Bryan Welch - Publisher and Editor, Ogden Publishing

Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 12pm

Bryan Welch runs Ogden Publications Inc., (www.OgdenPubs.com), a diversified media, consulting and affinity marketing company. Ogden Publications publishes 10 magazines for people interested in self-sufficiency, sustainability, rural lifestyles and farm collectibles, including Mother Earth News, Utne Reader, Natural Home and The Herb Companion. Its Web sites, including the groundbreaking carbon-offset shopping site, www.EarthMoment.com, are growing exponentially and currently attract more than 3.5 million unique visitors each month.

At home, Bryan and his family raise free-range, grass-fed cattle, sheep, goats and chickens on their 50-acre farm.

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Joshua Onysko - Founder and CEO, Pangea Organics

Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 2pm

It was Pangea founder and CEO Joshua Onysko's personal devotion and commitment to inspiring social sustainability that sparked the inception of Pangea Organics seven years ago. He devised the selling of the highest quality organic, personal care products as a means to an even greater end. After seven years of traveling to the likes of India, Nepal, and Tibet, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Thailand, Onysko had an epiphany: He realized that corporations were inheriting the earth and that by leading by example there was potential to influence others to reconsider their ways.

Pangea Organics is currently the largest cold-processed organic soap manufacturer in the US. In addition to bar soap, the line also includes shower gel, liquid hand soap, hand and body lotion, facial cleanser, facial toner, facial cream, facial mask, facial scrub and lip balm. Throughout Pangea's growth, from its inception in 2001, Onysko, 30, has retained private ownership of his company, never straying from its vision: Ecocentric bodycare; always beneficial, never artificial. Pangea's number one goal is to create a new understanding of health and beauty. With this, Pangea hopes to reinvent the way we, as a society, nurture our bodies and raise the bar for other companies. What we consume today, directly impacts how we - and future generations - will live tomorrow.

http://pangeaorganics.com/

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Joseph Cornell - Author of Sharing Nature with Children, Founder of the Sharing Nature Foundation

Sunday, September 20, 2009 - 12pm

Joseph Cornell is one the most inspiring nature educators in the world today. His first book, Sharing Nature with Children, sparked a worldwide revolution in nature education and became a classic. His six Sharing Nature Books have been translated into twenty languages and are used by educators and nature enthusiasts all over the world. Mr. Cornell’s second book, Listening to Nature, has inspired thousands of adults to deepen their relationship and experience of nature.

Mr. Cornell is the founder and director of Sharing Nature Worldwide, a popular, well-loved nature awareness program for children and adults. He is the honorary president of the Sharing Nature Japan an organization of 11,000 leaders and 224 regional associations. The Japanese Ministry of Education, in 1997, officially recognized Sharing Nature Japan (Nature Game Association) as a “public service corporation” – a rare designation given only to a few widely recognized service groups, such as the Boy Scouts and YMCA. Joseph frequently travels to work with groups in other countries as well as in the United States.

The National Association for Interpretation said of Mr. Cornell, “His expertise, irrepressible enthusiasm, blend of knowledge and warmth creates an atmosphere for learning that is very contagious.”

Joseph has lived for over thirty years in Ananda Village, near Nevada City, California. Based on the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda and his close disciple, Swami Kriyananda, Ananda Village is one of the most successful intentional communities in the world today. Joseph’s service at Ananda includes teaching and writing on meditation and other inspirational topics. He directs Ananda Meditation Support, which offers free online instruction and inspiration to thousands of people. To find out more about Mr. Cornell’s activities, visit http://www.giftofpeace.org/.

Awards
Joseph Cornell has received many awards for his Sharing Nature books and programs. He received the prestigious Honorary Award from the National Association of Interpretation, "For his vast contribution to the field of natural science education...." The Hungarian Society for Environmental Education awarded him with an Honorary Membership for his "service as a role model for educators worldwide." And in 2001, he received an honorary doctoral degree from Unity College in Maine, "For his illustrious career as a nature educator and writer." In 2003, Cornell received the Countess Sonja-Bernadotte-Prize in Germany for his vast influence on environmental education in Central Europe.

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Frances Moore Lappé - Activist and author of Diet for a Small Planet

Sunday, September 20, 2009 - 2pm

Frances Moore Lappé is a democracy advocate and world food and hunger expert who has authored or co-authored 16 books. She is the co-founder of three organizations, including Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy and, more recently, the Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé. In 1987 she received the Right Livelihood Award (a.k.a, the "Alternative Nobel.") Her first book, Diet for a Small Planet, has sold three million copies and is considered "the blueprint for eating with a small carbon footprint since long before the term was coined."

Her most recent book Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad, was awarded the Nautilus Gold/"Best in Small Press" award. In June 2008, that book and Diet for a Small Planet were designated as must-reads for the next U.S. president (by Barbara Kingsolver and Michael Pollan, respectively) in The New York Times Sunday Review of Books. Lappé has received 17 honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions including The University of Michigan and was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000-2001. She received the 2008 James Beard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year Award for her lifelong impact on the way people all over the world think about food, nutrition, and agriculture.

http://smallplanet.org/

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