ALBERT K BATES

ALBERT K. BATES

President, Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology
184 Schoolhouse Ridge Road
Summertown, TN 38483-0090 USA
(931) 964-4474, ecovillage at thefarm dot org

CURRICULUM VITAE TO SPRING, 2008

BORN: January 1, 1947, Honolulu, Hawaii, FT
EDUCATION: B.A., Syracuse University, 1969 (pol. sci.); L.L.B., J.D., New York Law School, 1972; E.M.T., State of Tennessee, 1974; Permaculture Design Certificate, 1996.
FAMILY: Father: Albert W. Bates (1907-1989), newspaper editor, publisher and public relations consultant. Mother: Dorothy R. Bates (1920-2003 ), realtor, developer, financier, author. Children: Gretchen Brook Bates (b. 1974), Will Bates (b. 1979).

BIOGRAPHIES: Wikipedia; Whos Who in the World; Whos Who in American Law; Whos Who of Emerging Leaders in America; Whos Who in Environmental and Energy Management; Whos Who in Science and Engineering; Whos Who in the South and Southwest; Whos Who in Executives and Professionals; International Biographical Dictionary; Men of Achievement, Strathmores Whos Who Registry.

POSITIONS:
1960-1970: Horsemaster, Silvermine School of Horsemastership; horse trainer, stable manager and riding instructor, dressage, stadium jumping and outdoor eventing; New Canaan, Conn. and Bridgton, Maine. Farm worker, dishwasher, and hitchhiker; North America, Europe.
1968-1970: International Farm Camp, Tiptree, U.K.
1969-1970 Committee member, We Inc., First Earth Day
1970-1971: Research Aide, Office of NY State District Attorney, Borough of the Bronx.
1970-1971: Investigative Aide, Appellate Division of the State of New York, Manhattan Mens House of Detention (The Tombs).
1970-1971: (Honorary) Vice-President, Dorothy Bates Real Estate, Inc, Wilton, Conn.
1972: 1,000-mile trek on Appalachian Trail, New York to Tennessee.
1972-present: Member of The Farm, alternative community in Summertown, Tenn.; variously: horse trainer and driver, cook, paralegal, block and concrete mason, solar engineer, flour miller, draftsman, inventor, scrap wrecker, paramedic, illustrator, typesetter, school teacher, salesman, computer programmer, radio communications operator, low-power television and radio producer, motorcycle mechanic, spokesperson, administrator, fundraiser, town planner, councilman.
1974-1975: Licensed Emergency Medical Technician (ambulance).
1974-1976: Licensed Amateur Radio Operator, WB4LXJ.
1975: Advisory Panel, Tennessee Criminal Justice Standards and Goals.
1975-1984: Public Affairs Editor, Farm News Service; Consulting Editor, WUTZ-FM non-commercial radio station; General Counsel, Radio Free Broadcasting Company.
1977-1980: Director, Plenty Shutdown Project; Editor, Shutdown News.
1978: Advisory Panel, Tennessee Valley Authority Policy Review.
1979-1985: Research Associate, Ethos Research Group.
1980: Regional Coordinator, Coalition for a Non-Nuclear World.
1980-1995: Director, Corporation Secretary and General Counsel, Plenty-USA.
1980: Write-in (unannounced and unsought) candidate for U.S. Congress, Sixth District of Tennessee (running second to the incumbent in the general election).
1980-1997: Director and Founder, The Natural Rights Center.
1981-present: Elected Elder, Council of Elders, The Farm.
1983-1985: Incorporator and Trustee, Community Health Project.
1983-1990: Board of Trustees, The Farm School and Alternate Education Center.
1983-1984: Incorporator and General Manager, Caribbean Maritime Enterprises (Caribbean Basin relief and development).
1984-1996: President, Albert Bates Professional Corporation.
1984-present: Chairman and President, Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology.
1984-1985: Managing Trustee, The NEW System (non-monetary local exchange network).
1984-1990: General Counsel, Religious and Educational Fund.
1984-1987: Director and Newsletter Editor, Save Our Water Now.
1984-1986: Editor, Greenings (local exchange network newsletter).
1985-1994: Editor-publisher, Natural Rights newsletter.
1985-1986: Advisory Board, Governors Conference on Pollution Prevention Pays.
1986-1989: Eco-Defense Committee, North American Bioregional Congress.
1986-1990: Board of Directors, Tennessee Environmental Council
1986-1989: Board of Directors, The Foundation (management of The Farm community).
1986-1999: General Counsel, The Book Publishing Company.
1988-present: Incorporator and Treasurer, The Second Foundation.
1988-1994: Editor-publisher, Tiyospaye.
1988-1992: Board of Directors, Communal Societies Association.
1989-1990: Member, The Paul Jacobs Commission.
1989-1992: Incorporator and Trustee, Rocinante
1989-1996: Board of Directors, Solar Car Corp. of America, Melbourne FL and Groton CT.
1991-present: General Manager, Summertown Food Company (forest resource products and Mushroompeople)
1992-1996: Advisory Board, The Peace Factory, Philadelphia, PA.
1993-1997: Founder & CEO, Second Foundation Publications
1993-present: Exec. Dir., Ecovillage Training Center, Summertown TN.
1993-2000: Manuscript Referee, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville TN
1994: Contributing Editor, American Small Farm
1995: Convenor, Ecovillage Network of the Americas
1995-2003: Board of Directors and Regional Secretary for the Americas, Global Ecovillage Network
1995-present: Board of Directors, International Communal Studies Assn, Tel Aviv
1995-1998: Board of Directors, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
1995-1998: Editor-publisher, The Design Exchange
1997-1999: President, Ecovillage Network of the Americas
1998-2000: Editor-publisher, Ecovillages
1998-present: Editor-publisher, Ecovillage (publishing house imprint of Global Village Institute)
1999-2004: Board of Directors, Walnut Hill Farm Corporation (sustainable agroforestry, bamboo)
2002-2003: Chairman of the Board, Global Ecovillage Network

2003-2004: President, Global Ecovillage Network

MEMBER: Former Member of the Bar, Tennessee, Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee, District of Columbia, Fifth, Sixth and Eleventh Circuits, Court of Veterans Appeals, United States Supreme Court; Federation of American Scientists; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Appalachian Trail Club; Cumberland Green Council; Tennessee Environmental Council (Board of Directors, 1982-1990); Black Hills Alliance; Catfish Alliance; Grass Roots Opposed to Underground Pollution (Steering Committee); Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition (Board of Directors, 1995-1998); New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution; North American Bioregional Congress; Communal Studies Assoc. (Board of Directors, 1988-1992); International Communal Studies Assoc. (Board of Directors, 1995-present); Fellowship for Intentional Community; Society for Utopian Studies; Ecoville Foundation (Russia).

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BOOKS: The Grass Case (1974); Honicker v. Hendrie, a lawsuit to end atomic power (1978); Shutdown!, Nuclear Power on Trial (1979), Italian edition (1980), Japanese edition (1980); Your Rights To Victim's Compensation, Formbook and Guide to the Tennessee Criminal Injuries Compensation Act (1984); Climate in Crisis: The Greenhouse Effect and What We Can Do (1990); (with Rupert Fike and others) Voices From The Farm (1998); (with Dorothy Bates) The Y2K Survival Guide and Cookbook (1999); Trapped in the Ice! (unpublished - manuscript lost by Russian translator); What Really Happened at Waco (1994, unpublished); Dispatches from the Front; La Violencia in Colombia (2000, unpublished); In Search of the Lost Kingdom of the Hippies (unpublished work in progress); The Post Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times (New Society 2006).

CONTRIBUTOR: Keystone to Survival: The Multinational Corporations in the Struggle for Control of Land, Commission on the Energy-Developing Corporations (1981); Alternate Energy Projects in Tennessee, Tennessee Energy Authority (1983); What Will It Take To Prevent Nuclear War?, ed. by Pat Farren (1983); OASIS Users Group Database (1982-83); DEVELOP and TECHNOTEC Databases, Control Data Corp. (1983); Guatemala: A Human Rights Commentary, Plenty (1983); A Bill amending the Water Quality Control Act of 1977 (toxic waste, Tenn. 1985); A Bill amending the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act (Tenn. 1985); Growing Shiitake Commercially by Bob Harris (2d Ed., 1993); Cooperative Housing Compendium: Resources for Collaborative Living, Ed. by Cohen and Arkin (U.C. Davis, 1993); Shiitake! Secrets of High-Speed Continuous Cultivation by Bob Harris (unpublished); America's Alternative Religions, ed. by Tim Miller (SUNY Press, 1995); "Eutopia," in Proceedings of a Conference on Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities (Scotland: Findhorn Press 1996); Shared Visions, Shared Lives - Communal Living Around the Globe (Scotland: Findhorn Press 1996); The Encyclopedia of Environmental History (Berkshire Publishing Group, Great Barrington MA, 2003); The Encyclopedia of Community (Berkshire Publishing Group, Great Barrington MA, 2004); Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living (regular articles and photo essays); Permaculture Activist (regular articles and photo essays); Permaculture International Journal (Australia; regular articles and photo essays); Permaculture Magazine (UK; regular articles and photo essays);The Free Press (regular articles and photos); Ecovillages (regular articles and photos); Ecovillage Living (Denmark; regular articles and photos).

FILMS: Wilton (20 min. BW 1/2" video, 1973); Helen Caldicott: "Curators of Life" (45 min. color 3/4" video, 1978); Hypercard 2.0 with Brent DeWitt (60 min. color Hi8 video, 1991); Where the Sunlight Meets the Road... bringing a solar car to market (25 min. color Hi8 video, 1991); Oilfield Winter: Teach-In at Florida State University (60 min. color Hi8 video, 1991); The Gaia Trust Conference at Fjordvang (240 min. unedited color Hi8 video, 1991); A Meeting at Villa Era: Ten Years of Right Livelihood Awards (60 min. color Hi8 video, 1992); A Russian Ecoville: Beginnings (240 min. unedited color Hi8 video, 1992); The Soma Seminar: Amanita Muscaria: Sacred, Psycoactive or Poisonous? (55 min. 1993); Sasha Shulgin in Telluride (55 min. 1993); Hoffman Bike Ride 25th Anniversary (135 min. unedited color Hi8 video, 1993); Cultivating Medicinal Mushrooms with Paul Stamets (120 min. unedited color Hi8 video, 1993); A Celebration of Community (180 min. unedited color Hi8 video, 1993); John Cunningham: How to Get an Excellent Spawn Run in Natural Logs (30 min. color VHS, 1994); Joe Krawczyk: Extending the Growing Season and Year Round Production of Shiitake on Natural Logs(30 min. color VHS, 1994); Mary Ellen Kozak: Developing and Marketing 'Meal in a Bag' Products for Small Shiitake Growers (30 min. color VHS, 1994); Christine Smith: The Artificial Log? Past, Present and Future (30 min. color VHS, 1994); John Donoghue: Technology Comparisons of Log versus Sawdust Grown Shiitake Mushrooms and John Donoghue: Financial Comparison of Log and Sawdust Grown Shiitake Mushrooms(30 min. color VHS, 1994); (30 min. color VHS, 1994); Daniel Hellmuth and Nicola MacPherson: From the Hills of the Ozarks to the Bistros of St. Louis (30 min. color VHS, 1994); S. C. Jong: Medicinal and Nutritional Value of the Shiitake Mushrooms (30 min. color VHS, 1994); James W. Kimbrough: Cultivation of Shiitake and Other Exotic Mushrooms in Taiwan (30 min. color VHS, 1994); John Sesock: Shiitake Facilities in Florida? Logs and Sawdust (30 min. color VHS, 1994); Clay Olson: Production of Shiitake on Logs in North Florida (30 min. color VHS, 1994); Gerald Seibel: Conversion of an Existing Structure for Automation (30 min. color VHS, 1994); Melvin Baughman: Profit Potential from Growing Shiitake (30 min. color VHS, 1994); Tom E. Kimmons: Shiitake Mushrooms and Community Development (30 min. color VHS, 1994); Paul Goland: The Market for American Dried Shiitake Mushrooms (30 min. color VHS, 1994); Chris Burnett: Woodland Mushroom Production as Sustainable Agriculture: A Forester's Perspective (30 min. color VHS, 1994); Global Ecovillage Network (3 min., digital color, 1996 with translations into UK English, Danish, Russian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Punjabi, Urdu, and Hindi); The Habitat Revolution (30 min, digital color, 1998, spanish edition, 1999).

CASES: Gaskin v. State (first amendment religious freedom: U.S. Supreme Court, 1973, 1975); Honicker v. Paladino (fourth amendment right to life: U.S. Supreme Court, 1979, 1982); Young v. TVA (nuclear plant intervention, TVA charter: U.S. Supreme Court, 1980); Gaskin v. State (voting rights: Tennessee Supreme Court, 1983); Srouji v. Kohn (Silkwood conspiracy, libel: U.S. District, Tn. 1982-85); McConnell v. Means (Corps of Engineers stream channelization: 6th Cir. 1986); Wesley v. Collins (voting rights of minority felons: 6th Cir. 1986); Smitherman v. United States (atomic veterans: U.S. District, Tn. 1985-88); Pride v. Book Publishing Co. (copyright: U.S. District, TX 1986-88); Western Solidarity v. Reagan (deployment of MX missile: 10th Cir. 1987); Axelrod v. Reagan (safety of nuclear weapons: U.S. Dist., DC. 1987-1992); Wright v. MacDonald (prisoners' rights: 6th Cir. 1988); Dickinson v. NRC (nuclear safety: 6th Cir. 1988); Bates v. FBI (FOIA, U.S. District, Tn. 1988-1991); Bates v. FBI II (FOIA, U.S. District, Tn. 1992-1995); Stanco vs. Principi (atomic veterans: Court of Veterans Appeals, 1996-1997).

CLIENTS: (partial list) Alliance for Atomic Veterans, American Indians Against Desecration, Americans for Clean Energy, Black Hills Alliance, Boulder Womens International League for Peace and Justice, Citizen Soldier, Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, Council for a Livable World, Ecovillage Network of North America, Environmental Action, Inc., Environmental Policy Institute, Friends of the Earth Inc., Grass Roots Opposed to Underground Pollution, Health and Energy Institute, Military Family Support Network, Mobilization for Survival, MX Information Center, National Association of Radiation Survivors, National Association of Atomic Veterans, National Campaign to Stop the MX, National Committee for Radiation Victims, Natural Resources Defense Council, New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Tennessee Environmental Council, Tennessee Nuclear Waste Task Force, Tennessee Valley Energy Coalition, The Sierra Club, Veterans Due Process Inc., Western Solidarity, Wyoming Outdoor Council.

AMICUS: Wright v. Collins (Voting Rights, 6th Cir. 1983); Fool's Crow v. Gullet (Native American religious freedom, 10th Cir. 1983); Cole v. United States (Atomic Vets, 11th Cir. 1985); Tennessee v. Herrington (Nuclear Waste, 6th Cir. 1986, U.S. Supreme Court, 1987); NARS, et al. v. Brown (Veterans' right to counsel, Supreme Court, 1993).

PROCEEDINGS: Tennessee NPDES permit, Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (1978); Tennessee Water Quality Control Board permits and rulemaking, deep well chemical injection in Tennessee (1979-1983), Upper Duck River Development Project (1980-1986); U.S. Army Corps of Engineers West Tennessee Tributaries Project (1986-) ; Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Hearings, Petitions of Tenn. Valley Authority in Yellow Creek (1977-81), Hartsville I and II (1977-82), Sequoyah I and II (1978-1997), Clinch River Breeder Reactor (1978-1981), Zimmer I (1978); U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Petition of Jeannine Honicker (constitutional abatement, 1978), Petition of The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (hydrogen control, 1979); U.S. Veterans Administration, Board of Veterans Appeals, In re Swain [first successful Agent Orange chloracne claim] (1979); In re Keel [leukemia, Operation Plumbob] (1980-present), In re Smitherman [lymphoma, edema, adenocarcinoma, Operation Crossroads] (1982-1989). In re Dugan [ALS, Operation Crossroads] (1983-1986). In re White [Agent Orange, Vietnam veteran] (1985-1990). In re Gilbreath [multiple cancers, Operation Redwing] (1986-present). In re Stanco [adenocarcinoma, Operation Crossroads] (1986-1998). TVA Barge Terminal for Chip Mills (1992).

TESTIMONY: State Committee on Transportation, Tennessee General Assembly, Hearings on Hazardous Waste Transportation (August 24, 1978); Tennessee Water Quality Control Board, Hearings on Chemical Deep Well Disposal (October 18, 1979, August 8, November 30, 1984, February 7, 1985); International Tribunal on Energy Development Corporations, Rapid City, So. Dak. (June 20, 1980); State Legislative Study Committee, Tennessee General Assembly, Hearings on Right to Know, Jackson and Nashville TN (November 26, 1984, January 7, 1985); House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Hearings on Monitored Retreivable Storage of Nuclear Waste, Nashville TN (January 18, 1986); Nat. Acad. of Sciences, Inst. of Medicine, Comm. to Study the Mortality of Military Personnel Present at Atmospheric Tests of Nuclear Weapons, Hearings on 5-series, Washington DC (June 23, 1993).

RESEARCH: Project Director, "Long Distance Electric Vehicle," DOE Grant No. DE-FG4480R410235, (1981-1982); Project Director, "Collapsible Photovoltaic Concentrator Array," DOE Grant DE-FG44-81R410435 (1982-1983); Advisor, "Low Cost Heat Engine," DOE Appropriate Technology Small Grants Program (1981-1982); Project Director, "Northern Hemisphere Propagation of Clonal Tradescantia," Global Village Institute (1978-present); Project Director, "Southeastern U.S. Propagation of Lentinus Edodes," Global Village Institute (1991-present); Project Director, Ecovillage Organic Garden, USEPA Environmental Education Program (1995-1996); Project Director, "Southeastern U.S. Propagation of Hybrid Walnut for Veneer," Global Village Institute and Walnut Hill Farms(1998-present); Project Director, Ecovillage Constructed Wetland, USEPA Environmental Education Program (1997-1999); Project Director, Point of View Permaculture Research Station (1998-2001); Project Director, Ecuadorian Womens Peacevillage, U.S. State Department Bureau of Cultural Affairs (2001-2002).

SOFTWARE: "REMDOS" (rem to health effect conversion), 1982; "CURIES" (weight/radioactivity conversion), 1983; "RADOUT" (radiation duration), 1983; "REBUILD" (OASIS system partition repair), 1983, "MOD100/DEMOD100" (OASIS to Radio Shack Model 100 portable system interface), 1983; "RECEIPTS/LOG" (non-profit donor records), 1984; "BANKBOOK" (accounting), 1984; "DELAY" (CRT display speed control), 1984; "TIME" (attorney continuous time monitor), 1984; "MERGE" (indexed datafile mergers), 1984; "PGSALES" (invoicing and inventory control), 1984; "TLMENU" (integrated small business management system), 1985-1986; "BILGE" (law office billing generation program), 1985; "MODMUPRO /MODMUSIC.BA" (music composing/ playing program for Model-100), 1985; "MOSTAT" (integrated monthly statistical reports for tax-exempt donations), 1986; "POSTAGE" (postage calculator), 1986; "XLIST" (multi-list name finder), 1986; "ZIPMERGE" (multi-list merge, sort, label program), 1986; "The Farm Stack" (hypercard multimedia tour), 1989; The Climate Stack (supercard multimedia presentation), 1990; The Farm Page (HTML presentation for the World Wide Web), 1995-present; ICSA Page (HTML page for the World Wide Web), 1995; Y2KCrisis2000.com (HTML book and daily news portal for the World Wide Web), 1999; i4at.org (appropriate technology library for the World Wide Web), 2000-present; thegreatchange.com (2006-present).

GRAPHICS: Farm Grain Mill and Elevator Complex (1976, architectural engineering design); Rotary Flour Sifter (1976, structural design and construction); Cylindrical Tofu Press (1977, design patent); Farm Foods trademark (1977); Tempeh label (1977); illustrations, The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook (1975), A Cooperative Method of Natural Birth Control (1977), Amazing Tales of Real Life (periodical); Kids Can Cook (1988), Intentional Communities: A Guide to Cooperative Living (1990, 1992, 1994); Climate in Crisis (1990); photo credits, this season's people ... (1977), MacWeek (August 16, 1988), The Hippies (U. of Tenn Press, 1991), Farm Net News (1990-1993); Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities (1992); illustrations, typesetting and graphic design: The Holiday Diet Cookbook (1992); The Microwave Diet Cookbook (1993); The Soma Seminar: Amanita Muscaria: Sacred, Psycoactive or Poisonous? (1993); Sasha Shulgin in Telluride (1993); Definitive Microwave Cooking II (1994); The Home Owner's Diary (1994); Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living (cover photos, inside photo essays, 1994-present); Permaculture Activist ; The Design Exchange, DX-On-line, Permaculture International Journal 61:9-12 (Dec, 1996); Ecovillages (1998-2002); Y2K Survival Guide and Cookbook (1999); Ecovillage Millennium (2000); Ecovillage Living (2001); The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook (2006); Communities Directory, 5th Ed. (2007, cover art and contributions).

NEW MEDIA: ; The Farm (slides and PPT, 1987-present); Natural Construction (slides and PPT, 1996-present, English and Spanish); Ecovillage Best Practices (slides and PPT, 1996-present, English and Spanish); The Habitat Revolution (DVD, September 2003); Message of Water (DVD, November 2000); History of the Inca, Call of the Condor, and Machu Pichu Equinox, Multimedia Exhibition (DVD, November 2003); Samurai Swords (DVD, January 2004); The Batetrix (2006); A Streaming Video Tour of the ETC (2006); Mary Matlin WRVU Interview Liberadio (2006); Tennessee Progress Report WRFN Interview (2006); Third Planet Report, WUTZ (podcast, 2007)

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PAPERS/TALKS: "What are the Characteristics of an Adequate Risk Assessment of Acceptable Risks from Radioactive Waste?" in Proceedings of a Public Forum on Environmental Protection Criteria for Radioactive Wastes 30 March-1 April, 1978, Denver, Colorado USEPA ORP/CSD-78-2 (May 1978); Town Meeting on Erwin Nuclear Fuel Services Facility, Jonesboro, TN (May 25, 1978); Nuclear Health Issues Workshop, First National No-Nukes Strategy Conference, Louisville KY (Aug. 15, 1978); "Radioactive Transportation Dose Commitments" testimony to State Legislature, Nashville, TN (Aug. 24, 1978); High School Seminar Series, Atomic Physics and Biology, The Farm School, Summertown, TN (1978); Critical Mass Conference and National Intervenors Conference, Washington D.C. (Oct. 1978); Comment on the Report to the President by the Interagency Review Group on Nuclear Waste Management (Nov. 17, 1978); "Radwaste and Free Will, Government's Dilemma," Comment on Proposed EPA Environmental Protection Criteria for Radioactive Waste (Jan. 12, 1979); "The Ryan Report and the Nuremberg Principles," Address at the Inaugural Board Meeting of S. David Freeman, Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN (1979); Nuclear Issues Workshop, All Farms Meeting, Summertown, TN (Feb. 10, 1979); "Public Exposure to Radiation from Uranium Mining and Milling," Speech, Rapid City, SD (March 31, 1979); Comment on Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to DOE (April, 1979); "A Lawsuit to End Atomic Power," Speech, Paducah, KY (May 27, 1979), Floral Park, AL (July 28, 1979); Interview, WTAO-FM, Murfreesboro, IL (May 27, 1979); "Sunshine, Waterfalls, and Moonshine," Speech, Safe Energy Fair, Nashville, TN (June 2, 1979); "How Many People Do You Want To Kill?" Interview, Gatherings (July, 1979); Nuclear Energy Workshop, Conference on Safe Alternatives for Childbirth, Summertown, TN (July 17, 1979); "Enrichment, Photovoltaics and Three Million New Jobs," Speech, Paducah, KY (Aug. 5, 1979); "Out-solar the Government," Speech, Festival of Life, Florence, AL (Aug. 25, 1979); Note on Problems Associated with a Shut Down of the Entire Nuclear Fuel Cycle, prepared for the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island (Sept. 6, 1979); Comment on Proposed Licensing Requirements for Uranium Mill Tailings (Sept. 13, 1979); "Radiation Protection for LWR Personnel," Comment on NRC Draft Regulatory Guide (Sept. 13, 1979); Academy Forum: Radiation, How Dangerous Is It?, Nat. Acad. of Sciences, Washington, D.C. (Sept. 27, 1979); "The-Kid-Could-Choke-On -A-Carrot Philosophy of Risk Assessment," Speech, Second Barnwell Solar Fair, Barnwell, SC (Sept 29, 1979); Comment on Draft Environmental Statement on Management of Commercially Generated Radioactive Waste (Oct. 2, 1979); Chemical Waste Wells in Mt. Pleasant, Testimony before the Tenn. Water Quality Control Board, Nashville, TN (Oct. 18, 1979); Legal Issues of Nuclear Power, Mobilization for Survival National Teach-In, Washington, D.C. (Oct. 29, 1979); "Five Myths About Nuclear Energy," Speech, University of the South, Sewanee, TN (Nov. 15, 1979); Legal Challenges Workshop, Mobilization for Survival Third Annual Strategy Conference, Louisville, KY (Dec. 9, 1979); "The State's Definition of Murder," Address on the Inaugural Board Meeting of Robert Clement, Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN (Dec. 1979);"TVA's Potential to Usher in the Solar Age," Speech, Vanderbilt University Nuclear Power Seminar (Jan. 17, 1980); Comment on Proposed Regulatory Guide on Airlock Testing, NRC (Feb. 8, 1980); "Inequities in Nuclear Acceptability," Debate with Anthony Buhl, Oak Ridge Energy Associates, WNOX-AM, Knoxville, TN (Feb. 20, 1980); "Acceptable to Whom?" Speech, University of Tenn., Knoxville, TN (Feb. 20, 1980); Workshop on Legal Strategies, Safe Energy Conference, Huntsville, AL (Feb. 23, 1980); "Ethical Dilemmas of Nuclear Energy," Talk, WING-FM, Miami, FL (Feb. 29, 1980); "Nuclear Power--Is It Safe Enough?" Debate with TVA, Union Carbide, NRC, Public Forum on Energy and the Way We Live, Institute for Appalachian Affairs, Johnson City, TN (March 18, 1980); "An NRC Guide to Impractical Philosophy," Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Soddy Daisy, TN (March 29, 1980); "The Public Interest Lawsuit," Discussion and Seminar with U.S. Judge Thomas Wiseman, Vanderbilt Energy Fair, Nashville, TN (March 30, 1980); "Comment on Tennessee Valley Authority Environmental Assessment for Low-Level Radwaste Management at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant," (May 29, 1980); Nuclear Issues, Debate with Campus America (Westinghouse speaker program), WSM-AM "On The Air" and WSM-TV "Teddy Bart Noon Show" (May 29, 1980); Discussion Group, Citizens' Hearings on Radiation Victims, Washington, D.C. (April 12, 1980); "Surely in this day and age we can find some way to get our energy without killing people," commercial for "Teddy Bart Noon Show," (June-November, 1980); "Solar Power in the Tennessee Valley," Speech, Safe Energy Fair, Bowling Green, KY (June 7, 1980); "The Genetic Implications of Informed Consent," Comment on NRC Proposed Revisions to 10 CFR 20 (June 16, 1980); "TVA's Uranium Supply Needs," discussion with Linda Lancaster on "Coffee Break," WPLN-FM, Nashville, TN (July 10, 1980); "Instruction Concerning Risks From Occupational Radiation Exposures," Comment on NRC Draft Regulatory Guide (July 12, 1980); "TVA and Native Americans," discussion on "Mornings on Five," WTVF-TV, Nashville, TN (July 16, 1980); "The Tennessee Valley Authority, Something Old, Something New," Testimony, Tribunal on Corporate Crimes, International Survival Gathering, Black Hills, SD (July 20, 1980); "Women and Radiation" Workshop, International Survival Gathering, Black Hills, SD (July 20, 1980); "TVA's Uranium Interests in the Black Hills," discussion with Ruth Ann Leach, "Heart of the Matter," WWGN-AM, Nashville, TN (Aug. 5, 1980); "Nuclear Power--the Wrong Answer" Cable TV, Waynesboro, TN (Aug. 16, 1980); "Low Level Radwaste Incineration's Negative Cost-Benefit Ratio," Comment at TVA Board Meeting, Murray, KY (Oct. 16, 1980); Comment on the Proposed Interim Requirements Related to Hydrogen Control and Certain Degraded Core Considerations, NRC (Oct. 29, 1980); "Out of the Fire and Into the Frying Pan," Comment on NRC's Proposed Exemption from Licensing Requirements for Smelted Alloys Containing Residual Technicium-99 and Low-enriched Uranium (Dec. 9, 1980); "TVA's Proposed Radwaste Incinerators," Testimony, TVA Forum, Athens, AL (Jan. 29, 1981); "Chemical Waste in Mt. Pleasant: A Second Look," Comment to Industrial Committee of Maury County, TN (Jan. 30, 1981); "Nuclear Power: It's Sort of A Game of Chance" Interview, UPI (Jan. 1981). "Radiation is a Fact of Life," Speech, Central Florida Energy Festival, Tampa, FL (May 3, 1981); "Nukes, Yes or No?" Lecture, Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, FL (May 4, 1981); "Nuclear Power and Your Children's Rights," Talk, WSUN-FM, St. Petersburg, FL (May 4, 1981); "The Hartsville Controversy," pamphlet (June, 1981); "Groundwater Protection from Deep Well Injection," Comments of Ethos Research Group on Policies Developed by the Tennessee Groundwater Protection Strategy Task Force (Dec. 8, 1981); "Radiation Claims at the VA--A Status Report," Speech, American Legion Hall, Murfreesboro, TN (Dec. 12, 1981); "Comment on NUREG-0880, Proposed Policy Statement on Safety Goals," Nuclear Regulatory Commission (April 20, 1982); "Atomic Veterans Rights," Interview, Ruth Ann Leach, WLAC-AM, Nashville, TN (May 11, 1982); "Nuclear Disarmament: Beyond the Freeze," pamphlet (June, 1982); "Portable Power From the Sun," The Tennessee Conservationist (May-June, 1982); Portable Photovoltaic Concentrating Array, Exhibit at 1982 World's Fair, Knoxville, TN (May-October, 1982); Solar Powered Vehicle, Exhibit at 1982 World's Fair, Knoxville, TN (July-October, 1982); "Health Effects of Nuclear Energy," workshop at SUNREP Conference, Knoxville, TN (Aug. 15, 1982); "Radiation and Health," Lecture, Amer. Med. Student Assoc. Conference, Nashville, TN (Sept. 20, 1982); Participant, Magna Carta II: The Rights of Senior Species, First Conference on the Fate of the Earth, New York City, NY (Oct. 20, 1982); "No First Strike," Discussion, Murfreesboro Technical State University, Murfreesboro, TN (Nov. 11, 1983); Comments on State Regulation of Chemical Deep Well Injection, Tenn. Water Quality Control Board Staff Meeting, Testimony ( Nov. 29-30, 1982); Comments on Radwaste Incineration, League of Women Voters Public Forum, Florence, AL (March 9, 1983); "Renewable Resource Projects in Lesser Developed Countries," Earth Week on the Mountain Workshops, St. Andrews School, Sewanee, TN (April 15, 1983); "Proposed Environmental Standards for Radioactive Wastes," Comment to the EPA (April 29, 1983); Strategies For Action Workshop, Critical Mass and National Nuclear Intervenors Conference, Washington, D.C. (May 27, 1983); "The Legacy of Oak Ridge, An Unclassified Briefing," Tennessee Safe Growth Commission (June 20, 1983); "Uranium Mining on the Indian Reservations," on TBS Network's "Between the Lines," Atlanta, GA (August 13, 1983). "The Dubious Legacy of Oak Ridge," Critical Mass Energy Journal (August, 1983);"Alternate Law Office" feature on "New Tech Times", PBS Network, (January 31, 1984); "The Farm in Transition" interview for WMOT-FM, Murfeesboro, TN (February 20, 1984); "Victims Rights: Legislation Needed," The Tennessean (Spring, 1984); "Nuclear Industrial Complex in the Southeast," Workshop for Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting, Society of Friends, Southern College, Collegedale, TN (May 10-13, 1984); "The Natural Rights Center" Ruth Ann Leach Show, WLAC-AM, Nashville, TN, (June 8, 1984); Photovoltaic Public Address demonstrations, Cumberland Green Council Meetings (1984-1985, equinox and soltices); "Plenty's New Role," interview for Harbinger, (August 3, 1984); "The Maury Aquifer: A Sacrifice to Chemical Waste, Comment to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Tennessee Water Quality Control Board on Proposed Aquifer Exemption for the Knox Dolostone From Deep Waste Disposal Regulations," Mt. Pleasant, TN (August 8, 1984); "Consolidated Comments of The Natural Rights Center, et al.", In re Aquifer Exemption Proposal for the State of Tennessee and UIC Permit for Rhone-Poulenc, Inc., EPA Region IV (September 3, 1984); "Supplemented Comments" (November 2, 1984); "John Smitherman's Justice Fund," letter in The Atlantic, (October, 1984); "The Central Waste Management Facility at Oak Ridge: A Ticking Toxic Time Bomb for Tennessee," comments to DOE on DEIS for proposed CWDF (October 26, 1984); "Complaint [deepwells]," Commissioner of Health and Environment (November 30, 1984); "Cancer and the Chemical Industry in Tennessee; A Report on the Health Cost in Maury County," (November 30, 1984); "The Human Cost of Deepwell Inaction," address to the Tennessee Water Quality Control Board (November 30, 1984); "Deepwell Regulation and the Water Quality Control Act of 1977," address to the Tennessee Water Quality Control Board (February 7, 1985); "Natural Rights and Tennessee's Right to Know," Legislative Study Committee, Hearings on Right to Know, Jackson and Nashville (November 26, 1984, January 7, 1985); "Myth Control and the Columbia Dam Project," testimony before the Tennessee Valley Authority, Columbia, TN (January 11, 1985); Atomic Veterans Litigation," Radiation Victims Roundtable, Washington DC (March 22, 1985); "Oak Ridge Cancers," McLaren Interview, NBC-TV Nightly News (May ?, 1985); "Deepwell Regulation in Tennessee," address to Sierra Club, Cloudland Canyon GA (July 20, 1985); "A Model Land Trust," discussion paper (September 6, 1985); "Nuclear Powered Murder," Interview, Newsweek page 29 (November 4, 1985); "Penley Murder Case," Interview, WNGE-TV Evening News (October 13, 1985); "Penley Murder Case," Interview, ABC-TV World News Tonight (October 14, 1985); "Challenging the Feres Doctrine," Radiation Victims'Roundtable, Washington DC (December 12, 1986); "The Farm Community Reorganization and Tax-exempt Status Under I.R.C.§501(d)," memorandum (January 14, 1986); "Nuclear Waste--the Least Cost Solution," Testimony to the House Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Congress (January 18, 1986); "Smitherman Case Challenges Sovereign Immunity," NAAV News, Vol 8 No 1, (February, 1986); "Nuclearizing Risk," manuscript for In Context (February 25, 1986); "MRS Proposal Overview," address, Radiation Victims' Roundtable, Washington DC (March 13-14, 1986); "What Have They Done To The Rain?--Assessing Your Risk From Russian Fallout," pamphlet (May 9, 1986); "The Devolutionary Significance of Contemporary Radiophilosophy: Decoding the Hidden Humanicide," Comments on Proposed Standards for Protection Against Radiation, 10 CFR Parts 19,20,30,31,32,34,40,50,61, and 70, NRC (May 12, 1986); "Jefferson, the Sandanistas, and the Contras," The Tennessean Forty-Seventh Annual Three-Star Forum Banquet, Nashville TN (June 6, 1986); "The Plenty Telecommunication International Computer Net," interview for West German TV documentary on The Farm (June 7, 1986); "Nuclear Power: A Curious Relic," Address to the Governor's School, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN (July 2, 1986). "MRS Case Heard by Court of Appeals," "The Sky Is Falling: Ozone Hole," "Chernobyl Update," "Voting Rights Case Ends," "Supreme Court Shifts," "Tort Reform," in 2:1 Natural Rights (August, 1986), "Tort Reform" reprinted by Tennessee Trial Lawyers Assn; "Eco-Defense," Second North American Bioregional Congress, Innesfree MI (August 29, 1986); "Spiderwort," pamphlet for NABC-II (August, 1986); Interview, Detroit Free Press Sunday Comment (August 31, 1986); "Media Image v. Hairism and Hippie-bashing," Nuclear Power After Chernobyl Strategy Conference, Washington D.C. (September 20-21, 1986); "How to Combat Monitored Retreivable Storage of Nuclear Waste," Keynote Address, Tennessee Valley MRS Strategy Conference, Crossville TN (September 27, 1986); "The Farm's Mid-Course Correction; 1976-1986," NHCSA Historic Communal Societies Conference on the Experience of Community: Gender, Religion, Ideology, Shaker Village, Canterbury NH (October 9-11, 1986); "Down in the Valley: TVA Management," "Chernobyl Revelations," "MRS: Behind Closed Doors," in 2:2 Natural Rights (October, 1986); "Solar Powered Television: Penn State vs. Alabama," demonstration, Cumberland Green Council Fair of the Heart and Harvest, Towhee, Primm Springs TN (October 25-26, 1986); "Task CE 406-4, Comments on Proposed Revision 1 to Regulatory Guide 3.48: SARs for ISFSI/MRS," Rules and Procedures Branch DRR/ADM Division 3, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (October 28, 1986); "Winning by Losing: A Litigation Strategy for Nuclear Waste States," 1986 Tennessee Intergroup Conference, Appalachian Center, Smithville TN (December 7, 1986); Regional MRS Strategy Task Force Conference, Cookeville TN (December 11, 1986); "Vow of Community", proposed contract of faith for the Farm spiritual community (December 12, 1986); contribution to "Radioactive Contamination at Oak Ridge: Forty Years of Neglect, A Legacy for Generations" by Coyle and Resnikoff (Radioactive Waste Campaign, February 26, 1987); "MRS: On to the Supreme Court," "Night Train," "New Study Finds TVA Should Shut Down Nukes Permanently," "Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood (Pocket Nukes)" in 2:3 Natural Rights (March 1987); "Radon: A Natural Rights Center Special Report" (March 1, 1987); Testimony of Tennessee Nuclear Waste Task Force before the Subcommitee on Energy Research and Development of the House Committee on Science and Technology (March 19, 1987); "MRS: The Supremes Sing, But No Dancing in the Streets," "Operation Nighttrain," "Deepwells in Trouble: Officials Digging in Deeper," "DOE Shuts Down its Nukes," in Natural Rights 2:4 (April, 1987); On the Air with Ruth Ann Leach, WNGE-TV, Nashville (April 19, 1987); "Nuclear Power's License to Kill", Earth Day on the Mountain, St. Andrews School, Sewanee, TN (April 20, 1987); "Taking the Gore out of button slogans" letter toThe Tennessean (April 20, 1987); "In Search of the Lost Kingdom of The Hippies," multi-media presentation, Communal Studies and Sociology classes, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville (April 27, 1987); "Nuclear Power on Trial: The Constitutional Contamination", unpublished; "Emergency Planning and the Erosion of Liberty, Comments on Licensing of Nuclear Power Plants Where State and/or Local Governments Decline to Cooperate in Offsite Emergency Planning, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (May 26, 1987); "Tennessee's New Laws Regarding Nonprofits" (May 29, 1987); "A Rube Goldberg Contraption," Op-Ed article for The Tennessean (June 14, 1987); The Farm (brochure, 1987); "Pilgrim's Progress on The Farm" interview with National Public Radio (June 27, 1987); "Appeals Court Halts Missile Deployment," "In Event of Quake, Smash Toilets," in Natural Rights 2:5 (July, 1987). "Veterans Administration benefit Awards in Ionizing Radiation Claims," Report to District Court for the Northern District of California (sealed), (Sept. 30, 1987); "Dead Ends and New Chances for Atomic Veterans: A Look at the NARS Documents," National Association of Radiation Survivors Annual Meeting, St.Louis MO (October 2, 1987); "Technological Innovation in The Farm Spirtual Community 1972-1987," (mixed media) National Historical Communal Societies Association Annual Meeting, Bishop Hill, Illinois (Oct. 17, 1987); "Prying the Lid off the VA Claims Process," "Cases," "Comments" Natural Rights 2:6 (Nov. 1987); "Anti-Weapons Suits," Plenty Bulletin 3:4:8 (Dec. 1987); "NARS v. Turnage: What we have learned" NARS Newsletter 6:1 (Jan 1988); "Weapons," "Corps Setback," "Yucca Mountain," "RCRA Hammer," "Tax Dollar," "Hot Rocks Revisited," "Calculating Doses," "Obituary for PSNH" in Natural Rights 3:1 (Feb. 1988); "The Karma of Kerma: Nuclear Waste and Natural Rights," Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 3:9--44 (Winter 1988); "Forty years of Secrecy and Every Problem Possible," address on the occasion of the restart of Sequoyah nuclear power plant, Soddy Daisy, Tenn, (April 9, 1988); "An historical look at The Farm" (slide show), "The Farm's Environmental Ethic," "Technologies of The Farm," and "What will the future hold for computers in homes, offices and schools by 2010," speeches and mixed media presentations, National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools Tenth Annual Conference (April 20-23, 1988); "Nukes," "Chesapeake Challenge Sends Navy To Sea," "Smitherman Suit Back in Court," "You Got To Wear Shades," "Atomic Veterans Take Beachhead," "Ukranian Scientists Angered," "Prison Rights Suit Questions Punishment Cells," "Cuomo Buys Long Island Nuke" in Natural Rights 3:2 (Jun. 1988); "Atomic Veterans" Plenty Bulletin 4:2;3 (Jul. 1988); "Gilbert and the Greenhouse," Two O'Clock Talk With Bob Bruce, WTNR-AM (Sept. 14, 1988); "Earth and Venus: The Prospect of a Runaway Greenhouse" in Natural Rights 3:3 (Sept. 1988); "Smitherman Wins," "DOE Shut Down By Waste." "MRS Alert," "Dorothy Legarreta," "Sterilizer leak," in Natural Rights 3:4 (Dec. 1988); "Social Security Alternatives," Tiyospaye 1:1 (Dec. 1988); "Global Warming and International Development, Address to the Board of Plenty USA," (Jan 1989); Nuclear Power and Nuremberg, Address to the Paul Jacobs Commission (Jan 1989); "Technological Innovation in a Rural Intentional Community, 1971-1987, Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 8:2:183 (Feb 1989); "The Second Foundation" Farm Net News, (Feb. 1989); "The San Francisco Mac World Expo," Macintalk (Mar 1989); "Focus on Global Warming: Wetlands," "Fusion Flash," and "Keel Claim Denied Again" in Natural Rights 4:1 (Apr 1989); "The Colleen Pride Case" Farm Net News (Jun. 1989); "Drakes Lane Clean Up" and "Treasurer's Report" in Tiyospaye 1:2 (Summer 1989); "Early Warming" workshop, Cumberland Green Spring Gathering, Summertown, Tenn. (May 1989); Farm History Loop Trail and Eli Garfield Gifford Nature Loop Trail, wilderness trail guides for Farm Trail Club (May 1989); "Pride vs. Book Publishing Company: An Epilogue" Farm Net News III:17 (Aug. 1989); "The Sensitivities of Water Resources in the Tennessee Valley: Groundwater and the Greenhouse Effect," AAAS Regional Workshop on Global Climate Change and Water Resources in the Tennessee Valley and the Inland Southeast, Oak Ridge, Tenn, (Aug. 17, 1989); "Smitherman's Benefits Revoked!" and "Water Project Halted: Army Corps in Full Retreat" in Natural Rights 4:2 (Aug. 1989); "Cultural Conditioning, Climate Crisis, and Creative Communities," University of Kansas (Oct 3, 1989); "Autumn Leaves in Oak Ridge," Three-star letter to The Sunday Tennessean, (Nov. 3, 1989); "An Auschwitz Every Week," "Corps of Engineers Retreats," "FBI Files Escape Purge," "Atomic Veterans: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back,""Hero Injunction might have prevented USS Iowa accident,"and "Lo-balling nuclear waste," in Natural Rights 4:3 (Winter 1989); "The Ozone Crisis," Austin Peay State University (Nov. 30 1989); "The Gospel of Chief Seattle: Written for Television?" "Another Record Year," and "Why Exxon Must Die," in Natural Rights 5:1 (Spring 1990); "The Next Hundred Years," Peace and Justice Week, Wheeling Jesuit College (Mar 22, 1990); "World Climate Change," Mount de Chantal School (Wheeling WV, Mar 23, 1990); " "What on Earth are we Leaving Our Children?" (Mt. Juliet TN, Apr 12, 1990); "Earth Day 1970-1990" Earth Week, E.O. Coffman School, (Lawrenceburg TN, Apr 17, 1990);"Climate in Crisis" Davis Whole Earth Festival. (Davis CA, May 5, 1990) "Generating Tree Years" Davis Whole Earth Festival. (Davis CA, May 6, 1990); "Early Warnings from the Greenhouse"Mac Multimedia Show, Dakin Gallery (San Francisco, May 7, 1990); "Optical Magnetic Storage Options" MacInteresteds Tech SIG (Nashville, May 16, 1990); "Chernobyl: The Story Continues," "Hanford: Another Lethal Legacy," and BRC: Bloody, Ruthless, Callous," in Natural Rights 5:2 (Summer 1990); "An Age of Trees" Padanaram Communities Conference (Williams IN, May 25, 1990); "Climate in Crisis" American Booksellers Convention (Las Vegas NV, June 2-3, 1990); "The Alternate Energy Fair," (official program guide); "Passive Solar Home Design;" "Global Warming and Alternatives in Energy Use" (Farm Alternate Energy Fair, Summertown, June 8-9, 1990); "Introduction to Climate Change" Hume Fogg Summer Enrichment Program (Nashville, June 27, 1990); Lifestyles, population and climate change" Coffee Break with Rebecca Bain, WPLN (Nashville, July 18, 1990); "The Climate Crisis" Sierra Club Middle Tenn Meeting (Nashville, July 19, 1990); "The Closest We Have to Pure Evil," Hiroshima Day Memorial (Oak Ridge, August 5, 1990); "Downwinders: Finally! A Congressional Crumb," "Hazardous Waste: The Southern Strategy," and "Super Hurricanes: The Gathering Clouds," in Natural Rights 5:3 (Fall 1990); "The Second Foundation: An Interview with Albert Bates," News from The Farm 1:3 ( September 1990); Looking at Ecology from the Throne of the King of the World; Annual Meeting of the National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools (Bloomington, IN, October 20, 1990); The Farm, Plenty, and the Forgotten Vision of the Hippies, address to the Right Livelihood Conference (Villa Era, Italy, October 5, 1990); "Italia!"News from the Farm 1:5 (December 1990); "The Greening of World Governments," "The Part of Perserverence," "Secret Files," "Medical Wastes," "Summit at Villa Era: A Personal Perspective," and "The Gulf Crisis: Negotiation, Not War," in Natural Rights 5:4 (Winter 1990); "Oilfield Winter," "FBI Beaten," and "Keel Claim Suffers Another Set-Back," in Natural Rights 6:1 (Spring 1991); "The Role of the Small Public Interest Law Project in Environmental Litigation," environmental law class, Florida State University School of Law (January 31, 1991); "Oilfield Winter," Florida State University (Tallahassee, January 31, 1991), University of Florida (Gainesville, February 1, 1991), and University of the South (Sewanee, TN, March 1, 1991); "The Farm, Third World Development, and Climate Change," address to Cumberland Center for Peace and Justice (Sewanee, March 2, 1991) and Rotary Club Luncheon (Murfreesboro TN, March 5, 1991); "Mass-Production of Solar Powered Cars" Tennessee Solar Energy Ass'n (Murfreesboro, March 16, 1991); "Hybrid Poplar" demonstration planting (MTSU, March 16, 1991); "Right Livelihood Conference Held in Italy," Fellowship for Intentional Community Newsletter (March 1991) "Worrying about Weather," The Teddy Bart Show, Channel 66 (Nashville, April 3, 1991); "Albert Bates on Climate" Hi-8 edited video (May, 1991); FIC/CCS Retreat Weekend (New Harmony, Indiana, April 12-14, 1991); Oilfield Winter and Greenhouse Summer, Cumberland Audubon (Nashville, May 1, 1991); Davis Whole Earth Festival (Davsi, CA, May 10-12, 1991); Real Life with Jane Pauley: The Farm (May 16-17, 1991); "Tax Picture Comes Clearer," "A do-it-yourself National Energy Plan," Shiitake: A food for the Future," Lentin de Chener," and "Hot Dong Go" in Tiyospaye No. 3 (Summer 1991); "Climate Crisis," Maury County Kiwanis Club (July 1, 1991); Developing cooperative living at The Farm: escaping the influence of American society's patriarcal systems (with Elizabeth Barger); Post-communal economic experiments at The Farm in the context of developmental communalism; and Plenary Response to Carol Weisbrod: Legal impediments faced by new intentional communities; International Communal Studies Conference, (Elizabethtown PA.July 24-30, 1991); "Solar Car Corp.," National Conference of State Legislators (Orlando, Aug 11-13, 1991); "Larry Bogart," "Nukes on the Loose," "Almost lost Miami," and "Waste" in Natural Rights 6:3 (Fall, 1991); New Realities Profile in Farm Net News 1:1 (Winter, 1991); "Esq.: Albert Bates Keeps up the fight," Student Lawyer (Sept 1991); Steps to a Sustainable Future, first Gaia Trust conference, (Thisted, Denmark Sept 11-15); EPC VI, Permaculture Conference (Standing Stone State Park, TN Oct 11-13, 1991); "A Weather Report for the 21st Century" Mrs. Garrett's Science Class, Pulaski High School (Pulaski TN, October 24, 1991); "World Environmental Concerns: Implications for Renewable Energy Industries" Southwest Border States Solar Conference (El Paso, TX November 14-16, 1991); "What will it take to save the Earth, Sustainable Communities Meeting," "The Metamorphosis of Kibbutz: Towards and Ecology of Human Scale," "Court Action Uncovers Illegal Harassment Spanning 20 Years," "Disaster Signals: Suicidal Weapons" (with Patricia Axelrod), "and "Whatever Happened to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act?" in Natural Rights Center Annual Report 1991;"Report on Ecovillage Conference," "Elizabethtown Communal Studies Conference," Farm Trivia crossword puzzle and "Shiitake" in Farm Net News #2 (Winter 91-92); "Forest Mushroom Politics" Cumberland Green Meeting (Feb 1, 1992, Nashville TN); "Northern Ozone Hole" in Natural Rights 7:1 (Spring 1992); Clean Air Act Workshop, Sundance II and Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Eugene OR, March 10-15, 1992); "The Farm and Plenty," Helsinki, Finland (April 9, 1992); "The Farm as Ecovillage: A look back at the history of the 21st Century" (multimedia, St. Petersburg, Russia, April 11, 1992); "Climate Change, Diet, and Future History," St. Petersburg Institute of Journalism (2 classes, St. Petersburg, Russia, April 13, 1992); "Farm to Ecovillage," St. Petersburg TV Club (St. Petersburg, Russia, April 15, 1992); Russian Geographic Society, Vegetarian Society and Rotary Club (St. Petersburg, Russia, April 16, 1992); "The Farm and Ecoville," Historic New Harmonie Associates, Guild of Historic Crafts, and Communal Studies Association joint dinner (multimedia, New Harmony IN, April 24, 1992); "The Farm and Ecoville," Unitarian Fellowship (Sheffield AL, May 17, 1992); "Shiitake: A Food for the Future," The Permaculture Activist 26 (May 1992); Third Annual Specialty Mushroom Workshop (State College PA, June 9-11, 1992); "Shiitake and Health" National Health Food Products Expo (Nashville TN, June 25-26, 1992); "Combatting Eco-Stalinism," "Notes from St. Petersburg," and "Burning Sands: The Aftermath of Desert Storm" in Natural Rights 7:2 (Summer 1992); Comments on TVA Draft Statement on Chip Mills (Aug 18, 1992); Wild Mushroom Festival (Telluride CO, Aug 19-23, 1992); The Hope of a Clinton-Gore Era; Davis CA, Aug 24, 1992, San Rafael, August 25, 1992; "Growing Shiitake Commercially," Alternate Everything Fair (Summertown TN, Oct 3, 1992); "From Russia with John and Albert," and "Mushroompeople," Farm Net News 2:1 (Fall 1992); "Varieties of the Contemporary Communal Experience" Communal Studies Association Annual Meeting, Nauvoo IL, Oct. 16, 1992); "The Farm and Ecoville," Lawrenceburg Rotary Club (October 30, 1992), Middle Tennessee State University (November 5, 1992); "Growing Organic Shiitake in Tennessee," Tenn. Alternative Growers Assn. and Tenn. Land Stewardship Assn. joint meeting (Livingston TN, Nov 6, 1992); "No Conflict, No Compromise," Natural Rights Center Annual Report (December, 1992); "Bill and Al's Excellent Inauguration." Farm Net News (April, 1993); "Missouri After the Warming: 2010 and Beyond," Univ. of Mo at St. Louis (Apr. 20, 1993); "Defining the Holocaust: Nuremberg and the Atomic Veteran's Experience," National Assoc. of Atomic Veterans Convention (Salem MA, May 15, 1993); Testimony to the Committee to Study the Mortality of Military Personnel Present at Atmospheric Tests of Nuclear Weapons, National Institute of Medicine (Washington DC, June 23, 1993); Partnerships, Corporations and Non-profits: Legal Options for Communities, Growing Community 3:2-8 (July, 1993); "Farm History" Celebration of Community (Olympia WA Aug. 27, 1993); "Ecovillages" Celebration of Community (Olympia WA Aug. 28, 1993); "Medicinal Forestry" Celebration of Community (Olympia WA Aug. 28, 1993); "Waco in Retrospect," International Communal Studies Assn Triannual Meeting (New Harmony IN, Oct. 18, 1993); "Definition of Success in Community," International Communal Studies Assn Triannual Meeting (New Harmony IN, Oct. 19, 1993); "J.Edgar Hoover and The Farm: 20 years of FBI Surveillance," Communal Studies Assn Annual Meeting (New Harmony IN, Oct. 20, 1993); "La Vola e Mobile" (revised), Thrall Opera House, New Harmony IN, Oct. 20, 1993; "Intentional Communities: Crashpads to Ecovillages," and "Membership Contracts and Legal Liabilities," Farm 2000 Conference (Summertown TN, October 28, 1993); "Shiitake Strain Selection, Pest and Disease Control," National Shiitake Mushroom Symposium, Alabama A&M University (Huntsville AL, Nov. 3, 1993); "Cracking the Hippie Metaprogram: 20 Years of Pragmatic Utopianism at The Farm," Utopian Studies Society Annual Meeting (St. Louis MO, Nov. 5, 1993); "Hot Scrap," "J. Edgar Hoover and The Farm," "The Biological Survey," Wetlands," "Pesticides and Food Safety," Methyl Bromide," "The Ecosystem Management Oxymoron," "Forest Chief Replaced," "Nuclear Testing," and "Atomic Veterans," in Natural Rights Center Annual Report (December, 1993); "The Changing Economy of The Farm,"Green Revolution 50:4:1-5 (Winter, 1994); "Starting a Non-Profit Law Project" U. Tenn Law School (Knoxville TN, March 11, 1994); "What Happened at Waco?" "Climate Negotiations," and "Plutonium Pits," in Natural Rights 9:1 (Spring, 1994); Welcome and Keynote, Shiitake as Sustainable Forestry, Shiitake growing in North America, Facilities, capital outlay and other considerations for sawdust and natural log mushroom growers, and Farm History, at the Mushroompeople Spring Seminar, The Farm (Summertown, March 18, 1994); "The Changing Economy of The Farm,"New Environment Bulletin (Spring, 1994); Farm History and Context, Vanderbilt Univ. (April 11, 1994); Welcome and Keynote, A history of eco-villaging, The Farm/Plenty history, Issues statement, and Mission alternatives at the Ecovillage Training Center planners meeting, The Farm (Summertown, April 20-25, 1994); "Waco: Feds, Fibs, and Fire" in Natural Rights 9:2 (Summer, 1994); "Ecovillage at The Farm," and "Stumbling into Health Security" in Tiyospaye 4 (Summer, 1994); "Basic Training For Eco-Villagers at The Farm in 95," in Communities 83:12 (Summer 1994); "The Farm Show" (Copenhagen Jun 8, Jun 15, Thisted Denmark Jun 11, Jun 13, 1994); The Evolution of Hippie Communal Spirituality: The Farm and Other Hippies Who Didn't Give Up (with Timothy Miller, in America's Alternative Religions (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994); The Farm History Show, Kentucky History Teachers Assoc. (Shaker Village, KY September 9, 1994); Legal Options for Incorporation (with Allen Butcher and Diana Leafe Christian) in Intentional Communities: A Guide to Cooperative Living (FIC, 1994); Shiitake Basics (Farm Harvest Festival (Summertown TN, Sept 16-18, 1994); "Waco: Trial by Fire," "Climate in Geneva," and "Weapons Wastes," in Natural Rights 9:3 (Fall, 1994); "Intentional Communities Today," 21st Annual Communal Studies Conference (Oneida NY, Oct. 7, 1994); "The Farm Ecovillage Training Center and the International Ecovillage Movement," Ithaca Ecovillage Future Residents Organizing Group Meeting, (Ithaca, NY, Oct. 9, 1994); "A course in permaculture fundamentals," Ecovillage Training Center (Summertown TN Oct 14-22, 1994); "Wild Design for the Farm," Farm Annual Meeting (Summertown TN Oct 23, 1994); Freedom of Information, Freedom Speaks (PBS, Nov. 14, 1994); Rendezvous on the CO2 Express, FFCs: Some things are permanent; Clinton Plan "Aimless," Who's Who on the AOSIS protocol, FBI Official Disciplined, Scientists Fear Explosion of Buried Wastes, in ENNA 1:1 (Spring, 1995); Climate in Crisis: An update on Global Warming after Rio, TVERC Annual Mtg (Nashville TN, Mar 25, 1995); Sustainable Forestry and Mushroom Cultivation, ASPI Forest Summit (Lexington KY, Mar. 31, 1995); Permaculture Design Course (Summertown, April 8-15, 1995); Ecovillage Network of North America, 2d GEN Meeting (Steyerberg Germany, April 20, 1995); Mushrooms of Tennessee, Tennessee Wildflower Society (Signal Mtn. TN, May 2, 1995); Yurt Buildshop (Summertown, April 20-21, 1995); Environmental Blueprint, TVA Review Group (Nashville, May 25, 1995); From Intentional Community to Ecovillage: The Farm in the Nineties, ICSA, Annual Meeting, Yad Tabenkin (Seminar Efal, Ramat Efal, Israel, June 1, 1995); Farm History (Kibbutz Gezer, Israel, June3, 1995); Communal Societies and The Farm in American History, Tel Aviv Univ. outreach program, (Kibbutz Gezer, Israel, June 5, 1995); DeHavillan Strawbale Workshop (ETC, Jul 14-16, 1995); Birth Gazette Annual Midwifery Conference (ETC, Aug 18-21, 1995); "What Really Happened at Waco? 'Cult' or Set-Up?" Communities Magazine, 88:50-60 (Fall 1995); Harvest Festival and Energy Fair (ETC, Sep 22-24, 1995); Permaculture Fundamentals (ETC, Sep 24-Oct 2, 1995); Center for Alternative Technology (Macchynlleth, Wales, Oct 3, 1995); Botton Village General Assembly (North York, England, Oct 5, 1995); Newton Dees and Lynchfield Camphill Villages (North York, England, Oct 5, 1995); First International Conference on Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities, Plenary Address and Workshops (Findhorn, Scotland, Oct 7-14, 1995); Ecovillage Network of Americas organizational meetings (Findhorn, Scotland, Oct 12-14, 1995); Third GEN Meeting (Findhorn, Scotland, Oct 16-18, 1995); Sunbow 5 Walk (ETC, Nov 1-3, 1995); Sustainable Communities Conference, Living Machines, Getting Rid of Cars, Dog Manure, and Our Favorite Composting Sites in The Design Exchange 1:1 (Winter 1996); Snail Darter Conference (ETC, Nov 5-8, 1995); Grinnell College Annual Rosenburg Lecture (Grinnell, Iowa, Nov 14-15, 1995); Annual Report: Natural Rights Center 1995 (Dec 1995); "Off the road we went," and "State of the union," poetry page on FIC web site (January, 1996); What They Are, Who We Are, Habitat-II--the Second United Nations Conference for Human Settlements Aims to Get World Leaders to Commit to Making Cities Sustainable, and Seeds--97% of Crop Varieties HaveDisappeared This Century in The Design Exchange 2:1 (Spring 1996); Organic Certification Inspectors Course (ETC, Mar 1-3, 1996); There are no Hippies at The Farm (Korean Network Documentary, Hanmac (ETC, Mar 4-14, 1996); Snail Darter Conference (ETC, Mar 9-10, 1996); Peace Pole Proclamation (Mar 21, 1996); Interpretive Edge Signs (ETC, April, 1996); Permaculture Fundamentals (ETC, Apr 6-14 1996); Ecovillage Design Course (ETC, Apr 14-17, 1996); Fourth GEN Meeting (The Farm, April 17-20, 1996); DeHavillan Strawbale Workshop (ETC, May 3-5, 1996); Lebensgarten: Visit to an Okodorf Communities Magazine 90 (Spring 1996); "Eutopia," in Proceedings of a Conference on Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities (Scotland: Findhorn Press1996); The Global Ecovillage Network (3 min video); United Nations Habitat II NGO Forum workshops (Istanbul, Jun 7-16, 1996) and related receptions); Fifth GEN Meeting and corporate inauguration (Istanbul, Jun 12, 1996); "Nuclear Energy: Insideous Transgenerational Genocide," Nuclear Power Scientific Forum (Istanbul, Jun 13, 1996); GEN Presentation: American University of Cairo (Egypt, June 17-19); New Basaisa and Old Basaisa Tour (Egypt, June 19-22); Green Kibbutz Group gathering (Kibbutz Gezer, June 23-28); Harduf; Lotan; K'tura; Neot Smadar, Samar; Marda Permaculture Institute; Kadita; Ein Gev; "Tie Dyes in Cyberspace" in Shared Visions, Shared Lives - Communal Living Around the Globe (Scotland: Findhorn Press1996); "Beyond Habitat," in Habitat 5 (New York: UN Publications, 1996); Ecovillage Organic Garden: Report to EPA (July, 1996); Farm Audit; Tour of Projects in the Middle East: Report and Recommendations from The Green Kibbutz Group and The Global Ecovillage Network; Building Ponds with Carpet in The Design Exchange 1:3 (Summer 1996); Lebensgarten Photo Essay, and numerous photo credits,Communities Magazine 91 (Summer 1996); "Beyond Habitat: Another Take on Megacities," "Who, What, Why We Are," "Islamic Pattern Language," in The Design Exchange 2:2-3 (Summer 1996); Free Press (numerous contributions); ENA draft charter, bylaws, rules of procedure; "Organic Gardening with Jeff Poppin" (Red Boiling Springs, Tn, July 26, 1996); National Conference of State Legislatures (St. Louis, July 29, 1996); "Ecovillages" Birth Gazette Annual Midwife Conference (Summertown, Aug 3, 1996); "Earth is Our Habitat" Gesundheit Institute 25th Anniversary Free For All (Droop, WV, Aug 18, 1996); "Global Ecovillage Network" and "Ecovillage Network of Americas," Twin Oaks Communities Conference (Louisa, Va, Aug 31, 1996); Ecovillage Design Shop at Crystal Waters (Maleny, NSW, Sept 16-22); "Farm History," Crystal Waters Annual Mtg (Sept 22); Crystal Waters GEN Mtg (Sept 23-26); "Are Soybeans Poison?" Sixth International Permaculture Conference, Keynote (Sept 28, Perth, W. Aust.); "Global Ecovillage Network" and "A personal Farm story," CSA 22nd Annual Meeting (Amana, Iowa, Oct 10-13, 1996); Permaculture Practicum, (Rocinante/ETC Oct 12-20); "Ecovillages and Survival" Interview for Monitor and Perspectives, ABC-Radio (Oct 22, 1996); "The Farm Mission Statement," Strategic Planning series (Fall, 1996); "Global Village Institute," Farm Annual Meeting (Summertown, Oct 26, 1996); "Farm History," MTSU college class and "Farm History" keynote at opening dinner, Fellowship for Intentional Community Annual Meeting/Society for Utopian Studies Annual Meeting (Summertown, Nov 1, 1996); "Global Ecovillage Network" Society for Utopian Studies Annual Meeting (Nashville, Nov. 3, 1996); Dao Master Ceremony (The Farm, Nov 10, 1996); "Global Ecovillage Network" and "Ecovillage Network of Americas," First Bioregional Congress of the Americas and Consejos de Visiones (Tepotzlan, Morelos, Mexico, Nov 16-24, 1996);"Tepozstock," "ENA Convergence," "ENAtorial: Biosphere 2," "Greening Coffee," "Dowmus Wet Composting Toilet," "Sunwings-II," "Faswall," and "East Coast Office" in The Design Exchange 2:4 (Winter 1997); "Tepozsockpix," and "Enatorial1" in DX On-line (Winter 1997); "Sustainable Villages and the United Nations," and "A Visit to the Amanas," Permaculture Activist 35:12-13 (Nov 1996); "Strong Hearts, Strong Community" and numerous photo credits, Permaculture International Journal 61:9-12 (Dec, 1996); Permaculture Nation: Bill Mollison at IPC6 (audio tape, Jan, 1997); "Golf War," "Luna Nueva," "Allan Savory," and "Fuel Cells," in The Design Exchange 3:1 (Spring 1997); "Gesundheit!," "Twin Oaks," "Tepozstock," "Islamic Pattern Language," and "Green Kibbutz" in DX On-line (Winter 1997); "Thinking Globally" Permaculture Activist 36:4-5 (March 1997); "The Oneida Mansion House: When Architectural Design Fosters Community Goals" Communities (Summer, 1997); Course in Permaculture (April 4-12, 1997); Course in Village Design (April 14-18, 1997); Course in Strawbale Construction (May 2-4, 1997); Course in Cob Construction with Ianto Evans (May 5-11, 1997); Conference on Permaculture City (Santa Rosa CA, Jun 1-4, 1997); Ecovillage Experiments Around the World, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA (Jun 2, 1997); London, England (Jun 5-7, 1997); "Farm History" and "Ecovillage Design" St.Petersburg, Sortavala, and Rysovo, Russia (Jun 7-16, 1997); Harwich, England, Jun 18-19, 1997; Course in Permaculture (Jun 20-28, 1997); Ecovillage Training Center presentation at Ragweed Celebration, Summertown, TN (Jul 4-6, 1997); "The Farm ," WTVF Nashville July 14-16, 1997, WKRN-AM and Channel 65 cable (Jul 16, 1997); ENA Organizational Meetings at The Farm (Jul 15-19, 1997); "A Pattern Language" and numerous photo credits, Permaculture International Journal 63 (Jul, 1997); Slide shows: Gesundheit Think Tank, Droop WV (Aug 5, 1997); National Conference of State Legislators (Aug 6-9, 1997); Chautaugua, NY (Aug 10-11, 1997); EcoVillage at Ithaca, NY (Aug 11-12, 1997); Sustainabilty Conference at Sirius, Mass (Aug 14-20, 1997); ENA Organizational Meetings at Sirius(Aug 15-20, 1997); Glouchester, Boston (Aug 21-22, 1997); Solheimer and Rejkavik, Iceland (Aug 24-Sep 3, 1997); Featured Interview with Rejkavik daily newspaper; Course in Natural Buildings (Sept 26-28, 1997); "Globalization," "Howlers and Hurricanes: Ecotourism in Belize," "ENA: Developing a Model Organization," and "Whatsa Gesundheit!," in The Design Exchange 3:2-3 (Summer-Fall 1997); "Russia-ev!," "Pattern," "Gesundheit," "Rubbish-1," "Sirius" and "Enaconvergence," in DX On-line (Summer-Fall 1997); Ecovillage Open Day, Tlholego Institute, Rustenburg, S. Africa (Oct 26, 1997); Ecovillage Workshop, Tlholego (Oct 27-29, 1997); Open House Presentation on Ecovillages for Ministries of Government, Johannesburg, S. Africa (Oct 30, 1997); Ecovillage Workshop, Cape Town, S. Africa (Nov 1 to 3, 1997); Ecovillage Open House, Monkey Valley Nature Resort, Nordhoek, S. Africa (Nov. 3, 1997); Permaculture Design Class, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Nov 19, 1997); International Symposium and Design Workshop on Ecovillage and Permaculture, Seoul, Korea (Nov 19-22, 1997); "Learning from Africa," "Belize Internships," "Sustainability in Korea," and "Averting Masiphumemleleization," "Pattern Language," and "The View from Kyoto" in The Design Exchange 4:1 (Winter, 1998); "Sufi," "Brazil-97," "Korea," "Rubbish-2," "Africa-97", "Masi" and "Enaconvergence," in DX On-line (Summer-Fall 1997); ENA Organizational Meetings at Huehuecoyotl, Tepoztlan, Mexico (Jan 10-16, 1998); Consejo de Visiones Meeting, Tepoztlan, Mexico (Jan 17, 1998); "The View from Kyoto," Permaculture Activist (Spring 1998); Ecovillage Interpretative Tour for Children of Prisoners (Feb 21, 1997); Natural Buildings Course (Mar 27-29, 1998); Mediation Advocacy Training (Mar 30, 1998); Fundamentals of Permaculture (May 8-16, 1998); Natural Buildings Course (May 22-24, 1998); Wetlands Lecture (Columbia Academy, May 26, 1998); "Ecovillages" and "Permaculture" at Eastern Natural Buildings Colloquium (Upper Marlboro, MD, Jun 7-14, 1998); GEN Europe Meeting (Torri Superiori Italy, Jun 25-30, 1998); Ecovillage Best Practices (Uppachi, Bagnaia and Casa Cares, Italy; July, 1998); RIVE meeting workshops (Casa Cares, Italy; July, 1998); The Farm as Proto-Ecovillage (Wilhelmina Symposium, Amsterdam, July, 1998); "A Pattern Language of Ecovillages," and "Ecovillages in the Americas," Plenary on Global Ecovillage Network, International Communal Studies Association Conference on Utopias and Sustainable Communities, Amsterdam, July 1998); The Farm as Proto-Ecovillage (Terre d'Eneille, Belgium, July, 1998); GEN Board Meeting (Amsterdam, Terre d'Eneille, and Lebensgarten, July 1998); Interview, Yahoo Magazine (Aug, 1998); La Caravana reaches Columbia and Lewis County Development Plan in Ecovillages 1:1 (Fall, 1998); Ecovillage Design Workshop, and "The Farm" slideshow (Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 4-5, 1998); "Ecovillages in the Americas," government ministers meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 4, 1998); Ecovillage Education Seminar and Retreat (Fjordvang, Denmark, September 6-11, 1998); GEN 3-year Review (Fjordvang, Denmark, September 12-16, 1998); Ecovillage Network of the Americas meeting (Cameron, Ontario, Sep 18-24, 1998); Ecovillage Design Course (Cameron, Ontario, Sept 25-27, 1998); "Selective Change: Indigenous Ecovillaging" at the Conference on Indigenous Wisdom and Healing: Belonging to Mother Earth (Virginia Beach, VA, Oct 4-8, 1998); "The Three Legged Stool: Failure and Rebuilding Stages in Community" Plenary Presentation at the Communal Studies Association Annual Meeting, Zoar, IL, Oct 9-11, 1998); Interview with Rebecca Bain on National Public Radio (Oct, 1998); Interview for Webtek on The Farm (Oct, 1998); American Solar Energy Association Tour of Solar Homes (Oct 17, 1998); Interviews on Y2K, WUTZ-FM (November, 1998);"Enatorially Speaking : Y2K," and "ENA Steering Committee Meets at Sun Run Centre" in Ecovillages 2:1 (Spring, 1999); "Y2K Trends in the News" on Freedom Speaks, PBS, (Feb 12, 1999); Workshops in Y2K Preparedness (Summertown TN Feb 21, Mar 28, 1999); Propuestas para Habitats Sustentables del Siglo XXI (CICEANA, Mexico City, Mar 12, 1999); Ecovillage Design Workshop (Ecoaldea Huehuecoyotl, Tepoztlan, Mor. Mexico, Mar 13-14, 1999); GEN Board Meeting at Huehuecoyotl (Mexico, Mar 15-20, 1999); Advanced Permaculture Workshop, Gaia Asociacion (Navarro, Argentina, Mar 22-28, 1999); Ecovillage Design (Barrio Immigrantes, Retiro, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mar 29, 1999); Ecovilas - Comunidates Sustentaveis, International Seminars (Brazil : UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande del Sul, Mar 31; Unisinos, Sao Leopoldo, Rio Grande del Sul, Mar 31; IBAMA, Brazilia, Apr 1, 1999); Ecovillage History, USI Communal Studies graduate class (Summertown TN April 10-11); Natural Buildings: Straw, Cob, Round Pole (Summertown TN April 16-18); Permaculture Fundamentals (Summertown TN April 23 - May 1, 1999); Y2K Expo (Smyrna Colliseum May 1-2, 1999); Bamboo Furniture Making with Nicano Nor (Summertown TN, May 10-14, 1999); Farm History, Hanover Col. Communal Studies undergraduate class (Summertown TN, May 19-21); Ecovillage Design Workshop (Summertown TN May 25-29, 1999); Ecovillage Design Workshop (Lama Foundation, NM, Jun 6-9, 1999); Ecovillage and Permaculture Movement Workshop (Lama Foundation, NM, Jun 10, 1999); Farm History, plenary presentation (Lama Foundation, NM, Jun 12, 1999); Ecovillage Movement (EarthArts and Manitou Inst. Crestone CO, Jun 14, 1999); Kids to the Country Program, (Summertown TN, Jun -Jul, 1999); Natural Buildings: Straw, Cob, Round Pole (Summertown TN, Aug 6-9, 1999); "Ecovillage Best Practices," and "Problems and Solutions," Ecovillage Design Practicum (Earthhaven, Black Mountain NC, Aug 11-12, 1999); Cistern Workshop (Summertown TN, Aug 18-22, 1999); Ecovillage Design Consultation, Peneul Ridge Retreat Center (Nashville TN Aug 23, 1999); Y2K Preparedness Workshops, Healing Arts Festival (Red Boiling Springs TN Sept 2-5, 1999); Y2K Preparedness, Belcourt Theater (Nashville TN Sep 9, 1999); "Evolution of the Community Sustainability Assessment and other Ecovillage Self-Audit Tools" (with Linda Joseph), and "Community in Cyberspace" (panel) at the Communal Studies Association Annual Meeting (St. George, Utah, Sep 23-26, 1999); United Bretheren Tour, Colorado City, Arizona (Sep 24, 1999); plenary and other presentations, First International Meeting of the Council of the Americas (Moffat, Colorado, Oct1-9, 1999), tours of Lantau Island, proposed China Disney site, Shenzen, Hong Kong and Macau (Nov 1999); plenary presentations, rural villages in Sri Lanka, concurrent with GEN Board meeting (Columbo, Sri Lanka, Nov 20-27, 1999); "Colorado High" and "Ecovillage Audits" for Millennium (Denmark, Winter 2000); "Home on the Range: ENA meets at Earth Art Village" and "U.S. Guilt Down 49%" in Ecovillages 2.2 (Winter, 2000) Mushroom Growing Basics (Summertown, Feb 26, 2000); GEN White Paper on Sustainable Futures, UN Conference on the Next Millennium (W. Samoa, Mar 10, 2000); "From Villagescapes to Urban Sprawl: Community Planning and Architecture since 400,000 BP," International Symposium on New Communities for the New Century: Answers for Retirement and Ecology (Univ of S. Indiana, Evansville, Apr 2-5, 2000); Solarbron Pointe Retirement Community (Evansville IN, Apr 3, 2000); Willow Park Retirement Residence (Evansville IN, Apr 4, 2000); "Contemporary Ecovillage Experiments Around the World," (USI, Evansville IN, Apr 4, 2000); Photovoltaic Design and Installation Workshop (Summertown, Apr 10-15, 2000); Permaculture Fundamentals Workshop (Summertown, Apr 21-29, 2000); Natural Buildings Workshop (Summertown, May 19-21, 2000); "The Economic, Technical and Organizational Foundations of Ecovillages," National Meeting on Advancing Community Sustainability (Roanoke VA, June 1-3, 2000); GEN Meeting (Torri Superiori, Italy, Jun 10-17, 2000); Damanhur, Italy (Jun 18-19, 2000); Grassroof, Bottfeld and Nienburg, Germany (Jun 20, 2000); Lebensgarten, Germany and Hannover Expo 2000 (Jun 21-27, 2000); Howard Finster Paradise Gardens (Jul 29, 2000); "Contemporary Ecovillage Experiments Around the World," Lake Claire Cohousing Community, Atlanta GA (Jul 29, 2000); East Lake Cohousing Community, Atlanta GA (Jul 30, 2000); "Bamboo Construction" in Natural Buildings Immersion Course (Summertown, Aug 13, 2000); Flyaway (Currituck NC, August 19-24, 2000); Introduction To Permaculture (Montana Magica, Medellin, Colombia, Sep 8-14, 2000); Ecovillage Design (Reserva Integral Sasardi, Trigana, Darien Chocoano, Colombia, Sep 16-22, 2000); Ecoconstruction, Appropriate Technology and Permaculture (Town Of Unguia, Darien Chocoano, Colombia, Sep 21-24); Permaculture Advanced Course (Reserva Integral Sasardi, Trigana, Darien Chocoano, Colombia, Oct 3-9, 2000); "The Farm at 30" slide presentation to the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (Summertown TN, Oct 18, 2000);Dispatches from the Front: La Violencia in Colombia Grist Magazine (www.gristmagazine.com); Dispatches from Colombia (full version) The Farm Listserv (Nov-Dec 2000); International Forum on Globalization (New York, NY, Feb. 24-25, 2001); Foreword to Kennedy and Smith, The Art of Natural Building; Workshops: Solar Installation Course with Ed Eaton (ETC, April 23-28, 2001); Permaculture Fundamentals with Patricia Allison (ETC, May 18-26, 2001); "Permaculture" in Greenlight (Summer 2001); Southeast Wind Symposium (Knoxville TN, June 29-30, 2001); Natural Buildings (Straw, Cob, Bag, Round Pole) with Howard Switzer (ETC, June 8-17, 2001); Permaculture Design Course with Morag Gamble and Evan Raymond (ETC, July 8-22, 2001); Natural Buildings Immersion with Howard Switzer (ETC, July 23-27, 2001); Mushroom Cultivation and Soybean Cookery, Food For Life Eco-Fair at Moonshadow Ecovillage (Whitwell, TN, Aug 3-4, 2001); U.S. Department of Energy CD-Rom on appropriate technologies; Farm Tech: A Different Way of Seeing, Communities 111:49 (Summer, 2001); (With Joseph Kennedy) "Ecovillages" in The Last Straw 35:9 (Fall 2001); Consejo de Visiones (Tepoztlan, Mexico, August 2001); production assistance to MSNBC Investigates: A Different Drum (Summertown TN, Summer 2001); "Strategic White Paper on Ecovillage Network Organizational Development" and "Guidelines for Network Organizers" (August, 2001); 54th Annual DPI/NGO Congress at the United Nations (New York, NY Sep 10-13, 2001); "Communities and the Media," Communal Studies Assn, 28th Annual Meeting (New Harmony, IN, Sep 29, 2001); Workshop in Growing Shiitake Commercially ( ETC, Nov 9, 2001); Presentation on Ecovillage Design and Workshop in Natural Building (Los Angeles Eco-Village, CA, Nov 17-18, 2001); "The Swan ... the next 5 years" powerpoint presentation, (Crystal Waters, Australia, Nov 28, 2001); Interview on NIM-FM, Nimbin NSW, Australia (Dec 6, 2001); "The Farm at 30" slide presentation, (Dec. 6, 2001, Nimbin NSW Australia; Jan 7, 2002, Centre College class at The Farm); Workshop in Natural Building, (December 9, 2001, Djanbung Gardens Perma Centre, Nimbin NSW); “The Ecovillage Movement in Agenda 21,” illustrated presentation to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development serving as Prepcom II for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (UN Headquarters, NY, Jan 30, 2002); “The Ecovillage Movement in Agenda 21,” to Earth Values Caucus at Prepcom II; (UN Headquarters, NY, Jan 31, 2002) and to Berea College Ecovillage Program (April 5, 2002); Workshop in Growing Shiitake Commercially (ETC, Feb 9, 2002); “Utopianism: We are what we have dreamt” for The Encyclopedia of Environmental History (2003); and The Bridging Tree (July, 2002); "Ecovillages" for The Encyclopedia of Community (2003); workshops in natural building, solar photovoltaic installation, sustainable village design, and permaculture (ETC, Mar - Aug 2002); "One & All Pub", St. Stithians College (Johannesburg S. Africa, Sept 2, 2002); Ecovillage Design Principles, Univ. of Wittenberg (Johannesburg S. Africa, Sept 3, 2002); Ecovillages, UNDP Community Kraal (Johannesburg S. Africa, Aug 31-Sept 5, 2002); Major Groups Delegate, World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg S. Africa, Sept 1-5, 2002); “The Message of Water” and "The Farm at 30" slide presentation, Tlholego Development Center (Rustenburg South Africa, Sept 8-9, 2002); workshops in natural building, permaculture, mushroom cultivation (ETC, Sep - Nov, 2002); Ecovillage Best Practices, Continental Bioregional Congress on the Prairie (Lawrence, KS, Oct 7-13, 2002); Workshop in Growing Shiitake Commercially ( ETC, Nov 9, 2002); Ecovillage Design Workshop for Berea College SENS program (ETC, Jan 18-23, 2003); Farm History and Context, Vanderbilt Univ. class (ETC May 13 and Nov 13, 2003), Hannover Univ. class (ETC May 17-18 2003); Recipe for Living at Dorothy Bates Memorial (The Farm. May 17, 2003); workshops in forest mushrooms, bamboo construction, artificial wetland construction, natural building, solar photovoltaic installation, sustainable village design, and permaculture (ETC, Mar - Nov 2003); Workshop in Earthbag Construction (Moonshadow, Whitwell TN, Jul 21, 2003); Heart of the World (Las Chulpas, Urabamba, Peru, Sep 14, 2003); GEN History Powerpoint (Urabamba Peru, Sep 15, 2003); Ecovillages and Sustainable Communities (Cuzco, Peru, Sep18, Aguacalientes, Machupichi, Peru, Sep 20, 2003); Call of the Condor: lectures in ecovillage design and natural building (Camp Veronica, Km 82, Qosco Peru, Sep 24-29, 2003); Machu Pichu Equinox, Multimedia Exhibition (Camp Veronica, Km 82, Qosco Peru, Sep 24-29, 2003); "Fiction and the Rewriting of History: T. C. Boyle's Drop City and the 60's Communal Experience," CSA 30th Annual Meeting (Benton Harbor MI, October 11, 2003); Recipe for Living at Dorothy Bates Memorial (Sioux City, Iowa and Jackson, Nebraska. Oct 27-28, 2003); History of the Inca and Machu Pichu Equinox, Multimedia Exhibition (The Farm School, Nov 5 and Tlaxco, Mexico, Nov 30, 2003); The Farm Ecovillage: Presentation for Sustainable Development in Papua New Guinea (ETC, Nov 6, 2003); Workshop in Growing Shiitake Commercially (ETC, Nov 6, 2003); Natural and Experimental Building and Vernacular Architecture (Tlaxco, Mexico, Nov 25-Dec 6, 2003); Construcion Naturales (San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, Dec 10, 2003); workshops in forest mushrooms, bamboo construction, artificial wetland construction, natural building, solar photovoltaic installation, sustainable village design, and permaculture (ETC, Mar - Nov 2004); Permaculture and Natural Building (Melbourne FL, Jan 2004); Presentations for Bell Academy, U. Mich; Hannover College, Sewanee Univ, Vanderbilt Univ, MTSU, and other student groups (2004); Ecovillage design and natural building tour, National Coalition of Alterntaive Community Schools (ETC, May 7, 2004); Ecovillage design and natural building tour and slide show, Communities Activist Summit (ETC, May 26-29, 2004); International Communal Studies Association (Amana, IA Jun 28-30, 2004); Ecovillage design and Post-petroleum Scenarios (Southeastern Permaculture Treachers Assn, Earthaven NC, Aug 5-8, 2004; ENA Eastern USA ECO, Watertown CT, Aug 20, 2004; Raymond James Financial Associates, Cromwell CT, Aug 21, 2004; ENA Caribbean ECO, West Hills Lake NJ, Sep 3, 2004; Hollyhock and Linnaea Farm, Cortes Is. BC, Sept 23-24, 2004); GEN North American Conference on Ecovillages (Cortes Is, BC Sept 19-25, 2004); Ecovillage design and natural building, Sustainable Resources 2004 (Boulder CO Sep 27-Oct 5, 2004); After the Peak: Post-Petroleum Futures (MTSU Alternate Transportation Week, Murfreesboro TN Oct 29, 2004); First U.S. Conference on Peak Oil and Community Solutions (Yellow Springs OH, Nov 12-14, 2004); Natural Construction-Spanish (Holbox QR, Mexico, Dec 9, 2004, Solferino QR, Mexico, Dec 10, 2004); After the Peak: Post-Petroleum Futures and Ecovillage Alternatives (Holbox QR, Dec 14, 2004); Multimedia of Sustainable Holbox (Los Pelicanos, Holbox QR, Dec 20, 2004, ETC and Walnut Hill Farm, TN Dec 23, 2004); workshops in forest mushrooms, bamboo construction, artificial wetland construction, natural building, solar photovoltaic installation, sustainable village design, and permaculture (ETC, Mar - Nov 2005); Post-Petroleum Futures and Ecoaldea Gratitud (Solferino, Sin., Mex, Feb 3, 2005); Post-Petroleum Futures and Ecovillage Alternatives, GVI History, Sustainable Holbox (GVI Board Meeting, Mazatlan, Mex, Feb 21-25, 2005); Dreaming a Sustainable Environment, Lifebridge (Spring 2005); Ten Imperatives for Ecovillage Transition (Mohonk Mtn House, New Paltz NY, April 10, 2005); Ecovillages and Sustainable Villages (UNCSD-13, New York, April 11, 2005); Sustainable Village Criteria (Faculty, Yale University Dept of Forestry, New Haven CT, April 13, 2005); Post-Petroleum Futures (ASPO IV, Lisbon Portugal, Apr 19-22, 2004); The Farm, Post-Petroleum Futures and Ecovillage Alternatives (Tamera Ecovillage, Funchiera Portugal, April 23, Creveilet, Spain, April 25, Torri Superiore, Italy April 28, Aix en Provence (numerous meetings), June 3-6, 2005); Post-Petroleum Futures and Ecovillage Alternatives (ETC, June 2005); The Farm in 2005, (Rejkavik and Solhemer, Iceland, July 2-3, 2005); Post-Petroleum Futures and Ecovillage Alternatives (Continental Bioregional Congress, Earthaven NC, July 10-11, American Vegan Conference, Aug 11, 2005); Peak Oil and Community Solutions (Yellow Springs OH, Sep 23-25, 2005); Communal Studies Assn annual meeting (Old Economy PA, Sep 30-Oct 2, 2005); "Ecovillages and Lessons from the Collapse of the Soviet Union," Petrocollapse I (New York, Oct 5, 2005); The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as a Post-Apocalyptic Utopia, Permaculture Activist 60 (Winter 2006, republished by Transition Culture); workshops in forest mushrooms, bamboo construction, artificial wetland construction, natural building, solar photovoltaic installation, sustainable village design, and permaculture (ETC, Mar - Nov 2006); Lovelock's Folly, Permaculture Activist 60 (Spring 2006); "Ecovillages as lifeboats" at Campus-Community Partnerships Conference (Berea KY, April 19, 2006); Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma (New York, April 26-28, 2006); Climate Change Coalition meeting (NYC, April 29, 2006); UN Committee on Sustainable Development, 14th Annual Meeting: Implementation (New York, May 1-4, 2006); Petrocollapse II (Wash DC, May 6, 2006); Peak Oil and the Environment (Wash D.C., May 8-9, 2006); ETC Streaming Video Tour (June 9, 2006); Global Ecovillage Network at CSD-14, Permaculture Magazine 50 (July 2006); Between Ocean and Ice, Permaculture Activist 61 (Summer, 2006); Mary Matlin Show, WRVU-FM (Liberadio, Nashville, Sep 18, 2006); Third Community Solutions Conference (Yellow Springs OH, Sep 22=25, 2006); Alan Graf, Third Planet Report, WUTZ-FM (Third Planet, Summertown, Sept 2006); Nell Levin, Tennessee Progress Report, WRFN-FM (Radio Free Nashville, Nashville, Oct 23, 2006); Association for the Study of Peak Oil - USA (Boston, Oct 26-27, 2006); Urban Permaculture: Preparing for Energy Descent (NY 6th St Community Center, NYC, Oct 29, 2006); Solar Village at Tamera, Permaculture Activist 63 (Winter, 2007); Climate's Challenge to Sense of Place, The Pulse (winter, 2007, republished by Culture Change and Stumps); Albert's Briefest of Blogs (December, 2006 and continuing); workshops in forest mushrooms, bamboo construction, artificial wetland construction, natural building, solar photovoltaic installation, sustainable village design, and permaculture (ETC, Mar - Nov 2007); Profile, Vanity Fair (ETC, January, 2007); Cumberland Green Meeting (Nashville, January 29, 2007); Mapping eco-collapse and the way out (Los Angeles Audubon Center; Los Angeles Eco-Village; Laguna Beach; Conversation Cafe in Berkeley; Oakland Swan Market Co-housing; BMUG; Community Space; Vlogger House Party; Burners Without Borders; Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas; Red Vic Sunday Brunch, Los Angeles and San Francisco, March 24-April 1, 2007); International Permaculture Conference (Sao Paolo, Brazil, May 16-18, 2007); 8th International Permaculture Convergence (Pirenopolis, Brazil, May 22-25, 2007); ENA Council Meeting (Sao Paolo, Brazil, May 29-30, 2007); Making Trees Pay and Permafuels, Permaculture Activist 65 (Summer 2007); Plenary presentation, ICSA Triannual Meeting (Damanhur, Italy, June 28-30, 2007); KCRX interview with Guy Rathbun (July 11, 2007); The Asteroid, The Fisherman, and the Tortilla: Peak OIl and the Mayan Riviera (Puerto Morelos Mexico, Aug 12, 2007); "The Farm and Ecovillages," C.A.L.L. (Israel, Aug 2007); Culture Night at Cultivate (Dublin, Ireland, Sept 14, 2007); Post-Petroleum, Climate, Ecovillages, and Transition Towns (ASPO-6, Cloughjordan, Bantry, Kinsale, Dublin, Cork, Sep 15-20, 2007); Yesterday's Utopia, Today's Reality, Communal Studies Assn annual meeting (Kirtland OH, Sep 28, 2007); Climate, Peak Oil, and Transition Towns, New Haven Book Club, Yale Graduates Club, (New Haven Oct 2, 2007); A Glimpse at A Post-Petroleum Future (Cooperstown, NYC, Binghamton, Milford NY, Oct 3-7, 2007); Table Talk, White Dog Cafe (Philadelphia PA, Oct 8, 2007); Southern Festival of Books (Nashville TN, Oct 12-14, 2007); ASPO-USA 3 (Houston TX, Oct 17-19, 2007); "How to Boil A Frog" documentary interviews (Oct, 2007); Post-Petroleum Transitions (Natural Bldg Colloquium, Kerrville TX, Oct 20-25); Nashville After Oil: Credo Group (Nashville TN, Nov 4, 2007);Alcohol Can Be A Gas! review for Permaculture Magazine (Winter, 2008); "Watching the Collapse from a Distance," Culture Change (March 20, 2008) Tipping Points, chapter in NGO White Paper on Climate Change, UN Department of Public Information (Jan, 2008); Reinventing Collapse with Dmitry Orlov: C-realm podcast (Jan 4, 2008); "True Life, I Am Moving Off The Grid", MTV documentary interviews (Jan-Mar, 2008); Introduction to Permaculture (Cancun, Mexico, Feb 23, 2008); Permaculture Design Course at Maya Mountain Research Farm (Punta Gorda, Belize, Mar 6-24, 2008); "Nuclear Cost-Risk-Benefit Analysis" Environmental Sociology Class, Sweet Briar College (Sweet Briar VA Mar 26, 2008); "Tipping Points: How to Get the Ones We Want" Sweet Briar College (Mar 27, 2008); "Belizian Agroforestry: the 50-foot Diet" Humans and Food, Sweet Briar College (Mar 28, 2008) . Somewhere in excess of 1,000 published newspaper, magazine, radio and television news interviews or quoted statements.

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