Van Jones

Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2:00-3:30pm

President and Founder, Green For All Van Jones is the founder and president of Green For All where he is working to combine solutions to America’s two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction by creating. Van is also a founder of a new national coalition that is promoting the idea of a national “Clean Energy Jobs Corps” as well as the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. He is the recipient of several awards including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the international Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader," and the Rockefeller Foundation “Next Generation Leadership" Fellowship.

Stefan Behnisch

Wednesday, Nov. 19, 4:00-5:30pm

Principal Behnisch, Behnisch & Partners Since founding the office of Behnisch & Partner Büro Innenstadt in 1989, Stefan Behnisch has directed the design of dynamic, award-winning buildings that promote sustainability within the built environment. With a design portfolio that includes public buildings, sports facilities, offices, schools, and museums, Behnisch oversees a wide range of global projects at all scales striving to design inclusive buildings that provide maximum benefit to the community as a whole. Behnisch recently served as the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. He has been awarded numerous design honors, and was recently designated an “Environmental Champion” by EnvironDesign Journal and Interiors & Sources.

Majora Carter

Wednesday, Nov. 19, 4:00-5:30pm
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Executive Director Sustainable South Bronx Awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship "genius grant" in 2005, Majora is a dynamic urban revitalization strategist working in partnership with government, businesses, and neighborhood organizations to create new opportunities for transportation, fitness, recreation, nutrition, and green-collar economic development in the low-income community where she was raised, and continues to live.

Richard Moe

Thursday, Nov. 20, 8:00-9:30am

President National Trust for Historic Preservation When Richard Moe became the seventh president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, he brought to the position a lifelong interest in history and a career-long commitment to public service. Since 1993, Moe has led the organization in its mission to save the nation’s diverse historic places and create more livable communities for all Americans. Under his direction, the National Trust has greatly strengthened its financial base, reaffirmed its commitment to expanding and diversifying the organized preservation movement, become an outspoken and effective advocate of controlling sprawl and encouraging smart growth, and launched innovative initiatives to demonstrate preservation’s effectiveness as a tool for community revitalization and for sustainable development.

Carol Browner

Thursday, Nov. 20, 10:00-11:30am

Principal The Albright Group LLC Leading the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 1993 to 2001, Carol M. Browner was the longest-serving Administrator in the history of the agency. She is widely known for championing common-sense, cost-effective solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental and public health challenges. She brings her background as Administrator of the EPA to her role as a Principal of The Albright Group LLC and of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. Utilizing her expertise to position clients from a broad range of sectors, Ms. Browner provides strategic counsel in the critical areas of environmental protection, climate change, and energy conservation and security.

Paul Anastas

Thursday, Nov. 20, 4:00-5:30pm

Director Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, Yale University Known as “The Father of Green Chemistry,” having coined the term in 1991, Paul Anastas has worked to develop the field over the past 17 years. He joined the Yale faculty in 2007, where he serves as Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, which advances the sciences, education and use of sustainable technologies. Anastas focuses his research on the design of safer chemicals, bio-based polymers, and new methodologies of chemical synthesis that are more efficient and less hazardous to the environment. He has published nine books and numerous papers on the subject of science and technology for sustainability.

Bill McKibben

Friday, Nov. 21, 9:00-10:00am

Environmentalist and Author Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. He has written several books and is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Mother Jones, and The National Geographic. In 2007, he founded Step It Up, which organized hundreds of rallies to demand that Congress enact curbs on carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050. Most recently he founded 350.org, an international campaign to unite the world around the number 350, the safe upper limit for atmospheric CO2 which we have currently exceeded.

Howard Frumkin

Friday, Nov. 21, 9:00-10:00am

Director The National Center for Environmental Health, CDC Howard Frumkin works to maintain and improve the health of the American people by promoting a healthy environment and by preventing premature death and avoidable illness and disability caused by toxic substances and other environmental hazards. Before joining the CDC, Frumkin was professor and chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, and professor of medicine at Emory Medical School. There he founded and directed the Environmental and Occupational Medicine Consultation Clinic. In 2004 he was named the Environmental Professional of the Year by the Georgia Environmental Council. He is the author or co-author of over 100 scientific journal articles and chapters, and has written numerous books.

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Leith Sharp

Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2:00-3:30pm

Director Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) Leith has worked with universities for the last 10 years to achieve organizational change in the pursuit of environmental sustainability. In March of 2000 she established the HGCI, becoming the Director of this emerging organization. She also co-instructs the Harvard Extension School course, Sustainability - The Challenge of Changing Our Institutions. She is the recipient of several awards including the Young Australian of the Year, NSW Environment Category, for her work in establishing the Environmental Management Program at the University of New South Wales, Australia; a Churchill Fellowship to research best practice in university environmental management; and most outstanding paper for her contribution to the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.