Dr. Dror Angel (MA & Israel)

dror@mit.edu

Dror Angel is an environmental scientist at the Institute for Maritime Studies at Haifa University in the north of Israel. He has studied the environmental interactions of aquaculture since the early 90's and has been active in development of practical means to reduce aquaculture impacts. In addition, he is involved in 2 projects that examine the interactions of shellfish aquaculture with seagrasses and the potential role of shellfish aquaculture as a means to reduce coastal eutrophication. Dror continues to work actively in these fields and is also involved in the development of a large program to examine implementation of integrated coastal zone management in Europe. During a recent sabbatical Dror was an active member of the grass roots group, Sustainable Arlington (Arlington, MA) which focuses on climate change and on various aspects of sustainability with respect to life in and around the town. He plans to find similar grass-roots groups in the Galilee, in Israel, and to carry on with these activities there.

Raya Ariella (MA)
raya@gis.net
I grew up in western Massachusetts, on a farm where we raised most of our own food, youngest of five children. I became a young, single mother and decided to build a house to raise my son in when he was three. I am extremely interested in raising food and living locally. When my son turned twelve I began to work on my undergraduate degree at Mt. Holyoke and majored in Environmental Studies. My area of concentration was Geography with an emphasis on the distribution of wealth and resources between the northern and southern hemispheres. Last Fall I began my graduate work at Antioch New England Graduate School. I am currently working on my MS in Resource Management and Administration. My vision is to make connections between everyday actions and global climate change in ways that make sense to people who think that it doesn't involve them.

Anne Awad (MA)

anneawad@comcast.net

Anne is a member of the Select Board in Amherst.  She is interested in environmental issues, particularly climate change, zoning bylaw development to prevent sprawl and to protect open space, balancing open space preservation with affordable housing, and in social justice issues such as protection of civil liberties and supporting local action against the Patriot Act.  Anne works as a public health consultant on issues of community health system development and primary care access.  In her spare time she is a master’s rower and downhill skier.

Joan Bigham (CT)

joan@smithobrien.com

Joan is a partner with Smith O’Brien, a leading management consulting firm on sustainable development/corporate responsibility and financial performance.  Joan specializes in helping companies undertake the process of cultural change and learning necessary to implement corporate responsibility and sustainability practices.  Before joining Smith O’Brien, she was Vice-President Marketing for Digital4Sight (Canadian think tank) where she directed a landmark multi-client research project on corporate responsibility "Leadership in the Networked Economy" funded by Hewlett Packard, General Motors, Cisco, KPMG and Bell Canada.  As Vice President Executive Services for e-learning leader MeansBusiness, Joan provided executive development and leadership programs to global firms including Fidelity, Shell, NCR and KPMG.  She is a former sales and marketing executive with Xerox Corporation and holds an MBA from Boston University and is a doctoral candidate in Adult Learning and Leadership at Columbia University.

Jane Bindley-Danforth (MA)

JaneJBD@aol.com

Jane Bindley-Danforth is a physical therapist specializing in alternative manual therapy at Boston Medical Center. In the 1980's, she volunteered at the National Office of Physicians for Social Responsibility, creating and working with local chapters with educational meetings on nuclear weapons and war.  She is a graduate of Wellesley College with a B.A. degree in Botany, Harvard Graduate School of Education with a Ed.M. degree in elementary education, and Simmons College with a B.S. degree in physical therapy.

Connie Leach Bisson (VT)

cbisson@middlebury.edu

Connie works at Middlebury College as its Campus Sustainability Coordinator.  In what might be equated to an "environmental consultant", Connie is involved in the environmental affairs of the college from its carbon reduction initiative, to coordinating the environmental council, overseeing campus environmental grants, promoting energy conservation/efficiency and waste reduction strategies, advocating green design in new construction...

Prior to Middlebury, Connie was active in waste reduction work for over twenty years including founding The ReStore that, since 1990, has collected manufacturing by-products for use as art & educational materials.  She has degrees from Williams College and the University of Michigan, is the mother of two pre-teen boys, and has recently begun learning to play the upright bass in spare moments.

Susan Brown (MA)

sbrownma@earthlink.net

Susan Brown has lived in a few New England communities 20 or more years, long enough to be observant of local climate changes. Her training and experience in landscape and ecologic design aid in organizing around social and environmental issues.  Now a member of the Waltham Conservation Commission, she also participates with CLEAN POWER NOW, a grass roots organization which currently supports a proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound. She went in January to Denmark with a group from Cape Cod to consider the benefits and disadvantages of the new 80 wind turbine wind-park offshore in the North Sea.

Ms. Jamy Buchanan (MA)

buchj@aol.com

Jamy Buchanan is a longtime advocate for positive, solution-oriented environmental thinking. She is the owner of a small environmental law firm in Boston, Massachusetts where she counsels for-profit and not-for-profit clients on development and environmental compliance matters. Previously, she was General Counsel for Environmental Affairs to former Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld, where she was also responsible for environmental enforcement in the Commonwealth. Her work included co-founding the first program in the nation to structure and budget for environmental compliance and pollution prevention at all 5,000 state-operated facilities. Ms. Buchanan is a Trustee of Thompson Island Outward Bound and the immediate past President of the Alliance of Women's Business and Professional Organizations. She is a graduate of Yale University and the Boalt Hall School of Law.

Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas (MA)

MargaretBJ@aol.com

The Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Ph.D., serves as Priest Associate of Grace Episcopal Church (Amherst, MA) and is a Lecturer in Pastoral Theology at Episcopal Divinity School.  A writer, retreat leader, and spiritual director, since 1986 she has traveled around the country to lead spiritual retreats and conferences, as well as training programs in spiritual direction.  She is a member of the Leadership Council of Religious Witness for the Earth (www.religiouswitness.org), an interfaith network dedicated to public witness on behalf of Creation. She was arrested in 2001 in an interfaith prayer vigil at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C., to protest drilling in the Arctic.  In recent years her retreats and speaking engagements have focused on reclaiming the sacredness of God’s creation and placing care for the Earth at the center of our moral and spiritual concern.  The author of Christ’s Passion, Our Passions (Cowley, 2003) and Holy Hunger (Vintage, 2000), she is also principal author of the Pastoral Letter on the environment that was recently released by the Episcopal Bishops of New England. 

Brian Carlson (NH)

bcarlson@cleanwater.org

Brian works as Clean Water Fund's Massachusetts climate organizer part-time and attends Antioch New England Graduate School working or his Masters Degree in Environmental Studies, Advocacy and Organizing.  Prior to moving east, Brian worked for the White Earth Land Recovery Project as an organizer in energy, sustainable development and indigenous rights campaigns. He has a Bachelors Degree in Environmental Studies from the University of St. Thomas.

Cindy Chang (MA)

cindy.chang@tufts.edu

Cindy was born and raised in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.  After enrolling in Tufts University in Boston, she found an interest in social justice and environmental issues through her work at Tufts' Oxfam Cafe and Oxfam America.  Cindy has just graduated from Tufts with majors in Environmental Studies and Sociology, and was selected to be part of the 2003 Climate Justice Corps program run by the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative.  She is currently working at her host site, West Harlem Environmental Action in New York City, researching and reporting on Climate Justice issues throughout the Northeast states.

Dr. Jens Christiansen (MA)

jchristi@mtholyoke.edu

Jens Christiansen is Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies at  Mount Holyoke College where he has taught since 1986.  He has held  visiting positions at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Stanford University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the  University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Yale University.  His major  research interest at this point and many of his recent publications focus  on questions of comparative economic performance of the G-7.  In  particular, he is examining the differences in productivity growth inequality, and unemployment among these economies.  He has presented his research findings at numerous international conferences and has been an economic commentator on radio and television programs. Christiansen was centrally involved in creating the environmental studies  program at Mount Holyoke College that offers students a truly interdisciplinary perspective on environmental questions. He is married and has two college age children.  He is an avid gardener and likes to  travel.

Heather Colman-McGill

hcolmanmcgill@yahoo.com

I am a recent graduate of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME) where I earned a BA in Biology and Environmental Studies, with a minor in Government. My greatest passion is to travel, to learn about different peoples and cultures, as well as exotic critters and ecosystems all over the world. I have had the fortune to spend time in places such as the rainforests of Costa Rica, the Amazon basin and Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, and the shrub/Savannah lands of South Africa. Exploring such ecosystems has instilled in me a sense of awe and appreciation for biodiversity, as well as the resolve to ensure species, and these diverse habitats do not disappear. I thus come to the issue of Climate Change from the understanding that this is an issue which will affect species and ecosystems, including humans, all over the world. I hope to learn and help educate others as to the specifics of what each of us individually can do, to help turn the tide in this battle for the earth.

Henrietta Davis (MA)

hdavis@ci.cambridge.ma.us

Henrietta is currently serving her fourth term on the Cambridge City Council and serves as Vice Mayor of Cambridge.  After earning a degree in social work from Boston College in 1972, Councilor Davis worked as a neighborhood planner and a freelance journalist for National Public Radio, Time, Inc., and others.  The birth of two sons signaled a change of pace away from daily deadlines.  Davis left journalism and became an administrator at the Agassiz Preschool.  In 1987, Davis was elected to the Cambridge School Committee.  Three more terms followed, during which her proudest accomplishments were science curriculum improvements and AIDS prevention efforts.  In 1997, Davis graduated from Harvard’s Kennedy School for Government earning her Master’s Degree in Public Administration.  Davis was elected to the City Council in 1995.  During her four Council terms, Davis has focused on housing, non-auto transportation, neighborhood preservation, the environment, and children’s health.  Until this term she chaired the Traffic and Transportation Committee.  She currently chairs the Health and Environment Committee and the Committee on Public Safety.  She also serves as vice chair of the newly created University Relations Committee and was recently appointed to the National League of Cities Steering Committee on Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources.  She also serves as the legislative liaison to the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives.  Henrietta Davis is married to Richard Bock and has two sons.  Her vision for Cambridge’s future is focused on safety for pedestrians and bikers, keeping the neighborhood scale and feel, and promoting the city’s diversity.  Her hobbies include kayaking, canoeing, and watercolor painting.

Laura Dubester (MA)

cet@cetonline.org

For the past 25 years, Laura Dubester has served as Director of the Center for Ecological Technology (CET); a non-profit community based environmental organization based in western Massachusetts. CET works with individuals, businesses, schools and communities to help meet the normal challenges of daily life with practical, affordable and environmentally sound solutions, especially in the areas of energy and natural resource conservation. One of CET's current organizational priorities is to increase access to renewable energy and support the responsible development of renewable resources. At CET, Laura has designed many innovative and effective energy conservation and waste management initiatives. In addition, Laura is active in a south Berkshire grassroots group that is developing local strategies to work on energy issues at the individual, community and national level. She received a BA from the University of Rochester, a Masters in Education from Antioch College and a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government.

Jon Duckworth (VT)

jduckwor@middlebury.edu

Jon is currently pursuing a B.A in physics at Middlebury College, and intends to pursue graduate work related energy use, technology, and society.  Jon is currently working on Middlebury College's Carbon Reduction Initiative, a group of faculty, staff, students, and administration working to reduce the campus's carbon emissions.  He has also been involved in organizing presentations and discussions about the World Summit on Sustainable Development and energy in developing nations.

Bob Fabian (MA)

bfabian@solar-works.com

I turned my frustration with not being able to do anything to address global warming into a job in the renewable energy field. I design and install photovoltaic and hot water systems in New England. And I still feel like I have to do more. After living overseas for 7 years I am very aware how much energy we use relative to the rest of the world, industrialized and developing.

I don't feel overly confident about speaking to groups, but I think I can overcome that with a little help from my friends. So you can how excited I was when I heard about this training.

Dr. Ellen Frank (MA)

frank@emmanuel.edu

Dr. Ellen Frank is a professor of economics at Emmanuel College and a member of the editorial collective of Dollars and Sense Magazine.  Her articles appear in Dissent, Dollars and Sense, the New Internationalist, Foreign Policy in Focus and the London Guardian-Observer.  She writes and speaks extensively on the global economy and on US policy priorities.

Kathrine Gekas (MA)

ktag@gekas.org
Kathrine Gekas currently volunteers for a grassroots organization based in Newton, MA, the Green Decade Coalition/Newton. She is on the GDC/N Board of Directors, chairs the energy committee for GDC/N, participates on the Mayor's advisory committee for the Newton Sunergy program, and is a member of Newton's citizen energy commission. During the day, she takes care of her two young children. In the ten years previous to this, Katherine coordinated projects at a wind energy company, facilitated pollution prevention projects in North Africa and the Middle East, consulted on climate change mitigation and worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Chad, Africa. She has a BS in Economics from the University of Wisconsin and a MS in Environmental Change from Oxford University, UK.

Ross Gelbspan (MA)

ross@theworld.com

Ross Gelbspan retired several years ago after a 31-year career in journalism as a reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Bulletin, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. At the Globe as special projects editor, he conceived, directed and edited a series of articles that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984.

In 1997, he published a book on the global climate crisis titled: The Heat Is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth’s Threatened Climate. The book received very positive reviews in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the science journal, Nature.  It was excerpted in The Washington Post and the San Jose Mercury. The Heat Is On received national attention that summer when when President Clinton told the press he was reading the book during his vacation. The book has since been published in German and Italian. A U.S. paperback edition was published in 1998 by Perseus Books, with the title: The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-Up, The Prescription. It has also been the subject of numerous attacks by the fossil fuel lobby.

Since the book’s publication, Gelbspan has appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including “Nightline,” “All Things Considered” and “Talk of the Nation.” He was invited to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland in 1998, where he addressed heads of state, government ministers and leaders of multi-national corporations.  His new book, Boiling Point, was published by Basic Books in July, 2004.

Paul G. Harris (NE and Hong Kong)

pharris@In.edu.hk

Paul G. Harris is an associate professor of politics at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and a senior lecturer in international relations at London Guildhall University. He is director of the Project on Environmental Change and Foreign Policy; an associate fellow at the Oxford Center for the Environment, Ethics, and Society; an honorary research fellow in the Center of Urban planning and Environmental Management at the University of Hong Kong; and a fellow at the Center for Asian Pacific Studies and Center for Public Policy Studies at Lingnan University. Dr. Harris is particularly interested in questions of international justice, fairness and responsibility in the context of climate change. He is author of numerous journal articles and research papers on global environmental politics, American foreign policy and international ethics. He has also published several books dealing with climate change, foreign policy, international relations and environmental justice. Dr. Harris has taught at universities in the United States, Britain and China. He is a native of New England.

Mark Hays (ME)

mhays@nrcm.org

Mark Hays, Outreach Coordinator, Energy/Toxics, Natural Resources Council of Maine: Joined the Council in January 2003. A 2001 graduate of Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music, he subsequently completed a year’s training and organizing with Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing. He ran local campaigns on clean air, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and corporate accountability, and served as assistant director of a summer canvass operation for the Fund for Public Interest Research.

Lara Hoke (MA)

Lara.Hoke@csgrp.com

Lara Hoke is the Outreach and Aggregation Coordinator for Massachusetts Interfaith Power and Light. Ms. Hoke reaches out to people of faith to explain the significance, both spiritual and secular, of environmental stewardship. After spending four years in the U.S. Navy (1990-1994), she enrolled in seminary and has spent the past several years working in non-profit organizations focusing on humane education. Before coming to MIP&L, she was the executive director of Education and Leadership for a Nonviolent Age (ELNA). Ms. Hoke holds an A.B. from Cornell University and a M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School.

Eric Hopkins (NH)

eric_hopkins@yahoo.com

Eric Hopkins is a teacher and public speaker with a passion for renewable energy. He moved to New Hampshire in the summer of 2002 after spending the last year volunteering with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO. At NREL, Eric taught large and small groups of visitors-ranging from school children to senior citizens-about the development of renewable energy technology and its growing role in generating power for today's modern global economy. After graduating with a Masters degree in counseling psychology from Lesley University in 1997, Eric's professional path took him through roles in community mental health centers, software companies, and finally toward teaching and public speaking.

Rebecca Horr (MA)

recycle4ever@comcast.net

Rebecca Horr holds a BSN from the University of New Hampshire; currently she is a registered nurse in Boston, where her specialty is cardiac-surgical nursing. She is also working toward a Nurse Practitioner degree at Boston College. Rebecca is a member of Boston Climate Action Network and the ANA/MNA. She started an environmental group at the hospital where she works, and has found that working in healthcare has increased her awareness of the cyclical impact of the environment and human health. Her passion for global warming and other environmental issues stems from her childhood, spent in northern Vermont, and her grandfather's great respect for the earth. Rebecca believes education is vital to bringing about change, and is currently working to improve patient education on her floor at the hospital using grant money she managed to obtain for that purpose. 

Jon Isham (VT)

jisham@middlebury.edu

Jonathan Isham is a member of the Department of Economics and the Program in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College.  He pursues his interests in civic engagement and social capital through teaching, research, and service: his four-week service-learning course in January 2003, “The Scientific and Institutional Challenges of Becoming Carbon Neutral,” produced a 200-page report on climate reduction strategies for Middlebury College.  Jon holds an A.B. in social anthropology from Harvard College, an M.A. in international studies from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland, where he specialized in international development and environmental and natural resource economics.  He has worked as a research associate at the IRIS Center and a consultant to the World Bank.  Prior to his graduate studies, Jon served in the Peace Corps in Benin.

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.

Glynis Jordan (VT)

Carrotbay@worldnet.att.net

Glynis Jordan, AICP, is the Deputy Zoning Administrator for the City of Burlington, VT. With almost twenty years of professional planning experience, Glynis got her start doing Facilities Planning for the Pacific Region while in the United States Navy. She has been with the City of Burlington for the last 13 years and primarily focuses her attention on development review and historic preservation issues. As part of this responsibility, she reviews zoning applications for new development or redevelopment projects within the largest city in Vermont. She is the recipient of the 1994 NNECAPA's award for 'outstanding use of media to promote the field of planning', and the 1999 NNECAPA award for an 'outstanding planning project' for her ongoing series of educational brochures, known as "Design Guides" which separate planning issues into understandable terms and community objectives. Glynis lives in Colchester, VT with her husband and Newfoundland dog. She received her BS from the University of the State of New York and is currently returning to Norwich University for an MA in Environment Planning and Land Use.

Jane Holtz Kay (MA)

jholtzkay@aol.com

Jane Holtz Kay is architecture/planning critic for The Nation and author of Asphalt Nation, Preserving New England and Lost Boston. She has written for The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning, Sierra, Preservation, and Orion. A Harvard magna cum laude graduate, she has taught and spoken on the built and natural environment - from cities and sprawl to transportation on "Living on Earth," "Booknotes," NPR, Peter Jennings and CNN. Books and Chapters: Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back, April, 1997; University of California, paper, 1998; Preserving New England (Pantheon), 1986; Lost Boston (Houghton Mifflin), 1980; updated, 1999; Chapters and introductions from 1985-2003: WPA Guide to Massachusetts (Pantheon), intro; A Book for Boston, (Godine), chapter; Towards A Livable City (Milkweed). Articles: Regular Contributions: The Nation: architecture/planning critic; The Boston Globe: architecture, planning, transportation and urban criticism; Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Planning, reviews and articles; The New York Times: architecture criticism, editorials, books, Design Notebook column.

Christa Koehler (NH)

CKoehler@ci.keene.nh.us

Christa is a Planner for the City of Keene, New Hampshire. Christa earned her B.A. in Political Science at Pace University and her M.S. in Resource Management and Administration at Antioch New England Graduate School. At Antioch, Christa focused her studies on climate change after interning for the City of Keene and the Department of Environmental Services in Concord, New Hampshire. Her research has centered on how urban planning can curtail the advent of climate change in the northeast. Christa is the staff person assigned to the Cities for Climate Protection program in Keene and is instrumental in helping Keene reach their goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 10% below 1995 levels.

Keith Kuckert (CT)

kuckert@mindspring.com

Keith has spent many years in various fields surrounding environmental issues.  He has worked as a laboratory and field technician before moving to into the realm of education stemming from his completion of an Environmental Earth Science degree.  There he began as an eighth grade earth science teacher then moved to high schools physics.  He has returned to university life to complete his business degree and while there has attached himself to the Institute for Sustainable Energy. He maintains an interest in a wide variety of activities and academic subjects.

Rhett Lamb (NH)

rlamb@ci.keene.nh.us

Rhett is the Planning Director for the City of Keene, New Hampshire, where he performs a broad array of planning and development tasks including the development of comprehensive plans, drafting of zoning ordinances and subdivision/site plan regulations, and review of development proposals.  He is also involved in the implementation of management systems and computer mapping to support planning functions and municipal decision making.  Mr. Lamb has a Masters Degree in and environmental studies and planning from Tufts University, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning where he specialized in land use and water resource protection issues.  Previously he worked for the Town of Falmouth, Mass. as Assistant Town Planner.  Mr. Lamb is an adjunct professor at Antioch New England Graduate School and is a member of the New Hampshire Planners Association and the Northern New England Chapter of the American Planning Association.

Jacqueline Liriano (MA)

jql@gis.net

Jacqueline, as Executive Director, oversees Enersol’s daily operations, as well as their solar and water initiatives. Before joining Enersol, she worked with a variety of organizations involved in community development and urban planning.  Among them are: Neighborhood Reinvestment, a nonprofit intermediary working in community development throughout the US, where she was Management Consultant; the state of Massachusetts; and Tent City, a Boston based non-profit focused on creating alternatives for urban housing.  Ms. Liriano holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy, and has expertise in business and financial analysis.  Currently Ms. Liriano holds a Fellowship with the Environmental Leadership Program, an innovative national program designed to build the leadership capacity of the environmental field's most promising emerging professionals.

Kim Lundgren (MA)

kim_lundgren@hotmail.com

Kim is the Environmental Agent for the City of Medford.  She received a B.S. in Environmental Science from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University.  In January 2001, after working several years as an U.S. EPA consultant on hazardous waste, Ms. Lundgren became the Energy Efficiency Coordinator for the City of Medford.  She took on additional responsibilities and became Medford’s first Environmental Agent in March 2002.  As such, she runs the City’s Energy and Environment Office, the Medford Energy Task Force, is one of three members of the City’s Stormwater Management Team, and is the staff liaison for the Medford Conservation Commission.

Peggy Macleod (MA)

energyhome@yahoo.com

Peggy MacLeod has been a grass roots organizer and clean energy advocate since 1986. She currently serves as the Marketing Director for the Center for Ecological Technology (CET), where she is responsible for marketing GreenerWatts New England, CET’s renewable energy product.  Peggy also is building CET’s Energy Star Homes program by explaining the benefits to builders and non-profit housing developers throughout Western Massachusetts.  Ms. MacLeod was a founder and board member of the Connecticut Energy Cooperative, the first supplier in the Northeast to offer 100% renewable, “green-e certified” electricity. During its operation, the Co-op enrolled over 3,500 EcoWatt members.  Ms. MacLeod serves on the Northampton Energy Resources Commission, the Northampton Cities for Climate Protection committee, the Massachusetts Climate Action Network, and Earth Stewardship initiatives in local religious groups.

Matthew Magnusson (NH)

magnusson3@yahoo.com

Matthew Magnusson is employed as a manager of information technology at the University of New Hampshire.  He is currently working on completing his MBA degree at the University of New Hampshire and wants to work towards marketing renewable green power options to New Hampshire citizens.  He lives with his wife, Michele and two children, Destinee and Noah in the town of Barrington, New Hampshire.

Michelle Markestyn (MA)

mmarke01@emerald.tufts.edu

Michelle Markestyn is a Ph.D. student in the Agriculture, Food and Environment program at Tufts University.  She holds a masters in Environmental Law from the Vermont Law School, and a BA in Resource Conservation from the University of Montana.  She has given numerous presentations on environmental topics, while employed as Campaign Director of the Fund for Public Interest, and the coordinator of the Vermont State Biotechnology Community Action and Education Coalition.

Mary McCarthy (VT)

newmay@together.net

Mary received a Bachelor's in Environmental Science from the University of Massachusetts in 1983. Since then she has been gainfully employed in every field imaginable other than Environmental Science, and happily raising three kids who are now 11, 13, and 16. There have also been volunteer opportunities testing the Whetstone Brook and doing environmental education in the local elementary schools through the Vermont Institute for Natural Science. Mary also hosted and DJ'd an Environmental radio show on Radio Free Brattleboro for a short time. Over the past several years though her understanding and personal experiences with the world's changing climate has become a deeply troubling personal concern. Fortunately Brattleboro, VT has joined the international organization of Cities for Climate Protection Campaign. Mary is very grateful to be a member of the Brattleboro Climate Protection Group which is under the umbrella of CCPC. The group raises awareness and educates citizens in Brattleboro and the surrounding areas about the realities of global warming and climate change.

Ted McIntyre (MA)

emcintyre1@comcast.net

Ted McIntyre, Ph.D. has had a long term interest in the physics of climate change and the technology of renewable energy. His background in science gives him insight into the fundamental physical processes involved. Most of his career has been in spent in developing the equipment used to make computer chips, where he has had many opportunities to present technical information to both general and sophisticated audiences. Now he is interested in combining his technical background and teaching skills in the effort to make people aware of the important energy choices our society faces. 

Ted is a Thompson Island “veteran,” having completed the Speaking track of the 2003 Boston Climate Education Project.  Since last year he has fulfilled his commitment as a Speaker by presenting at the Franklin Public Library, Suffolk Business School, Franklin Universalist Society and Wheaton College.  A videotape of his presentation has been aired repeatedly on his local cable access station.  He has also attended the Harvard Extension School’s evening class on global warming, and is currently developing a presentation on technologies available today to help reduce global warming.

Sarah Meginness (MA)

Sarah_Meginness@bphc.org
Sarah Meginness works on a variety of building efficiency, clean vehicle, and renewable energy projects in Boston, as part of a clean air and climate protection program co-sponsored by the Boston Public Health Commission and the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. She previously worked in Arlington, MA on their Cities for Climate Protection Campaign, and at Ozone Action (recently integrated into Greenpeace USA), where she organized a student summit at the 2000 Kyoto treaty negotiations at The Hague. While pursuing her BA in international relations and environmental studies at Tufts University, she helped organize the 1999 Climate Change and Civil Society conference, and helped establish the Tufts Institute of the Environment. Sarah is an active member of the Boston Area Solar Energy Association, Boston Climate Action Network, and Massachusetts Climate Action Network.

Danielle Luttenberg Meitiv (MA)

Danielle Luttenberg Meitiv is an oceanographer, advocate and environmental educator. She received her B.S. in Biology from the University at Buffalo and her M.S. in Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island. Her research focused on the study of climate and ecology in the distant past.  Danielle worked as an oceanographer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, D.C., and led Environmental Defense’s efforts to protect New England’s ocean environment. She joined the staff of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL) to coordinate the JGEN project, a international network committed to protecting Israel's environment, and coordinated a political training conference for MassPIRG. Danielle has also been involved in environmental education in many different settings including classrooms, coral reefs, salt marshes, forests, on the air, online, and in the urban jungles of New York City. Recently, Danielle co-taught a course titled “Sources and Resources: Jewish Values, Humanity and the Environment” as part of the Genesis program at Brandeis University. Danielle lives in Brighton with her husband Sasha and their son Rafi.
 

Sister Jacqueline Moreau (ME)

moreausj@maine.rr.com

Pastoral Associate St. Anne Catholic Church, Gorham ME
Serves on board of Maine Interfaith Power and Light; offers educational
programs on earth and the new cosmology to church groups throughout the state via Maine Earth Sisters, an intercommunity group.  Works with the Maine Council of Churches forming earthcare teams in churches and schools. Her church had free state energy audit and changed most lights to compact fluorescents this winter (2004).

Lauri Murphy (MA)

Elementalsystems@yahoo.com
Lauri Murphy has been a career environmentalist (in recycling, reuse, environmental investing and voluntary compliance) since 1988. She has also been a trainer and product demonstrator in her part-time environmentally-preferable product (EPP) retail business, Elemental Systems, Independent Distributor of Market America, since April 1988. Laid off in 2001 from her six-year position with WasteCap of Massachusetts, a business-helping-business recycling information nonprofit, she attended one of Ross Gelbspan's talks on climate change at which she concluded that this is the most serious environmental issue facing the planet. To become better educated about and involved in climate change, Lauri has attended Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) meetings and, in 2003, helped establish the Watertown Environment and Energy Efficiency Committee (WE3C), a Town advocacy and education group for which she has been appointed a two-year term. She has also volunteered at the Union of Concerned Scientists and MassEnergy, and is a Sierra Club and UCS member. Lauri currently seeks a permanent administrative or research/writing/editing position in climate change/energy efficiency issues.

Susan Olshuff (MA)

saustown@aol.com

A native of the Boston area, Susan is a Brandeis University graduate. She was the fundraiser for six years for Enersol, a U.S.-based nonprofit that uses solar energy to improve the levels of health and education for rural communities in developing countries in Latin America. Susan learned about climate change from her work at Enersol, and is now committed to sharing her understanding with others, feeling overwhelmed by the science of climate change but compelled by the seriousness of it. She is mom of two college students majoring in environmental studies, and is currently working on finding a publisher for a delightful children's book about climate change written by one of those sons.  This year Susan has been fundraising for Boston-based Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Conventions (CERC). She is now looking for work that is connected to climate change.

Alan Patterson (MA)

apatterson@igc.org

Alan Patterson is an independent environmental consultant and planner, specializing in Latin America.  Shifting from earlier urban planning work in the Peace Corps and in Model Cities/EOEC in this country, he has worked at the state level in water and air quality planning efforts, with a significant orientation toward efficiency and conservation as a control technique.  Overseas experience has varied widely, ranging from program evaluation to petrified forest park planning, and from institutional analyses of debt for nature programs to low cost applications of comparative environmental risk analysis.

Debra Sachs (VT)

dsachs@10percentchallenge.org
Debra Sachs, executive director of the Alliance for Climate Action (ACA) and coordinator of the 10% Challenge program. Debra was a member of the Burlington Climate Protection Task Force (1998-2000) and co-author of the Burlington Climate Action Plan. She is a member of the Alliance for Climate Action. She is the staff representative to International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (1996-present) and is actively participating in the formation of the first regional network of ICLEI Cities for Climate Protection--"New England Cities for Climate Protection Network". Debra is responsible for carrying out the mission of the ACA, with coordinating ACA board activities and implementation of the Burlington Climate Action Plan.  Debra is president of the Vermont Planners Association. She has been a panelist at several national and international conferences-most recently on sustainable development and use of renewable energy at ICLEI World Congress, Athens, Greece.  She received her B.S. degree in Forestry and M.S. degree in Natural Resource Planning from the University of Vermont.

Richard Scanlon (MA)

rmsmoksha@yahoo.com

Richard Scanlon is a member of the Impersonal Enlightenment Fellowship, which is inspired by the work of the French paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin concerning the evolution of consciousness. The organization produces a magazine called What is Enlightenment? A recent issue on the environment prompted them to look deeply at their own impact on the environment. Richard leads the 'Green Team" in Boston, and is exploring ways to reduce their ecological footprint, with the goal of totally transforming how they live together in relation to the natural systems that sustain the environment. In this context, they want to serve as a model for and partner with the broader community. As an organization they are currently transforming a four-story warehouse in London, which will be an environmentally-friendly center, similar to the Oberlin Center built by William Burroughs. Richard has a degree in mathematics and a postgraduate diploma in business.

Dan Schlossberg (MA)

dschlossberg@apbspeakers.com
Dan Schlossberg is a lecture agent working in Newton, Massachusetts. He books political and business leaders, civil rights/diversity champions and other prominent speakers for corporations, associations and various other groups. His territory includes Michigan, which means he often books for the big Auto companies. In the late 80's he was a comedian in the Boston area, and he is now an avid skier and scuba diver-both hobbies having fueled his engagement with the global warming issue. He is interested in learning more about the business and the scientific aspects of climate change.

Andrew Shalit (MA)

andrew@justis.org

Andrew works with technology, communication, and collaboration.  His early career was spent managing software research and product development at Apple Computer and a number of Cambridge-based startups.  More recently he was the Technology Director at V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls.  At V-Day Andrew managed online communications, including online tools for 1,000 volunteer organizers around the world.  His interests include corporate activism, network effects, coalition building, and of course climate change.  His current volunteering includes Massachusetts NOW, the Sierra Club of Massachusetts, MCAN, and United for Justice With Peace.

Heidi Solomon (MA)

chiching21@yahoo.com

As the Event Coordinator for a non-profit training and advocacy organization in Boston, MA, Ms. Solomon embraces the challenge of ensuring a healthy and sustainable world.  She holds a B.A. in English with a concentration in Environmental Literature from Union College, Schenectady N.Y.  Her honors thesis examined Judaism’s views on personal responsibility for environmental stewardship.  She complemented her academics with a 4 month backpacking trip with students and professors organized by the Sierra Institute of the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC).

After working for the State Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance in MA, Ms. Solomon continued her commitment to the environment by serving as a Steering Committee member and Outreach Coordinator for the Boston chapter of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish life (COEJL).  She was the key organizer for the 1st Annual Jewish Environmental Institute and edited COEJL’s newsletter.  Further pursuing the relationship between spirituality and environmental stewardship, Ms. Solomon explored Buddhism firsthand.  Residing in southern France, under the auspices of Nobel Peace Prize nominee and Zen Master Thict Naht Han in his monastery, Plum Village, Ms. Solomon probed the connections between humanity and the environment as well as humanity, inner pain and conflict resolution.               

She has worked as an activist and environmentalist by participating in a program working to build peace in the Middle East using the environment as neutral territory.  Living very close to the Egyptian and Jordanian borders in the southern tip of Israel, Ms. Solomon joined both Jewish, Christian and Muslim environmentalists from North America, Europe, Jordan, Palestine and Israel living in coexistence.  This program involved a year of Master’s level Environmental Studies at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies and Ben Gurion University of the Negev and her trans-boundary research project included subjects from Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.  She happily joins the Green House Network to continue her environmental work and looks forward to many days trail blazing.

Dr. Michele Sprengnether (MA)

spreng2@comcast.net

With a PhD in atmospheric chemistry, Michele has spent the past 18 years studying, researching and teaching about chemistry and the environment.  Disappointed in the lack of leadership at the national level for addressing climate change and other environmental concerns, Michele has become more interested in the actions available to individuals and institutions.  She has conducted an energy audit of herself and her UU church in Cambridge, and she is working toward bringing both within compliance of the Kyoto Protocol and the Cambridge Climate Protection Plan by 2008.  With options to purchase renewable electricity and green-E certificates, there is no need to wait.  Her promotion of climate action has also involved discussions with plumbers about condensing boilers.

Marshall Spriggs (MA)

mtspriggs@igc.org

Marshall has been very productive about matters of the environment and human rights since 1968. 

Jennie Stephens (MA)

jstephens@clarku.edu

Jennie C. Stephens is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Stephens’ research focuses on technologies and policies associated with confronting global climate change. She has particular interest in energy technologies that have potential to satisfy increasing energy demand in both developed and developing countries without increasing CO2 emissions and the policies that could promote and support the deployment of these technologies. Technologies associated with capturing and storing CO2 have been one recent focus of her work. Stephens is also interested more generally in the effective use of science in environmental decision-making. Stephens teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses on climate change, biogeochemical cycles, sustainability, and the intersection of environment, society, and technology. She collaborates with the MIT-USGS Science Impact Program as well as the Energy Technology Innovation Project at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Stephens received her B.A. (1997) from Harvard University in Environmental Science and Public Policy and then earned both her M.S. (1998) and Ph.D. (2002) at the California Institute of Technology in Environmental Science and Engineering. Before joining the faculty of Clark University, she did post-doctoral research at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and she taught at Tufts, Boston University, and MIT.

Rev. Kate Stevens (MA)

songline50@aol.com

Kate is an ordained minister with the United Church of Christ and has been involved in the leadership of Religious Witness for the Earth for the past three years.  She was involved with an interfaith gathering in Washington, D.C. in May of 2002 to protest drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge. She, along with 21 other clergy and lay leaders, prayed in front of the Department of Energy Building and were arrested.  It was a grand action.  Kate will be organizing an event for Religious Witness for the Earth this November.   Five years ago, the U.S. signed the Kyoto Protocol to draw attention to the dangers of global warming.   The Protocol has never been ratified by the U.S. government.  This November 12, in New York City, RWE, with hundreds of environmental activists, will process down 1st Avenue where there will be a "Service of Repentance" at the U.N. addressed to those nations who have ratified the protocol and those nations who will be most adversely effected by climate change.  All are invited.

Tom Stokes (MA)

tstokes@bcn.net

In 1969 I helped start an environmental action initiative in New York City – Environment! and have since worked for Friends of the Earth (1970’s), the Housatonic Valley Association – a Mass/Conn watershed group (1990’s) and, just recently, the Climate Crisis Coalition – a just-getting-started political action group. I have participated in local and regional government (as a Stockbridge, MA selectman and as a Berkshire County Commissioner) and have worked in numerous political campaigns and initiatives. Over the years I have also been a house painter, dock builder, ranch worker and was, at one time, a merchant seaman. I did college in my 40’s (Berkshire Community College and Wesleyan University). My commitment to the global warming issue is based on a longstanding desire to address the interplay between environmental, social and economic equity.

Mary Sullivan (VT)

msullivan@burlingtonelectric.com

Mary Sullivan is the Communications Coordinator at the Burlington electric department. BED is part of the Alliance for Climate Action. Mary chairs the communications committee of ACA, and has been working for the Electric Department for two years. Before working at BED, Mary was a ten-year member of the House of Representatives, chairing the House natural resources committee for the final two years. She received a B.A. from Trinity College, in Vermont, and an M.A. in journalism from Boston University. In the 1980's, Mary worked for the Washington Post, and also worked for Senator Patrick Leahy in his Washington office prior to her time at BU.

Meg Wilcox (MA)

megwilcox@earthlink.net

Meg is an environmental health scientist and a freelance writer. She is an active member of the Boston chapter of the Massachusetts Climate Action Network and also does media work for MCAN. Meg works at the Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association currently, providing assistance to states and municipalities on mercury product legislation and recycling initiatives. She has worked in the occupational and environmental health field for more than 12 years. Previously Meg did public health work in Central America. Having also worked with international development and human rights organizations, she is inspired by the promise that renewable energy holds for the developing world. Meg is the mother of Liam age 6 and Sophia age 3.

Angela Windy (MA)

windy@bc.edu

Angela Windy will graduate with a BS in Environmental Geoscience from Boston College in 2005.  She serves as the Director of Environmental Affairs for Student Government, initiating battery & ink cartridge recycling, and will be writing her honors thesis on alternative energy and vehicles.  She has interned for the EPA and the Director as Transportation at Boston College. A native of the San Francisco area, she loves to sail, and placed 6th at the World Championships in 2002. Angela looks forward to changing the world!

Rich Wolfson (VT)

wolfson@middlebury.edu

Rich Wolfson, Professor of Physics & Environmental Studies at Middlebury College lectures regularly on the topic of global climate change; for example, he gave the Earth Day keynote at Brookhaven National Lab last April, and recently gave a talk "Global Warming: IPCC 2001 Update" at the University of Vermont's School of Natural Resources. Rich has a now somewhat dated video course on the subject, distributed by The Teaching Company and is the coauthor (with Stanford's Steve Schneider) of "Understanding Climate Science," the intro chapter in Island Press's forthcoming book "Climate Change Policy."

Kathleen Wright (MA)

tygertwice@yahoo.com
Kathleen Wright is an artist, writer, and web designer. She is also the Communications Coordinator for the Cape Cod Center for Sustainability.

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