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Recent figures from the United Nations show that more than half of humanity exists on less than $2.00 a day, 1.3 billion people live in shanty towns and garbage dumps, and 40,000 die everyday from preventable diseases and malnutrition.

In 1800, only 2% of the world’s population was urbanized. In 1950, 30% of the world population was urban; in 2000, 47%. More than half of the Earth’s population will be living in urban areas in 2008. By 2030, it is expected that 60% will live in urban areas.

Approximately 2,450,000,000 persons (40% of the world’s population) don’t have electricity.

Number of children in the world: 2.2 billion. Number of children living in developing countries: 1.9 billion. Number of children living in poverty: 1 billion--every second child lives in poverty.

A sampling of project costs associated with the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site:
Transportation Hub & Wedge of Light Plaza - $2 billion (total budget),
Discarded WTC Master Plan done by Beyer Blinder Belle - $3.1 million,
Fees earned by SHoP Architects for work on the Rector Street Bridge - $11,000;
Limousine expenses reimbursed to Studio Libeskind - $6,788.

There are between 1 and 2 billion buildings on the Earth.

During the week of December 23-30, 2004, Crisis homeless charity took over the Millennium Dome, London’s $1.9 billion landmark designed by Richard Rogers Partnership, and turned it into a homeless shelter for the holidays. Beyond providing shelter, Crisis offered workshops in skills, such as plumbing and numeracy, to 1,500 homeless people.

One out of four adults in the world is illiterate.

According to the World Health Organization, obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than 1 billion adults overweight--at least 300 million of them are clinically obese--and is a major contributor to the global burden of chronic disease and disability.

“ Estimates are that there are about a billion squatters in the world today—one of every six humans on the planet. And the density is on the rise. Every day, close to two hundred thousand people leave their ancestral homes in the rural regions and move to the cities. Almost a million and a half people every week, seventy million a year. Within 25 years, the number of squatters is expected to double. The best guess is that by 2030, there will be two billion squatters, one in four people on earth.”

China’s environmental agency estimates that 600 million Chinese drink water every day contaminated with human and animal waste.
In 2000, waste tires sitting on US stockpiles totaled 500 million.

Chile’s native forests include the world’s second largest remaining expanse of temperate rainforest. This is largely coastal temperate rainforest dominated by broad-leafed evergreen trees--the siempre verde forest type, unique to southern Chile and Argentina. Most of the species in Chile’s native forests are found nowhere else in the world. For example, the araucaria tree that is native to Chile represents the world’s oldest surviving tree species, estimated to be 200 million years old. One inhabitant of Chile’s native forests is the pudu, the world’s smallest deer. Full-grown, this animal is only about 15 inches tall. In one 10-year period (1985 to 1995), Chile lost 4.5 million acres of productive native forest. In 1995, Chile’s Central Bank estimated that all of the country’s unprotected native forests would disappear within 20 years if they continued to be exploited at the rate that was current then. Despite this warning, Chile’s wood products industry recently announced plans to dramatically accelerate the expansion of non-native tree farms in Chile, from approximately 4.5 million acres today to as many as 9 million acres by the year 2020. The United States is the #1 destination for wood products exported from Chile. In 2001, more than 22% of Chile’s “forestry exports” (ranked by value in U.S. $) went to the United States. The #2 destination (Japan) was far behind with a little more than 12% of the exports. The total value of Chile’s wood products exports to the U.S. in 2001 was approximately $340 million. The vast majority of the wood products exports to the U.S. come from trees harvested on Chile’s non-native tree farms. The dominant wood products imported into the U.S. from Chile are mouldings, door and window components and frames, clear wood blocks and “cutstock” made of radiata pine. According to an exhaustive analysis of official data compiled by the U.S. Journal of Commerce through April 2002, just four U.S. based companies were responsible for more than 40% of the wood products by value imported from Chile into the United States. According to moulding manufacturer El & El Wood Products, moulding containing radiata pine was installed in nearly 95% of the tract homes constructed in the last 20 years in Nevada, Arizona and southern California.

Brazil, with a grass-fed herd of 175 million cattle that is the world’s largest, passed the United States as the world’s largest exporter of beef in 2003. Brazil is also the world’s largest exporter of chickens, orange juice, sugar, coffee, and tobacco. Brazilians refer to agriculture as the “green anchor” of their economy.

Thatch is the world’s most common roofing material. It is claimed that India alone has more than forty million thatched buildings. A good-quality roof can be up to twelve inches (thirty centimeters) thick and has a preferred angle of forty-five degrees.

Total annual U.S. construction and demolition waste generation: 13,000,000 tons; number of US commercial buildings demolished annually: 44,000; number of US housing units demolished annually: 245,000; portion of US annual landfill waste stream associated with construction and demolition: 10-30%.

The Pearl River Delta is the largest production landscape in the world: 90% of everything that is “Made in China” is made there. In 2003 the delta had 12 million inhabitants; it is expected to triple to 36 million by 2020. At least two thirds of these people are so-called floaters, migrants without status, and with no home. 92% of the inhabitants use public transport, and there are only 25 cars available for every 1000 inhabitants.

In the last century, drought killed 10,009,000 people worldwide; floods caused the deaths of 6,888,000; earthquakes killed 1,883,000; wind storms 1,197,000; volcanoes 96,000; and landslides 54,000.

Countries with the largest internally displaced populations:
Sudan (6 million),
The Democratic Republic of Congo (2,170,000),
Uganda (2,030,802),
Colombia (1,580,396-3,410,041),
Iraq (1.1 million),
Algeria (1,000,000), and
Turkey (354,000-1,000,000).

Estimated number of people today who are enslaved: 27,000,000.

There are probably tens of millions of human-made particles smaller than 1 cm currently in Earth orbit. The estimated population of particles between 1 and 10 cm in diameter is greater than 100,000. Approximately 11,000 objects larger than 10 cm are known to exist, most within 2,000 km of the Earth’s surface.

In 2000, Tokyo was the only city with a population over 20 million. It is predicted that in 2015, five cities will exceed this amount:
Tokyo (26.4 million),
Bombay/Mumbai (26.1),
Lagos (23.2),
Dhaka (21.1), and
Sao Paulo (20.4 million).

" Every license for Office plus Windows in Brazil--a country in which 22 million people are starving--means we have to export 60 sacks of soybeans," says Marcelo D'Elia Branco, coordinator of the country's Free Software Project and liaison between the open source community and the national government, now headed by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. "For the right to use one copy of Office plus Windows for one year or a year and a half, until the next upgrade, we have to till the earth, plant, harvest, and export to the international markets that much soy. When I explain this to farmers, they go nuts."

About 15 million tons of new drywall are produced in the U.S. every year.   About 12 percent of the drywall used in new construction ends up as scrap.

Every minute 20 children under 5 years of age die, leading to 10.6 million deaths per year. The majority of these deaths are caused by conditions that are either preventable or treatable.

Global forest cover stands at approximately half the original extent of 8,000 years ago. According to the U.N., an average of 9.4 million hectares of forest (roughly the size of Portugal) was lost annually during the 1990s. Africa and the Caribbean had the highest rates of deforestation, each losing 0.8 percent of total forested area per year. Major logging countries also suffer from rapid deforestation: Indonesia loses nearly 2 million hectares of forest annually, while Brazil lost 2.3 million hectares of Amazon forest between August 2002 and 2003.

“ The causes of avoidable blindness are frequently associated with poverty and lack of access to quality eye care services. Avoidable blindness is more common in the poorest of the poor, women and marginalized populations. Ninety percent of the world’s blind people live in the developing countries; there are at least 9 million blind people in India, six million in China and seven million in Africa. People who live in the developing world are five to ten times more likely to go blind than people who live in highly industrialized countries.”

In June 2004 Microsoft was awarded U.S. Patent No. 6,754,472, which describes how the epidermis could act as a conduit for the transmission of data between wearable electronic devices such as cell phones and handheld devices.

Some cities have had astonishing population growth rates. Dhaka, Bangladesh, for example, nearly doubled in population between 1990 and 2000, gaining some 6 million people.

Grameen Bank introduced “micro” loans to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh in 1984. As of July 2005, the Grameen had 4.89 million borrowers, 96 percent of whom were women. Its loan recovery rate is 99 percent. The maximum amount given for a housing loan is $249 (U.S.) to be repaid over a period of 5 years in weekly installments; the interest rate is 8 per cent. During the past 12 months (from August 2004 to July 2005) 28,209 houses were built with housing loans amounting to $4.65 million U.S. With 1,583 branches, GB provides services in 55,050 villages. This program was awarded the Aga Khan International Award for Architecture in 1989.

Lost in the 2005 London bombings: Britain has 4 million video cameras monitoring streets, parks, and government buildings, more than any other country. London alone has 500,000 cameras watching for signs of illicit activity.

An entire “island” composed of trash churns in the Pacific Ocean. It is as large as Central Europe. According to the German magazine Geo, plastic objects prevail among the trash. The “island” weighs approximately 3,000,000 tons. Scientists claim the “island,” situated between California and Hawaii, is formed by circular ocean currents which accumulate wastes from the shores of Japan and the U.S. and bring it to the center of the ocean.
The most recent national count of the number of people who experience homelessness in the U.S. was conducted in 1996. Based on this count, it was estimated that between 2.3 and 3.5 million people experienced homelessness over the course of that year.

In 2001, Heather Montgomery, a lecturer in Childhood Studies at Open University and a well-known anthropologist, conducted an in-depth study of a small Thai slum. She found that every household had at least one child working as a prostitute. Their ages ranged from four to 15 years. . . The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that more than several hundred thousand children are currently forced into prostitution in Thailand. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) states that more than 1 million new children worldwide enter the industry every year and are forced to serve between five to ten clients a day. . . The U.S. Department of State reports that 2.3 million women and children are trafficked in India alone. . .

The U.S. Department of Justice reported 2,019,234 people incarcerated in the U.S. in 2002. The number of inmates is four times what it was in mid-1970s.

Average number of rural acres lost to “urban sprawl” in the U.S. each year since 1970: 1,000,000.

The U.S. State Department estimates that 600,000 to 800,000 people a year are trafficked across international borders, mostly girls and most of them for the sex industry. Many more are trafficked within a country.

The Architects in the Community Programme was adopted by the Cuban government in 1998. This programme, developed by the Argentinean architect Rodolfo Livingstone, uses a participatory design approach, in which architects and household members jointly plan and design their houses. Today, 157 out of a total of 169 municipalities in Cuba are using this methodology and over 500,000 households have benefited. In 2001, the Architects in the Community Programme was awarded the World Habitat Award by the UK-based Building and Social Housing Foundation.

Three-quarters of China’s growing energy needs are provided by burning brown coal. SEPA, China’s environmental agency, estimates that more than 300,000 people die every year from respiratory ailments. Living in the most polluted cities, they say, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

Over 300,000 people below the age of eighteen are fighting in wars around the world.

In late 2003, the Massachusetts Audubon Society estimated that over 202,000 acres, or 40 acres per day, were visibly converted to new development statewide between 1985 and 1999. Thirty-one acres of forest, 7 acres of agricultural land, and 2 acres of open space were developed each day during the period. Nearly nine of every ten acres lost went to residential development, with 65 percent used for low-density, large-lot construction.

Almost 180,000 people are added to the planet’s urban population each day.

The 2001 Population Census in Australia counted 90,900 houseless people; 10% were under the age of 12 years, 36% were between 12 and 24 years. According to Rebecca’s Community (a community group whose staff and volunteers work with people who experience homelessness in Sydney, Australia), “If a child does become homeless before the age of 15, in almost every case it is because of sexual or violent abuse. The child leaves because it is safer for them to live on the streets than to live at home.”

According to the Herald Sun, around 152,900 people used homeless accommodation services throughout Australia in 2003-04, including almost 64,000 children, a rise of 1,500 from the year before. In the same period, funding for those services under the national Supported Accommodation Assistance Program (SAAP) fell by almost $7 million.

At 88,000 square feet, the Shaw Millennium Park in Calgary, Alberta is the world’s largest outdoor skatepark. The park features a banked bowl area, a jump box, roll-on rails, a funbox, wall rides, a quarter pipe, and a 30’ diameter full pipe. It is open 24-hours a day, every day, and there is no admission charge.

Summer 2003 was Europe's hottest for at least 500 years. In August, between 22,000 and 35,000 people died due to a heat wave. Economic losses totaled over $13 billion. The average temperature was 3.5°C above normal. The World Meteorological Organization believes that, in the U.S. alone, annual heat-related deaths could more than double by 2020.

The very remoteness of Antarctica, long considered the planet’s last untouched place, raises a new threat: tourism. According to the International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators, airplanes that land on the continent, as well as cruise ships, carried nearly 20,000 people to the continent in the 2003-2004 season, more than twice as many as a decade ago.

Estimated average price of a male newborn in a Bulgarian infant-selling ring busted in summer 2004: $18,000. Estimated average price of a female newborn: $6,000.

Nutrients in animal waste cause algal blooms, which use up oxygen in the water, contributing to the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico where there’s not enough oxygen to support aquatic life. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, the dead zone fluctuates in size each year, extending over 5,800 square miles during the summer of 2004 and stretching over 7,700 square miles during the summer of 1999.

Builders of new homes in the U.S. typically generate about 3,000 pounds of wood, 2,000 pounds of drywall and 600 pounds of cardboard as waste for the average 2,000-square-foot home.

NOTES
“ Recent figures”: Cheri Honkala, “Statement No. 11, Kensington Welfare Rights Union & the Economic Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Internet, HYPERLINK "http://www.hri.ca/uninfo/ngoaccess/ngostatements/honkala.shtml" http://www.hri.ca/uninfo/ngoaccess/ngostatements/honkala.shtml (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ In 1800”: “Urbanization: Facts and Figures,” United Nations Human Settlement Programme, HYPERLINK "http://www.unhabitat.org/mediacentre/documents/backgrounder5.doc" http://www.unhabitat.org/mediacentre/documents/backgrounder5.doc (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ Approximately”: Maximillien Rouer. “The Earth in Numbers.” In Earth From Above: 365 Days, photographs by Yahn Arthus-Bertrand. New York: Harry N. Abrams.

“ Number of children”: Carol Bellamy, “The Facts” in UNICEF Report: The State of the World’s Children 2005: Childhood Under Threat. New York: United Nations Children’s Fund, 2004.

“ A sampling”: “World Trade Windfall,” The Architect’s Newspaper, November 16, 2004.

“ There are between”: Howard Davis. The Culture of Building. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

“ During the week”: “Crisis Open Christmas providing companionship and services,” Crisis, HYPERLINK "http://www.crisis.org.uk/projects/crisis_open_christmas.php" http://www.crisis.org.uk/projects/crisis_open_christmas.php (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ One out of four”: Rouer, “Earth in Numbers.”

“ According to”: “Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health: Obesity and Overweight,” World Health Organization, HYPERLINK "http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/publications/facts/obesity/en/" http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/publications/facts/obesity/en/ (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ Estimates are”: Robert Neuwirth, Shadow Cities. New York: Routledge, 2005.

“ China’s environmental agency”: Kevin Arnold. “China Catches Up,” Adbusters, January/February 2005.

“ In 2000”: Jane Holtz Kay. Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We can Get It Back. New York: Crown, 1997.

“ Chile’s native forests”: “Wood Campaign Facts: Facts about Chile’s Native Forests: Singular & Critically Endangered.” ForestEthics, HYPERLINK "http://www.forestethics.org/wood/facts.html" http://www.forestethics.org/wood/facts.html (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ Brazil”: Larry Rother. “South America Seeks to Fill the World’s Table.” New York Times, 12 December 2004.

“ Thatch”: Bill Steen, Athena Steen and Eiko Komatsu. Built by Hand: Vernacular Buildings around the World. Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2003.

“ Total annual U.S. construction”: Environmental Building News, as cited in Architecture, April 2003.

“ The Pearl”: Francine Houben and Luisa Maria Calabrese. Mobility: A Room with a View. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2003.

“ In the last century”: Death tolls are from 1900 to 2004 except earthquakes (1901-2004) and landslides (1903-2004). “A Century’s Death Tolls,” New York Times, January 2, 2005.

“ Countries with”: According to the IDP Project, "Internally displaced persons are persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized State border.” See “IDP Estimates,” Global IDP Project, Norwegian Refugee Council, HYPERLINK "http://www.idpproject.org/statistics.htm" http://www.idpproject.org/statistics.htm (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ Estimated number”: Kevin Bales. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Berkeley: University of California Press. In The Harper’s Index Book, Volume 3, edited by Charis Conn and Lewis H. Lapham. New York: Franklin Square Press, 2000.

“ There are probably”: NASA Orbital Debris Program Office, HYPERLINK "http://sn-callisto.jsc.nasa.gov/index.html" http://sn-callisto.jsc.nasa.gov/index.html (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ In 2000, Tokyo”: Urbanization: Facts and Figures,” United Nations Human Settlement Programme, HYPERLINK "http://www.unhabitat.org/mediacentre/documents/backgrounder5.doc" http://www.unhabitat.org/mediacentre/documents/backgrounder5.doc (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ Every license”: Alex Steffen, “The Brasilia Consensus, Free Software and Gilberto Gil’s Dreadlocks,” (November 5, 2004), WorldChanging, HYPERLINK "http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001525.html" http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001525.html (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ About 15 million”: California Integrated Waste Management Board (2002), “Metro: Recycling and Waste Prevention,” HYPERLINK "http://www.metro-region.org/article.cfm?articleid=5566" http://www.metro-region.org/article.cfm?articleid=5566 (September 11, 2005).

“ Every minute”: World Health Organization. Child and Adolescent Health and Development: Progress Report 2004. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2005.

“ Global forest cover”: “Dude, Where Are My Forests?,” Worldwatch Institute, HYPERLINK "http://www.worldwatch.org/features/vsow/2005/07/18/" http://www.worldwatch.org/features/vsow/2005/07/18/ (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ The causes”: “World Sight Day: 10 October,” World Health Organization, HYPERLINK "http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/pr79/en/" http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/pr79/en/ (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ In June 2004”: Adbusters, January/February 2005.

“ Some cities”: “The world comes to town,” People & the Planet, HYPERLINK "http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=1054&section=5" http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=1054&section=5 (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ Grameen Bank”: Grameen Bank, “Grameen Bank at a Glance,” http://www.grameen-info.org/bank/GBGlance.htm (September 11, 2005).

“ Lost”: Catherine Yang, “The State of Surveillance,” Business Week, August 8, 2005, downloaded from HYPERLINK "http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2005/Surveillance-Orwell-Business8aug05.htm" http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2005/Surveillance-Orwell-Business8aug05.htm (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ An entire”: “’Trash island’ discovered in the Pacific Ocean,” Pravda (February 24, 2004). HYPERLINK "http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Trash-Platic-Island24feb04.htm" http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Trash-Platic-Island24feb04.htm (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ The most recent”: “Millions Still Face Homelessness in a Booming Economy,” Urban Institute (February 1, 2000), HYPERLINK "http://www.urban.org/Template.cfm?Section=PressReleases&NavMenuID=4&PublicationID=6972&Template=/TaggedContent/PressReleases.cfm" http://www.urban.org/Template.cfm?Section=PressReleases&NavMenuID=4&PublicationID=6972&Template=/TaggedContent/PressReleases.cfm (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ In 2001”: Corey Rennell. “Saving the Youngest Workers: The Struggle Against the Southeast Asian Sex Trade,” Harvard International Review, Fall 2004.

“ The U.S. Department”: Dolores Hayden. A Field Guide to Sprawl. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.

“ Average number”: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington DC. In The Harper’s Index Book, Volume 3, edited by Charis Conn and Lewis H. Lapham. New York: Franklin Square Press, 2000.

“ The U.S. State”: Nicholas D. Kristof. “Cambodia, Where Sex Traffickers are King.” New York Times, January 15, 2005.

“ The Architects”: Rasna Warah. “Success Story: Architects are helping Cuba’s housing revolution,” peopleandplanet.net, people and cities, HYPERLINK "http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=1986" http://www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=1986 (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ Three-quarters”: Kevin Arnold. “China Catches Up.” Adbusters 13, no. 1 (January/February 2005).

“ Over 300,000”: Dan Smith. The Penguin Atlas of War and Peace. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2003.

“ In late 2003”: “Losing Ground: At What Cost,” Massachusetts Audubon Society, HYPERLINK "http://www.massaudubon.org/news/index.php?id=19&type=news" http://www.massaudubon.org/news/index.php?id=19&type=news (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ Almost 180,000”: “Urbanization: Facts and Figures,” United Nations Human Settlement Programme, HYPERLINK "http://www.unhabitat.org/mediacentre/documents/backgrounder5.doc" http://www.unhabitat.org/mediacentre/documents/backgrounder5.doc (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ The 2001”: “Houseless Statistics,” Rebecca’s Community, HYPERLINK "http://www.homeless.org.au/statistics/houselessness.htm" http://www.homeless.org.au/statistics/houselessness.htm (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ According to”: “More homeless, Less funding,” Herald Sun, HYPERLINK "http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12583073%255E1702,00.html" http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12583073%255E1702,00.html (accessed September 11, 2005), n.d.

“ At 88,000”: “Calgary Skate Parks: Shaw Millennium Park,” City of Calgary Recreation, HYPERLINK "http://www.gov.calgary.ab.ca/skatepark/pg_millennium_home.html" http://www.gov.calgary.ab.ca/skatepark/pg_millennium_home.html (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ Summer 2003”: “Chapter 2: Heatwaves: The Developed World’s Hidden Disaster,” in World Disasters Report 2004, published by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, HYPERLINK "http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr2004/chapter2.asp" http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr2004/chapter2.asp (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ The very remoteness”: Andrew Curry. “Unexpected Antarctica.” Smithsonian (September 2004): 82.

“ Estimated average”: State Police Headquarters, Pordenone, Italy, as cited in Harper’s Index, Harper’s, December 2004.

“ Nutrients”: “Facts about Pollution from Livestock Farms,” Natural Resources Defense Council, HYPERLINK "http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/ffarms.asp" http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/ffarms.asp (accessed September 11, 2005).

“ Builders”: National Association of Home Builders Research Center (2001). “Metro: Recycling and Waste Prevention,” HYPERLINK "http://www.metro-region.org/article.cfm?articleid=5566" http://www.metro-region.org/article.cfm?articleid=5566 (accessed September 11, 2005).

Compiled and edited by Wes Janz.
Contributors include: Vickie Abrahamson, Robert Beckley, Zachary Benedict, Amal Cavender, Jon Coddington, Steve Cook, Nisha Fernando, Tülay Günes, Paul Howey, Adam Janusz, Devin McConkey, Adriane McGillis, Bhavana Mokha, Jeremy Nye, Poonam Prakash, Kurt West, Parker Williams, Suzan Wines.