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		Board

		Zenobia Barlow, a cofounder of the Center for Ecoliteracy, has served as the Center's executive director since its founding. Her career has focused on integrating theory and practice around leadership in systems change connected to the environment. She was executive director of the Elmwood Institute, an ecological think tank and network of independent scholars and activists, after serving as an academic administrator at Sonoma State University and as executive editor of an international publishing company. She is an accomplished documentary photographer. Peter K. Buckley cofounded the Center for Ecoliteracy in 1995, after a career as CEO. of Esprit-Europe and Esprit-International, and an earlier career as an attorney in San Francisco. He is cofounder (with his wife Mimi) and chair of Greenwood School, a K-8 school with an environmental emphasis, in Mill Valley, California. He serves as president of the David Brower Center, a project to create a "home for the 21st-century environmental movement," to be located in Berkeley. Fritjof Capra is a cofounder and chair of the board of directors of the Center for Ecoliteracy. In addition to his research in physics and systems theory, he has been engaged in a systematic examination of the philosophical and social implications of contemporary science for the past 30 years. His internationally acclaimed books include The Tao of Physics, The Turning Point, The Web of Life, and The Hidden Connections. He serves on the faculty of Schumacher College, and lectures widely to lay and professional audiences in Europe, Asia, and North and South America. David W. Orr is professor and chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College. At Oberlin, he directed a collaboration of students, staff members, and some of the most innovative designers and architects in the world. Together they designed and built the Environmental Studies Center, a building selected as one of 30 "milestone buildings in the 20th century" by the U.S. Department of Energy. He is a contributing editor to Conservation Biology, the author of The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror, The Nature of Design, Earth in Mind, and Ecological Literacy, and coeditor of The Global Predicament and The Campus and Environmental Responsibility. Nancy Schaub is an activist and philanthropist committed to innovative solutions to land and community relations issues. President of the board of Bioneers, and an Ecotrust board member, she founded the New Priorities Foundation to support citizen-initiated efforts toward a more vibrant and diverse environment, through hands-on experience, democracy building, and preserving natural areas. She stewards an ecological sanctuary at her home near the coast south of San Francisco. Wendy Williams was moved to become engaged in furthering Fritjof Capra's work after hearing him speak. She has worked as an emergency medical technician, camp counselor, physical therapist, and nature photographer, and is a long-time student of yoga philosophy. A mother active in her community, Wendy is committed to forging creative links between people and their passions.