Peter Warshall gives a guided tour of this ambitious initiative — a dream that asks, “How do we want to be nourished in the next 15 to 25 years?” Dreaming New Mexico’s (DNM) on-the-ground surveys gave way to vibrant maps that illuminate the state’s agro-ecoregions.

Peter, who co-directed Bioneers’ Dreaming New Mexico initiative, worked for more than 40 years on conservation, biodiversity protection and community development projects in Africa, Latin America and North America for the U.N., USAID, various conservation groups and businesses and Native American Governments. His multi-faceted areas of expertise included natural resource management, watersheds, conservation biology, biodiversity assessments and conflict resolution and consensus building between divergent economic and cultural special interest groups. He was the Sustainability and Anthropology Editor of the Whole Earth Catalog from 1973-1996, and worked as a consultant for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Ethiopia. Closer to home here, he worked for the Point Reyes Bird Observatory on migratory bird habitat conservation. Peter received his B.A. in Biology and a Ph.D. in Biology and Anthropology from Harvard University. He served on the board of directors of the All Species Foundation, Sky Island Alliance, and World Innovation Foundation.

This speech was given at the 2010 Bioneers National Conference.