Martha Olson Jarocki has worked as the Communications Director at the Urban Habitat Program, which works to ensure the environmental and economic health of communities of color across the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been Editor of the journal Race, Poverty and the Environment and is a noted screenwriter, playwright and documentary video producer.

Gary Smith is a professional educator who has spent the last eight years managing environmental education projects for the California Department of Education. A high school biology teacher for 24 years, Gary worked to complete a book that promotes the use of systems thinking in education. He hopes "to convey a type of holistic thinking that provides both a grounding metaphor for students to more accurately perceive and understand their world and additional tools for students to carry with them as they leave school."

Concerned with “strategic sustainability,” Amanda Blake fuses elements of ecological economics, organizational development and business strategy to elaborate an environmentally sustainable brand of economic competition. She studied the Ecology of Commerce at Schumacher College. Her work has been published in An Exploration of Industrial Ecology, Natural Capitalism and Harbinger Magazine.

Jeff Gates is author of The Ownership Solution and Democracy at Risk. He was counsel to the Senate Finance Committee in the 1980s and an adviser to governments worldwide during the 1990s. His current project identifies the origins of the finance-driven forces that undermine democracies markets communities and the commons.