Potential Speakers

 

Ray Anderson

(bio from Interface, Inc.)

  • Founder, chairman and CEO of Interface, Inc., the world's largest commercial carpet manufacturer.
  • Leader in environmentally responsible business practice; set Interface toward a goal of progressing even beyond sustainability, to eventually being environmentally restorative through its business practice.
  • Chosen by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to receive the 2001 George and Cynthia Mitchell International Prize for Sustainable Development.
  • Author, __Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model\"__ (1999)
  • Speaker info at [http://www.bigspeak.com/ray-anderson.html].

 

 

Peter Bardaglio

 

 

Anthony D. Cortese

(bio from Second Nature)

  • President of Second Nature, a nonprofit organization with a mission to catalyze a worldwide effort to make healthy, just, and environmentally sustainable action a foundation of all learning and practice in higher education.
  • Cofounder of EFS West (now AASHE).
  • An acclaimed presenter and respected consultant, Dr. Cortese visits campuses across the U.S. inspiring and empowering higher education stakeholders to move from good intentions to concrete actions.
  • Tony Cortese could easily be described as one of the "grandfathers" of Education for Sustainability and Sustainability in Higher Education efforts.

 

 

Steve Curwood

(bio from Living on Earth)

  • Executive Producer and Host, NPR's \"Living on Earth\" radio program.
  • Steve created the first pilot of Living on Earth in the Spring of 1990, and the show has run continuously since April, 1991. Today, Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is aired on more than 300 National Public Radio affiliates in the USA. Steve's relationship with NPR goes back to 1979 when he began as a reporter and host of Weekend All Things Considered. He also hosted NPR's World of Opera. Steve has been a journalist for more than 30 years with experience at NPR, CBS News, the Boston Globe, WBUR-FM/Boston and WGBH-TV/Boston. He shared the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as part of the Boston Globe's education team. Steve Curwood is also the recipient of the 2003 Global Green Award for Media Design, the 2003 David A. Brower Award from the Sierra Club for excellence in environmental reporting and the 1992 New England Environmental Leadership Award from Tufts University for his work on promoting environmental awareness. He is president of the World Media Foundation, Inc., and a Lecturer in Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard University.
  • Curwood is also a trustee of Haverford College (he mentioned this in a talk he gave at the [www.greencampus.harvard.edu/NECSCconference/|NECSC 2005 conference], that Pat Brennan and Nils Klinkenberg both attended).

 

 

Adam A. Gross

  • Principal, Ayers/Saint/Gross Architects + Planners (currently a consultant in UR's Facilities Master Planning process).
  • Fellow, American Institute of Architects.
  • Was (according to Paul Tankel) one of four invitees to the master planning process for the University of Hong Kong.
  • Ayers/Saint/Gross is a leading firm in campus planning, and its approach includes explicit attention to holistic Sustainability (A/S/G Sustainability website).
  • Adam Gross, as a participant in UR's campus planning process, could provide a valuable connection back to the practical concerns of incorporating sustainability into University operations.

 

 

Teresa Heinz

  • Chairman, The Howard Heinz Endowment and the Heinz Family Philanthropies.
  • Has demonstrated long-standing commitment to environmental, health, education, and sustainability issues, including their relation to college and university contexts. Heinz's support was central to the occurrence of the 1994 Campus Earth Summit at Yale, a landmark environmental conference attended by hundreds of faculty, staff, and students from 22 countries and all 50 states. The Summit resulted in the \"Blueprint for a Green Campus\", one of the earliest documents outlining the role of higher education in catalyzing environmental sustainability considerations in broader society.

 

 

Amory Lovins

(bio from RMI)

  • Cofounder and CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute.
  • Chairman, Hypercar, Inc.
  • Winner of a ton of prizes and awards (see website bio).
  • World-renowned expert on energy and resource efficiency, and finding creative market-based solutions to a variety of economic, environmental, and social problems.
  • Author of 29 books, including the notable "Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution" (1999, with Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken).

 

 

Hunter Lovins

(bio from Natural Capitalism, Inc.)

  • Author, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and co-creator of the Natural Capitalism concept.
  • In 2001, Hunter was named one of four people from North America to serve as a delegate to the United Nations Prep Conference for Europe and North America for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. She served as a Commissioner in the State of the World Forum's Commission on Globalization, co-chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev, and Jane Goodall.
  • Speaker info (ecospeakers.com)

 

 

William McDonough

(bio from mcdonough.com)

 

 

Karl-Henrik Robèrt

  • Founder, The Natural Step (a systems-level framework - and also now the name of an international network of organizations - for strategic planning toward sustainability, founded in 1989).
  • Eminent Swedish oncologist.
  • Robèrt's ideas have provided inspiration to many developments in the Sustainability movement over the past two decades.
  • Great biography and interview: [http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC28/Robert.htm].
  • Wikipedia entries: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Henrik_Robèrt|Karl-Henrik Robèrt] and The Natural Step

 

 

Walter Simpson

  • Energy Manager, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
  • Nationally recognized as having led remarkable gains in energy efficiency and waste reduction at UB, with total savings estimated at $60 million (currently at $9 million/year). UB has also recently (as of winter 2006) become the largest purchaser of wind energy in New York state (history of UB's greening efforts)
  • Has spoken at many regional and national conferences.
  • Bio and interview: [http://ecenter.colorado.edu/energy/projects/speakers/walter_simpson.html] (also has links to info on the many other speakers at the "Spring 2002 Energy Summit" at UColorado at Boulder).

 

Less clearly progressive on Sustainability issues, but still might be interesting speakers:

 

Eve Sprunt

(bio in PDF format)

  • 2006 President of the Society of Petroleum Engineers
  • Senior Technical Advisor for Chevron Technology Ventures LLC, a subsidiary of Chevron Corp., which manages Chevron's research, venture investing and business ventures in emerging energy technologies, such as hydrogen, wind, solar and biomass.
  • Suggested by Ben Ebenhack (UR Department of Chemical Engineering)

 

Christine Todd Whitman

  • Former Governor of New Jersey (1994-2001)
  • Former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2001-2003)
  • As Governor, established the NJ state Office of Sustainability by Executive Order in 1997, and encouraged other initiatives for "sustainable development" in the state.
  • A prominent Republican politician, Whitman would represent an alternative perspective from many Sustainability speakers.
  • Many of her actions as EPA chief (in the GW Bush administration) were controversial and, in some views, of questionable integrity - see (for example) the Wikipedia entry about her EPA service.


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