In Peru, 2003, Mexico 2004, Iceland (with President Grimsson) 2005, NYC 2006

View Albert Bates entry in Wikipedia.

Albert Bates' full c.v. is now back on line.

Recent radio clips, YouTube interviews, and podcasts:

• A walking tour of the Ecovillage Training Center, Summer 2006
• Liberadio with Mary Mancini, October, 2006
• Cut to the Chase with Marshall Masters, January 2007
• Earthworms with Jean Ponzi, February 2007
• Third Planet Report with Alan Graf, winter 2006-2007 (several)

Albert's Blog can be found on the Great Change website. A profile by Jim Windolf appeared in the April online issue of Vanity Fair.

Brazil, 2007

Some other works by Albert Bates available on-line:

New

• The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as a Post-Apocalyptic Utopia
• Dreaming A Sustainable Environment
• Lovelock's Folly
• Ocean and Ice
• Climate's Challenge to a Sense of Place
• The Culture Change Interview
• Albert's Briefest of Blogs
• Solar Peace Village at Tamera
• Making Treeplanting Pay: Four Strategies
• Permafuels: Permaculture Activist review of Blume's Alcohol Can Be A Gas
• Sustainability in the Post-Petroleum Era: Lessons from Communal Studies

Ecovillage and Sustainable Community

• Technological Innovations in a Rural Intentional Community
• Post-Communal Economic Experiments at The Farm
• Intentional Community to Ecovillage
• America's Alternate Religions: The Farm
• A Training Center for Ecovillages
• Ecovillages
• Howlers and Hurricanes: Ecotourism in Belize
• How the Global Ecovillage Network Began
• Ecovillage Inclusivity
• South Korea: "ecovillages" of highrise apartments
• Sustainable Villages and the United Nations
• Scrapbook from the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002
• A Pattern Language, Reviewed
• The Climate Crisis: Thinking Globally
• A Visit to the Amanas
• When Architectural Design Fosters Community Goals: The Oneida Mansion House
• Utopianism - For the Encyclopedia of Community
• Defendant's Brief: Pride v. Book Publishing Company

Politics and Power

• J.Edgar Hoover and The Farm
• The Karma of Kerma: Nuclear Power and Natural Rights
• The Man in the Orange Coveralls: The Strange Case of Nicholas Berg
• The View from Kyoto: human survival may simply not be economic
• An argument before the United States Supreme Court, 1982
• Tales from the Far Slide: Powerdown—Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, Reviewed

Human Rights and Dignity

• The Gospel of Chief Seattle: Written for Television
• Showtime in Waco
• Avoiding Masiphumeleleization
• The W. Edwards Deming System of Profound Knowledge
• Contemplating Megadeaths: Cultural Memory and Cataclysmic Events
• Gaskin v. State: A Memoir
• Dispatches from Colombia (in Grist Magazine)
• Dispatches from Colombia (full version)

Contact for speaking engagements:

Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator
Global Village Institute
Phone: 931-964-4474
Fax: 931-964-2200
petrol at thefarm.org

Albert Bates will be appearing in 2007 at the following events:

Cumberland Green Meeting (Nashville, January 29, 2007);
Los Angeles Audubon Center and LA Eco-Village (March 25-26, 2007);
Regenerative Design Institute (Bolinas, CA, March 31, 2007);
UN Committee on Sustainable Development, 15th Annual Meeting: Implementation (New York, May 1-4, 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);
ICSA 9th Triannual Meeting (Damanhur, Italy, June 28-30, 2007);
Fringe Festival, Cultivate Interview (Dublin, Ireland, Sep 14, 2007);
The Village, Cloughjordon (nr. Limerick, Ireland, Sept 15, 2007);
ASPO Annual Meeting (Cork, Ireland, Sep 17-18, 2007);
Transition Towns Meeting (Bantry, Ireland, Sep 18, 2007);
Kinsale College (Kinsale, Ireland, Sep 19, 2007);
CSA Annual Meeting (Kirtland OH, Sep 27-30, 2007);
New Haven Bridge Club Book Meeting (New Haven CT, Oct 2, 2007);
Permaculture and Bioregionalism (Cooperstown, NY, Oct 3, 2007);
Peak Moment (NYC, NY, Oct 4, 2007);
Permaculture and Bioregionalism (SUNY Loch Sheldrake, NY, Oct 5, 2007);
Permaculture and Bioregionalism (Binghamton, NY, Oct 6, 2007);
Peak Moment (Milford, NY, Oct 7, 2007);
Table Talk, White Dog Cafe (Philadelphia, Oct 8, 2007);
Simplicity, Sustainability, Community: Omega Institute (Rhinebeck NY, Oct 10, 2007);
Southern Festival of Books (Nashville TN, Oct 12-14, 2007);
ASPO-USA Meeting (Houston TX, Oct 17-20, 2007);
Natural Building Colloquium (Kernville TX, Oct 22-27, 2007);

Albert Bates will also be instructing courses for Gaia University and the Ecovillage Training Center throughout the year.