Joanna Macy

Joanna Macy

female, 80 years old
Buddhist, General Systems Theory, deepecology, systems theory, California Institute Of Integral Studies, American
Joanna Rogers Macy, Ph.D. (sometimes listed as Joanna R. Macy or Joanna Marie Macy; b. May 2, 1929), is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems...
Murray Bookchin

Murray Bookchin

male, deceased (2006)
Jewish, from Burlington, Vermont, direct action, biological determinism, deepecology, libertarian socialist…social ecology, ecology
Murray Bookchin was an American libertarian socialist speaker and writer, and founder of the "Social Ecology" school of libertarian socialist and...
Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder

male, 79 years old
Buddhist, beat poet, industrial worker of the world, poet, environmentalism, travel literature…deepecology
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (originally, often associated with the Beat Generation), essayist, lecturer, and environmental...
Thomas Berry

Thomas Berry

male, 95 years old
Catholic, Religious philosophy and doctrine, deepecology, Passionist, From Greensboro, North Carolina, teilhard de chardin
Reverend Fr. Thomas Berry C.P is a Catholic priest of the Passionist order, cultural historian and ecotheologian (although cosmologist and...
John Seed

John Seed

male
Australian, environmentalist, Rainforests, Rainforest Information Centre, Council of All Beings, deepecology
John Seed is an Australian environmentalist and director of the Rainforest Information Centre which successfully campainged to save the...

Paul Shepard

male
environmentalist, deepecology, agricultural, Paul Howe Shepard, Jr, prehistoric humans, domestication
Paul Howe Shepard, Jr. (b. 1926, d. 1996) is an American environmentalist and and author best known for introducing the pleistocene paradigm to...

Arne Næss

male, 97 years old
norwegian, Arne Dekke Eide Næss, Silent Spring, deepecology, Green thinker, direct action
Arne Dekke Eide Næss is widely regarded as the foremost Norwegian philosopher of the 20th century, and is the founder of deep ecology. His p...

Dolores Lachapelle

female
Snow Dome, tai chi chuan, continent, canadian rockies, mountaineer, skier…deepecology
Dolores LaChapelle was a mountaineer, skier, Tai Chi teacher, independent scholar, and leader in the Deep ecology movement. She graduated from...
Richard Sylvan

Richard Sylvan

male, deceased (1996)
Logician, anarchist, logic, Australian, anarchism, philosopher…deepecology
Richard Sylvan, born as Richard Routley (13 December 1935 - 16 June 1996) was a philosopher, logician, environmentalist, and anarchist. He was a...

Michael Dowd

male
Jewish, Sustainability, Protestantism, Unitarian Universalist, religious figure, cultural history…deepecology
The Rev. Michael Dowd is an itinerant "evolutionary evangelist" and the author of the 1991 book "EarthSpirit: A Handbook for Nurturing an...