1999

Advisors, National Geographic Magazine. Issue 196(2), August 1999, on global culture, Millennium supplement map of linguistic diversity.
Organizers, video screening “Nature and Culture: Preserving the Diversity of Life”. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, 18 April 1999.

Report on the 16th. International Botanical Congress Organizers, symposium “Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversity Conservation”. 16th International Botanical Congress. St. Louis, Missouri, 1-7 August 1999.
Language, Culture and Understandings of the Environment: lessons for environmental policy and education Organizers, symposium “Language, Culture, and Understandings of the Environment: Lessons for Environmental Policy and Education”. Northwestern University and Field Museum of Natural History, Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, 16-18 April 1999.
Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity Article: Linguistic Diversity (by L. Maffi and T. Skutnabb-Kangas with J. Andrianarivo). In Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity, D. Posey (ed.). Pp. 21-57. London/Nairobi: Intermediate Technology Publications/UN Environment Programme. Weaving together philosophical, historical, legal, scientific and personal viewpoints, this book gives a rich sample of the vast web which makes up our cultural, spiritual…