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Sandra Babb Raleigh, NC is president of HumanForce Consulting, a firm that provides future-focused planning, strategic thinking, decision support, capacity building, and project management services. She is particularly interested in futures thinking as it relates to workforce and economic development, education, leadership development, and community building. Kathy Barry, Berkeley, CA is a psychotherapist and an behavioral development consultant Sherrin Bennett, Pt. Richmond, CA (sherrinbennett@earthlink.net) is President Interactive Learning Systems working with communities, companies and colleges and K-12 schools to develop new capacities for learning in the digital age. Current work includes "MTV- making thinking visible" , Habits of Mind for the 21st C., exploring Eco-literacy through project-based learning and knowledge-mapping to create shared understanding in communities of practice. David Berry, Washington, D.C., http://www.sdi.gov is the Executive Director of the Interagency Working Group on Sustainable Development Indicators (producing the first such indicators for the United States) and Chair of the Interagency Working Group in Industrial Ecology. Bob Burnett, Berkeley, CA,. is a technologist, one of the founders of Cisco Systems and an activist Madilyn Fletcher, Ph.D., Columbia, SC, is Director of the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research at the University of South Carolina. Her background lies in microbiology, biotechnology, ecology, and coastal science, and is now focusing on ways to apply ecological concepts to transformational learning. Sally J. Goerner , Ph.D., Chapel Hill, NC is the director of the Triangle Center for Complex Systems; chair of the Integral Science Institute; a Senior research member of the European Academy of Evolutionary Studies; and co-founder of the Society for Chaos Theory in the Psychology and the Life Sciences. Her specialty is showing how major social, scientific, economic and spiritual changes of our time are all part of one common evolutionary transformation. Carl Hasty, Lake Tahoe, NV, is Director of Long-Range Planning for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, the bi-state agency responsible for water quality of the Lake and the $900 million of Environmental Improvement Projects to save the lake. Jan Hauser, Palo Alto, CA, http://www.janhauser.com is Principal Architect for Sun Microsystems. He is responsible for Sun's membership in The Santa Fe Institute. His interests include a wide array of leading-edge technologies, applications of Complexity Science and social evolution. Prasad Kaipa Campbell, CA is the founder and CEO of Mithya Institute for Learning and Cofounder of SelfCorp.com. He has spent past 11 years exploring the nature of transformational learning and applies it in organizations and with executives. His work is applicable broadly, operating at the intersection of corporations and individuals (including culture, environment, technology and social dimensions). http://mithya.prasadkaipa.com/ Joseph Kruth, Lake Tahoe, NV, has been in business and development, with a decade internationally, and is a founder and Chair of the Tahoe Center for a Sustainable Future. He is co-editor with Andrew Cohill of Pathways to Sustainability: The Age of Transformation, available at http://www.ceres.ca/gov/tcsf/pathways Claudia L'Amareaux, designs and consults on the design of learning environments, especially Internet-based, "connected" learning environments, learning communities and Meta-networks (networks of learning communities). Her passion is to make cybernetics, deep ecology, systems thinking, futures studies and the new sciences more accessible to people. For this purpose, she has founded Haven, an online learning community, and The Edge-ucation Matrix, a multimedia distance learning environment. Dennis Machida, is Executive Director of the California Tahoe Conservancy and a frequent member of California Resources Agency committees dedicated to environmental preservation and restoration activities Bill Minnis, Austin, TX, is a developer and owner of software systems to engage different learning styles. http://www.consultants-mall.com/radin.htm Bill Moyer, San Francisco, CA, is an international activist of 30 years, workshop leader and strategic thinker, and the founder of the Social Movement Empowerment Project. http://webcom.com/~peace/empowerment/bmhome.html Vance Peterson, Ph.D, Washington, DC is past President of Sierra Nevada College, the only private, four year college in Nevada. He is currently the President, Council for Advancement and Support of Education Kelly Quirke is a past director of the Rainforest Action Network, following seven years as a campaign coordinator for Greenpeace. He's also part of the training "faculty" for the Ruckus Society, which has earned notoriety recently for their trainings in non-violence and civil disobedience and helped people express their opposition to the WTO meetings in Seattle. Richard Rich, Blacksburg, VA , is outgoing Chair of the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech and will take leadership of the university's Institute for Environmental and Energy Studies. He has conducted a variety of research on environmental policies for the U.S. EPA, recently organized a national conference on community sustainability, and served as a Delegate to the "Urban 21: Global Congress on the Future of the World's Cities" in Berlin, Germany. Vicki Robin, Seattle, WA, is co-founder of the New Road Map Foundation, co-author of Your Money or Your Life, on the Board of a Center for a New American Dream, and a member of a number of innovative networks working for social transformation http://www.newroadmap.org Scott Ross, Truckee CA, is Executive Director of the Tahoe Center for a Sustainable Future, assisting development of a sustainable Lake Tahoe. His degrees include biology and environmental management. His consulting business develops organizational responses to environmental, health and safety obligations. http://www.ceres.ca/gov/tcsf or scottross@telis.org Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. is an evolution biologist, futurist, international speaker and consultant on living systems design and globalization. Her books include Biology Revisioned, with Willis Harman, A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us, and EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution. http://www.sahtouris.com Rick Smyre, is President, Communities of the Future, Gastonia, NC. COTF operates in 19 states to build the capacities for transforming the future and has announced a strategic partnership with the Scottish Council Foundation to take its ideas and programs to Scotland. http://www.communitiesofthefuture.org/ Laurie Thomas, Woodlands, TX, is President of Productivity Links, a Geographic Information System service provider that began working with the oil and gas industry and now works with counties to map parcels, enabling them to leverage digital information for public and community-oriented empowerment. http://www.pro-links.com John Tracy, Ph.D., Reno, NV, is Executive Director of the Center for Watershed and Environmental Sustainability at the Desert Research Institute. . His most recent work includes: the development of a conceptual model of the integration of physical and socio-economic processes in the Lake Tahoe Basin for the Lake Tahoe Watershed Assessment Report. Barbara Vogl, is a Research Fellow with the International Systems Institute since 1990 interested in action-research as a learning mode, developing the concept of opportunity initiated systems design (OISD) Since 1996 I have published a bi-monthly newsletter, PATTERNS, for educators interested in understanding systems thinking. Presently developing a web course to encourage gardens as natural learning environments. Web link is http://www.haven.net/patterns/ |
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