Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, 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.
Paul
heads the Natural Capital Institute, a research group located in Sausalito,
California. Natural Capital Institute (NCI) conducts research in diverse
areas including socially responsible investing (SRI), global civil society,
environmental funding, and water.
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Harrison Fraker
Chosen as the fifth Dean of the College of Environmental Design, Harrison
Fraker was educated as an architect and urban designer at Princeton and
Cambridge Universities and is recognized as a pioneer in passive solar,
daylighting and sustainable design research and teaching. He has pursued
a career bridging innovative architecture and urban design education with
an award-winning practice. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal
for creating a new College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
at the University of Minnesota and was appointed the founding Dean. He
was granted Fellowship in the AIA College of Fellows for his distinguished
career of bridging education and practice.
He
has published seminal articles on the design potential of sustainable
systems and urban design principles for transit oriented neighborhoods.
He teaches design studio and believes in integrating pragmatic and theoretical
analysis to create new knowledge about the most critical environmental
design challenges facing society. He is currently pursuing his beliefs
through a whole systems design approach for entirely resource-self-sufficient,
transit-oriented neighborhoods of 100,000 people in China.
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Bev
Van Ruyven
Bev joined BC Hydro in 1997 as Manager, Key Accounts. In 2001, Bev was appointed
Vice-President, Power Smart and, in November 2002, she was appointed Senior
Vice-President of Distribution. In this capacity, Bev was responsible for
customer service, Power Smart, operation and maintenance of the distribution
system and, planning, acquisition and risk management of a diverse portfolio
of energy resources.
Bev was appointed Senior Vice-President, Customer Care and Conservation
in May 2006, and Executive Vice-President in May 2007. She is focussing
on managing long-term energy planning and acquisition requirements, plus
developing a new Power Smart Plan.
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Bruce Piasecki
Bruce
Piasecki is the President and Founder of The AHC Group, Inc., a top energy
and environmental consultant to companies such as Toyota, BP, Chevron,
DuPont, and Dow Chemical. He
is the author of five seminal books on business strategy, valuation, and
corporate change, including the Nature Society's book of the year,
In Search of Environmental Excellence: Moving Beyond Blame.
With
his latest book, World Inc.: When It Comes to Solutions — Both
Local and Global — Businesses Are Now More Powerful Than Government,
Bruce examines a striking new phenomenon in socially responsible capitalism.
As power moves increasingly into the hands of business, the world is looking
to corporations instead of governments to solve its problems. World
Inc. discovers the ways in which those corporations that can best
address social issues (by creating superior products) will thrive and
profit in this new world.
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Scott Muldavin
Scott Muldavin, President
of The Muldavin Company, Inc., has been a consultant for 25 years to many
of the nation’s leading real estate companies including CalPERS, RREEF,
Bank of America, UBS, Alaska Permanent Fund, Catellus, Equitable Real Estate,
Standard Insurance Company, Merrill Lynch, Standard & Poor’s,
and Freddie-Mac.
Mr. Muldavin is also a founding principal of Guggenheim Real Estate, a $
2 billion private real estate investment company and an Advisory Board Member
of Global Real Analytics, a company advising on over $1 billion of private
REIT and CMBS funds.
In 2006, Mr. Muldavin became Executive Director of the Green Building Finance
Consortium, a group dedicated to addressing the private sector’s need
for better valuation and underwriting tools to enable an assessment of Green
Building investment from a “fiduciary” perspective.
Mr. Muldavin is a frequent speaker and an author of over 200 articles on
real estate finance and investment.
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Susan
Burns
Susan Burns is the Managing Director of the Global Footprint Network who
leads the overall strategic direction of the organization and oversees
fundraising, finance, program management and operations. She also directs
communications, and message development. In addition to her work at Global
Footprint Network, Susan is the founder of the pioneering sustainability
consulting firm, Natural Strategies.
She
has over 18 years of experience working with more than 50 corporations
and other organizations on a variety of sustainability-related issues
including: product design, consensus building, management systems, business
strategy, forest policy and stakeholder communications. She is also an
expert in the application of The Natural Step framework for sustainability
and led the development of the screening methodology for Portfolio 21,
the US’s first mutual fund dedicated to environmental sustainability.
She has spoken widely on the subject of sustainability, corporate responsibility,
and strategic environmental management, having been a keynote or featured
speaker at over 100 national and international events. Susan holds a B.S.
in Environmental Engineering.
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Tom Murphy
Tom
Murphy is a senior resident fellow, Urban Land Institute Washington, DC
/ Klingbeil Family Chair for urban development. Murphy, former mayor of
Pittsburgh, joins six other ULI senior resident fellows who specialize in
public policy, retail/urban entertainment, transportation/infrastructure,
housing, real estate finance and environmental issues.
Murphy served three terms as the mayor of Pittsburgh, from January 1994
through December 2005. During that time, he initiated a public-private partnership
strategy that leveraged more than $4.5 billion in economic development in
Pittsburgh. Murphy led efforts to secure and oversee $1 billion in funding
for the development of two professional sports facilities, and a new convention
center that is the largest certified green building in the United States.
He developed strategic partnerships to transform more than 1,000 acres of
blighted, abandoned industrial properties into new commercial, residential,
retail and public uses; and he oversaw the development of more than 25 miles
of new riverfront trails and urban green space.
Since January 2006, Murphy had served as ULI’s Gulf Coast liaison,
helping to coordinate with the leadership of New Orleans and the public
to advance the implementation of rebuilding recommendations made by ULI’s
advisory services panel last fall. In addition, he worked with the Louisiana
state leadership, as well as with leadership in hurricane-impacted areas
in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida identify areas appropriate for ULI involvement.
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John L. Knott, Jr.
Developer of the 3,000-acre “Noisette” Project in Charleston,
South Carolina – one the largest and most ambitious sustainable developments
in the U.S – refers to himself as a ‘change agent’, Knott
limits his annual speaking to eight presentations, and hopes to influence
participants to more seriously consider the social equity potentials of
sustainable development. He has built “Noisette” around the
principles of sustainability not limited to environmental goals, but social
ones as well.
As the project website notes, “Noisette” is not just about the
physical process of urban renewal, it is about community renewal through
non-profit initiatives in education, the arts and social justice.”
Knott expects to deliver a powerful message about the potential of sustainable
development to replace “mindless urban sprawl” and to renew
both commonsense approaches to human settlement and the values of community.
He looks forward to spending time engaged with legislators, policymakers,
NGO’s and other interests.
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Pamela Mang
Pamela
is a founding member of Regenesis Collaborative Development Group, Inc.,
established to support regenerative developments— creative collaborations
that weave together the diverse human and natural needs, aspirations and
dynamics of a place into a harmonious and sustainable whole. She works
with project development teams and community groups to build critical
systems thinking skills and holistic planning processes and designs that
can address complex systems problems and opportunities.
She has authored several articles and book chapters on living systems
approaches to design, development and organization including: "What
is Education For?", Independent School, Spring 2005; Dancing with
Living Systems—Designing for Life, Fox Haven Voices of the Land;
"Regenerative Design and the Evolution of the Sustainable Design
Field", Design Intelligence; "A Work in Progress at DuPont—The
Creation of a Developmental Organization" (co-author), The New Paradigm
in Business; "New Wine, Old Bottles—The Dilemma of Organization
Change", The New Business of Business (co-author). She developed
the curriculum for "Sustainability—Bringing the Challenge Home",
a World Business Academy dialogue series. Published research papers include
reports for the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory on barriers and opportunities for growing public support for
green building and solar energy solutions.
Processes.
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David Butterfield
David
is Chairman of Loreto Bay Company and the founder and President of The
Trust for Sustainable Development. This Canadian not-for-profit Developer
is currently directing the Loreto Bay project and has committed himself
to developing sustainable communities and sustainable buildings. The Trust’s
mission is to promote the development of leading edge sustainable communities
as world models and to provide research and education in the field of
sustainable community development.
David was recognized by the B.C. Government for his “Commitment
to Innovation, Energy Efficient and Environmentally-Friendly Development,
Affordable Housing, Youth Employment, Live/Work Design, and Public Art,
That Extend Beyond the Industry to Enhance the Community in Which he Builds.”
Since 2000, David has worked to develop North America's largest sustainable
development at Loreto Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The town project
will have over 6,000 homes on three and a half miles of beachfront property
in walkable communities. Among other commitments Loreto Bay promises to
create more potable water than it uses, produce more energy from renewables
than it consumes, and improve the eco-system of which it is part.
In 2004 he was honored, along with Colin Powell and other dignitaries,
with the Good Neighbor Award by the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce.
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Joe Van Belleghem
Joe
is responsible for green building development strategies and the BuildGreen
Consulting arm of Windmill Developments. Joe is a chartered accountant
with over 17 years of experience in real estate development and financing
in a range of sectors, including hospitality, residential, office and
retail. He has also held ownership interests in a variety of other businesses.
Joe was the development consultant for the Vancouver Island Technology
Park (VITP), a high-tech park in Victoria, British Columbia. VITP was
awarded the gold level certification by the United States Green Building
Council under their Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program,
making it the first LEED certified building in Canada. The project was
also awarded the 2002 BOMA BC Earth Award and the UDI Sustainable Development
Award. Joe is committed to the ongoing development, education and promotion
of environmentally, socially and financially responsible green building
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Bill Reed
An internationally recognized proponent and practitioner in sustainability
and an architect, Bill is president of the Integrative Design Collaborative
- a consulting organization working to lift green building design practice
into one that is fully integrated with living systems. He is also a principal
in the regenerative planning firm Regenesis and an associate of the strategic
environmental planning firm Natural Logic. His work centers on creating
the framework for and managing the integrative, whole-systems design process;
emphasizing building evolutionary capability in design, construction, and
engagement with our environment. The objective: to improve the overall quality
of the physical, social and spiritual life of our living places.
He served as co-chair of the LEED Technical
Committee from its inception in 1994 through 2003; is a member of the
LEED Advanced faculty and one of the first of twelve USGBC trainers of
the LEED Rating System; a founding Board Member of the US Green Building
Council; and served on the national executive committee of the AIA Committee
On The Environment. He currently serves on the Board of the Northeast
Sustainable Energy Association, as an advisor to Environmental Building
News, and on the board of CitiLog.
Bill
is a consultant, design process facilitator, and lecturer. He has participated
in over 300 presentations and workshops relating to Sustainable and Regenerative
Design. He has consulted on dozens of LEED projects - achieving many certifications
- Certified to Platinum. He is a guest lecturer at Universities from Harvard
to the University of British Columbia. His clients range from New York
City Department of Design and Construction, U.S. General Services Administration,
Loreto Bay, Baja, Mexico, Sidwell Friends School, US Green Building Council,
Genzyme Corporation, Teknion, LLC, the Willow School, Loreto Bay, various
city planning agencies on the East and West coast, and many private development
companies in the US, Canada, and Mexico.
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Bev
Van Ruyven 
