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Julia Butterfly
Julia Butterfly Hill is a poet, writer, and activist who brought
international attention to the world's last remaining ancient forests
when she climbed 180 feet up into the branches of a 1,000-year-old
redwood tree and refused to come down for two long years. She is
the author of the national best seller The Legacy of Lunaó,
which chronicles her tree-sitting experience and offers readers
insight into her environmental views and commitments, and she is
the co-author of One Makes the Difference, both published by Harper
San Francisco. In 1999, Julia founded the non-profit organization
Circle of Life, to promote the sustainability, restoration, and
preservation of life. Her latest project, We The Planet, is a tour
and festival which produces environmentally sustainable, creative,
and dynamic community events in the Bay Area, California, and all
over the United States.
For more information on Julia or Circle of Life, visit www.circleoflife.org
Jeff
Debonis
Jeff has led a distinguished career in forestry, environmentalism
and employee activism. He worked on national and international government
forestry projects in the Peace Corps, the U.S. Forest Service, and
the Agency for International Development. In 1989, he founded and
was the Director of the Association of Forest Service Employees for
Environmental Ethics (AFSEEE), a group of dissident, environmental
activist agency employees within the Forest Service. In 1992, he founded
and directed Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER),
an expanded national organization of public employees of numerous
environmental agencies who work to ensure the integrity and public
accountability of their agencies. DeBonis has been recognized for
his leadership by several foundations and public interest groups including
the National Wildlife Federation, the Wilderness Society, Alliance
for the Wild Rockies, California League of Conservation Voters, Oregon
Natural Resources Council and the Society for Conservation Biology.
Jeff is currently one of TREC's Senior Associates. Prior to joining
TREC, he was a free-lance consultant for three years specializing
as an Interim Executive Director for several environmental groups
around the country, providing leadership, planning, program, financial
and other critical services to organizations in transition.
Brock
Evans
Woody Harrelson
Randy
Hayes
Randall Hayes is an action-oriented organizer. He is founder and
President of Rainforest Action Network. Randy’s training as
an activist was documentary filmmaking. He produced the award-winning
film The Four Corners, A National Sacrifice Area?, which documents
the tragic effects of uranium and coal mining on Hopi and Navajo
Indian lands in the American Southwest. Now, as President of Rainforest
Action Network, Randy is a leader in the efforts to halt destruction
of tropical rainforests and to fight for the rights of indigenous
people. He is also leading a national campaign to confront the over-consumption
of wood, calling for a 75% reduction of wood and wood based paper
in the US within a decade. He works with organizers and regional
networks worldwide in building a movement for effective social change.
His "500 Year Planning Process" spells out a vision of
a sustainable society and how to get there. He helped write Alternatives
to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible, published
by San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2002.
Jim
Hightower
Jim Hightower National radio commentator, columnist, public speaker,
political sparkplug and author of Thieves In High Places: They've
Stolen Our Country And It's Time To Take It Back, Jim Hightower
has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of
the Powers That Ought To Be: consumers, working families, environmentalists,
small business, and just-plain-folks. He was twice elected Texas
Agriculture Commissioner, and he has become a leading national voice
for the 80 percent of the public who no longer find themselves within
shouting distance of the Washington and Wall Street powers at the
top.
Known as America's Most Popular Populist, Hightower spreads the
message of progressive populism all across the American grassroots.
He broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more
than 100 commercial and public stations, on the web, on Armed Forces
Radio, Radio for Peace International, One World Radio and Sirius
Satellite Radio. Each month, he publishes a populist political newsletter,
The Hightower Lowdown, and he delivers about 100 speeches a year.
His newspaper column is carried in more than 75 independent newspapers,
magazines, and other publications. Hightower also devotes much of
his energy to revitalizing grassroots progressive politics with
his nationwide "Rolling Thunder Down-Home Democracy Tour,"
which includes top-notch speakers, great music, how-to workshops,
food, drink, games, clowns & fun for the whole family.
Hightower was raised in Denison, Texas, in a family of small business
people, tenant farmers, and working folks and he is a graduate of
the University of North Texas. Hightower has become his own media
conglomerate, using his writings and voice to reach millions of
people a year, raising issues, raising hope and raising hell. Describing
himself as a Luddite with a Web site, Hightower provides updated
information about his newsletter, radio commentaries, books, speaking
schedule, and other work at www.jimhightower.com
Edward
O. Wilson
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