Duane Elgin Biography

Duane Elgin is an author speaker educator consultant and media activist. For more than three decades he has defined the cutting edge in consciousness research in the ecology movement and in future studies. He pioneered the “Voluntary Simplicity” movement with his now classic first book of the same name published in the 1980s. The book provided an exploration of the practical and philosophical meaning of simplicity as well as a comprehensive overview of the precarious ecological predicament of our planet.
As an internationally recognized author and speaker who looks beneath the surface turbulence of our times to explore the deeper trends that are transforming our world Duane Elgin examines how momentous adversity trends (such as climate change) are meeting equally momentous opportunity trends (such as the global communications revolution) and what the implications of such converegences may hold. For more than thirty years Duane Elgin has been speaking and writing in four major areas: the big picture of humanity’s evolutionary journey at this pivotal time in history more sustainable and satisfying ways of living media accountability for an empowered citizenry and society and the convergence of science with the world’s wisdom traditions and their shared views of a living universe.

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