Wonders of Development in Plants, People, and Projects

- Author Bio -

Dr. Jan Diek van Mansvelt is a former Chairman of Avalon Foundation and an organic farming pioneer who has been involved in the development of organic and biodynamic agriculture in the Netherlands and internationally. He is a founder and former chairman of the Louis Bolk Institute and was also director of Warmonderhof center for biodynamic agriculture and member of the International Representatives Council for Biodynamic Agriculture. In 1981, he was appointed Extraordinary Professor of Alternative Methods in Agriculture at Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands, where he continued working until 2000. He has been a long-term board member of the Dutch Platform of Biological Agriculture and Nutrition. In 1986-1992, he served as member of the World Board of the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM) and was its president 1988-1992. He was also president, and is now Honorary Board Member of the Dutch Biodynamic Association. In 1991, Dr. Diek van Mansvelt was appointed Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He has published on organic farming extensively and lectured worldwide. For his merits on promotion of organic agriculture the Kingdom of the Netherlands awarded him a chivalric Order of Orange-Nassau. Pieter van der Ree was born in Rotterdam and studied architecture at the Technical University in Delft in the Netherlands. Since 1990 he has been working as an architect in the field of ecological building and organic architecture. In 2000 he wrote a book on Organic Architecture and in 2003 composed a traveling exhibition on the same topic at venues in Amsterdam, Berlin, Tampere, Liege, and Tallinn. Since 2005, he has been professor of organic architecture at the Alanus Hochschule near Bonn, Germany, and lectures and offers courses on architecture throughout Europe. Laura Liska is a naturalist, researcher, photographer and writer who spends a vast amount of her time wandering among magnificent landscapes and works of art, wondering about color, seasonality and beauty. She has been a freelance research associate with the Institute for Contextual Science at the Goetheanum in Switzerland for over a decade. Her original "Falling Leaves Project" explores nature' s coloring in the seasonal cycle of the year through applications of Goethe' s color theory and Rudolf Steiner' s anthroposophical spiritual science. Her current research expands into questions of scientific and theological aesthetics, and the role of beauty in the reconciliation of science, art, and religion. She also has the privilege of editing and translating written works by European Goethean scientists for the English-speaking world. Prior to all that she worked as both an artist and as the biodynamic education coordinator for Rudolf Steiner College, the Biodynamic Association of Northern California, and the Biodynamic Association of North America. Laura currently resides in the French Alsace on the border of Switzerland where she continues to wander happily in stunning Alpine valleys and through Europe' s exquisite museums of art.

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Status:	Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13:	9780932776662
Published:	1 Aug 2022
Published In:
Imprint:	Adonis Press
Publisher:	Adonis Press
Format:	Hardback
Height:	180mm
Width:	242mm
Spine:	14mm
Weight:	476g
Pages:

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