presenters

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Presenters

Updated May 10, 2000 @ 7:30 pm PDT

Ralph Abraham

ralph-abraham.org
chaos mathematician, author and creator of The Visual Math Institute

Catherine Baldi

www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground
Information Coordinator for Project Underground

Alex Barnum

www.sfgate.com/chronicle
Senior editor Metro Section at the San Francisco Chronicle

Wendy Brawer

www.greenmap.org
creator of the Green Map System

Shawn Brixey

digitalmedia.berkeley.edu/shawn/brixey.html
internationally recognized artist, Digital Media UC Berkeley

Chera van Burg

poet and musician who combines vocals, spoken word, Sanskrit chants, and Eastern instruments with electronics to create transformative sound environments

Jennifer Cobb

www.randomhouse.com/catalog
theologian and communications consultant for high-tech industry for fifteen years, author of CyberGrace and article on Teilhard de Chardin for Wired

Char Davies

www.immersence.com
renowned digital artist, creator of the virtual reality works: Osmose, Ephemere and Immersense

Chris Davis

www.commenspace.org
principal and founding member of CommEn Space: The Community & Environment Spacial Analysis Center

Erik Davis

www.levity.com/figment/index.html
cultural critic and journalist, author of Techgnosis

John Delaney

www.neptune.washington.edu
professor of oceanography at U. Washington, developer of the Neptune Project, a vast fiber optic telescope to study the Pacific rift

Duane Elgin

www.awakeningearth.org
social scientist and author of Awakening Earth and Voluntary Simplicity

Ebon Fisher

www.users.interport.net/~alula/home.html
multimedia artist and designer of 'media rituals'

Pliny Fisk

www.cmpbs.org
www.rachel.auschron.com/issues/spec/greenbuild/pliny.html
pioneering ecological architect, deigner and planner, and developer of ecological design database visualization tools, Co-Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems

Jim Fournier

geoman.com/jim
design scientist, digital artist, and global theorist, co-founder of Planetwork

Gil Friend

founder and CEO of Natural Logic, a software and strategy firm that helps companies and communities prosper by embedding the laws of nature at the heart of enterprise

Carol Gigliotti

www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/Astrolabe
ethics and technology, Interactive Arts Technical University of British Columbia

Douglas Gordin

Dr. Douglas Gordin is a Senior Cognitive Scientist at SRI International

Ronan Hallowell

Bay Area DJ, writer and speaker, co-founder of Re-flect Learning

Jan Hauser

www.janhauser.com
Principal Architect at Sun Microsystems

John Helly

scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego where he leads the Earth System Science program

Sheri Herndon

206.168.174.21
Independent Media Center activist

Julia Butterfly Hill

www.lunatree.org
treesitter extraordinaire, Julia Butterfly, became a virtual presence in the world by cell phone, video and the web, from atop Luna, a 1000 year old redwood tree

David Irons

www.ascribe-news.com
founder of the AScribe news bureau

Maria Jankowska

www.uidaho.edu/~majanko
Network Resources Librarian University of Idaho

Denise Joines

www.onenw.org
Executive Director of ONE/Northwest - Online Networking for the Environment

Eduardo Kac

www.ekac.org
cutting edge digital artist, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Marie Kerpan

founder of Green Careers, a consulting practice focussed on people who are interested in aligning their ecological values with their work

Josh Knauer

greenmarketplace.com, www.envirolink.org
founder of Envirolink, and most recently GreenMarketPlace.com

Shane Korytko

206.168.174.21
Indepenent Media Center activist

Meredith Lane

www.acnatsci.org/news/meredith.html
Vice President of Biodiversity for the Academy of Natural Sciences

Pierre Levy

www.mediamente.rai.it/english/bibliote/biografi/l/levy.htm
professor in Department of Hypermedia at the University of Paris-VIII; author of Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace

Sheri Liao

www.gvbchina.org
Founder and President of Global Village of Beijing one of China's most well known environmental NGO's

Andrew Michael

Andrew Michael currently is responsible for providing leadership and coordination for the Bay Area Council participation as a member of the leadership team of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development. http://www.bayareacouncil.org/users/amichael

Joel Makower

journalist and bestselling author, and a leading voice on business, the environment, and the bottom line. A writer and lecturer on business environmental topics, he is also editor of ‹The Green Business Letter,Š a monthly newsletter on corporate environmental responsibility.

Michael Naimark

web.interval.com/projects/be_now_here
holds a research appointment in arts and media at Interval Corp.

Melissa Nelson

Melissa Nelson is a mixed-blood writer, educator, and ecologist focusing on the protection and restoration of indigenous lands and cultures

Michael North

www.greenstar.org
director, Green Star Foundation

Bill Pease

scorecard.org, actionnetwork.org
Director of Internet Projects for the Environmental Defense Fund

Mark Pesce

www.hyperreal.org/~mpesce
Internet visionary, co-inventor of VRML, author, lecturer and creator of WebEarth, a real-time VRML model of the planet's weather

Richard Plevin

globalexchange.org
Electronic Communications Director at Global Exchange

Kelly Quirke

www.ran.org
Executive Director of the Rainforest Action Network, former national coordinator of Greenpeace's U.S. Temperate Forest campaign

John Radke

www-geography.berkeley.edu:80/People/faculty/J_Radke.html
professor of architecture at UC Berkeley using GIS systems for environmental planning

Alexander Repenning

Alexander's work is focused around a programming substrate called Agentsheets to create domain-oriented programming and simulation environments

David Rothenberg

www.njit.edu/Directory/Academic/HUM/EPS/roth.htm
musician, author, editor of Terra Nova , Nature and Culture published by MIT Press Journals, professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology

Thomas Ruddy

members.tripod.com/ruddyconsult
author of The European Way of Using Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development; info-tech designer for World's Fair Expo 2000 on Nature, Technology and Humanity

Peter Russell

www.peterussell.com
futurist and author of The Global Brain Awakens, Waking Up in Time, and From Science to God and videos The Global Brain and The White Hole in Time

Carlos Seligo

www.frankensteinmonster.com
Academic Technology Specialist and post doctoral fellow in Humanities at Stanford University

Elisabet Sahtouris

www.ratical.org/lifeweb
evolutionary biologist, futurist, consultant to the UN, science writer for the Horizon / Nova television series, coauthor of Biology Revisioned and A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us

Edward Shanken

www.duke.edu/~giftwrap
Historian of Art and Technology, Duke University

Gloria Brown Simmons

cavs.mit.edu/projects/creat_vis/Gloria.html
research fellow at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, formerly visualization manager with the White House GLOBE Program, and involved with visualization from Galileo, Voyager and Viking space probes at CalTech

Jim Slama

sustainusa.org
editor of Conscious Choice, founder and presisent of Sustain, leader in the successful 1998 Keep "Organic" Organic Campaign in response to proposed rule changes by USDA David Stainforth www.climate-dynamics.rl.ac.uk
Department of Physics, University of Oxford and the Space Science and Technology Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Bruce Sterling lonestar.texas.net/~dub/dedmed.html
cyberpunk progenitor, author of six sci-fi novels including Schismatrix, a "post human space opera" and most recently founder of the Viridian Green art movement

Payson Stevens

www.in-media.com
developer of award winning CD-Roms and other new media focussed on the Earth System; co-author of Embracing Earth: New Views of Our Changing Planet

Brian Swimme

www.ciis.edu/faculty/swimme.html
cosmologist, coauthor of The Universe Story, creator of video series Canticle to the Cosmos

Steve Talbott

www.oreilly.com/~stevet/netfuture
technology critic, editor of NetFuture, and founder of the The Nature Institute

Hardin Tibbs

www.gbn.org/Scenarios/Sustainability, www.sustainable.doe.gov/articles/indecol.htm
strategist, futurist, leading authority on industrial ecology and global scenario research

Tyler Volk

www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/bio/faculty/volk
professor of biology at NYU and NASA researcher, author of Meta Patterns, Across Space, Time and Mind and most recently, Gaia's Body, an in depth examination of the living, breathing network of systems that is our biosphere

Peter Warshall

www.wholeearthmag.com
ecosystem biologist, environmental activist, editor of Whole Earth magazine

Adam Werbach

www.thingreenline.com
host of the environmental newsmagazine Thin Green Line, former president of the Sierra Club

Brian West

www.ClickImpact.com
founder and principal of ClickImpact

Kenji Williams

www.thewomb.net
award winning filmmaker and musician

Twyla Wilson

www.USWeb.com
director of strategic alliance program at US Web/CKS

Natan Zaidenweber

founded Fulcrum EcoSystems, a start-up company that is using information technology as a means to build up dialogue and create market incentives for conservation of natural resources

Pablo Zavala

free lance consultant on TechInfo

Zakary Zide

Manager of the community-based, Wild City! environmental education outreach program, at the California Acadmey of Sciences in San Francisco

Jon Zilber

www.verde.com
content vp at Verde, formerly managing editor at Infoseek and editor-in-chief for various Ziff Davis publications including PC/Computing, MacUser and The Net

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