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Richard C. Murphy, Ph.D. |
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George McClendon, LMFT |
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Marco Manglesdorf, PhD. |
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Dominie Cappadonna, Ph.D. |
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Christopher Paddon, MA |
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About Us Caren Black , MA, MEd, Educational Director With 14 years’ professional teaching experience and 11 years in administration, Ms. Black holds a valid California teaching credential and California Administrative credential. She also holds a Master’s degree in Administration and Higher Education, a BA in music, an MA in theater, and professional experience in dance. She founded a private performing arts school and nonprofit in 1975. While a public school teacher, she researched cognitive learning theory and systems studies. She’s authored two books on education as well as two children’s musicals. Christopher Paddon, MA, Appropriate Technology & Design Director Throughout his 25-year career in appropriate-technology, design and engineering, Mr. Paddon directed product development programs for companies throughout the world . He has taught Industrial Design, Product Modeling and Engineering Prototype Construction at the university and community college levels and holds two U.S. patents. He applies his passion for ecology to practical energy conservation technologies through the design, construction and installation of solar and wind energy systems. The thesis he wrote for his Master’s in Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community offered new insights into the social, psychological and ecological impact of the disappearance of appropriate adolescent rites-of-passage rituals from Western society TLA Board of Directors Dominie Cappadonna, Ph.D. Faculty member, California Institute for Human Science and Naropa University Center for Ecopsychology. Dr. Cappadonna is a transpersonal psychotherapist/ecotherapist whose post-doctorate work for the past 28 years includes counseling in private practice, teaching at four universities, and guiding expeditions and ecopilgrimages. With an interest in wilderness and earth activism she trains Brazilian humanitarians in Social Action Training in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and is a facilitator for Joanna Macy’s work called “The Work that Reconnects”. Marco Mangelsdorf, Ph.D. President, ProVision Technologies, Inc. Dr. Mangelsdorf has been working in the renewable energy field since the 1970s and has designed and installed solar thermal and electric systems, as well as micro-hydroelectric systems, in the U.S. and Asia. He has been working in Hawai'i since 2000 and is president of ProVision Technologies, Inc. based in Hilo. ProVision is the state's preeminent solar electric design company and has installations across the islands. Marco teaches Political Science at the University of Hawai'i, Hilo part-time and has also taught in the University of California and California State University systems. Marco obtained his B.A. in Environmental Studies from U.C. Santa Cruz and his Ph.D. from U.C. Davis. George McClendon, LMFCC, MBA Chairman of the Board. George McClendon brings a unique history and unusual skills to TLA. At the age of 20 he became a Benedictine monk and remained so during the 1950’s and 60’s. He was academically trained in spirituality, theology, psychology and business. Ordained a priest in 1959, he became chaplain and business manager of a college and founded a drug treatment center. George conducts workshops and retreats while maintaining a private practice in psychotherapy and spiritual guidance. Richard C. Murphy, Ph.D. Vice President for Science and Education, Ocean Futures Society. Dr. Murphy began working with Jean-Michel Cousteau and his father, Jacques Cousteau, in 1968 and has since been involved in a wide variety of projects and expeditions around the globe. Dr. Murphy’s role in these expeditions has included serving as chief scientist, photographer, writer, educator, or project director. He has participated in Cousteau expeditions conducted in such places as Papua New Guinea, Fiji Islands, the Caribbean, Indonesia, the Mekong River in SE Asia, the Amazon, Sea of Cortez, Australia and New Zealand. With Jean-Michel Cousteau, he has created the Ambassadors of the Environment educational program for young people. http://www.rcmurph.com
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