Sharon Hilberer
Sharon Hilberer grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lived in Ohio, California, and North Dakota before taking up residence in Minnesota to teach English as a second language in the Minneapolis public schools. A language geek from the get-go, her poems grow out of current events, overheard and remembered conversations, and from paying attention to the natural world.
Marnie Heenan
Marnie Heenan lives in Fort Myers, Florida with her husband and son. She has a BA in English language and literature from Florida Gulf Coast University with a minor in creative writing. Her work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Three Drops Press, Bacopa Literary Review, Scifaikuest, and in several Alliance for the Arts projects.
Lois Marie Harrod
Lois Marie Harrod’s 17th collection Woman is forthcoming from Blue Lyra in December 2019. Recent works include Nightmares of the Minor Poet (Five Oaks Press 2016), And She Took the Heart (Casa de Cinco Hermanas 2016), and Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis (Cherry Grove Press 2013). A Dodge poet, she is published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3.…
Belén Paez
Belén Paez has been the President and Director of Fundación Pachamama, a nonprofit organization founded in Ecuador 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights and livelihoods of indigenous peoples of the Amazon. Belén directs the implementation of women's maternal health programs, clean energy, community ecotourism, and legal programs to defend collective rights and the rights of…
Bill Twist
Bill is one of the co-founders of Pachamama Alliance and serves as its chief executive officer.
“I am generally referred to as a founder of Pachamama Alliance but more truthfully I am the beneficiary of a process that “founded” me. Since its inception in 1996, Pachamama Alliance has provided a rich and constantly expanding environment for my personal education about the world at large and has…
Peter Wells
Peter Wells is a playwright, story-teller, and composer. Born in London, England, he spent his early years under the bombings of the German Blitz during WWII. He left England at the age of 20, and embarked on a journey in search of personal freedom and fulfillment. After traveling around the world, he settled in the rural hills of Northern California. Peter now lives in the coastal village of…
Vivian Stockman
Vivian Stockman's images of mountaintop removal coal mining have been published in dozens of books, magazines, newspapers, on websites, and in documentaries. Notable examples include the Charleston Gazette-Mail, the New York Times, Washington Monthly, Orion Magazine, World Watch Magazine, E Magazine, and French Geo.
Vivian is OVEC’s Executive Director. She began with OVEC as a volunteer in 1995,…
Stubborn Optimism
Dear Reader,
In an inspiring interview at the Findhorn Climate and Consciousness Conference, Christiana Figueres, the woman who oversaw the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate, called for a new spirit of "stubborn optimism." Nothing is ever accomplished from a defeatist position, she reminds us. “Optimism is not the result of success, it is the starting point of success.”
Figueres is also the…
Why the next 12 years could be the making of us
By Rob Hopkins, via his blog and Reconnect magazine
After two extraordinary weeks in May in which Extinction Rebellion brought London to a standstill, kids walked out of school to join the School Strike for Climate, Greta Thunberg dropped in to meet MPs and others, and David Attenborough’s ‘Climate Change: The Facts’ documentary went out on primetime TV, the UK parliament declared, the day…
Faith communities and the UN Climate Action Summit 2019
By Christiana Figueres, via Church Times
When the global interfaith community worked in unison with businesses, investors, cities and states, and civil-society organisations across all geographical boundaries in the run-up to the Paris Agreement on climate change in 2015, it helped to form the foundation on which we were able to build political will for a global agreement that put us on course…