Joanna Macy is a scholar, eco-philosopher, teacher and activist from Berkeley, California. She is the author of 8 books including Coming Back to Life and Widening Circles and has also produced a 3-DVD set entitled The Work that Reconnects.

John Seed continues to direct the Rainforest InformationCentre and raise funds for cutting-edge environmental activistsand groups in South America, Asia, Africa and the Pacific.Most years he visits North America or Europe offering workshopsand presentations. He has made several new films andcollections of environmental music, and been honoured by theAustralian government with an OAM -- Order of AustraliaMedal -- for services to conservation and the environment. Youcan email John at johnseed1@ozemail.com.au for informationabout his forthcoming workshops, or find updated informationat www.rainforestinfo.org.au.

In 2006 Arne Naess was 94 years old. The Selected Works ofArne Naess (SWAN) is now available as a complete, boxed set.Information about SWAN is available from Springer Publishers(www.springeronline.com). Arne's last publication in Englishwas Life's Philosophy: Reason and Feeling in a Deeper World(University of Georgia Press, 2002).

Pat Fleming lives and works on Dartmoor, Devon, UK, whereher passions include researching, growing, writing about andadvising on medicinal plants. Over many years she has run arange of courses, trainings and events relating to earth-care,including deep ecology events, organic and biodynamic growing,and growing and using plants for medicine. A poetherself, she published Moor Poets - Volume One in 2004, whichdraws together voices from all over Dartmoor, includingfrom men inside HMP Dartmoor prison, to speak out for thewild in poetry. Contact Pat at pat@wylde.gn.apc.org, or seewww.wylde.gn.apc.org.