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 Nancy Jack Todd has been active in the environmental movement for more than twenty-five years. She was a co-founder of the New Alchemy Institute where she edited the Journals of the New Alchemists. In addition to her present work at Ocean Arks International, she is the author or co-author of several books, and has contributed to a number of environmental journals and anthologies.
Current Positions:
Editor and publisher of Annals of Earth, an ecological journal published by Ocean Arks International.
Vice President, Ocean Arks International at 176 Battery Street, Third Floor, Burlington, Vermont 05401, USA. The position involves administration, fund raising, program development, and outreach.
Free lance writer
Awards:
1980. The Threshold Award: shared with John Todd, British Nobel laureate, David Bohm, and Chinese neurophysicist Hsiang-Tung Chang
1987. Friends of the United Nations Environment Programme Award
1994. The Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, with John Todd
1998. The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Award for balance between technological innovation and environmental preservation, with John Todd
1998. The Bioneers Award in Ecological Design, with John Todd
Books:
A Safe and Sustainable World: the Promise of Ecological Design. Island Press. 2005
Eco-Cities to Living Machines: Precepts of Ecological Design. With John Todd. North Atlantic Books. 1993
Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming: Ecology as the Basis for Design. With John Todd. Sierra Club Books, 1984. Translated into Japanese and Italian.
Tomorrow Is Our Permanent Address: The Search for an Ecological Science of Design. With John Todd. Harper and Row, 1980.
The Village as Solar Ecology. A limited edition book, co-edited with John Todd and published by the New Alchemy Institute, 1980.
The Book of the New Alchemists. E.P. Dutton, 1977.
Essays in a number of anthologies including, People, Land, Community, Yale University Press, 1997. Gaia, A Way of Knowing, Lindisfarne Press, 1991. Mending the Earth: A World for our Grandchildren, North Atlantic books, 1995. What Does It Mean To Be Human?: Reverence for Life. Edited by Frederick Frank, Circumstantial Productions Publishing and the UNESCO Institute for Education, 1998. Prayers for a Thousand Years, edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon, Harper San Francisco, 1999. Also articles in a number of journals ranging from the Whole Earth publications to the Noetic Sciences Review.
Boards/Directorships/Fellowships:
The Lindisfarne Association, Fellow and Director, 1975 to the present
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, Colleague
The Schumacher Society, Director, 1983 to the present
The Findhorn Foundation, Advisory council, 1990 to the present
The Vermont Commons School, Board of Directors, 1997 to the present
Further Professional Experience:
Extensive writing, editing, lecturing at universities and conferences, teaching, and travel. Strong interests in women’s issues, agriculture, food, ecopsychology, dance, and the arts and their interconnections with the environment.
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