Paul Lee is an American philosopher, leader, teacher, and friend. He played a critical role in advancing the organic food production movements and preserving the beauty and nature of UC, Santa Cruz.

Paul had a vision of a greener future, one in which there would be a reversion from perverse practices of industrial food production to more organic practices that would protect the integrity of nature - the essence of this he would call “Ecotopia”. The vision of Ecotopia would come to gain popularity and amass into a nationwide trend toward ecocentric systems.