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Gabriel Howearth
Botanist, Landscape architect, Seedsman
 Gabriel's Convergence Blog
Founder of Buena Fortuna Botanical Garden, in Baja Mexico (3700 plant species of the tropical and dry tropical regions of the world), he is the president of Siempre Semillas AC, a Mexican NGO whose main focus is to preserve seed diversity by teaching and planting, Gabriel with his personal seed bank collection of a living geneology of plants containing many rare, endangered and exotic species of forgotten and little known food sources of great nutritional, cultural and genetic value he was an original Co-founder of Seeds of Change, the foremost GMO free organic seed company in the U.S. and half of the world.
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Art Ludwig
Ecological systems designer, Greywater expert
Art's Convergence Blog
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Art Ludwig is an ecological systems designer with 27 years full-time experience in water, wastewater systems, energy, shelter and human powered transport. His specialty is complex, integrated "systems of systems." Art has studied and worked in 22 different countries, consulted for the states of New York and New Mexico on water reuse policy, and given dozens of lectures and workshops .
He designed his own education in Ecological Systems Design, graduating
from UC Berkeley. At Berkeley, he developed the first cleaners
specifically designed to be biocompatible with plants and soil, and
founded a successful business to manufacture and distribute them. Art
has authored numerous articles (including one on water testing
procedures) as well as the books "Water Storage" "Principles of
Ecological Design," and "Create an Oasis with Greywater."
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Ed Mendoza
Director, Indigenous Permaculture de Atzlan (IPA)
Ed's Convergence Blog
Ed serves as farm advisor to the Traditional Native American Farmers Association and is now director of the newly formed Indigenous Permaculture de Atzlan (IPA). He speaks about Culture, Ceremony and living on the land. Ed has been involved with the traditional spiritual movement since the seventies. He was one of the founders of Tlatokan Izkalotl, the Chicano Spiritual Nation in 1981.
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William H. Roley, Jr., PhD.
Director, Permaculture Institute of Southern California
Bill's Convergence Blog
Dr. Bill Roley is an applied ecologist, environmental instructor and watershed planner. He designs strategies to improve sustainable resources for homes, organizations, governments and business. He combines the disciplines of anthropology, biology, architecture, engineering, agriculture, and ecology to address modern challenges of providing for human needs while maintaining ecosystem health. He has consulted and presented internationally on how to incorporate these multifaceted concepts into working sustainable systems. He has assisted the California Department of Water Resources managing the programs for the Southern District on special assignment as a Senior Planner for the County of Orange.
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Larry Santoyo
Director, EarthFlow Design Works
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L. Santoyo is a designer, land planner and business consultant. Santoyo is among the most experienced Permaculture Designers and Educators in the US and has taught environmental design at colleges and universities nationwide including UC Berkeley and California State PolyTechnic University. First mentored by Bill Mollison in the mid 80's, Larry went on to teach design courses with Mollison till the mid 90's in the US and in Australia.
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Kat Steele
Founder, Urban Permaculture Guild
Kat's Convergence Blog
Kat Steele is a permaculture activist, designer and educator. She founded the Urban Permaculture Guild in Oakland, California in 2002. She facilitates workshops on urban sustainability, ecovillage design, natural building, permaculture, eco-social leadership. permaculture teacher trainings and as well as publicly speaks about the power and practice of urban permaculture design, city repair and placemaking. Kat teaches and consults at various institutions across California including the Solar Living Institute, Esalen Institute, The San Francisco Botanical Garden, Laney College, the Alameda Point Collaborative, Merritt College, The Randall Museum, Solstice Grove Institute, LA Ecovillage and UC Berkeley Extension.
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