Ecology.com Authors and Contributors

Shelley Duvall

Shelley Duvall is a major shareholder of Ecology Communications, Inc., having joined ECI in August 2001. In 1980, Ms. Duvall became a pioneering producer of family programming for cable television and worldwide home video, forming her own company, Think Entertainment, and creating, hosting and executive producing the first hour-long, nationwide family series for cable television, the award-winning, star-filled series, Faerie Tale Theater. As she continued to create and executive produce award-winning family programming - including Tall Tales and Legends, and Mother Goose Rock 'N' Rhyme - she received many prestigious programming awards including numerous CableAce Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, and the first Golden ACE, the cable industry's highest award for innovation and excellence. Shelley formed an unprecedented partnership with a consortium of top MSO's, who for the first time invested in production for the existing networks on their systems. An acclaimed actress since 1970 Shelley was discovered by Robert Altman in Houston, and went on to be featured in seven of his films from Brewster McCloud (1970) to Popeye (1980). She later starred as Jack Nicholson's wife, Wendy, in Kubrick's The Shining, played Steve Martin's friend, Dixie, in Roxanne, Nicole Kidman's sister-in-law in Portrait of a Lady, and numerous other films. Altman gave the native Texan one of her best screen roles as the dreamy worker in a nursing home in 3 Women, for which she was awarded best actress at the Cannes Film Festival and the LA Film Critics' Best Actress Award.

Harvard Medical School: The Center for Health and the Global Environment

The Center for Health and the Global Environment was founded in 1996 at Harvard Medical School to expand environmental education at medical schools and to further investigate and promote awareness of the human health consequences of global environmental change. By focusing on health, the center is able to reach people in concrete, personal terms they can relate to and understand, and to make the strongest possible case that human beings are an intimate part of the environment and that we cannot damage it without damaging ourselves.

Alice & Lincoln Day Alice & Lincoln Day 

Alice Day (BA, Smith; MA, Columbia; PhD, Australian National University) and Lincoln Day (BA, Yale; MA and PhD, Columbia) are sociologists/demographers who first met as graduate students at Columbia University. They have been working on joint projects since their student days, mostly focusing on population, peace, and the environment. Their earliest joint project was a book (Too Many Americans. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964) which explored the impact of population increase in rich countries on the quality of life in those countries and its implications for the global use of natural resources. They have traveled widely in the U.S.A, Australia, Europe, and Turkey, and less widely in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They lived in Australia for 23 years and hold dual American/Australian citizenship.

Ed Fitzgerald

Ed Fitzgerald is ecology.com's Executive News Director and the Executive Producer of Ecology Today. Ed comes to ecology.com after years of producing and reporting throughout the world. He has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a Producer for their flagship program THE JOURNAL. Ed was the Senior Field Producer for WORLD MONITOR, a TV news presentation of the Christian Science MONITOR, out of Boston and broadcast on DISCOVERY. While at the MONITOR, Ed covered the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the revolution in Ethiopia and the Gulf War. Ed has been a Special Correspondent for ASIA BUSINESS NEWS (Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal) and CNBC ASIA covering Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos while based in Phnom Penh. Ed has received four gold awards from the NEW YORK FILM & TELEVISION FESTIVAL and the prestigious OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB AWARD. "Everyday, the planet gives us incredible news stories that are not often reported by the mainstream media. Ecology.com's approach to news changes that," says Ed.

Free Range Studios

Free Range Studios is Creativity with a Conscience. The company could be using their talents to sell cheeseburgers or sneakers, but they feel an inherent part of creativity is the creation of something positive and meaningful. That's why they concentrate on offering top-quality design and publicity services to companies and organizations whose vision goes beyond turning the world into a strip mall. And while clients range from world-wide activists like Amnesty International to independent stores trying to survive in an age of franchises, they all share Free Range’s belief that a life's work should create, not corrupt.

Dr. Jack Hall

Dr. Jack Hall is ECI's Director of Science & Education Advancement, and Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Jack was a member of the Department of Earth Sciences from 1984 to 2003, director of Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics, regional director for Science Olympiad, is currently an associate research scientist at the Center for Marine Science Research at UNCW and a research diver for the National Undersea Research Center at UNCW. Jack’s training is in marine micropaleontology, biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. He has worked on the physical and biological aspects of both modern and ancient marine and coastal environments. He has been involved in earth/environmental education for public school teachers and students for over 20 years. He has received over 40 grants related to teacher/student programs from among other the North Carolina Mining Commission, the Eisenhower Professional Development Program, and the National Science Foundation. Jack has over 40 publications related to educational topics and currently has 2 book chapter and a journal article in review. Jack has received among others the Chancellor’s Outstanding Faculty Award at UNCW and was named Outstanding University Science Educator in North Carolina by the North Carolina Science Teachers Association. Dr. Hall earned his Ph.D. in geology from the Ohio State University.

Danny Ledonne

A graduate of Emerson College's film program in Boston, Danny Ledonne and has been exploring the power of the moving image since 1998.  Producer of "Wild Animals, Domesticated Humans: The Zoo and Modern Society,  he also served as director of photography on the award-winning short "KiskaDEE," editor for the experimental documentary "An Awakening Journey," as well as editor and cameraman on "Kenya Hidaya."  In 2007, he produced and edited the full-length documentary "Playing Columbine: a true story of videogame controversy." A Colorado native, Danny is pursuing a career in the natural history filmmaking while continuing to develop his passions for writing and multimedia. After teaching Tae Kwon Do, DJ-ing at a community radio station (KRZA 88.7FM), and working at an Intel Computer Clubhouse (assisting youth in creative media development), Danny enrolled in the MFA film and electronic media program at American University.  He is the owner and operator of Emberwilde Productions and currently lives in Washington, DC.

Eric McLamb

Mr. McLamb, Acting CEO and President of ECI, founded Ecology Communications in 1993 as The Ecology Channel, Inc., later changed to Ecology Communications, Inc. to reflect the broad scope of its operations. Prior to the company's spin-off and subsequent reincorporation in August 2001, he served as Executive Vice President of J-Net. He is a veteran of communications, marketing and strategic relationship development for television programming and programming services, having worked over 20 years in executive capacities with such companies as Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (now part of AOL Time Warner) and Discovery Communications, Inc. (Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel). Mr. McLamb’s career has focused on creating strategic alliances and business models for television and related content for major national and international distribution, with a particular emphasis on ecology and the environment. Such efforts have resulted in major alliances with a number of strategic organizations such as The Cousteau Society, National Geographic Society, World Wildlife Fund, National Wildlife Federation, Audubon Society, Environmental Media Association, and educational institutions such as University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Center for Marine Science), UCLA (School of Public Health), Texas A&M University, among many others.

Christopher N. Palmer

Chris Palmer, ECI Strategic Content Development, is the Distinguished Film Producer in Residence and Director of the Center for Environmental Filmmaking for the School of Communication, American University. He has spent 25 years producing more than 300 hours of original programming for prime time television and the large format film industry. His films have been broadcast on the Disney Channel, TBS SuperStation, Animal Planet, Home and Garden Television, The Travel Channel, The Outdoor Life Network, the Public Broadcasting System and in the global system of IMAX theaters. He joined American University in August 2004, establishing the Center for Environmental Filmmaking at the School of Communication. In addition to teaching as a full-time faculty member, Chris continues to produce films, give speeches, and conduct workshops across the country. Chris is president of the MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation, and also serves as chief executive officer of VideoTakes Inc., a film production company in Arlington, Va, where he produces environmental films, videos, DVDs, and new media. In 1983, he founded the nonprofit National Audubon Society Productions, and then in 1994, he founded the nonprofit National Wildlife Productions (part of the National Wildlife Federation) which he managed as president and CEO for 10 years. He and his colleagues are the winners of numerous awards, including two Emmys and an Oscar nomination

Elfreda Pretorius

Elfreda Pretorius is an author, and radio personality specializing in Self Empowerment. In this new radio series, Elfreda will cover green living and reducing toxicity in our homes. These small steps will allow individuals to help take charge of their own carbon footprint, helping themselves and the collective world. Elfreda’s book, Stop Struggling and Start Living: The Rules of the Game, addresses additional self empowerment tips. 

Hailing from South Africa, Elfreda now lives in Canada with her husband and her cat Thumper. To learn more about Elfreda visit ElfredaPretorius.com.

Eric Schubring

Eric Schubring is Public Affairs Director and Senior Producer at WOJB FM, located on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation Hayward, WI

View Studio, Inc.

View Studio, Inc. is a creative boutique providing a full range of high quality digital media services from concept through implementation. View Studio has a 25-year working history with Hollywood’s major Television and Cable Networks, Film Studios and high profile Production Companies. View offers compelling concept, branding, design, production, digital effects and post-production finishing for broadcast design and promo, episodic television, commercials, music videos, film, print and new media applications.