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JEFFREY HOLLENDER: How to Make the World a Better Place 3.0: Mid-course Corrections on Figuring Out What Matters Most
February 7, 2002 —
Jeffrey Hollender is the author of How to Make the World a Better Place: 116 Ways You Can Make a Difference
and the CEO and founder of Seventh Generation, the leading brand of natural household products
in the United States. Seventh Generation's products provide the individual the opportunity to
make a difference by "saving natural resources, reducing pollution, keeping toxic chemicals out
of the environment and making the world a safer place for ourselves and the next seven generations."
Hollender is a member and former director of the Social Venture Network, a group of socially conscious
business executives; serves on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Vermont Public
Interest Research Group; the Board of Directors of The Green Guide Institute; and the Advisory
Board of the Chlorine Free Products.
JANINE BENYUS: The Lotus and Peacock: Biomimicry and the Art of Well-adapted Design
December 5, 2001 —
Janine Benyus is a life sciences writer and author of six books, including her
latest — Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature. In Biomimicry,
she names an emerging science that seeks sustainable solutions by mimicking nature's
designs and processes (e.g., solar cells that mimic leaves, agriculture that looks
like a prairie, business that runs like a redwood forest). Janine's other titles
include an animal behavior guide entitled Beastly Behaviors and three
ecosystem-first field guides: The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Western US,
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern US, and Northwoods
Wildlife: A Watcher's Guide to Habitats. She ghostwrote The Bodywise Woman:
Reliable Information about Physical Activity and Health for the Melpomene Institute
for Women's Health Research.
Janine is a graduate of Rutgers University, New Jersey, with degrees in Natural
Resource Management and English Literature/Writing. She has worked as a backcountry
guide as well as a "translator" of science-speak at several research labs. She now writes
popular books in the life sciences, consults with sustainable business leaders, serves
on the Dream Team at Interface, Inc., and gives talks about what we can learn from the
genius that surrounds us. Janine's next book will explore home as habitat, taking a
biological look at human habitat selection, nest building, and "What makes us feel at
home?" Her natural habitat is the northern Rockies, where she enjoys sculling,
backpacking, and skate skiing.
JOEL MAKOWER: From Here to Sustainability: The
Promise (and Pitfalls) of Environmentally Responsible Business
June 12, 2001 — Joel Makower, editor of The Green Business Letter, has two decades'
experience as a journalist, bestselling author, and lecturer. He is author
or co-author of more than a dozen books, including The E-Factor: The
Bottom-Line Approach to Environmentally Responsible Business; The Green
Consumer; and Beyond the Bottom Line: Putting Social Responsibility to
Work for Your Business and the World. His articles have appeared in the New
York Times, Washington Post, and more than 100 other publications. Formerly
a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, Makower is a commentator on
environmental topics for Marketplace, a business program heard nightly on
public radio.
Makower is also founder of GreenBiz.com, a free resource on business and the
environment, and is co-founder of Clean Edge, Inc.
(www.cleanedge.com), a
consulting and publishing company helping investors and innovators
understand and profit from the clean-tech revolution.
HOWARD RIS: From SUVs to Polar Bears: Forging America's New Energy Future
May 9, 2001 — Howard Ris has been executive director of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) since 1984, overseeing the organization's research, public education, and legislative programs. A respected expert on various global-warming issues, he was an influential player at climate talks in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and Kyoto. He also served on the Energy and Transportation Task Force of President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development. Prior to joining UCS, Ris directed the hydroelectric power program of the New England River Basins Commission and was also a senior policy analyst in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, where he had major responsibility for preparing the Commonwealth's first coastal zone management plan. In addition, Ris has been a consultant to several state and federal agencies on a wide variety of environmental planning issues. Ris is a member of the Environmental Business Council of New England and was a founding member of the Professional's Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control and the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility.
ROSS GELBSPAN: The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
April 9, 2001 — In 1995, after a 31-year career in journalism at the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Washington Post and the
Boston Globe, Gelbspan published an article on climate change for Harper's magazine that re-directed
his career. That article evolved into the book,
The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription (Perseus Books 1998)
— the same book that received national attention when President Clinton told the press that he was reading it.
Since the book's publication, Gelbspan has appeared in numerous radio and television interviews,
including Nightline, All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation.
He was invited to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland in February 1998, where he addressed government
ministers and leaders of multi-national corporations.
Gelbspan is currently engaged with several businesses and other nonprofit organizations on
solution strategies for addressing climate change. Gelbspan's lecture was presented by The Green House Network.
GUY KAWASAKI: Rules for Revolutionaries
February 15, 2001 — Before Guy Kawasaki went to work as Chairman of the Board and CEO of garage.com, a firm that assists high-technology start-ups to find seed capital, he played a large role on the Apple Computer team that created the Macintosh. This and other stories around innovation and revolutionary products have been the subject of the seven books he's authored in the last decade, including Rules for Revolutionaries, The Macintosh Way, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Hindsights, and Selling the Dream. Prior to joining Apple, he was Chief Executive Officer of Fog City Software, Inc. Kawasaki is also a columnist for Forbes Magazine and holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a M.B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles.
JOEL SALATIN: Zero Waste Farming
December 6, 2000 — As one of America's most dynamic and innovative farmers, Salatin has combined science, art and ideas from nature to create a farm that is highly profitable while producing zero waste. His farm, Polyface Inc., is a result of three generations of alternative farming and has been featured in the Smithsonian Magazine and National Geographic as well as countless other radio, television and print media. Profiled on the Lives of the 21st Century series with Peter Jennings on ABC World News, his after-broadcast chat room fielded more hits than any other segment to date.
BEN ZANDER: The Art of Possibility
April 5, 2000 — Benjamin Zander has been the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic since its formation twenty years ago. Using music as both metaphor and medium, Benjamin Zander has become a much sought-after speaker to major organizations all over the world, bringing his insights as the conductor of a symphony orchestra to leaders involved in transformation and change. Mr. Zander has appeared as a keynote speaker for the Fortune 500 companies, the State of the World Forum in San Francisco, an Education Conference in London with the British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and numerous corporations including Shell, IBM, Arthur Andersen, KPMG, Sprint, NASA and the US Army. At the 1999 World Economic Forum in Davos, where he was a keynote speaker, Mr. Zander was presented with the Crystal Award in recognition of his contribution, through culture and the arts, to global understanding and peace. Mr. Zander is the subject of a full length BBC documentary that has been aired worldwide, and he was featured on CBS's 60 Minutes in 2000. His book The Art of Possibility co-authored with his wife Rosamund Zander, uses his experiences in music to illustrate lessons in leadership and truly transformative change.
PAUL HAWKEN: The End of Capitalism
January 10, 2000 — Paul Hawken is known around the world as one of the leading architects and proponents of corporate reform with respect to ecological practices. His writings and work have caused CEOs to transform their internal corporate culture and business philosophy towards environmental restoration. He serves as co-chair of TNS-International, a non-profit educational foundation that assists organizations and businesses in twelve countries in creating a long-term commitment to environmental sustainability as a core part of their overall policy and practices. He has founded several companies, including Smith & Hawken, Datafusion, a knowledge synthesis software company, and several of the first natural food companies in the U.S that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods. He is author of dozens of articles, scientific papers, and six books including The Next Economy (Ballantine 1983), Growing a Business (Simon and Schuster 1987), The Ecology of Commerce (HarperCollins 1993), and Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Little, Brown. 1999). The Ecology of Commerce was voted in 1998 as the #1 college text on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools. He serves as co-chair of The Natural Step-International, a non-profit educational foundation that teaches and supports environmental systems thinking in corporations, cities, and governments.
WILLIAM MCDONOUGH: Eco-Effectiveness: Celebrating Abundance
October 25, 1999 — William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and shapers of what he and his partners call 'The Next Industrial Revolution.' Mr. McDonough is cofounder and principal, with German chemist Michael Braungart, of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, a product and systems development firm assisting prominent companies in implementing unique sustaining design protocol. He is also the founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, Architects and Planners, an internationally recognized design firm practicing ecologically, socially, and economically intelligent architecture and planning in the U.S. and abroad. For his efforts, in 1996 he became the first and only recipient of the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, the nation's highest environmental honor. Mr. McDonough was recently appointed the A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University after stepping down as the Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he was also the Edward E. Elson Professor of Architecture, and founder and creative director of the University's Institute for Sustainable Design.
MIHA POGACNIK: Organizational Renewal
August 30, 1999 — Alongside his international touring schedule as a concert violinist and Cultural Ambassador from the Republic of Slovenia , Miha Pogacnik is an acclaimed corporate renewal artist equally at home at conferences, board meetings, and in strategy planning sessions with companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Mattel, Esprit, Shell, Honeywell, and organizations such as The Social Venture Network, The World Business Academy, and The World Economic Forum. He is bringing music to business, not as entertainment, but to enhance understanding of change and renewal in a business context. In 1983, Miha founded IDRIART: Initiative for the Development of Intercultural Relations Through the Arts. Artists of all disciplines rally throughout the world to take the initiative to intervene in political, social and cultural situations. Pogacnik has also inspired more than 90 multi-discipline festivals and conferences during the last 16 years, at times in crisis areas of the world: Tibet, Dubrovnik, Berlin before the wall came down.
Introduction provided by Karl-Henrik Robert, founder of The Natural Step, an internationally recognized framework for sustainability.
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