| Fred Cervine
Fred
Cervin grew up in Chicago, Seattle,
Sioux City and around Minnesota's 10,000 lakes. The son of an
evangelical minister, he found the study of biology a revelation. Further
revelations came through a deep life-long love of nature expressed through
hiking in majestic sanctuaries like the Grand Canyon
and the Garden of the Gods (by moonlight).
Fred
studied philosophy, Whitman, experienced
psychotherapy, Jung, Whitehead and completed a seminary degree in 1970, at
which point he headed to Maine
to homestead. In 1973, he took a job as a pastor, but left the church in 1979
and took up carpentry, an occupation he continued until retirement in 2008.
In 1983,
divorce led to a decade of contemplation alone. He began an intense study of
poetry and started writing and doing dream work. Settling in New Haven in 1988, he broadened his studies
to include bioregionalism, Deep Ecology, Deleuze and Guattari, Gary Snyder,
Paul Shepard.
In 1994,
Fred moved in with Maria Tupper. The couple have become a powerful force for
Deep Ecology and bio-regionalism in the New Haven
area, participating in the Deep Ecology Workshop in Aspen in 1998. Fred continued writing poetry,
songs, essays, giving occasional poetry readings, and studying Nietzsche, Robinson
Jeffers, Charles Olson until being diagnosed (2001) with a rare lymphoma, which
was treated successfully over the next years.
In 2005
he played leading role in organizing one-day Peter Berg conference and co-founded
the New Haven Bioregional Group, which Maria joined in 2006 and now sends out
their ezine. Together, they've organized walks, movies, potlucks, began a Bioregional Garden in 2007, and hosted a showing of What a Way to Go which drew an audience
of 80.
Heinberg,
Kunstler, Ruppert, Jensen have filled Fred's bookshelf over the past years.
Retiring from carpentry in 2008, he began the Bioregional Mapping Group and on July 1, 2008, his second
major round of chemotherapy concluded successfully.
Fred's Plans:
Continue bioregional work. Make a book of my writings. Breathe deeply. Let go.
Love the Earth.
Richard Douglas
Marco Mangelsdorf, Ph.D.
President, ProVision
Technologies, Inc.
Dr.
Mangelsdorf has been working in the renewable energy field since the
1970s and has designed and installed solar thermal and electric
systems, as well as micro-hydroelectric systems, in the U.S. and Asia.
He has been working in Hawai'i since 2000 and is president of ProVision
Technologies, Inc. based in Hilo. ProVision is the state's preeminent
solar electric design company and has installations across the islands.
Marco teaches Political Science at the University of Hawai'i, Hilo
part-time and has also taught in the University of California and
California State University systems. Marco obtained his B.A. in
Environmental Studies from U.C. Santa Cruz and his Ph.D. from U.C.
Davis.
George
McClendon, LMFCC, MBA
Chairman
of the Board. George McClendon brings a unique history and unusual
skills to TLA. At the age of 20 he became a Benedictine monk and
remained so during the 1950’s and 60’s. He was academically trained in
spirituality, theology, psychology and business. Ordained a priest in
1959, he became chaplain and business manager of a college and founded
a drug treatment center. George conducts workshops and retreats while
maintaining a private practice in psychotherapy and spiritual guidance.
Richard
C. Murphy, Ph.D.
Vice
President for Science and Education, Ocean Futures
Society.
Dr. Murphy began working with Jean-Michel Cousteau and his father,
Jacques Cousteau, in 1968 and has since been involved in a wide variety
of projects and expeditions around the globe.
Dr.
Murphy’s role in these expeditions has included serving as chief
scientist, photographer, writer, educator, or project director. He has
participated in Cousteau expeditions conducted in such places as Papua
New Guinea, Fiji Islands, the Caribbean, Indonesia, the Mekong River in
SE Asia, the Amazon, Sea of Cortez, Australia and New Zealand. With
Jean-Michel Cousteau, he has created the Ambassadors of the Environment
educational program for young people. http://www.rcmurph.com
Nancy Spaan, B.S., M.A.T.
Nancy graduated high school
in San Francisco
in 1969, the recipient of the Bank of America Award for Art, "and I knew
enough to burn it" she explains. After graduating from the Portland State University
Honors Program in '73, Nancy helped sail and
navigate a 42' catamaran to French Polynesia
for a year (sans engine). After this
trip, Nancy continued to blend world travel with
earning a Master's degree in Art and Teaching from Lewis and Clark College.
Travel gradually subsided when she began teaching for 4
years at Clatskanie H.S. Then, both teaching and world travel stopped for 8
years as she raised Sahlia and Tyson and established an organic garden,
orchard, and greenhouse on 5 acres in Brownsmead,
OR.
As the children grew, Nancy
returned to teaching and gave 20 years to the Art Dept at Astoria H.S., serving
as its Chair. Nancy
is an award winning photographer, has porcelain artwork displayed at Riversea Gallery. She's retired from teaching and
is busy turning her homestead into another Titanic Lifeboat, with greenhouses, solar
power, and soon perhaps micro-hydro.
Nancy
has been a volunteer community radio programmer at KMUN and was part of the
founding group for VOCA Camp (Victory Over Child Abuse) where she volunteered for
10 years. Nancy is involved in TLA's Lower Columbia TimeBank
program and recruitment efforts for TLA classes.
Susan
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