JP Harpignies

	Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Film Art MEB Authors Press Events Distribution Contacts	J.P. Harpignies, a radical “new left” student activist in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the U.S. and Europe, has been involved with many environmental causes. A former program director at the New York Open Center and contributing editor to its magazine, Lapis, he is an associate producer of the annual Bioneers environmental conference as well as a program consultant and conference producer for other organizations. He is the author of Double Helix Hubris (Cool Grove, 1997), a polemical critique of genetic manipulation, and co-editor (with Kenny Ausubel) of the first two titles in the Bioneers book series: Ecological Medicine and Nature’s Operating Instructions (both Sierra Club Books, 2004). He is also a long-time instructor of Taijiquan based in Brooklyn, NYC.

J.P. Harpignies, a radical “new left” student activist in the late 1960s and early
1970s in the U.S. and Europe, has been involved with many environmental causes.
A former program director at the New York Open Center and contributing editor to its
magazine, Lapis, he is an associate producer of the annual Bioneers environmental
conference as well as a program consultant and conference producer for other organizations.
He is the author of Double Helix Hubris (Cool Grove, 1997), a polemical critique of genetic
manipulation, and co-editor (with Kenny Ausubel) of the first two titles in the Bioneers
book series: Ecological Medicine and Nature’s Operating Instructions (both Sierra Club
Books, 2004). He is also a long-time instructor of Taijiquan based in Brooklyn, NYC.