Ryan Bell (CA)

rbell@iclei.org

Ryan Bell works in Berkeley, CA as a Project Coordinator for the U.S. office of ICLEI -- Local Governments for Sustainability, in the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign (CCP).  In this capacity, he assists local governments in the setting targets, developing local action plans, and taking steps to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.  He also coordinates the CCP's Urban Heat Island Policy Adoption and Peer Exchange Initiative.  Ryan's previous work in the climate change arena includes: leading the City of Olympia's Climate Change Task Force, co-facilitating a conference on greenhouse gas reduction activities for local leaders from Central and Eastern European Countries, and researching the connection between residential development, tree cover, and the environmental benefits provided by urban forests.  Additionally, Ryan holds a Master's Degree in Environmental Studies from The Evergreen State College, a BS in Conservation Biology and worked for two years as a Environmental Manger for the Peace Corps in Bulgaria. 

Martha Booz (CA)

mlbooz@calnatives.com

Martha L. Booz, Ph.D., lives in the San Francisco East Bay. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in German Language and Literature, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from UC Davis. She also holds a lifetime high school teaching credential. She has worked for a life science research products company for 20 years, and is currently managing projects for that company's web site team. She has been active in the Association for Women in Science, serving as an officer in many capacities and as President of the East Bay Chapter.  As an environmental activist and member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, she has expressed her concern about global climate change by convincing others of the serious nature of this phenomenon, and how it will affect us all. Her lively presentations educate and inform, and inspire her audience.

Max Boykoff (CA)

max@duyure.org

Max works to combat global climate change primarily through his doctoral work in Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  His dissertation research explores how U.S. media representations and coverage of global climate change affect discourse and communications between the broadly construed scientific and policy actor communities as well as the U.S. public.  Max also examines vulnerability and livelihood issues in relation to global climate change-induced natural disasters in the Caribbean Basin.  Outside of research, Max has co-founded and is director of the non-profit organization Duyure Adelante that works on local-level climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies in southern Honduras.

Kent J. Bransford (CA)

kbransford@pol.net  

Kent J. Bransford, M.D. lives in Monterey County on California's Central Coast. He is a board certified specialist in medical oncology and hematology. He completed his undergraduate training in biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and attended medical school at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. After subspecialty training at the Norris Cancer Center, University of Southern California, he practiced at a community cancer center before deciding to take a sabbatical to pursue outside interests. While on sabbatical, Kent has had the opportunity to serve as medical director at a remote clinic in Nepal, and volunteers his time as a consultant in free clinics in California and Mexico. Kent is a member of the National Board of Directors for Physicians for Social Responsibility, working with the national office in Washington D.C. He currently serves in the Environment and Health division, lecturing on the health impacts of energy usage and global climate change in a state by state campaign that has ranged from New Hampshire to Washington state.

Carter Brooks (CA)

carter@manoman.com

Carter Brooks is an activist clown, web producer, Seussian storyteller, poet and proud father. Recently, Carter has turned his focus to investigating the ethical and moral issues related to climate change. He is working with the Pacific Institute to produce an online bibliography focused on climate change and water articles, and is also self -producing a series of climate related websites including: "theclimate.info" and the soon to be released "kyotowatch.com" and "ethicalclimate.com."

Wil Burns (CA)

jiwlp@internationalwildlifelaw.org

Wil Burns is Senior Fellow, Center for Global Law & Policy, Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, California. He writes extensively on both international wildlife law issues and climate change, with a focus in the latter context on the impacts of climate change on cetaceans and small island states. A book he co-edited on climate change was recently published by Kluwer Academic Publishers: Climate Change in the South Pacific: Impacts and Responses in Australia, New Zealand, and Small Island States. He penned a chapter for the book on the impact of
climate change on Pacific small island nations. He also lectures frequently on climate change issues in university settings and to community groups.

Susan Cox (CA)

Gogreenpowergirl@aol.com

Susan has developed and created the "Green Power Hero" educational school assembly outreach program for the LA Dept of Water & Power- a publicly held municipality.  The Green Power Hero Assembly has educated close to 100,000 elementary, middle and high school students about energy, conservation, climate stability, and environmental stewardship.    One of the most unique elements of the program involves the presenter: "Green Power Girl", the clean energy superhero.  With her green hair and renewable energy cape, the Green Power Girl character connects with students and makes the learning process fun - teaching students to become not only current and future caretakers of the environment, but also ambassadors who help the adults in their lives make wise environmental choices.  The program uses a variety of other tools to supplement this effort.

Thomas S. Dickerson (CA)

dickermn@earthlink.net

Thomas Dickerson graduated with honors in civil engineering, Purdue University, 1957. Graduate work in engineering and public administration.  A Registered Engineer in California, he has broad engineering experience, public and private, over a 40+ year career.  He has 10 years public speaking experience in Toastmasters and is Past President of Local #1881. Included in many public speaking and leadership activities in his career are invited talks on global warming at four colleges.  He has studied global warming extensively since 1990, reading over twenty books on the subject.  He wrote the book, "Global Warming and Its Solution, Sustainable Energy," which was desktop published in 1997, with 300 copies sold or given to high school debate club members preparing for national debate topic of global warming.  Thomas is a current Board Member of the American Hydrogen Association, Inc. and Clean Air Revival, Inc.

Eric Corey Freed (CA)

eric@organicarchitect.com

Promoting both an organic and ecological approach to design, Eric Corey
Freed is a practitioner in the tradition of Organic Architecture, first
developed by Frank Lloyd Wright.  Noted architect and critic, Philip Johnson
cited Eric as "one of the real brains of his generation."

His firm, organicARCHITECT, designs environmentally-friendly homes all over
the country.  Eric also serves as Chair of Architecture for The San
Francisco Design Museum.

Eric teaches the Sustainable Design curriculum he developed for the Academy
of Art.  He is on the Board of Directors of Architects, Designers & Planners
for Social Responsibility (NorCal ADPSR), Local Exchange and a Committee
Member of the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) and the Friends of
Kebyar.  In addition, Eric is a Program Coordinator for the Environmental
Committee of The Commonwealth Club of California.

In addition, Eric is co-founder and one of the editors of ecoTECTURE:  The
Online Journal of Ecological Design, a publication for people interested in
the environment (www.ecotecture.com).

Barak Gale (CA)

BarakGale@cs.com

Barak Gale's home is San Francisco, his profession is optometry, and his passion is faith-based environmental work (particularly as it relates to my Jewish tradition). He began organizing community Tu Bâ_ ™Shevat Seders (ritual meals celebrating the Jewish New Year of the Trees) in 1996. Developed a Tu B'Shevat Haggadah (prayer booklet) titled, "The Trees are Davening," that appears on the Coejl website. Spoke at numerous forums on Headwaters. Worked with several national Jewish institutions to adopt positions on the preservation of Headwaters and endangered species. Currently serving as Chair of Bay COEJL - the Bay Area chapter of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, and as Jewish Campaign Coordinator for the Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation.

Carl Gettleman (CA)

cgettle@iname.com

I have worked for the past 16 years running computer labs at a large community college in Southern California with a globally diverse student body.  I currently serve as the President of the Classified Senate at Santa Monica College, an organization which represents support staff in the shared governance processes of the College.  I have also been the Chief Job Steward of the union representing the support staff at the College.

I have had a lifelong interest in environmental issues.  I co-founded a small research and development company with an independent inventor working in recovery/recycling of refrigerants that are implicated in stratospheric ozone depletion.  My company was able to secure both patents and licensing agreements for our recovery/recycling system.

I’ve had extensive experience with rafting, scuba diving, trekking, backpacking, as well as sea kayaking.  I support organizations involved with habitat conservation, media reform, application of scientific research to public policy, defense of freedom of speech and freedom of association, protection of indigenous peoples, promotion of corporate responsibility, and preservation of biodiversity, as well as other causes.

My intellectual pursuits center primarily around the paradigm shift in science towards the study of systems behavior engendered in what is commonly called complexity theory.  Climate is a complex system.  Understanding how to deal with complex systems is critical to figuring out what to do about the anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions that are contributing to global climate change and mass extinction.

Kevin Hall (CA)

hallmos@aol.com

Kevin Hall, 41, is an environmental activist. A lifelong resident of California's San Joaquin Valley, in May 2000 he retired from his career in agricultural publishing and exposition management to dedicate his time to increasing public awareness of climate destabilization and influencing public policy. Kevin currently serves as chairman of the Sierra Club-Tehipite Chapter's Committee on Transportation, Air Quality & Global Warming. He also serves on the League of Women Voters-Fresno steering committee for the Sustainable Communities Project.

In December 1999, Kevin participated in the Greenhouse Action Network's Climate Education Project at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. He is a graduate of Fresno State with a degree in English and a nationally honored agricultural journalist. The son of Irish immigrant parents, he's also an Irish step-dancer and musician, a husband and the father of a very active 9-year-old son.

Dr. Jenny Ayla Jay (CA)

jjay@seas.ucla.edu
Jenny Ayla Jay is a Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department at UCLA, where she teaches environmental chemistry,
microbiology, and wetland science. She received her BS, MS and Ph.D. in
Environmental Engineering at MIT, with a dissertation on mercury cycling in
lakes.  She is currently studying mercury transformations in wetlands,
survival of bacteria in beach sand, and mobility of arsenic in agricultural
soils.  Jenny is an advocate of research as service, and is on the steering
committee of the Center for Community Learning.

Leslie Lello (CA)

cleanairaroundtheworld@yahoo.com

Leslie is involved in the Clean Air Across America.  She created Clean Air Across America to spread the word about hybrid cars and other alternatively powered vehicles.  She was interviewed about Clean Air Across America on the local (Los Angeles) television show, California Politics. 

Bernie Lipman (CA)

bersher@earthlink.net

Bernie Lipman is a semi-retired pharmacist from Orange County, CA.  Bernie has been a member of the Sierra Club since 1979, where he has chaired numerous committees. Bernie is a graduate of UCLA, and received his pharmacy degree from USC. He is a member of the California Native Plants Society, and the Fullerton Kiwanis club.

Sherri Lipman (CA)

bersher@earthlink.net

Sherri Lipman is a businessworman from Orange County, CA. A longtime member of the Sierra Club, Sherri has published numerous newspaper articles and testified before the California State Legislature. She has been an active member of the community, serving in a number of volunteer capacities for the Los Angeles ORT Technical Institute.  She has also been a contestant on Sale of the Century and Jeopardy!

Martijn Mollet (CA)

mmollet@molletphoto.com

Martijn (pronounced "Martane"), born in Belgium in 1972, has had a love for nature and a deep concern about the state of the planet and its people as far back as he can remember. He has been involved with environmental activism since high school in New Jersey. In 1996 Martijn Mollet graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Photography. He is now the owner of Molletphoto.com, a company that provides environmentally and socially responsible professional and creative photographic solutions. Mollet moved from New York City to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003. He lives with his girlfriend and runs his photo studio in Crockett, CA. Martijn also enjoys traveling, snowboarding, hiking, and sailing.

Dr. Suzanne Paulson (CA)

paulson@atmos.ucla.edu

Dr. Paulson is an associate professor in the Department of Atmospheric and
Oceanic Sciences and the Institute of the Environment at UCLA. Her research
is focused on the impacts of tiny particles on climate and human health, and
on chemistry, toxicity and control of regional and urban smog formation. She
teaches classes covering the interdisciplinary nature of pollution impacts
on the environment to students from biology to physics. Through the years,
professor Paulson has worked on environmental issues from recycling to the
impacts of rocket exhaust during launch failure, and has lectured to high
school students and professional organizations, and regularly writes
non-technical science pieces. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering
Science from Caltech, and a B.A. in Chemistry, and an M.S. in Plant Biology.
Her favorite diversion is rock climbing.

Redwood Mary (CA)

redwoodm@mcn.org; redwoodmary@pocketmail.com

Redwood Mary, a Northern California Forest Defender, lives in the Redwood region along the beautiful Mendocino Coast of Northern California. Redwood Mary had been studying Environmental Sciences at The College of The Redwoods in Ft. Bragg California There came a time when she could no longer sit in a classroom, while watching the forest ecosystems that she was learning about undergo rapid destruction. She put her belongings in storage, put aside personal career goals, and began campaigning for the protection of the last redwood temperate rain forest in the world.

She recently traveled to Nairobi, Kenya and gave a presentation in collaboration with Dr. Wangari Mathaai (of the Greenbelt Movement), and Julia Butterfly Hill (via cellphone ) at the 17th UN Commission on Human Settlements. Their message was that sustaining forests is not just an environmental issue but an issue crucial to the survival of all human settlements. Redwood Mary's affiliations include Co-Founder: Plight of The Redwoods Campaign in Partnership with Julia Butterfly Hill; The Redwood Chapter Committee; National Congress of Neighborhood Women/GROOTS; U.N. Huairou Commission, Environmental and Land Issues Working Group; Common Ground-USA NGO Representative to the U.N.

Redwood Mary has worked with Northern California North Coast Earth First!, Mendocino Coast Environment Center, Greenwood Watershed Association, and other organizations on the front lines in defending the further degradation of these Redwood Forest ecosystems. She was a national NGO delegate to the UN Commission on Human Settlements World Conference in Istanbul- Habitat 11. She also has served on The Mendocino County Living Communities Conference Advisory Committee for 3 years and on the Executive Committee for the first United Peoples Assembly- an official event of the 50th Anniversary The UN Charter Celebrations in San Francsico.

Melissa Royael (CA)

mroyael@iclei.org

Melissa Royael is a technical program associate for the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) Campaign. Through her position Melissa assists cities in all areas of the CCP campaign from initial recruitment and conducting a greenhouse gas emissions inventory, to putting together a local action plan and monitoring results. There are over 100 US cities participating in the CCP campaign and close to 400 worldwide. Prior to working for ICLEI Melissa worked with the San Diego chapter of the Sierra Club and Greenpeace US as a canvasser and field manager. She has her M.A. in International Environmental Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and lives in Berkeley, CA.

Scott Silverman (CA)

scott_agman@hotmail.com

Scott Silverman currently enrolled in an Environmental Science/Policy Masters program at the University of California, Riverside, after having completed a Bachelor's of Science there this past June. He has participated actively in student government in the past and continues to do so as a graduate representative for his department. For the past 9 years, Scott has been interested in educating the public about environmental issues, and plans to incorporate this in some way to any future career path he takes, which may include law school upon completion of this Masters program. In public life, Scott has been involved in numerous extra-curricular activities, including various clubs and non-profit organizing, as well as community volunteerism. During the Summer of 2001, Scott interned with the Honorable Ronald Loveridge, Mayor of Riverside, California as well as co-authoring a laboratory manual for an introductory soil science course. Scott's main goal, in terms of his environmental career, is to help the public make more environmentally conscious decisions as part of their normal everyday routine, whether he does this through public service, legal practice, or advocacy work.

Sissel Waage (CA)

swaage@naturalstep.org

Sissel Waage launched and directs the R&D Program at The Natural Step. She develops the strategy and implements both research and strategic dialogue projects. In addition, Sissel works with the Services Group advising Fortune 100 companies on integration of sustainability into strategy, operations, and reporting. The focus of this work spans the full range of ecological and social aspects of sustainability--from climate change and human rights.  For the past twelve years, she has been working on sustainability issues in Africa, Europe, and North America. Her areas of focus have included business, international policymaking, community-based conservation and development, and consensus building processes. Prior to joining The Natural Step, she worked with Sustainable Northwest and the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) East and Southern Africa Program. Sissel has also served as a consultant to the Packard Foundation, the Biodiversity Support Program, a forest research station, and several other international conservation and development organizations. Her work has been published in a range of journals including Corporate Environmental Strategy, Society & Natural Resources, Political Geography, and the Journal of Sustainable Forestry. She has also edited a book entitled, Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi: Designing the Future of Business through Nature, Genius, and Compassion (Greenleaf Publications, 2003). Sissel completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, and received her BA degree magna cum laude from Amherst College, in Massachusetts. She has also studied at the University of Oslo, in Norway, as a Fulbright Scholar, and at the National University of Singapore.

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