Alan D. Moore
Butterfly Gardeners Association - Founder & director
Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace - Founder & director International Association of Educators for World Peace - Western States Program Director
Authors for a Positive Millennium - Co-director
Vallejo Performing Arts & Conference Center - Director
707 Marin Street, Vallejo, Ca 94590
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415-424-7238
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Bio: Alan is head of the Butterfly Gardeners' Association, a Berkeley-based group that has sponsored butterfly events, ceremonies and educational projects throughout the United States and wants butterflies and rainbows to become leading symbols for the new millennium. He has joined with many peace, environmental, and social justice groups to make butterfly gardening and philosophy a part of their programs, and has worked to bring the practice into schools, women's shelters, hospitals, hospices, and prisons.

He is also the director and founder of Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace, a group with similar goals with a focus on the performing arts and music as tools for global transformation.

He was a member of the Peace & Justice Committee in Berkeley for three years working on such issues as disarmament, nuclear proliferation, poverty, homelessness, human rights, reforming three strikes, and social and environmental justice. Alan is also working to set up a center in honor of Patch Adams to further his work for Peace and Justice. That center will focus on building world peace through community service at hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, and youth facilities. Patch Adams has become the honorary chairman of the board. He is currently planning to set up a butterfly program and intentional community at Isis Oasis in Geyserville, CA. Please see http://isisoasis.org

He has been working to bring together a coalition of environmental, peace, faith, spiritual, and millennium groups to organize a global Party for the Planet since 1993. He now considers Spirit Aid as the means to do that. His themes have been Transformation Through Forgiveness and Earth Day Every Day. He would like people to focus on creating a sustainable and peaceful world through personal and planetary transformation. He envisions transformational tours and events that will consist of artists, musicians, educators, muralists, sculptors, storytellers, thespians, gardeners, dancers, lecturers, activists, futurists, global visionaries, and authors. They will celebrate the Earth's biological and cultural diversity as they visit social justice, environmental and peace festivals across the country. He is also collaborating with other groups to help make the summer of 2002 a "Global Affair."

He thinks the butterfly is a wonderful messenger to promote world peace and respect for Mother Earth. If we make such things as butterflies and rainbows symbols for world peace and the Millennium, then every time you see a butterfly go by or rainbow in the sky, is a consciousness raising event

He has been invited to and released butterflies at such events as the United Nations Earth Summit +5, the World Peace Festival, Woodstock 97, the Bioneers Conference in San Francisco, Earth Day events in New York, Pennsylvania and California, the Tree Island Millennium Gathering and at many other events and festivals. He has coordinated simultaneous butterfly releases for Hiroshima-Nagaski Observances in cities such as Washington, DC on the Mall, Baltimore at John Hopkin University, New York City at the Buddhist Temple, and Allentown, his old hometown, at Cedar Crest College.

He has taught thousands of children to raise butterflies in the classroom for releases at Earth Day and other festivals, the largest of which launched 2000 winged angels to the heavens. Festivals broke attendance records when butterflies highlighted the closing ceremonies. He also organized the rearing and release of 10,000 butterflies for Earth Day 1999 at the Concord Pavilion, in Berkeley and numerous schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Earth Day Network has spread the idea around the world.

Alan Moore, who raises butterflies in his Berkeley home, was visited by an escaped painted lady. San Francisco Chronicle Photo by Kat Wade

Alan holds a painted lady butterfly