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Lucia Legan
M.Ed. Science and Environmental Education, Deakin University, Australia
Diplomate of the Permaculture Institute of Australia, has worked in community development for more than 15 years with Aboriginal communities, women's groups, young people, and farmers. Since arriving in Brazil, she has
co-founded both IPEC and the Mollison School for Sustainable Studies where she remains as Executive Director. Lucia has authored a nationally selected prize-winning environmental
education guide called "Escola Sustentavel" ["Sustainable Schools"] which is currently in its second edition. She has recently launched a nationwide program, "Habitats na Escola," which empowers students, parents, and teachers with the skills to create sustainable habitats in school.
Hildegard Magdalena Klever Krause
PhD, Sustainable Development of the Humid Tropics, Federal University of Para, Brazil
Hildegard has lived in the Amazon since the age of nine, presonally witnessing the vast and varied impacts generated by humans on the forest. Through psychology, she works to increase awareness and empower people to change their behavior and renew their relationship with nature. Hildegard has a masters in teacher training in public school systems and her Doctorate in public policy and the implementation of environmental education programs. Through Ecocentro IPEC she came into contact with permaculture and social technologies, and currently serves on the teaching and administrative staff there and at University of the State of Goiás in Pirenópolis.
Andre
Jaeger Soares, master’s candidate in environmental
education at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, is a cofounder of Ecocentro IPEC, trilingual teacher, natural builder and
permaculture designer. He founded the Permaculture Institute of Central Queensland in Australia. As national coordinator with the United Nations Development Program, Andre taught more than 2000 people throughout the country in permaculture design. Andre was given the Casa Claudia award for innovative design in natural construction and is acknowledged as one of the 50 most important people in environmental development in Brazil. His leadership in sustainability has attracted a partnership with the Swiss foundation AVINA creating new projects in the area of low impact architecture and social development in South America. In 2005, Andre also worked as an international aid worker in Haiti as a team leader in sustainable development. He is a diplomate of the Permaculture Institute of Australia.
John Gerber, UMass Faculty Sponsor
Ph.D., Vegetable Physiology/Agricultural Education/Soil Science, Cornell University
M.S., Vegetable Physiology, Cornell University
B.S., Botany, University of Rhode Island
UMass Amherst professor of plant and soil sciences and former dean of the College of Food and Natural Resources, Executive Director, Consortium for Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education, and former VP of the American Society of Horticultural Science. Gerber teaches courses in Sustainable Agriculture, Plants and the Environment, Dialogue on Agricultural Issues, Agricultural Systems Thinking, and Sustainable Living. He has published numerous books, articles, reviews and texts, including Agriculture and the Environment: Bridging Food Production and Environmental Protection in Developing Countries. Presenter at dozens of conferences and workshops including Agricultural sustainability: a global perspective - a 1994 USAID Workshop on Agricultural Sustainability, Gerber has conducted research in vegetable cropping systems, plant nutrition, seed emergence and seedling vigor of new sweet corn genotypes, and pepper flowering and fruit set. |
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