Panelist Bios
Esperide Ananas
Director of International Affairs, Federation of Damanhur, Italy.
Studied at the
University of Milan. She then moved to Brussels, working for the Vice President
of the European Parliament. She completed her education with a Master of Arts
and Media Studies from New York University. In 1990, she returned to
Milan where
she worked for two years as a media consultant and p.r. for major Italian
companies, before taking over media for Damanhur, presenting the Temple to the
world. In 1993, she graduated from Damanhurís School for Spiritual Healers and
started working part-time as a healer, especially in connection with
research on
subtle and Selfic energies. Member of the Way of the Oracle of Damanhur, she
travels the world presenting Damanhur and leading seminars on healing.
Visit www.damanhur.org
Janine M. Benyus
Janine Benyus is a life sciences writer and author of six books, including her
latest--Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature. In Biomimicry, she names an
emerging science that seeks sustainable solutions by mimicking nature's designs
and processes (e.g., solar cells that mimic leaves, agriculture that looks like
a prairie, business that runs like a redwood forest). Janine's other titles
include an animal behavior guide called Beastly Behaviors and three
ecosystem-first field guides: The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the
Western US, The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern US, and
Northwoods Wildlife: A Watcher's Guide to Habitats. Janine is a graduate of
Rutgers University, New Jersey, with degrees in Forestry and Writing. She has
worked as a backpacking guide and as a "translator" of sciencespeak at several
research labs. She now writes science books, teaches interpretive writing,
lectures at the University of Montana, and works towards restoring and
protecting wildlands. An educator at heart, she believes that the better people
understand the genius of the natural world, the more they will want to protect
it.
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William Browning
William Browning, Senior Research Scholar and Consultant, is the founder and
director of Rocky Mountain Institute's Green Development Services, where he has
led or supported innovative design efforts for scores of clients; including the
Sydney 2000 Olympics, Wal-Mart, the White House, the Pentagon, Monsanto, Hines,
and George Lucas. He received a bachelor's in environmental design from the
University of Colorado, specializing in energy-conscious architecture and
resource management. He has an MS in real estate development from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was the 1991 Public-Sector
Fellow at the Center for Real Estate. He has served as a science advisor on the
environment for the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and was vice-chair
of the ASTM's Green Building Rating Committee. Mr. Browning is the principal of
Anaskenoan LLC, a Virginia-based development company; a partner in the
commercial development of a new town (Haymount, Virginia); and works
independently with eco-resort developers. He serves on the boards of directors
of the U.S. Green Building Council, Greening America, and the Roaring Fork
Conservancy. He co-authored A Primer on Sustainable Building (1995), an
introduction to green building; "Greening the Building and the Bottom Line," a
1994 study of increased worker productivity in energy-efficient buildings; and
Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate (1998), an acclaimed
textbook. His papers have been published in Urban Land, Architectural Record,
Progressive Architecture, and AIA's Environmental Resource Guide.
Elizabeth Burdock
Elizabeth Burdock is Vice President of Sustainable Housing division with the
Dutko Group Services, a public policy management firm in Washington, DC. She is
responsible for providing consulting services that align organizations with
common goals to build housing that is energy efficient, durable,
environmentally
friendly and affordable. In addition, she works to build partnerships between
elected officials and housing providers to create opportunities for new housing
construction as well as developing innovative solutions for increasing consumer
awareness and market acceptance of advanced housing technologies. Ms. Burdock
has more than ten years of experience working national housing issues. She most
recently served as the Executive Director of the Partnership For Advancing
Technology In Housing (PATH), a White House sponsored partnership between
American home builders, businesses, and the Federal Government. Under Ms.
Burdock's leadership the PATH program operated in three core areas:
Research and
Development of advanced housing technologies; Policy Formulation to solve the
critical issues that prevent market acceptance and deter
homeownership including
housing finance, quality and labor, insurance and barriers, and consumer
education; Information Dissemination to explain the benefits of
advanced housing
technologies and showcase the real-life applications of sustainable technology.
Ms. Burdock has also served on the U.S. Delegation to United Nations Center on
Human Settlements, and helped developed international policy focused on the
issue of global sustainability. In addition, Ms. Burdock has served a Senior
Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner.
Prior to joining HUD, she worked at The Enterprise Foundation, a national
nonprofit dedicated to providing decent affordable housing for low-income
individuals.
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Bruce Damer
Bruce Damer is a Principal and founder of DigitalSpace Corporation and a founding director of the Contact Consortium, Silicon Valley-based organizations dedicated to the development of multi-user graphical virtual worlds on the Internet. The Consortium has an extensive individual and institutional membership and hosts several conferences and colloquia annually on topics of advanced virtual communities and their applications. Recent Consortium projects include a 3D virtual town (Sherwood Forest), a virtual university and architecture competition (The U), a virtual garden world (Nerve Garden), development of virtual learning spaces (Vlearn3D.org), the Digital Biology Project and Conference (Biota.org) and a global cyber-conference: Avatars98, Avatars99, and Avatars2000. Bruce's company DigitalSpace Corporation builds virtual world platforms and content and creates innovative spaces for such clients as NASA (a virtual habitat on Mars) and Adobe Systems Inc. (Adobe's Atmosphere community).
Bruce is a graduate of the University of Southern California and has a career
background in software engineering having built some of the original personal
computer GUI systems based on the Xerox Star workstation. Bruce lectures extensively
around the world including a recent tour for his book "Avatars". Bruce's writings and
work have appeared in numerous scientific journals and received coverage in the New York
Times, Wall Street Journal, San Jose Mercury News, Los Angeles Times, Leonardo, CNNfn,
CNET, Suddeutchland Zeitung, Ars Electronica CyberArts, 3D Design, SIGGRAPH, COMDEX,
Info World, Knowledge Management, and elsewhere. He is currently developing a "real"
cyber-community on a farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains known as the Digital Garden.
Bruce is also a member of the staff at the SFSU Multimedia Studies Program, and a
Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington Human Interface Technology Laboratory.
A more complete bio on his life and work is at www.damer.com.
Nan Ellin,Ph.D.
Nan Ellin is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Arizona State University.
She holds an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College.
She has previously taught at the University of Cincinnati, the Southern California Institute of
Architecture (SCI-Arc), the University of Southern California, and New York University.
She was a Fulbright Scholar in France where she carried our research for her dissertation
on the European New Urbanism. She is the author of Postmodern Urbanism (1996; revised edition,
1999) as well as numerous articles that have appeared in Lotus, History of European Ideas,
Journal of Architectural Education, Design Book Review, Thresholds, Intersight, Urban Studies
Review, and the Encyclopedia of New York City. Her anthology Architecture of Fear has been
featured on the architecture bestseller list at amazon.com since making its appearance in 1997.
Having explored degenerative and reactive trends in urban design, Ellin is now exploring
reconstructive and proactive alternatives to these in a book entitled Slash City: Towards
an Integral Urbanism (forthcoming) and in the studio she coordinates at ASU called the
Integral Studio (IS). She is also writing a monograph on New York architect and urban
designer Deborah Berke (forthcoming).
Marilyn Ferguson
Marilyn Ferguson is a futurist and author. The Aquarian Conspiracy, her
international bestseller, is described as ìa plot to make things work.î A poet
and writer of fiction, she delved into neuroscience to write The Brain
Revolution. Her influencial Brain/Mind Bulletin was launched to explore the
interface between the brain and consciousness. Forthcoming works include
Aquarius Now: Radical Common Sense and the Transforming of Nations and Parables
of Becoming, a collection of visionary writings from William Blake to Arthur C.
Clarke. She lives in Los Angeles and is currently collaborating with a group of
artists, business leaders, scientists, and other visionary individuals on new
business models and creative modes of addressing social change.
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Joe Firmage
A visionary at the cusp of 21st century science and technology, Joe brings a
lifetime of passion for science and more than a decade of corporate leadership
in the high-technology industry. Prior to co-founding Motion Sciences, Joe was
chairman of Intend Change, a venture construction firm. Joe Firmage is also
founder and chairman of the International Space Sciences Organization (ISSO).
Firmage established the ISSO in October of 1998 to sponsor research and
development of new technologies derived from emerging principles of modern
physics. Firmage is founder and was formerly CEO and Chief Strategist for USWeb
Corporation, a professional services company established in 1995 to help
businesses adopt Internet technologies. With a valuation of $3
billion, USWeb is
the world's largest Internet professional services company. While at USWeb,
Firmage was awarded 1997 Young Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young.
Firmage stepped down from his position at USWeb to pursue interests related to
his Internet book The Truth. In his book, Firmage proposes the hypothesis that
science and religion are not at odds, but actually exist in tandem, pointing
toward the same truths from different contexts. His hypothesis connects
leading-edge physics with biology, anthropology, and millennia-old religious
belief systems. Prior to founding USWeb, Firmage was with Novell as vice
president of strategic planning for Novell's Systems Group, the company's core
$1.2 billion business unit. Firmage founded and became CEO of his
first company,
Serius Corporation, in 1989. Serius developed object-based
programming tools for
PC developers. Serius was acquired by Novell in 1993.
Visit www.firmage.org and www.isso.org
James Fournier
Jim Fournier is cofounder of PLANETWORK, a San Francisco based non-profit which
produced an international multi-disciplinary conference on global ecology and
information technology in May 2000. Sometimes described as an industrial
ecologist, he describes himself as a comprehensive systems analyst, designer,
and recovering entrepreneur, with extensive experience in group process and
facilitation. In 1998 he co-convened The Sequoia Symposia, a series of
cross-disciplinary invitational gatherings of internationally renowned
scientists and mathematicians focusing on geometry as a unifying principle in
nature. Following undergraduate work in physics and chemistry, he went on to
study architecture at MIT, and at twenty three started JLF Designs, which
rapidly grew into one of the premier lines of international
high-design consumer
products in the late 80's. As ecology editor for the Industrial Design Society
of America he was an early advocate of industrial ecology, while his
passion for
fundamental geometry led him to work in computer graphics as a developer with
Silicon Graphics in the early 90's. He is currently finishing his doctorate in
the PCC program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and plans to
publish his doctoral work as a book for general audiences titled MetaNature.
Visit www.planetworkers.org
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Terry Goddard
Terry Goddard is a lawyer concentrating on the construction, management and
financing of affordable housing. Terry was elected Mayor of Phoenix four times,
serving in that office from 1984 to 1990. Under his leadership, Phoenix won All
America City honors and passed two record breaking bond issues. In 1989, Terry
was elected President of the National League of Cities and was named Municipal
Leader of the Year by City and County Magazine. He currently serves on the
boards of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Arizona Theatre
Company, the Cosanti Foundation, the Benton Foundation, the Kronos Institute,
and New Town Community Development Corporation. He is an elected member of the
Central Arizona Water Conservation District Board of Directors and a frequent
speaker on issues of building community, rapid growth and sprawl.
Since 1995, he
has served as the Arizona State coordinator for the US Department of
Housing and
Urban Development. For the past two years, Terry has taught a
graduate course on
Urban Housing Policy at Arizona State University College of Architecture and
Environmental Design. He is a member of the Arizona Bar Association.
Thomas Jaggers
Thomas Jaggers is Vice President, CIP, and CAD Director of Jerde Partnership
International. Since joining The Jerde Partnership in 1986, Mr. Jaggers has
created and maintained the technological infrastructure required to support the
firmís global assignments. He has founded the firmís internal education system,
authored its digital office standards and established a digital network, which
facilitates firm-wide information creation and worldwide distribution. He has
also been responsible for the implementation of CAD in the design of the firmís
large-scale projects. For more than 15 years, Mr. Jaggers has
advanced the ideas
and application of technology in the design workplace. He has served
as a member
of the CAD Steering Committee for the Los Angeles chapter of the American
Institute of Architects. He has created models of the Sphinx and the
Pyramids in
Egyptís Giza Plateau for the University of Chicagoís Oriental Institute, and
Harvard Universityís Semitic Museum. He teaches at the University of Southern
California, Los Angeles and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis
Obispo. Mr. Jaggers graduated in 1986 from the University of Hawaiiís School of
Architecture.
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Jon Jerde
Jon Jerde is Founder and Chairman of Jerde Partnership International. Since
founding his Los Angeles-based urban planning and architecture firm
in 1977, Jon
Adams Jerde, FAIA, has explored the architecture of change. Whether creating
large-scale, multi-function urban districts or focusing on small-scale
prototypes, experiences, not objects, are the focus. Mr. Jerde's
visionary ideas
began to synthesize when he created the design of the Olympic Games in Los
Angeles in 1984. His other revolutionary projects include Horton Plaza in
downtown San Diego; CityWalk at Universal City; Las Vegasí Fremont Street
Experience; Canal City Hakata in Fukuoka, Japan; and Beursplein in Rotterdam.
Mr. Jerde's projects have been recognized by the American Institute of
Architects (AIA), the International Council of Shopping Centers, and two
ministries of the Japanese government. The University of Southern California
awarded the Jon Adams Jerde, FAIA, Endowment toward a Chair in Architecture and
the Distinguished Alumnus Award. He was named an AIA Fellow in 1990
and received
AIA/LA's Pacific Rim Award for global innovation and impact. Mr. Jerde studied
fine arts and engineering at the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA) in
1957-58 and received his B.A. degree in architecture from USC in 1964.
Heather Kurze
Heather Kurze is the Dean of the School of Architecture and Design at Woodbury
University. Formerly a member of the faculty and the Director of the
Undergraduate Program at SCIARC, she is also a licensed architect practicing in
Los Angeles. Ms. Kurze received her MA degree from UCLA and her BA in Art
History from Barnard College, Columbia University. She has worked in
the offices
of Frank O. Gehry & Associates, Studio Works, and was principal in the
architecture firm Oliver Kurze Georges from 1981 to 1987. Since 1987 she has
maintained a solo practice, specializing in facilities for entertainment and
computer graphics companies. Ms. Kurze sees interdisciplinary design and design
education emerging as models for a general education in analytical thinking as
our systems of communication are less and less dominated by the written word.
The intersections of new materials and new technologies are producing
possibilities that challenge the traditional definitions of the design
disciplines. More importantly they will challenge our preconceptions of space,
form, fashion, society and the human body. New hybrid design professions,
occurring at the overlapping boundaries between todayís design disciplines, are
redefining the world of our future. The preparation and education of these
professionals to be capable, responsible leaders is critical to all of us.
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Mark Lehner
Egyptologist. Mark Lehner went to Egypt in 1972 as a tourist and returned in
1973 as a year abroad student at the American University in Cairo. Stayed and
took his BA in Anthropology from AUC in 1975. Spent the next 13 years in Egypt
doing archaeological fieldwork for American, French, British, German and
Egyptian projects. In 1979 became Field Director of the Sphinx
Project sponsored
by the American Research Center in Egypt. In 1984 he started and directed the
Giza Plateau Mapping Project to map and study the site of the Giza Pyramids. In
1990 he received his Ph.D in Egyptology from Yale University. He was Assistant
Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Chicago from 1990 until
1996. President of Ancient Egypt Research Associates since 1985 until present.
>From 1988 until present he has been the Director of the Giza Plateau Mapping
project excavations south of the Great Sphinx. This work is uncovering the
remains of a royal urban production center. An area of three hectares has been
exposed. Dating from from the time the Giza Pyramids were under construction
4,500 years ago, this orthogonally planned settlement includes one of
the oldest
known paved streets, Egyptís oldest known hypostyle hall, and oldest copper
working facility.
John Picard
President and founder of E2 (Environmental Enterprises). John Picard is one of
the pre-eminent Energy, Technology and Internet infrastructure
advisors in North
America for residential and commercial communities. E2 has become a leading
voice and catalyst for the integration of these disciplines in establishing
successful building design, master planned mixed-use communities and
intelligent
environmental campaigns. Starting as a residential developer, John focused his
vision of integrating environmental principles with the design and construction
of significant residential projects in Southern California. In 1991,
he designed
and built the first of several of his own homes, incorporating solar power and
energy efficient technology with sustainable building design, and
Internet based
monitoring systems. Mr. Picard has evolved as a Technology and Environmental
advisor and expanded his vision to include breakthrough campaigns of Energy,
Internet/E-commerce, Intelimedics and Communications Systems to enhance
environmental responsibility, operational efficiency, and superior
profitability. As a visionary and futurist, Mr. Picard has built a substantial
organization, is a regular keynote speaker at international real estate and
technology events, and has been extensively published in major trade
periodicals.
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Paul Ray
Ray is CEO of Integral Partnerships LLC, a consulting firm. He started in
urbanism: sociology, planning, policy analysis. As former chief of policy
research on energy conservation for the Canadian Government, he headed the
largest evaluation-research project conducted in Canada: on home energy
conservation. He has led over 100 values-oriented research projects in such
areas as housing, ecological sustainability, energy, cars, food, recreation,
vacation travel, finances, health, good causes, media, altruism, and
innovation. Project sponsors have been mostly foundations, state and national
governments, and Fortune 500 corporations.
Stephanie Smith
Founder and president of Architecture NOW, an architecture strategy consultancy
in Los Angeles that provides CEO-level guidance to consumer-driven companies.
Architecture NOW provides services in the pre-design phase -
research, analysis,
vision, strategy - helping companies use architecture and design to create
value. Before starting Architecture NOW Stephanie Smith worked for over five
years with two of the design industry's most influential innovators, retail
entertainment guru Jon Jerde and Pritzker-prize winning architect Rem Koolhaas.
She currently teaches a graduate level design studio at Southern California
Institute of Architecture and is in her third year as co-chair of the design
awards committee of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of
Architects. Smith received her Master in Architecture degree from the Graduate
School of Design at Harvard University. She is a frequent lecturer on
market-driven architecture, innovative design practices, and architecture
strategy as a new design discipline. She resides in Los Angeles, California.
Visit www.architecture-now.com
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Paolo Soleri
Born in Turin, Italy on June 21, 1919, Paolo Soleri was awarded his Ph.D. with
highest honors in architecture from the Torino Polytechnico in 1946. He came to
the United States in 1947 and spent a year-and-a-half in fellowship with Frank
Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West in Arizona, and at Taliesin East in Wisconsin.
During this time, he gained international recognition for a bridge design
displayed at the Museum of Modern Art and published in The Architecture of
Bridges by Elizabeth Mock. He returned to Italy in 1950 where he was
commissioned to build a large ceramics, "Ceramica Artistica Solimene." The
processes he became familiar with in the ceramics industry led to his
award-winning designs of ceramic and bronze windbells and siltcast
architectural
structures. In 1956 he settled in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his late wife,
Colly, and their two daughters. Dr. and Mrs. Soleri made a life-long commitment
to research and experimentation in urban planning, establishing the Cosanti
Foundation, a non-profit educational foundation. The Foundation's major project
is Arcosanti, a prototype town for 7,000 people designed by Soleri, under
construction since 1970. Located at Cordes Junction, in central Arizona, the
project is based on Soleri's concept of "Arcology," architecture coherent with
ecology. Arcology advocates cities designed to maximize the interaction and
accessibility associated with an urban environment; minimize the use of energy,
raw materials and land, reducing waste and environmental pollution; and allow
interaction with the surrounding natural environment. A landmark exhibition,
"The Architectural Visions of Paolo Soleri," organized in 1970 by the Corcoran
Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, traveled extensively in the U.S. and Canada,
breaking records for attendance. "Two Suns Arcology, A Concept for Future
Cities" opened at the Xerox Square Center in Rochester, New York, in 1976. In
1989 "Paolo Soleri Habitats: Ecologic Minutiae," and exhibition of arcologies,
space habitats and bridges, was presented at the New York Academy of Sciences.
Most recently, "Soleri's Cities, Architecture for the Planet Earth and Beyond"
was featured at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts in Scottsdale, AZ. His work
has been exhibited worldwide. Soleri has received one fellowship from
the Graham
Foundation and two from the Guggenheim Foundation. He has been awarded three
honorary doctorates, the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for
Craftmanship in 1963, the Gold Medal from the World Biennieal of
Architecture in
Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1981, and the SIlver Medal of the Academied'
Architecture in
Paris, 1984. Soleri is a distinguished lecturer in the College of Architecture
at Arizona State University.
Visit www.arcosanti.org
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Richard Tarnas
Richard Tarnas, Ph.D., is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a
narrative history of the Western world view from the ancient Greek to the
postmodern that has become both a bestseller and a widely used text in
universities. His recent work has focused on signs of a fundamental
shift in the
Western world view in a direction that
emphasizes the ecological and cosmic embeddedness of the human condition, and
the transformation of values such a shift implies. He teaches at the Pacifica
Graduate
Institute in Santa Barbara, and at the California Institute of Integral Studies
in San Francisco, where he founded its graduate program in Philosophy,
Cosmology, and Consciousness. A graduate of Harvard University and Saybrook
Institute, he was the director of programs and education at Esalen Institute in
Big Sur, California, where he lived and worked for ten years. He is
currently at
work on a new book, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View. His
recent work has focused on signs of a fundamental shift in the Western world
view in a direction that emphasizes the ecological and cosmic embeddedness of
the human condition, and the transformation of values such a shift implies.
Fiorella Terenzi
Astrophysicist, author, and musician. Dr. Fiorella Terenzi received her
doctorate in physics from the University of Milan, has studied opera and
composition at Conservatory G. Verdi, and taught mathematics and physics at
Liceo Scientifico, Milan. In research at the Computer Audio Research
Laboratory,
University of California, San Diego, she developed techniques to convert radio
waves from galaxies into sound - released by Island Records on her acclaimed CD
"Music from the Galaxies". Her March 1998 Avon hardcover Heavenly Knowledge,
explores astronomy as a metaphor for human relationships and
humanity's place in
the Universe. Dr. Terenzi's best-selling CD-ROM Invisible Universe blends
astronomy and music into a uniquely entertaining and enlightening
voyage through
the stars. It won the SIGCAT Award for "Most Creative Application of Multimedia
in Higher and Adult Education". Dr. Terenzi is the first person to be a member
of both the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (Grammy Awards) and
the American Astronomical Society. Dr. Terenzi has combined science and art to
awaken people to the wonders of the universe around them. Dr. Terenzi lives in
New York and Los Angeles.
Visit www.fiorella.com
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Stessa Thompson
Stessa Thompson has committed her life work to inspire health, sustainability
and creativity. She is the original founder of Global Retreats Inc., an
information portal whose mission is to support Quality of Life resources by
providing the largest network of retreats and speakers in the world. Ms.
Thompson has worked as Assistant and Associate Producer for over 200 large and
small events. She was international liaison to foreign delegates for the
Monterey Bay International Trade Association and formed distribution channels
for natural products to Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. She is currently
forming a media company whose mission is to document retreat travel experience
and support health and sustainable living. Ms. Thompson holds a Masters degree
in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California. She has lived and
traveled in over 12 countries, where she had the opportunity to
experience first
hand indigenous practices in art, religion, and community. She wrote
ethnographies for University of California and Gadjah Mada University in
Yogyakarta, Indonesia while studying Indonesian dance and language. She is a
certified hypnotherapist and has developed course work for massage and
hypnotherapy practitioners implementing pranic healing techniques. She is a
dance choreographer, performance artist and writer.
Visit www.globalretreats.com
Michael Tobias
Michael Tobias, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary ecologist, author, screenwriter,
director and producer whose more than twenty-five books and 100 films have been
seen and/or read in as many countries. Tobias obtained his Ph.D. in the History
of Consciousness at the University of California-Santa Cruz focusing on
ecological anthropology, and the history of ideas. He was formerly an Assistant
Professor of Environmental Studies, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
and the Humanities at Dartmouth College. As a mountain climber and explorer,
Tobias has led research trips to every continent, including over 20 expeditions
to the Himalayas, and several to the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic. He has shot
films from Tibet to the Andes; from Alaska to the sub-Sahara; from the Maldives
to Bhutan. Tobias was the Science and Current Affairs Producer for PBS-San
Francisco, involved in over 40 productions, and an on-camera host/producer for
the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour. Among Tobias' better known works are the ten hour
dramatic Turner Broadcasting television series, and novel, Voice of the Planet
which starred William Shatner and Faye Dunaway and was shot in over thirty
countries; the book and PBS Earth Day special, "World War III -Population and
the Biosphere at the End of the Millennium," filmed across Africa, Asia, Europe
and North America. Tobias helped found the largest production studio in India,
located in Mumbai (Bombay) which is devoted to socially conscious programming
-fiction and nonfiction- for distribution throughout the world. That studio
brought out Tobias' feature film and coffee table book, ìA Day in the Life of
Indiaî in 1996. The film was the most watched documentary in the history of
India. Tobias is President of JMT Productions. JMT's partner in London is GVN
-Global Vision Network. Recently, JMT and GVN produced a multi-part series on
science, filmed at the UNESCO conference in Budapest, Hungary. In late 1996,
Tobias was presented the "International Courage of Conscience Award" by the
Peace Abbey/Pacifist Memorial in Sherborn Massachusetts. In 1997 Tobias was the
Garrey Carruthers Chair Visiting Professor of Honors at the University of New
Mexico-Albuquerque where he lectured on global ecological issues,
public policy,
ethics and the history of
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