John de Graaf is the executive director of Take Back Your Time (www.timeday.org) and a director of the Happiness Initiative (www.sustainableseattle.org). He is a documentary television producer with fifteen national PBS specials and more than one hundred filmmaking awards. He is the coauthor of Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic and the editor of Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America. He has taught at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and lives in Seattle.
David K. Batker is the executive director of Earth Economics and a native of Tacoma, Washington. Earth Economics (see www.eartheconomics.org) is a pragmatic nonprofit organization that helps identify, value, map, and model ecosystem services. He is a cofounder of Myoonet, a private company developing next-generation data centers for the integration of education, health, and sustainability. He has worked in the coal industry and for Greenpeace International. David has also worked in over forty countries solving a wide variety of practical environmental problems, including improving policies for international finance.