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Michael Singer

Michael Singer earned a BFA at Cornell University in 1967. Since then he has received numerous awards including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Throughout the 1970's and 1980's, Singer's work opened new possibilities for outdoor sculpture and contributed to the definition of site specific art and the development of public places. His work can now be found in public collections throughout the world including the Australian National Gallery, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His most recent work has been recognized as a solution to joining infrastructure and public works to the aesthetic concerns and the communities that are served by that infrastructure. In 1993, The New York Times, chose Singer's design for a massive waste recycling and transfer station in Phoenix as one of the top ten design events of the year. Recently, Singer has been involved in a variety of landscape, outdoor environment, and infrastructure projects in the United States and Europe.

Leslie Kanes Weisman

Leslie Kanes Weisman is professor and former associate dean of the School of Architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology which she joined as a founding faculty member in 1975. She was the 1995-1996 George A. Miller Endowment Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has also taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brooklyn College, and the University of Detroit. She co-founded Sheltering Ourselves: A Womens' Learning Exchange, an international educational forum on housing and economic development for low income women and their families, and The Womens' School of Planning and Architecture, a national summer program for women in the environmental design professions and trades. Professor Weisman is the author of Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment, and The Sex of Architecture, which received an American Institute of Architects International Book Publishing Award for Excellence in Design Theory in 1997. Throughout her career, Weisman has dedicated herself to defining and solving the social problems through socially responsible architectural education and community activism.

David Orr

David Orr is a professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College. Author of Ecological Literacy, Earth in Mind, and over 100 published articles, he is perhaps best known as an environmental educator and a pioneer in environmental literacy and campus ecology. His present work is focused on ecological design in which he has spearheaded the effort to design and build an Environmental Studies Center at Oberlin College. Dr. Orr was awarded a National Conservation Achievement Award by the National Wildlife Federation in 1993, a Lyndhurst Prize in 1992 by the Lyndhurst Foundation "to recognize the educational, cultural, and charitable activities of particular individuals of exceptional talent, character, and moral vision," the Benton Box Award from Clemson University in 1995 for his work in Environmental Education, and an Honorary Doctorate from Arkansas College in 1990.

Francesca Lyman

Francesca Lyman is a journalist and author of environmental books. She is working on a book called Twelve Gates to the City, which is based on an article about ecological urban design that recently appeared in Sierra magazine. She has also written articles on suburban planning, green building design, and the New Urbanist architecture and planning movement. Currently, she writes a biweekly column, Your Environment, for MSNBC on the Internet and contributes freelance pieces and book reviews to various magazines, including Orion, Sierra, The New York Times Travel Section and Los Angeles Times Book Review. Her latest book is Inside the Dzanga Sangha Rain Forest, compiled from the working journals of the scientists, artists and filmmakers on expedition for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She also wrote The Greenhouse Trap, One Earth, Many Nations, and Green Gems. In addition, Ms. Lyman has taught about ecological design at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, and served as editor of The Amicus Journal, published by the Natural Resources Defense Council.