Norie Huddle has written seven published books (three bestsellers) on environmental issues and on transforming humanity. Growing up in the woods of northern Virginia, Norie’s background is eclectic and international. She was an exchange student in Italy, a Russian language graduate of Brown University, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia, and spent four years in Japan working with the environmental movement and writing a landmark book on Japan’s environmental crisis (1975) and its global implications.