Board of Directors: The Sustainability Fund

 

 

"The choice is ours — we can have a century of increasing desertification and increasing scarcity of per capita resources, farmable soil and food, or we can transform the current global challenge into a situation of abundance — of enough for everyone."

—John Jeavons

 

 

GROWBIOINTENSIVE Mini-Farm

John Beeby John Beeby*
Vice President and Secretary, The Sustainability Fund; Masters of Science in Soil and Crop Sciences from Cornell University. Soil Fertility Advisor, Ecology Action. Author, Future Fertility and Test Your Soil with Plants. Creator of https://www.growyoursoil.org/ and https://www.readyoursoil.com/
   
Guillermo Rodríguez Barreiro
Board Member, The Sustainability fund. Agricultural Engineer at the University of Vigo (Spain) and the National Agrarian University of Nicaragua. Certified Intermediate-level GROW BIOINTENSIVE Teacher. Friends of the Earth Spain's international project manager in Central America from 2003 to 2017.
   
John Jeavons John Jeavons
President, The Sustainability Fund; President, Ecology Action. Author, How to Grow More Vegetables. Boise Peace Quilt Recipient, 1988; Santa Fe Living Treasure, 1989; Giraffe Award, 1989; World Food Prize Nominee, 1993 and 1995; Stewardhip of Sustainable Agriculture Award, 2001
   
Terence M. Kelly Terence M. Kelly*
Secretary-Treasurer, The Sustainability Fund; Finance Committee, The Sustainability Fund; Attorney, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
   
José Agustín Medina Macías
Board Member, The Sustainability Fund. Certified Master-Level GROW BIOINTENSIVE Teacher. Agroindustrial engineer, Master's degree in Agricultural Sciences. Specialist in Conservation and Restoration of Agricultural and Forestry Soils. In charge of GB certification programs in Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe. Founder, research coordinator and co-director of the El Mezquite CBO Research and Training Garden, Mexico.
   
   

 

Alice Waters ALICE WATERS, Advisor
Author and Chef, Chez Panisse
   
   
   
Hugh Roberts HUGH ROBERTS*
Former Sustainability Fund Vice President Former Finance Committee, The Sustainability Fund; Former Executive Director, League of International Food Education; Former Vice President, MFM/Freedom from Hunger (Retired).

   
John Doran JOHN DORAN
Former Director, Sustainable Soil Fertility International; USDA/Agricultural Research Service - University of Nebraska; Past President, Soil Science Society of America - 2001/2002; Onassis International Prize for the Environment - 1999 (Deceased)
   
  WILLIAM LIEBHARDT,
Former Public Board Member
Former Director of the Rodale Research Farm and Former Director of the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program at the University of California-Davis (Deceased)
   
Kent Whealy KENT WHEALY,
Former Sustainability Fund Advisor
Former Director of Seed Savers Exchange and MacArthur Fellow (Deceased)
   
   
   
  Search in Progress
Director Grain and Grass Seed Conservancy International
   
  Search in Progress
Two additional Public Board Members to be selected

ONE additional PUBLIC BOARD MEMBER to be selected
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= Public Board Member

photo credit: © Jim Bones, 1995

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