Rosemary Nocera said:

Hello - I just recently joined omidyar and am interested in sustainability theory/practice. I'm an artist/writer living in Oakland, CA and am wondering if you know anyone in this area that I might contact about issues you discussed...

Sorry Rosemary, I'm from Colorado and I just starting to look for that sort of contact here. There is a list of California members of Omidyar.net at:

http://www.omidyar.net/group/community-general/ws/People/

perhaps you can start there. I also invite you to join the discussions at the Sustainable_Living Group. Nothing much is happening there right now but there are topics that I for one would be interested in continuing to pursue.