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 | William McDonough, Architect William A. McDonough (b. 1951, Hong Kong) is an American architect and founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, whose career is focused on designing environmentally sustainable buildings and transforming industrial manufacturing processes. McDonough was born in Hong Kong the son of an American Seagram's executive, and trained at Dartmouth College and Yale University. In 1981 McDonough founded his practice, and his first major commission was the 1984 Environmental Defense Fund Headquarters. According to a profile in Metropolis Magazine, the EDF told him he would be sued if any employees became sick from noxious elements in the construction material; when McDonough asked his suppliers to provide him with a list of chemicals in their products, he was told it was proprietary inform ..more on William McDonough Website : www.mcdonough.com Website : www.mbdc.com |
| David Suzuki, Biologist David T. Suzuki PhD, co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation, is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster. David has received consistently high acclaim for his 30 years of award-winning work in broadcasting, explaining the complexities of science in a compelling, easily understood way. He is well known to millions as the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular science television series, The Nature of Things. His eight part series, A Planet for the Taking won an award from the United Nations. His eight-part PBS series The Secret of Life was praised internationally, as was his five-part series The Brain for the Discovery Channel. For CBC Radio he founded the long running radio series, Quirks and Quarks and has presented two influential documentar ..more on David Suzuki Website : www.davidsuzuki.org |  |
 | Amory Lovins, Physicist Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947 in Washington, DC) is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient (1993), and author and co-author of many books on renewable energy and energy efficiency. Lovins has worked professionally as an environmentalist and an advocate for a "soft energy path" for the United States and other nations. He has promoted energy-use and energy-production concepts based on conservation, efficiency, the use of renewable sources of energy, and on generation of energy at or near the site where the energy is actually used. His works include Winning the Oil Endgame, Factor Four with Hunter Lovins and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, and Natural Capitalism with Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken. In the 1990s, his work wit ..more on Amory Lovins Website : www.rmi.org |
| Lester Brown, Environmentalist The Washington Post called Lester Brown "one of the world's most influential thinkers." The Telegraph of Calcutta refers to him as “the guru of the environmental movement.” In 1986, the Library of Congress requested his personal papers noting that his writings “have already strongly affected thinking about problems of world population and resources.” Brown started his career as a farmer, growing tomatoes in southern New Jersey with his younger brother during high school and college. Shortly after earning a degree in agricultural science from Rutgers University in 1955, he spent six months living in rural India where he became intimately familiar with the food/population issue. In 1959 Brown joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service as an intern ..more on Lester Brown Website : www.earth-policy.org |  |
 | Wangari Maathai Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai (b. April 1, 1940 in Ihithe village, Tetu division, Nyeri District of Kenya) is an environmental and political activist. In 2004 she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.” Dr. Maathai is also an elected member of Parliament and served as Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources in the government of President Mwai Kibaki between January 2003 and November 2005. She is of Kikuyu ethnicity. In 1977, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots environmental non-governmental organization, which has now planted over 40 million trees across Kenya to prevent soil erosion. She has come to be affectionately called "Tree Woman" or "The Tree Mot ..more on Wangari Maathai Website : www.greenbeltmovement.com |
| Paul Hawken Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author. Starting at age 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. He has appeared on numerous media including the Today Show, Larry King, Talk of the Nation, Charlie Rose, and has been profiled or featured in hundreds of articles including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Washington Post, Business Week, Esquire, and US News and World Report. His writings have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Resurgenc ..more on Paul Hawken Website : www.paulhawken.com |  |
 | Van Jones, Environmental Activist Van Jones is founding president of Green For All and a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress. He is also a TIME Magazine 2008 Environmental Hero, one of Fast Company’s 12 Most Creative Minds of 2008, and the the New York Times Bestselling author of The Green Collar Economy (Harper One 2008), which is endorsed by Nancy Pelosi, Tom Daschle and Al Gore. Green For All is a U.S. organization that promotes green-collar jobs and opportunities for the disadvantaged. Its mission is to build an inclusive, green economy - strong enough to resolve the ecological crisis and lift millions of people out of poverty. A 1993 Yale Law graduate, Van is a husband and the father of two small boys. He is a tireless advocate, committed to creating "green pathways out of poverty" and greatly ..more on Van Jones Website : vanjones.net/ Website : www.greenforall.org |
| David Orr David Orr is Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College, Ohio, and Chair of its Environmental Studies Program. An award-winning scholar, he is renowned for his pioneering work on environmental literacy in higher education and ecological design. Professor Orr is the author of ‘Ecological Literacy’ (1992), ‘The Nature of Design’ (2004) and ‘The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics and the Environment in the Age of Terror’ (2004). Website : www.oberlin.edu |  |
 | John Todd Dr. Todd is one of the pioneers in the emerging field of ecological design and engineering. He has degrees in agriculture (McGill University), parasitology & tropical medicine (McGill University) and a doctorate in fisheries and ethology from the University of Michigan. He has received two honorary doctorates in science and engineering respectively. He is a Research Professor in the School of Natural Resources and a Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Vermont. Also, he is a Fellow of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at UVM. He is also the Founder and President of Ocean Arks International, a non- profit research and education organization established in 1981, and the Founder and a Principal in Todd Ecological Design, an international ecological design and engineering firm ..more on John Todd |
| Al Gore In 2004, Gore co-launched Generation Investment Management, a company for which he serves as Chair. This firm, which he chairs, seeks out companies which take a responsible view on global issues such as climate change. It was created to assist the growing demand for an investment style that can bring returns by blending traditional equity research with a focus on more intangible non-financial factors such as social and environmental responsibility and corporate governance. Gore was later criticized by two bloggers who argue that he maintains carbon neutrality by purchasing carbon credits from GIM. In response to the bloggers´ accusation, a spokesman for GIM stated that "Gore is not profiting from his crusade against global warming" and that Gore does not purchase carbon credits f ..more on Al Gore Website : www.algore.com |  |
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