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Emerald Starr has been an advocate and educator for environmental health and sustainability for over 25 years. In 1984 Emerald and his life partner, Lori Grace, commissioned one of the first Permaculture Farm and Garden demonstration projects in Maui, Hawaii. Over the years thousands of people from all over the world have visited and are inspired by the 1 hectare garden farm, helping to spread the principles of Permaculture across the globe. Hale Akua Shangri La Garden Farm is still actively engaged in teaching people about growing food organically and sustainable living.
Emerald built his first home and planted his first garden in Bali in 1989. Shortly after he became aware of the Balinese principle of Tri Hita Karana: Humans in harmony with Nature, with other Humans and with Divine Spirit. This has inspired his environmental and human rights advocacy ever since.
Emerald has been involved in developing The Vertical Soak Bamboo Treatment Process, an environmentally safe treatment for bamboo which makes it resistant to insect attack. It is currently used for bamboo buildings worldwide. He brought WasteWater Gardens®, natural plant based, chemical free wastewater treatment systems to Indonesia. These organic wastewater treatment systems were tested diligently and are approved by BAPEDAL, the Indonesian Govt. health department. Emerald received the Tri Hita Karana Environmental Award (2000) from Gede Ardika, then Culture and Tourism Minister, for Sacred Mountain Sanctuary, a retreat center made with bamboo buildings and WasteWater Gardens in central Bali. He joined the Royal Family of Karangasem to restore the Tirtagangga Water Palace, adding WasteWater Gardens to improve community bathing facilities and sanitation. Inspired by the earthquake resistant and beautiful architecture of the Minangkabau tribe in Northwest Sumatra, and concerned over the potential loss of this knowledge, Emerald facilitated a preservation project which trained over 17 tribal carpenters in the ancient art of building their traditional structures.
Emerald trained in Nashville to became a TCP presenter in 2006. He brought the presentation to Indonesia and presented to thousands of people in Bali and Jakarta. His presentations inspired people to seek the training with Mr. Gore, and eventually led to the formation of TCP Indonesia.
Organic gardening, education and raising awareness for the health of our planet and the vital need to reduce Green House Gas emissions worldwide are Emerald’s currently passions.
Gayla Kraetsch Hartsough, Ph.D., Writer/Producer, has written award-winning feature and short film screenplays. She tackles social and political issues in her scripts and short films, which are based on her experiences as an entrepreneur, president of a management consulting firm (that has served 200 clients in 25 states and in 7 foreign countries), a soccer mom, and her international travels to more than 50 countries.
To learn how to become a stronger screenwriter, she has written and produced three shorts in the last three years. Her first two shorts have gone to 60 festivals to date. “A Pig’s Ear” (2008) is based on a true story in Appalachia. Her second short, “Slap” (2009), stars Clancy Brown and Mel Rodriguez and is directed by Grant Barbeito. Slap had its world premier in June 2009 at Palm Springs International Short Film Festival (1 of 320 selected out of 3,200 submissions) and has also screened at Denver Starz, Worldfest Houston (Gold Remy award), and Tribeca’s “American: Now and Here”. Her third short, “Heloise” (2010), is currently being released.
Her feature script awards, include “Blood and Water,” which has been a finalist in multiple screenplay competitions, “Last Days of the Caterpillar,” placed in the top 1% (32 out of 3,200 submissions) in the BlueCat Screenwriting contest in 2009; and “Heloise,” which won the Moondance Award at Moondance in 2009 and received a “Recommend” at CAA in 2010. Two of her scripts are optioned and she has another 6 completed feature scripts that she keeps refining.
She has a BS degree, Northwestern University, School of Communication; a Masters degree, Tufts University; Ph.D. and Masters degrees, University of Virginia; and a post-doctorate fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program, Princeton, NJ. She has completed the two-year Peer Program at Writers’ Bootcamp and has a certificate in feature screenwriting through UCLA Extension. She served on the Northwestern University Entertainment Alliance (NUEA) Board for three years, is on the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)-Los Angeles Board, is a Women in Film (WIF) member, and is an Advisory Council member for Earth Protect.
Her full screenwriting resume is available at IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3115190
Since 1967 domicile in Bali and actively involved in developing cottage industry in Bali and other region of Indonesia , reviving the dying art of tradition and handy craft and architecture of Indonesia and promote them throughout the world .
In the 1970 actively promoting the use of Bamboo, Rattan, Coconut wood and Rubber tree as the substitute of rain forest tree. And also drew up new architectural concept for bringing the outside garden in to the interior as a more relax life style and got well promotion by well known architectural magazine such as Architectural digest and House and Garden.
In the 1999 installed as Honorary Consul of Spain and representative of Portuguese Government in Bali
In the beginning 2000 built a wireless telecommunication network with Broadband wireless access in Bali. Also in the same year built Satellite operating company in Indonesia.
In 2005 installed as founder of Rain Trust, a world rain forest conservation institution.
In 2006 built a free to air terrestrial Television channel to broadcast environmental issue in Bali and Indonesia.
In 2006 appointed as chief Architect of Boom festival in Portugal to serve 35 000 people and introducing Bamboo as a solid building materials for Europe.
In 2007 appointed as delegate for Cop 13 of UNFCCC, which resulting in the Road Map to overcome Global Warming.
In 2009 appointed as Indonesian Representative for Inter government Renewable Energy Organization.
In the 2010 awarded Medal of Prince Enrique the Navigator by the Government of Portugal.
In 2011 appointed as delegate to the Ministerial Summit of Biodiversity, Food security and Climate Change.
Michael Nash is a Irish/American filmmaker who was recently an honored recipient of the “Global Innovation Award, Senator Boxer’s 2010 Conservation Champion Award and the 2010 Neiman Marcus Environmental Visions Filmmaker Award. Michael Nash’s current documentary, the multi-award winning Climate Refugees was the only film screened by the United Nations at the recent IIEA Copenhagen Climate Change Conference for world leaders and policymakers. Nash has served on various panels as an expert on climatic migrations. the human face of climate change, climate security issues and green solutions. Climate Refugees had its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and was noted by Robert Redford in the NY Times “as an agent for social change.” Michael is currently traveling with WGA (Writers Guild of America) illuminating climate and health to storytellers around the world. Nash’s first feature, the critically acclaimed film titled “Fuel,” won top feature film honors around the globe. Nash has created a digital-video exploration montage for the Getty Museum, been involved in television programming development, and music video production. Currently Nash has three television shows in development/pre-production, with Fremantle (American Idol and America’s Got Talent), the second is package by William Morris and in partnership with music producer Red 1 (U2 and Lady Gaga’s) and the third is with the non-profit ORBIS, “The Flying Eye Hospital”. Michael Nash is represented by Mosaic Media.
Abigail is the President of the Biosphere Foundation and its division, the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation, which she co-founded in 1991.
Biosphere Foundation is collaborating with Yayasan Dwi Asih Sejahtera to implement a conservation and community outreach program within Bali Barat National Park for Menjangan Island’s coral reef. Biosphere Foundation is also working in the South China Sea at the Anambas Islands (Indonesia) to implement a protection program for endangered hawksbill and green sea turtles.
Abigail is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, World Academy of Art and Science, and the Explorers Club. She is a cum laude graduate of Middlebury College (Biology) and she also received an M.S. degree in Environmental Studies, cum laude from Yale University. She did further studies in chemistry at Harvard University, and in zoology at Cambridge University. biosfirindonesia.org
Mark Van Thillo is the Chief Operations Officer of the Biosphere Foundation and Captain of sailing yacht Mir now anchored in Banyuwedang (NW Bali). Mir is a 113’ sailing ketch that is Biosphere Foundation’s support vessel for the Menjangan Island Coral Reef Conservation and Community Outreach Program.
Additionally, Mark is the Technical Director of “Studio of the Sea,” a film studio based onboard Mir that is dedicated to featuring films about ocean challenges, sea creatures and island cultures. “Canary is Dead” is a 5 minute documentary produced about the catastrophic mortality of coral reefs in the Phoenix Islands due to global warming. To illustrate that coral reefs are an early warning sign for global warming, the film footage was also featured in the films “An Inconvenient Truth” and “Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification.”
Please join our websites to view the film at YouTube (Biosphere Foundation), Studioofthesea.org, Current TV, Link TV and at pcrf.org/phoenix.html.
Thomas Fricke is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Sustainable Trade and Consulting (STC) Pte Ltd., which specializes in innovative biofuel and biomass ventures. Before joining STC, he served as a partner of a biofuel feedstock development and trading venture, Biofuel Merchants LLC, and as CEO of ForesTrade Inc, a pioneering company specializing in the direct sourcing, production, and supply of certified organic, Fair Trade, and sustainably harvested spices, coffee, and essential oils. ForesTrade received the prestigious World Business Summit Award for Sustainable Business Partnerships in 2002 at the Johannesburg World Summit and the Sustainability Award from the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) in 2005. Thomas has dedicated more than 30 years to working with small farmers, indigenous organizations, local and multinational businesses, governments, NGOs, and foundations around the world. Thomas speaks English, German, Spanish, Indonesian, and Balinese, and holds an interdisciplinary BA in Art, Architecture, and Engineering from Stanford University and an MSc. in Agroecology from Antioch University West.
Drop by Drop: Water Stories, a video contest for youth created by the Social Change Film Festival & Institute (SCFFI), Channel G and EarthvisionZ, is now accepting submissions.
