Jim Fournier
Jim Fournier is co-principal of PLANETWORK, a San Francisco non-profit, which produced the first international conference on global ecology and information technology in May 2000. http://www.planetworkers.org/planet.html
Since then he has been focused on initiatives to catalyze an emergent global network of people and organizations who share ecological and social justice values using the Internet through the Planetwork Consortium. http://www.planetwork.net/consortium/frames/index.html
He is currently working on the next major Planetwork Conference: Networking a Sustainable Future, which will bring together key players form many of these networks June 6-8 2003. http://www.planetwork.net
A former industrial designer, entrepreneur, software developer, systems analyst and industrial ecologist, he is co-chair of the New Visions Grants Committee at the Threshold Foundation and serves on the board of the Parapsychology Research Group, and on the advisory boards of the Meru Foundation, Buckminster Fuller Institute, Perrinsville Group, LinkTank and ManyOne Networks.
Following undergraduate work in physics and chemistry he went on to study architecture at MIT, and at twenty three started JLF Designs, which rapidly grew into a premier line of international high-design consumer products, winning numerous awards during the late 80's. He worked as a geometry partner with Silicon Graphics in the early 90's, and served as the ecology editor for the Industrial Design Society of America where he was an early advocate of industrial ecology. Jim retired from business to focus on global sustainability and the evolution of consciousness in 1995.
In 1997 he organized the first global meditation on ecology using the Internet, which involved millions of people, made two minutes on CNN, and catalyzed the Internet linkage of a system of random number generators which have consistently measured the affect of human mass consciousness during events such as 9-11. In 1998 he co-convened the Sequoia Symposia on synergetic geometry in science, and co-founded Planetwork. He is also currently working on his doctoral dissertation, on the evolution of technology in the context of biological evolution, entitled Meta-Nature. http://metanature.org
jim@geoman.com