NAVIGATING OUR FUTURE - Key Persons
Chris Tucker had approached me and some of my colleagues and co-authors after we had written a paper called World Scientists Warning Of A Climate Emergency, which was one of a series of scientists' warnings, but it identified six issues that were regarded as being absolutely crucial for humanity to make big progress on in the next eight years, to 2030. That included energy pollutants, nature, food systems, population and the economy.
And it spelled out all kinds of details about how to do that, but it was mainly just raising the alarm. And Chris Tucker came to us and said, "Hey, you guys mentioned the "P" word -- Population. And scientists don't often do that, you know. I've just written a book he said, called Planet of Three Billion and I'd love you guys to read it. But I'd also like to take these messages forward with you."
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- Setting Sun Productions Executive Director
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- Executive Director of Children of the Setting Sun Productions
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- Social Media & Visual Procurement
David Geist moved to Friday Harbor 38 years ago to work for the Whale Museum and research Dall's porpoise. He was drawn to the island not only for the remarkable wildlife and natural beauty, but also for the appeal of becoming part of a small and tight-knit community. Since then, he has worked at Westcott Bay Sea farm as a hatchery technician, owned a fine dining restaurant in Friday Harbor (Café Bissett), trucked in organic vegetables and wine to local businesses, and managed Front St. Cafe (now the Blue Water Grill). Other gigs throughout David's nearly four decades in the islands include landscaping, making jewelry, guiding, real estate, architectural photography, and tile and stone contracting (which he's been doing for the last 25 years). David also has a second life managing vacation rentals in Sayulita, Mexico, where he is the co-founder of Sayulita Recycling and helped establish a Civil Protection station.
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- Founder and President of the Living Economies Forum
Dr. David C. Korten is the founder and president of the Living Economies Forum; co-founder and board chair emeritus of YES! Magazine; and a full member of the Club of Rome. He is best known for his seminal books framing a new economy for the Ecological Civilization to which humanity must now transition.
David worked for more than thirty-five years in preeminent business, academic, and international development institutions before he turned away from the establishment to become a leading critic of what he calls a global suicide economy. He now devotes his life to advancing the global transition now underway to a Living Earth Economy organized around deeply democratic self-governing communities in which people work in co-productive partnership with the rest of nature to meet the needs of all.
He wrote When Corporations Rule the World, which became an international bestseller He also wrote The Post-Corporate World: Life after Capitalism (1999); The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community (2006); Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth (2009, 2010), and Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth (2015)
Dr. Korten is the founder and president of the Living Economies Forum, and cofounder and board chair emeritus of Yes! magazine. He also is a full member of the Club of Rome. He's best known for his seminal books framing a new economy for the ecological civilization, to which humanity must now transition.
Yes. And the individual pieces include essential conversations. If you're a church member the conversation may include asking how your church might contribute to the transformation by deepening our understanding of our nature and the purpose of our being?
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- Co - Producer
- Founding Executive Director of the Stable Planet Alliance
Phoebe is founding Executive Director of the Stable Planet Alliance, which focuses on bending the curve on human population and resource consumption. She is also an Associate Science Policy and Communications strategist with the Conservation Biology Institute. She is Affiliated Professor On Environmental Futures Sustainability and Conservation Science at the University of Washington, and she is research associate of the University of Cape Town's Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology and its African Climate and Development Initiative.
Jeremy is founder of the non profit, The Liology Institute, and writes topical articles exploring deeper patterns of political and cultural development, at patterns of meeting.
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- CEO
- Co - Founder
- Founder
- Co - Founder Strategic Director
Larry Greene is founder and CEO of Navigating Our Future (NOF), a 501 ©(3) non-profit organization committed to building healthy communities through respectful dialogue, deliberation, consensus-building and effective action. He is also co-founder of San Juan Islands Community Network (SJICN), an NOF subsidiary that is a community-driven solutions journalism network dedicated to the goal of establishing a self-sufficient, healthy and resilient San Juan Islands community. Larry was previously founder, CEO and President of Network Direct, Inc., a mass media direct marketing company, until he sold it in 2005 to exclusively focus on his social mission work. A long-time islander (36 years), Larry was a co-founding member of Spring Street International School, serving on the Board of Directors, as well as a co-founder of the Institute for Village Studies. He shares his love and passion for the islands with his wife, Jill, and Goldendoodle, Shanti.
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- Copy Editor Story Consultant
- Writer, Editor
Zach Milkis is a writer, editor and multimedia storyteller who spent his formative years escapading through the madronas and obsessively observing orcas on the west side of San Juan Island. A graduate of Spring Street International School, Zach embraced the gifts of an experiential education built around global travel-but always loved returning home to the islands to reconnect, reflect and rejuvenate. Zach is currently based in Seattle where he works in content marketing, though he relishes every chance he gets to escape back to the breezy and brilliant west side of SJI where he still feels at home.