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LIB 2008 Speaker Panel Bios:
Chris Paine / Who Killed the Electric Car:
http://www.papercutfilms.com
Chris also served as executive producer on FASTER, Mark Neale’s 2003 cult film (with narrator Ewan McGregor) about the world's fastest motorcycle race. The same team also made No Maps For These Territories about cyber-punk visionary William Gibson. No Maps featured U2’s Bono and was named Best Documentary by the Los Angeles New Times in 2001.
Chris directed segments for the MTV television series BUZZ and online shorts for Apple Computer. He began his LA career assisting writer/producer Michael Tolkin on the feature films The Player (1992), and The New Age (1994). His first producing effort Mailman (dir Matthew Carnahan) premiered at Sundance in 1995. He also directed the WW2 memoirs Looking Back and Return to the Philippines.
Outside of media, Chris is an entrepreneur and environmentalist. His technology company Internet Outfitters went public in 1999 as part of AppNet/CommerceOne. His firm Mondo-tronics, (founded with highschool friend Roger Gilbertson) provided materials for the Mars Pathfinder mission. Chris' activist work included campaigns to stop nuclear testing, freeway expansions, and deforestation.
Chris studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner, Stanford with Jon Else, and NYU. He is a graduate of Colgate University
Nick Baggarly, FRGS / Executive Director, Expedition Leader for Drive Around the World:
http://drivearoundtheworld.org/
Nick Baggarly is known for his ability to organize ambitious team efforts to achieve meaningful objectives. A successful Silicon Valley software engineer, Nick took a sabbatical from McAfee Associates in 1997 to lead an expedition on an 8,000-mile drive through Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. His team delivered medical supplies to remote villages for Rivers of the World, an international aid organization. In 2002 he co-founded the ‘Drive Around the World’ non-profit organization to produce extraordinary and relevant adventures with each project aimed at highlighting a different problem.
Drive Around the World was founded with the goal of producing dramatic adventures to promote cross-border understanding and goodwill as well as to raise funds for charitable causes. In 1999, Nick led the LATITUDE Expedition—a 16,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe through 16 countries, driving from Beijing to San Francisco. During the journey, his team worked with teachers throughout California to interact with middle school students. In 2005 he led the LONGITUDE Expedition, a 44,000-mile drive through 30 countries to highlight Parkinson’s Disease research. The project featured five non-profit programs including a drive-a-thon fundraising program and a global-grass-roots awareness campaign which was lauded as “unprecedented in the history of disease advocacy.” Nick believes humanities’ problems are merely, “seemingly-insurmountable challenges”. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of New York’s Explorers club.
Baggarly will talk about the LATITUDE and LONGITUDE drives around the world they did for Parkinson’s Disease, and also the ZERO NORTH and ZERO SOUTH expeditions which will take place in May and December of 2009. Their aim is to drive to the South Pole using four different types of alternative-fuel vehicles and, during the drive, perform climate science, a Mars/Moon analogue and film the experience in 3D. Following the expeditions the vehicles are converted to simulators and travel to schools for two years so kids can have an immersive drive-to-Pole experience inside an alternative-fuel vehicle that’s actually been there.
Gadget / Electric Motors Customs:
http://electricmotorscustoms.com/
Gadget, known from his season on Discovery Channel's show BIG, began Left Coast Electric, now known as Electric Motors Customs because of a passion for a cleaner, more self-reliant world. The idea for EMC came when Gadget converted a BMW Motorcycle (seen on Discovery Channel's BIG, on the "Mega-Motorcycle" episode) to pure electric. This led to conversions of a 1972 Triumph Spitfire, a 1962 Sunbeam Alpine and a one-ton Ford Crew-Cab Diesel.
Gadgets Electric Garage is a new pilot showing on Discovery Channel, in which Gadget has some fabulous guests and converts some beautiful classic cars into full electric, like Tommy Chong's (Cheech and Chong) 1946 Oldsmobile "Ace".
LA WEEKLY featured him as their cover story "Who's resurrecting the Electric car?" in July, 2006 and KABC News, did a story on his conversions.
Gadget's passion and gift for problem-solving have placed him as a front runner in the race to make a greener world.
Daniel Pinchbeck / Panel and solo talk (photo by herwig maurer):
http://2012thebook.com/
Author Daniel Pinchbeck has deep personal roots in the New York counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s. His father was an abstract painter, and his mother, Joyce Johnson, was a member of the Beat Generation and dated Jack Kerouac as On the Road hit the bestseller lists in 1957 (chronicled in Johnson’s bestselling book, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir). Pinchbeck was a founder of the 1990s literary magazine Open City with fellow writers Thomas Beller and Robert Bingham. He has written for many publications, including Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone. In 1994, he was chosen by The New York Times Magazine as one of “Thirty Under Thirty” destined to change our culture.
Pinchbeck lives in New York’s East Village, where he is editorial directory of Reality Sandwich (www.realitysandwich.com). He writes a column, Prophet Motive, for Conscious Enlightment publishing (www.cemagazines.com), which appears in Conscious Choice (Chicago), Conscious Choice (Seattle), Whole Life Times (LA), and Common Ground (SF). He is cocreator of the animation project, PostModern Times (postmoderntimes.com).
Sharron Rose, MA.Ed:
http://www.sharronrose.com/
Sharron Rose, MA.Ed, is an author, filmmaker and Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in World Mythology Dance and Theatre. She is the writer/director of the feature length documentaries 2012:The Odyssey and Timewave 2013 and producer of the Sacred Mysteries DVD Collection.
Jay Weidner:
http://www.jayweidner.com/
Jay Weidner, author, filmmaker and hermetic scholar. He is the producer of the documentary films: 2012: The Odyssey and Timewave 2013 and director of Secrets of Alchemy: The Great Cross and the End of Time, and the Sacred Mysteries DVD Collection.
Scott W. Badenoch Jr., Chief Executive Officer / Creative Citizen:
http://www.creativecitizen.com
Mr. Badenoch is a dedicated social entrepreneur who brings expertise in a variety of areas, namely understanding of the green market, business strategy, legal analysis, communications and conducting negotiations. Mr. Badenoch is hyper-networked in the green community as a member of the steering committee for Green Business Networking, a group with over 800 green business leaders, and BALLE's LA chapter (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies). He has also developed many strategic relationships for Creative Citizen, with BlueGreenStar Studios, Los Angeles' only green production studio, John Picard & Associates, one of the preeminent leaders in the green industry, Rocky Mountain Institute, Wiser Earth and Conservation Value.
Mr. Badenoch is a visionary and evangelist for the green movement, driving the market to greater heights through business solutions. Mr. Badenoch holds a B.A. in English, from Northwestern University, and is a practicing attorney, earning his Juris Doctorate and also a Masters Degree in Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine University School of Law. Mr. Badenoch was admitted to the State Bar of California in November of 2007.
Ben Clayton / Empowerment Works & Watts Up America:
Ben Clayton is the Vice President of Academic Development for solar manufacturing, training and installation company, Watts Up America. Ben is leading the academic team to develop an on-line/hands-on open-platform training portal. He is focused on developing accessible and realistic educational systems that can close the gap between web-based platforms and physical experience. Having a background in Permaculture design, Ben is looking to apply this on-line platform to all models of sustainability in human habitat: energy, water systems, waste, building, agriculture, commerce and community.
Recently, Ben helped take contemporary, green lifestyle company G Living, Corp. (http://gliving.tv) from basic website to dynamic web presence and network. He helped develop the initial stages of sales, public relations, investor relations, finding network’s voice, look and feel and produced or co-produced over 40 segments of the online show G Living Live; finding and highlighting leaders in modern, sustainable, solution-based business and entertainment.
Jenn "1Luv" Breckenridge / Eco Consultant for GreenLoop, Co-Founder Burn Clean Project,
Jenn Breckenridge is the Online Marketing Consultant for premiere eco-fashion retailer Greenloop, as well as the Editor for the new online magazine at eConsciousMarket.com. Jenn is the Founding Co-Director for Burn Clean Project, a social profit organization spearheading renewable energy solutions for Black Rock City, Nevada. In Winter 2007, Jenn helped bring sustainability to holiday shopping as the Director of Operations for Eco Gift Expo in Los Angeles. She was the Partner Relations Manager of eco-commerce start-up, EVO.com.
Previous to being on the EVO team, Jenn was the Campaign Director for Trans Fat Free NYC. The TFFNYC campaign and political rally received international media attention and was key in the landmark decision to make New York the first city in the US to legally ban trans fats in restaurants. She has written extensively for environmentally-oriented sites, such as Low Impact Living, TheGreenloopBlog.com, and 11thHourAction.com. Jenn is an alumnus of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City.
Personal empowerment panel:
Jonathan Fisher - "Witch Doctor"
Surgeon, Burner, Frequent traveler between worlds and Teacher of practical magic
"The spells are simple once you own your path."
"As awakened beings, we all have been given the gift to create every aspect of our lives. Let us walk our path with absolute intention and harness our energy for blissful creation."
Jessica Plancich
Inspirational wordsmith, Visionary of human potential, Wellness facilitator
"Turn down the volume of your mind and turn up the volume of your heart, so that the world may hear your soul's song."
www.theinnerfinity.com
Bianca Chavez / Words For The Many
www.wordsforthemany.com
"You are an integral part of the celestial equation, and there is nothing that separates you from all that surrounds you!"
Growing Architecture
Elizabeth Marley / Growing Architecture Collective:
http://www.growingarchitecture.org
Elizabeth Marley, co-founder of the Growing Architecture Collective, is a design scientist traveling the universe in search of sacred structures, regenerative building materials and all of those who are members of this unified collective striving for a healthier planet.
She holds a 5-year BArch. from SCI-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, where she focused on experimenting with growing architecture concepts through biomimetic methodologies and materials, CAD & scripting techniques, and sustainable activism in urban planning with the City of L.A.
She has been involved in a number of collaborations from interactive installations at Burning Man, community building in Owens Valley, building a sun shelter for crisis center in Skidrow, Los Angeles to community outreach education for kids in Compton, CA. Favoring sustainable, affordable housing and eco-urbanism issues, her architectural research and design has focused on deployable shelters for extreme socio-economic conditions and disaster relief.
As a designer, her illustrations have been published in numerous international magazines and is currently working on a pop-up book called "Imaginary Spaces for Imaginary Creatures". As a scientist, she is working closely with her partner, Ryan Wartena, to develop intentional growing structures that will one day be a construction alternative to non-renewable building methods.
With a fascination of one of life's essential substances, water, she is seeking fellow global advocates for clean water sources to design habitats that grow from filtered pollution in our societies' water bodies. With the philosophy of creating "Memorials to be", our surrounding built environment and media constantly remind us how to share this planet with the rest of life on this planet and thus we should design and build cities to reflect our intentions for the future.
Ms. Marley currently resides in an intentional community in Los Angeles, the Sugar Shack, and spends her daytime as designer for an internationally acclaimed water design firm and architectural design/build consultant for Green Gurus.
Dr. Ryan Wartena / Growing Architecture Collective:
http://www.growingarchitecture.org
Dr. Ryan Wartena co-created the Growing Architecture Collective with Elizabeth Marley to develop the dream of living in a living world where buildings breathe and grow.
Dr. Wartena's research has been in electrochemical engineering, material science, computational chemistry and engineering physics and has studied at UC San Diego, Georgia Tech, the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. and MIT. Ryan has published numerous articles in scientific journals for his research in energy systems, self-assembly and electric field assembly and has patents on energy devices, battery architectures and assembly methods thereof. Ryan's artistic endeavors indicate the geometry as sacred and are a continual effort to bridge the science and the mystic. He was one of the core designers and builders of the Seed of Life Activation, a large-scale interactive light installation in the Black Rock Desert in 2005 and 2006. He has been designing and growing sacred geometric structures of molecularly-assembled carbon nanotubes to understand how the designed form is grown.
Extending the bridges into social advocacy, Dr. Wartena is a member of the consulting group Green Gurus and is co-director of the Burn Clean Project in an effort to assist individuals, festivals and corporations to identify sustainable energy systems and solutions. Ryan believes we all are able to instantaneously manifest our thoughts in a healthy manner by understanding and reconnecting to nature from inside our current social and scientific construct. Currently, Ryan resides at the Sugar Shack, an intentional arts community, in Los Angeles CA where he builds botanically-inspired solar panel systems and is helping launch companies in the solar panel and electric vehicle industries.
Algalita Marine Research Foundation: Marcus Eriksen, Anna Cummins and Joel Paschal:
http://www.algalita.org/
Marcus is director of research and education for Algalita. Together with Anna and Joel, they're working on a 3 phase project they're calling "Message In A Bottle":
http://byotalk.blogspot.com/
The first phase was their visit to the "Garbage Patch", located in the North Pacific Gyre, collecting ocean samples (though in reality it's not a patch at all, rather a massive plastic soup twice the size of the US!) Phase 2 is their upcoming rafting journey (departing right from LIB) and phase 3 is a bike tour they're planning next fall, from Vancouver to Mexico on two amphibious bikes, giving presentations and delivering the gyre samples along the way.
Adam Wiggins / Dot-com panel - Friday 1:30-2:30pm
Co-founder of Heroku
http://www.heroku.com/
Adam believes that Heroku will bring good to the world by making high-end computing resources and custom application development
(previously accessible only in large, well-funded companies) available to small businesses, charities, and individuals. Heroku has proven
especially popular in developing countries who otherwise have very limited access to IT resources.
Adam has deep roots in the underground. In his seven years at Burning Man he has led numerous <a
href="http://dusk.org/adam/burn/#p2004">large scale art projects and theme camps</a>. He was a <a
href="http://adamwiggins.com/">psychedelic trance dj and producer</a> in Los Angeles for many years, and created art and hosted stages at
events like Xara Dulzura, Heavy Rotation, and Reflections.
Adam is a critical thinker, science lover, atheist, and libertarian who seeks to make the world a better place in every way he can. He
believes that social change happens in a decentralized manner. That is, we cannot look to a god or gods, government, or other kinds of
top-down authority to lead important social change. Instead, it's up to each of us, working with passion and dedication on the things we
believe in, and in aggregate we improve the human condition and make the world a better place.
He blogs at: http://dusk.org/adam/
Paradox Pollack / People Powered Dancefloor Tecnology: Balinese Monkey Chant, Friday night 10:30pm-12am.
Actor, writer, director of circus and film, and producer began his career at the age of 14 with a humble company of vaudevillians who wrote produced and created every costume script and composition from scratch. He has performed in thousands of venues in dozens of genres studying dance and circus arts extensively.
He has co-founded and performed prominently in two internationally traveling troupes: One People Voice; touring Indonesia and South Asia with Gamelan music and experimental performing arts, and is the acting President of Mystic Family Circus a non-profit organization creating performance and serving as a hub for social activism, cultural creation and business innovation with over 600 participating performing artists world wide.
Paradox has recently worked on several feature films including as a stunt performer and actor in “I Am Legend” and as a movement coach for aliens on the new j.j. abrahm’s “Star Trek” film. He is working with several new partners including Feed the Pig a film production company and a coalition of circus groups committed to huge images and extremity of vision. He is working on three screen plays and will begin shooting his first film in the spring of 2009. His work is mythic and contemporary working to build the bridge between ancient ritual and the popular culture.
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