Dr. Peter H. Gleick
Richard Joseph Jackson, M.D., M.P.H.
Doug Farr
Sandra Postel
Robert Glennon
Dr. Isobel Heathcote
Steven J. Cary
Joel Salatin
Scott Calhoun
Nick Kuhn
Dr. Cheo Torres
Jim Patchett
Gerry Wilhelm
David Yocca
John D'Antonio, P.E.
William A. Swope
Pacific Institute, President and Co-founder
Dr. Peter Gleick is one of the world's leading water experts. For over 20 years, Dr. Gleick, president and co-founder of the internationally recognized Pacific Institute in Oakland, California, has worked to find real-world solutions to problems like water shortages, habitat destruction, global warming, and environmental injustice.
Dr. Gleick is an internationally recognized water expert and was named a MacArthur Fellow in October 2003 for his work. In 2001, Gleick was dubbed a "visionary on the environment" by the British Broadcasting Corporation. In 1999, Gleick was elected an Academician of the International Water Academy, in Oslo, Norway and in 2006, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Gleick received a B.S. from Yale University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He serves on the boards of numerous journals and organizations, and is the author of many scientific papers and six books, including the biennial water report, The World's Water, published by Island Press (Washington, D.C.).
Website: pacinst.org/about_us/staff_board/gleick/
Chair and Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
Richard Joseph Jackson is Professor and Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. A pediatrician and public health leader, he recently served as a professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at the University of California, Berkeley. He served in many leadership positions with the California Health Department, including the highest, State Health Officer. For nine years he was Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta. In 2005 he was recognized with the highest civilian award for US Government service, the Presidential Distinguished Executive Award.
Over the past decade much of his work has focused on how the 'built environment' including how architecture and urban planning affect health. He recently served on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects and has written and spoken extensively in the above areas. Currently, Dr. Jackson working on policy analyses of environmental impacts on health ranging from toxicology, chemical body burdens, terrorism, sustainability, climate change, urban design and architecture. In addition, he is developing policy analyses in related areas, such as how farm, education, housing, and transportation policies affect health.
He was the US lead under several US government efforts around health and environment in Russia, including radiation threats. In the late 1990s he was the CDC leader in establishing the US National Pharmaceutical Stockpile to prepare for terrorism and other disasters—which was activated on September 11, 2001. In 2006 he received the Breast Cancer Fund’s Hero Award and at the UC Berkeley 2007 Commencement, the School of Public Health graduate students recognized him as the Distinguished Teacher and Mentor of the Year.
Dick Jackson co-authored Urban Sprawl and Public Health, a 2004 book from Island Press. He has served on many environmental and health boards, as well as the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects.
Doug Farr is the founding principal of Farr Associates, an architecture and planning firm regarded by many as one of the most sustainable design practices in the country. Having a mission to create sustainable human environments, Farr Associate's unique niche is in applying the principles of LEED, a Green Building Rating System, at the scale of the neighborhood and in designing green buildings exclusively for urban contexts. Farr Associates also holds the unique distinction of being the only architecture firm in the world that has designed two LEED-Platinum buildings: the Chicago Center for Green Technology and the Center for Neighborhood Technology.
An architecture graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University, Doug is on the board of the Congress for the New Urbanism and also chairs the LEED Neighborhood Development project (LEEDND), a first ever leadership standard for sustainable land developments, about to enter its pilot phase. Farr Associates designs healthy and valuable places and buildings for its private, not for profit and public sector clients. Having worked for John Vinci, Davis-Brody and Paul Rudolph, Farr's own work has been featured in Architectural Record, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, and Doug is a featured speaker on an upcoming six-part PBS series on sustainability and green buildings.
Website: farrside.com/book/author.php
Sandra Postel directs the independent Global Water Policy Project, now based in Los Lunas, New Mexico. During 2000-2008, Postel was also visiting senior lecturer in Environmental Studies at Mount Holyoke College, and from July 2007 to December 2008 directed the college's Center for the Environment. From 1988 until 1994, she was vice president for research at the Worldwatch Institute, a non-profit environmental research organization. Postel was a 1995 Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment, and in 2002 was named one of the "Scientific American 50" by Scientific American magazine, an award recognizing contributions to science and technology.
A leading authority and prolific author on international water issues, Postel’s work is dedicated to the creation of a more environmentally secure world in which all people and living things may thrive. She is author of Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? and of Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity, which was chosen by Choice magazine as a 1993 Outstanding Academic Book. Last Oasis appears in eight languages and was the basis for a PBS documentary that aired in 1997. Postel’s article “Troubled Waters,” was selected for inclusion in the 2001 edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing. She is also co-author (with Brian Richter) of Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature (Island Press 2003), which calls for new approaches to harmonizing human and ecosystem needs for fresh water. In 2005, the Worldwatch Institute released her publication Liquid Assets: The Critical Need to Safeguard Freshwater Ecosystems.
Postel has authored more than 100 articles for popular and scholarly publications, including Science, Natural History, Scientific American, Foreign Policy, BioScience, Ecological Applications, Technology Review, Environmental Science and Technology, International Wildlife, and Water International. She has written some 20 op-ed features that have appeared in more than 30 newspapers in the United States and abroad, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. A frequent conference speaker and lecturer, she also has served as commentator on CNN's “Futurewatch,” addressed the European Parliament on environmental issues, and appeared on CBS “Sunday Morning,” ABC’s “Nightline,” and NPR’s “Science Friday.” She also appears in the Leonardo DiCaprio documentary, “The 11th Hour,” released in 2007.
Postel has served as advisor to the Division on Earth and Life Studies of the U.S. National Research Council as well as to American Rivers. She has served on the Board of Directors of the International Water Resources Association, and on the editorial boards of Ecosystems, Water Policy, and Green Futures. She received a B.A. (summa cum laude) in geology and political science at Wittenberg University and an M.E.M. with emphasis on resource economics and policy at Duke University. Postel has been awarded two honorary Doctor of Science degrees, the Duke University School of Environment's Distinguished Alumni Award, and a Pew Scholar's Award in Conservation and the Environment. She also holds a lifetime chair with the International Water Academy in Oslo, Norway.
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Robert Glennon is the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy in the Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. A recipient of two National Science Foundation grants, he serves as Water Policy Advisor to Pima County, Arizona; as a member of American Rivers’ Science and Technical Advisory Committee; and as a commentator and analyst for various television and radio programs. He is also a Huffington Post blogger.
Glennon’s best-known publication is Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters (Island Press, 2002), which received accolades from Scientific American, The Washington Post, and The New York Review of Books.
His new book, Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It, was published in April 2009. Since then, he has been a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Diane Rehm Show, C-SPAN2’s Book TV, and National Public Radio shows in New York City, Chicago, and Phoenix; he’s also published pieces in the Washington Post and the Arizona Republic. In 2009, his active speaking schedule will take him to Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Canada, and 17 U.S. states.
Glennon received a J.D. from Boston College Law School and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from Brandeis University. He is also a member of the bars of Arizona and Massachusetts.
Dr. Isobel Heathcote (Ph.D. Yale) held the positions of Professor of Environmental Science and Environmental Engineering at the University of Guelph, and Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Her work experience is diverse, encompassing employment in both the public and private sectors. From 1979 to 1985, she was employed by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment's Water Resources Branch, where she worked on water management issues in all the major lake and river systems in Ontario, with special emphasis on watershed management planning. As Supervisor, Great Lakes Investigations and Surveillance, she and her staff conducted water pollution studies throughout the Great Lakes, especially in the Areas of Concern, and contributed to the development of Remedial Action Plans for those areas.
From 1985 to 1991, Isobel directed and taught in the Environmental Studies and Environmental Sciences programs at the University of Toronto. Her research interests centre on environmental management policy, integrated water management and watershed restoration, and public participation in environmental policy development. She has chaired and served on numerous environmental advisory committees, including advice to six Ontario Ministers of the Environment on the development of water management policy. Since 2001, Professor Heathcote has been the Canadian Co-Chair of the Canada-United States International Joint Commission's Science Advisory Board. She is also a former President of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Pollution Prevention Centre. In 2004, she chaired the Ontario Minister of the Environment’s Industrial Pollution Action Team, which produced 36 recommendations on the reduction of spills to air and water in the “Chemical Valley”, near Sarnia, Ontario.
In addition to numerous papers, reports, and policy commentaries, she is the author of Environmental Problem Solving: A Case Study Approach (McGraw-Hill); and Integrated Watershed Management: Principles and Practice (Wiley). She also has many years experience in the field of conflict resolution, an area of leadership study necessary for bringing about change. Dr. Heathcote is an Associate of the Centre for Studies in Leadership.
Chief Naturalist, New Mexico State Parks
Born and educated in Wisconsin, Steve was destined for the New Mexico outdoors. He studied geography at the University of Wisconsin, but his broad interests include geology, water, climate, botany and entomology. Steve arrived in New Mexico in 1980 and has spent nearly 30 years studying and photographing New Mexico’s butterflies. Through publication of scientific reports, popular articles and a poster, and through countless informal butterfly walks and talks for a variety of audiences, Steve has become New Mexico’s unofficial “Butterfly Guy.” Since 1999, he has been the Natural Resource Planner and Chief Naturalist for New Mexico State Parks. His book, “Butterfly Landscapes of New Mexico” was published by New Mexico Magazine in 2009.
Joel Salatin, 50, is a fulltime farmer in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. A third generation alternative farmer, he returned to the farm fulltime in 1982 and continued refining and adding to his parents’ ideas.
The farm services more than 1,500 families, 10 retail outlets, and 30 restaurants through on-farm sales and metropolitan buying clubs with salad bar beef, pastured poultry, eggmobile eggs, pigaerator pork, forage-based rabbits, pastured turkey and forestry products using relationship marketing.
He holds a BA degree in English and writes extensively in magazines such as STOCKMAN GRASS FARMER, ACRES USA, and AMERICAN AGRICULTURALIST.
The family’s farm, Polyface Inc. (“The Farm of Many Faces”) has been featured in SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, GOURMET and 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. It achieved iconic status as the grass farm featured in the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA by food writer guru Michael Pollan.
He passionately defends small farms, local food systems, and the right to opt out of the conventional food paradigm.
Scott Calhoun is the author of five critically acclaimed books about plants, gardens, food and landscapes. He is a contributing editor to Horticulture magazine, writes a monthly garden column for Sunset Magazine, and freelances for numerous print publications, including those listed below. Scott sits on the American Horticultural Society Book Award committee as a judge. An avid photographer, he provides images for most of his books and articles. Based in Tucson, Arizona, Scott speaks, writes, and designs gardens across the country.
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Nick Kuhn is the 1st City Forester for Albuquerque, NM working on creating a new citywide program based on environmental services of our urban forest. Work experience comes from City, State and Federal jobs covering 5 states in many types of forest protection and assessment since 1991. Kuhn is has a BS in Forest Resource Mgt, is an ISA Certified Arborist with a Municipal Specialty, and over 1000 hours of continuing education. Committee work on the national level as part of the Sustainable Sites Initiative to update LEED standards and give more consideration for natural resources, the ICLEI Star Rating System which provides municipalities a rating system to judge their climate change and sustainable efforts, and a Board Member on the Society of Municipal Arborists.
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Dr. Torres has served as Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of New Mexico, a four-year state research university, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, since January 2, 1996. Before he came to the University of New Mexico, Dr. Torres served as Vice President for External Affairs at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. He also taught in the Bilingual Doctoral Program at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. He has served as Interim President, Vice President for Student Affairs and Special Services, Director of the University’s Center for Continuing Education, and also as Assistant to the President.
Among other initiatives, Dr. Torres has been involved in or been elected as an advisor to Mexican President, Felipe Calderon for improving lives of immigrants in the United States.
He also teaches the Traditional Medicine Without Borders: Curanderismo in the Southwest and Mexico class during the summer semester at UNM. This popular class is cross-listed with four departments and brings practicing Mexican healers to the UNM Campus.
Dr. Torres received his doctorate in Education from Texas A&M University in Kingsville in 1980.
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James Patchett, founder and president of Conservation Design Forum (CDF), is widely recognized as one of the nation's leaders in the promotion of sustainable land planning and design. Jim applies his training and experience as a landscape architect, environmental planner, hydrologist, and restoration ecologist in the design and development of natural resource-based solutions that integrate state-of-the-art green building and site infrastructure measures to restore historical ecosystem functions in both built and natural environments. Prior to founding CDF in 1994, Jim served as design lead and project manager on some of the Chicago region's most noted early examples of sustainable site planning and development including such award winning projects as Sears Prairie Stone, Tellabs Research and Development Facility, and AT&T/ Lucent Technologies. Each of these projects showcased the integration of native landscapes with innovative green infrastructure measures.
Looking to further develop his ecological philosophy and "green" development focus, Jim founded Conservation Design Forum in an effort to establish a visionary collaborative environment that draws on the expertise of a wide range of planning, design, science, and engineering professionals. As President of CDF, Jim oversees and participates in a broad range of CDF's planning and design projects, with particular emphasis in the areas of sustainable site planning and development, the advancement of innovative water resource management techniques, the integration of native landscape systems, and the promotion of ecological restoration strategies.
Biographical Narrative by James Patchett
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When I first met Jerry in the late 1980’s, I was already familiar with his reputation as a foremost botanist, research taxonomist, and educator. He co-authored, through years of collaboration at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois, the definitive text “Plants of the Chicago Region” with the late Floyd Swink. It was only after we became friends and colleagues shortly thereafter that I learned the depth of his botanical knowledge which is nothing short of world-class. Simply put, Jerry has an extensive knowledge of the flora of North America and the world, and he combines that understanding with other skills that, in my opinion, set him apart in the field of applied ecology and sustainable design.
I consider myself very fortunate over the past several decades to have met and collaborated with some of the most respected ecologists in the country. With that said, Jerry possesses the most comprehensive understanding of the physical and cultural evolution, context, and function of North American ecosystems of anyone that I have ever met. It is this depth of understanding that I consider his most vital attribute, along with a genuine openness to new ideas, dialogue, and creativity that is somewhat rare in a field where traditionally trained botanists and ecologists are often deeply embedded in conventional scientific doctrine.
It was Jerry, who after years of disciplined field research and observation first exposed me to the basic understanding of historical hydrological processes where the relationship between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems was dominated by infiltration, groundwater movement, and discharge. Once I grasped the basic truth of these principles, I had my own professional epiphany. It became remarkably clear the degree to which many conventional urban, suburban, and rural agricultural land use practices are both economically and ecologically unsustainable, and how traditional stormwater engineering methods literally undermine the physical integrity of our ecosystems.
Jerry is also noted for his development of the Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA) methodology, which to our knowledge is the only repeatable, consistent quantitative measure available for the determination of floristic habitat quality. The FQA was originally developed for the geographic coverage of the “Plants of the Chicago Region”, but has continued to become far more widely adapted to currently include the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, North and South Dakota, Wisconsin, and parts of Florida, Pennsylvania, and southern Ontario.
Principal Landscape Architect/Planner
Biographical Narrative by James Patchett
Soon after Jerry Wilhelm joined the firm on a full-time basis in January, 1996, we began searching for a Principal level landscape architect/ planner who possessed a genuine passion for sustainable design coupled with an extensive background in land planning and development. In a stroke of good fortune, Jerry and I were called in to assist on the ecological restoration design component of Mill Creek, a 1,600 acre mixed-use development in Geneva, IL where we were introduced to David Yocca, one of the principal planners of the project. Based on his interest to focus in sustainable design, David had recently broken out on his own after a more than decade-long relationship with another firm. At the time, Mill Creek represented one of the country’s first and most ambitious attempts to integrate the concepts of new urbanism or traditional community planning with environmentally sustainable design, development, and management measures.
It didn’t take long for us to recognize David’s qualities and that his passion and commitment to sustainability were genuine and consistent with the mission and philosophies of CDF. After several months of collaboration and dialogue that allowed us sufficient time to get to know each other, David formally joined CDF in the fall of 1996.
As one of our Principal partners, David’s contributions are invaluable. He has a remarkable ability to quickly assess the potential of a site, a neighborhood, or a community, and based on multiple factors including the development program and corresponding budget, identify solutions that creatively integrate economic, social, and ecological considerations. Rather than rely on a set of rigidly applied principles imposed repeatedly regardless of scope, scale, and geographic context as is so often the norm, David has the ability and life experience to adapt the underlying principles to the physical and cultural qualities unique to each and every place. This is a skill that David continues to expand and develop in concert with his CDF colleagues and the wealth of talented professionals from around the country and internationally in which it is our good fortune to routinely collaborate.
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New Mexico State Engineer
Secretary, Interstate Stream Commission
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A registered professional engineer in New Mexico and Colorado, State Engineer John D’Antonio has experience in hydraulic design, acequia rehabilitation, water resource management, and water policy development.
Before he was appointed by Governor Bill Richardson to the state’s chief water post, D’Antonio was Cabinet Secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department in 2002. He served as the Director of the Water Resource Allocation Program for the Office of the State Engineer from 2001 to 2002 and served as the District I Supervisor in Albuquerque from 1998 to 2001.
D’Antonio worked 15 years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a hydraulic design engineer, as the Chief of the Hydrology, Hydraulics, Sedimentation, and Floodplain Management Program, and was the project manager for the Acequia Rehabilitation Program.
A native New Mexican, D’Antonio received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of New Mexico in 1979.
He has been a member of the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Water Issues from 1998 to the present.
In his post as State Engineer, D’Antonio is the Secretary of the Interstate Stream Commission, Chairman of the Water Trust Board, Governor’s Water Infrastructure Investment Team, and the Governor’s Drought Task Force. He is also the New Mexico Commissioner to the Rio Grande, Costilla, and Upper Colorado river compacts.
Vice President
General Manager, Corporate Sustainability Group
INTEL CORPORATION
William A. Swope is corporate vice president and general manager of Intel's Corporate Sustainability Group. In this role, he is responsible for driving Intel's environmental efforts in the areas of policy, operations and products. Swope works with stakeholders across the company to ensure that Intel continues to build upon its industry leadership in sustainability.
Since joining Intel in 1979, Swope has held numerous roles including corporate affairs leadership, manufacturing technology planning, strategic product planning and product management. Swope was director of Digital Enterprise Brand Management, and prior to that he was general manager of the Software and Solutions Group (SSG), reporting to the president and chief operating officer of Intel. In that capacity he managed the software products and enabling efforts within SSG. From 1993 to 1995, Swope was the general manager of the Intel® Pentium® Pro processor team. Swope was promoted to vice president in 1996 and corporate vice president in 2003.
Swope received his bachelor's degree in applied physics from Tufts College. He earned his master's degree in management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
