Gwendolyn Hallsmith.
She is the Director of Global Community Initiatives, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to sustainable development, and has been
a leader in the sustainable communities movement for more than
fifteen years. She is the author of The
Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community
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Walter McGuire. One
of America's most seasoned practitioners and trainers in building
public participation campaigns. He was national field director
for Earth Day 1990. In that role, he led The Global Cities Project,
an educational project promoting sustainable cities. Speaking
subjects include Building Sustainable Communities… More
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Mike Harcourt. As
the premier of British Columbia and three-term mayor of Vancouver,
he helped Canada's westernmost province win its reputation as
one of the world's most livable places. His leadership was instrumental
in transforming the way Canadians look at their cities. In 2005,
he received the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service…
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Storm Cunningham.
Author of The
Restoration Economy
and ReWealth! ,
he champions natural resource restoration, restorative community
development and revitalization, and infrastructure renewal. He
also leads the Resolution Fund, which helps communities create
renewal partnerships and connects them with funding… More
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Chris Maser. Authored
or coauthored twenty-six books and more than 250 articles. His
books include Land-Use
Planning for Sustainable Development
and Resolving
Environmental Conflict .
He was a member of Yale's Peabody Museum Expedition to Egypt.
Topics include sustainable community development and resolving
environmental conflict… More
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Karen Walz. The founder
of Strategic Community Solutions, a consulting firm specializing
in innovative, consensus-based community planning, Karen Walz
has provided services for communities in Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana,
Missouri, Nevada, South Carolina and Texas. She served as Executive
Director of The Dallas Plan… More
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Peter Bronski. Coordinator
of the Sustainable Communities Program for Audubon International,
he works with municipal governments, businesses, universities,
state and federal agencies, and other stakeholders to foster more
sustainable communities rooted in environmental health, economic
vitality, and a high quality of life… More
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Peter Melhus. Currently
the Executive Director of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable
Communities, a multi-stakeholder, collaborative group in the San
Francisco Bay Area. He recently completed a 25-year career with
Pacific Gas & Electric Company, the last eight directing environmental
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| Wendy Brawer. She pioneered the use of collaborative, interactive, web-based cartography to gather and present key community environmental information. This serves as an aid to planning and political action, fostering both the citizen-driven greening of cities and communities and better planning by local officials and programs… More >> |
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Richard Register.
Author of Ecocities:
Building Cities in Balance with Nature
and of Ecocity
Berkeley: Building Cities for a Healthy Future .
He links our auto-dependent sprawling cities to problems from
global warming to species extinction, but he focuses primarily
on what can be and is being done to craft community-oriented solutions…
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Dom Nozzi. Author of Road
to Ruin: An Introduction to Sprawl and How to Cure It , he is a city planner who combines a broad view of sustainable urban futures with nuts-and-bolts experience. He champions pedestrian friendly city design, and he is a contributor to the collection New Urbanism and Beyond: Designing Cities for the Future … More >> |
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Doug McKenzie-Mohr.
A pioneer in employing community-based social marketing to promote
recycling, waste reduction, pollution prevention, energy and water
efficiency, watershed protection, and soil conservation. His talks
and workshops cover identifying barriers, designing effective
programs, using pilots, and evaluation… More
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Nancy Lee. Contributed
to the development of more than 50 social marketing campaign strategies
for public sector agencies, including water and power conservation,
recycling, litter prevention, water quality, trip reduction, and
habitat preservation. She has conducted social marketing workshops
for hundreds of public sector employees… More
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