Lee and Larry Newlin are the proprietors of Peaceful River Farm in southern Orange County, North Carolina. Larry runs the ecological farm, and Lee takes the produce and teaches people how to prepare healthy food and live a healthy lifestyle.
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Heather Jo Flores came of age in an “addicted, abusive, and estranged family” in the slums of Los Angeles in the 1980s.
An unlikely leader of the modern environmental movement (a label that is far too small for Heather, as you’ll see), she moved from radical activism to community building to connection making to her current project, replacing most of the world’s suburban lawns with thriving gardens and food forests.
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Alan Muskat has shown some pretty famous people how to feed themselves off the ground.
As founder of the No Taste Like Home foraged food and event company, Alan has shared his “off the eaten track” (his pun, not mine) self-catering skills with such food luminaries as Andrew Zimmern of Bizarre Foods, Andrew Weil, and The James Beard Celebrity Chef Tour. He’s also been featured by The History Channel, PBS, Southern Living, and Travel and Leisure.
He’s also author of the book Wild Mushrooms: A Taste of Enchantment.
Alan’s got a unique outlook on food: we should abandon mass agriculture and return to the food we were meant to eat: the stuff that grows all around, totally without our help.
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Patrick Sherwin was decommissioning a solar hot water system on someone’s roof when he had a crazy idea.
Picking up one of the vaccuum tubes used to insulate and heat the water, he thought, “I wonder if I could cook a bunch of hot dogs in this thing?”
Ten years later, Patrick’s startup, GoSunStove, is cranking out the world’s most efficient solar cooker. Not only does the SunStove make tailgating cool as anything, it’s also a potential lifesaver around the globe, where accidental smoke inhalation from indoor cooking with dirty fuels is the second leading cause of death worldwide.
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Sean Kane is president of Safety Research and Strategy, and founder of The Safety Institute.
From his early days in the belly of the beast as a claims adjuster for the tire industry, to his work on the front lines with Ralph Nader’s Institute for Auto Safety, to his own work making companies pay for their negligence, Sean has seen it all as an insider.
He fights tirelessly (oh, did a bad pun just slip into this blog?) to hold manufacturers and marketers accountable for the damage their products cause.
And lest you peg him an anti-technology crusader, he’s also an organic gardner and supporter of the use of appropriate technology to solve societal and agricultural problems.
Read MoreLaura Bartels is the founder/owner of Greenweaver, Inc., a consulting and education company that promotes sustainable building and community development.
In this interview, she discusses the connections between creating a nurturing external environment and cultivating a mindful interior environment.
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