Advisory Council

LESTER R. BROWN, author of 50 books, is founder and president of Earth Policy Institute. His awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, the United Nations Environment Prize, and Japan's Blue Planet Prize. His latest book is Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.

Fritjof Capra, Ph.D. physicist, systems theorist and author, is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy, which promotes ecology and systems thinking in primary and secondary education.

Riane Eisler, Ph.D. and cultural historian, is author of the international bestseller The Chalice and The Blade and more recently Tomorrow's Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century.

Stanley Greenspan, MD is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School, a founder and former president of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families.

Budd L. Hall, Ph.D. is the Director of the Office of Community-Based Research, University of Victoria.

Dr. Judith G. Hall is a Clinical Geneticist and Pediatrician. She trained at Wellesley College, the University of Washington School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Hospital.

David C. Korten, Ph.D. is the author of the international best seller When Corporations Rule the World, and The Post-Corporate World: Life after Capitalism.

Fran Korten, Ph.D. is Executive Director, Positive Futures Network.

Roslyn Kunin, C.M., Ph.D. is a Director of the Business Development Bank of Canada, and Director of the North South Institute.

Philip J. Landrigan, MD, Mac. is a pediatrician and the Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chairman of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine of Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Elise Miller, M.Ed. is Executive Director of the Institute for Children's Environmental Health (ICEH) and Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment.

Fraser Mustard, MD founded the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR). Currently, he leads The Founders Network. In 1998, Dr Mustard co-chaired the Early Years Study for the Government of Ontario.

Sharna Olfman, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Psychology in the Department of Humanities and Human Sciences at Point Park College, Pittsburgh. She is the editor of the "Childhood in America" book series (Praeger Publishers), and coeditor of Child Honouring: How to Turn this World Around (Homeland Press).

Charles E. Pascal, Ph. D. is the Executive Director of the Atkinson Charitable Foundation. He has been President of Sir Sandford Fleming College, and has also held deputy ministerial posts with the Government of Ontario.

The Very Reverend Bill Phipps, LL.B., D.D. served as Moderator of the United Church of Canada 1997-2000. He is co-founder of Faith and The Common Good Interfaith Network, member of University of Calgary Peace Consortium, and author of Cause for Hope: Humanity at the Crossroads.

Carolyn Pogue is the author of many books for all ages, including After the Beginning, an ecological tale for children, Seasons of Peace: A Teacher's Guide, and A World of Faith: Introducing Spiritual Traditions to Teens. She is the co-founder of the Calgary branch of Women in Black.

Stuart Shanker, Ph.D. is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Atkinson College, York University. He is Co-Director of the Council of Human Development and Chair for Canada of the Interdisciplinary Council of Learning and Developmental Disorders.

Joel Solomon is Director of the Tides Foundation; Founding board member, Tides Canada; Manager, Renewal Partners & Endswell Foundations; and Founding Member, Social Venture Network.

Rose Van Rotterdam is Grants Consultant for the Ministry of Citizenship & Immigration and the Toronto Community Foundation.