Terry Tempest Williams

Naturalist, Writer, Environmental Activist  "The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time."  The Ecology Hall of Fame, adding Terry Tempest Williams to its honorees, noted that she “combines all the major strains of environmental passion.” Her life has focused on opposing resource destruction, especially that affecting…

Tex Skuthorpe

Tex Skuthorpe, an Aboriginal artist from Goodooga north western NSW, was privileged to be taught his people’s traditional culture by the Noonghaburra elders from Noonghal country. Being the eldest boy of the Emu and Sand Goanna totems gave Tex the responsibility to teach and record Noonghaburra law.  Traditionally, all recording was in art form and law was communicated to young people…

Thierry C. Pauchant

Thierry C. Pauchant is Professor of management at HEC Montreal, Canada – a top 10 international MBA school, according to Business Week – where he holds the Chair of Ethical Management. He is also consulting faculty at the Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California. He has served as a manager and consultant for organizations such as AT&T, CGI, Holiday Inns, IBM,…

Ulrich Soeder

Ulrich Soeder (Dresden, Germany), a psychologist and photographer is concerned about the integration of inner and outer worlds, and honoring personal and spiritual roots. As a body psychotherapist and coach he developed SecondView, an integral training method that uses photography as a creative medium to deepen awareness and thereby make visible, solutions that emerge from within.  A…

Victoria Wilding

Australian, Victoria Wilding is co-founder and CEO of the SHIFT Foundation, which seeks to accelerate tipping points in leadership development worldwide. The SHIFT Foundation designs and facilitates transformative learning environments throughout the world, enabling young global leaders to develop more authentic ways of leading. For more information, please visit www.shiftfoundation.org. …

William Drayton

William Drayton, pioneer of the social entrepreneur movement, is currently the Chairman and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. After graduating from Harvard, he received his M.A. at Oxford University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He served in the Carter Administration as Assistant Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where he launched emissions trading (ultimately…

William E. Marks

William E. Marks, water philosopher - raised on an organic farm. As a student at Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) - researched fish kills and industrial pollution and had major industry indicted by a Federal Grand Jury. He was subsequently honored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency with the “Citizen Activist Of The Year” award. After college he worked as Senior…

Yasuhiko Genku Kimura

Born in Japan, Yasuhiko Genku Kimura is Founder and Chairman of Vision In Action, an outgrowth of The Twilight Club which was founded in the 1870s by Herbert Spencer, Ralph Emerson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, and others, and where he served as Executive Director. An integral spiritual philosopher and business strategist, he integrates Western scientific knowledge and Eastern…

Fall | Winter 2010

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Fall | Winter 2005

Global Citizenship WHAT IS A GLOBAL CITIZEN? AN INTERVIEW WITH GILLIAN SORENSEN Interviewed by Nancy Roof An extraordinary woman who rose to the highest levels of governance at the United Nations shares the story of how she did it. Experienced in all levels of planetary civilization from governments to civil society, she offers compelling reasons for why it is imperative to act now. Read now……