Steven C. Rockefeller is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Middlebury College, Vermont. He received his Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York City and his Ph.D. in the philosophy of religion from Columbia University. Professor Rockefeller is the author of John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism (Columbia, 1991) and the co-editor of Spirit and Nature: Why the Environment is a Religious Issue (Beacon, 1992).
Active in the field of philanthropy, he is chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He serves as a trustee of the Asian Cultural Council and as a member of the Council of the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica. From 1997 to 2000 he chaired the international Earth Charter drafting committee, and he is a member of the Earth Charter Commission.
Professor Rockefeller is a founder, trustee, and former president of the Wendell Gilley Museum in Southwest Harbor, Maine, which focuses primarily on art inspired by bird life and other flora and fauna. He is a founder and president of the Demeter Fund, which promotes environmental conservation in Vermont and recently established a new park overlooking Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains.
Here in NY, the Rockefellers are every where. In NY, specifically, there are two groups that are purely land grabbing groups and they are both funded by the Rockefellers. The first one is called OSI which is short for Open Space Institute and Scenic Hudson. Around where I live, and work, land is being scoffed away by these two groups, once what was private land, and then it is given to the State Parks and property taxes are then increased each year to force other land owners out of their privately owned land. It is scary if you think about it and most people have know idea that it is happening.
Ahhh! Why isn't that sweeeeeeet?!?!?