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Ricasio, Michael

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Vandana ShivaShe is a philosopher, environmental activist and eco feminist.Thefounder/director of Navdanya ResearchFoundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology. She

had also wrote numerous booksSoil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis,

Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply,Earth Democracy: Justice,

Sustainability, and Peace;andStaying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development.She also

served as an adviser to governments in India and including the International Forum on

Globalization, the Womens Environment and Development Organization and the Third World

Network. She received 1993 Right Livelihood Award (Alternative NobelPrize)and the 2010

Sydney Peace Prize.

http://www.commondreams.org/vandana-shiva

Wangari MathaiShe is the founder of the Green Belt Movement and the 2004 Nobel PeacePrize Laureate. She authored four books:The Green Belt Movement; Unbowed: A Memoir; The

Challenge for Africa; and Replenishing the Earth.She was also first woman in East and Central

Africa toearn a doctorate degree.

http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/wangari-maathai

Piere RabhiHe is a farmer, writer, and a French philosopher with Algerian background. He is a

pioneer of organic farming and he invented the concept of Oasis in all places. He advocates a

society of respectful men to the Earth and supports the development of agricultural practices that

the poor can access while preserving the heritage feeder.

http://www.pierrerabhi.org/blog/?static/biographie

Andy Lipkis - Andy Lipkis is a visionary who dedicated his life in healing the environment

while improving the lives of individuals and communities. He founded the organization

TreePeople in Los Angeles in 1973 at age18 and continues to serve as its President.

http://www.treepeople.org/bio

Wes Jackson - the co-founder, with Dana Jackson, of the Land Institute and he has researched

and influenced thought on the environment and agriculture in general and cropping systems

based on the prairie ecosystem. He is a farmer, philosopher and author of several landmark

books on the subject of sustainable agriculture.

http://afsic.nal.usda.gov/videos/histories/wes-jackson

Sebastion & Leila Selgado - Sebastio Salgado has worked as a professional photographer since

1973. He was born on a farm in Brazil in 1944. He says that it was paradise of 50% rain forest

that supported some 35 families. They ate everything they produced and were almost entirely

self-sufficient. He left the farm when he was 15 years old, to move to the big city to start

secondary school and another life, learning about politics and radicalism, becoming a leftist,

studying to become an economist and, most important, meeting his best friend all my life long,

Lelia Wanick, later to become Lelia Wanick Salgado, his wife and his companion to this day.

Alice WatersShe is a chef, author, and creator of Chez Panisse. She maintained a philosophy

that cooking should be based on the finest and freshest ingredients produced sustainably andlocally. She advoices a food advocate of good, clean, and fair

http://www.chezpanisse.com/about/alice-waters/

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