 About the Authors and Translators Stan Rowe (June 11, 1918 to April 6, 2004) was educated at the University of Manitoba and University of Nebraska. He was a geo-ecologist and environmentalist with a background in botany, forestry and terrain (landscape) ecology. He worked as a research forester with Forestry Canada for nineteen years, specializing in silviculture and ecological site classification. In the 1970s & 80s he took up the post of Professor of Plant Ecology at the University of Saskatchewan. Stan authored the book Forest Regions of Canada (1959, Queen's Printer, Ottawa) and Home Place; Essays in Ecology (NeWest Books, Edmonton, 1990; reissued 2002). At the time of his death, a third book (to be titled Earth Alive) was nearing completion. As well, he authored numerous articles, reviews, book chapters and was a celebrated public speaker on ecosystems and human ecology. The essays presented at this web site demonstrate the breadth of his insightful writings on the ecocentric valuation perspective as well as his outstanding literary skills. Following retirement from academic work, he moved to New Denver, B.C. where he remained active as a writer in environmental ethics. Among his many quotable quotes, he made this observation about himself: "Not a misanthrope, but a defender of Earth against the excesses of anthropes." Holmes Rolston, III is University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. He is the author of a number of books including: Philosophy Gone Wild (Prometheus Books, 1986), Environmental Ethics (Temple University Press, 1987), Conserving Natural Value (Columbia University Press, 1994) and Science and Religion: A Critical Survey (Random House, McGraw Hill, Harcourt Brace), He served as editor of Biology, Ethics, and the Origins of Life (Jones and Bartlett, Wadsworth, 1994). He is well known for his public lectures and participation in conferences. He is the author of some 70 articles on the deeper values of wild species and naturally evolved ecosystems which are published in professional journals and popular magazines. He has written chapters in fifty other books. His books have been used as texts in 150 colleges and universities. His work is published in Australian, Canadian, British, German, Scandinavian, Slovenian, South African, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian presses and journals, translated, reviewed, or cited in journals and books in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Finnish, Danish, Czechoslovakian, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovenian, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese. Environmental Ethics is in Chinese translation, and Philosophy Gone Wild in Chinese is in press. He can be reached at the Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523. http://lamar.colostate.edu/~rolston/. Email: rolston@lamar.colostate.edu Ted Mosquin has a B.Sc.(Hons.) in Botany (U. of Manitoba 1956), and a Ph.D. in Systematics & Evolution (UCLA 1961). He has taught at a number of universities, and for 12 years was a research scientist with Agriculture Canada, Ottawa. In 1977 he organized and edited the proceedings of a symposium on Canada's Threatened Species and Habitats. He served as the first Editor of Nature Canada (1971-76) and as volunteer Editor of The Canadian Field-Naturalist.(1967-71). In 1988, he helped write the book: Legacy: A Natural History of Ontario, of which he is Associate Editor. He is one (of four) authors of On the Brink: Endangered Species in Canada, published in 1989. He is the principal author of the Canada Country Study of Biodiversity: Canada's Biodiversity: the Variety of Life, its Status, Economic Benefits, Conservation Costs, and Unmet Needs a UNEP project and published in 1995 by the Canadian Museum of Nature. He is the author of two chapters in the book: Biodiversity in Canada, Ecology, Ideas and Action, edited by Stephen Bocking of Trent University and published by Broadview Press, Peterborough in 2000. The Chapter titles were: Status and Trends in Canadian Biodiversity, and The Roles of Biodiversity in Creating and Maintaining the Ecosphere. He has had an active consulting career through Mosquin Bio-Information Limited, and Ecospherics International Inc. He is the author of over 100 scientific and popular articles in systematics, ecology and natural history. Between the late 1960s to the
present he has served as President of a number of local, regional and national
Canadian environmental organizations. He was the first President and Executive
Director of The Canadian Nature Federation (in 1971), and in the late'80s
served as National President of the Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society.
From 1991 to 1995 Ted was a member of the Canadian government's Biodiversity
Convention Advisory Group (BCAG) which helped draft the 1992 Convention on
Biological Diversity and advised with the preparation of the
Canadian Biodiversity Strategy,
published in 1995 by Environment Canada. He is currently on the Board of
Directors of the Mississippi Valley
Conservation Foundation and first President and one of the
founders (2003) of the Mississippi
Madawaska Land Trust Conservancy. Ted has been honoured by a number of awards, including the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal for conservation work by the government of Canada. He can be reached at mosquin@xplornet.com Alan Drengson is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria, B.C. Canada, where he was a Director of Environmental Studies and a member of the Philosophy Department. He is the author of numerous publications, including Beyond Environmental Crisis (1989), Doc Forest and Blue Mountain Ecostery (1993), The Practice of Technology (1995), co-editor of The Philosophy of Society (1978), The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthology (1995), and Ecoforestry: The Art and Science of Sustainable Forest Use (1997), and also founding editor of two quarterlies The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy, and the journal Ecoforestry. He is also an Aikidoist, a musician, consultant, and wild journeyer. He can be contacted at ecosophy@islandnet.com, or Box 5853 Stn B, Victoria, B.C., Canada V8R 6S8. He has completed three as yet unpublished books, Wise Dwelling: Transitions from Modern Paradigms to Ecological Approaches; An Ecophilosopher’s Dictionary; and The Adventures of Flelix: Fables for the Third Millennium. He is currently writing a new book called Wild Journeying. He can be contacted at: ecosophy@islandnet.com, or Box 5853 Stn B, Victoria, B.C., Canada V8R 6S8. The Trumpeter is now an online journal available at: http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/. Ecoforestry information is available at website: http://ecoforestry.ca/ Fred Schueler is a naturalist, herpetologist, and scholar. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto where his thesis dealt with geographical variation in Leopard Frogs across Canada. Since 1981, Fred has been a Research Associate at the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, and is presently Research Curator at the Bishops Mills Natural History Centre, in Bishops Mills, Ontario. He can be reached through the web site http://www.pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm . A more florid biography is at http://www.cnah.org/detailDir.asp?PersonID=-1933199068 David Orton is coordinator of the Green Web environmental research group. He lives on an old hill farm in Nova Scotia, Canada, and engages in developing the left biocentric tendency in deep ecology. David's left biocentric philosophy can be found at http://home.ca.inter.net/~greenweb/ and he may be contacted at greenweb@ca.inter.net David Poulton is a Barrister & Solicitor in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Currently he is the Conservation Director of the Calgary/Banff Chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. David can be reached at: poultond@cadvision.com P.K. (Patricia Kathleen) Page has written some of the best poems published in Canada for over five decades. In addition to winning the Governor General's award for poetry in 1957, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1999. She is the author of more than a dozen books, which include ten volumes of poetry, a novel, selected short stories, three books for children, and a memoir entitled Brazilian Journal based on her stay in Brazil. Born in England and raised on the Canadian prairies, Page has lived in the Maritimes and Montreal. She now lives in Victoria, British Columbia. A new collection of her work, called A Kind of Fiction, will be published by The Porcupine's Quill in the spring of 2001. Ian Whyte is an activist with a focus on the environment and conservation. As well as following Deep Ecology from a Left Biocentrist viewpoint, Whyte is a member of both the Green Party and the Canadian Parks And Wilderness Society. He is a field naturalist. Whyte is the managing editor of this website. Waterhen Film Productions Ltd. has specialized in making world class nature and science education films since 1982. Waterhen has gained a national and international recognition for excellence in film production, with programs airing on the BBC Network in the United Kingdom, PBS's "Nature," CBC's "The Nature of Things," and "Klahanie." Robert (Bob) Long, President of Waterhen can be reached at: email: bob@earthseeker.com John A. Livingston is Professor Emeritus in Environmental Studies at York University. A lifetime naturalist, he has written dozens of radio and television programs, many articles, and ten books, the most recent of which, Rogue Primate (1994) received the Governor General's Literary Award Guido Dalla Casa was born in Bologna (Italy) in the August 1936. He attended the Scientific School and then obtained his degree and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the Bologna University at the beginning of 1959. He entered the Italian Electricity Board in the same year and worked as territorial manager of electrical energy distribution at the offices of Torino, Vercelli, Brescia and Milano. He is retired since 1997 and lives in Milan, where is a member of "Ecology and Energy Group" of the local manager association. He has been privately teaching mathematics to some students in the years 1997-2000. He married Elvira in 1963: they have a son (Enrico, 1966) and a daughter (Valeria, 1969). He has ever been very fond of journeys and mountaineering; with his wife, ascended some peaks in the Alps. They have a sort of hut (very old restored house) in a remote village on the Alps, a place where cars cannot arrive. Ever concerned in scientific-philosophical problems, since about 1970 he is very interested in nature, deep ecology, native and eastern philosophies (esp. Buddhism and Taoism). He is author of some books, Ultima Scimmia (Last Ape) (1975), Handbook for Survival (1983), printed by MEB, and Ecologia Profonda(Deep Ecology) (1996) printed by Ed. PANGEA. He has also written a lot of articles for many monthly Italian revues. Nearly all his writings are about deep ecology subjects. Some articles are
on the web site www.filosofia-ambientale.it
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