For over 18 years Annie Leonard
has worked on waste and sustainability
campaigns internationally and has
traveled to over 40 countries in
her work on these issues. Ann served
as the international co-coordinator
of GAIA, a global NGO alliance
promoting safe and sustainable alternatives
to waste incineration. Prior to GAIA,
Ann coordinated the international team
of Health Care Without Harm, a coalition
working to green the health care industry
globally. Ann has also worked with
Greenpeace International’s Toxic Trade campaign, investigating the trade in hazardous wastes from the world’s
richest countries to the global
South. Her documentation and
exposes on specific cases of
international waste trade helped
bring about a UN treaty to stop
this practice. Ann has served
on the boards of the Asia-Pacific
Environmental Exchange, the Environmental
Health Fund, Clean Production Action,
the Grassroots Recycling Network,
the Global Greengrants Fund India
Board, and Greenpeace India as well
as the Steering Committee of Health
Care Without Harm and GAIA. She has
written and presented on waste, pollution
and sustainability issues at conferences
around the world and at settings ranging
from grassroots activist meetings
in India to testifying before the
U.S. Congress.
ARJUN MAKHIJANI
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
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Arjun Makhijani is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. He has authored and co-authored many articles, reports, and books on nuclear weapons related security, health and environmentalcissues. He has testified before the US Congress, served on governmental scientific advisory committees, and written for a variety of publications, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He has appeared on national television and radio programs including ABC World News Tonight, William Buckley's Firing Line, and 60 Minutes. Arjun is principal editor of Nuclear Wastelands, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
JERRY MANDER
International Forum on Globalization
Jerry Mander is founder, and board member of the IFG, senior fellow at the Public Media Center, and author or coeditor of the best-selling books In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations; The Case Against the Global Economy and for a Turn Toward the Local (with Edward Goldsmith); Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television; and Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible (with John Cavanagh). He is also co-editor, with Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, of the recent IFG publication, Paradigm War: Indigenous Resistance to Economic Globalization.
BILL MCKIBBEN
Author
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Author and American environmentalist Bill McKibben writes frequently about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. His first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 after being serialized in The New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change. His most recent book, Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, published in March 2007, addresses what the author sees as shortcomings of the growth economy and envisions a transition to more local-scale enterprise. In January 2007 he founded Step It Up 2007 to demand that Congress enact curbs on carbon emissions that would cut global warming pollution 80 percent by 2050. With the help of six college students, he organized 1,400 global warming demonstrations across all 50 states of America. Bill is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He is also a board member and contributor to Grist Magazine. Bill
has been awarded Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Fellowships, and won the
Lannan Prize for nonfiction writing in 2000. He is a scholar in residence
at Middlebury College.
VICTOR MENOTTI
International Forum on Globalization
Victor Menotti is IFG's Program Director. He earned his degree in International Relations from UCLA. He has worked in numerous international NGOs and speaks several languages. After attending the Rio Earth Summit, he traveled to South America laying the groundwork for an international citizens' network on economic integration issues. In 1993, Victor was the editorial researcher for the Earth Island Press Book, The Case Against Free Trade, and coordinated the Clearcut book project for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. He is the author of the IFG report, Free Trade, Free Logging: How the World Trade Organization Undermines Global Forest Conservation, contributed a chapter on "WTO
and Native Sovereignty" in Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Economic Globalization, and author of WTO and Sustainable Fisheries for the Institute for Fisheries Resources.
JENNIFER MORGAN
Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G)
Jennifer Morgan is E3G’s Climate and Energy Security Director. She joined E3G in October 2006, on a two-year secondment from WWF International. Currently she serves as Senior Advisor to the German Chancellor?s Chief Advisor, Dr. Schellnhuber and leads E3G?s political and analytical work on EU relations with China and the United States, and the post-2012 regime, with a particular focus on the interchange of energy and climate security issues. Prior to joining E3G as climate change program director, Jennifer Morgan led the Global Climate Change Program of Worldwide Fund for Nature, present in over 30 countries around the world. She joined World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in July 1998, and headed the WWF delegation to the Kyoto Protocol climate negotiations. Jennifer formulated and advocated climate change policies on the international and national level and directed WWF’s
science, business and communications
efforts, acting as chief spokesperson
for the organization on climate
change. She has also served on
a number of boards including
the Climate Action Network, the
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Partnership and REN21. Before joining
WWF, Morgan worked for the U.S.
Climate Action Network. Morgan has
also worked for the International
Council for Local Environmental Issues
in Freiburg, Germany on the Cities
for Climate Protection campaign.
HELENA NORBERG-HODGE
International Society for Ecology and Culture
An internationally recognized pioneer of the worldwide localization movement, Helena Norberg-Hodge is a
leading analyst of the impact of the global economy on culture and agriculture. She is fluent in seven languages
and is the author of numerous works, including Bringing the Food Economy Home and the inspirational classic,
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh, which together with a film by the same name has been translated into
more than 40 languages. She is a recipient of the Alternative Nobel Prize, a founder of the International Forum
on Globalization and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture, or ISEC, which is renowned
for its groundbreaking work on localization, particularly in Ladakh on the Tibetan plateau. Helena is outlining
the problems of the globalized economy, in which the distance between production and consumption is ever-
increasing. She is also showing the social, economic and ecological benefits of strengthening and diversifying
local economies and shortening producer-consumer links.
MICHAEL NORTHROP
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Michael Northrop is program director
for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's
global and domestic Sustainable Development
program, where he focuses on climate
change, forest protection and marine
conservation. He moonlights as a
lecturer at Yale University where
he teaches a graduate course on environmental
campaigns at the Forest and Environmental
Studies School. Previous positions
have included a stint as executive
director of Ashoka, an international
development organization that seeks
and supports “public service entrepreneurs” working around the globe; at an investment bank, First Boston in New York; and as a teacher at Anatolia College in Greece and at Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia. Currently Michael serves on the advisory boards of Climate Change Capital in London, and The Climate Group, also based in London. He is also on the board of directors of Oceana, a global marine conservation organization, SmartPower, which aims to increase demand for clean energy, and Princeton in Asia, which grants postgraduate fellowships for Americans to work in Asia. Michael holds a master’s
degree in public policy with
a specialization in international
affairs from the Woodrow Wilson
School at Princeton University,
where he was an English major as
an undergraduate.
LÚCIA ORTIZ
Friends of the Earth
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A
geologist by training, Lúcia Ortiz holds a master’s degree in Geosciences by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul State (UFRGS). She is a former researcher at Fundação Estadual de Proteção Ambiental – FEPAM-RS (State Environmental Protection Agency), covering projects related to water and air contamination from coal mining and processing in power plants in the south of Brazil. In 1998, she started as a volunteer of Nucleo Amigos da Terra / Brazil (Friends of the Earth Brazil) where she worked as project manager from 2001 to 2004 and, since October 2004, is the general coordinator. Since 2001, Lúcia
has been coordinator of the Energy
Working Group of the Brazilian
Forum of NGOs and Social Movements
for the Environment and Development
(FBOMS).
DR. HERMANN E. OTT
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
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Dr. Hermann E. Ott, head of the
Berlin Office of the Wuppertal
Institute for Climate, Environment
and Energy, studied law and politics
in Munich, London and Berlin,
attaining a doctorate in jurisprudence
in 1997. He worked as a defense lawyer
and attorney from 1992 to 1994 and joined
the Wuppertal Institute as senior research
fellow in 1994. He later served as Director
of the Wuppertal Institute’s
Climate Policy Division. From
November 2000 to June 2001, he served with Policy Planning of the German Foreign Office on foreign environmental policy. He is co-author, with Sebastian Oberthuer, of a treatise on international climate policy, The Kyoto Protocol: International Climate Policy for the 21st Century. Herman has authored many articles in reviewed and non-reviewed journals on climate policy, environmental policy and on global governance. He is also co-author of a book by the Wuppertal Institute (Ed.), Fair Future: Limited Resources and Global Justice.
JOHN PASSACANTANDO
Greenpeace
Serving nearly twenty years in
the public interest sector, John
Passacantando has been executive
director of Greenpeace USA since
September 2000. Prior to joining
Greenpeace, John rallied the
grassroots movement to stop global warming
as co-founder and executive director of
Ozone Action. Under John’s leadership, Ozone Action broadened its efforts as it emerged as the largest organization focused solely on stopping global warming. Before founding Ozone Action, John was executive director of the Florence and John Schumann Foundation, working to support the Foundation’s efforts on campaign finance reform and environmental issues. Before becoming an environmental advocate, he provided economic analysis to the country’s largest institutional investors. John received a B.A. in economics from Wake Forest University and an M.A., also in economics, from New York University. He has testified before Congress, been quoted in virtually every major newspaper in the United States, and has had numerous op-eds published nationwide and appeared on programs from PBS to CNN to Fox News. In 1999, John received the Tides Foundation’s
Jane Bagley Lehman Award for
Excellence in Public Advocacy
for his work on global warming
solutions.
DR. TADEUSZ "TAD" W. PATZEK
Professor Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of California at Berkeley
Tad Patzek is a professor of
geoengineering at U.C. Berkeley.
Prior to joining Berkeley in
1990, he was a researcher at
Shell Development in Bellaire,
Houston, where he worked on the
enhanced oil recovery methods and evaluated
the future of U.S. energy supply from unconventional
oil reservoirs, tar sands, heavy oil, oil
shale, and coal. Tad has a Ph.D. in chemical
engineering from the Silesian Technical University in Poland, where
he also studied engineering physics. His Ph.D. thesis was on optimization
and control of chemical reactors. He came to the U.S. as a Fulbright
fellow at the University of Minnesota to work on computational
fluid mechanics. Tad’s
current research involves mathematical
modeling of earth systems with
emphasis on fluid flow in soils
and rocks. He is also working
on the thermodynamics and ecology
of human survival and energy
supply schemes for humanity. Currently,
he teaches courses in hydrology, ecology
and energy supply, computer science, and
mathematical modeling of earth systems at micro and mega scales.
He is an editor for Transport in Porous Media, and an associate
editor of Energy Tribune. He is also an active participant in the
global debate on biofuels and their environmental and social impacts.
Tad is a coauthor of some 200 papers and reports, and is currently
writing four books.
DAVID PIMENTEL
Cornell University
David Pimentel is a professor
of ecology and agricultural sciences
at Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY. His Ph.D. is from Cornell
University; postdoctoral study
at Oxford University and University
of Chicago. His research spans the fields
of energy, biotechnology, sustainable and
international agriculture, land and water
conservation, ecological and economic aspects
of pest control, and environmental policy. David has published
more than 600 scientific papers and 24 books. He has served on
many national and government committees including the National
Academy of Sciences; President’s
Science Advisory Council; U.S.
Department of Energy; U.S Department
of Agriculture; U.S. Department
of Health, Education and Welfare; Office
of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress;
and the U.S. State Department.
STUART PIMM
Duke University
Stuart L. Pimm is the Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke and is also Extraordinary Professor at the Conservation Ecology Research Unit at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is an expert on endangered species conservation, biodiversity, species extinction, and habitat loss. Stuart and his research teams seek out the species and ecosystems that are in most urgent need for protection. They work with local organizations and governments to provide the best possible advice to solving conservation problems. His is the author of over 200 scientific publications, many of them in Nature and Science, and has written four books, the most recent being the critically acclaimed World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth. The Institute of Scientific Information recognized him in 2002 as being one of the world's most highly cited scientists. In 2004, Stuart was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and, in 2006, awarded the Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences.
CARL POPE
Sierra Club
Carl Pope became executive director
of the Sierra Club in 1992. In his
nearly 30-year tenure there,
he has served as associate conservation
director, political director
and conservation director. During
his time as executive director,
the Sierra Club added 150,000 new members—growing to 700,000—and
has helped protect nearly 10 million acres of wilderness, including
the California Desert, Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument,
and California's Giant Sequoias National Monument. The Club brought
the litigation challenging the right of Vice-President Cheney's Energy
Task Force to conduct policy-making in secret negotiations with major
energy interests. More recently in Carl’s tenure, the Sierra
Club led the charge in pressuring
the Bush Administration to accept
new rules that would lower the amount
of arsenic in America's drinking
water and mercury in its fisheries.
Outside of the Sierra Club, Carl
has had a distinguished record of
environmental activism and leadership.
DR. THOMAS PRINCEN
University of Michigan
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Thomas Princen explores issues of social and ecological sustainability at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. His primary focus is on the drivers of overconsumption and the conditions for restrained use of resources. He is the author of The Logic of Sufficiency and lead editor of Confronting Consumption,
both awarded the International
Studies Association's Harold
and Margaret Sprout Award for
the “best book in the study of international environmental problems.” He was named an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, sponsored by the Packard Foundation, and before that was a Pew Faculty Fellow for International Affairs. Thomas received his Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University in 1988 and a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Pomona College in 1975. He was a MacArthur Foundation Post-Doctoral Visiting Research Fellow in International Peace & Security
at Princeton University from
1988 to 1989. He now serves as
an associate professor of Natural
Resources and Environmental Policy
at the University of Michigan.
MEENAKSHI "MEENA" RAMAN
Friends of the Earth International
Meena Raman is the chair of Friends
of the Earth International, with
offices in the Netherlands, and
is also secretary general of
Friends of the Earth Malaysia.
She set up the first public interest
law firm in Malaysia, and for
20 years has been involved in environmental
struggles in Malaysia including the fight
against multinational corporations, defending
indigenous peoples’ and local communities rights over land, biodiversity and natural resources. Meena was a founding member of E-LAW—a
network of environmental lawyers
worldwide.
SIMON RETALLACK
Institute for Public Policy Research
Democracy Now! Interview
Simon Retallack is head of the Climate
Change Team at the Institute for Public
Policy Research (IPPR), the UK's leading
independent progressive think tank. He
specializes in climate change policy
and has written about most of the world’s other major environmental problems. He is the co-author of IPPR’s
2007 report Positive Energy: Harnessing People Power to Prevent Climate Change;
co-author of IPPR’s 2006 report Trading Up: Reforming the EU Emissions Trading Scheme;
and author of IPPR’s 2005 report Setting a Long Term Climate Objective. Previously, Simon was lead researcher for the International Climate Change Taskforce; co-director of the Climate Initiatives Fund; commissioning editor, The Ecologist; managing editor, The Ecologist Special Issues; visiting fellow, the International Forum on Globalization; a member of the Board of Directors of Redefining Progress; and a member of the steering committee of the Climate and Energy Funders Group (USA). Simon studied at the London School of Economics (First Class Honours in Government and History). His other publications include: Cambiare aria al mondo (contributing author); the prize-winning book STOP, (co-author); Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible (contributing author); The Case Against the Global Economy (contributing author); Climate Crisis, Climate Initiatives Fund (author); The Impact of Economic Globalization on the Natural Environment, IFG (co-author).
WOLFGANG SACHS
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
Senior fellow at the Wuppertal
Institute for Climate, Environment and
Energy since 1993, Wolfgang Sachs is
head of research on globalization, with
a focus on development, environment,
and new models of wealth. He is also
director of the Ph.D. program on “Ecology and Fairness in World Trade Regimes.“ His
most recent books in English
include: Slow Trade-Sound Farming: A Multilateral Framework for Sustainable Global Markets in Agriculture (with T. Santarius); Fair Future: Resource Conflicts, Security, and Global Justice (with T. Santarius); The
Jo’burg Memo. Fairness in a Fragile World; and Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development. Wolfgang
studied theology and the social
sciences in Munich, Tübingen and Berkeley, and received his Ph.D. at the University of Tübingen.
He has been chair of the board
of Greenpeace Germany, a member of
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, and is a member of the Club
of Rome.
JACK SANTA BARBARA
The Sustainable Scale Project
Jack Santa Barbara is the director of The Sustainable Scale Project, which he founded in 2002. The mission of this NGO is to integrate the sustainable scale concept and its implications, into the policies and operations of relevant governmental, business and international bodies. Trained as an experimental social psychologist (Ph.D., McMaster University, 1971), Jack has had successful careers as an academic, researcher, consultant and entrepreneur, prior to devoting his full time efforts, since 2000, to Sustainable Scale. Previously, he served as the CEO of the company he founded in 1980, which grew to become the largest behavioral health company in Canada. He is also an associate of the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University, and a member of Transcend, an International Peace and Development Network. Currently, Jack lectures in both public and academic forums on sustainability and energy issues, as well as sustainable business practices. He also serves as a board member on a variety of environmental and social justice organizations, and writes for various media on environmental issues. Having a long term interest in issues of peace and conflict, he is also an associate of the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University, and is currently co-authoring a book, Peace Business: The Role of Business in Reducing Violence, Inequity and Ecological Degradation.
VANDANA SHIVA
Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
Democracy Now! Interview
Activist and physicist Vandana Shiva
is founder and director of the Research
Foundation for Science, Technology, and
Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi,
and an IFG board member. She received
the Right Livelihood Award in 1993, and
in 2001 was named among the top five "Most Important People in Asia" by
Asiaweek magazine. She is author of more
than three hundred papers in leading
journals and numerous books, including Monocultures of the Mind: Biodiversity, Biotechnology, and the Third World and Earth Democracy. Vandana is a founding director of IFG.
ATOSSA SOLTANI
Amazon Watch
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Atossa Soltani is the founder and
executive director of Amazon Watch,
the non-profit organization dedicated
to defending the rainforests and
the rights of indigenous peoples
of the Amazon basin. For the past
15 years, Atossa has been closely
tracking threats to indigenous peoples
and pristine frontiers of the Amazon
Basin in South America and leading
campaigns resulting in groundbreaking victories for indigenous peoples
rights and the environment. She has documented human rights abuses
and environmental disasters caused by transnational oil companies
in the headwaters of the Amazon River. Together with indigenous peoples’ movements
in Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador, Amazon
Watch is effectively holding corporations
and governments accountable for environmental
and human rights abuses. Atossa serves
on the board of directors of Social
and Environmental Entrepreneurs, on
the Steering Council of the Amazon
Alliance and on the Advisory Board
of International Funders for Indigenous Peoples. Prior to founding
Amazon Watch, Atossa worked for the Rainforest Action Network and
the City of Santa Monica's environmental programs.
VICTORIA
"VICKI" TAULI-CORPUZ
Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is an indigenous
activist from the Cordillera region
in the Philippines. She is head of
the Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous
Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education) in the Philippines. She helped organize and convene the UN’s fourth World Conference on Women. Victoria is also chairperson of the UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, convenor of the Asian Indigenous Women’s
Network, and a board member of
the IFG. She is one of the leading
indigenous activists lobbying
for UN adoption of the Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
and is chairperson of the UN Permanent
Forum on Indigenous Issues.
BETSY TAYLOR
Author
Betsy Taylor has a consulting
practice with a select number of
philanthropists, foundation and non-profit
organizations. Her clients and projects
are focused in three primary areas:
1) strengthening the American progressive
sector; 2) building greater capacity
among American institutions and leaders
working to address climate change;
and 3) promoting an exploration of
values, spirit and human consciousness
as an avenue for promoting a more
peaceful, just and sustainable society.
From 1998 until early 2006 Betsy served
as founder and president of the Center
for a New American Dream. Prior to
founding the Center, Betsy spent twenty
years in the philanthropic and non-profit
sector as a leader, congressional
lobbyist, and PAC Deputy director
in the anti-nuclear and peace movements
and later as executive director of
the Stern Fund, Ottinger Foundation
and Merck Family Fund. She served
as Vice-Chair of the Environmental
Grantmakers Association and played
a leadership role in launching the
Iraq Peace Fund – a coordinated philanthropic response to the threatened invasion of Iraq that was the primary funding vehicle for pre and post-war advocacy for peaceful conflict resolution. She is the author of three books, appears frequently in the national media, and is on the board of the Center for a New American Dream, CERES, Town Creek Foundation, Ottinger Foundation and the Garrison Institute. She has an MPA from Harvard University’s
Kennedy School of Government
and a B.A. in psychology from
Duke University.
SHEILA WATT-CLOUTIER
Inuit Activist and author
Sheila Watt-Cloutier is the former
chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council.
She has been a political spokesperson
for the Inuit for over a decade.
Defending the rights of the Inuit
has been at the forefront of Sheila’s mandate since her election as president of ICC Canada in 1995 and re-election in 1998. She was instrumental as a spokesperson for a coalition of northern Indigenous Peoples in the global negotiations that led to the 2001 Stockholm Convention banning the generation and use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that contaminate the arctic food web. In 2002, Sheila was elected international chair of ICC—a
term she held until July of 2006.
She received the inaugural Global
Environment Award from the World
Association of Non-Governmental
Organizations in recognition
for her POPs work. She is the recipient
of the 2004 Aboriginal Achievement
Award for Environment. In 2005, she was
honored with the United Nations Champion
of the Earth Award and the Sophie prize in Norway. More
recently in 2006 she has been awarded the Global Green
USA Award for International Environmental Leadership,
made an officer in the Order of Canada,
and received the Citation for Lifetime Achievement
by the Canadian Environment Awards, an Honorary Doctorate
of Law from the University of Winnipeg and
the Canadian Earth Day International Environment Award.
She has been nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
DALE WEN
International Forum on Globalization
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Dale Wen is a research fellow
with IFG and has produced the
report China Copes with Globalization:
A Mixed Review. Coming from China
in 1993, Dale got her Ph.D. from
California Institute of Technology
and previously worked in the high-tech
industry. Starting with voluntary
work in rural China, she witnessed
the plight of the rural community
and began to question the top-down globalization model.
Several of her papers regarding sustainable development
and rural education have been presented in international
conferences in China. Her primary interests are in environment,
education and women’s
issues. She also serves as an advisor
for Rural China Education Foundation.
EMIRA WOODS
DAPHNE WYSHAM
Institute for Policy Studies
Daphne Wysham is a fellow and board member
of the Institute for Policy Studies, founder
and co-director of the Sustainable Energy & Economy Network (SEEN), a project of IPS, and founder and co-host of Earthbeat Radio. SEEN conducted the initial research which drew attention to the disproportionate ratio of fossil fuel investments by international financial institutions, including the World Bank. SEEN launched an international campaign in 1998 that, in 2001, resulted in World Bank President James Wolfensohn calling for an independent study of extractive industries (EIR). The EIR called for the World Bank to phase out of fossil fuels immediately, and rapidly phase in renewable energy. She is a former fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam; former editor-in-chief of Greenpeace Magazine; and associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting. She is an energy writer for UPI, a board advisor to the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, a senior fellow with the Sierra Club, and a member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice. Daphne’s
analysis and critiques have been featured
in the New York Times, the Wall Street
Journal, the Washington Post, and on
BBC, NPR, and Marketplace, among others.
