Paul H. Ray is a founding partner in a new consulting firm, Integral Partnerships, LLC, designed to help those organizations whose constituencies or customers are Cultural Creatives to be more successful, by aligning their internal activities and values with the values and needs of their constituencies or customers. He has surveyed and classified well over 100,000 Americans in the past thirteen years, showing how the subcultures of values permeate all aspects of American life. Paul H. Ray received a BA, cum laude, in Anthropology from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan.

Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice in San Rafael, CA. and co-author of the bestselling The Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women (Bantam, 1991) and The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World (Harmony, 2000). Academic Background: She received her B.A., cum laude from Goucher College and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Toronto.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Ervin Laszlo, born 1932 in Budapest, Hungary, founder and President of the Club of Budapest, was one of the first representatives in the area of systems philosophy and general theory of evolution. He published more than 70 books translated into as many as 18 languages. In the course of his long academic career as a professor for philosophy, systems philosophy and future sciences, he worked in teaching and research at a variety of reputable universities in the US, Europe, and the Far East.

The Global Consciousness Project, also called the EGG Project, is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists, engineers, artists and others. We collect data continuously from a global network of physical random number generators located in 65 host sites around the world. The archive contains more than 10 years of random data in parallel sequences of synchronized 200-bit trials every second.

Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. He has many years experience in education, teaching permaculture and natural building, and set up the first 2 year full-time permaculture course in the world, at Kinsale Further Education College in Ireland, as well as coordinating the first eco-village development in Ireland to be granted planning permission.

Founder and Chair of the Center for Human Emergence, Netherlands, formed in 2005 to facilitate the Netherlands through the current transition and learn for the world, and a Synnervator in CHE Synnervate; the founder and Director of the Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation and Emergence, founded in 2008 to support, learn about and promote innovative integral approaches to the global challenges that humanity faces today. In this capacity he is playing a key role in the State of the World Forum’s 2020 Climate Leadership Campaign; a Fellow of the Center for Human Ecology in the UK.

Kenny Ausubel, Co-CEO & Founder of Bioneers, is an award-winning social entrepreneur, author, journalist and filmmaker. Bioneers is a nationally recognized nonprofit dedicated to disseminating practical and visionary solutions for restoring Earth’s imperiled ecosystems and healing our human communities. Kenny launched the annual Bioneers Conference in 1990 with his producing partner and wife, Nina Simons, Bioneers co-founder.

Christopher Houghton Budd is an economic and monetary historian with a doctorate in banking and finance (Cass Business School, London). He works independently in many contexts ranging from mainstream to ‘alternative’, central banking to organic farming. He writes frequently on economic affairs, and has published several books, including Prelude in Economics (1979), Of Wheat and Gold (1988), The Metamorphosis of Capitalism (2003), Rare Albion – a Monetary Allegory (2005) (see Publications) and Finance at the Threshold (Gower, 2011).

Martin Ping is the Executive Director of Hawthorne Valley Association, a nonprofit promoting social and cultural renewal through the integration of education, agriculture, and the arts. Located in NY’s Hudson Valley, the Hawthorne Valley Association includes Hawthorne Valley Farm, a 400-acre biodynamic farm. A holistic approach to sustainable living, biodynamic farming develops the earth, plants, and animals to create a selfnourishing system. Martin balances his time between developing the working relationships amongst the Association’s diverse enterprises — a dairy herd, CSA and market garden, GreenMarket stands, organic bakery and grocery store, visiting students programs, farm ecology program, day school, and more — and cultivating collaborative relationships between Hawthorne Valley and other organizations in the Upper Hudson/Berkshire region.

TNI fellow, President of the Board of TNI and honorary president of ATTACFrance [Association for Taxation of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens] Susan George is one of TNI's most renowned fellows for her long-term and groundbreaking analysis of global issues. Author of fourteen widely translated books, she describes her work in a cogent way that has come to define TNI: "The job of the responsible social scientist is first to uncover these forces [of wealth, power and control], to write about them clearly, without jargon... and finally..to take an advocacy position in favour of the disadvantaged, the underdogs, the victims of injustice."

Attended a Waldorf School in Pennsylvania USA, received his B.A, (Highest Honors) at Williams College, Mass, USA in Political Science and Sociology. He served as Founding President of Camphill Soltane in Pennsylvania, President of the Camphill Association of North America and on the Board of Directors of the Anthroposophical Society USA in addition to other Boards and Advisory Boards. He has been engaged in financial management and philanthropy over the last 20 years with individuals and foundations ih Europe and the USA. Mr. Pietzner lives in Dornach, Switzerland where he serves on the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society as Treasurer.

Ithaca Hours is a local currency system that promotes local economic strength and community self-reliance in ways which will support economic and social justice, ecology, community participation and human aspirations in and around Ithaca, New York. Ithaca Hours help to keep money local, building the Ithaca economy. It also builds community pride and connections. Over 900 participants publicly accept Ithaca HOURS for goods and services. Additionally some local employers and employees have agreed to pay or receive partial wages in Ithaca Hours, further continuing our goal of keeping money local.

Economic crisis, climate change, conflicts – what can we do? Our community is a living organism, constantly changing according to the needs of its members. Our visitors too are a part of this organism. With our seminars and conferences we want to offer a space for new experiences in the area of love, community, communication. We want to encourage everyone to take responsibility for their own future. Only a wide network of multifaceted life models can become a foundation for a new society. We cordially invite you to get to know our work and look forward to your visit.

We only lend to and invest in organisations that benefit people and environment We connect savers and investors who want to change the world for the better with entrepreneurs and sustainable companies doing just that. We are the only specialist bank to offer integrated lending and investment opportunities for sustainable sectors in a number of European countries.

The GLS Bank was the first social and ecological bank in Germany. GLS stands for "Gemeinschaftsbank für Leihen und Schenken", which translates as "community bank for loans and gifts". The bank was founded in 1974 and it currently finances around 11,580 projects and businesses.

The California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture is a 501 (C)3 nonprofit / charitable foundation at the cutting edge of Earth and Ceramic Architecture technologies today. Founded in 1986 by its director, Nader Khalili (1936-2008), its scope spans technical innovations published by NASA for lunar and Martian construction, to housing design and development for the world's homeless for the United Nations.

The Rudolf Steiner Health Center is the only inpatient anthroposophic medical clinic in the United States. The Designed for ambulatory individuals with chronic illnesses, or anyone seeking a restorative regimen. The Health Center follows the Anthroposophic medical guidelines of Austrian scientist-philosopher Rudolf Steiner. The next 2-week session begins on May 9th, 2011. Please see the Therapeutic Sessions page for more info.

I was born in 1950. I studied at Budapest University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Engine Branch. I got my degree there in 1974. At the university I mostly dealt with heat and general energy transmissions. Later, I continued researching this field of science at my first workplace, the Department of Nuclear Techniques of Central Research Institute for Physics of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Here my main area of research was the energy transmissions that can occur during possible nuclear power plant accidents...

Brigitte Mars is an herbalist from Boulder, Colorado, with over 35 years’ experience in natural medicine. She lived for two and a half years on solely wild edible plants while living in a teepee in the Ozarks in the early seventies. She is the author of Addiction Free Naturally, Sex, Love and Health, The HempNut Cookbook, Rawsome!, and Healing Herbal Teas.Brigitte teaches at Naropa University, Esalen Institute, Kripalu, and many other locations. She has a nutritional and herbal private practice, works as a practitoner for Pharmaca and has a local weekly radio show called Naturally.