Kelsang Aukatsang is a project director at the Tibetan Community Center of Northern California, which seeks to empower Tibetan-Americans of all ages to thrive in the U.S. while promoting the continuity and development of Tibetan social, cultural, and...

Lisa Bennett, communications director for the Center for Ecoliteracy, is a former fellow at Harvard's Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government. She has contributed to several non-fiction books, auth...

Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., a physicist and systems theorist, is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, which promotes ecology and systems thinking in primary and secondary education, and on the faculty of Schumacher Col...

Cheryl Charles, Ph.D., an innovator, entrepreneur, educator, author, and organizational executive, is president and CEO of the Children and Nature Network, co-founded with Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Natu...

Patricia Dair advocates for water with hands-on projects reconnecting people, water and watery landscapes. A board member of Urban Water Works in Portland, Oregon, she develops participatory rainwater learning gardens championed by its school distric...

Betsy Damon, an environmental activist and award-winning artist specializing in water restoration, remediation and education, is the founder of Keepers of the Waters, a not-for-profit foundation. In 1998 she completed (with many Chinese partners) the...

Roxanne "Roxie" Leigh Dickinson, 20, born and raised in the Salinas-Monterey area, is a California Native American from the federally unrecognized Costanoan tribe. A passionate lover of the sea and coast, she has been a sea guide at Camp Sea Lab of C...

Brock Dolman, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center's (OAEC) WATER (Watershed Advocacy Training Education & Research) Institute director, also co-directs OAEC's permaculture design and wildlands biodiversity programs. Brock’s extensive cross-d...

Lois Marie Gibbs, a legendary figure in the grassroots environmental justice movement ever since the infamous, historic “Love Canal” episode, is the founder and executive director of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ), which ha...

Mary Gomes, co-editor of the seminal eco-psychology collection, Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, teaches in the Psychology Department at Sonoma State University, and is co-director, with Allen Kanner, of Altars of Extinction, a p...