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 Amy's Kitchen is a family business… with every member of the family taking part. The company was started in 1987, when Amy was born. Her mom and dad, Rachel and Andy Berliner, carefully nurtured the company as well as the child, paying constant attention to every aspect of its day to day activities and providing the vision that has made Amy's so successful.
Andy, who was born in Chicago and attended Purdue University, was formerly a large shareholder and President of Magic Mountain Herb Tea company, the first herbal tea widely distributed in supermarkets. Rachel was raised in a family who were eating and growing organic food in the 50's, long before doing so was popular. Besides a life long orientation towards natural foods, Rachel also ...
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 MacArthur Fellow and the recipient of many awards, Brown is founder and president of Earth Policy Institute, founder of the Worldwatch Institute and author or coauthor of 50 books.
 Rickie Byars Beckwith, Music and Arts Director for Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City, California, composes and performs moving, melodic music "to inspire deep feeling in the heart and to bring joy to the earth." She has produced six CDs that are favorites to thousands. Her most recent project, Supreme Inspiration, was produced by her daughter, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and led to her first music video, Alle-Alleluia.
Rickie's extensive body of work inspires spiritual communities around the world. "Spirit encourages me to be a voice of inspiration and to bring 'water to a dry land,'" she said. Described as an "intuitive channel of healing music," Rickie has performed at five sessions with His Holiness the Dalai Lama -- twice ...
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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.
She has created riverfront parks and green roofs, dramatically increased the number of trees in the South Bronx, worked to remove an underused expressway in favor of positive economic development, and successfully implemented the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Trai ...
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 Acknowledged as one of the world's greatest leaders in the field of mind body medicine, Deepak Chopra, continues to transform our understanding of the meaning of health. Through his creation of The Chopra Center for Well Being in California in 1996, Chopra established a formal vehicle for the expansion of his healing approach using the integration of the best of western medicine with natural healing traditions, in both conventional and complementary healing arts.
Chopra's work is changing the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social wellness.
Chopra is known as the prolific author of over 50 books, more than 100 audio, video and CD-ROM titles which have been translated into 35 languages with over 20 millio ...
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 As leader and co-founder of legendary rap group Public Enemy, Chuck D redefined rap music and hip hop culture. His lyrics addressed weighty issues about race, rage and inequality with a jolting combination of intelligence and eloquence never seen before. At the close of 1999, The New York Times named Public Enemy’s music to their list of the “25 Most Significant Albums of the Last Century” and in May 2005 The US government’s Library of Congress included Fear of a Black Planet in a list of 50 recordings worthy of preserving in the National Recording Registry. The numbers that reflect their extraordinary career are staggering: The band has embarked on over 60 tours, performing over 1500 concerts to fans in 58 countries. Three albums are cer ...
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 Asa Dotzler is best known for his work as community coordinator for several Mozilla projects. He was founder of Mozilla’s Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing Program, which grew under his leadership from just a few contributors to tens of thousands of volunteers today.
Dotzler is also co-founder of the Spread Firefox project, where he spearheaded Mozilla's open source marketing program. Today, he works with Mozilla's Technology Evangelism team, helping people understand, build, and benefit from the Open Web.
Dotzler has been an active member of the Mozilla community since 1998. After volunteering for more than a year, Dotzler joined "staff@mozilla.org", the leadership team for the Mozilla Organization. He played a key role in deliveri ...
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 Barbara Ehrenreich's articles, reviews and essays have been widely published. She received the Sydney Hillman Award for Journalism and a Brill's Content "Honorable Mention" (1999) for a chapter of her book, "Nickel and Dimed," (Owl Books, 2002) which appeared in Harper's in January 1999. A second essay entitled "Maid to Order," which grew out of her research for this book, was also published in Harper's (2000).
Ms. Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War" (Metropolitan, 1997) and a collection of essays entitled "The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed" (Random House Inc., 1990). She also wrote "Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class" (Pantheon Books, ...
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 Riane Eisler is an eminent social scientist, attorney, keynote speaker, and social activist best known as author of the international bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, now in 22 languages, including most European languages and Chinese, Russian, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, and Japanese.
Her newest book, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking,” by Peter Senge as “desperately needed “ and by Gloria Steinem as “revolutionary,” proposes a new approach to economics that gives visibility and value to the most essential human work: the work of caring for people and planet.
Her other books include the ...
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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 C ...
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 Thom Hartmann, who started in radio in 1968, is also is an internationally known speaker on culture and communications, an author, and an innovator in the fields of psychiatry, ecology, and economics. The co-founder (with his wife, Louise) of The New England Salem Children’s Village (1978) and The Hunter School (1997), he has led national innovations in the areas of residential treatment for abused children and private/public education for learning-disabled children.
Hartmann is the four-time Project Censored Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of nineteen books currently in print in over a dozen languages on five continents. He is the former executive director of a residential treatment program for emotionally disturbed ...
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 Richard Heinberg is a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and is the author of eight books on ecological issues, including Peak Oil. He is the author of eight books, including The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies (2003) and Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse (2006), and Peak Everything (2008).
Heinberg advocates a planned descent down the depletion curves of oil and draws attention to the links between 9/11 and peak oil.
Heinberg lives in Santa Rosa, California. He is a member of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. He is also an accomplished violinist and an ...
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 National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the forthcoming book, Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow, 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 businesses, and just-plain-folks.
Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom, 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.
Hightower is a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, spreading the message of pro ...
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 Van Jones is the founder and president of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, California. He recently started the group Green For All (greenforall.org), which is focused on bringing green-collar jobs into lower-income communities. Headquartered in San Francisco, EBC is a national organization that challenges human rights abuses in the U.S. criminal justice system. Born in rural west Tennessee in 1968, Van is a 1990 graduate of the University of Tennessee at Martin and a 1993 graduate of the Yale Law School. Click here to see Van speak at the San Francisco Green Festival.
Van is a steadfast opponent of policies that result in the over-imprisonment and unlawful abuse of marginalized peoples in the United States. He is helpi ...
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 Hervé Kempf was born in 1957 in Amiens, north of Paris, in France.
After studies in economics, history, and political science, he became a
journalist. Since 1988 he has specialized in environmental and
ecological reporting. He created the environmental magazine Reporterre,
and has written for scientific and economic newspapers. He has worked
with Le Monde, the most influential French newspaper, since 1998, where
he is the Environmental Editor and covers ecological topics, notably
climate change and biodiversity. Le Monde now has an entire section
devoted to environment and science. Traveling worldwide for his
reporting, Kempf makes his home in Paris.
 Madeleine M. Kunin was the first woman governor of Vermont, and served as the Deputy Secretary of Education and Ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. She is the author of Living a Political Life and Pearls, Politics and Power, and is currently a Marsh Scholar Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont. She lectures on history and women's studies. She also serves as president of the board of the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC), a nongovernmental organization that she founded in 1991. Ms. Kunin lives in Burlington, Vermont.
 Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) is an internationally respected Native American and environmental activist. She began speaking about these issues at an early age, addressing the United Nations at the age of 18, and continues to devote herself to Native and environmental concerns, as well as political and women’s issues.
The Harvard-educated activist is the founding director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, the co-chair of the Indigenous Women’s Network, and the program director of Honor the Earth where she provides vision and leadership for the organization’s Regranting Program and its Strategic Initiatives. In addition, she has worked for two decades on the land rights issues of the White Earth Reservation, including litigation. ...
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 William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and shapers of what he and his partners call 'The Next Industrial Revolution.' Time magazine recognized him in 1999 as a 'Hero for the Planet', stating that "his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that-in demonstrable and practical ways-is changing the design of the world." Time Magazine again recognized Mr. McDonough and Michael Braungart as "Heroes of the Environment" in October 2007. In 1996, Mr. McDonough received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, the nation's highest environmental honor; and in 2003 earned the U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. In 2004 he received the National Design Award for ex ...
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 Bill McKibben is the author of ten books, including The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information, and Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. A former staff writer of the The New Yorker, he writes regularly for Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Review of Books, among other publications. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife and their daughter. His newest book is Deep Economy.
 Frances Moore Lappé is the author or coauthor of fifteen books. Her 1971 three-million-copy bestseller, Diet for a Small Planet, continues to awaken readers to the human-made causes of hunger and the power of our everyday choices to create the world we want. Her newly released Democracy's Edge has been widely praised. Historian Howard Zinn called the book "poetic and passionate," adding: "A small number of people in every generation are forerunners, in thought, action, spirit, who swerve past the barriers of greed and power to hold a torch high for the rest of us. Lappé is one of those."
Democracy’s Edge is the completion of a trilogy which began in 2002 with Hope’s Edge, written with her daughter Anna Lappé. It is the 30th anniversary s ...
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 Mosley Braun is a former United States Senator, former US Ambassador to
New Zealand and Samoa, and the founder and president of Good Food
Organics. She is an American politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate
from 1993 to 1999. She was the first, and to date, the only, African
American woman elected to the United States Senate, the first
African-American senator to be elected as a Democrat, and the first female senator from Illinois. From 1999 until 2001, she was the United States Ambassador to New Zealand. She briefly participated as a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
 Mutabaruka (formerly Allan Hope) was born in Rae Town, Kingston on 26th December, 1952. After primary education he attended Kingston Technical High School, where he was a student for four years. Trained in Electronics, he left his first job after about six months and took employment at the Jamaica Telephone Company Limited. During his time at the Telephone Company he began to examine Rastafarianism and to find it more meaningful than either the Roman Catholicism of his upbringing or the political radicalism into which he had drifted.
In the late 1960's and early 1970's there was an upsurge of Black Awareness in Jamaica, in the wake of a similar phenomenon in the United States. Muta, then in his late teens, was drawn into that move ...
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 Consumer advocate, author and lawyer, Nader is a self-described public citizen with more than 40 years at the forefront of progressive movements.
 Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, which she chaired from 1988-2003. She also holds appointments as Professor of Sociology at NYU and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines scientific, economic, and social influences on food choice. She is the author of three prize-winning books: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (revised edition 2007), Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (2003), and What to Eat (2006). Her ...
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 Greg Palast is a New York Times-bestselling author and a journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation as well as the British newspaper The Observer. His work frequently focuses on corporate malfeasancelabor unions and consumer advocacy groups. Notably, he has claimed to have uncovered evidence that Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, and Florida Elections Unit Chief Clay Roberts, along with the ChoicePoint corporation, rigged the ballots during the US Presidential Election of 2000 and again in 2004 when, he argued, the problems and machinations from 2000 continued, and that challenger John Kerry actually would have won if not for disproportional "spoilage" of Democratic votes.
Palast lectur ...
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