Global Water Keynote: Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest public advocacy organization, and the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, working internationally for the right to water. She serves on the boards of the International Forum on Globalization and Food and Water Watch, as well as being a Coucillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. > continue bio  
       


  Foodshed Keynote: Wes Jackson, President of The Land Institute (founded in 1976), was born in 1936 on a farm near Topeka, Kansas. One of the Institute’s major projects is research to develop perennial grains. The Land Institute has worked for over 20 years on the problem of agriculture with a primary purpose of developing an agricultural system with the ecological stability of the prairie and a grain yield comparable to that from annual crops. > continue bio  
       
  Roger Doiron is an advocate for local and regional food systems. He is founder and director of Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI), a nonprofit network of more than 6500 individuals  from 100 countries who take a hands-on approach to “relocalizing” food supplies.  In 2007, Doiron was chosen as a Food and Society Policy Fellow. > continue bio  
       
 

Doug Fine - In 2005 Fine moved to an obscure valley in Southern New Mexico to write Farewell, My Subaru, a book about his effort to live without fossil fuels and find salvation in the process.  From solar panels to goat husbandry to driving a veggie-fueled oil truck, Fine explores whether an American can live a green life without being electrocuted or overwhelmed by contradiction. Farewell, My Subaru was released by Random House in March, 2008. > continue bio

 
       
  David S. Gutzler is Professor of Meteorology and Climatology in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at UNM. He teaches courses on basic principles of weather and climate, and conducts research on climate change and predictability. Much of his research has the overarching goal of improving the skill and usefulness of climate predictions on seasonal and longer time scales. > continue bio  
       
  Toby Hemenway is the author of Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture. For the past six years, his book has been the world’s best-selling book on permaculture, a design approach based on ecology for creating sustainable landscapes, homes, communities, and workplaces. > continue bio  
       
  Basia Irland, Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico Department of Art and Art History, creates international  water projects.  Nine of those projects are featured in Water Library (University of New Mexico Press, 2007). These projects have been created over the last thirty years in Africa, Canada, Europe, South America, Southeast Asia, and the United States.> continue bio  
       
 

Brad Lancaster is a permaculture teacher, designer, consultant and co-founder of Desert Harvesters (DesertHarvesters.org). Brad has taught programs for the ECOSA Institute, Columbia University, University of Arizona, Prescott College, Audubon Expeditions, City of Asheville, North Carolina and many others. > continue bio

 
       

  Andy Lipkis is a practical visionary leader who began planting trees to rehabilitate smog and fire damaged land around Los Angeles when he was 15 years old. He founded TreePeople in 1973 at age 18, and continues to serve as its President. TreePeople’s work in LA inspires people to take personal responsibility for the urban forest – educating, training, and supporting them as they plant and care for trees and improve the neighborhoods in which they live, learn, work and play. > continue bio  
       

  Deborah Madison, founding chef of San Francisco’s Greens restaurant, has long been committed to finding local and sustainable ways of feeding ourselves, and has, through cooking, writing, and teaching helped chefs, home cooks, and young people make that connection for themselves. Greens, which opened in l979, was one of the first restaurants to make cooking from farm and garden the driving force behind its menu. > continue bio  
       

  Andrew Parker is a Royal Society Research Fellow at Oxford University's Department of Zoology. He has been named by the London Times as one of the three most important young scientists in the world for his work in investigating and answering the great riddle of the Cambrian explosion. > continue bio  
     

  Paul Stamets has written six mushroom-related books. Several are used as textbooks around the world by the gourmet and medicinal mushroom industries. He is the author of many scholarly papers in peer-reviewed journals (The International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms; Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM, Oxford University Press); Herbalgram, and others). > continue bio `