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Biographies
Ed Begley, Jr.
As environmental issues become more pressing, there are two possible responses: forget it and hope that government and corporations will figure it out, or take action yourself.
In the "take action yourself" camp, a few individuals are leading the way. One such person in California is Ed Begley, Jr.
Environmental lawyer and long-time friend, Bobby Kennedy, Jr. has said "Ed has a greater sense of social obligation than anyone I know. He's like a West Coast cadet who gets up every morning and says 'reporting for duty'".
Turning up at Hollywood events on his bicycle, Ed has been considered an environmental leader in the Hollywood community for many years. He has served as chairman of the Environmental Media Association, and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. He still serves on those boards, as well as the Thoreau Institute, the Earth Communications Office, Tree People and Friends of the Earth, among many others.
His work in the environmental community has earned him a number of awards from some of the most prestigious environmental groups in the nation, including the California League of Conservation Voters, the Natural Resources Defense Council, The Coalition for Clean Air, Heal the Bay and the Santa Monica Baykeeper.
He currently lives near Los Angeles in a self-sufficient home powered by solar energy. He has his own website at edbegley.com.
Robin Morris Collin
Robin Morris Collin joined the faculty at Willamette University College of Law this fall as a Professor of Law. Morris Collin, who has been teaching law since 1984, came to Willamette after teaching at the college last year as visiting professor and after a distinguished ten-year career as a tenured member of the faculty at the University of Oregon School of Law. At Willamette, Professor Morris teaches Criminal Law, Remedies, Criminal Procedure and Sustainability and the Law.
Morris Collin began her teaching career at Tulane Law School and McGeorge Law School at the University of the Pacific. Prior to teaching, she practiced administrative law as a staff attorney in the Credit Practices Division of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. She practiced criminal law as assistant county attorney in the Maricopa County Attorney's Office in Phoenix, Ariz. She also practiced private plaintiffs' antitrust law as an associate at Reed, Goldstein and Jenkins-Reed in Phoenix.
A graduate of Colorado College, Professor Morris Collin received her law degree from the Arizona State University College of Law. In 1993, she was the first professor to teach sustainability and the law at an American law school. She is a member of the bar in the state of Oregon and Arizona and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. A widely sought speaker and panelist, Professor Morris Collin has contributed extensively throughout her career to professional and civic organizations. Morris Collin is a member of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology, Standing Committee on Sectors (a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). She also serves on the board of her family's Red River Shipping Company, the first and only African American owned and operated vessel line.
Dave Foreman
Dave Foreman has worked as a wilderness conservationist since 1971. From 1973 to 1980, he worked for The Wilderness Society as Southwest Regional Representative in New Mexico and as Director of Wilderness Affairs in Washington, DC. He was a member of the board of trustees for the New Mexico Chapter of The Nature Conservancy from 1976 to 1980. From 1982 to 1988, he was editor of the Earth First! Journal. Foreman is a founder of The Wildlands Project and was its Chairman from 1991-2003 and executive editor or publisher of Wild Earth from 1991-2003. He is now the Director and Senior Fellow of The Rewilding Institute, a conservation "think tank" advancing ideas of continental conservation. He was a member of the national Board of Directors of the Sierra Club from 1995 to 1997 and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. He speaks widely on conservation issues and is author of The Lobo Outback Funeral Home (a novel), Confessions of an Eco-Warrior, and The Big Outside (with Howie Wolke). Island Press will publish his new book, Rewilding North America, at the beginning of 2004. Foreman is the lead author and network designer of the Sky Islands Wildlands Network Conservation Plan and the New Mexico Highlands Wildlands Network Vision from The Wildlands Project. He received the 1996 Paul Petzoldt Award for Excellence in Wilderness Education and was named by Audubon Magazine in 1998 as one of the 100 Champions of Conservation of the 20th Century. Foreman is a backpacker, river runner, canoeist, fly-fisher, hunter, wilderness photographer, and bird-watcher. He lives in his hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Dale Jameison
Dale Jameison is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at New York University. Formerly he was Henry R. Luce Professor in Human Dimensions of Global Change at Carleton College, and for nearly twenty years he taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he was the only faculty member to have won both the Dean's award for research in the social sciences and the Chancellor's award for research in the humanities. He regularly teaches courses in ethics, environmental philosophy, environmental justice, philosophy of biology and mind, and global change.
Dr. Jamieson's most recent book is Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature (Oxford, 2002). He is also the editor or co-editor of seven books, most recently A Companion to Environmental Philosophy (Blackwell, 2001), and Singer and his Critics (Blackwell, 1999), named by Choice as one of the outstanding academic books of 1999. He has published more than eighty articles and book chapters in such journals as Analysis, Environmental Ethics, Environmental Values, Utilitas, Ethics, Journal of Value Inquiry, Global Environmental Change, Climatic Change, Risk Analysis, Science, Technology and Human Values, Society and Natural Resources and Philosophical Studies He is also the co-author of a major report to the US Environmental Protection Agency, Cultural Barriers to Behavioral Change: General Recommendations and Resources for State Pollution Prevention Programs. His work has been translated into many language, and he is Associate Editor of Science, Technology and Human Values, and on the editorial advisory boards of several journals including Environmental Values, Environmental Ethics, Science and Engineering Ethics and the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare. His research has been funded by the Ethics and Values Studies Program of the National Science Foundation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Office of Global Programs in the National Atmospheric and Aeronautics Administration.
Dr. Jamieson currently serves as Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, and as President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics. He is completing a book on the philosophical dimensions of global environmental change. He can be reached via email at dwj3@nyu.edu.
Jane Lubchenco
Dr. Jane Lubchenco is an environmental scientist and marine ecologist who is actively engaged in teaching, research, synthesis and communication of scientific knowledge. Her research expertise include biodiversity, climate change, sustainability science and the state of the oceans. She grew up in Denver and received her B.A. from Colorado College. At 21 she was seduced by marine biology during a course in invertebrate zoology at Woods Hole. She has lived near oceans ever since. She received her PhD. and was Assistant Professor at Harvard University. In moving to Oregon State University in 1978, Jane and her husband Bruce Menge pioneered an arrangement that allowed both to continue to teach and do research but also devote considerable time to their young children: they each held a tenure-track 0.5 FTE position. At OSU, she is Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology. She has received numerous awards including a a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, eight honorary degrees (including one from Princeton University), the 2002 Heinz Award for the Environment, and the 2003 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She has 8 Science Citation Classic or top 0.25% papers. She has been president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the International Council for Science; was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of The Royal Society and an associate of The Third World Academy of Sciences; and was nominated to the National Science Board by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate. She is founder and co-chair of the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program and lead PI of PISCO, the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (an interdisciplinary consortium of scientists collaborating to understand the near-shore portion of the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem off the west coast of the U.S. She recently co-chaired Governor Kulongoski's Advisory Group on Global Warming and has provided scientific advice to congress, U.S. presidents, other heads of state, CEOs of major businesses and religious leaders around the world.
Carolyn Merchant
Carolyn Merchant is the Chancellor's professor of Environmental History, Philosophy, and Ethics in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (1980); Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England (1989); Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World (1992); Earthcare: Women and the Environment (1996); The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History (2002); and Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture (2003; 2004), as well as numerous articles on the history of science, environmental history, and women and the environment. She is the editor of Major Problems in American Environmental History (1993; 2005); Key Concepts in Critical Theory: Ecology (1994); Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History (1998); and co-editor, with John McNeill and Shepard Krech, III, of The Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (2003).
Merchant is a graduate of Vassar College and received her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the History of Science and an honorary doctorate from Umeå University in Sweden. She has been a fellow at the center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow in the Ecological Humanities at the National Humanities Center; a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies; a Guggenheim fellow, a Fulbright senior scholar in Sweden, and the 1991 ecofeminist scholar at Murdoch University in Western Australia. She is the immediate past-president of the American Society for Environmental History and has served on the executive and advisory boards of the History of Science Society, Environmental History, Environmental Ethics, Ethics and the Environment, the International Journal of Ecoforestry, Organization and Environment, and the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.
George Miller
Congressman George Miller (D-CA), a leading spokesman in Congress on education, labor, the environment and Native Americans, has represented the 7th District of California in San Francisco's East Bay since 1975. His district includes portions of Contra Costa and Solano counties, including Richmond, Concord, Martinez, Pittsburg, Vallejo, Benicia and Vacaville. Miller plays a key leadership role in the House of Representatives regarding strategy, development and communication of a wide range of public policy.
Andrew Revkin
Andrew Revkin has been a reporter for The New York Times since 1995, traveling from the Hudson Valley to the North Pole to report on conservation, climate science and efforts to sustain the human adventure without wrecking the home planet. He also contributed more than 30 stories to The Times’ Pulitzer-winning coverage of events following 9/11. Last year, Revkin won the inaugural $20,000 National Academy of Sciences Communication Award for print journalism. He has twice won the Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and also has won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award. His first book, The Burning Season (new edition, Island Press, 2004), chronicles the life of Chico Mendes, the slain Amazon activist. The book was the basis for the HBO film of the same name. Revkin also wrote Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, which accompanied an exhibition on climate change created by the American Museum of Natural History. He occasionally writes about music, and his Times profile of a heavy-metal singer was the basis for the 2001 movie Rock Star. Revkin lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and two sons. In spare moments, he is a performing songwriter, part of a rural-roots band, Uncle Wade, and an occasional accompanist for Pete Seeger.
Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams grew up within sight of the Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City, Utah. She says simply, "I write through my biases of gender, geography, and culture. I am a woman whose ideas have been shaped by the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau, these ideas are then filtered through the prism of my culture and my culture is Mormon. The tenets of family and community which I see at the heart of that culture are then articulated through story." How we as a culture engage in civic life raises political questions, but what Williams has come to understand in trying to solve environmental issues is that it is not just a political process, but a spiritual one. As a writer, Williams seeks to see the world whole, with all its paradoxes, humor, and complexity. Her art form is storytelling where one remembers what it means to be human.
Williams is perhaps best known for her book Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, where she chronicles the epic rise of Great Sale Lake and the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in 1983, alongside her mother's diagnosis with ovarian cancer, believed to be caused by radioactive fallout from the nuclear tests in the Nevada desert in the 1950's and 60's, is now regarded as a classic in American Nature Writing, a testament to loss and the earth's healing grace. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "There has never been a book like Refuge….utterly original."
Her most recent book, Red: Patience and Passion in the Desert, traces her lifelong love of and commitment to the desert, inspiring a soulful return to "wild mercy" and the spiritual and political commitment of preserving the fragile redrock wilderness of southern Utah.
Not only was Williams identified as someone likely to make "a considerable impact on the political, economic, and environmental issues facing the western states this decade", she has testified before the U.S. Congress twice regarding the environmental links associated with cancer, and has been a strong advocate for America's Redrock Wilderness Act. Recently, Ms. Williams' work has appeared in The New York Times, the International Herald and other newspapers, as she has questioned the current administration's environmental policies on public land issues, particularly in the American West.
Her other books include Pieces of White Shell—A Journey to Navajoland; Coyote's Canyon; An Unspoken Hunger—Stories from the Field; Desert Quartet; and Leap—A meditation on Hieronymous Bosch's triptych, "The Garden of Earthly Delights."
Terry Tempest Williams' work has been widely anthologized, having also appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Orion, Outside, Audubon, among other national and international publications. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship in creative nonfiction, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Community Grant. Ms. Williams recognized as both a teacher and lecturer, passionate about the social issues of our time on the page and in the world.
Elizabeth Woody
Elizabeth Woody (Navajo/Warm Springs/Wasco/Yakama) is the author of three books and is widely published. Ms. Woody has received the 1990 American Book Award, Hedgebrook’s J.T. Stewart award (for those who write transformational work), and the William Stafford Memorial Award for Poetry from the Pacific Northwest Bookseller’s Association in 1995. She presently works within Native Programs for Ecotrust in Portland, Oregon with her colleague, Craig Jacobson, on an array of projects. As Director of Indigenous Leadership she manages the Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership that is an annual awards program for mid-career leadership (ecotrust.org/buffettaward). Please see hanksville.org/storytellers/ewoody for a complete CV and list of publications.