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Air 2 A Bird
Air 2 A Bird, with Gabriel Teodros and Amos Miller are Seattle's own heartcharged hiphop duo.Flight requires lift, which occurs because wings move air downwards. Lift is created only when air strikes a wing at an angle. When the leading edge of a wing is higher than the trailing edge, the bottom of the wing 'pushes' the air forward and creates an area of high pressure below and ahead of the wing. At the same time, air is deflected downward so, because of Newton's Third Law of Motion (for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction), the wing is deflected upward. Both the upper and low ... Read More
Bill Aal
Bill Aal, co chair of the AGRA-Watch Project of the Community Alliance for Global Justice and Director of Tools for Change, has been a trainer and organizer for 20 years, helping communities with diverse populations transform to be more just and sustainable. He has been an activist around issues of GMOs for 15 years and associate producer of "Good Food," an award winning movie about sustaining agriculture in the Northwest. Read More
Imam Abdul-Malik
Imam Johari AbdulMalik serves as the director of Community Outreach for the Dar AlHijrah Islamic Center. He was the first Muslim Chaplain installed at Howard University, former chair of Government Relations for the Muslim Alliance in North America [MANA] and the founding President of the Muslim Society of Washington, DC Inc. Known nationally for his fundraising efforts for masjids, schools and relief organizations, AbdulMalik is also a founding member of the Muslim Advocacy Commission of Washington, D.C. and Muslim Men Against Domestic Violence [MMADV]; he edited What Islam Says About Domesti ... Read More
Ibrahim Abdul-Matin
Ibrahim AbdulMatin is a policy advisor at the Mayor's Office of LongTerm Planning and Sustainability in New York City. He is the wellknown author of the popular local blog, The Brooklyn Bedouin, and has published articles for CNN, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Common Ground News, Color Lines, Elan Magazine, WireTap Magazine, Left Turn, among others. AbdulMatin is also a commentator on PRI's morning news show, The Takeaway. Working within the American Muslim community and the environmental movement, AbdulMatin has been at the intersection of interfaith activism, environmentalism, arts, ... Read More
Rasha Abdulhadi
Abdulhadi is Urban Program Coordinator for Angelic Organics LearningCenter, working with community food systems projects, training urbanfarmers, and building healthy local food systems. Read More
Dr. Sharif Abdullah
Dr. Sharif Abdullah is an author and advocate for inclusivity, societaltransformation and societal spirituality. Sharif’s life vision and mission are simple:we can create a world that works for all beings. Sharif believes we must release thestatus quo and transform our toxic political, economic and social/cultural systemsand structures.
Sharif promotes heart-felt inclusivity, compassionate dialog, and a society based onvisionary, localized and alternative economics and politics. His vision and work areinformed by his spiritual awareness, his growing up with racism and generationalpoverty, a ... Read More
Hilary Abell
Abell is Executive Director of WAGES (Womens Action to Gain Economic Security), a nonprofit organization that has created three successful ecofriendly housecleaning cooperatives in the San Francisco Bay Area that provide good incomes, leadership opportunities, and healthy working conditions for the Latina immigrant women who own them, while protecting the environment and the health of their clients: NaturalHome Cleaning in the East Bay, Emmas EcoClean on the Peninsula, andEcoCare Professional Housecleaning, serving San Jose and the SouthBay. WAGES has plans to expand its unique model of social ... Read More
Jill Abelson
Abelson is a communications manager for EPAs ENERGY STAR Program, and a nationallyknown expert on energy efficiency and green marketing. Read More
Aaron Ableman
Ableman is an acclaimed “edutainer” with a background in world literature, food systems, and community organizing. He grew up under the mentorship of Hopi elders and children’s musician Raffi, and he has graced the stages with K’NAAN and Joan Baez, among others. From India to Haiti, he has implementede co-arts programs and worked with at-risk teens. He has been heralded in publications such as the “Los Angeles Times,” “New York Times,” “MontrealMirror” and “San Francisco Examiner.” Ableman is the executive produce rfor the Clean Energy Tour, co-founder of the CommuniTre ... Read More
Kris Abrams
Kris is the former senior producer of Democracy Now!, a national,independent news program, for which she coordinated the daily newscast,helped lead the programs dramatic expansion, and reported from aroundthe world. She then moved to Colorado to lead community radio stationKGNUs expansion into Denver. She has studied the liberation movementin South Africa, and recently obtained her certification in peacemakingthrough the Peacemaker Institute of Colorado. She practices meditation,yoga and loves to hike in the mountains. Read More
Rolando Acosta
Rolando Acosta has over twenty years legal and business advisory experience related to real estate development having represented private clients before local and state governments. Mr. Acosta has represented clients in some of the most significant and complex cases in the Chicago area. Read More
John Adams
John Adams is former Chair of the Organizational Systems Program at Saybrook Graduate School. He also served as a faculty member for the Bainbridge Graduate Institute's Green MBA Program for six years. John has been involved the mental aspects of change and transformation work for over 40 years. His most recent book is Thinking Today as if Tomorrow Mattered: The Rise of a Sustainable Consciousness. Read More
Leonard Adler
Leonard Adler is the CEO of Green Jobs Network, a social enterprise that helps job seekers who are interested in environmental or social responsibility to find jobs, explore career resources and build their professional network. Leonard has worked in the private and non-profit sectors, and has received a social entrepreneurship grant from the Echoing Green Foundation. Leonard has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center where he was a Public Interest Law Scholar and co-founded the Georgetown Journal on Fighting Poverty. He has a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy Sc ... Read More
Queen Afua
Queen Afua is a worldaerenowned certified wholistic health specialist who practices from a uniquely spiritual perspective. She is a certified colon therapist, polarity practitioner, Hatha Yoga and Ari Ankh Ka instructor, lay midwife, herbalist and fasting specialist. She has taught wholistic heath care at prestigious institutions such as NYC Downstate Medical Center and Long Island University Medical Center. Queen Afua is also a lecturer and best selling author, who has written three astounding books, including Sacred Woman; a guide to healing the feminine body, mind and spirit, Heal Thyself ... Read More
Rose Aguilar
Aguilar is a radio host and journalist from San Francisco. She hosts Your Call, a live callin radio show on NPRaffiliates KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco and KUSP 88.9 FM in Santa Cruz. She's author of Red Highways: A Liberals Journey into the Heartland, and contributor to the book Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland. Read More
Brahm Ahmadi
Brahm Ahmadi was born in Iran, grew up in Los Angeles and now lives in Oakland, CA. Brahm is cofounder and Executive Director of Peoples Grocery, a communitybased nonprofit organization founded in 2002 that has attracted local and national attention for its effort to transform inner city food systems. He is also Executive Director of the North Oakland Land Trust, which dedicates land in North Oakland for community gardening.Brahm has a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California and is an MBA candidate at the Presidio School of Management. Brahm combines social enterprise, cooperative ... Read More
Dr. Antwi Akom
Award winning educator, scholar and writer AkomA Leading Expert on the Green Economy, Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR), and Climate ChangeDr. Akom is a leading expert on the green economy, climate change, and educational equity. His research focuses on the links between race, environmental health, and educational equity in cities and schools; the role of the green economy in facilitating pathways out of poverty for vulnerable populations; and the role of local knowledge in the production of environmental health and educational equity. Professor Akom's research and practice works to b ... Read More
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