Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD is an internationally known evolution biologist, futurist, speaker, author and sustainability consultant to businesses, government agencies and other organizations. She is a US and Greek citizen who has lived in the USA, Canada, Greece, Peru and Spain while lecturing, doing workshops and media appearances on all continents. She has a PhD from Dalhousie University in Canada, completed her postdoctoral work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and MITthen was a researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a science writer for the Horizon/Nova television series. science series, a UN Consultant on indigenous peoples, and was invited to China under the auspices of the Chinese National Science Organization in 1973. She organized Earth Celebration 2000 in Athens, Greece, is an advisor to Ethical Markets and holds the Elisabet Sahtouris Chair in Living Economies at the World Business Academy. She consults with corporations and government organizations in Australia, Brazil, Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States.
Dr. Sahtouris co-convened two symposia on the foundations of science in Hokkaido and Kuala Lumpur. She is currently Professor in Residence at Chaminade University in Honolulu, Hawaii, teaching in the School of Business & Communication MBA Program and helping redesign it for entrepreneurship in local living economies. She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders and a founding member of Rising Women; Rising World. She promotes a vision she believes will result in the sustainable health and well-being of humanity within the larger living systems of Earth and the cosmos.
She has appeared in numerous films including Occupy Love, I Am, Femme, Love Thy Nature and Money & Life. Her books include EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution, A Walk Through Time: from Stardust to Us, Biology Revisioned (with Willis Harman). and new ebook Gaia’s Dance: The Story of Earth & Us. Website: www.sahtouris.com
Ecosophy article at: http://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/ecosophy-natures-guide-to-a-better-world/