Healthy and Sustainable Living MOOC for 2014

Healthy and Sustainable Living MOOC 2014
September 1 - October 5
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About HSLMOOC14 Coordinators
Nellie Deutsch, Ed.D Ludmila Smirnova, Ph.D Michael R. Edelstein, Ph.D
Founder of IT4ALL, 2006
Atlantic University, USA
Transpersonal Leadership
Professor, Canada
Co-founder of IT4ALL, 2009
PD programs, M4T courses
Professor of Education,
MSMC, USA
Professor of
Environmental Psychology
Ramapo College of New Jersey

MASS: Masters of Arts in Sustainability Studies
Ashwani Vasishth,
Director
● 2 year intensive Masters Program
● Broad focus on Sustainability
Studies
● Mix of online and face-to-face
● Faculty from diverse fields in social
sciences, sciences and business
● Global student body with diverse
interests
● Students develop capstone project
in area of interest as platform for
practice or further study
http://www.ramapo.edu/mass/

Healthy and Sustainable Living
MOOC Hay While the Sun Shines

Keynote 1: Making the Sustainable Transition 9/6
Michael R. Edelstein, Ph.D.
Environmental Psychologist, Programs in Environmental and Sustainability Studies,
Ramapo College of New Jersey; President, Orange Environment, Inc. (an NGO)
A Social Psychologist by training, Mike Edelstein has spent much of his forty years in
the field studying the Psychosocial Impact of human-caused disaster, the “unhappy”
legacy of unsustainability. He is one of the foremost experts in this field. His work has
equally addressed the transformation to world sustainability and the creation of
“happy” legacies. Edelstein has been an innovative leader at the local and regional
level and was a pioneer in creating the movement for campus sustainability, creating
the second major campus experiment with sustainability, co-founding and directing the
New Jersey Higher Educational Partnership for Sustainability, and running numerous
critical sustainability events large and small.
He has directed the Ramapo Institute for Environmental Studies, developed the college’s core
World Sustainability course and is a founding faculty member in the Masters in Sustainability
Studies. His work abroad has been particularly centered in the Former Soviet Union. A prolific
author and speaker, his most recent books are Contaminated Communities (Second Edition,
2004), Cultures of Contamination 2007 (Co-Edited) and Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea and
its Lessons for Sustainability 2012 (Co-Edited). He is currently writing a book on World
Sustainability for Paradigm Publishers.

Panel 1: Regional activists implementing the sustainable transition 9/7
Carmen Capriles, Bolivia
Reacción Climática, 350.0rg
Thilmeeza Hussain,
Maldives
Voice of
Women
Pasang Dolma Sherpa, Nepal
NEFIN Global Climate Change Program
Neema Namadamu,
Congo,
Hero Women
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim,
Chad
Indigenous Peoples of Africa
Coordinating Committee
9:30-11 EST
Chair: Aytakin
Asgarova,
Azerbaijan

Panel 1: Regional activists implementing the sustainable transition
Aytakin Asgarova, Azerbaijan---Chair
Aytakin Asgarova trained as a medical doctor but decided she could better
promote health by starting the first climate movement and NGO Alliance in
Azerbaijan. She has elected to do the Masters in Sustainability Studies at
Ramapo before pursuing a Ph.D.
Among her achievements are:
● “Climate Change & Development” NGO Alliance, Founder & coordinator (since
2010)
● First and only participant from Azerbaijan representing the civil society of the country
in the Climate Change negotiations and COP
● Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum Member of Steering Committee and
international co-coordinator of WG3-environment,climate change and energy
security
● Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF) Member of Board representing WG3-environment,
climate change, energy security since 2013
● Public Health and Reforms Center, Ministry of Health of Azerbaijan Manager for
International Relations, Project Coordination Department, since 2012
● Public Ecologic Council, Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, member

Panel 1: Pasang Dolma Sherpa, Nepal,NEFIN Global Climate
Change Program
Pasang Dolma Sherpa is a leading voice for climate education and action in Nepal. Among
her achievements:
● National Coordinator of Climate Change (since 2009) for the Nepal Federation of
Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN)
● Represents indigenous peoples of Asia and Pacific in the Policy Board of UN-REDD
(Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) Program
● Observed UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) since
2009
● Promoter of Mahila Sahayatra, Micro Bank for the promotion of women social
entrepreneurs for sustainable development in Nepal.
● Worked with livelihood programs, social entrepreneurs, community radios and
education since 2004
Pasang holds two masters degrees, one in Development Studies, and is currently
preparing a dissertation on indigenous knowledge and climate change at
Kathmandu University. She is the author of more than 20 articles published in
Nepal and abroad.

Panel 1: Carmen Capriles, Bolivia
Reacción Climática 350.0rg
Carmen Capriles has worked for more than a decade consulting
on Climate Change and Environmental Advocacy for Bolivian
NGOs and promoting International Cooperation. Specifically,
she:
● Founded and coordinates the NGO Reacción Climática
formed to involve Bolivian youth in finding solutions to
climate change
● Campaign coordinator for 350.org in Bolivia
● Organizer of over 20 campaigns for raising awareness
about the environment, biodiversity, and climate change
Carmen earned a degree in Agricultural Engineering with a specialty in
Sustainable Development and Agro-ecology from the University of San
Andres in La Paz, Bolivia, writing a highly commended thesis entitled: "The
Role of Women in Natural Resources Management in the Community El
Tigre."

Panel 1: Thilmeeza Hussain, Maldives.
Voice of Women
Thilmeeza Hussain is a voice of a new generation of women
in the developing world who see climate change as the
fundamental challenge for their future as well as a key platform
for leadership. Among her accomplishments:
● founder of Voice of Women (VoW) Maldives, the only
NGO addressing women and climate change
● Member of Climate Wise Women, a global platform
promoting women’s leadership on climate change
● Maldives Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, 2009 (to the 2012
coup), holding the sustainable development portfolio and leading the
Maldives on environmental and climate change
● Minister of State for Home Affairs – North Province, where she promoted
democracy and decentralization and administered resettlement of climate
refugees from the 2004 tsunami to the previously uninhabited island of
Duvaafaru

Panel 1: Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Chad
Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim holds a Certificate in Human Rights and Indigenous
Peoples Rights among degrees earned from African and European Universities. She is a
key point person for sustainable change in a region where this transformation is urgent.
Her work includes:
● Sahel regional representative for the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating
Committee (IPACC) since 2006
● Coordinator, Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT)
since 1999
● Indigenous peoples representative to the UN Environment Programme's Major
Group for Indigenous People
● Participated in Rio conventions on adaptation mitigation, arid and sub-arid
areas and desertification
● CTA: Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation
● Director of RAIPON (Russian Indigenous Association of the North)
● Director, Indigenous Interest, 1999-2011

HSL MOOC 2014: OPEN Microphone Stream
Creating a Lifestyle
that is
Rooted in the Earth
Carole Hurst
Wednesday September 10, 2014

OPEN Microphone Stream
Carole Hurst, MS in Education
Wellness Educator, Environmentalist, and organic gardener!
Carole has always been upset by how we treat our earth. As a child she
hated to see the litter along the road. So as a teacher in the 70's she
involved her students and parents in street clean up projects and recycling.
She continued doing this with her own kids when she became an at home
Mom and a 4-H Shaklee leader. Her husband, Randy and Carole had a
dream to create a lifestyle that would be showing how much they care
about the earth. She is excited to share what she and her husband have
done, from the simple things like the products they use in their homes and
personal lives, to how to plan out building a new home and landscaping the
property for the least amount of impact on the environment.
Click here to join the webinar with Carole Hurst on September 10.

Panel 2: Neema Namadamu, Congo
Hero Women (Maman Shujaa)
In the 11th grade, Neema Namadamu, herself stricken with polio, promoted rights
for the disabled on a weekly radio show. She went on to become the first Congolese
disabled person and the first in her tribe to graduate from college. She has been an
engine for civil society ever since. She
● founded NGO ALCODEMHA to mainstream women with disabilities and
provide them with a sustainable livelihood
● Formed in 2011 Go Network to connect, inform and empower women in rural
areas of Congo by radio, internet and television
● Established Maman Shujaa Media Center in July 2012 to address conflict in
eastern Congo. Her online World Pulse forum mobilizes, enlightens, and
engages educated women community leaders to work for peace, human rights
for all, rights for nature, and a right to a future for children; with training,
enabling even illiterate women to share their stories and desire for peace with a
broad online audience.
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● Promotes sustainable tourism to unite people around a shared
vision, provide non-extractive and sustainable jobs, and enhance
community well-being over time.
Neema has served in Parliament and as a correspondent for World Pulse. In 2012 Neema was selected for
the World Pulse Live Tour of the U.S., addressing the Clinton Global Initiative.

9:30-11 EST

Keynote 2: Making Global Change 9/13
Felix Dodds, Ph.D. US/England
A Futurist and Scholar of Global Sustainability, Felix Dodds is Senior Fellow, Global
Research Institute, University of North Carolina and Associate Fellow, Tellus Institute,
Boston. He is co-director of the Nexus 2015: Water, Energy, Food and Climate
Conference. He advises a number of organizations working on the post 2015
development goals. He is a member of the UN Habitat World Urban Campaign Steering
Committee. He was Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future
from 1992 to 2012 and Chair, NGO Coalition at the UN on Sustainable Development,
1997-2001. A prolific author of reports and books, among which are these important co-authored
works:
● From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda: Building a Bridge to a Sustainable
Future
● The Plain Language Guide to Rio+20: Preparing for the New Development
Agenda
● One Only Earth: The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development
● How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings: Mine is a Café Latte
● Human and Environmental Security: An Agenda for Change
9:30-11 EST

Panel 2: Making Sustainable Change at the Global Level
9/14
Uchita de
Zoysa,
Sri Lanka
Ashwani Vasishth,
Chair, US
Rasigan Maharajh, South Africa
Helene Finidori
France
Rick Clugston, US
9:30-11
EST

Panel 2: Global Action for Sustainability
Ashwani Vasishth, Ph.D., Chair, US
Ashwani Vasishth, Ph.D. is Director of the Masters of Arts in Sustainability Studies,
Ramapo College of New Jersey. An architect in his homeland, India, Vasishth earned a
Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in Environmental Planning and working for
the state of California and the University of California before coming to Ramapo to head
the Masters in Sustainability Studies program and support the Environmental Studies
program. His interests lie in four areas:
● The use of smart growth and green infrastructure principles in urban and regional
policy and planning
● The application of principles of urban ecology and ecosystem resilience in
environmental policy design and implementation to so as to achieve urban habitat
conservation, employ urban forestry and native plants, manage impervious
surfaces and reduce heat island effects
● Campus sustainability planning based on integrative approaches to curriculum,
multidisciplinary research and stakeholder-based community activism
● Participatory community-based environmentally-oriented sustainability policy and
planning research
By Rio+20 he had immersed himself deeply in the Peoples’ Sustainability Treaties and
the post-Rio+20 action planning process, interests that continue, playing an ongoing
facilitative role at the global level, including organizing conferences.

Panel 2: Uchita de Zoysa, Sri Lanka
Global Sustainability Solutions
Uchita de Zoysa is a frontline leader and strategist for shaping policy for the global
sustainability movement. Currently, he is Chairman of the international organization Global
Sustainability Solutions, Executive Director of the sustainability and social justice NGO the
Centre for Environment and Development and Managing Director of a Sri Lankan corporate
social responsibility firm D&D Strategic Solutions. He is widely known as the initiator of the
Peoples Sustainability Treaties. He played a leading role in the formulation of global
independent sector collective agreements such as the ‘The NGO Alternative Treaties’, the
“Oslo Declaration on Sustainable Consumption” and the “Peoples Sustainability Manifesto.”
He has participated in all of the key UN sustainability events.
Uchita has held numerous international posts including the International NGO Steering
Committee of the UNCED, NGO Steering Committee of the UN Commission on Sustainable
Development, Advisory Board Member and Head of Asian Review on Sustainable
Consumption for “SC.Asia” coordinated by the UNEP, SPACES International Working Group,
SCORE Scientific Advisory Board and as International Coordinator of The Widening Circle
Campaign for Advancing a Global Citizens Movement.
He has It has to be CLIMATE SUSTAINABILITY, “Asian Review on Sustainable
Consumption,” as well as other books, reports and chapters on the environment and
sustainability.

Rasigan Maharajh, Ph.D. is founding Chief Director of the Institute for Economic
Research on Innovation in the Faculty of Economics and Finance at Tshwane
University of Technology and Nodal Head of the Department of Science and
Technology and the National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence in
Scientometrics and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (SciSTIP), both in in the
Republic of South Africa. In 2014 he was Associate Research Fellow of the Tellus
Institute in Boston and Visiting Scholar at the George Perkins Marsh Institute of Clark
University. He earned his Ph.D. from Lund University in Sweden.
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Panel 2:Rasigan Maharajh, South Africa
Institute for Economic Research on Innovation
Rasigan re-joined academia in 2004 after a nine year hiatus, first as National Coordinator of the
Science and Technology Policy Transition Project for South Africa’s first democratic government,
and then as Head of Policy at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. He has written
numerous monographs and spoken widely around the world. He is an active member of the Global
Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence-building Systems. In 2013,
he
served as the Interim Coordinator of the Campaign to Advance a Global Citizens Movement for a
Great Transition.

Panel 2: Helene Finidori, France
Commons Abundance Network
Helene Finidori focuses on systemic perspectives and tools for
transformative action, connecting dots and building bridges between
people, cultures, disciplines, organizations and transitional stages. Her
current focus is the global commons.
Helene is co-founder and coordinator of the Commons Abundance
Network
and teaches Management and Leadership of Change in the International
Program of Staffordshire University. She studied entrepreneurship in
Paris before working in the waste management and consumer product
industry and as a consultant specializing in innovation, as well as in
education and social development. From brand positioning, culture and
strategy she moved to organizational change and cross-cultural
collaboration and now focuses on social change, networks and
movements, and on how people can learn, and be inspired and
empowered to make the world a sustainable and thrivable place for all.

Panel 2: Rick Clugston, Ph.D., USA
Forum 21 & Assoc. of Univ. Leaders for Sustainability
Few have worn more hats in their efforts to promote global sustainability than Rick
Clugston, Ph.D. He currently directs projects promoting spiritual growth and sustainable
community development for New York’s Forum 21 and the Anskar Foundation for Historic
Preservation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is also the Co-Director of the Association of
University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF). From 2009 to 2012, he directed the
Earth Charter Scholarship Project at the Center for Environmental and Sustainability
Education (CESE) at Florida Gulf Coast University. From 1989 to 2009, Rick served as
Executive Director of the Center for Respect of Life and Environment (CRLE) and as Vice
President of the Humane Society of the United States. He previously directed the Earth
Charter USA office and participated in drafting the Charter; he now serves on the board of
Earth Charter Associates. He has participated in UN deliberations on sustainable
development since 1989 and is actively involved in the Sustainability Treaties process.
Rick was Publisher and Editor of Earth Ethics: Evolving Values for an Earth Community,
the Deputy Editor of The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (MCB
University Publications) and served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Education for
Sustainable Development (Sage Publications).
He has written and spoken prolifically on sustainability.

Chair: Astrid Cerny
9:30-11 EST

Keynote 3: Local Place-Based Sustainable Communities 9/20
Kosha Joubert, South Africa
President, Global Ecovillage Network International Kosha Anja Joubert
(MSc Organisational Development) is an international facilitator, trainer and
consultant who has worked extensively in the fields of curriculum development,
international collaboration and sustainable development.She advocates for the
regenerative power of communities. She is President of the Global Ecovillage
Network (GEN-International). GEN was set up in 1995 to support communities,
organisations and societies to transition into resilience. GEN has consultative status
in the UN -ECOSOC.
Kosha is also Managing Director of GEN-Europe, the European branch of GEN-International. She
is the driving force behind two new independent GEN regions, GEN-Africa and GEN- Middle East.
Kosha co-authored the Ecovillage Design Education Curriculum and co-edited Beyond You and Me
- Inspirations and Wisdom for Building Community, Permanent Publications, 2007 and authored in
German a book on the power of collective wisdom, Die Kraft der Kollektiven Weisheit – Wie wir
gemeinsam schaffen was einer allein nicht kann, Kamphausen,(2010), which she is currently
translating to English.

Panel 3: Making Local Change for Sustainability 9/21
Ashish Kothari, India
Connor Stedman, US
Robert Hall
Sweden
Astrid Cerny, Chair, US
Laura
Kavanaugh
Germany

Panel 3: Sustainable Local Change
Astrid Cerny, Ph.D. Chair
Astrid Cerny is a human and environmental geographer who researches
ecological and socio-cultural adaptation strategies for pastoralists, with a
particular interest in Central Asia; her dissertation was on Kazak pastoralists in
western China. Other interests include sustainability issues of food security,
adaptations to climate change and socio-cultural behavior change. She has held
teaching and consulting positions in China, Germany, the Czech Republic and
Finland. Astrid currently teaches world sustainability at New York University and
Ramapo College and consults to international development organizations for
effective project design that promotes social sustainability. She earned her Ph.D.
in Geography at the University of Washington. She is the co-editor of Disaster by
Design: The Aral Sea and its Lessons for Sustainability, author of several journal
articles, and translator of The Dragon Fighter: One Woman’s Epic Struggle for
Peace with China.

Panel 3: Ashish Kothari, India
Kalpavriksh
Ashish Kothari co-founded the Indian NGO Kalpavriksh in the late 1970s to address
issues of conservation, biodiversity, equity, livelihood and indigenous rights.
He has been Co-Chair of the IUCN Inter-commission Strategic Direction on Governance,
Equity, and Livelihoods in Relation to Protected Areas (TILCEPA), a member of the
Steering Committees of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and IUCN
Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy (CEESP). He has served on
the Board of Directors of Greenpeace International, and currently chairs Greenpeace
India’s Board. He has also been on the steering group of the Convention on Biological
Diversity Alliance.
Ashish helped formulate India’s Biological Diversity Act and National Wildlife Action
Plan. He coordinated India's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan process.
Ashish has been active with a number of people’s movements, including Narmada Bachao
Andolan (Save Narmada Movement---referring to the Narmada River threatened by dam
development) and Beej Bachao Andolan (Save the Seeds Movement).
He is the author or editor of over 30 books including Environment and Human Rights and
Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India.

Panel 3: Connor Stedman, US
Permaculture Consultant
Connor Stedman Connor Stedman is an ecological designer,
agroforestry specialist, and wilderness mentor based in western New England. Of
his practice, he writes “My mission is to create a resilient future by building deep
connections between people and nature.”
Connor’s work deals with a variety of food and land use issues, including tree
crops, agroforestry, habitat management, reclaiming traditional land use
practices, carbon farming, and ecological restoration. These approaches have
urban, suburban/exurban, and rural applications.
He works as Executive Director of Vermont Wilderness School and is co-founder
of the Resilience Foundation, which hosts the internationally acclaimed Carbon
Farming Course. Connor is also on the design and consulting team of Appleseed
Permaculture LLC based in New York's Hudson Valley.
He is a young practitioner working within a strong network of designers and
educators, who brings to his teaching and consulting a strong integrative grasp of
both ecological systems and sustainable communities. He holds a B.S. from Gaia
University International in Integrative Eco-Social Design, and an M.S. from the
University of Vermont in Ecological Planning.

Panel 3: Laura Kavanaugh, Germany
ICLEI, Local Governments for Sustainability
Laura Kavanaugh heads the Resilient Cities program at the ICLEI World Secretariat in Bonn,
Germany. In this capacity, she supports ICLEI’s global work on urban resilience, including the
organization of the Resilient Cities congress series, the annual global forum on urban adaptation and
resilience to climate change. Laura has a background in urban geography and sustainable
development. She received a MSc. in Environment and Development from Trinity College, Dublin and
has completed independent research on urbanization and development in India and Sierra Leone. Prior
to joining ICLEI, she conducted a field study of rural-to-urban youth migration to informal settlements in
Freetown for Concern Worldwide. Her experience also includes work as a program director for a D.C.
based NGO focused on engaging youth in American foreign policy. She is originally from upstate New
York, USA and lives in Bonn, Germany.
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is the world’s leading association of more than 1000
metropolises, cities, urban regions and towns representing over 660 million people in 88 countries.
ICLEI promotes local action for global sustainability and supports cities to become sustainable,
resilient, resource-efficient, biodiverse, low-carbon; to build a smart infrastructure; and to develop an
inclusive, green urban economy with the ultimate aim of achieving healthy and happy communities

Panel 3: Robert Hall, Sweden
Gen Europe
Robert Hall has had community development experience working for UN/FAO,
EU, OSCE and Sida and has extensive field-level experience in South Asia (3.5
years), Latin America (1 year) and Balkans (4,5 years). He was elected as the
Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) - Europe’s new Managing Director this July,
working together with Kosha Joubert. He is active in GEN internationally and sits in
the council of the pan-European umbrella organisation for community-led initiatives,
ECOLISE. One of the founders of Suderbyn Ecovillage in Sweden, he been working
with the Swedish and Baltic ecovillage movements for the past 7 years.
In his work with GEN, he has gained experience with the need to
not only focus on designed new ecovillages, but attend to
existing communities. Some of the ecovillage movement in the
Baltic Sea Region have worked to transition traditional villages to
ecovillages, mainly in Russia and Poland. A project,
"Transnational Ecovillages for Societal Transition to
Sustainability (TESTS),” has provided experience with this
challenge. Robert was also involved recently with UNDP on how
ecovillage experiences can be useful for Central Asian rural
villages, climate, environment, and poverty on behalf of GEN. He
is involved in seeing how GEN’s community development tools
can be used within the UN Poverty-Environment Initiative in
Kyrgyzstan.

Omar Latif, Egypt, Path Crp
SusDev
9:30-11
EST

Toward a Healthy and Sustainable Future: Keynote 4 9/27
Toward a Sustainable Future: A Pioneer’s Perspective
Hazel Henderson, D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, US
Hazel is a world renowned futurist and evolutionary economist who is Founder and president of
Ethical Markets Media, whose mission it is “to foster the evolution of capitalism beyond current
models based on materialism, maximizing self-interest and profit, competition and fear of
scarcity…. toward sharing, cooperating and a new abundance... to serve today’s new needs and
our common future—-beyond maximizing profits for shareholders and management, to benefiting
all stakeholders.
By the 1970s Hazel offered a coherent vision for a sustainable future in Creating Alternative
Futures (1978). And she has since worked untiringly toward this goal. More recently, she has
authored the award-winning Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006) and the recent
Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age (2014).She writes syndicated editorials and offers a
television show. Her articles appear in journals worldwide. Before founding Ethical Markets,
Henderson served on many boards, including Worldwatch Institute (1975-2001), Calvert Social
Investment Fund (1982-2005) and the Social Venture Network.She has received many honors,
including induction into the International Society of Sustainability Professionals Hall of Fame.
Hazel has developed a number of applied tools to facilitate the use of capitalism for sustainable
ends, including the Green Transition Scoreboard®, (with Calvert the GDP alternative), the Ethical
Markets Quality of Life Indicators, and The Principles of Ethical Biomimicry Finance® (with
Biomimicry 3.8).
9:30-11 EST

Panel 4----The Future Belongs to the Next Generation 9/28
Fadoua Brour, Morocco
Sustainable Development
and Climate Change
Paul Rosolie,
Peru-US
Mother of God (2014)
Tamandua Expeditions
Amanda Nesheiwat, US
UN Rep Foundation for Post Conflict
Development
Jonathan Reisman, MD, US
Founder and Chair,
World Health Education Network
Melanie Nakashian, student,
Arava Institute for
Environmental Studies, Israel
Munira Sibai,
Syria/US
SustainUS, Masdar
Institute of Science &
Technology, Abu
Dhabi
9:30-11 EST
9:30-11
EST

Panel 4----The Future Belongs to the Next Generation
Amanda Nesheiwat, Chair, US
Amanda Nesheiwat is a sustainability activist
passionate about climate and sustainable development at the
global, national and local levels.
At the global level, she is a UN Representative for the
Foundation for Post Conflict Development , a sustainable
development organization based in East Timor.
She was a youth delegate with SustainUS youth delegations attending Rio+20 UN
Sustainable Development Conference, the 57th session of the Commission on the
Status of Women and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar, where she served as State Department liaison for the
delegation.
Nationally she works with the Climate Reality Project and is a leader in the battle
against fracking and tar sands fuels.
At the local level Amanda is employed as the Environmental Coordinator for the Town
of Secaucus, NJ, where she is a Commissioner as well as chair of the Environmental
Committee.
Amanda has a degree in Environmental Studies from Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Panel 4:Jonathan Reisman, MD, US
World Health and Education Network (WHEN)
Jonathan Reisman, MD is the founding President of the
World Health and Education Network (WHEN), which he
started in 2009 at the age of 25 to fulfill key Millennium
Development Goals by “improving access to quality health care
and education for underserved populations.” WHEN is currently
focused on projects in Kolkota, India, but Reisman has taken
his own young medical practice all over the globe, learning
from some of the most challenging situations. Jonathan’s
medical degree is from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
in Camden, NJ. He currently works as an internist/.
A pediatrician at Massachusetts
General Hospital in Boston, MA., he
and can be found there when he is
not abroad on a WHEN mission.
Jonathan is a published writer in the fields of medicine, environmental sociology, and
travel/adventure. He is active in the fields of medical education, global health, and wilderness and
expedition medicine. Read more about him at http://www.jonathanreisman.com/.

Panel 4:Fadoua Brour, Morocco
Moroccan Youth Climate Movement
Fadoua Brour Fadoua Brour is a climate change Activist from Morocco. She is National
Coordinator of “Arab Youth Climate Movement” in Morocco and President Founder of “Moroccan
Youth Climate Movement” a non-profit organization that works to create a generation-wide
movement to solve the Climate Crisis and promote the role of youth and women in the sustainable
development process. Fadoua is also the Middle east and north Africa ( MENA) Coordinator of
women's earth and climate action network international (WECAN).
Fadoua works on sustainable development and Climate Change issues across the Mena Region
and Morocco in particular by organizing caravans, conferences, campaigns, workshops and
trainings to sensitize and mobilize youth and women and build their capacities for leadership and
environmental advocacy. By strengthening both formal and informal climate and environmental
education, local populations will understand the effects of climate change on their communities and
the need for action toward clean development and a just transition from fossil fuel energy to
renewable energy.
Fadoua recently earned a law degree (MBA in business law) from the University of Fes-Morocco.

Panel 4: PAUL ROSOLIE, US/Peru
Tamandua Expeditions
Paul Rosolie, co-founder and operator of Tamandua Expeditions is a naturalist,
explorer, author, and award winning wildlife filmmaker. Specializing in tropical rain forests, his
work has taken him to Borneo, India and Brazil, but it is in Peru that he has become a place-based
conservationist.. There he traveled with poachers into deep jungle to document the
black market trade in endangered species, raised an orphaned giant anteater by hand,
explored a previously undocumented ecosystem that has come to be called the 'floating
forest' and developed a long term research and conservation project for giant anaconda.
His short film An Unseen World won the UN Forum on Forests 2013 short films award, and
has been described as 'nature filmmaking at its most raw and innovative."
Discovery Channel has been filming with Paul as he educates
about conserving the indigenous wildlife, such asparticularly the
giant anaconda.
His first book Mother of God (Harper & Row, 2014) has gained the
praise of environmentalists and adventurers, including Jane
Goodall, Bear Grylls, and Bill McKibben.
Paul is a graduate of the Environmental Studies program at
Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Panel 4: Omar Latif, Egypt
The Campaign for a Sustainable Future, The Path Corporation for Sustainable
Development
Omar Latif is Executive Director of PCSD (The Path Corporation for
Sustainable Development) in Egypt. He hold a BCs degree in
Environmental Agriculture from Cairo University and is a Master's
student in Sustainable Organic Agriculture at IAMB Bari , Italy.
WESC Organization nominated him to be one of the DEMENA
Climate Ambassadors in 2010,and he joined the Global Change
Makers team later in the same year. He has worked for such
international organizations as USAID.
Recently Omar Started a new campaign called Sustainable Future to promote for
Sustainability around the world and to show different sustainable applications that
we can apply. He has conducted many interviews with experts, professors and
politicians in Denmark, Italy, Qatar, Malaysia and Egypt (see
https://plus.google.com/111566322115875484994/videos
).

Panel 4: Munira Sibai, Syria/US
SustainUS
Munera Sibai is currently a student at the
Masdar Institute of Science & Technology, Abu
Dhabi. She has been active at the global level of
sustainable policy making. She became world
famous at the Doha climate talks:
Addressing the UN Climate Change Conference
"Your Governments Have Failed You": Syrian-
American Student Munira Sibai Calls For Climate
Justice http://goo.gl/jCq0XX

Organization of the MOOC
● Keynote speakers on Saturdays
● Panel Discussions on Sundays
● Readings, discussions, video and
sustainable actions during the week
● Certificates of participation will be
available upon completion of the MOOC
requirements

CONTACT INFORMATION
Click Below to Get Started, Now!
● https://vimeo.com/104725212
● http://youtu.be/Ak3jgvqmITA
Nellie Deutsch, Ed.D.
nelliedeutsch@atlanticuniv.edu
Ludmila Smirnova, Ph.D.
smirnova@msmc.edu
Michael R. Edelstein, Ph.D.
medelste@ramapo.edu
Ashwani Vasishth, Ph.D.
vasishth@ramapo.edu
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