Green Festival

Maureen Wagener volunteers as a board member of African People’s Education & Defense Fund and as the director of Uhuru Pies, an economic development project of the African People’s Education & Defense Fund. She has built a successful campaign for social justice and economic self-reliance in the African community under the leadership of the African People’s Education & Defense Fund, through the Uhuru Pie Campaign. Thousands of people participate in selling, buying and eating Uhuru Pies each year in November. She has a strong background in non-profit fundraising and community organizing. ...

Evan Wagner is Sustainability Steward of Occupy.com. At Occupy, he is on the committee creating a complementary currency system. This spring, he intends to launch a local organic food based banking and currency system, called Permabank. Berkeley educated, he has worked as a project manager and in real estate development.

Wild elephants in Sri Lanka are being killed at an alarming rate

Walker is CoFounder of Transition Whidbey and has remained an avid participant and supporter of the movement to relocalize Whidbey Island since 2007. Walker sits on several committees on Whidbey Island representing TW's efforts to move the island community toward food, energy, and economic self reliance.

Poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, anthologist, teacher, editor, publisher, womanist,mother, activist, and dear friend, student and comrade of Howard Zinn, Walker is a prolific writer in multiple genres. Her fiction, in particular her novels, have established her as a canonical figure in American letters.Walker's novels include The Temple of My Familiar, Possessing the Secret of Joy, The Color Purple, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, and Anything We Love Can Be Saved. Walker's most recent collection of essays is We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, wherein she pays tribute to ...

Angela Walker is Global Exchange’s former Human Rights Associate and Media Director. While at Global Exchange, she worked with legislators, laborers, NGO leaders, academics, and journalists throughout North America on developing alternatives to the North American Free Trade Agreement. She traveled to Mexico to meet with farmers to research their local, fair trade initiatives. On behalf of Global Exchange, she co-publishedThe Right to Stay Home: Alternatives to Mass Displacement and Forced Migration in North America. Before arriving at Global Exchange, Angela worked as an organizer and r ...

Allen graduated from the New School of Massage, Bodywork and Healing in 2006. Allen has had a successful practice as a massage therapist and has teamed up with acupuncturists to treat pathologies related to Chinese medicine. Having an interest in Asian philosophy and medicine, Allen began studying Asian bodywork and healing, which was inspired by his years of Buddhist training. Allen has also studied extensively with Tibetan Yogis, which has inspired the core of his bodywork practice and livelihood. Allen has furthered his bodywork studies at Zen Shiatsu and completed the Thai Bodywork program ...

Ira Wallace serves on the board of the Organic Seed Alliance and is a worker/owner of the cooperatively managed Southern Exposure Seed Exchange where she coordinates variety selection and seed grower contracts. Southern Exposure offers over 700 varieties of openpollinated heirloom and organic seeds selected for flavor and regional adaptability. Southern Exposure helps people keep control of their food supply by supporting sustainable home and market gardening, seed saving, and preserving heirloom varieties.In addition, Ira is a member of Acorn Community which farms over 60 acres of certified o ...

Stephanie Wang is the Program Director of the Clean Coalition, a non-profit organization focused on making clean, local energy accessible through policy innovation. She leads the organization's campaigns for CLEAN programs, both in California and nationwide. Stephanie is an attorney with expertise in energy policy, project development and project finance. Her opinions on clean energy policy have appeared in the San Jose Mercury News and Sustainable Industries. Before joining the Clean Coalition team, she advised Pacific Environment on energy policy, regulatory proceedings and strategic plannin ...

Drew Wanke is part of Green Living Project’s Mobile Tour team, sharing personal experiences in wildlife research along with inspiring stories of global sustainability with schools and communities around the nation. Drew completed his B.S. in wildlife science from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 2007. He has worked extensively in wildlife research and regulatory processes associated with natural resource inventory and impact assessment. Drew has conducted field surveys to monitor rare and endangered species, with a large focus on bat populatio ...

Pam Wanveer is a Level 3 Tellington TTouch Practitioner, one of 6 level 3's in the USA and has been a Practitioner for the last 18 years. Her background in Special Education, learning, behavior and history with and love of animals brought her to her present vocation. TTouch has been used internationally for the last 35 years. TTouch uses body work, wraps and movement exercises to help animals learn self and impulse control and improved ability to focus and learn. TTouch recognizes the links between posture, movement, stressors like fear or pain and behavior. It promotes calm and self-control t ...

Neil Ward is a fourth generation Androscoggin River Valley resident. He was a founding member of the Androscoggin River Alliance. In 2006, he became the Program Director of the Androscoggin River Alliance. Neil graduated from Unity College in Maine, with a B.S. in environmental policy.

Keith Ware is currently the VicePresident of Operations of Ecogreen living. Ecogreen living began as Future Green where Keith managed the build out and opening procedures of this firstofakind business. Future exhibited steady growth for eight months.

Matt Warning teaches economics at the University of Puget Sound. For more than 20 years, he has studied poverty in agrarian communities in developing countries. Most recently his research has concerned coffee communities in Latin America. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Having spent her early childhood in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, and having returned twice to Iraq since the U.S.invasion, Dr. Wasfi has a firsthand understanding of the invasions devastating repercussions. In this insightful talk, you will learn more about the invasions negative impact on the people and land of Iraq. Wasfi will share a host of evidence for ending the U.S. occupation. Wasfi studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She now give talks around the country about the devastation caused by the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Mia Wasilevich is a self-taught chef and wild foodie in Los Angeles, California. By the age of 15 she had already traveled to more than 20 countries. A Southern California native, Mia’s cultural background is a mix of Russian, American Indian and South American and through the lens of such a diverse heritage, her culinary lexicon embraces both the simple, homespun foods of the countryside as well as modern urban gastronomy. Her culinary passions include studying food anthropology and applying traditional, as well as molecular gastronomy to her culinary experiments. In addition, her interest ...

Carol Anne Wasserman is a certified holistic health practitioner with a private practice in Manhattan and Hawthorne, New York. She specializes in natural and permanent weight loss via the use of whole and organic foods, because diets just don’t work! Carol graduated cum laude from New York University and trained at the Kushi Institute of Macrobiotics. Coupled with counseling sessions, Carol also gives private cooking lessons. She loves taking clients, new to healthy eating, through health food stores as she explains the basics. Recently featured on news 12 as the Vegetarian Week expert, sh ...

LVEJO's coordinator, Kimberly Wasserman Nieto, has worked at LVEJO since it was founded in 1998. She has participated and facilitated in National Trainings with National Council of La Raza, Community Toolbox and the USEPA. She also participated in the community development and popular education program in Chicago: once as a trainee and the second time as a facilitator. She previously worked at the Little Village Boys ; Girls Club as the Computer Coordinator.Her work with LVEJO began when the Club was going to be closed and the staff and students rallied with the help of LVEJO to keep it open. ...

One of Americas most influential chefs, Waters created a revolution in 1971 when she introduced local, organic fare at her Berkeley, California restaurant Chez Panisse. Credited for helping change the food landscape in America, Chez Panisse was named best restaurant in the U.S. by Gourmet magazine in 2001. Waters has championed sustainable farms and ranches for more than three decades, and brought her vision to public schools through the Chez Panisse Foundation (www.chezpanissefoundation.org). The Foundation operates The Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, w ...

Tom Watson manages the King County EcoConsumer public education program. As part of that work, he writes the EcoConsumer column for the Seattle Times; makes scheduled appearances on KOMO4 TV and KOMO radio; and does a variety of other outreach through the media. Tom has been with King County Recycling and Environmental Services for 19 years.

Geoff has spent the last 17 years in pursuit of better coffee as the chief buyer for Intelligentsia. He’s served as an official judge in over 30 international coffee competitions and is a well-known and outspoken advocate for quality in coffee as a mechanism for advancing sustainability in coffee production systems and creating opportunity for farmers to escape the constraints of the commodity market. As a pioneer of the Direct Trade approach and consultant for several development organizations he has spent more than 50% of his time over the last decade working closely with coffee growers ...

Laura Weathered is the Executive Director of the Near NorthWest Arts Council, an artist directed nonprofit organization. She is trained as a visual artist with MFA from University of Southern California. An artist/activist, she is dedicated to cooperative strategies that empower artistic activity as sustainable part of community development. Laura did post graduate work in Urban Development, at Spertus Institute concentrating on affordable housing. Laura participated in the Arts Entrepreneurs 2000 program with Bill Strickland of the Manchester Guild. Laura facilitates workshops in consensus de ...

Matthew is a renaissance man of the modern age and dedicated to finding Truth in all things claiming, "I can build anything out of anything." Matthew specializing in functional art and interior designs made from scrap and salvaged materials as well as theatrical and musical performance. He is the Program leader for the Safer Foundation deconstruction program, training ex-offenders in his craft of creating functional art, the designer for Einstein Moments interactive art installation for Electric Forest music festival, a certified yoga instructor, founder of the improv comedy troupe, Organic Mo ...

Weeks founded Boundless Yoga in 2002 to foster transformation. Weeks believes that yoga is evolving rapidly as we enter the 21st century fullswingand that it is a form of solace and inspiration in stressful times.

Zoe Weil is the president of the Institute for Humane Education (IHE)www.HumaneEducation.org, which is dedicated to educating people to becomechangemakers in creating a healthy, humane, and just world for all. With the goalto inspire a society of solutionaries, IHE offers graduate programs, online courses,workshops, and resources that advance comprehensive humane education worldwide.Humane education addresses the interconnected issues of human rights, environmentalpreservation, and animal protection. IHE’s M.Ed., M.A. and graduate certificate inhumane education, offered through an affiliatio ...

Al Weinrub is a member of the Sierra Club California Energy-Climate Committee and serves on the Steering Committee of the Bay Area's Local Clean Energy Alliance. He is author of the highly acclaimed COMMUNITY POWER: Decentralized Renewable Energy in California, and is a member and past Vice-President of the National Writers Union, UWW Local 1981 AFL/CIO.

Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He has written numerous research papers on economic policy, especially on Latin America and international economic policy. He is also co-author, with Dean Baker, of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2000). He writes a weekly column for The Guardian Unlimited (U.K.), and a regular column on economic and policy issues that is distributed to over 550 newspapers by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. ...

Weisman is an awardwinning journalist whose reports from around the world have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Orion, Wilson Quarterly, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, Discover, Audubon, Conde Nast Traveler, and in many anthologies, including Best American Science Writing 2006. His most recent book, The World Without Us, a bestseller translated into 30 languages, was named the Best Nonfiction Book of 2007 by both Time magazine and Entertainment Weekly, and was iTunes #1 Nonfiction Audiobook of 2007. The book was also a finalist fo ...

Peter Weiss – The Singing Scientist is a research scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz, who performs music for children and their families with the aim of educating people about environmental issues. Dubbed “a Pete Seeger for the Environment”, Weiss encourages listeners to keep trash out of the oceans with the title track from his latest CD “Do As You Otter – Don’t Pollute the Water”. Guitar-pickin’ Dr. Weiss also sings songs about marine life, Earth Day, commuting by bike and using solar ovens.

PeaceKeeper™ Cause-Metics™ is an eco-green, sustainable cosmetics company which gives donations to urgent human rights issues for women and children. Nominated as a finalist for "Best Lip Product of the Year" by CEW, PeaceKeeper’s products are some of the most natural in the industry. PeaceKeeper sources certain raw ingredients from developing world farmers, who tend to be mostly women and gives micro-credit loans to their families. The line features products made without harmful ingredients or as they like to say, “No Nasty Anything”… and there is no animal testing! PeaceKeeper’ ...

Robert Weissman is president of Public Citizen, and is an expert on corporate power, and the ways that corporations extend and reinforce their power in the economic, political, cultural, and legal spheres. He is the former editor of Multinational Monitor, a magazine that tracks corporate actions worldwide. Public Citizen has called for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's decision holding that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend whatever they like from the corporate treasury to influence election outcomes. Robert has appeared on CBS, CNN, PBS, CNBC, NPR a ...

Welch is one of DC's great serial entrepreneurs, doing it green. She currently owns Dogs by Day, GreenPets, Big Monkey Comics, and Elements, a community designed raw, vegan, cafe and bar to be opening soon on 14th street NW.

Welch is the publisher and editorial director of Ogden Publications and an expert of green media. Welch grew up in rural New Mexico where he had his first experiences with sustainable living herding goats in the Chihuahuan Desert. Welch later worked as a journalist, editor and in other management roles for newspapers in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Washington and Connecticut. He holds a master's degree from Harvard University where he studied media policy and media management at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School.Welch began Ogden Publications in 1996 based i ...

Wellknown as a lecturer, creativity consultant and strategic thinker, Brian has cofounded two international consulting firms specializing in brain/mind learning, mind mapping and spiritual development. Over the past 20 years, Brian has worked as an organizational learning specialist in a substantial number of Fortune 500 clients. He is a Vedic meditation teacher of 40 years, a team builder, facilitator and seminar presenter. Brian has contributed to 3 books on the themes of learning and critical social change including Waking up in Time by Peter Russell. Curing the 1980's Brian worked with 4 d ...

je & jo comestibles is a small artisanal ice cream company based in Hell's Kitchen, NY owned by Jonathan Baker & Jennifer Welser. All ice creams are paired with a complementing layer of all natural cookie dough and hand packed in a single-serve sugar cane based cup. While trying to build a profitable business Jonathan and Jennifer strive to source locally & seasonally, use fair trade goods, use organic ingredients whenever possible , use sustainable & recycled disposables and be conscientious in every step of the process. Everything is manufactured on site.

Welton is a seasoned community organizer, activist and author. Cofounder of both SCALLOPS and Sustainable Bainbridge, Neva holds a master's degree in counseling psychology and is coauthor of Global Uprising, Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century: Stories from a New Generation of Activists and Speaking and Listening from the Heart: A Facilitators Handbook. A Bainbridge Island island resident for 28 years, Welton has devoted much of her time to community work in various capacities. She was a member of the 2025 Growth Advisory Committee; cocoordinator of 2005 Bainbridge Island Earth Day e ...

Carl joined the award-winning architectural firm Claremont Environmental Design Group (CEDG) as a principal in 2008. CEDG was incorporated in 1982 and founded on design principles that are the basis of LEED; the firm has been a leader in Eco-Systematic Planning and Regenerative Design for 30 years. Carl has worked as an architect in the Los Angeles area since 1989, and from 1996 to 2008 had his own successful practice.Carl received his B.Arch. from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1984, and his M.Arch. from Yale University in 1988. At Yale, he studied the relation between Cubism and 20th Century ...

Gregory Wendt is Vice President of Sustainable and Responsible Investing at EP Wealth Advisors, Inc., www.epwealth.com, a well-established Registered Investment Advisory firm with over $1 billion under management as of 1/1/11. As a veteran financial advisor since 1991, Greg advises clients who want to align their wealth through investments that reflect their priorities and concerns for a better world. His clients want to generate healthy returns while cultivating opportunities to improve life for current and future generations. Greg frequently writes articles, speaks at conferences and is o ...

Ruth Werstler isfounder of the New Life for Old Bags project. She has worked for 14 years in senior housing. Prior to this work, she spent 13 years with Urban Outreach at North Park University. She has a BA from North Park University. Ruth is alifelong volunteer.

Jessica Assaf and Carly Wertheim, high school students from Marin County, are active members in the Teens for Safe Cosmetics Campaign. With passion and wisdom, they frequently speak at schools, to groups, and at large public events to educate others about this important cause.

One of America's most provocative public intellectuals, Cornel West has been a champion for racial justice since childhood. His writing, speaking, and teaching weave together the traditions of the black Baptist Church, progressive politics, and jazz. The New York Times has praised his ferocious moral vision. Currently the Class of 1943 Professor at Princeton University, West burst onto the national scene in 1993 with his bestselling book, Race Matters, a searing analysis of racism in American democracy. Race Matters has become a contemporary classic, selling more than a half a million copies ...

Sandie West is the owner of Creative Chakra Spa in Marina Del Rey. Celebrating 14 years as California’s first holistic health and fitness spa, Creative Chakra Spa is often imitated but never duplicated and remains the most romantic beachside getaway for couples in Los Angeles. Sandie is an accomplished aroma therapist and developed her own green line of organic Aromatherapy & Ayurvedic skin, hair & body products. (175 original creations plus!) Sandie’s credentials include SAG/AFTRA and BAFTA, Massage Therapist, Yoga Instructor and Pilates/Personal Trainer and performed stunts as the Pink ...

Worker-owner Esther West is a Community Sales Representative and Education Committee Co-Chair at Equal Exchange, a 100% Fair Trade worker-owned co-operative that was the first to bring fairly traded coffee to the United States in 1986. Esther uses her experience with co-operatives and social justice as she partners with faith groups, schools and more to create a more just global economy.

Edward West is an entrepreneur and educator. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University, and an MBA from Presidio Graduate School. In 2006, he co-founded Mission Motors, manufacturer of high performance electric motorcycles and advanced electric vehicle components. Currently, he is the Founder and CEO of Hylo, a social software utility that connects people, ideas, and resources, in the creative clusters of the new entrepreneurial ecosystem. He is also Co-Founder of the Hub Oakland urban innovation cluster, coming to Uptown Oakland in 2013. He believes the future of our res ...

Wheeler is a lead organizer of the Campaign for a Sustainable America and CitNet's Call for a National Strategy for Sustainability. Wheeler has represented the Global Ecovillage Network, the US Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet), the International Institute for Sustainable Future, and other organizations at the UN for the past 12 years and is the Chair of the EcoEarth Alliance UN Partnership Initiative. Wheeler coordinated a Sustainable Community Campaign in Santa Cruz, CA during the 1990s and has been an environmental, peace and community activist/organizer for 40 years. Wh ...

Wheeler is the Program Supervisor for Environmental and Sustainability Education at the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public instruction. Wheeler holds a BA in Geography and a MEd from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Wheeler serves on a number of state and national boards and committees including the national K12 Sector of the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), EdSteps Global Competency work group and Statewide Science Collaborative. She is coauthor of Facing the Future's student tex ...

After spending many years researching sustainable agricultural and agroforestry in the humid tropics, Whinney pioneered the organic cocoa and chocolate market into the U.S. in the early 90's. Many years later, Theo Chocolate is the culmination of Whinney's experiences working with cacao farmers and his expertise in navigating the economics of cocoa and chocolate manufacturing from beans to finished confections. Whinney's dedication to the fundamental principle that there is no luxury in products that benefit us today, while depleting the resources of future generations is at the core of Theo's ...

Adia Tamar Whitaker is a professional dancer/choreographer from the BayArea. Her current artistic work focuses on NeoFolklore of the AfricanDiaspora. She is dedicated to preserving the past, present and futureof the African presence in the New World.Since2000,Adia and her company Ase Dance Theatre Collective (Brooklyn, NY) havepresented work that links contemporary modern dance, originalvernacular movement, and traditional dance theater from the AfricanDiaspora toconceptual ideas in the human experience. Her belief that all forms ofAfrican drum and dance facilitate a process of spiritual awak ...

Amanda White currently serves as the Brand Manager at Divine Chocolate. Before joining Divine, Amanda worked with Shop for Change Fair Trade, a domestic certification and promotion organization in Mumbai, India. After being chosen as an Oxfam America CHANGE Leader in 2005, Amanda became deeply involved in student organizing around Fair Trade and responsible consumption, partnering with a number of socially responsible companies to build their market access and visibility. She has also conducted fieldwork on Fair Trade and sustainable agriculture in both Central America and India. Amanda holds ...

Paul Steely White is the Executive Director of Transportation Alternatives, the leading local walking, bicycling and transit advocacy group in the United States. Mr. White is an internationally known author and lecturer on bicycling, walking and transportation reform. He is quoted regularly on these issues by the local and national news media and has appeared frequently in local, national and international media. He has also appeared in publications such as The New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post and the New York Observer. Mr. White is often invited to speak on pedestrian safet ...

Phyllis manages Public Information with community and government leaders and not for profit organizations for Con Edison in Brooklyn. She has also managed strategic partnerships at Con Edison’s Corporate Headquarters, creating strategy for the Company’s support of public education initiatives, as well as Corporate Volunteer Program. Fittingly, Phyllis has received Con Edison’s Living our Values award, which is the highest award given to employees, the Harlem Y’s Black Achievers in Industry award, and Channel Thirteen/WNET New York’s Community Leadership award, among others.

Whitefoot is a longtime leader in tribal and formal education in the state of Washington and beyond. Whitefoot currently serves as the President of the National Indian Education Association. Whitefoot was born and raised on the original homelands of the Confederated Tribal Lands of the Yakama Nation. Whitefoot understands that deep relationships Native people have with the Environment. Whitefoot has three children andten grandchildren. Whitefoot is also the Director of the Toppenish School District Indian Education Program. Whitefoot's been actively involved in the Affiliated Tribes of the Nor ...

Since 1996, Youth Speaks has made it their mission to shift the perception of youth by combating illiteracy, alienation and silence and by creating a global movement of young people brave enough to take their voices to the stage. As the leading nonprofit presenter of spoken word in the country, Youth Speaks offers youth the opportunity to speak their truths each year at Brave New Voices, Youth Speaks' international teen poetry slam competition. There, hundreds of young people gather to share with one another their personal stories of triumph, sadness, joy, pain, and also their distinct and ind ...

Whitfield, the Host of the Hallmark Channels New Morning Show will discuss how the media is handling environmental issues interspersed with stories of her childhood spent in Africa. She will share how growing up in Africa meant naturally living an environmentally conscious life due to the country's limited resources (ie., collected rainwater to use for cooking or bathing; ate foods fresh from the earth; always recycled and reused materials because they were hard to come by, etc.)

Whitman’s main concern is about the impact of racism and poverty on society. This is reflected in much of the social epidemiology he has been involved in for the past two decades, and in the way he tries to conduct his personal as well as professional life. He is dedicated to bringing health equity to all. Whitman received his Master of Science in Biometrics from the University of Pittsburgh and his Master and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Biostatistics from Yale University. He has spent the last 30 years in the Chicago area doing epidemiological health research. From 1978-1991, he served ...

Judy Wicks is founder/owner of Philadelphias 24yearold White Dog Cafe and a national leader in the Local Living Economies movement. She is cofounder/cochair of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), comprised of 50 local business networks in the US and Canada. She also founded the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, and White Dog Community Enterprises, a nonprofit dedicated to building a local living economy in the Philadelphia region. Both an entreprenuer and activist, Judy tells her story of moving beyond responsible business practices within her company ...

Candice Wicks Bio: A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots, (Marcus Garvey) is a quote that Candice Wicks, Director of the Environmental Service Learning Initiative (ESLI), lives by. She firmly believes that in order to engage the next generation in environmental sustainability, it has to speak to their core values. It has to be relevant in the scope of their realities. That is what ESLI seeks to do: to reindigenize eco responsibility. Candice has been working in the field of education for 11 years. She received her Bachelors degr ...

Dr. Widener lectures on gender, mental health and globalization at Georgetown University.

Doug Widener is the Executive Director of the U.S. Green Building Council – Chicago Chapter. In this role, he is responsible for the management of the affairs of the local chapter, including formulation of new policies in concert with the Board of Directors. He is responsible for daily implementation of Chapter programs, events and initiatives and oversight of financial planning and budgets. Prior to coming to the USGBC – Chicago Chapter, Doug served as Vice President of Education at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. In this role, Widener was responsibl ...

Coauthor of The Clean Tech Revolution, Wilder is contributing editor for CleanEdge, helping companies, investors and governments understand and profit from clean technologiesClint Wilder is contributing editor for CleanEdge, a leading research and publishing firm helping companies, investors, and governments understand and profit from clean technologies. He is a veteran awardwinning technology and business journalist and coauthor of the book, The Clean Tech Revolution (HarperCollins, June 2007).Before joining Clean Edge in 2002, he was editoratlarge and columnist for Optimize magazine, CMP Med ...

Christy Wilhelmi is founder of Gardenerd, the ultimate resource for garden nerds. She is a board member of Ocean View Farms Organic Community Garden in Mar Vista, California, and gardens almost entirely with heirloom vegetables. Christy teaches organic gardening classes throughout Los Angeles, at Santa Monica College, and has co-taught an organic gardening workshop at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. Her writing has appeared in Edible Los Angeles Magazine, The Good Food Blog, Low Impact Living.com and she currently writes the Mar Vista Farmers' Market wrap up for Patch.com. For organic gar ...

Williams is CEO of ShoreBank Pacific, whose leadership in triplebottomline sustainable banking has stimulated the economy of rural communities in the Pacific Northwest.

Williams is a Commissioner in the Tulalip Tribes' Office of Treaty Rights. Williams has worked for more than thirty years on issues and conflicts in fisheries management from local to international levels of government including the Convention for Biological Diversity and the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the Pacific Salmon Commission. Williams established the American Indian Environmental Office with EPA and has been appointed to the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission since 1985. Williams has worked on every major environmental initiative in the Pacific Northwest including ...

Bring any instrument to join in an open living room jam of string band music. The Williams play the hoedowns, reels, waltzes, dance tunes and songs that came to the Pacific Northwest with the pioneers over the Oregon Trail and later immigrants. This dynamic, footstomping music is played on acoustic instruments fiddle, guitar, banjo and mandolin as it was in the old days.

Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer. Six of her ten published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1 New York Times Best Sellers. A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality, and her quote from that book beginning, "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate; our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure" has become the spiritual anthem for a generation. She founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. Today, Project ...

Willis founded Michael Willis Architects in 1988. In the last 19 years his firm has gained a national reputation for integrating urban design and community participation in civic, affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization projects in Northern California, Oregon, Michigan, Washington and Missouri. He has also directed the design of major water treatment, laboratory, healthcare and university projects.Willis is a registered architect in California, Oregon, Washington, Missouri, Michigan and Arizona. He was the 1995 President of the San Francisco Chapter of the American Institute of Arch ...

Jonnequa Willis is a senior at CCA Academy. She enjoys drawing, painting, singing, and working with the animals in the science lab at CCA Academy.

Bryan Willson is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University. He is also founder and director of CSU´s Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory (EECL). He founded the Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory in 1992 and has guided its rise to one of the most prominent and influential engine research programs in the U.S. In the areas of large engines, natural gas engines, twostroke engines, and hazardous air pollutants; the EECL is widely acknowledged as a world leader in this field. Dr. Willson is CoFounder and member of the Board of Directors of EnviroFit International, ...

Communitarian and Permaculturist, Bill Wilson, is founder of Midwest Permaculture (.com) booth 2088. He has done much to heighten the awareness and understanding of permaculture and sustainable living through his coordination of workshops, permaculture design courses and other educational events. He is a 29 year resident of the unique and sustainablyoriented community of Stelle, IL.David Suzuki, awardwinning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster, has been quoted as saying, What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. Why? Permacult ...

Diane Wilson, a fourthgeneration commercial fisherwoman and mother of five, has been an activist since 1989. Since the publication of her book, An Unreasonable Woman in 2005, her story has been featured in news media around the world, including The Washington Post, The Diane Rehm Show, PBS Now, Democracy Now! and The Bob Edwards Show. Her awards include: AlterNets Eco Hero Award, the National Fisherman Magazine Award, Mother Joness Hell Raiser of the Month, CodePink Woman of the Year, Louis Gibbs Environmental Lifetime Award, Louisiana Environmental Action (LEAN) Environmental Award, the Giraf ...

Launched in 2002 with yoga pants and tees (that's where the name TranquiliT(ee) came from), Kimberly Wilson dreamed of a chic and comfy clothing line that aligned with her active lifestyle - quickly moving from yoga class to bookstore browsing to café dates. A lover of style since her early days hiking the hills of Oklahoma donning a bonnet and purse in tow, she became fascinated with Units and Multiples (mix and match clothing) in her teen years. In 2004 she took the tees and yoga pants a step further starting with yoga staples. She then began adding trendy tunics and dresses to wear alone o ...

Multi-talented singer, songwriter, actress and filmmaker Renée Wilson brings her entire heart and soul to her work and life. Over the past 15 years Renée has been seen on television, stage and film, most notably starring in Taylor Hackford's Academy Award - winning film Ray along side Jamie Foxx and Regina King. In 2005 Renée directed and produced Crepe Covered Sidewalks, a feature documentary about her home town of New Orleans and her family's experiences with hurricane Katrina. Completed in 2010, the film has played at many film festivals and Renée won the Best New Filmmaker award at ...

With an MBA in sustainability management and an MS in community development,Winn currently is a sustainability consultant for businesses and nonprofits.

One of the countrys leading environmentalists according to Forbes.com, Lisa Wise is executive director of the Center for a New American Dream, promoting sustainable consumer choices.

With Our Words (WOW) Poetry Collective promotes creative self-expression through educational, publishing and performance avenues on behalf of all community members throughout the San Joaquin Area, with special emphasis on minority communities. By providing classes, workshops, competitions, special events, and scholarship/internship opportunities, WOW establishes an ongoing and supportive environment for realizing creative potential.

Wittenborn has been a freelance landscape designer for the past 7 years and has owned EcoNative Landscape Designs since 2008. Wittenborn prides herself on giving her clients ecologically sound designs while educating people on the greenness of using native plants in her designs. Wittenborn has done designs fora library, a spa, a village for storm water management, as well as many small and large private residences throughout the western suburbs of Chicago. Wittenborn is passionate about her work and has been invited to do many talks about the value of using native plants in homes and businesse ...

Wolf is a Permaculturist, gardener, and Transition Town organizer in Bellingham, WA. Wolf's mission is to transform monocultures like lawns into diverse, edible food forests; and brainwashed groups of citizens into powerful unified communities.

Morgen is a firm believer in the power of business to create positive social impact. As business development manager at brand innovation firm BBMG, Morgen translates her in-depth knowledge of CSR and social enterprise into actionable, purpose-driven projects for leading organizations across for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Prior to joining BBMG, she worked as marketing manager of environmental lifestyle magazine Plenty, where she connected business leaders nationally with the growing audience for green products and services. Morgen is a happy resident of Fort Greene, Brooklyn and proud Starti ...

David Avocado Wolfe is considered by peers to be one of the worlds leading authorities on nutrition. David is the author of Naked Chocolate, Eating For Beauty and The Sunfood Diet Success System. David works, in conjunction with Sunfood Nutrition (www.sunfood.com) to develop, market and distribute some of the world's most wonderful and exotic organic food items. David and Sunfood Nutrition were the first to bring raw and organic: cacao beans/nibs (raw chocolate), goji berries, Incan berries, cacao butter, cacao powder, powdered encapsulated mangosteen, maca extract and coldpressed coconut oil ...

Dr. Wolfe is a career educator (English, ESL, French, ; Teacher Education) and established and directed The Language School of Spokane from 19851990 for secondlanguage education, language services, and cultural exchanges. Wolfe has a Ph. D. in Leadership, 1997, Gonzaga University. In addition to serving on the faculty of Western Washington University, Wolfe holds several volunteer positions in environmental work, education, and progressive politics. Currently Dr. Wolfe works on Defending Water for Life issues as a member of several coalitions at the local, regional, state, and national levels ...

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As a full-time food activist, Marisa Miller Wolfson has organized roughly 70 grassroots workshops and screenings of award-winning documentaries about healthy, humane, eco-friendly eating all across North America. Inspired by the stories of personal transformation she was witnessing, she decided to recreate this eye-opening journey on camera by taking three people from different backgrounds who agree to go vegan for six weeks and track their progress on tape. It became her first film, Vegucated, which world premiered at the Toronto Independent Film Festival last September and received the best ...

Winnie is a film-maker and blogger; see her work at: www.seismologik.com and http://www.350.org/en/about/blogs/guerrilla-gardening-occupy-wall-street. Seismologik has currently produced six short films on sustainability, and are preparing to shoot a short film which will profile three sustainable innovators and showcase the work that they are doing. Winnie is also an urban gardener/designer and coordinator for Occupy Wall Street Sustainability. In the upcoming spring, Winne plans to participate in starting a 16,000 sq foot Roof Farm in Bushwick.The farm project aims to achieve 3 goals : 1) ...

Michael Woo – the director of Seattle startup “Got Green” – is well known for building multi-racial partnerships and mobilizing communities. His community organizing dates back to 1970 when he joined the United Construction Workers Association and fought for the racial integration of Seattle’s unionized construction industry. In 2008 – after hearing a speech by Van Jones – Woo launched a project to bring young people of color together to explore Green Jobs opportunities. “Got Green” went on to launch Washington State’s first union training program in home weatherization wit ...

Shadia is currently working for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative as the youngest Campus Climate Challenge Coordinator in the Energy Action Coalition. She will be attending American University of Beirut next spring, studying Arabic and Photography.

Mary Wood is a professor of natural resources and wildlife law at the University of Oregon.

Catherine Woodman has been an environmentalist from a young age. Growing up in Iowa, she developed a deep attachment to the environment and witnessed firsthand the devastation of unsustainable agricultural practices. Her interests in sustainability grew into an interest in economics and the role that local and global economies play in environmental and social problems. She is now an independent financial advisor with Protected Investors ofAmerica committed to helping people create their vision for the futurethrough their investments. By using socially responsible investing andsustainable i ...

Emira Woods is codirector of Foreign Policy in Focus as the Institute for Policy Studies. She was born in Liberia, and is a nationallyrecognized authority on the country. Emira holds a BA in International Relations from Columbia, a certificate in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, a Master's in Government from Harvard, and is ABD in Political Economy and Government at Harvard. She recently was Program Manager for the Committee on Development Policy and Practice at InterAction, serving as a principal staff contact for advocacy at the UN, the international financial insti ...

C3 leader, mother of 2 and yoga instructor, Tracy believes that in order to fulfill our obligation to help the environment, we must make small changes in our daily lives in order to create a big impact on global climate change. By teaching children the importance of sustainability and how we affect our world, we can expect a shift in consciousness that will produce a generation of socially responsible citizens. She is working on conservation efforts at her children's public school, Nettelhorst, by installing composters, recycling bins in each classroom, an edible garden, helping the funding ...

Recognized nationally for her ecochic strategies, Wright is regularly featured by VA Home Grown, WCVE Richmond PBS TV, Birds ; Blooms, and Washington Gardener Magazine.

Haley Wrinkle joined ILRF in January 2011 as the Senior Researcher at Free2Work, a joint project between ILRF and Not For Sale. Haley was originally at ILRF as a Trade Programs fellow, which augmented her masters work at the University of California, Santa Barbara in Global and International Studies. Her masters thesis focuses on the ILO's Better Factories Cambodia program, and the supply chains that connect to the garment industry in Phnom Penh. She also recently conducted climate change adaptation research for Conservation International, an environmental NGO based in Washington, DC. Haley's ...

Jason Wrobel (aka J-Wro) is a world-renowned leader in organic raw vegan cuisine, culinary education and epicurean entertainment. With a focus on radical simplicity and artful presentation, he imbues his ecstatic raw food creations with the energy of fresh, local, organic produce and the healing properties of raw superfoods, which have rendered his dishes hands-down favorites among celebrity clients, and regular folk alike. J-Wro fans Woody Harrelson, Jeremy Piven, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, John C. Reilly, Steve Buscemi, Isabelle Adjani, Oren Moverman and Russell Simmons, consistently (a ...

Jen-Mei Wu is one of the organizers of Liberating Ourselves Locally, a POC-led, gender balanced maker space in East Oakland. LOL is working hard to make sure that people of color, immigrants, poor folks, women, youth, transfolks, and queers are included in the maker and local entrepreneurship movements.

Joan Wulfsohn, a student of Carlos Castaneda, was a soloist in the National Ballet (KPAB) of South Africa and has taught dance at the University of Nanterre in Paris, Le Centre International de Danse in Cannes, El Centro National del Teatro in Barcelona and the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, among others. Combining the similar philosophies of the Nagual and Moshe Feldenkrais of economizing energy, retrieving lost energy and exploring personal history, she developed a bodywork technique known as Cellular Recall Therapy, and now uses this technique to help people worldwide access a spiritual p ...