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Robert Alvarez Foreign policy expert and an authority on North Korea and nuclear weapons, Bob Alvarez is in great demand to lecture about his experiences in North Korea and the current nuclear crisis that is unfolding between the United States and North Korea.
Robert Bazell NBC News' Chief Health & Science Correspondent. His reports appear on "NBC Nightly News", "Today" and "Dateline NBC." Dr. Bazell is the author of the controversial book, HER-2: The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast Cancer.
Lester R. Brown Leading futurist and environmentalist.
Barry Commoner Scientist, environmentalist, and director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems.
Steve Curwood Steve Curwood is the Executive Producer and Host of National Public Radios award-winning weekly environmental news program Living On Earth. Curwood's relationship with NPR goes back to 1979 when he began as a reporter and host of "Weekend All Things Considered." Curwood has also worked as a print and television journalist and is the recipient of a shared Pulitzer Prize for his work while at The Boston Globe. He has worked as an editor and reporter for the Bay State Banner and as contributing editor at Black Enterprise Magazine and the Boston Phoenix. Living On Earth is broadcast on over 260 stations nationwide and is heard in Pacific nations over the Armed Forces Radio Network. It has been awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association, the New York Festivals Award, a CINDY Award, and the National Federation of Community Broadcasters Community Program Awards. Curwood is currently at work on a new book, The Good News About Global Warming, which details the economic, social, ecological and national security benefits of facing the carbon emergency that threatens our entire civilization. Curwood is also the recipient of the 2003 Global Greens Award and the 2003 David Brower Award given by the Sierra Club for his creation of Living on Earth. He also received a 1992 New England Environmental Leadership Award for his work on promoting environmental awareness. The President of the World Media Foundation, Inc., he is also a lecturer in Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard University.
Paul Ehrlich Prominent ecologist and population expert.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a nationally known attorney, environmental activist, university professor and author. He serves as chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper Program; as senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council; and as a clinical professor and supervising attorney at the Environmental Litigation Clinic at Pace University School of Law in New York. He is regarded as a pioneer in the area of municipal and government responsibility for environmental problems. Kennedy's reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of legal actions which include the prosecution of governmental agencies and industrial companies for polluting the Hudson River and Long Island Sound, winning settlements for the Hudson Riverkeeper, arguing cases to expand citizen access to the shoreline, and suing sewage treatment plants to force compliance with the Clean Water Act. Kennedy is credited with leading the fight to protect New York City's water supply. The New York City watershed agreement, which he negotiated of behalf of environmentalists across the state, is regarded as an international model in stakeholder consensus negotiations and sustainable development. On the national front, he was instrumental in helping defeat several anti-environmental bills during the 104th Congress. He has also worked to tackle environmental issues across the Americas and has assisted several indigenous tribes in Latin America and Canada in successfully negotiating treaties protecting traditional homelands. Although Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is known as an activist for environmental protection everywhere, he considers fighting pollution in the Hudson River a priority. In an interview with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Kennedy avowed that he would continue to fight pollution in the Hudson River, despite the many governmental barriers that have been erected to discourage the works of citizens who wish to hold polluting agencies accountable. Kennedy stated, "The Hudson is my backyard, and the primary obligation of anyone in the environmental community is to clean his or her own backyard first. Global reform starts with local reform." Earlier in his career, Kennedy served as assistant district attorney in New York City. He has worked on several presidential campaigns, including those of Edward M. Kennedy in 1980 and Al Gore in 2000. Kennedy is the author of numerous articles and three books, including Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., A Biography (1977), the New York State Apprentice Falconer's Manual, and his latest book, The Riverkeepers (1997), co-written with John Cronin. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post, among other publications. Kennedy is a graduate of Harvard University. He studied at the London School of Economics and received his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School. Following graduation he attended Pace University School of Law, where he was awarded a master's degree in environmental law. March 20, 2003 Quick LinksAcademics @ Guilford Academic Departments Academic Skills Center BannerWeb Certification Programs College Calendar Course Catalog Course Schedules First Year Program Guilford Writing Manual Library Study Abroad Programs What's Going On @ Guilford? Art Gallery Athletics Campus Life Guilfordian Guilford Buzz Local Events and Activities News Services Where Can I Find Help? Admission Information Adult Programs Campus Ministry Campus Map Employment Opportunities Information Technology International Student Info Office of College Relations Office of Public Safety Services & Administration Ways of Giving.
Richard Lamm Health care authority and three-term Governor of Colorado.
Frances Moore Lappe Frances Moore Lappe is the author or coauthor of sixteen 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. Together, Lappe and her daughter Anna Lappe lead the Cambridge based Small Planet Institute, a collaborative network for research and popular education to bring democracy to life. With her daughter, she is also cofounder of the Small Planet Fund, channeling resources to democratic social movements worldwide. In September of 2007, the Institutes publishing arm released Lappes newest book, Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, & Courage in a World Gone Mad. In 1975, with Joseph Collins, Lappe launched the California based Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First). Its publications continue to shape the international debate on the root causes of hunger and poverty. The Institute was described by The New York Times as one of the nation’s most respected food think tanks. In 1990, Lappe cofounded the Center for Living Democracy, a tenyear initiative to help accelerate the spread of democratic innovations. Lappé served as founding editor of the Centers American News Service, which placed solutions-oriented news stories in almost 300 newspapers nationwide. In 2006, Lappe released Democracys Edge: Choosing to Save our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life (WileyJossey-Bass). The book, which seeks to ignite debate about the very meaning of democracy, is now being used in many college and university courses. In 2000-2001 Lappe was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and during October, 2007 she was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. Lappes articles and opinion pieces have appeared in publications as diverse as the New York Times, O Magazine and Christian Century. Her television and radio appearances have included a PBS special with Bill Moyers, the Today Show, CBS Radio, and National Public Radio. Lappé is a sought after public speaker and has received seventeen honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions. In 1987 in Sweden, Lappe became the fourth American to receive the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the Alternative Nobel, for her vision and work healing our planet and uplifting humanity. Frances most recent honor was an award for Lifetime Service to Increase Planetary Awareness” granted to her and to biologist E.O. Wilson, at the AltWheels Alternative Transportation Festival, 2006.
Taber MacCallum Taber MacCallum is one of the original crewmembers of Biosphere 2. As one of the eight participants of the two year mission inside the three acre materially closed ecological system, MacCallum served as the team's analytical chemist. In 1993, MacCallum co-founded Paragon Space Development Corporation with several engineers and fellow biospherian and wife Jane Poynter. He is currently CEO and Chairman of the Board for Paragon. Using Paragon's Autonomous Biological Systems, he was the Principal Investigator on four microgravity experiments on the Space Shuttle, Mir Space Station and International Space Station. MacCallum is involved in the design of life support and thermal control systems for commercial manned suborbital spacecraft, as well as hazardous environment life support technology development for the US Navy divers. Taber MacCallum has also functioned at every level of command on a research vessel, sailing to over 40 ports and more than 30,000 miles around the world. He is a certified Dive Controller and Advanced Open Water Diving Instructor. MacCallum currently resides in Tucson, Arizona with his wife, fellow biospherian, business partner and author Jane Poynter. Taber and Jane married a year after exiting Biosphere 2.
Peg Millett Outspoken environmentalist, feminist and singer/activist.
Ralph Nader Ralph Nader is an attorney and political activist. Issues he has promoted include consumer rights, feminism, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government. Nader has also been a strong critic of American foreign policy in recent decades, which he views as corporatist, imperialist, and contrary to fundamental values of democracy and human rights. His activism has played a large part in the creation of many governmental and non-governmental organisations, such as the EPA, OSHA, Public Citizen, PIRGs and many more. Nader has run for President of the United States three times (1996, 2000, 2004). In 1996 and 2000 he was the nominee of the Green Party; Winona LaDuke was his vice-presidential running mate. In 2004 he ran as an independent with Green activist Peter Miguel Camejo as his vice-presidential nominee.
Bruce W. Piasecki Leading environmental expert, corporate consultant and author of In Search of Environmental Excellence; and Corporate Environmental Strategy: The Avalanche of Change Since Bhopal.
Jane Poynter British-born Jane Poynter is a TV host, Biosphere 2 crewmember, sustainability consultant, author, speaker, and technology company president. She has flown experiments in space.... worked on projects to mitigate climate change... dived with sharks... raced motorcycles... and flown in zero gravity. Now she's turned her inimitable energy and passion to sustainability and living green.Jane Poynter is one of only eight people to agree to live sealed in an artificial world for two whole years and succeed. Her training for Biosphere 2 led her to ride the rugged and isolated Australian Outback on horseback, and sail across the Indian Ocean and Red Sea on a concrete research boat. Involved in the Biosphere from the start, she managed the farm where the crew grew its food. She authored The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2, out in paperback in the fall of 2007.Jane is now President of Paragon Space Development Corporation, which develops technologies for extreme environments (like outer space, under water and hyper efficient buildings). While inside Biosphere 2, she co founded the firm with fellow biospherian, Taber MacCallum, and several aerospace engineers. Jane has had experiments flown on the International Space Station, the Russian Mir Space Station, and the U.S. Space Shuttle.Jane also consults on, and writes about, sustainable development and cool things green. She has worked with the World Bank on projects to mitigate global climate change and grow crops in drought stricken Africa and Central America. She has appeared on hundreds of television and radio shows, and has been interviewed for hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles about Biosphere 2 and her work in space and the environment. She has been an invited speaker at events hosted by groups such as the United Nations Environment Programme, the US Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, MIT and Microsoft. She also hosted a children's educational program, which she filmed in zero gravity on a vomit comet. Jane hosts a TV segment titled Going Green, highlighting things we can do that are better for our health, our pocket books and the environment.
Jeremy Rifkin Social critic, futurist, public policy expert and environmentalist.
Anita Roddick Founder and CEO of The Body Shop, environmentalist, human rights activist and an advocate of socially responsible business practices.
Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit is a writer whose work focuses on issues of environment, landscape, and place. She is the author of numerous books, including the critically acclaimed Wanderlust: A History of Walking and As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.
Will Steger International Arctic explorer, environmentalist and educator.
Cicely Tyson Actress, activist and humanitarian was discovered by a fashion editor at Ebony magazine and, with her stunning looks, she quickly rose to the top of the modeling industry. In 1957, she began acting in Off-Broadway productions. She had small roles in feature films before she was cast as Portia in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968) in 1968. Four years later, Cicely was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her sensational performance in the critically acclaimed film Sounder (1972). In 1974, she went on to portray a 110-year-old former slave in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974) (TV), which earned her two Emmys. While Cicely has not appeared steadily onscreen because of her loyality to only portray strong, positive images of Black women, she is without a doubt one of the most talented, beautiful actresses to have ever graced the stage and screen. She holds a record 12 Image Awards as best actress from the NAACP and has received awards from such civil rights organizations as PUSH, CORE, the SCLC and the Martin Luther King Jr. Center, among others.In 1974, Tyson co-founded the internationally celebrated Dance Theater of Harlem. She currently serves on its board, as well as on the boards of the American Film Institute, Urban Gateways and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. A founding member of the Coalition for a Healthy and Active America, Tyson in 2002 was appointed by President George W. Bush as a commissioner of the National African American Museum of History and Culture. In 2003, Tyson received the National Women's Law Center Award, the Ellis Island Family Heritage Award and was a featured speaker at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit and has served as Chairperson for UNICEF and works with the United Nations and celebrity organizations in promoting global cultural understanding.and was married to legendary trumpeter Miles Davis from 1981 to 1988.
Baya Voce Baya Voce was born on May 14th, 1987 and raised in Salt Lake City Utah but now lives in New York City. Baya Voce is the energetic free spirit in The Real World Brooklyn season. Baya was 2nd in line for The Real World casting call at the nightclub Area 51 in Salt Lake City In front of her in the line was fellow cast member Chet Cannon. She aspires to be a hip-hop DJ and dancer. Baya is currently a DJ of all genres under Izzy Gold Records. College Lecture Topics Diversity, Relationships, Environmentalism
Charlie Wilson Former Congressman and Inspiration for Charlie Wilson's War In 1980, Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson read an alarming Associated Press report of thousands of refugees fleeing Afghanistan. Not many people knew what was happening, or even recognized what was clearly at stake in the region, but Wilson immediately arranged to have CIA funds directed toward Afghanistan doubled. He promptly set in motion what would become known as "Charlie Wilson's War" his long fight championing the cause of the Afghan people against Soviet tyranny. Wilson candidly and vividly recounts the compelling story the subject of a best selling book and a 2007 movie starring Tom Hanks of his role in reshaping the region, as well as altering history. Wilson also provides insight on how the lessons learned from "his war" apply to current foreign policy, and specifically the war we're waging today. Charlie Wilson discusses the compelling circumstances under which he began his initially single-handed crusade to help Afghanistan repel a Soviet invasion. Charlie Wilsons War: In the early summer of 1980, Charlie Wilson, a newly elected Democrat Texas congressman, read an alarming Associated Press report of thousands of refugees fleeing Afghanistan. Few people, including those in the U.S. government, were paying attention or realized what was happening. Wilson, at the time on the Appropriations Committee, phoned the committee to request that CIA funds directed toward Afghanistan be doubled, thus beginning Charlie Wilsons War his long fight championing the cause of the Afghan people against Soviet tyranny. An Inspiring Story: Out of the public eye, Wilson, along with many others, helped defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan by supplying millions of dollars to the Afghan Mujahideen. With a single phone call, Wilson helped save the Afghans from the repression of Soviet tyranny. Wilsons story became the subject of the best selling book Charlie Wilsons War, which also inspired the movie of the same name, starring Oscar winners Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Julia Roberts. Wilson provides insight on how the lessons learned from his war apply to the wars of today.
Ed Wilson Ed Wilson is a Professor and Curator of Entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. Ed is one of today's finest scholars and naturalists, and he is one of the world's leading authorities on ants. Ed is first and foremost an ant man, but as the accompanying photo shows, he has a profound admiration for scarab beetles also. He visited Team Scarab at Nebraska in 1998 and was made an honorary scarab worker. With fellow entomologist Bert Holldobler, Ed has written the definitive volume on ants, which won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. He also won an earlier Pulitzer in 1979 for his book entitled "On Human Nature." Ed is the recipient of the National Medal of Science, the International Prize for Biology, the gold medal of the World Wildlife Fund, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the American Humanist Association, and the Crafoord Prize from the Swedish Academy of Sciences (which is ecology's approximation of the Nobel prize). In his books, "The Diversity of Life," "Biophilia," and "The Naturalist," he sounds a powerful alarm about the calamitous loss of species diversity that is already ongoing today. The increasing loss of biodiversity is a direct result of human activities . . . and yet relatively little is being done by people or governments to prevent this catastrophic destruction of our natural heritage. Ed's deep insights into these global problems are a clarion call to all of us to take action in our private and public lives to avert the destabilization of entire ecosystems and the tremendous loss of our fellow beings on the planet.