Duane Elgin
Profile
Duane Elgin is an internationally recognized author and speaker regarding our planetary transition. His books include: The Living Universe, Voluntary Simplicity, Promise Ahead, and Awakening Earth.
With Joseph Campbell and other scholars, he co-authored Changing Images of Man. He has done numerous studies of the long-range future since the early 1970s—first while working as a social scientist on a Presidential Commission on the American Future, and then with the futures group in the think-tank, SRI International.
He received the Peace Prize of Japan, the Goi Award, in Tokyo in 2006 in recognition of his contribution to a global “vision, consciousness, and lifestyle” that fosters a “more sustainable and spiritual culture.”
Duane is the Executive Director of a project bringing together more than a dozen “Great Transition Stories” that offer new ways of understanding our time of profound global change.
