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Ed
Mazria is an internationally recognized architect, author
and educator with a long and distinguished career. His
architecture and planning projects span over thirty-five
years
and each employs a cutting-edge environmental approach
to
its design. Ed will impart an inspirational vision from
his most
recent undertaking, Architecture 2030 and The 2030 Challenge,
a global
movement to address the climate crisis.
Erik
Sten, Commissioner for City of Portland, is a community
leader who believes that protecting the environment
will make the economy stronger and insists that Portland
forge
the way in designing infrastructure that improves the
environment
and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. In 2001, Portland
and its partner Multnomah County, created a Local Action
Plan on Global
Warming, establishing an aggressive goal of reducing
local carbon dioxide
emissions to 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2010. On
a per capita basis,
Portland and Multnomah County emissions have fallen 12.5
percent since
1993, an achievement likely unequalled in any other major
US city.
Annabelle
Malins, British Consulate-General, Science and
Innovation, has spent most of her career in production
and
technical consultancy in industry in the UK and overseas.
Annabelle
will share how Woking Municipal Government reduced
emissions 77% from 1991 to 2004. Since Prime Minister
Tony
Blair’s visit to California in 2006, Annabelle
has been the point person on UKCalifornia
collaboration on climate change and clean energy.
Jared Huffman, elected in November 2006 to represent the 6th Assembly District,
is already known as a climate leader in the legislature. Before his election,
Assemblymember Huffman was a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense
Council and member of the Marin Municipal Water District Board of Directors. Prior to
joining NRDC he was an attorney specializing in public interest cases.
Thomas Hurley is a professional facilitator and strategist specializing in the
design and implementation of large scale change involving multiple stakeholders.
He serves as a senior advisor to private, public and non-profit leaders. For more than
Rafael Aguilera is principal
consultant and co-founder of
the Verde Group, a firm specializing
in green and social justice policy and
lobbying. He previously was Climate
Policy Analyst for Environmental Defense, where he worked doing advocacy on the responsible implementation of AB 32, The Global Warming Solutions Act.
Ricardo Balazs, manages
the national sports marketing programs for Clif
Bar & Company, including the current Save Our Snow
(S.O.S) campaign.
Clif Bar’s S.O.S. campaign has been one of its
most successful programs to
date, allowing them to engage and inspire tens of thousands
of people to
Start Global Cooling. The company has received local,
state and national
awards for its environmental efforts, including multiple
initiatives to combat
and educate the public about global warming.
May Boeve, national
youth leader, co-coordinator of Step It Up campaign,
will show us how to engage and activate the voice of
the future.
May was actively involved with the Sunday Night Group
(Middlebury College,
Vermont), one of the largest and most active campus-based
climate change
groups in the country. May served as a national co-coordinator
of Step It Up
2007, a national day of action on April 14, 2007, and
actively participated in
Project BioBus, a nationwide biodiesel bus tour.
Mark Loukides,
Head of Operations, Johnson & Johnson, has 20 years
of
strategic facilities management and construction expertise
in the life
science industry. Johnson and Johnson reduced their emissions
by nearly 17%
since 1990 while increasing sales by nearly 400%. He
currently chairs the San
Diego Regional Sustainability Partnership and holds leadership
positions
with the California Center for Sustainable Energy, the
US Green Building
Council - San Diego Chapter and the Industrial Environmental
Association.
Ansje Miller, Policy Director, previously founded and directed the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, a coalition, hosted by Redefining Progress, of the nation’s leading environmental justice, faith-based, and policy organizations gathered to push the North Americans to create and implement socially just global warming policies. Her organizing efforts and numerous research reports and popular articles have led to the creation of numerous policies on global warming including California’s AB32 and has been cited in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Third Assessment Report.
Mark Ruzzin,
Mayor of Boulder, played a critical role in developing
Boulder’s Climate Action Plan (CAP), the city’s
roadmap for reducing
communitywide greenhouse gas emissions to 7% below 1990
levels by 2012.
In 2006 he co-founded and co-managed the ClimateSmart
campaign, which
successfully advocated for adoption by Boulder voters
of Measure 202, the
nation’s first carbon tax. He was one of the first
to sign the U.S. Conference of
Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement.
Nia Robinson directs the
Environmental Justice and
Hank Ryan is a policy consultant
Kurt Triplett, Chief of Staff for King County (WA) Executive Ron Sims, has won numerous national awards for King County’s innovations and leadership on adaptation to climate change. Kurt will explain how in 3 years King County has implemented a reclaimed water project, landfill gas energy, established the nation’s largest hybrid electric bus fleet, implemented a countywide flood plan, written a “how-to” climate manual and launched the national “Cool Counties” campaign. Kurt was also one of the 1000 people trained by Al Gore to present his “An Inconvenient Truth” Slide Show.
Allison Quaid is Executive
Director of the Bay Area Alliance
for Sustainable Communities. Her
experience greening governments,
businesses and communities nationwide
includes work with ICLEI and Flex Your Power.
Bruce Riordan, Elmwood
Consulting, specializes in
transportation and global warming
and currently helps develop regional
strategies with clients such as MTC,
BAAQMD, BART, and Next Ten.