Has anyone here heard of Paxus Calta? Who is he?

Answer 1

His full name is currently "Paxus Adrian Zakarya Tupelo Adelova Calta Star"
Normally, I'd try to summarize things for you, but there ist just too darn much diverse information that covers so many interests and activities, I don't know where to start ... I'm going to have to go with a link here. Sorry!

What an interesting, odd individual!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxus_Calta

Answer 2

Calta was born as Earl Schuyler Flansburgh, or "Sky" as a nickname, in the mid-1950s. Calta studied engineering and economics at Cornell University. After which he worked as a software designer, helping to found and ultimately selling two small software consulting firms. In 1982, he changed his name to Paxus Calta. In 1988, he hitchhiked on sailboats across the Pacific, settled briefly in Australia and then moved on to Hawaii where he worked for Makai Ocean Engineering. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Calta moved to the Netherlands and worked for The World Information Service on Energy (WISE) in Amsterdam. Calta has adventured extensively, having smuggled monks out of Tibet into Nepal, having protested a top Soviet tanks in Estonia.

Calta's employment career is eclectic. He guided submarines between the Hawaiian Islands laying test power cable power. He worked for Standard Oil of Ohio briefly on the North Slope of Alaska. He operated CAD/CAM software for a Dutch real estate firm. Calta worked under a "Secret" level security clearance for the Beltway Defense Contractor BDM as a management systems analyst.

Calta was invited by the Czech Deep Ecology organization, Hnuti DUHA, to run the international campaign against the Temelin nuclear power plant from Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1991, which remained his primary home base for most of the 1990s and where he became a prominent activist against nuclear power. In 1998, Calta and partner Hawina Valkenburg (Falcon) moved to Twin Oaks Community in the United States. Calta has a personal webpage

Paxus Calta (born in the 1950s) is a political activist living in the United States who attained some prominence beginning in the 1980s as an anti-nuclear power campaigner in eastern Europe and the U.S. He is a member of Twin Oaks Community in Virginia, in the southeast U.S., where he has lived for nearly 9 years, and is also an active proponent of polyamory, the idea that consenting adults can honestly practice multiple simultaneous romantic relationships. In 2004, he wrote a chapter of the book The Impossible Will Take a Little While (compiled by Paul Rogat Loeb, in which he detailed a successful campaign to overthrow the Bulgarian government launched by an 18-year old [1]. He remains active in contemporary movements against nuclear power and in memetic design. He continues to develop the quasi-science of funology and co-authored the personal growth system called co-empowerment.

Answer 3

Not heard of him before, but here you go

Answer 4

An anti-nuke political activist