Conference Participants

The Facilitators

Sandra Janoff, Ph.D., Co-Director, Future Search Network (http://www.futuresearch.net/) and Ralph Copleman, Consultant (http://www.earthdreams.net/) are among the country's most experienced facilitators of future search conferences. Sandra has literally written (or least co-authored, with Marv Weisbord) the book on the subject, (Future Search: An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities, Berrett-Koehler, May, 1995, revised January, 2000.)

The Participants

Audra Abt, Senior, Environmental Studies, Oberlin College

Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park, and President of the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives

Mary Barber, Executive Director, Sustainable Biosphere Initiative, Ecological Society of America

Seaton Baxter, Professor, University of Dundee

Janine Benyus, Writer

Paul W. Bierman-Lytle, Environmental Architect and Planner

Grace Boggs, Activist, Scholar, Writer, Community Organizer and Speaker

William Browning, Senior Consultant / Research Scholar, Green Development Services, Rocky Mountain Institute

Diana Bustamante, Community Organizing; Executive Director, Colonias Development Council

Warren W. Byrne, Renewable Consultant; Managing Director and Founder, Foresight Energy Company

Mark Clevey, Vice-President, Small Business Association of Michigan (SBAM)

Jane Ellen Clougherty, Research Analyst, Community Energy Division Program Manager, Great Lakes Energy Network, Center for Neighborhood Technology

Robert Costanza, Director, University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics

Tanya Dawkins, Senior Vice President, United Way

James Embry, Board President, Boggs Center for Nuturing Community Leadership

Jon Farley, President and CEO, Zarn Enterprises

Josh Farley, Executive Director, IEE

Harold Glasser, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program & Environmental Institute, Western Michigan University

Becky Grella, Founder, Executive Director and President, AIZA BIBY

Elaine Gross, Executive Director, Sustainable America

Gerald Hairston, Urban Gardener

Sarah Karpanty, Co-Director and Secretary, AIZA BIBY

Carol Kuhre, Executive Director, Rural Action

George McQuitty, Law/Environmental Education, Professor, University of St. Andrews

Peter Montague, co-founder and director of Environmental Research Foundation

Dondohn Namesling, Aiza Biby Youth Board Representative & Videographer

David Orr, Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Chair of the Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College

John Petersen, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology, Oberlin College

William Prindle, Alliance to Save Energy

Tom Prugh, Writer, Consultant to Energy Information Administration

Jack Santa-Barbara, M.D.

Claudine Schneider, Co-Chair of the U.S. Committee for the United Nations Development Program, International Consultant

Ben Shepherd, Green Development Services, Rocky Mountain Institute

Megan Snedden, Economic Development Coordinator Colonias Development Council

Karl Steyaert, The Center for a New American Dream

Theodore Steck, M.D. Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chair, Undergraduate Program in Environmental Studies, University of Chicago

Harvey Stone, Vice President of Marketing, BizBots

Paul Templet, Professor of Environmental Studies, Louisiana State University

Mary Evelyn Tucker, Professor, the Center for the Study of the World's Religions, Bucknell University

Sarah van Gelder, Executive Editor YES! magazine

Rafael Vargas, Aiza Biby Youth Board Representative & Videographer

Verlene Wilder, Lead Organizer for the Union Cities Program, King County Labor Council