ROBERT L. FRANCE is a professor at the Harvard University Design School and teaches courses on ecological managment and environmental theory. He is the author of The Handbook of Landscape Regenerative Development and Design, The Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design, Ultreia! Onward! Progress of the Pilgrim, and Wetlands of Mass Destruction: Ancient Presage for Contemporary Ecocide in Southern Iraq.He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ROBERT M. ABBOTT is a business strategist, writer and speaker. He currently leads the Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability practice in Calgary, Alberta for Deloitte LLP. For nearly two decades, Rob has helped businesses; governments, academic institutions, and non-government organizations around the world clarify their strategic aspirations and make them real. Rob passionately believes that truly successful organizations consider the needs of all their stakeholders, their community and the environment in carrying out their activities. Accordingly, he helps these organizations design and implement plans that create both shareholder value and societal value. More often than not, success in one area helps create success in the other. He has written for a variety of regional and national magazines and newspapers in Canada, and is the author, previously, of Uncommon Cents: Thoreau and the Nature of Business. He lives in Calgary.
J. PARKER HUBER is a resident of Brattleboro, Vermont and has been following Thoreau and Muir throughout New England since 1974. He is the author of The Wildest Country: A Guide to Thoreau’s Maine and editor of Elevating Ourselves: Thoreau on Mountains, as well as the annual magazine, Writing Nature.
CAROL STEINFELD is a writer, researcher, and resource-recycling specialist who writes about ecological resource management solutions. She is the co-author of The Composting Toilet System Book and Reusing the Resource: Adventures in Ecological Wastewater Recycling.