Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and campaigner. She won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) in 1993, and the Earth Day Award. In India she is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. Her numerous influential books include Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development (Zed), The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed) and Monocultures of the Mind (Zed).Ingunn Moser teaches at the Centre for Technology and Culture, University of Oslo.