About Us

Louis, Juliana, and Lîla Fox at Hava Ve Adam permaculture site in Israel, 2008

Louis Fox (Photo Editor, Sustainable [R]evolution book)  has been making art out of progressive media campaigns since founding Free Range Studios, a values-driven design and communications firm based in Washington, DC and Berkeley, CA. A print designer, illustrator, writer, photographer and filmmaker, Louis has written and directed over 70 short animations and live-action films for clients including Amnesty International, The Organic Trade Association, Stoneyfield Yogurt, and Greenpeace. Some of these films have been seen by over 20 million people, and featured in dozens of top TV networks (CNN, Fox News, MSNBC) radio networks (NPR, CBS) and newspapers (The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, LA Times). These pieces, especially The Meatrix (2003) and The Story of Stuff (2007) have earned top honors at film festivals and awards ceremonies around the globe, including South By Southwest, Media That Matters, The Holland animation Festival, The Webby Awards, Resfest, and the Annecy International Animation Festival.

Trained as a cultural anthropologist and skilled in four languages, Juliana Birnbaum Fox  (Managing Editor, Sustainable [R]evolution book)  has lived and worked in the US, Europe, Japan, Nepal, and Brazil. For nearly 20 years she has been a freelance writer focusing on environmental issues and social justice, and an educator, teaching anthropology, English as a Foreign Language, and yoga. In 2005 she founded Voices in Solidarity, a nonprofit organization that aims to build partnerships with native-led environmental and social projects in the Amazon rainforest. Her work has been published in several languages in a variety of newspapers, indigenous journals, and anthologies including Cultural Survival Quarterly, E- The Environmental Magazine, Bridges Journal, Mariri Magazine, El Reportero, The Rising Nepal, World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, Quechua Network, and the Hudson Valley Environmental Resource Directory.

Originally from New York, Juliana and Louis live in San Geronimo, California and at Tacotal ecovillage, Costa Rica, with their daughters  Lîla and Serenne.

Craig Mackintosh is a professional photographer, and for the last few years has earned his daily bread as a professional writer and editor – taking, in 2006, a brand new blog for the newly created environmental website Celsias.com from complete obscurity to – in little more than a year – being ranked by the London Times as number five in the world out of fifty eco-sites, and in the top 5,000 of all blogs (regardless of subject) according to the leading blog ranking site Technorati. Valuable background skills include having studied organic biological agriculture, and becoming highly skilled in different aspects of information technology (hardware and software), including website creation, development and promotion and image processing and manipulation.  After a significant immersion in the converging issues facing the world via his Celsias work, a desire to do what he could to support the only real tangible win-win solutions that meet all these problems head on lead him to Permaculture. Combining his editorial, website and photographic abilities, Craig decided to pass the reins of Celsias to one of his writers, and took on his current role as photojournalist and website manager for the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia – where he is currently supporting the world renowned work of Permaculturist extraordinaire Geoff Lawton.

Rebecca Williams is a designer, photographer and cultural documentarian interested in sustainable design, permaculture and eco-localism. Passionate about the idea that craft is a reflection of place and community, Rebecca works to document indigenous craft traditions and sees the promise of working with artisans to design modern marketplace applications for their craft. Rebecca has traveled extensively for research mostly related to textiles and natural dyeing. Most recently, she conducted research on traditional Japanese indigo dyeing in Japan on a grant from The Aurora Foundation of Los Angeles. Born and educated in design in the United States, Rebecca has lived and worked in Japan and Nepal and currently resides in Melbourne, Australia.

Tracy L. Barnett is a bilingual, multimedia environmental and travel writer, editor and teacher.  Now in the third decade of her career, Tracy is pulling together the threads of her work as an environmental writer, a travel writer and a lover of the Latin American people in  The Esperanza Project.   Beginning in January 2010 she has been traveling
from Mexico to Patagonia, documenting the work of creative sustainability projects, including permaculture initiatives, throughout the Americas.  Tracy is the former travel editor for The Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News, as well as a co-founder of the Rumbo/Meximerica Spanish-language newspaper network in Texas and Adelante, a bilingual newspaper covering immigrant communities in Missouri.  She is currently working on a book about her travels, Looking for Esperanza.  Her work can be found at tracybarnettonline.com and at TheEsperanzaProject.org.