I enjoy re-imagining the economy, bringing over 30 years of service and experience as a community and environmental educator to the effort. A 4th-generation Coloradoan and former Peace Corps Volunteer (Thailand 78-80), my formal education includes: B.A. Biology (Colorado State), M. Ed. Adult Education (UC-Berkeley) and M.A. Spirituality (Holy Names Colleges, Oakland). I co-authored the 2006 book, 147 Tips for Teaching Sustainability, and have produced the 2007 CD of original songs, Soul at Play. Co-directing a non-profit and educating about the natural intelligence of circles, webs and systems is keeping me busy.

By the way, I first heard “GLOCALIZATION” (not misspelled) from Elizabet Sahtouris, evolutionary biologist and personal hero of mine.  Here’s her vision:

This process of uniting disparate and competitive entities into a cooperative whole–a multi-creatured cell, so to speak–was repeated when nucleated cells aggregated into multi-celled creatures, and it is happening now for a third time as we multi-celled humans are being driven by evolution to form a cooperative global cell in harmony with each other and with other species. This new enterprise must be a unified global democracy of diverse membership, organized into locally productive and mutually cooperative “bioregions,” like the organs of our bodies, and coordinated by a centralized government as dedicated in its service to the wellbeing of the whole as is the nervous system of our bodies. Anything less than such cooperation will probably bring us quickly to the point of species extinction so that the other species remaining may get on with the task.