The Authors

Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Bantam, 2005) was on the New York Times bestseller list for a year and a half, with more than five million copies in print in forty languages. He has written books on topics including self-deception, creativity, meditation, social and emotional learning, and the ecological crisis. He is a cofounder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), he codirects the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, and he is a board member of the Mind & Life Institute. He won a Lifetime Career Award from the American Psychological Association and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Lisa Bennett is the communications director for the Center for Ecoliteracy and a contributor to books including The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness (W. W. Norton, 2010), Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability (Watershed Media, 2009), and A Place at the Table: Struggles for Equality in America (Oxford, 2001). A longtime writer, her articles have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Week, Greater Good, Harvard Review, More, Mothering, New York Times, Newsday, and elsewhere. She currently blogs at The Huffington Post and is a former Fellow at Harvard University's Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Zenobia Barlow is executive director of the Center for Ecoliteracy. A pioneer in creating models of schooling for sustainability, she has designed strategies for applying ecological and indigenous understanding in K–12 education, including the Food Systems Project and the Rethinking School Lunch and Smart by Nature initiatives. She coedited Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World (Sierra Club Books, 2005) and Ecoliteracy: Mapping the Terrain (Learning in the Real World, 2000). She serves on the board of directors of the David Brower Center and is a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute.

Carolie Sly is education program director at the Center for Ecoliteracy, where she is responsible for organizing and directing the Center's professional development work for educators. She founded a high school for at-risk youth and taught at San Francisco State University and public schools in Davis and Napa, California. Carolie earned a doctoral degree in science education from the University of California, Berkeley, and coauthored the award-winning California State Environmental Education Guide (1995) and the Center for Ecoliteracy's Big Ideas: Linking Food, Culture, Health, and the Environment and the discussion guides for the films Food, Inc. and The Last Mountain.