Dr. Mease is a retired Colonel of the United States Army Medical Corps.He has served his country working as a medical doctor, lecturer, researcher, officer, and commander. in his last military position, Dr. Mease held the position of director of the Center for Total Access at Fort Gordon, Georgia.There, he led a highly focused group in the development and evaluation of telemedicine applications, including Web-based solutions to transform the military healthcare system.

 

After his graduation from the University of Missouri, School of Medicine (cum laude), in 1973, Dr. Mease embarked upon a distinguished medical and military career in the US Army.In addition to continuous working responsibilities as a medical doctor, he has lectured, conducted research, served as an officer in the military, held positions on various professional medical societies, spoken at national and international medical conferences and upheld a prolific writing career.Living and working in a number of cities in the United States, Dr. Mease has also served his country in Bahrain as Commander of the 47th Field Hospital during the Gulf War.  This broadened his experience working with multinational medical professionals that began during his one-year experience practicing in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates as a pediatric specialist.

 

As a renowned specialist in the area of pediatrics, board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology-Oncology by the American Board of Pediatric.He has held teaching positions at a number of prominent educational institutions that include the Medical University of South Carolina, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Uniformed Service University of Health Sciences School of Medicine.Dr. Mease has been collaborating and writing for publication since 1968.During this time, he has addressed various medical conditions from anxiety to fatal medical conditions and anomalies in newborns to enhancing the military’s healthcare platform via e-medicine.Recognized as a leader in his field, he has been invited to present at both military and non-military conferences both in the US and abroad.

 

The importance of Dr. Mease’s works has been recognized on numerous occasions.He has been the recipient of a long list of awards, among which are: various meritorious service awards, outstanding teaching recognition, the Medical Corps "A: Proficiency Designator in Pediatrics and the Legion of Merit.

 

Scientist for the Energy Department of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Affiliate Faculty Member at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.

 

 

 

Dr. Donald Aitken, a LEED™ Accredited Professional, is currently Principal of his own consulting company, Donald Aitken Associates, Affiliate Faculty Member at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, and Senior Consulting Scientist for the Energy Department of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Previously he has been a staff research physicist and astrophysicist at Stanford University, where he founded and directed three laboratory research programs, and founder and Chairman of the Department of Environmental Studies at San Jose State University, where he was named "Professor of the Year". Dr. Aitken has also served as the Executive Director of the Western Regional Solar Energy Center for the U.S. Department of Energy, and Senior Staff Scientist for Renewable Energy Policy and Economics with the Union of Concerned Scientists. He has over 100 publications in these various fields.

 

Dr. Aitken has twice served as national Chairman of the American Solar Energy Society, has twice directed the national solar energy conferences, and was the Technical Chair of the National Passive Solar Conference in June, 2002. He is the former Vice President, and Secretary, of the International Solar Energy Society, and was on the International Organizing Committee for the Solar World Congress in Adelaide, Australia, in November of 2001.

 

Dr. Aitken’s work has a multiple emphasis on the use of renewable energy in the electric utility sector, on renewable energy marketing frameworks, and in architecture. Dr. Aitken has used his architectural background over the last 27 years in his pioneering building designs, including DOE’s first solar-heated and daylit office in 1980, and, more recently, the national headquarters building for the Union of Concerned Scientists, located on Harvard Square; Nevada’s first grid-connected solar-electric tract home; and a pioneering community college building design in Cupertino, California.

 

Dr. Aitken is a sought-after architectural and sustainable energy policy consultant, renewable energy policy and architectural daylighting lecturer, and professional architectural and engineering workshop leader, and has carried these activities throughout the United States, as well as in Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Cyprus, Israel, India, Africa, Mexico, and three of the Republics of the former Soviet Union. In April of 2002 Dr. Aitken was sent by the U.S. State Department to be the U.S.’s Earth Day speaker in six German cities.

 

In 1997 Dr. Aitken was awarded the American Solar Energy Society’s highest honor for lifetime service to solar energy, the Abbot Award. In 2000 he was one of the "World Solar Award" recipients at the World Renewable Energy Congress in England.

 

 

 

 

David Blume started his ecological training young. He and his father Jerry grew almost all the food their family ate, organically—on a city lot in San Francisco in the mid-’60s!

 

Dave taught his first ecology class in 1970. After majoring in Ecological Biology and Biosystematics at San Francisco State University, he worked on experimental projects, first for NASA, and then as a member of the Mother Earth News Eco Village alternative building and alternative energy teams.

 

When the energy crisis of 1978–79 struck, Dave started the American Homegrown Fuel Co., an educational organization that taught upwards of 7000 people how to produce and use low-cost alcohol fuel at home or on the farm.

 

The International Institute for Ecological Agriculture (IIEA), founded by Dave in 1993, is ­dedicated to healing the planet while providing for the human community with research, education, and the implementation of socially just, ­ecologically sound, resource-conserving forms of agriculture—the basis of all sustainable societies. The IIEA teaches permaculture, an ethical system of ecological land design, which incorporates the disciplines of ­agriculture, hydrology, energy, architecture, economics, social science, animal husbandry, forestry, and others.

 

Dave and his IIEA associates are establishing a biofuels station in Santa Cruz, California, that will offer alcohol fuel in a driver-owned cooperative, as detailed in this book. Dave is currently Executive Director of the IIEA.

 

He has consulted for a wide array of clients, including governments, farmers, and companies interested in turning waste into valuable and ­profitable products. Recent work includes a feasibility study for a macadamia growers’ cooperative in Mexico, and a water harvesting/reforestation ­project in Antigua, West Indies. He is working with a farming college connected to the government of Ghana to develop alternative fuels, to train agricultural extension agents in organic farming, and to design an ecological strategy to stop the Sahara Desert from advancing. He also recently inspired the city of Urbana, Illinois, to hold a conference between builders, lenders, developers, municipalities, building inspectors, architects, and engineers, to coordinate the mainstreaming of natural building technologies. He has helped the Ford Motor ­Company demonstrate alcohol-fuel-powered vehicles at a series of U.S. events.

 

“Farmer Dave” is often called upon to testify before agencies on issues related to the land and democracy. He is a frequent speaker at ecological, sustainability, Peak Oil, and agricultural conferences in the Americas, and has appeared in interviews over 1000 times in print, radio, and television. Dave firmly believes in Emma Goldman’s view of, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be in your revolution,” and he can frequently be found on the dance floor when he isn’t flagrantly inciting democracy.

 

 

 

 

David is passionate about creating a different experience of aging in the world. He has set out to inspire people to create their unique expression in the second half.

 

As a student of transpersonal gerontology, David understands the importance of self discovery and life-long learning and is always searching for creative ways to enhance the retirement years and the aging process through his work. David lectures and advocates for creative aging wherever possible.

 

As a coach, instructor and facilitator David has a reputation of being compassionate and easy to work with. He is also known for asking tough questions and encouraging people to really expand past what they already have created in their lives. He also brings a sense of humor and joy to his work that inspires others to do the same.

 

David is an adjunct faculty member in Gerontology at Marylhurst University teaching Creative Aging classes and facilitating Reinventing Retirement workshops there and through other organizations. He also serves as a Board member for the Oregon State Council for Retired Citizens, The Oregon Center for Retired Citizens. He also is a co-founder and Board President of The Make Music Project.

 

David has also served on the teaching staff at Kalagiya West Healing Center in Portland where he developed and led workshops and classes on conscious aging and becoming a “new elder”.

 

David has a BS degree and is certified as a professional life coach. He is also a certified retirement facilitator. Before starting this part of his life, David spent more than 30 years as a consultant and environmental and natural resource manager in California and Oregon. He is a recreational guitar player, fly fisherman, sailor, and an outdoor enthusiast.

 

“The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.” Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

 

 

 

 

 

Roulette William Smith

 

Smith now is a semi-retired Adjunct Research or Core Faculty member at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP). His association with ITP began in 1996. He is an interdisciplinarian whose teaching focuses on methodologies across disciplines and ‘real-world’ problems. In the early-1970s, he was co-founder and board member of the Institute of Human Potential Psychology.

 

Smith’s interdisciplinary research focuses on evolution and the molecular basis of long-term memories in living systems (LTM). In 1979, he originated the hypothesis that LTM is stored in DNA in brain and the immune system. That hypothesis led to ongoing research on LTM, HIV/AIDS, evolution and common sense.

 

In 1997, he invented a preliophic moleculator – a form of molecular computer (patents pending).

 

At a micro-level, Smith’s research sheds light on several aspects of the molecular biology of common sense and its disorders, along with a surprising discovery that no medicine or professional psychology textbooks discuss common sense or its disorders. This discovery is significant because many persons receive medicines for anxiety and stress-related disorders. Interestingly, many persons with disorders of common sense have complaints and symptoms of anxiety and stress-related illnesses. A second intriguing finding is that people who lack common sense generally do not report having spiritual practices. Their relative absence in faith may be attributed to their sole focus on ‘self’ and self-referents.

 

At a macro-level, Dr. Smith’s research reveals that war and other significant trauma may lead to changes in common sense. This finding heralds an exciting possibility that common sense could be a concrete marker of peace. Other findings in his research on common sense and aberrant (i.e., faulty) common sense have implications for HIV/AIDS worldwide, the economics of chaos and faulty common sense, and aberrant “scientific common sense.”

 

A report of Smith’s research can be found on the Karl Jaspers Forum website (<www.kjf.ca>). The Karl Jaspers Forum is an open-review website providing opportunities for readers to critique authors’ manuscripts

 

 

 

Sharon Swinyard served as Executive Director of Children’s Hospital of San Francisco Foundation. She was recruited by Stanford University to direct the 20 million dollar capital campaign for Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. The campaign case for support received a Silver Medal from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). She went on to serve as Director of Development for Menlo School and College with responsibility for fund raising and public relations.

 

Prior to her career in fund development, Ms. Swinyard was a college professor for 15 years teaching Spanish language, literature, and culture at Stanford University, University of California Santa Barbara, and St. Joseph’s College. She has lived and worked extensively in Spain and Mexico, is fluent in Spanish, and proficient in several other romance languages.

 

Ms. Swinyard received her Ph.D. degree in Spanish from Stanford University; her M.A. degree from New York University and the University of Madrid; and her B.A. degree from New York University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EMERITUS PROFESSOR ROBERT BABCOCK, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Professor of Human Ecology

 

“The College of Human Ecology offers multi-disciplinary undergraduate and graduate academic programs that focus on the interaction of humans with their biological, economic, social, and physical environments. The names of the programs reflect the diversity of issues addressed by the college programs. These include Biology and Society, Design and Environmental Analysis, Human Biology Health and Society, Human Development, Nutritional Sciences, Policy Analysis and Management and Fiber Science & Apparel Design.

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Louis is founder and Managing Director of IndraNet Group of companies, based in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, and Toulon, France.