|
|
Advisory BoardOur Advisory Board is comprised of long time leaders in Sustainability both nationally and internationally as well as other leaders in business community. Aedi Construction shares its Advisory Board with Aedi Group
Mr. Alan AtKisson Alan AtKisson has been working at the forefront of sustainability initiatives since 1988. He brings depth of experience and a very diverse set of professional skills to bear on the complex problems of sustainability. He has a long track record of being able to bring together people, ideas, and strategic approaches from many disciplines, to achieve more effective results. Since founding AtKisson Inc. in 1992, Alan has consulted to well over a hundred cities, companies, government agencies, civic initiatives, foundations, and non-profit or volunteer organizations; and he has presented hundreds of keynote speeches, seminars, workshops and training sessions, all over the world.
Dr. Antony Cortese Anthony D. Cortese, ScD is President of Second Nature, a non-profit organization with a mission to catalyze a worldwide effort to make healthy, just, and sustainable action a foundation of all learning and practice in higher education. He is also a co-director of the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, and co-founder of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and the Higher Education Association Sustainability Consortium and a consultant to industry, government and non-profit organizations. Dr. Cortese is a frequent presenter and consultant. Among his efforts, he is currently very active with organizations like the National Association of College and University Business Officers, the Society for College and University Planning, the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers and the National Association of Educational Buyers to promote sustainable design, planning and purchasing in higher education. He also consults frequently with colleges and universities. Dr. Cortese was formerly the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. He was the first dean of environmental programs at Tufts University and spear-headed the award-winning Tufts Environmental Literacy Institute in 1989 which helped integrate environmental and sustainability perspectives in over 175 courses and the internationally acclaimed Talloires Declaration of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future in 1990. Dr. Cortese is a founding and current member of the board of directors of The Natural Step US, and a founding member of the Environmental Business Council of New England. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been a consultant to UNEP, a member of the EPA Science Advisory Board and the President's Council on Sustainable Development's Education Task Force. He has been actively engaged in climate change and other large system environmental challenges for 25 years. He is also a founding member of the US Board of Councilors for the China - US Center for Sustainable Development. His writing can be found in a wide spectrum of publications including Environmental Science and Technology, The Journal of the Association of Governing Boards, Planning for Higher Education, Facilities Manager and in books such as Ecological Medicine by Kenny Ausubel as well as on the Second Nature website. His articles and essays on Education for Sustainability serve as foundational reading for anyone striving to transform the process and content of higher education. Dr. Cortese has B.S. and M.S. Degrees from Tufts University in civil and environmental engineering and a Doctor of Science in Environmental Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. N. Lynn Eckhert Dr. Eckhert currently serves as the Director of Academic Programming at Harvard Medical International. Previously, she was on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts (UMASS) Medical School for more than two decades. During her time at UMASS she served as chairman and professor of family and community medicine, associate dean for admissions, and vice chancellor/dean for international and public health programs. She is past president of the medical staff at the UMASS Memorial Medical Center and remains a professor in the medical school's departments of pediatrics and family and community medicine, as well as an adjunct professor at the UMASS School of Public Health. Dr. Eckhert has extensive professional international experience practicing in Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Lebanon, Liberia, Japan, Korea, Qatar, South Africa, United Kingdom and Zimbabwe.
Ms. Leigh Gilligan Esq. Ms. Gilligan has extensive experience in many aspects of environmental and land use law including licensing and permitting, compliance counseling, and representation in connection with business and lending transactions. Ms. Gilligan represents parties involved in federal and state hazardous waste sites including legal proceedings, private cost recovery actions and dealings with governmental agencies. She regularly represents lenders in the evaluation, management and resolution of environmental issues. She also has extensive experience in environmental issues involved in transactions for the purchase and sale of land and businesses. Her representation also includes a municipal water and sewer commission; negotiations with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Environmental Protection regarding compliance issues; preparation of environmental opinions in connection with loans and bond issuances; compliance counseling to businesses of all sizes; representation of parties in environmentally-related state and local administrative proceedings (including wetlands, tidelands and Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act review and facility site assignments); and working with site owners and developers in the management of environmental issues and permitting in the context of development. Ms. Gilligan is a frequent author and lecturer on environmentally related topics. She has in the past been an Instructor/Guest Lecturer at MIT’s Center for Real Estate. Ms. Gilligan is recognized as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer for 2004, 2005 and 2006.
Dr. Karlson 'Charlie' Hargroves Charlie Hargroves is a graduate in Civil and Structural Engineering from the University of Adelaide, and a co-founder and the Director of The Natural Edge Project (TNEP). TNEP is an Australian based Sustainability Think-Tank founded in 2002 and hosted in-kind by Griffith University and ANU, operating as a partnership for education, research and policy development on innovation for sustainable development. In 2004 Charlie was seconded from TNEP as the Chief Executive Officer of Natural Capitalism Inc for 12 months, based in Boulder Colorado, under the supervision of Hunter Lovins. In 2007 Charlie was accepted as an Associate Member of the Club of Rome to represent the TNEP team. The Projects flagship collaborative publication The Natural Advantage of Nations: Business Opportunities, Innovation and Governance in the 21st Century (Earthscan 2005) was awarded the Banksia Award for Environmental Leadership, Education and Training in 2005. The team is now working on an update of Factor 4 with Ernst von Weizsäcker, and a response to the Brundtland Commission’s Our Common Future including forewords from Dr. Gro Brundtland and Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Charlie and the team from TNEP have developed a range of projects focused on education, training and strategy for sustainable development, including working with international partners such as UNESCO, World Federation of Engineering Organisations, Natural Capitalism Inc, Chicago Climate Exchange, World Technopolis Association, Chicago Manufacturing Centre, and Rocky Mountain Institute. The teams Australian partners include CSIRO, Engineers Australia, Purves Environmental Fund, Townsville City Council, National Framework for Energy Efficiency, HP, UniSA, KBR, VicUrban, Hatch, RMIT, QUT, and the Queensland EPA Sustainable Industries Division.
Mr. Jake Kheel Jake Kheel has dedicated his academic and professional career to environmental protection. His experience has ranged from community service with American high school students in developing countries, environmental education programs with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to coordination of public awareness campaigns, fundraising, and scientific and applied research for various not-for-profit foundations. These experiences have culminated in his current position as Environmental Director for PUNTACANA Group, one of the most successful development companies in the Dominican Republic with a proven history in sustainable development. Jake has a Master’s in Environmental Management from Cornell University and Bachelor in Art’s in Spanish and Latin American literature from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
Mr. Joe Laur Joe Laur is Vice President of Content for Greenopolis.com, a web based social network, media and educational center, marketplace and playground fostering learning and collaborative action on green issues. He has spent the last decade as a consultant to organizations in all sectors, focusing on organizational learning, personal effectiveness skills and sustainable development. He studied with Dr. Karl Henrik Robert of The Natural Step and has facilitated learning courses and conferences with Amory Lovins, Paul Hawken William McDonough, John Elkington, Janine Benyus and Michael Braungart, and others. Mr. Laur has worked with whole systems change for over 30 years and is a certified practitioner of Structural Integration, an applied physiology practice invoking whole systems change in human body structures. Mr. Laur was a founding partner of SEED Systems, a consultancy dedicated to learning and action for sustainable enterprise, applying systems thinking, scientific frameworks and organizational learning to foster innovation in companies engaging with environmental and social issues. In partnership with the Society for Organizational Learning, (SoL) (www.solonline.org) Mr. Laur along with colleagues Peter Senge and Sara Schley established the SoL Sustainability Consortium (www.solsustainability.org), an active group of industry leaders in learning and sustainability. He still serves as steward of this consortium, leading collaborative projects among the members as well as coaching individual member projects. This consortium includes members from BP, Ford, Coca Cola, Harley-Davidson, UTC, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Nike, 7th Generation, Waste Management and more. Mr. Laur is co-author of Learning for Sustainability (2007) and The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World written with Peter Senge, Sara Schley and Brian Smith, and with Sara Schley, co author of "The Sustainability Challenge," published in The Systems Thinker and "Creating Sustainable Organizations" published in the Pegasus' Innovations in Management Series. He received his BFA in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin. He is the father of 5 children.
Dr. Berrien Moore Dr. Moore currently serves as the founding director of Climate Central. Climate Central assesses and synthesizes the latest science, technology, and policy proposals to generate public awareness through easily understood, and graphically rich pieces for print, television and the web. Previously, Dr. Moore was the founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire for over 30 years. He has authored over 100 papers on the carbon cycle, global biogeochemical cycles, global change as well as numerous policy documents in the area of the global environment. He has served as a committee member of the NASA Space and Earth Science Advisory Committee, which published its report in 1986: "The Crisis in Space and Earth Science: A Time for a New Commitment." Other committees and panels on which Professor Moore has served include the NASA Advisory Council's Committee on Earth System Science, the National Academy of Sciences' Board on Global Change, the Space Science Board's Committee on Earth Science, and the Science Executive Committee for the Earth Observing System (EOS). Dr. Moore was appointed chairman in 1987 of NASA's senior science advisory panel, the Space Science and Applications Advisory Committee, and as such, was a member of the NASA Advisory Council. In May 1992, upon completion of his Chairmanship, he was presented with NASA's highest civilian award, the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal for outstanding service to the agency. He has contributed actively to committees at the National Academy of Science; most recently, he served as Chairman of the Academy's Committee on International Space Programs of the Space Studies Board. This committee, in collaboration with the European Space Sciences Committee, jointly published "US - European Collaboration in Space Science." In 1999, he completed his Chairmanship of the National Academy's Committee on Global Change Research with the publication of "Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade" Dr. Moore led the IGBP Task Force on Global Analysis, Interpretation, and Modelling (GAIM), prior to serving as Chair of the overarching Scientific Committee of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). As Chair of the SC-IGBP (1998 - 2002) he served as a lead author within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Third Assessment Report (TAR) which was released in Spring 2001. He chaired the July 2001 Open Science Conference on Global Change in Amsterdam and is one of the four architects of the Amsterdam Declaration on Global Change.
Dr. Johanna Polvi Dr. Johanna Polvi is an independent consultant based in Berlin, Germany with ten years of experience in political analysis and development cooperation in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific in the fields of good governance and economic development. As a project management expert, she has worked with all phases of the project cycle, including project planning, formulation and implementation, with particular expertise in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and the drafting of funding proposals. She has also worked with and coordinated relations between major multilateral and bilateral donors, such as the EU, UN, WB, IDB, DFID, USAID and CIDA. Due to her familiarity with the management of micro-projects at the grassroots level, she can draw on best-practice and lessons learned in the management of village level development schemes across various regions/countries and among different funding sources. She holds a degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the European University Institute. Due to her lifetime abroad, at times living even in challenging circumstances, she has proven ability to establish and maintain effective working relations both as team leader and member with sensitivity and respect for diversity.
Mr. Larry Rasky Larry Rasky has nearly 30 years of experience in public policy and media relations. He is best known for his management of highly visible, complicated communications matters, as well as his broad political experience. His strategic counsel is often sought on issues pertaining to high stakes litigation, corporate and personal reputation and issues management. Prior to launching his own company in 1989, Larry worked as Special Assistant for policy and communications for Congressman Ed Markey. He also served as Press Secretary for U.S. Senator Joseph Biden, as well as Director of Communications for Senator Biden’s 1988 and 2008 presidential campaigns. Larry has also served as a campaign and media consultant to numerous local and national political campaigns including, Senator John Kerry and President Jimmy Carter. In addition to his responsibilities as Chairman and CEO of Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications, Larry serves on the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of Emerson College. He is an active Board member of the New England Chapter of the Anti-Defamation League and serves on a number of other corporate boards.
Mr. Dave Waldren As the Director of Sustainability, Dave works to promote environmental health, a national sustainable development strategy, ecological fiscal reform, and biodiversity protection. Before The Suzuki Foundation, he led a team of internationally-recognized experts in the design and delivery of a science-based Master’s Program in Sweden entitled “Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability.” He has also initiated and led a series of sustainability initiatives involving the public, private, and non-governmental sectors in Whistler, BC. David brings over 20 years experience in environmental management, strategic planning, municipal engineering and community change processes. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia and a Masters in Resource and Environmental Management from Simon Fraser University.
|