Appendix Additional Resources

Appendix Additional Resources

Table of Contents

List of Speakers in V-2 1

Bios of Speakers in V-2 2

Wisdom from Our Teachers 18

Notes for Presenters 26

Audio-Visual Production Notes 62

Working with Organizations 74

Translator’s Glossary of Terms 79

V-2 Presenter’s Manual January 4, 2010 3 Appendix

V-2 Presenter’s Manual January 4, 2010 3 Appendix

List of Speakers in V-2

V-2 Presenter’s Manual January 4, 2010 3 Appendix

Bios of Speakers in V-2

Bios of Speakers in V-2

AL GORE

Al Gore is the co-winner, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change." He was Vice President of the United States under President Bill Clinton. He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance and An Inconvenient Truth and is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary. His most recent book is Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. He is also chairman of Current TV, an award winning, independently owned cable and satellite television nonfiction network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/gore-bio.html

ALAIN DESOUCHES

Alain Desouches is an Awakening The Dreamer facilitator, translated the Symposium in French, participated in the training of Francophone Facilitators in Belgium, and organized and co-led a Facilitator Training in Santa Cruz where he lives. Since his retirement in 2005, Alain has made the purpose of the Symposium his dominant pole of action. He is also participating in the Santa Cruz County Ecology Action organization as a Master Composter, and is contributing his computer skills at the Santa Cruz Louden Nelson Senior Lab Community Center.

ANNIE LEONARD

Annie Leonard is an expert in international sustainability and environmental health issues, with more than twenty years of experience investigating factories and dumps around the world. Coordinator of the Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption, she communicates worldwide about the impact of consumerism and materialism on global economies and international health. Her efforts included work with Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance, Health Care without Harm, Essential Information, and Greenpeace International. She also served on the boards of GAIA, the International Forum for Globalization, and the Environmental Health Fund. She currently serves as the director of The Story of Stuff Project. Annie’s most recent project, a film entitled the Story of Stuff, explores the global materials economy and its impact on economy, environment and health. It has been viewed by millions of people via the internet (www.storyofstuff.com). Ms. Leonard is now working on a book version of the film, to be published by Free Press of Simon and Schuster in March 2010. http://www.storyofstuff.com/anniesbio.html

BILL TWIST

Bill Twist is the co-founder of The Pachamama Alliance and has been President and Chairman of the Board since its inception. He has an extensive background in business and was the Senior Vice-President for Financial Services for Comdisco, a New York Stock Exchange company. He is on the Board of the Centro Economicos Derechos y Sociales in Ecuador, an NGO working on economic and social rights issues in the Andes countries in South America.

BOB RANDALL

Bob Randall is a Yankunytjatjara Elder and a traditional owner of Uluru (Ayers Rock). Bob is one of the Stolen Generation of the Aboriginal people, taken from his family at the age of seven. Throughout his life, Bob has worked as a teacher and leader for Aboriginal land rights, education, community development and cultural awareness. In the early ‘70s, Bob's song "Brown Skin Baby (They Took Me Away)" became an anthem for the Aboriginal people. He is the author of two books: his autobiography Songman and a children's book, Tracker Tjginji. He is also the subject of the recent documentary film, Kanyini. http://www.globalonenessproject.org/interviewee/bob-randall

BRIAN SWIMME

Brian Swimme is a mathematical cosmologist and the director of the Center for the Story of the Universe at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is the author of four books on cosmology, evolution and religion. He was featured in the television series Soul of the Universe (The BBC, 1991) with such scientists as Stephen Hawking and Ilya Prigogine and The Sacred Balance produced by David Suzuki (CBC and PBS, 2003). Swimme is the producer of a twelve-part DVD series Canticle to the Cosmos which has been distributed worldwide. Other DVD programs featuring Swimme’s ideas include The Earth’s Imagination and The Powers of the Universe. He lectures worldwide and has presented at conferences sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The World Bank, UNESCO, The United Nations Millennium Peace Summit, and the American Natural History Museum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Swimme

CARL ANTHONY

Carl Anthony, Ph.D. is co-founder, with Margaret Paloma Pavel, of the Earth House Leadership Center. He is writing a book on the Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race. Dr. Anthony is a Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley. Before joining the Ford Foundation, he was Founder and Executive Director of the Urban Habitat Program, he served as President of Earth Island Institute, and co-founded and published the Race, Poverty and the Environment Journal—the only environmental justice periodical in the United States. http://www.breakthroughcommunities.info/videoaudio/carl_anthony_on_cosmology_and_race/index.shtml

CATHERINE INGRAM

Catherine Ingram is an international dharma teacher and the author of In the Footsteps of Gandhi: Conversations with Spiritual Social Activists and Passionate Presence. She leads public events called Dharma Dialogues and residential retreats in the US, Europe, and Australia. Ms. Ingram is the president of Living Dharma, an educational nonprofit organization that sponsors Ms. Ingram’s work as well as her retreats throughout the year. For the past twenty-five years, Catherine has helped organize and direct institutions dedicated to meditation and human rights. She is a co-founder of Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts (1976). She also co-founded the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) in The Hague, Netherlands (1991) and is a member of the Committee of 100 for Tibet. http://www.catherineingram.com/biography.html

CHRISTINE LOH

Christine Loh Kung-wai (陸恭蕙) is a former Hong Kong Legislator and founder of the Citizens Party and Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor. Christine Loh is currently the CEO of Civic Exchange, a Hong Kong think tank which she co-founded in 2000. In January 2007 she was named as Hong Kong Business' "Woman of the Year for 2006". She has worked in many areas, including law, business, politics, media and the non-profit sector, but is best known as a leading voice in public policy in Hong Kong, particularly in promoting democracy and environmental protection. In recent years she has also been strongly associated with the campaign to save Hong Kong's Harbour from excessive land reclamation and overdevelopment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Loh

CORMAC CULLINAN

Cormac Cullinan is a practising environmental attorney and author based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a director of the leading South African environmental law firm, Cullinan & Associates Inc, and Chief Executive Officer of EnAct International, an environmental governance consultancy. A former anti-apartheid activist, he has practised, taught and written about environmental law and policy since 1992, and has worked in more than 20 countries. In the academic field he has lectured and written widely on governance issues related to human interactions with the environment and is notable for authoring a book, Wild Law, as well as several works commissioned and published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. His work includes drafting the Integrated Coastal Management Bill now before Parliament, the agreement between South Africa, Namibia and Angola that established the Benguela Current Commission; waste legislation for KwaZulu Natal and legislation for sustainable land use in the Western Cape. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_Cullinan

DAVID ULANSEY

David Ulansey is founder of Species Alliance, an organization devoted to raising public awareness of the impending mass extinction and the threat to Earth's life support systems due to this loss of biodiversity. He is Executive Producer of a major documentary film in production about the extinction crisis entitled "Call of Life." He received his Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University, and has taught at Princeton, Barnard College (Columbia University), Boston University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Vermont, and Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is the author of The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries (Oxford University Press), and has published articles in Scientific American and numerous other scholarly journals. David is also the creator and webmaster of massextinction.net, the Web's oldest and most comprehensive source of information on the current mass extinction crisis. He is also the co-founder of the Planetwork Project on information technology and global change.

DESMOND TUTU

Desmond Tutu is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. In 1984, Tutu became the second South African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Tutu was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). Tutu chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is currently the chairman of The Elders. Tutu is vocal in his defense of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed. Tutu also campaigns to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, homophobia, poverty and racism. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2005 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Tutu has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu

DOMINGO PAEZ

Domingo Paez was the first Achuar who ran for Congress in Quito, Ecuador. Although he did not win, he has been an active leader in his community for quite some time.

DON ALVERTO TAXO

Don Alverto Taxo is a master Iachak of the Atis people from the Cotopaxi region of Ecuador. During a gathering of Andean Elders in 1989, he was given the responsibility of sharing the ancient Andean wisdom with the United States and Europe. Don Alverto has been a speaker at schools and universities, at international conferences, political rallies, and native celebrations. He has spoken to audiences of 600 and more, as diverse as South American natives and North American medical professionals, on topics ranging from, "Preparing for Globalization" to "Ancient Andean Practices and their Application to Western Medicine." During a strike that paralyzed Ecuador, he performed an integral role in negotiating a settlement that respected the basic rights of indigenous people. http://www.ushai.com/aboutalverto.html

DR. NOEL BROWN

Dr. Noel Brown is President of Friends of the United Nations. Previously, he served as Director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), North American Regional Office. Dr. Brown is also Chairman of the International Institute for Peace Through Tourism, a founding member of the Aspen Global Change Institute, and the International Council for Local Environment Issues, Chairman of the Rene Dubos Center for Human Environments, and he serves on the Board of Directors of numerous environmental and educational organizations. Dr. Brown holds a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Seattle University, an M.A. in International Law and Organization from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. in International Law and Relations from Yale University. https://www.bridgeport.edu/pages/5707.asp

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DR. VANDANA SHIVA

Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned environmental thinker, activist, physicist, feminist, philosopher of science, writer and science policy advocate, is the Director of The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy. She serves as an ecology advisor to several organizations including the Third World Network and the Asia Pacific People's Environment Network. Shiva has fought for changes in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food. Intellectual property rights, biodiversity, biotechnology, bioethics, genetic engineering are among the fields where Shiva has contributed intellectually and through activist campaigns. She has assisted grassroots organizations of the Green movement in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Ireland, Switzerland and Austria with campaigns against genetic engineering. Shiva has also served as an adviser to governments in India and abroad as well as non governmental organisations, including the International Forum on Globalisation, the Women's Environment & Development Organization and the Third World Network.

DREW DELLINGER

Drew Dellinger is a poet, teacher, and activist who founded Poets for Global Justice. He is the author of the collection of poems, Love Letter to the Milky Way. Dellinger has presented and performed at hundreds of events across the country, speaking on justice, cosmology, ecology, and democracy. His poetry has been widely published, and his work is featured in the film, "Voices of Dissent," and in the books Igniting a Revolution, Children of the Movement, and Global Uprising. In 1997, he received Common Boundary magazine’s National Green Dove Award. Dellinger has studied cosmology and ecological thought with Thomas Berry since 1990 and has taught at Prescott College, Naropa University-Oakland, and Esalen Institute. http://www.drewdellinger.org/pages/about

ED MILIBAND

Ed Miliband is Minister for the Department of Energy and Climate Change in the UK. In 2003, he was a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies. He holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BA from Oxford University.