.......... Presenters
Updated May 10, 2000 @ 7:30 p m 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, 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