Advisory Board Member
Albert Bates

Albert Bates is a valued member of the Gaia University Advisory Board. He has been a key figure in the EcoVillage movement.

Living at The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee since 1972, he has been director of the EcoVillage Training Center there since 1994. Albert is an accomplished permaculture designer, teacher, and author with over fifteen publications. Some of his better-known titles include The Y2K Survival Guide and Cookbook (1999), Climate in Crisis (1991) and Voices from the Farm (1998). His most recent work is The Post-petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Time, published in 2006. He speaks to the potential of returning to a lived-awareness of interconnection with nature and of transitioning out of a petroleum based society.

Our regular readers will remember last month's article highlighting the work of Gaia U Germany organizers experimenting with Terra Preta, the pre-colonial Amazonian soil-building method. Albert will soon be attending a conference in Brazil aimed at further exploring and sharing knowledge on this topic.

Albert recently spoke at the Convergence on Zero Conference at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. You can read his speech, titled "Trajectories" here.

You can also read more by visiting his blog.