Butterfly Board Members.
 

Some Bios of Butterfly Gardeners Board Members
 

Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D.

   Ecopsychologist Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D. has been living, learning and
teaching in the outdoors for over 35 years. He has founded multisensory
environmental degree programs at Trailside Outdoor Camps, the National Audubon
Society, Lesley College Graduate School, and The Institute of Global
Education, a United Nations Non- Governmental Organization where he directs
Project NatureConnect. The project is a workshop and internet program for
socially and psychologically responsible environmental education. Dr. Cohen,
the 1994 recipient of the Distinguished World Citizen Award, refines wholistic
methods to help people consciously reconnect with nature. His many articles
and books include Reconnecting With Nature, How Nature Works, and Well Mind,
Well Earth. He currently lives and teaches on San Juan Island in Washington.

"Dr. Cohen offers an environmentally sound, hands-on educational process that
reduces apathy, catalyzes peace and promotes mental health. It fulfills our
personal and economic needs, deeper ideals and spirit. His work deserves the
attention of every person who seeks to reverse our troubles."

 Dr. Robert Muller, Chancellor of the University for Peace, United Nations,
Assistant Secretary General Emeritus of the United Nations. the recipient of
the Albert Schweitzer Peace Prize and UNESCO prize for peace.

Norie Huddle

Norie Huddle is a published author of seven books and numerous articles on
environment, education, new concepts of national security and new
possibilities for humanity.She is also a professional TV interviewer,
workshop presenter,  popular and highly respected public speaker and an
organizational and creative consultant to private industry, government, NGOs
and academia.  She is the Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the
Center for New National Security, a nonprofit corporation established in
Washington, D.C. in 1979.

Huddle is actively committed to designing and supporting projects in
peacemaking on a local to global scale.  In the early 1960s, she was an
exchange student in Italy for a year, under the auspices of the American Field
Service.  Since her graduation from Brown University (1966),  she has been
establishing a network of cooperative working relationships with government
officials, leaders in private industry, the media and academia, and creative
strategists and problem-solvers around the world.

In her endeavors as a "peacemaker," Huddle has lived and traveled abroad
extensively.  A former Peace Corps Volunteer from Colombia, South America,
Huddle worked for two years at the community level, designing and implementing
training programs for women.  Huddle lived in Japan for four years while she
researched and wrote, with Michael Reich, Island of Dreams: Environmental
Crisis in Japan.   She worked closely with Japanese environmental and consumer
groups, and helped organize the nonpartisan group, "Japan Plus 20." to look at
long range social, political and environmental issues and trends in Japan and
Southeast Asia.  Huddle has also visited the Soviet Union frequently, to
attend conferences and conduct interviews with a wide range of Soviet citizens
concerning their perspectives on national and global security, and to meet
with Soviet entrepreneurs and design joint ventures.

Huddle "retired" (with virtually no financial resources) at age 25, to do
"only what makes absolute sense to me for the rest of my life."  A graduate of
Brown University, Huddle has lived on four continents, speaks five languages
fluently, was active in citizen diplomacy in the USSR,  and was active in the
antinuclear movement.  Then, in 1978, Huddle realized that the path to global
peace and justice required transformation at a more core level of structures,
beliefs and experience.

A lifelong student of America and the American people, Huddle has also
traveled throughout the United States.  In 1977, she wrote Travels with Hope,
the account of "Project America 1976," a crosscountry bicycle trip which she
organized upon her return from Japan in 1975.  Project America involved a
dozen Americans and Japanese who spent nine months bicycling across the United
States from Santa Barbara to Philadelphia, during the American Bicentennial.
It was during this time that Huddle began asking Americans about their lives
and work, their hopes and ideas for creating a positive future.

>From 1979-83, Huddle interviewed over 400 people from all walks of life about
their positive visions of the future and their ideas for how to make America
and the world more secure.  Surviving: The Best Game on Earth, published by
Schocken Books, is a compendium of 30 of these interviews.  It has been widely
reviewed and well received.  One reviewer commented, "This is the first time I
have weighed the issues of global survival without feeling futility or
despair.  Instead, reading this collection of interviews on the subject has
been an inspiring look at the power of individual effort.  If this book, and
others like it, were introduced into the curricula of school systems
worldwide, a shift toward more planetary cooperation might well occur."
Library Journal selected Surviving as one of the top 100 books in the United
States in the area of science and technology (1984); Surviving also was on the
New York Time's longer bestseller list.

Creative cooperation is the key to Norie Huddle's success as she engages with
individuals, groups and organizations in alliances to forward their work and
create new agendas in the pursuit of personal and global excellence.  Huddle
conducts seminars in teambuilding, problem-solving, communications skills,
values and goals clarification, productive relationship skills and stress
management.  She employs state-of-the-art video feedback and learning
techniques.  She teaches the interdisciplinary KEEPRAH Holistic Approach to
Community Development, mindmapping, goal setting, values clarification,
strategic planning, leadership training, personal and group dynamics, creative
problem solving and designing and facilitating meetings.

Huddle has shared her skills and thought-provoking perspectives on television
and radio in the United States, Japan (in Japanese) and the Soviet Union (in
Russian).  In Japan, she has spoken to radio and television audiences of over
10 million and to live audiences of up to 10,000.  She has been interviewed
for and has written feature articles for all the leading Japanese daily
newspapers and many of their weekly and monthly magazines, as well as for
several leading Soviet publications.  She has led  seminars or made
presentations to such diverse organizations as the United Nation's Conference
on Population (NGO Forum) held in Bucharest, the Commonwealth Club (San
Francisco), the Women's Executive Club (Washington, D.C.), the National
Organization of Women, the United States Army, Lorton Prison, the Whole Life
Expo (New York and San Francisco), Princeton University, Villanova, the
University of California (Riverside), Catholic University and The American
University (Washington, D.C.), and to a variety of church congregations and
schools (first through 12th grades). She is a warm, humorous and genuine
individual who inspires her audiences with her enthusiasm, intelligence and
determination to contribute to the wellbeing of all.  She gives presentations
in a variety of languages including Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Italian.

>From 1988-1992, Huddle was the Vice President of Special Projects and a Board
Member of Journal Graphics, Inc., a privately held Denver- and New York-based
corporation which is the nation's largest producer of television transcripts.
She  helped JG develop a variety of new information products and reposition
itself in the marketplace, represented JG at trade shows, helped negotiate
contracts with clients, and assisted with employee and client relations.  In
1987-1988, Huddle helped Journal Graphics negotiate (in Russian) a major deal
involving Vneshtorghizdat (USSR) and Rank Xerox (England).

In March of 1990, Huddle set up Huddle Books as the publishing division of
CNNS, for the purpose of publishing future works related to national and
global security.  On Earth Day 1990, she published her fourth book, Butterfly,
a tiny tale of great transformation
to "help usher in the Butterfly Era of Global Civilization."  by setting forth
a global myth for our times.  Butterfly is beautifully illustrated by artist
Charlene Madland.  In June of 1991, Huddle Books published Huggles, an
environmental coloring book for children, also written by Huddle and
illustrated by Madland.  Huddle is currently completing Money, Power and
Purpose, which presents bold new ideas for redesigning economic and social
systems.

Huddle began an eight-year project to conduct a Global Oral History on video,
launching this at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
(UNCED), held in Brazil, in June of 1992.  In preparation for this, she
conduced similar interviews with Ministers of the Environment from the
Carribbean region at a conference sponsored by the Environmental Protection
Agency in Puerto Rico (March, 1992) and again with top environmental managers
from around the world at an EPA-sponsored conference in Vienna (August, 1992).

A committed peacemaker, Huddle has interviewed people from all over the world
on their ideas for creating global peace, health, prosperity and justice.
Many of these ideas have been incorporated into The Best Game on Earth, a new
global "life game" which Huddle has been designing since 1980. Huddle says The
Best Game on Earth, is an experiment in "electronic democracy" designed to
support collaborative and innovative approaches to solving global problems.
Beginning in 1992, Huddle has been a frequent interviewer and guest host on
The Best Game on Earth, a weekly cable television show produced in Salina, KS.
Her newest book, Money, Power and Purpose, began as an effort to design the
new economic system for Players of The Best Game on Earth.

In August of 1993, Huddle bought 12 acres of land in a beautiful part of West
Virginia.  She has designed and been building her own house, with the help of
neighbors and friends.  She continues to maintain an active consulting and
writing schedule, as she builds and gardens.

A Brief Butterfly History  by Alan Moore

   The recent evolution of the butterfly as a metephor symbolizing humanity's
conscious evolution to a more loving and cooperative state started over
twenty-five years.  After the first Earth Day, Trina Paulus came out with Hope
for the Flowers and used the butterfly to illustrate a better way so that we
caterpillars would stop crawling all over each other to get to the "top".
What's at the top anyway?  Trina got millions of people thinking about
transformation in a new way.  On June 26, 1997, Trina joined us at the United
Nations Earth Summit+5 for a butterfly release and ceremony.

   Then Norie Huddle advanced the transformational theme to usher in what she
termed the "Butterfly Era of Global Civilization" in her book, Butterfly,
published on Earth Day 1990, and told me Trina's book was an inspiration to
her and got her thinking about transformation. In Butterfly she writes:

  "The caterpillars new cells are called "imaginal cell." They resonate at a
different frequency. They are so totally different from the catepillar cells
that his immune system thinks they are enemies...and gobbles them up--Chomp!
Gulp!  But these new imaginal cells continue to appear. More and more of them!
Pretty soon, the caterpillar's immune system cannot destroy them fast enough.
More and more of the imaginal cells survive. And then an amazing thing
happens! The little tiny lonely imaginal cells start to clump together, into
friendly little groups. They all resonate together at the same frequency,
passing information from one to another.Then, after awhile, another amazing
thing happens! The clumps of imaginal cells start to cluster together!..,A
long string of clumping and clustering imaginal cell, all resonating at the
same frequency, all passing information from one to another there inside the
chrysalis."

  "A wave of Good News travels throughout the system-- Lurches and
heaves...but not yet a butterfly."

  "Then at some point, the entire long string of imaginal cells suddenly
realizes all together that it is Something Different from the caterpillar.
Something New! Something Wonderfull!....and in that realization is the shout
of the birth of the butterfly!"

     Happy Birthday Butterfly!!!

  "Since the butterfly now "knows" that it is a butterfly, the little tiny
imaginal cells no longer have to do all those things individual cells must do.
Now they are part of a mult-celled organism-- A FAMILY who can share the
work."

  "Each new butterfly cell can take on a different job.----There is something
for everyone to do. And everyone is important.  And each cell begins to do
just that very thing it is most drawn to do. And every other cell encourages
it to do just that."

  "A great way to organize a butterfly!"

And a great way to organize a butterfly movement!
 

Bobby Gendron

Owner of Butterfly Encounters

Butterfly Background:

Have studied and reared monarch butterflies for the past 10 years.

Have studied various species of milkweed, the host plant for the monarch, for
the past 10 years. During this time I have been able to successfully grow over
50 species of milkweed from all over the world. I have conducted research at
wild populations of milkweed in 8 states and 6 countries.

Conducting research for the Monarch Program, a non-profit organization based
in San Diego, since 1995. The research involves monitoring milkweed
populations, tagging adult monarch butterflies at 10 overwintering sites in
California, and writing articles in their monthly publication, The Monarch
Newsletter.

Have developed a technique to rear monarch butterflies and control a protozoa
that can be fatal to the butterflies. This technique involves many hours under
the microscope.

Have contributed many volunteer hours dedicated to working with various
schools in the California Bay Area. These volunteer hours include lectures,
slide shows, tagging demonstrations, and establishing butterfly gardens on the
school’s property.

Volunteer work for the Lindsay Wildlife Museum which includes leading
butterfly related field trips and talking to groups of children.

Helped with a project dedicated to making a small town in California called
Crockett a thriving butterfly habitat. This project has been going on for a
year and will continue.  Is serving on the advisory board for the
International Federation of Butterfly Enthusiasts.

Gave a presentation at the first NAFTA tri-national 1997 North American
Conference on the Monarch Butterfly in Morelia Mexico.

Have been featured in the following:

Newspapers: San Ramon Valley Times, Contra Costa Times, Valley Times, San Jose
Mercury News, San Ramon Valley Herald, The Sentinel, San Francisco Chronicle,
San Francisco Examiner, Martinez News- Gazette.

Radio: KKIQ (San Ramon, CA), KSFO (San Francisco, CA).

Television: CBS News (Dan Rathers, National), FOX Channel 2 KTVU (San
Francisco, CA), NBC  Channel 4 (San Francisco, CA), TCI Channel 6 (Walnut
Creek, CA), TCI Channel 6 (Newark, CA).

Other publications: Growing Native, The Monarch Newsletter, The Monarch Watch
Newsletter
 

Antares Numi*On

   At 19, Antares had an awakening which has become the core of his Vision
Quest - which is to help anchor the subtle frequencies on the physical  plane
and thereby serve as a co-creator of Heaven on Earth. Better known  in
Malaysian literary, musical, and theatre circles as Kit Leee,  he has written,
directed and acted in plays; composed and performed music  live and in the
studio; and contributed reviews to magazines and  newspapers. His involvement
in the arts has given him valuable insight  into contemporary shamanism. Since
1992 he has been living in Pertak,  Kuala Kubu Baru, Malaysia - in a reality
affectionately dubbed ‘Magick  River’ - and has focused his energies on Earth
Healing.

   MAGICK RIVER is a rainbow alliance of individuals with diverse talents,
promoting ecospiritual activities and community arts projects that  involve an
Orang Asli (aboriginal) tribe of Peninsular Malaysia, the  Temuan - who for
countless generations have guarded the rainforests and  sacred sites of
Pertak, Ulu Selangor, their ancestral home.

   "I relate to butterflies and fireflies as the 3D manifestations of
'benevolent' nature spirits.   When we abuse the environment, it abuses us
right back! The  rainforest is home to thousands of magnificent butterfly
species - my  personal favourites being the large, birdlike, regal Rajah
Brooke and  the ethereal Spotted Lacewing (or Angelfly), the sight of which
leaves  one breathless, uplifted, as if having been granted a vision of
paradise."

James Duncan

My name is James and I am the son of Hiawatha, grandson of Ada Vann, seventh
generation from Chief Joe Vann and Cherokee (Bird Clan) born at  Tahlequah,
Oklahoma on September 14, 1946.  But even more important, I am a member of the
family of people called Native Americans, that indigenous group of people that
have from the beginning of time and still do live here  in the Americas. We
are one of the four parts of humanity.

On March 10, 1995 my wife Norma our five daughters and I started the first
walk of the four journeys given in vision.  We began in Tahlequah, Oklahoma
and arrived on May 10th at New Echota, Georgia.  The walk was called "THE
TRAIL OF JOY, THE RETURN", it was done to complete the circle that began  with
the "Trail of Tears" and to reconnect the spirit of our people back  with the
lands of our ancestors.  The Creator is calling for our people to  move back
to the spiritual road, this journey is needed to rekindle the  sacred fire and
spirit back in the people and all mankind.  We need to reestablish spiritual
centers and places for the clans mothers in the East and across the land where
the roots of many families were torn out by  the " RELOCATION".  This
relocation known as the "Trail of Tears" by many,  affected all the indigenous
people and divided us.  The "Trail of Joy, The  Return"  walks and journeys
are just another step in the healing.  This is not only for our family, it is
for all of humanity.

On May 10, 1996 my family and I began the second journey of the vision,  back
along the path of DeSoto.  That journey started from where he died in
southeastern Arkansas, about 5-10 miles north of what is now known as
Arkansas City and traveled back along his route to south of what is now known
as Tampa Bay.  Planting trees for cleansing, for life and peace in each of
what are now states where he traveled leaving so much death and  destruction
along the way.  These trees are for a sign of renewal,forgiveness  and
rebirth.  If the "Trail of Tears" and subsequent removals were the end of  a
way of life for the people of the southeast, then DeSoto's journey was the
beginning of that end.  It was a way of life that had lasted for hundreds of
thousands of years.  This is true all around our Mother Earth where humanity
was brought so much death and destruction to humanity and to all our relations
in the name of discovery and God.

We have, and will continue to travel and visit with our relations along the
way, to visit with the Elders and the children, to share the visions and to
share the call for a great Gathering of the Children of Mother Earth.  We are
losing our young ones to the modern world at an alarming rate, many are  not
seeing the beauty of their heritage and traditions that bind them together and
to our Mother Earth.  It is our prayer that with each journey, humanity will
begin to have an even greater understanding and appreciation of  each other,
that once made us a great people.  Prophesy has been given that  there would
come a time when we would be at a crossroads. The Elders have  said that we
are now there and it is time for all of our people to come back to the
spiritual oneness that bound us to our Mother Earth and each other  before
European contact.  Grandfather William Commanda once wrote that  "forgiveness
is the key to the awakening of the true meaning of love and understanding."

Judy Guggenheim

Judy Guggenheim is co-author of "Hello From Heaven!" which contains 353
firsthand accounts of After-Death Communications (ADCs).  Judy says that the
largest single category for these experiences involves butterflies, as
symbolic ADCs.

An After-Death Communication (ADC) experience occurs when a person is
contacted directly and spontaneously by a deceased family member or friend,
without the use of psychics, mediums, rituals, or devices. ADCs offer dramatic
new evidence of life after death.

The ADC Project was created in May, 1988 to conduct the first in-depth
research of After-Death Communications. The founders, Bill Guggenheim and Judy
Guggenheim, interviewed 2,000 people who live in all 50 American states and
the 10 Canadian provinces. They collected more than 3,300 firsthand accounts
from people who believe they have been contacted by a loved one who had died.

"Hello From Heaven!" is the first book ever written that documents this
exciting new field of research. Published in hardcover by Bantam Books, it
contains 353 poignant and deeply comforting ADC accounts and is available in
all major bookstores throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, as
well as Dutch, German, and Italian editions, and soon to be available in
Japanese and Korean.

Judy Guggenheim and her former husband, Bill Guggenheim, worked together on
The ADC Project for 7 years from 1988 through 1995, before Judy was offered to
the responsibility to continue ADC research with great passion for the last 3
years on her own, following the publishing of their breakthrough book, "Hello
>From Heaven

During the last several years, Judy has conducted workshops, as the world's
leading authority on After-Death Communications, presenting the results of her
ADC research at national conferences for The Compassionate Friends, Bereaved
Parents of the USA, TAPS, Network for Attitudinal Healing International,
IANDS, Association for Death Education and Counseling, MADD, The Findhorn
Community, Survivors of Suicide, Widowed Persons Support, and POMC, among
others. Judy has also made numerous presentations of her programs and
workshops to a variety of bereavement support groups, hospices, churches, and
other private organizations that serve spiritual development and value her
research results.  Her ADC research and book, Hello From Heaven! have been
featured on ABC's "20/20," "Leeza Show," numerous other television/radio
programs, "New Age Journal" and "FATE" magazines, as well as
newspaper/magazine articles worldwide, including presentations on Cunard
Lines' "QE2."

Judy makes her home in central Florida and is the mother of 3 adult sons, the
youngest two are undergraduates at the University of Florida, and her oldest,
Will Guggenheim, serves as Webmaster for the very popular ADC Project website:
http:/www.after-death.com which offers the latest on her ADC research, plus
public Message Board and various chatrooms dedicated to bereavement support
and spiritual development, with volunteer hosts and notable guest "speakers."

Email: adc-project@after-death.com
URL:  http://www.after-death.com
Photo:  http://www.after-death.com/images/judy.gif
"Reality is in the eyes of the beholder"
           a little Judy-ism

David Seaborg

David is an evolutionary biologist and the son of Glen Seaborg, the discoverer
of plutonium.  He speaks out on nuclear issues and social change.  He founded
the Children of the Manhattan project with Stephanie Van Sandt Nelson, whose
father codirected the Manhattan Project.  He organized the U-Turn Society in
San Francisco in 1997 with the focus of turning our destruction of the planet
around by 180 degrees, hence the society's name.  A more complete bio will be
available soon.
 

Alan Moore

EXPERIENCE
1998 to present     Member of the Peace & Justice Commission of the City of
Berkeley
1993 To Present    BUTTERFLY GARDENERS ASSOCIATION(Director and founder)
1985 To  1997       ALAN'S ORGANIC GARDENING & LANDSCAPING (Owner)
1972 to 1984     S. LEVINE & SONS (Textile management)
1971 TO 1972     QUEENS COLLEGE, NY. (Adjunct Prof. of Chemistry)
1968 to 1971     PAYNE WHITNEY CLINIC / LABORATORY OF PSYCHOENDOCRINOLOGY &
METABOLISM / CORNELL
                            MEDICAL CENTER, NEW YORK (Lab director & chemical
analyst involved in developing micro-assay for
                            plasma cortisol and urinary steroids. Holds US.
patent #149,989 for laboratory test equipment.
1967 to 1968      Institute of Medical Rehabilitation / University Hospital
Dept. of Therapeutic Recreation, New York(Staff)
1963 (Summer)      Creedmoor State Hospital, Queens, New York(Attendant)

EDUCATION
1972             City Graduate Center, New York Biochemistry
1968             Hunter College, New York       Molecular Biology
1963 to 1968      City College, New York        B. S. Biology

ORGANIZATIONS

Common Cause Coordinator for the 15 C.D.  Worked on Campaign Reform the
Sunshine Law, the Lobby
                                Disclosure Act, & Finance Disclosure for
public officials. Was PA Publicity Chairman.
Public Citizen          Organized local drive for a Consumer Protection
Agency.
Sierra Club         Organized the Lehigh Valley Sierra Club with Rep. Paul
McHale.
Solar Lobby         Organized Sun Day in the Lehigh Valley with tours of solar
installations & Rodale's Experimental Farm.
L. V. Solar Assoc.   Co-founded group to promote solar energy & conservation.
C.L.A.D.               Organized Citizens of Lehigh Against the Dam to stop
the Army Corps of Engineers from
                                building a dam at the Trexler Game Preserve
and flooding farm and scenic areas.
                                This resulted in a county-wide public
referendum which  was supported by 90% of the voters.
Clean Air Advisory Council      Got Congressman Don Ritter to set up local
citizens group to advise him on
                                                clean air issues.  Helped Don
to pick the pro-environment people for the group,
                                                 later to resign charging it
was too pro-industry.
Butterfly Gardeners Assoc.  Promoting butterflies, wildlife gardens,
conservation, ecology, and community organizing.
Citizens for a Better Allentown    Promoting cultural diversity and respect
between citizens and police, steering committee.
Earth Rainbow Network               Publicity Coordinator for San Francisco
Bay Area organizing Millenium festivals and concerts.
U-Turn Society         Publicity coordinator for San Francisco group focused
on Millenium projects and founded by Dave Seaborg.
Action Coalition for Global Change   Publicity for United People's Assembly at
San Francisco State University.
Tree Island Millennium Gathering     Volunteer for publicity and outreach.
Butterfly release coordinator.

OTHER GROUPS (past & present)

Earth First, Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, Berkeley Grey Panthers
Environmental Committee, Greenpeace, National Parks & Recreation Assoc.,
National Resources Defense Council, Environmental Action, National Emergency
Civil Liberties Committee, World Wildlife Fund, National Wildlife Federation
Wilderness Society, Union of Concerned Scientists, Amnesty International,
Environmental Defense Fund, League of Women Voters, PA Public Interest
Research Group, National Geographic Society, PA Turfgrass Council, Master
Gardeners Program of Penn State Cooperative Extension, and Saucon Assoc. for a
Viable Environment (SAVE), & Lehigh Pesticide Awareness Group
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