Dan Antonioli is a licensed general building contractor, permaculture designer, and green developer. A cultural change agent with a passion for regenerative philosophies, his interests span a wide range of social and economic issues as well as the technical details of sustainability.
He holds a Masters in transpersonal psychology from Sonoma State University and a BA in psychology from UC Berkeley. Founder of the Laytonville Ecovillage in Northern California and a small urban ecovillage in Oakland, CA, he has a personal and professional interest in the role that community plays in shaping a sustainable future.
Dan split his childhood growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Great Basin desert of Nevada in a multigenerational construction family and has seen the negative impacts from both urban and rural development. After many years of pioneering work in California Dan made a decision to move to upstate NY where he’s creating a net zero energy historic home restoration. He is also designing and building a Net Zero Water home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
His company, going-green.co, focuses on the nuts and bolts of sustainable systems as well as comprehensive plans. His combined background in permaculture and construction allows him to put round pegs into square holes, which is something he enjoys.
Larry Roybal is a master adobe builder who has built and renovated more than 20 adobe homes in Silver City/Grant County (and two in Sante Fe) since the early 1970s, when he moved to Silver City from Northern New Mexico. Larry also built the gazebo in Gough Park in Silver City in 1976. Originally from Corrales, he built his first home there out of “terrones,” a sort of “living adobe brick” used by the Isleta Indians.
Larry has been a great mentor during the construction of our first prototype cabin.
Don’t miss this entertaining podcast interview with Larry about his career as a builder.
WolfHorse Joe Saenz is of Huichol and Tci-He-Nde (Red Paint People) ancestry. He is a Warm Springs Apache descendant and current Nantan (President) of the Chiricahua Apache Nation. He leads horse packtrip expeditions into the Gila Wilderness through his company, Wolfhorse Outfitters. His extensive guiding experience includes trips through the American and Canadian Rocky Mountains, Mexico’s Northern Sierra Madre, and the Alaskan Brooks Range. He shares the wisdom of Apache lifeways teachings in all tours and trips. Joe continues the Apache traditional environmental stewardship of Nde Benah. Our education campus is located on the unceded land of the Chiricahua Apache people.
Learn more about WolfHorse Joe Saenz in New Mexico Magazine, “Listening to the Land”.
Gregg Dugan has managed large scale tree crop projects in a variety of biomes – urban, Mediterranean, tropical, semi-arid and arid. He has lived in community for decades, managed a performing arts center in Texas, a conference center and organic farm in France, and was the captain of an ocean-going research vessel for seven years, and participated in accessions for both the rainforest and ocean biomes for the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona. Dugan currently lives in Silver City where he is co-founder of Two Birds Fruit and the director of Two Birds Productions, a media company.
Coakee William Wildcat is an Ecorestoration and Syntropic Agroforestry educator who originally hails from the Oklahoma Seminole Nation. Trained as mechanical engineer, he celebrates having two lenses to navigate the modern world; He integrates the western science studies of soil biology, botany, ecology, Miyawaki reforestation and ecology/climate physics–including the Biotic Pump Theory– with a deep historical and personal understanding of indigenous agroecology traditions, and weaves them into a coherent picture of what human relationship with Earth looks like when we act as a steward species. Coakee is also a builder of cob houses. Don’t miss this captivating podcast interview with Coakee.
Kelly Hart is the creator and webmaster of www.greenhomebuilding.com , www.dreamgreenhomes.com, www.earthbagbuilding.com, and www.naturalbuildingblog.com and has been involved with green building concepts for much of his life. Kelly spent many years as a professional re-modeler, during which time he became acquainted with many of the pitfalls of conventional construction. He has also worked in various fields of communication media, including still photography, cinematography, animation (he has a patent for a process for making animated films), video production and website development. One of his more recent video programs is A Sampler of Alternative Homes: Approaching Sustainable Architecture, which explores a wide range of building concepts that are earth friendly. Kelly is knowledgeable about both simple design concepts and more complex technological aspects of home building that enhance sustainable living. Kelly, and his wife Rosana, lived for many years in an earthbag/papercrete home that he designed and built in the mountains of Colorado. They currently live in an old adobe home in Silver City, NM.
Anita Budhraja
Anita is an organizational development consultant who helps mission driven organizations with strategic planning and conflict resolution. She has over 15 years of experience in the solar energy industry, environmental nonprofit world, and organizational development consulting, along with 8 years living and breathing cooperation in residential intentional communities and ecovillages. Anita is trained in Organizational Development, Conflict Resolution, Transformative Mediation, Nonviolent Communication, meeting facilitation and Permaculture Design. She lives in New York City and enjoys foraging, playing the ukulele, and salsa dancing.
Jeff Goin is the Executive Director for The Lotus Center; a non-profit community space for meditation, yoga, and other moving arts in Silver City, NM. He has been teaching and leading secular meditation classes in Silver City, on a volunteer basis, since 2008. His classes provide people with practical ideas and methods for improving relationships, overcoming anger, dealing with stress and, in general, establishing and maintaining a peaceful state of mind.
Jeff is former national budget manager of Greenpeace U.S. A resident of Silver City since 2007, he co-founded Single Socks, a non-profit thrift store that donates hundreds of thousands of dollars to anti-hunger programs in Grant County, New Mexico. He holds an MBA in finance from George Washington University, and a B.A. in economics from University of Northern Colorado.
Crooked Forest Institute 