Joe Lamb, founder of the Borneo Project, is a writer, activist, and arborist living in Berkeley, California. His poetry and essays have appeared in Earth Island Journal, The Sun, Caliban, Wind, Orion, Nostos, and other magazines. His work is also included in the anthologies The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology, Robert Bly et al editors, and Veterans of War/Veterans of Peace, Maxine Hong Kingston editor.
Lamb taught biology and ecology in the United States and Mexico. In 1991 Joe founded the Borneo Project, an NGO assisting indigenous peoples of Borneo secure land rights and protect their forest. He was a field organizer on the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, and a film distributor for The Video Project. For over forty years Lamb has tended trees in the urban Berkley’s urban forest.