Dr. Debra Rowe is Senior Fellow at the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (www.ulsf.org), where she helps higher education institutions integrate "sustainability literacy" into curricula throughout the disciplines, student life, operations and community partnerships. She is an Executive Committee member for the U.S. Partnership for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (www.uspartnership.org) and is the co-chair of the Higher Education Sector. Dr. Rowe is also the energy and sustainability consultant to the National Science Database Library (www.eerl.org), which is funded by the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Rowe is the author and editor of numerous publications on the integration of sustainability into education (see www.ncseonline.org/EFS/DebraRowe.pdf and www.urbanoptions.org/SustainEdHandbook for examples).

Dr. Richard H. Robbins received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of North Carolina in 1970 and has spent his entire teaching career at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Some of his most formative academic experiences include field research among Cree, Inuit and Naskapi peoples in Canada; Acadian farmers and fisherfolk in New Brunswick, Canada; and among communal religious members in the United States. A semester at the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh would count as one of his most stimulating intellectual experiences.

Dr. Robbins's most recent publications include an introductory textbook in anthropology, Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-Based Approach (4th edition, 2006), the first edition of which received the Text and Academic Authors Association textbook of the year award; and Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (3rd edition, 2005), which was selected by Choice (the Journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries) as An Outstanding Academic Title of the year. Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism provides the reader with the anthropological, economic, and historical framework to understand the origins of global problems, why globalization and the global expansion of the culture of capitalism have generated protest and resistance, and the steps necessary to solve global problems. It also contains substantial online resources on global problems.

Dr. Robbins has received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the American Anthropological Association/McGraw-Hill Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology. He is currently SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at Plattsburgh. During his undergraduate days he pedaled a Good Humor wagon up and down the hilly streets of Long Island City now traveled by LaGuardia Community College students. He maintains a global problems website at http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/legacy/ and a general website at http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins.