Sharon Abreu (WA)

sharmuse@aol.com

Sharon Abreu is a singer, environmental educator, and executive director of Irthlingz arts-based environmental education. She has been a speaker for the Green House Network since 2000.

Sharon began her environmental work as a member of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. She was vice president of the NYC Friends of Clearwater environmental group and co-editor of the group's "Enviroblurb" newsletter, and a volunteer crew member on the sloop Clearwater. Sharon has taught on the Clearwater, in NYC public schools and with the Monmouth County Friends of Clearwater in New Jersey. She is a member of the trade union, energy, freshwater, and education caucuses of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.

Sharon has provided music for the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, World Summit on Sustainable Development, March for Peaceful Energy, Earth Day, and the Climate Change and the West, Navigating Our Future, and Redwoods-Sequoia Conferences. She co-wrote "The Great Climate Caper", a musical show about global climate change, premiered in Washington State, her current home, in 2002. Sharon has performed with legendary folk singer Pete Seeger, in concerts and on radio stations across the country. Her song "Change in the Climate" was performed at a special meeting of the NYC region input to the NYS Greenhouse Gas Action Plan, and was recently featured on Ken Gale's Eco-Logic show on WBAI Pacifica radio.

Sharon has a Bachelor of Science degree from New York University. She is a recipient of the N.Y.U. Founders Day Award.

Lisa Adatto (OR)

lisa_adatto@hotmail.com

Lisa comes from a business background with an emphasis on marketing and communications.   From 1983 to 2003 she worked as the Vice President of Marketing for a company that specialized in providing services to state health and human services agencies.  As a founder and co-owner, she participated in developing the company from a start up to an organization with over 1000 employees in 20 states.  Ms. Adatto's role was to design successful methods of providing social marketing, education, enrollment and payment processing programs.  She is knowledgeable about health care, child care and workforce programs.  Ms. Adatto has also served on the board of a Portland, Oregon based non-profit devoted to creating green energy for low income communities throughout the world.  The organization currently has projects in Central America and Asia.  Ms. Adatto is interested in bringing her knowledge and skills to the issue of global warming.

Deanie Anderson (OR)

deananderson@gorge.net

In 1996 I founded, with Dr. Michael Grubb of the Royal Institute of International

Affairs, and Dr. Mark Trexler of Trexler Associates, the first consultancy in Europe devoted exclusively to climate change mitigation. Clients included multinational corporations, e.g. BP and Rio Tinto; governments, e.g.the UK and Norway; national agencies, e.g. the Norwegian Ship Owners Association and the Norwegian Business Federation; and international institutions, e.g. UNCTAD, UNDP, UNEP, and the IEA. Services included corporate risk analysis and assistance with policy formulation, such as design of national and trans-national emissions trading systems and elements of the market-based mechanisms in the Kyoto Protocol, especially the Clean Development Mechanism. As Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, I contributed to publications and served as speaker, panelist and rapporteur at international climate change conferences.  I attended most of the UNFCCC negotiating sessions between 1995 and 1999, including Kyoto.

Ralph Bloemers (OR)

ralphowen@hotmail.com

Ralph Bloemers, Portland, OR, currently practices law at Stoel Rives LLP and focuses his practice on Corporate Finance and Intellectual Property Law, with a particular emphasis on financing high technology start-up ventures. Ralph currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Green House Network and participates in the Cooperating Attorney Program for 1000 Friends of Oregon through which he represents landowners and citizen groups on land use issues. Ralph studied law at Willamette University and at Rijks University in Leiden, The Netherlands. He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder where he received a degree in political science. Prior to practicing law in Portland, Ralph worked in the Colorado Office of the Nature Conservancy on land conservation issues, as an assistant legislative counsel to the Oregon legislature on regulation of steep slope logging and as an intern for 1000 Friends of Oregon on farm and forest land issues. Ralph was born in the Netherlands, but spent most of his childhood growing up on a dairy Gouda cheese farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

Gary Braasch (WA)

gary@braaschphotography.com

Gary is a photographer documenting Climate Change and Climate Change Science around the world through photography. His Current work includes: Aerial photography of Greenland ice cap -- glacier monitoring by NASA. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, receding glaciers in the Alps, new views of Bali, Philppines, Iceland, Switzerland, and Yellowstone NP. General Information about his work can be found at http://www.agpix.com/braasch.

Sara Cate (WA)

scate@u.washington.edu

Sara Cate is a family physician and educator. She has a background in public health with a Masters from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include genetic screening tests and the health effects of low level ionizing radiation. She is a mother of 3 children, only 2 of which play soccer.  For the past 5 years been been speaking to a wide range of groups including schools, and  churches on the health and environmental effects of global warming.  

Jennifer K. Crawford (WA)

jcrawf1969@hotmail.com

Jennifer Crawford teaches yoga and, as Coordinator for Integrative Strategies Forum (ISF), supports communications, administrative and project management, and research for initiatives in corporate accountability, sustainable production and consumption, and a national grassroots volunteer network promoting sustainable communities and citizen engagement in sustainable development policy, the U.S. Citizens Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet). Jenn has also managed environmental management business and training programs for the United States - Asia Environmental Partnership, worked with Friends of the Earth, US Public Interest Research Group, and taught English as a Second Language in Eastern Europe. Jenn earned her MPA from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and her BA in Anthropology from Whitman College.

Darcy Cronin (OR)

darcycronin@yahoo.com

Darcy Cronin is currently a graduate student in the Environment & Community program at Antioch University’s Center for Creative Change.  She is interested in the social and cultural aspects of planning a sustainable society.  Darcy also works part time as the Marketing & Outreach Coordinator for Illahee, a small non-profit that hosts the Environment Matters Lecture Series.  Darcy Cronin graduated from the University of Oregon with a B.A. in International Studies, a B.S. in Environmental Studies, and a minor in Scandinavian Studies, She spent her third year of undergraduate studies in Copenhagen at Denmark's International Studies Program.

Jim DiPeso (WA)

dipeso@repamerica.org

Jim DiPeso is policy director of REP America, the national grassroots organization of Republicans for environmental protection. Jim, a former newspaper reporter and editor, believes strongly that America must enact sensible energy policies to protect public health and safety, our natural heritage, and democracy from the serious dangers that climate change poses. Jim has been an advocate of energy efficiency and clean, made-in-America renewable resources for 30 years. Before joining REP America, he worked as communications director for the Northwest Energy Coalition and for the Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center.

Matt Eldridge (WA and Europe)

matte@onlinevideoservice.com

Dr. Eban Goodstein (OR)

eban@lclark.edu

Eban Goodstein is an Associate Professor of Economics at Lewis & Clark College in Portland Oregon, and a Research Associate at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC. He received his B.A. from Williams College and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Professor Goodstein is the author of a college textbook, Economics and the Environment, (John Wiley and Sons: 1998) now in its second edition, as well as The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment. (Island Press: 1999)

Articles by Goodstein have appeared in The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Ecological Economics, Environmental Management, The Journal of Developing Areas, The Rand Journal of Economics, The Review of Industrial Organization, and The American Prospect. His research has been featured in, among other media,Ù Scientific American,Ù The Economist, and NPR's Environment show.Ù

Dr. Goodstein was a member of the Working Group on Jobs and Economic Development of the President's Council on Sustainable Development, and has served on the Curriculum Committee of the International Society for Ecological Economics. He has been a consultant to the Manpower Resources Development Corporation, and the Rockefeller, MacArthur and Pew foundations. He also coaches youth soccer and basketball.

Roel Hammerschlag (WA)

roel@ilea.org

Roel Hammerschlag is the executive director of ILEA, the Institute for
Lifecycle Environmental Assessment.  ILEA specializes in interpreting
academic life-cycle assessment research for the general public, assisting
consumers with well-informed, everyday decisionmaking.  Mr. Hammerschlag is a co-recipient, together with Patrick Mazza, of a MacArthur Foundation Global Security and Sustainability Research and Writing Grant, to critically assess the impacts of the proposed hydrogen economy.  He also provides technical assistance on greenhouse gas policy and emissions accounting to clients like the Natural Resources Defense Council, Tellus Institute, the Washington State Attorney General’s office, Seattle City Light, and many others.  Mr. Hammerschlag holds a Bachelor of Science in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jolene Jonas (OR)

Jolene.jonas@intel.com

Born and raised in Wisconsin - Hard core Green Bay Packer fan! 13 year resident of Scappoose, Oregon. Wife and mother of 2, she is aTechnical manager at Intel, Chair person for Columbia County Democratic Party of Oregon, Secretary of Columbia County Citizens for Human Dignity (focusing on promoting civil rights in Columbia County, Oregon), Very dedicated/passionate environmentalist, Active volunteer/participant in several Portland, OR environmental projects; earth day fairs, clean up efforts, educational programs at local schools... Ran for school board twice, but lost :-( In the specific area of Global Warming, I am a rookie, but am very excited about becoming an expert, and spokesperson to stop Global Warming.

Karen Josephson (OR)

kswaff@agora.rdrop.com

I have been an environmental activist for 25 years. I am a passionate lover of wildlife and natural places. This passion drives me to speak out on global warming. I have given speeches for protection of Northwest forests and served on the Board of Directors for Idaho Conservation League. After studying with others from Foundation for Global Community I have given speeches about the complex linkages between population growth, poverty and the environment. I have considerable experience in community organizing and lobbying at the citizen level. I have been altering my lifestyle toward simple living for 25 years and have volunteered many years for conservation and hunger/poverty groups. I have a Masters in Social Work and worked 16 years as a family crisis counselor. With a basic understanding of how humans respond to crisis, it concerns me greatly that our lack of response will result in continued destruction of the life support system on earth. I am currently co-manager for a new program in Portland called the ìCool Portland Campaignî. It is the result of teamwork by Global Action Plan and the City of Portland's Office of Sustainable Development and it addresses global warming at the community and household level.

William McPherson (WA)

wrmcpherson@yahoo.com

William McPherson, Seattle, WA, is a retired U.S. foreign service officer with 21 years' experience in environmental diplomacy.  William participated in negotiations on climate change and other environmental agreements in Geneva during his assignment there.  He received his B.A. from Macalester College and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Philip Mote (WA)

philip@atmos.washington.edu

Dr Philip Mote is a research scientist at the University of Washington, in
the Climate Impacts Group (CIG), and an Affiliate Professor in the
Department of Atmospheric Sciences.  A frequent public speaker, he has
also written about 40 scientific articles and edited a book on climate
modeling, published in 2000 by Kluwer Academic Press.  In March 2003 he
became the Washington State Climatologist.

Hal Thomas Nelson (OR)

htnelson@yahoo.com

Hal is concerned about climate change and is pursuing studies towards his Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy, with an emphasis on climate policy at the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University. He just completed his master's in political science at PSU with a thesis on the political economy of climate policy: the feasibility of an international mitigation regime and its costs and alternatives for the U.S. electricity sector. He received his degree in finance from the University of Idaho in 1989 and moved to Chicago to become a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where he was an institutional futures and options broker and analyst. To put his finance background to good use, he is the treasurer for the Rivers Foundation of the Americas, a local non-profit that focuses on river protection, advocacy and restoration. Hal is a chronic rafter, mountain biker, skier (yes, he also rides) and hiker. He and his wife Gina live in southeast Portland.

James R. Pittman (WA)

jpittman@ecotopia.com

James R. Pittman, MSc, OSRC, works on developing interpersonal and technological solutions to issues of ecological, social and economic sustainability. He has served as a consultant to organizations including the President's Council on Sustainable Development, the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future, the Mesa del Sol Eco-industrial Development Project at Cornell University, the EcoSage Corporation's SolarQuest Program, the City of Washington D.C. and the Wisconsin Public Service Power Corporation, among other clients. With others he has also established several organizations similarly aligned, including the Perigo Institute for Sustainable Resource Management, the Ecosa Institute for Ecological Design and the EcoLeague, a tertiary educational consortium. Mr. Pittman holds an MSc, with distinction, in Ecological Economics from the University of Edinburgh, an MA in Whole Systems Design from Antioch University Seattle, a Certificate in Systems Renewal Consultation from the International Institute for the Study of Systems Renewal as well as a BA integrating Education and Sustainability from Prescott College.

Julian Powers (WA)

julianjane@icehouse.net

Julian Powers', Spokane, WA, MSEE.  The last 20 years of work was in
research and development work in military infrared projects working for the
US Navy and Hughes Aircraft Company. This infrared work involved computer analyses of atmospheric absorption and transmission in different spectral bands, which is pertinent to understanding the greenhouse gas phenomena. Julian's prime environmental interest is global warming but he is also following local transportation, water, and energy issues.  Julian retired from his 33-year engineering career in 1980 in order to travel. After a
decade of backpack travel to over 60 countries, he settled in Spokane, WA
with a kindred spirit.  The four most critical inter-related global problems
are global warming, water quantity & quality, resource depletion, and loss
of biodiversity.

Heather Price (WA)

hprice@u.washington.edu

Born and raised in Washington State, Heather is currently a PhD chemistry student at University of Washington studying the long-range transport of air pollution in the Pacific region. She has taught courses on environmental issues in Asia and on climate change at the University of Washington. Heather received her MS in chemistry from University of Washington and BA in East Asian Studies from Western Washington University in Bellingham WA. More information can be found at http://students.washington.edu/hprice.

Ingrid Rasch (WA, NM)

ingridra@comcast.net

Ingrid Rasch earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in languages, education, business and molecular biology, and has spent most of her professional life as an executive in human resources. She is currently SVP Human Resources for Stop & Shop Supermarket Company headquartered near Boston, MA. Her lifelong passion for environmental issues has increasingly centered around maintenance of biodiversity-specifically predator as well as prey species, habitat and wildlife restoration, and watershed issues. Although currently a resident of the Boston area, Ingrid still calls Seattle home and is also active in New Mexico by virtue of owning conservation land there, which is dedicated to habitat restoration.

Monica Russell (OR)

RUSSELL.Monica@deq.state.or.us

Monica Russell is currently employed by the State Department of Environmental Quality as the Northwest Regional Community Coordinator and the Global Warming Coordinator for the agency.  She has worked with DEQ since 1989.  Her work began as Assistant to the Director and she worked as the first Complaints Coordinator for Northwest Region and as the "Paint Smart" Coordinator for the Solid Waste Division.  She spent almost 10 years in the Air Quality Division as the Air Monitoring Coordinator and just recently moved to her current position.  DEQ has a two-part program to 1) educate all DEQ employees about global warming and 2) identify people in each division who will work on integrating global warming control strategies into division programs.  Having completed the education portion of the plan, the integration phase is part of her current assignment.

Dr. Greg Smith (OR)

gsmith@lclark.edu
Dr. Greg Smith is an associate professor of education in the Graduate School of Professional Studies, Lewis & Clark College. He is the author of Education and the Environment: Learning to Live with Limits, and co-editor of Ecological Education in Action: On Weaving, Education, Culture and the Environment. He also serves as the Education Director for the Green House Network.

Kevin Whilden (OR)

Kevin@yourplanetearth.org

Kevin Whilden loves to teach science to non-scientists, especially on environmental issues.  Climate change is his primary issue of focus, but he also enjoys the related fields of sustainability, human health, and renewable energy.  He is involved with climate change on many different levels.  He currently works for Trexler and Associates, Inc, which is one of the world’s leading consulting firms in helping large businesses understand and reduce their greenhouse gas liability.  He also has an M.S. in Geology from the University of Washington, where he studied the relationship of Polar processes to climate change, with a special emphasis on periglacial geomorphology in Antarctica. 

Kevin is the founder of Your Planet Earth, an environmental news and discussion website that motivates environmental action by explaining the latest scientific research on environmental issues.  The motto of Your Planet Earth is “Where the science meets the sentiment”, because their confluence sets the direction of environmental thinking in the 21^st Century.  Please visit www.yourplanetearth.org.

Kevin also loves the outdoors, and spends as much time as possible whitewater kayaking in Oregon and Washington.  He is very pleased that he can now drive to his outdoor pursuits without emitting greenhouse gases, which he accomplishes by making his own biodiesel from waste cooking oil and burning it in his VW Jetta TDI.

Marsha Willard (OR)

marsha@axisperformance.com

Marsha Willard is co-founder of AXIS Performance Advisors, a consulting firm that provides management consulting, training and facilitation skills to help organizations find responsible solutions that meet all stakeholder needs: for owners, customers, employees, the community and the environment. Marsha has co-authored four popular business books on such topics as teamwork, trust, and quality. Marsha is currently working with organizations in the implementation of sustainability. The Sustainability Series™ booklets, published by AXIS, shows organizations how to simultaneously improve their financial, social and environmental performance. Marsha began her career as an instructional designer, having earned a Ph.D. in instructional technology from the University of Southern California. She was president of the local chapter of the American Society for Training and Development and teaches graduate level classes on instructional strategies, management and sustainability for Oregon State University and University of Oregon.

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