Advisory
Board Member, Center for Sustainable and Environmental Education (CESE)
"In
a time of despair Terry Tempest Williams offers us hope.
In a season of confrontation she provides connection. Against the passions
of war she wields peace. To the bray of hubris she speaks quietly of
reflection. And all, each magical phrase of it, is rooted in the land
she loves."
~Carl
Pope, Executive Director, The Sierra Club
Celebrated
nature writer and activist and on our advisory board, Terry Tempest Williams,
has been identified by Newsweek as someone likely to make "a considerable
impact on the political, economic, and environmental issues facing the
western states...". The Utne Reader named Ms. Williams one of their "Utne
100 Visionaries," and, "a person who could change your life."
Her work has been widely anthologized, having appeared in The New Yorker,
The Nation, Outside, Audubon, Orion, The Iowa Review, and The New England
Review, among other national and international publications. Ms. Williams
is perhaps best known for her book, "Refuge: An Unnatural History
of Family and Place" (Pantheon, 1991), now regarded as a classic
in American Nature Writing. Her most recent book, "The Open Space
of Democracy" (Orion, 2004), offers a sharp-edged perspective on
the ethics of politics and place, the soul of democracy and the responsibilities
of citizen participation. The triptych of essays was the focal point of
a nationwide pre-election barnstorming tour across the United States,
in the fall of 2004.
Her other publications include, "Red: Patience and Passion in the
Desert" (Pantheon, 2001), and "Leap" (Pantheon, 2000).
Ms. Williams has been a fellow for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation, and received a Lannan Literary Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction.
She has served on the Governing Council of the Wilderness Society, and
was a member of the western team for the President's Council for Sustainable
Development. She is currently on the advisory board of the National Parks
and Conservation Association, The Nature Conservancy, and the Southern
Utah Wilderness Alliance. Ms. Williams has testified before the United
States Congress twice regarding women's health and the environmental links
associated with cancer, and has been a strong advocate for America's Redrock
Wilderness Act.
As an editor of "Testimony: Writers Speak On Behalf of Utah Wilderness",
she organized twenty American writers to pen their thoughts on why the
protection of these wildlands matter. When President William Jefferson
Clinton dedicated the new "Grand Staircase-Escalate National Monument"
on September 18, 1996, he held up this book, on the North Rim of the Grand
Canyon and said, "This made a difference."
Ms. Williams has been inducted to the Rachel Carson Honor Roll, and has
received the National Wildlife Federation's Conservation Award for Special
Achievement. Formerly Naturalist-in-Residence at the Utah Museum of Natural
History, Ms. Williams lives in Castle Valley, Utah.
Poster
of Tour
2003
THE INAUGURAL RACHEL CARSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURES
"The Ethics of Sustainability"
Allison
Hawthorne Deming....
Poet,
Professor, Creative Writing, Arizona State University
Advisory
Board Member, Center for Sustainable and Environmental Education (CESE)
Poet and
essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming was born in Connecticut in 1946 and received
an MFA from Vermont College University. She is the author of The Monarchs:
A Poem Sequence (Louisiana State University Press, 1997); and Science
and Other Poems (1994), which was selected by Gerald
Stern to receive the 1993 Walt
Whitman Award. Deming's other honors include the Pushcart Prize for
nonfiction, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, and
two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships.
She edited
Poetry of the American West: A Columbia Anthology (1996) and published
three books of prose, Writing the Sacred into Real (Milkweed Editions,
2001), The Edges of the Civilized World: A Journey in Nature and Culture
(1998), and Temporary Homelands (1994), a collection of nature essays.
Her poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly
Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review.
Director
of the University of Arizona Poetry Center from 1990 until 2000, she is
currently Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of
Arizona and lives in Tucson.
This bio was last updated on Jul 24, 2001.
(From: http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C05030C)
. 
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Professor
of Religion, Bucknell University
Chair, Center
for Sustainable and Environmental Education (CESE)
Mary
Evelyn Tucker is Professor of Religion at Bucknell University, a founding
member of the Forum on Religion and Ecology, a committee member of the
Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment
Programme
(UNEP) since 1986, and Vice President of the American Teilhard Association.
Tucker
received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in the history of religions,
specializing in Confucianism in Japan. She has traveled extensively in
Asia over the last thirty years. She and her husband, John Grim, directed
the Religions of the World and Ecology conference series (1996-1998) at
the Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR).
In addition to the ten conferences in this series, they organized three
culminating conferences at Harvard University, the United Nations, and
the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Tucker
and Grim are the series editors for the Religions of the World and Ecology
series published by CSWR (distributed by Harvard University Press). Tucker
was also a member of the Earth Charter Drafting Committee from 1997-2000.
Her published works include: Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological
Phase (Open Court Press, 2003), Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese
Neo-Confucianism: The Life and Thought of Kaibara Ekken, 1630-1714 (State
University of New York, 1989), and several co-edited volumes: with Tu
Weiming, Confucian Spirituality (Crossroad, 2003), with Phillip Hefner
and Clifford Mathhews, When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion
Tell Us About the Story of the Universe and Our Place In It (Open Court,
2002); with Christopher Chapple, Hinduism and Ecology: The Intersection
of Earth, Sky, and Water (Center for the Study of World Religions, 2000);
with John Grim, a special issue of Daedalus (vol. 130, no. 4 [Fall 2001])
on ÒReligion and Ecology: Can the Climate Change?,Ó also with John Grim,
Worldviews and Ecology: Religion, Philosophy, and the Environment (Orbis,
1994); with John Berthrong, Confucianism and Ecology: The Interrelation
of Heaven, Earth, and Humans (Center for the Study of World Religions,
1998); and, with Duncan Ryžken Williams, Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection
of Dharma and Deeds (Center for the Study of World Religions, 1997).
(From http://environment.harvard.edu/religion/information/about/biolist.html#mtucker)
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