Kenny Ausubel, the CEO and founder of Bioneers, is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, social entrepreneur and author whose books include The Bioneers: Declarations of Interdependence; and When Healing Becomes a Crime: The Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies. He is the executive producer and co-writer of the award-winning Bioneers radio series Revolution From the Heart of Nature; acted as a central advisor to Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary The 11th Hour; and is the co-project director of Bioneers' Dreaming New Mexico project, which just won Runner-up in the prestigious 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. Kenny co-founded Seeds of Change, a national biodiversity organic seed company, and founded Inner Tan Productions, a feature film development company.
Dayna Baumeister has worked in the field of biomimicry with Janine Benyus since 1998 as a business catalyst, educator, researcher, and design consultant. Together they founded the Biomimicry Guild, The Biomimicry Institute, and Biomimicry3.8, collectively fertilizing the movement of biomimicry as an innovative practice and philosophy to meet the world's sustainability challenges. Dayna also designed and teaches the world's first Biomimicry Professional Certification Program and compiled over a decade of experience into the Biomimicry Resource Handbook: A Seed Bank of Knowledge and Best Practices (2011).
Karen Brown, Creative Director of the Center for Ecoliteracy, is an award-winning designer who has lectured throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan on the human and environmental consequences of design. Her design has shaped the online and print publications of the Center for Ecoliteracy, including its Rethinking School Lunch Guide, Big Ideas, and educators' guides to the films Food, Inc., Nourish, and Connected. Her work has been featured at the Smithsonian and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, as well as in many publications, including The New York Times and Architectural Digest.
Roxanne Brown is the Assistant Legislative Director for the United Steelworkers (USW), one of five lobbyists in the USW's legislative office in Washington DC, and serves on the Steering Committee of the Blue Green Alliance, initially an alliance of the United Steelworkers and the Sierra Club that has expanded into a national partnership of major labor unions and environmental organizations dedicated to expanding the number and quality of jobs in the green economy. She covers a range of issues including climate change, environment, and labor law reform in her lobbying and advocacy work.
Philippe Cousteau, the 31-year-old son of Jan and Philippe Cousteau Sr. and grandson of the legendary Jacques-Yves Cousteau, continues his family's legacy as CEO of EarthEcho International, a non-profit he founded with his sister and mother. Philippe is also: co-founder of Azure Worldwide, a strategic environmental design, development and marketing company; Chief Ocean Correspondent for Discovery's Animal Planet; a special correspondent for CNN International hosting a series of environmentally themed specials; co-host with his sister Alexandra of Planet Green's annual Blue August initiative; Chief Spokesperson for Environmental Education for Discovery Education; and the co-author of Going Blue, A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands. Philippe also serves on many boards, including those of The Ocean Conservancy, Marine Conservation Biology Institute, and the National Environmental Education Foundation, as well as on the advisory boards of Planet Green and the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund.
Joshua Fouts, a writer, journalist, gamer and technologist, is a Senior Fellow for Digital Media and Public Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress, a Next Generation Fellow at The American Assembly, and Executive Producer at Dancing Ink Productions. Fouts has an extensive career on the cutting-edge of journalism, online media, games, culture and foreign policy and a history exploring the impact of new technology tools for media years before they are adopted by the mainstream. In 2005 he was the first person to propose and direct a project illuminating how virtual worlds could be used for cultural relations.
Natalia Greene, born in Ecuador, coordinates the program on "Political Plurinationality and the Rights of Nature" at the Fundación Pachamama in Ecuador and is the President of CEDENMA, Ecuador's national coordinating entity for environmental NGOs. A graduate in political science from Hampshire College, she holds a master's degree from FLACSO Ecuador and a special degree from Andina University on climate change. She was a key figure in the effort to include the recognition of rights for nature in Ecuador's constitution and has worked on the environmental and indigenous rights aspects of the Yasuní-ITT Initiative to keep oil underground in the Amazon.
Rita King is the Founding Director of Dancing Ink Productions, a company that works with major clients focused on the emergence of a new global culture and economy in the Imagination Age. King is Innovator-in-Residence at IBM's Analytics Virtual Center, a former Senior Fellow at The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York City and a current Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress in Washington DC. Her essays, various writings and works of art have been commissioned, published and exhibited globally.
John D. Liu, a Chinese American who helped open the CBS News Beijing News Bureau in 1981 during the early normalization of relations between the U.S. and China, has since the mid-1990s concentrated on producing, writing, directing and presenting environmental films for the BBC, National Geographic and other networks. In 1997 he started the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP) in China and helped create the China Environment and Sustainable Development Reference and Research Center and the China HIV/AIDS Information Network. His award-winning film Hope in a Changing Climate has led to public speaking engagements on 6 continents. Liu now studies and documents restoration worldwide and is: on the steering committee of the Global Forum on Media for Development, an Associate Professor at George Mason University's Center for Climate and Society, and a Senior Research Fellow for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Amory Lovins, a physicist, consultant to businesses and government leaders, is Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). He's written 31 books and received the Blue Planet, Volvo, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, Zayed Future Energy, and Mitchell Prizes, MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, 11 honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood, National Design, and World Technology Awards. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and Foreign Policy, one of the 100 top global thinkers. His most recent book (in collaboration with a large RMI team) is Reinventing Fire.
Rebecca Moore is a computer scientist and longtime software professional. At Google, she conceived and now manages the Google Earth Outreach program, which supports nonprofits, communities and indigenous peoples around the world in applying Google's mapping tools to pressing problems in areas such as environmental conservation, human rights, cultural preservation and creating a sustainable society. Her personal work using Google Earth was recently instrumental in stopping a plan to log more than a thousand acres of redwoods in her Santa Cruz Mountain community.
Melissa K. Nelson, Ph.D. (Anishinaabe/Métis [Turtle Mountain Chippewa]), (Member, Bioneers Board of Directors), a cultural ecologist, scholar-activist, writer and media-maker, is a Professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State and the President of the Cultural Conservancy, a Native American nonprofit dedicated to the preservation and revitalization of indigenous cultures and their ancestral lands. She is the editor of the Bioneers anthology, Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings For A Sustainable Future and producer of the award-winning documentary film, The Salt Song Trail. She is the co-founder/co-producer of the Indigenous Forum at Bioneers and co-founder of the new Bioneers Indigeneity Program as well as serving on Bioneers' board.
Pam Rajput is an Indian academic turned internationally renowned activist who has been engaged in the women's movement since the mid-70s both in India and internationally. She helped organize and was the first Speaker of a "Women's Parliament" that brought together over 500 women leaders from every part of India. A recipient of many academic fellowships, she is a member of several expert committees and bodies in India including the nation's: Planning Commission, Ministry of Women & Child Development, National Commission for Women, delegation to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and many others. She is also the founder and Director of the Centre for Women's Studies & Development and the Head of the Department of Political Science at Panjab University.
Nina Simons, Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Bioneers, is a social entrepreneur who translates her life experience into tools for serving the emerging leadership of others. Nina maintains a strong focus on writing and teaching about women's leadership and restoring the 'feminine' in us all, and on leveraging Bioneers' inspiring solutions and stories to make the biggest possible difference in the world. She has co-produced the annual Bioneers conference since 1990. Through the Bioneers Women's Leadership Program, Nina offers 5-day Cultivating Women's Leadership trainings several times a year, with co-facilitator Toby Herzlich, intended to strengthen the inner resources and tools required to help women of all ages and backgrounds step more fully into progressive change-making. In 2002, Nina produced a retreat for diverse women leaders called UnReasonable Women for the Earth, organized to brainstorm about envisioning a broad, progressive women's movement with environment at its heart. The gathering served as an incubator, resulting in the formation of CODEPINK: Women for Peace. Nina was previously president of Seeds of Change, the biodiversity organic seed company, and a marketing executive with the fresh juice company Odwalla. Nina co-edited (with Anneke Campbell), and wrote the introduction for, the newest Bioneers anthology book, Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart (Park Street Press, Fall 2010).
Paul Stamets has written six seminal mushroom-related books, including Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, The Mushroom Cultivator, Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, and many articles and scholarly papers. Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms and The Mushroom Cultivator are used as textbooks around the world by the specialty and medicinal mushroom industries. Paul started a medicinal and gourmet mushroom business, Fungi Perfecti, LLC, in 1980. He has received numerous environmental awards, including from Bioneers and the National Geographic, as well as Adventure's Magazine's Green-O-vator and the Argosy Foundation's E-chievement awards. In 2010, Paul received the President's Award from the Society of Ecological Restoration.
Anim Steel is the Director of National Programs at The Food Project in Boston, MA, founded twenty years ago to create personal and social change through sustainable agriculture. It currently employs over 100 Boston-area teenagers from diverse backgrounds who annually grow, sell, and donate over 250,000 pounds of organic produce. Nationally, the Food Project is helping to build a strong youth movement for just and sustainable food systems. Since 2003, Anim has provided leadership training for over 700 young people and forged a network of 5,000+ young activists and farmers. In 2008, he co-founded the Real Food Challenge, a campaign to re-direct $1 billion of college food purchases away from industrial agriculture towards local, fair, sustainable, and humane sources. Born in Ghana and growing up in West Africa and Washington, DC, Anim holds a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School and a B.A. in Astrophysics and History from Williams College.
Gloria Steinem, a world-renowned writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist, co-founded New York magazine in 1968 and Ms. Magazine in 1972, for which she continues to serve as a consulting editor. She has produced a documentary on child abuse, a feature film about the death penalty and been the subject of countless profiles. Her books include the bestsellers Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Moving Beyond Words, and Marilyn: Norma Jean, and she helped edit The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Ms. Steinem has helped found many important groups, including: the Women's Action Alliance, the National Women's Political Caucus, Voters for Choice, Choice USA, the Ms. Foundation for Women, Take Our Daughters to Work Day, the Beyond Racism Initiative, and the Women's Media Center.
Mary Evelyn Tucker teaches world religions and ecology at Yale University. She helped establish this new field by organizing ten conferences at Harvard and editing ten volumes exploring views of nature in the world's religions. She founded the Forum on Religion and Ecology that has an outreach to 12,000 people worldwide. She is a member of the Earth Charter International Council. She has edited Thomas Berry's books and with Brian Thomas Swimme she helped create the Journey of the Universe book and film. She is the author of Worldly Wonder and The Philosophy of Qi.
Ann Armbrecht is a writer, anthropologist (PhD, Harvard 1995) and herbalist specializing in the relationship between culture and the environment. She has conducted research in Nepal and the western United States and has taught at Dartmouth, Middlebury, and Goddard Colleges. Ann is the author of Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home (Columbia University Press, 2009), a spiritual memoir based on her experiences in Nepal, which received a Gold Nautilus Award for books that will change the world. She is also the co-producer of Numen: the Nature of Plants, a documentary film exploring the healing power of plants.
A PhD student at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT, Mohamad holds a Masters from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Mohamad's passion for nature and for people led him to several years of professional training (and personal development) in parks and gardens across the US, with the Peace Corps in Central Africa, and with the United Nations in Syria. Before starting at MIT, Mohamad spent three years consulting on environment and community development projects in both the US and the Middle East. Mohamad was a co-founder of DC Green Muslims and is a Senior Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program.
Jen, director of professional development at Shelburne Farms, also serves as director of the Sustainable Schools Project (SSP). Jen works with schools and communities, locally as well as internationally, using the concept of sustainability as an integrating lens for curriculum development, campus practices, and community partnerships. In Burlington, Jen is working with the country's first sustainability-themed K-5 magnet school, the Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes, to develop and evaluate the project model, document promising practices, and provide outreach to other schools and communities. Jen believes that education should prepare young people for their role as actively engaged citizens with the knowledge of the complex interconnections between the environment, social equity, and the economy. In addition, she agrees wholeheartedly with John Dewey, in that "education is not preparation for life, education is life itself."
Cameron teaches painting and drawing and is a Full Time Lecturer with the University of Vermont's Department of Art and Art History. An Adjunct Lecturer with the University of Vermont's Environmental Program, Cameron teaches interdisciplinary courses on art, ecology and community. Cameron's paintings, installations, and community art projects, explore issues of the environment and living consciously at this Eaarth-time. Her work uses imagery taken from various sources: Hindu/yogic practices, Buddhism, Earth based traditions, and the new sciences, paired with abstraction that corresponds to the felt and sensed. In this way Cameron attempts to form cultural frameworks that reweave relational and participatory ecological perspectives in order to convey that Earth's compromise is our own interdependent compromise.
Josh is an ecological economist, Associate Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics, and Fellow at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at UVM. He holds degrees in biology (BA), international affairs (MIA) and economics (PhD). He has previously served as program director at the School for Field Studies, Centre for Rainforest Studies, as Executive Director of the University of Maryland International Institute for Ecological Economics, and as visiting professor at the Federal Universities of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and Bahia (UFBA), and the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. His broad research interests focus on the design of economic institutions capable of balancing what is biophysically possible with what is socially, psychologically and ethically desirable. He is co-author with Herman Daly of Ecological Economics, Principles and Applications, 2nd ed. Island Press (2010).
Ben developed Whole Systems Design, LLC as a land-based response to biological and cultural extinction and the increasing separation between people and elemental things. Life as a designer, builder, ecologist, tree-tender, and backcountry traveler continually informs Ben's integrative approach to developing landscapes and buildings. His home landscape and the WSD studio site in Vermont's Mad River Valley serve as a proving ground for the innovative land developments featured in the projects of WSD.. Ben has studied architecture and landscape architecture at the graduate level and holds a master's degree in land-use planning and design. He has taught design courses at the University of Vermont and Harvard's Arnold Arboretum as well as on permaculture design, microclimate design, and design for climate change. He serves on the Board of Directors and Faculty at the Yestermorrow Design-Build School.
Grace Gershuny is widely known in the alternative agriculture movement as an organizer, educator, author and consultant. In the '70's and '80's, she was a market gardener and worked for the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) in many capacities, including developing its first organic certification program. She was a founding member of the Organic Trade Association. In the '90's, she served on the staff of USDA's National Organic Program, and was a principal author of its first, much maligned, proposed rule. She has taught about all aspects of agriculture and food system issues at the college level for many years. She serves on the Board of the Institute for Social Ecology, as well as the Board of the Highfields Center for Composting. She has written extensively on soil management and composting, including co-authoring The Soul of Soil, still in print from Chelsea. Green. Grace still grows her own veggies and raises chicken at her home in Barnet.
Rosemary has been practicing, living, learning, teaching and writing about herbs for over 35 years. She is the author of nine books including the popular Herbal Healing for Women, Gladstar Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Well Being and The Science and Art of Herbalism, an extensive home study course. She is the founder/director of Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center and Botanical Sanctuary, Founding President of United Plant Savers, and director of The International Herb Symposium and The NE Women's Herbal Conference. She is also the co-founder of Traditional Medicinal Tea Company. Along with creating community and loving people, herbs are her passion and joy in life.
Paula Guarnaccia spent most of her twenty-six year career at the University of Vermont and Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vermont. After retiring as Assistant Dean of the University of Vermont's College of Arts and Sciences, she has begun to focus on working for a culture of peace. A lifetime of peace related activities led her to work for the past two years with the newly formed National Peace Academy and more recently to become a BePeace teacher with Rasur International. She also has a keen interest in raising awareness of the link between peace through right relationships and the environment.
Samuel Guarnaccia, a Vermont native, studied classical guitar in Spain and has performed throughout parts of Europe and North America. Having taught at The University of Denver and Middlebury College, he is now on the faculty of the University of Vermont. He is a Spanish scholar, player, and composer with deep ties to the history, struggle, traditions, and spirituality of ancient and contemporary Indigenous peoples.
Rep. Tony Klein was first elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in the fall of 2002. He has served on the House Natural Resources and Energy Committee for the last eight years. He is currently serving his second term as chair of that committee. Rep. Klein has been the lead sponsor on every piece of energy and energy efficiency legislation that has passed into law in Vermont since 2003. Prior to serving in the legislature he operated his own business government relations firm for seven years. His clients included Washington Electric Coop, Vermont Electric Coop, Independent Power Producers and Renewable Energy Vermont. He currently lives in East Montpelier with his wife Jennifer and their elderly Pug dog, Jack.
Lorie works at the intersection between science, art, technology and environmental activism. Lorie is a Research Associate Professor at Dartmouth and is the director of the Digital Arts Program. She was named one of the ten most inspiring professors by the Dartmouth class of 2009. Before coming to Dartmouth, she was a Senior Research Scientist and lecturer at Stanford's computer graphics lab. She holds two patents for her work. On the arts side, Lorie's animation work has won numerous awards including two Emmies and the Cine Golden Eagle Award. She was a professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the Rhode Island School of the Arts. Lorie is a co-founder and President of TellEmotion.
Tim has, over his 25 year career, earned the reputation as the leading US pioneer in woodchip heating for large institutions and for wood-fired district heating. He originated the Montpelier District Energy System project concept and worked with the Montpelier City Council for years to develop it. He started the Biomass Energy Resource Center in 2001 and served as its executive director for six years and as senior program manager for two years – in the process building BERC to be the premier non-profit voice for community-scale biomass energy. He co-authored Heating Communities with Renewable Fuels- The Municipal Guide to Biomass District Energy, under joint funding from the US Department of Energy and Natural Resources Canada. He is also author of Wood-Chip Heating Systems – A Guide For Institutional and Commercial Biomass Installations – recognized nationally as the "Bible" for small-scale woodchip heating. At Community Biomass Systems, Tim is working on the development of a number of community district energy, campus heating and other community-scale projects in Vermont and other states.
Dot is an educator and peacebuilder whose keynote is inspiring cooperation on behalf of the common good. Dot is President of the National Peace Academy in the USA, and is a founder and serves on the leadership council for the Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace. She formerly served as President & CEO of Peace Partnership International where her work in education, politics and grassroots community organizing was focused on applied peacebuilding utilizing a shared responsibility and shared leadership model. From 2005 – 2007, Dot served as Executive Director of The Peace Alliance and Campaign for a US Department of Peace, and prior to that was the National Campaign Manager for Kucinich for President 2004. In the world of fast-pitch softball, Dr. Dot is known for her revolutionary fast-pitch hitting technique, The Maver Method: Secrets of Hitting Success; she is co-author of the book Conscious Education: The Bridge to Freedom; and is a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator at conferences worldwide.
Ginny is a mother, wife, passionate social change leader, and the Executive Director of the Center for Whole Communities. Through her career she has been an advocate for education, the environment, and transformational change in the areas of diversity, power and privilege. She brought her strong communication skills, strategic thinking and management to the nonprofit environmental education organization Bioneers for more than eight years, first as Managing Director, then Deputy Director and finally President. Her organizational leadership helped Bioneers grow into a cutting-edge cultural phenomenon that communicates a timely message of sustainability and social change. Ginny is on the advisory board of Breakthrough Santa Fe, part of the national Breakthrough Collaborative, a tuition free program supporting under-served public school students on a path to college and serves on the advisory board for Alliance for Earth.
Keith has been applying his lifelong love of nature and culture and experience as an activist to permaculture and ecological design since 1996. He has worked professionally as a designer, builder, and grower of ecologically regenerative, socially just, and culturally appropriate whole-systems in cities and countrysides around the world since 2000. He is the founder of Prospect Rock Permaculture, Willow Crossing Farm, co-founder of the Permaculture Institute of the NorthEast (P.I.N.E.), and teaches ecological design at the University of Vermont, the Yestermorrow Design Build School, Sterling College, Paul Smiths College, Burlington Permaculture, and with other community organizations. While his expertise is ecological regeneration, high-performance food production, and shelter systems for cold temperate/ arctic conditions, he works regularly in New York City and has designed and implemented systems in New Zealand, Colorado, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Quebec, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nigeria, Ghana, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
Since 2009, Andy Perchlik has been the Fund Manager of the Vermont Clean Energy Development Fund (CEDF) housed at the Department of Public Service. Prior to working for the CEDF, Andrew was the founding executive director of Renewable Energy Vermont (REV). He founded REV in 2000 while working for the State energy office. Andy came to Vermont as a VISTA volunteer working on heating fuel assistance programs in Addison County. Prior to moving to Vermont he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Panama. He lives in Marshfield with his wife and three children.
Lisa has been leading community-based environmental education programs with adults and children for more than 20 years. She believes people of all ages need a connection with the great outdoors, and she loves her work -- watching individuals look at the world around them with new eyes. Now Director of Four Winds, Lisa was the Associate Director at Smokey House Center in Danby, VT and spent many years as ELF Program Director at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science. She currently serves as chair of Vermont's Statewide Environmental Education Programs (SWEEP) and of the New England Environmental Education Alliance (NEEEA) board of directors. Over the years, Lisa has held a variety of education-related positions: coordinating adventure-based team building and staff professional development programs, developing a college service learning program, assisting in a preschool, working in public and school libraries. She is the editor of Hands-On Nature, 2nd edition (2000), a natural science curriculum guide. Lisa earned a Master's degree in environmental administration from Antioch New England Graduate School and a B.A. in Geography from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
Amy Seidl is an ecologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. Her research has focused on a broad range of ecological questions including plant/insect dynamics, butterfly ecology, and the effect of global warming on alpine communities. More recently her investigations have been focused in sustainability science. Amy is the author of Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World (Beacon Press, 2009) and Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming (Beacon Press, 2011). She is currently at work on a book on environmental security. Amy received a Doctorate in Biology from the University of Vermont, a Masters in Entomology from Colorado State University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College. Amy currently teaches in the Environmental Programs at UVM and lives with her husband and their two daughters in Huntington, Vermont.
Andrew Shapiro, President of Energy Balance, Inc., has provided energy analysis and design and other high performance building design consulting services for 30 years to a wide variety of clients, including owners, architects, engineers and builders, as well as housing developers, universities, businesses and demand-side management programs. Services range from sustainable building design to research and monitoring projects. He is also the Energy Engineer for the Vermont Energy Education Program, training teachers and students. Recent projects include NRG Systems manufacturing and office facilities (close to 100% renewably powered -- LEED Gold) in Hinesburg, VT, Putney Field House (Putney School, PutneyVt, "net zero," LEED Platinum), several micro-load/"net zero" houses in Vermont, a "net zero" education LEED Platinum building at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens and White Pine CoHousing, a six-unit village where he now lives.
Brian Tokar is an activist and author, director of the Institute for Social Ecology, and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Green Alternative, Earth for Sale, and Toward Climate Justice, edited two books on the politics of biotechnology, Redesigning Life? and Gene Traders, and co-edited the recent collection, Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal (Monthly Review Press).
Terrence Youk began work in film and television in 1985, first as a composer and later writing, producing, directing, and editing independent documentaries for broadcast and wide release. He has produced nationally acclaimed programs for PBS, A&E, and the Wisdom Channel as well as educational and presentation films crafted for nonprofit institutions including The National Hospice Foundation.Award winning films include: Thich Nhat Hanh: Roots of Peace and Pioneers of Hospice: Changing the Face of Dying and co-produced Numen: The Nature of Plants which was featured at the 2010 Bioneers conference in San Rafael, California. In 2009, he purchased the Savoy Theater in Montpelier, Vermont and has continued the Savoy's 30 year tradition of presenting thought-provoking and culturally enriching programs to the region. After attending the 2010 Bioneers Conference as a participant, he was inspired to offer a Beaming Bioneers Vermont site to encourage citizens, companies and organizations to collaborate and share resources in the pursuit of finding sane and safe solutions to our most pressing problems. He is committed to continue offering the Savoy as a monthly meeting place to continue this work.
