Robert Boone (MD)

robert@anacostiaws.org

Robert Boone has been an environmental activists for 25 years and founded the Anacostia Watershed Society in Washington DC in 1988.  www.anacostiaws.org.  Was graduated from Unv. North Carolina BA in Philosophy; Duke University, MEd. 1966.

Mary Kathryn Campbell (DC)

mkcampbell@repp.org

Prior to joining the distinguished team at REPP, Mary Kathryn Campbell served as an Acquisitions Editor for The McGraw-Hill Companies ((NYSE:MHP), as a Special Projects Editor for The Times Mirror Company (NYSE:TMC) and as a Database Editor for the Center for Energy and Environmental Management. She has written for, edited, and managed the publication of articles, books, newsletters, and reports covering business management and international standardization. As REPP's Internet and Publications Director, Mary Kathryn spearheaded the outreach efforts for REPP and CREST, managed two site redesigns, and developed processes to publish information quickly and accurately. Currently, she oversees REPP's paper and electronic communications with industry, government and the average citizen about renewable energy and related environmental issues.

Lynne Cherry (MD)

LNCherry@aol.com

Lynne Cherry Is the author and/or illustrator of over thirty award winning books for children. Her best-selling books such as The Great Kapok Tree, A River Ran Wild and The Armadillo from Amarillo teach children a respect for the earth. She lectures widely – and passionately – about how children can make a difference in a democratic society – if they feel strongly about something, they can change the world. She explains to educators how using nature to integrate curriculum makes a child's learning relevant. Lynne's books were inspired by her love of the natural world and she is an avid canoeist and hiker. Lynne is also an environmental activist whose books are used to launch campaigns to save land, clean up rivers, save forests and help migratory birds. For example, her book A River Ran Wild is in most 4th grade classroom reading anthologies and is used by teachers to launch projects to study local watersheds and to clean them up. Her book Flute's Journey: the life of a wood thrush focused national media attention on conservation efforts to save the Belt Woods in Maryland when she was featured on Morning News with Charles Osgood. Lynne earned her BA at Tyler School of Art and her MA in History at Yale. She has been artist-in-residence at the Smithsonian, the Geosciences Departments at both U. Mass and Cornell, at the Marine Biological Lab and at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole and she is currently artist-in-residence at the Princeton Environmental Institute at Princeton University where she is writing books on Climate Change, Ecosystems Services and Biocomplexity.

Jeff Fiedler (DC)

jfiedler@his.com

Jeff Fiedler is a climate policy specialist with the Natural Resources Defense Council.  He conducts research and advocacy on all aspects of global climate change, focusing on developing federal legislation to ensure compliance with the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. He is also involved in state and local advocacy efforts and the development of rules under the international climate treaties. Jeff holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry and a master's in environmental studies, both from Brown University. Prior to joining NRDC, Jeff worked as a climate change policy consultant specializing in domestic and international emissions trading, joint implementation, and land-use change and forestry issues.

Ariele H. Foster (DC)

Ariele Foster is currently the Local Food Alliance Program Director for Community Harvest in Washington, DC, promoting a local food system and good food available to all. She studied sustainable agriculture and environmental science at Hampshire College before jumping into climate activism by attending a Ruckus Society Climate Action Camp in 2000. She subsequently joined the Greenpeace student delegation to the 6th Conference of the Parties of the Kyoto Protocol in The Hague and has since worked for such varied organizations as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership, the Alliance to Save Energy, Cities for Climate Protection, and the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (for which she resided in the Gwich’in village of Arctic Village, Alaska, adjacent to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). Ariele ran an energy conservation campaign with GreenpeaceUSA and attended the 10th Kyoto Protocol talks as a coordinator for U.S. Climate Action Network. She speaks Spanish, Portuguese, and French and hopes to start a sustainable agriculture education center on her family’s farm.

Jerry Hinkle (DC)

Jerry is committed to impacting global warming through reduced GHG emissions over the remainder of his life.  His primary thrust is in the market-based mechanisms such as a carbon tax.  He wishes to forward this objective, initially, through the education of environmental groups and the public at large through both public presentations and the publications of articles on the topic.

Mike Jacobs (MA, DC)

mike_windpower@yahoo.com

Mike is now the American Wind Energy Association's policy person in Washington.  Before moving to DC, Mike organized the first school field trip to the Hull Wind Turbine. He volunteers with Hull CARE to promote community-owned wind turbines. His paid work in the energy world is now power pool affairs, and in the past includes energy conservation services, regulatory agencies, and wind energy instrumentation.  In each of these positions, the theme of his work is to get more information about energy choices into decisions.  Mr. Jacobs earned an MS in Urban Planning from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He grew up on a wooded ridge in Schenectady, New York near a military nuclear research facility.

Matt Kittell (MD)

mkittell@ccap.org

Matt has worked on environmental issues in various capacities including canvassing for clean water, research and outreach for recycling, and research on clean air.  A turning point in his environmental outlook was his attendance at a “Natural Capitalism” course at Schumacher College in Totnes, England, in June 1999.  That course led him to focus on sustainable development issues during the last year of his undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay, where he majored in Social Change and Development.  Over the past two years, his work and study in the Washington, DC, area has given him a background in the climate change issue and has also improved his knowledge of the workings of government and economic systems in the US, Europe, and other parts of the world.  As a student in the University of Maryland School of Public Affair’s Environmental Policy masters program, he continues efforts to gain a better understanding of the human/environment relationship and to share information with others through informal and formal means.  He currently resides in Takoma Park, MD, and has lived in Nagasaki, Japan. 

Tom Prugh (DC)

tomvan@erols.com

Tom Prugh is an environment and energy writer currently serving as senior editor at Worldwatch Institute in Washington, DC. He has published articles and essays in a wide range of periodicals, including Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Monthly Energy Review, The Electricity Journal, The Environmental Almanac, and Yes! magazine. Since focusing on environmental issues, Mr. Prugh has written on acid rain, groundwater contamination, the U.S. corporate average fuel economy standards, solid and hazardous wastes, pesticides, deforestation, stratospheric ozone depletion, ecological economics, and sustainability. He is the lead author of two books, The Local Politics of Global Sustainability (with Robert Costanza and Herman Daly; Island Press, 2000), and Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival (with Robert Costanza, John H. Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland, and Richard B. Norgaard; 2nd edition, Lewis Publishers, 1999).

Richard Rich (VA)

urban@vt.edu

Richard Rich, Virginia, is a professor at Virginia Tech where he has served as Chair of the Department of Political Science and as Director of the School of Public and International Affairs, and is currently Director of Tech's Institute for Environmental and Energy Studies. He has conducted a variety of research on environmental policies for the U.S. EPA, and has consulted with federal, state, and local governments and nonprofit organizations on strategies for effective environmental decision-making, hazardous materials management, risk communication, and emergency response planning. He was an officer in the International Society for Risk Analysis, and served as a Delegate from the U.S. to two UN-sponsored conferences on urban environmental issues.  He is a member of the National Council for Science and the Environment, the Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute, and the national Smart Growth Network.

Greg Smith (MD)

gpsmith@igc.org

Born in Portsmouth, VA, raised in Annapolis and Rockville, Maryland, and schooled in the North Carolina Piedmont, Greg is a child of the Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic bioregions. He has worked on environmental issues since 1984, co-founded the Student Environmental Action Coalition at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. After living in Carolina for 11 years, he moved back to Rockville, where has worked in the grassroots since 1989. His work has focused on promoting sustainable alternatives to mass ìdisposalî and to highways and sprawl, and he is active now in a grassroots non-profit called Sustainable Montgomery. He draws his inspiration from fond memories of learning to swim in a South River tributary and bobbing in the waves on the Atlantic shore, living in the Chesapeake watershed, his memories Earth Day 1970, working with dedicated activist friends, playing with, teaching and learning from his niece and the children of his close friends, and his belief that life is sacred. In August and September, he helped friends install photovoltaic panels on their roof as part of a project to prove that many families can affordably and drastically reduce their CO2 emissions. He lives in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Marijke Unger (DC)

marijke.unger@wwfus.org

Marijke Unger is a communications officer for the World Wildlife Fund, in Washington, DC. She started working on global warming in 1997, and was a participant at the Kyoto convention and subsequent meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Prior to WWF, Marijke worked at the Organization of American States and the United Nations. She holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Masters from Middlebury College. She has lived, studied and worked in the U.S., Argentina, the Netherlands and France.

Bruce Wilson (MD)

brucensara@earthlink.net

Bruce Wilson tried, for almost a decade, to block out a budding awareness of the global environmental crisis as he repaired and restored antique cars in the Baltimore area. But, eventually, he found that he could no longer go about business as usual. He left his business to learn about and work on the problem of global climate change and, one day, woke up to find that he had become an activist and that public education on the global environment has become his passion.

Jane Zeender (DC)

zeender@hotmail.com

Jane Zeender received her undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Duke University and holds a MBA in marketing from the George Washington University. She has spent the past 10 years in the healthcare industry holding various sales, management, and marketing positions. After being born and raised in the cities and suburbs of Washington, DC, she had the opportunity to live and work in both Portland, Oregon, and Anchorage, Alaska, for three years. During this time she "woke up" to the environmental challenges we are facing and began an earnest study into the impacts of global warming on the earth. Currently Jane is the marketing consultant for the Center for a New American Dream. The Center's mission is to help individuals and institutions reduce and shift consumption patterns to enhance quality of life and protect the natural environment.

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