The Ecology of Hope: Communities Collaborate for Sustainability

Ted Bernard is a professor of environmental studies in the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University. He has studied community-based conservation in Africa and North America for more than three decades.He lives on a ridge-top farm with his wife Donna Lofgren, their two Maine Coon cats, and an array of wild critters, which is located ten miles upstream from the Ohio River in the Shade River watershed. Jora Young is currently Science & Stewarship Director for the Florida region of the Nature Conservancy, has a special interest in restoration and ecosystem processes, and lectures widely on ecosystem conservation.