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2008 Presenter Bios
 Abdulhadi is Urban Program Coordinator for Angelic Organics Learning Center, working with community food systems projects, training urban farmers, and building healthy local food systems.
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 Sharif Abdullah is an author, trainer and a leading catalyst for inclusive social, cultural and spiritual transformation. Sharif teaches groups and individuals how to understand and practice inclusivity – the connection with all other beings.
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 Allen is Projects Manager for Growing Power, and has combined her farming heritage with her degree in art therapy to establish local urban food systems.
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 Detroit Environmental Justice organizer for the Sierra Club, Anderson is working to block the Marathon Oil Refinery in Detroit from processing Canadian tar sand oil.
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 Mark Anielski is the author of The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth, which was published in June 2007 by New Society Publishers. Mark is a well-being economist, entrepreneur, professor and president of Anielski Management Inc. which specializes in measuring quality of life and sustainable well-being.
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 Apollo is the founder and executive director of Access Granted, a company designed to provide advanced technology, ecology, and body-mind education in urban locations worldwide.
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Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium, with June Holte |
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 The Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium is led by a team of co-facilitators who are volunteers, moved by their own experience of the Symposium to share this material with audiences in their own communities. Events are lead by ordinary folks for whom spreading this message of hope and inspiration answers their own call to live lives of meaning and contribution in these challenging times. Here at the Chicago Green Festival the team is lead by June Holte, a remarkable example of this. Since coming to her first Symposium, in August of 2007, June has committed her life to bringing this message to 10,000+ individuals in 20 states in the Heartland and the South.
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 Bach author of seven consecutive bestselling books. His latest book is Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Ways to Save the Earth (and Get Rich Trying).
Can you save the planet and a million dollars at the same time?
NY Times Bestselling Author and Chicago Green Festival Guest Speaker David Bach says you can!
Buy Go Green, Live Rich Today and get $2,000 in FREE bonus gifts including the chance to win FREE tickets to Green Festival in Chicago
Visit www.greengreen.com for details!
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 Michael began his career as a stockbroker. After five years of managing portfolios, he decided to pursue his interest in environmental protection and study Environmental Planning.
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 Having received a master’s degree from the London School of Economics, Biggs is currently the director of the Local Economy Project for Global Exchange. She is currently working on her book, Minding Our Own Business.
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 Daniel Block is the coordinator of the Fred Blum Neighborhood Assistance Center and is currently finishing final analysis of the Northeastern Illinois Community Food Security Assessment.
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 Annie is the editor and producer of Care2's Healthy Living channels and Health and Wellness Series newsletters. She brings over 20 years of experience as a leading authority, writer and editor about the connections between the environment, personal health and well-being. Annie has authored four books, including her most recent work, Home Enlightenment: Practical, Earth-Friendly Advice for Creating a Nurturing, Healthy, and Toxin-Free Home and Lifestyle (Rodale, 2005).
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 Author of Green, Greener, Greenest: A Practical Guide to Making Eco-Smart Choices a Part of Your Life, Bongiorno has written extensively about pressing environmental issues.
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 Strategist and lobbyist for the Illinois Food, Farms, and Jobs Act, Braun is coordinator for the Illinois Local and Organic Food and Farm Task Force.
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 A professional Ironman triathlete and author of The Thrive Diet, Brazier is the creator of an award-winning line of whole food nutritional products called Vega.
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 Byars Beckwith is founder and director of the Agapé International Choir. Her new CD, Supreme Inspiration, offers wisdom with such songs as Water in a Dry Land and Sun Is Rising.
With her husband Rev. Michael Beckwith, Rickie co-wrote the song "I release and I let go", recently featured on the premiere episode of Oprah's "The Big Give."
Byars-Beckwith leads interactive workshop/concerts nationally.
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 Cardamone serves as the marketing coordinator for Honest Tea and leads company environmental initiatives such as school recycling programs, REC purchases and community outreach projects.
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 Born, raised, and continuing to live & work in the South Bronx, Majora Carter travels the world in pursuit of resources to improve the quality of life in her environmentally challenged community. She founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 after writing a $1.25M Federal Transportation grant to design the South Bronx Greenway with 11 miles of bike and pedestrian paths connecting neighborhoods to the rivers and to each other - securing over $20M to begin construction in 2008.
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 Cernauskas is an environmentalist and cofounder of Irv & Shelly’s Fresh Picks, offering local delivery of fresh organic produce, meat, dairy, and baked goods year-round.
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 A cum laude graduate of Princeton University, Coleman is founder and president of Sisterhood Agenda. Her research has covered racial identity, self-esteem, and stigmatization.
Abstract: Journey Toward Womanhood
For the past 13 years Sisterhood Agenda has used a social entrepreneurship model to create, implement, and evaluate strategies designed to provide young women and girls of African descent with sisterhood, self-knowledge, self-development, and self-esteem.
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Collins, Senator Jacqueline |
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 A former journalist and Emmy-award nominated editor at CBS-TV, Senator Collins has used her journalism experience and communication skills to support progressive agendas that seek to create economic and social welfare policies that reduce inequality, expand opportunities and strengthen communities.
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 Colvin is the founder of Maternal Organic Methods, which certifies products that are prepared completely chemical-free with no synthetic, natural gas, or petroleum-based ingredients.
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 Anthony Corso is a Sustainable Design Consultant at OWP/P Architects where he serves as a member of the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Core and Shell Review Team, as a LEED Consultant for public and private clients, and as the manager for the City of Chicago’s Chicago Green Homes Program.
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 Mayor Daley has earned a national reputation for his innovative, community-based programs to address such challenges as education, public safety and neighborhood development.
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Aaron Durnbaugh is Deputy Commissioner with Chicago Department of Environment’s Natural Resources and Water Quality Division. Recent projects include sustainable landscape construction and maintenance for the City’s Chicago Center for Green Technology and the Household Chemical and Computer Recycling Facility, assisting to manage a survey of the City’s urban forest and various projects around urban agriculture and community-managed landscapes. Mr. Durnbaugh holds a Master’s Degree in Geography and Environmental Studies and is a LEED accredited professional.
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 Denise is a communications manager for the US Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR Program. Since 1997, she has coordinated and managed several outreach initiatives to raise awareness and understanding of the ENERGY STAR label. In addition, she strives to educate consumers about the link between energy use and its impact on the environment and how they can help fight global warming by making energy conscious decisions in their daily lives.
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 Lisa Elkins, founder 2 point perspective: architecture + furniture architect
Lisa Elkins is a licensed architect and furniture designer with more than ten years of combined experience in San Francisco, London, and Chicago. Lisa has been practicing architecture and furniture design for more than ten years, and founded 2 point perspective in 2006 to pursue her two passions: sophisticated design and sustainability.
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 Ronald TR Elkins, founding partner, 2 point perspective: architecture + furniture
Ron Elkins is a licensed architect, Chicago Registered Energy Professional, and a LEED Accredited Professional with a broad range of architectural experience in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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 Melissa Everett has made a career of helping people, organizations and communities figure out their futures. As a counselor, coach, facilitator, educator, and nonprofit manager, she has worked in parallel with individuals and large systems, always with a focus on sustainable solutions for people, communities and the planet. The author of three books and many articles, she has a PhD from Erasmus University in the Netherlands. She directs Sustainable Hudson Valley (www.sustainhv.org).
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 For over eight years Everette has been the Director of Global Exchange's popular and rapidly expanding Reality Tours program. During her tenure at Reality Tours she has overseen the growth and development of alternative travel programs, study seminars and fact finding human rights delegations to 30 countries around the world. From the US, to Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and the Caribbean, Malia promotes in-depth experiential education and socially responsible travel as an alternative to the type of "sun and fun" tourism that often results in cultural homogenization.
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 Hans was the first licensed Illinois Realtor in Northeast Illinois to have earned the LEED AP (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional) designation. He is a real estate design and development consultant with over 4 years experience in residential single-family and multi-family properties, including several current designs that utilize environmentally responsible and sustainable principles.
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 Erin Ford is the Special Projects Coordinator at CROPP Cooperative/Organic Valley, working on various initiatives both nationwide and local; from Domestic Fair Trade to sustainability and green business practices. She is a member of the Domestic Fair Trade Steering Committee, Secretary on the Board of Directors for the Vernon County Economic Development Association, and an environmental activist in many facets of her personal life.
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 Senior vice president for social research and policy, Freeman manages Calvert's Social Research Development and directs its research and advocacy work.
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 David enjoyed two decades as an entrepreneur in the services and technology sectors before co-founding Our Future Now. Inspired by long journeys at sea on America’s Tall Ship the Coast Guard Barque Eagle, he spent seven years as a business coach and motivational counselor. As a natural implementor, he draws on his deep experience in team building, training and technology.
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 Amy Goodman began her career in community radio in 1985 at Pacifica Radio's New York Station, WBAI. She produced WBAI's Evening News for 10 years. In 1990 and 1991, Amy traveled to East Timor to report on the US-backed Indonesian occupation of East Timor. There, she and colleague Allan Nairn witnessed Indonesian soldiers gun down 270 East Timorese. Indonesian soldiers beat Amy and Allan, fracturing Allan's skull. Their documentary, "Massacre: The Story of East Timor" won numerous awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, the Armstrong Award, the Radio/Television News Directors Award, as well as awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Click here to see Amy speak at the San Francisco Green Festival.
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 Alisa Gravitz is Co-op America's executive director and national expert on climate change, solar energy and economic solutions to social and environmental problems.
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 Representative Hamos serves the 18th District. She is currently Chair of the Mass Transit Committee, having sponsored initiatives such as universal broadband and homeless prevention.
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 Thom Hartmann is a nationally syndicated radio host and bestselling author.
His national program, syndicated by Air America Radio, is carried on more than 80 radio stations across the US and draws some 3 million listeners.
Thom is the author of 17 books, including The Last Hours of AncientSunlight; We the People; Unequal Protection; What Would Jefferson Do and his most recent book; Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class˜And What We Can Do About It. Hartmann has been featured in countless media outlets, including NPR and BBC radio, CNN television, the front page of TheWall Street Journal, and Time Magazine. Click here to see Thom speak.
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 Alternately described as Serial Entrepreneur, Do-Gooder and Designer, Graham Hill certainly enjoys variety although now finds this future happily confined to the social entrepreneurship arena. Hill and the TreeHugger.com team recently joined the Discovery Communications family of networks as part of its Planet Green multi-platform, global environmental initiative.
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 For the last 30 years Debbie Hillman has lived in Evanston, Illinois, where until 2006 she was an organic gardener, designing, installing, and maintaining residential gardens, all the while educating my clients about why they should pay attention to weather and soil. Since 2000, since have been active in a grassroots organization, Network for Evanston's Future, working on a broad stewardship agenda – energy, affordable housing, transportation, global warming.
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