Cindi Landreth is a residential designer, specializing in designing small, energy efficient, green homes and remodels. She is co-owner of A-1 Builders and Adaptations Design Studio with her husband, Rick Dubrow. Cindi is a founding board member of Sustainable Connections and served on that board for about 6 years. She is currently serving as an advisor for Sustainable Bellingham; as a host for the Changing the Dream Open Space Salon; as a host to a Women's Open Space Day; as a facilitator for the Pachamama Alliance's Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium; and a community member for a group that is doing weekly wilderness outings to connect people with their first community: nature. Cindi is dedicating the rest of her life to blazing a trail for the generations to follow (both human and nonhuman). She is walking her talk of building community and building relationships within all aspects of her world.

David Johnson After completing a degree in Computer Sciences, David traveled the world, discovering Tibetan Buddhism on his journey and developing an interest in environmental issues. On his return to the UK, David became involved with a Tibetan Buddhist sangha and moved to their Retreat Center in South Wales. He later purchased and moved to neighboring piece of land and built an award-winning ecological house. David continued exploring the overlap of ecology and spirituality through a Masters Degree program in Transpersonal Psychology with a concentration in Ecopsychology at Naropa University. During this time he also trained with Joanna Macy. His training and work with a number of ecopsychologists informed his thinking around the Heart & Soul aspects of Transition. David was involved in a think tank set up by Rob Hopkins in the early days of Transition Town Totnes and recently moved to Portland, Oregon where he has been in the central group helping to bring the Transition Initiative to Portland.

Kat Steele is a permaculture activist, designer, educator and founder of the Urban Permaculture Guild in Oakland, CA. She facilitates workshops on ecological design, sustainability and permaculture as well as publicly speaks about eco-social design, city repair and the power of placemaking. Trained in Ecovillage Design with the Findhorn Foundation of Scotland, Natural Building with Kleiwerks International, and Permaculture Design with the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, she also holds an MA in Creative Arts from San Francisco State University. She presently serves on the board of a Bay Area nonprofit organization devoted to peace, justice and sustainablity, the NorCal Chapter of Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR). In 2006 she became one of a 1,000 Climate Project trainees empowered to present a version of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth slide presentation. Kat recently moved to Big Sur, CA to lead sustainability initiatives at the Esalen Institute. She is devoted to localization and community resiliency, believing it to be a key strategy towards sustainability and "thriveability.”