Advisory Board

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Eban Goodstein

Director and Faculty, Bard MBA in Sustainability; Director, Bard Center for Environmental Policy

Ph.D. (Economics), University of Michigan; B.A. (Geology), Williams College. Goodstein is the author of a college textbook, Economics and the Environment, (John Wiley and Sons, 2010) now in its sixth edition; Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming (University Press of New England, 2007); and The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment (Island Press, 1999). Articles by Goodstein have appeared in, among other outlets, The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Ecological Economics, and Environmental Management. His research has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, Time, Chemical and Engineering News, The Economist, USA Today, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He serves on the editorial board of Sustainability: The Journal of Record, and Environment, Workplace and Employment, and is on the steering committee of Economics for Equity and the Environment. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Follett Corporation, and is on the advisory committee for Chevrolet's Clean Energy Initiative. In addition Goodstein directs two national educational initiatives on global warming: Campus to Congress (C2C) Fellows and The National Climate Seminar. In recent years, he has coordinated climate education events at over 2,500 colleges, universities, high schools, and other institutions across the country.

Andrea Soros Colombel

Founder and President, Trace Foundation; Board Member, Acumen Fund

Andrea Soros Colombel is the founder and president of Trace Foundation, established in 1993 to promote the cultural continuity and sustainable development of Tibetan communities within China. The foundation implements projects in the fields of education, culture, and rural development. In New York, the foundation has also opened the Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library. In 2000, Soros Colombel co-founded Tsadra Foundation with her husband, Eric Colombel, to support the activities of advanced students of Tibetan Buddhism in the West and preserve rare Tibetan Buddhist resources. She participated in The Philanthropy Workshop at Rockefeller Foundation in 1995. She is a director of the Acumen Fund, a network of investors advisors supporting entrepreneurial solutions to the problems of global poverty. Soros Colombel holds a graduate certificate from the Bard Center for Environmental Policy and a B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Robert Fox

Partner, Cook + Fox Architects

Robert F. Fox is a New York City architect and a partner at the firm Cook + Fox Architects. He has designed more than 30 skyscrapers, including his firm’s most recent, the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park, which is the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum commercial high-rise. He was a founding partner of Fox & Fowle Architects (1978). Fox & Fowle designed the influential and award-winning Condé Nast Building/4 Times Square, which is widely regarded as America’s first green skyscraper. Fox led the team responsible for creating the original Battery Park City Residential Environmental Guidelines in 2000, which guided the development of the Solaire, the first green residential tower in the United States. In 2003 Bob Fox joined with Richard Cook to form Cook + Fox Architects, a firm devoted to creating beautiful, environmentally responsible, high-performance buildings. The firm has won awards for the Henry Miller's Theatre; a neighborhood development in the South Street Seaport; a visitors’ center at the Angkor Hospital for Children in Cambodia; and 401 West 14th Street in the Gansevoort Market Historic District. In 2006, Cook and Fox partnered with green development expert Bill Browning to form Terrapin Bright Green, LLC, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm. Fox is adviser to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 sustainability initiative; founding chair of the United States Green Building Council, New York Chapter; member of the MTA Blue Ribbon Commission on Sustainability; member of the President's Council for Scenic Hudsonas; member of the Cooper Union President's Council; and advisory board member of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard University. Fox holds an M.Arch. from Harvard University and a B.Arch. from Cornell University.

Elysa Hammond

Director of Environmental Stewardship, Clif Bar & Company

B.S. (Crop Science), California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. When Elysa Hammond joined the staff of Clif Bar in the summer of 2000, she assumed the title of “corporate ecologist” and took on the task of improving the energy bar company’s environmental impacts.

She started by helping Clif Bar become the first certified organic energy bar, then went on to redesign to the bars’ packaging to save 90,000 pounds of shrink wrap every year. But Hammond wasn’t finished. She turned her attention next to the environmental impacts that are less obvious to customers—the internal workings of Clif Bar's offices.

“Any time an office creates waste, it is not using resources as efficiently as possible,” says Hammond, noting that environmental responsibility also saves money. “It makes good business sense to reduce waste.”

Josh Henretig

Director, Environmental Sustainability, Microsoft Corporation

Josh Henretig has been with Microsoft for seven years and has held positions in sales, business strategy and management, and environmental sustainability. Prior to Microsoft, Henretig worked at Onyx Software, where he held a variety of sales, marketing, and management positions. In his current position as senior environmental sustainability manager, Henretig is responsible for engaging with customers on the role of technology solutions in reducing their energy demands, managing their energy use and environmental footprints, and rethinking business practices that impact the environment. Henretig is also responsible for developing and managing a global community of “environmental sustainability leads” who, as ambassadors for Microsoft in their country or region, are responsible for localizing Microsoft’s corporate environmental strategy. Through this field organization, Henretig and his team focus on reducing the company’s business travel, driving energy efficiency improvements, engaging with customers and partners on the role of technology for sustainability, and working with local policymakers to advance the ways in which information technology can enable a clean energy economy.

Mike Keiser

Owner, Bandon Dunes Golf Resort; Founder, Wild Rivers Coast Alliance

Michael L. Keiser is president of Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. Bandon Dunes, dramatically located on Oregon’s Pacific coast, is a top-ranked golf destination with four courses designed in the tradition of Scotland’s ancient links to blend with the natural environment. Keiser is active on the boards of numerous civic and charitable organizations focused on health care, education, and conservation. He is the former board chair of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. He is on the board of the Field Museum of Natural History. In the education arena, he serves on the boards of the Academy for Urban School Leadership, Teach for America, and Chicago and Providence St. Mel College Prep. He also serves as president of Bandon Biota, LLC, acquiring properties with a view toward future conservation. Keiser received a bachelor of arts degree in English from Amherst College.

Hunter Lovins

President, Natural Capitalism, Inc.

J.D., Loyola Law School; B.S. (Sociology, Political Science). L. Hunter Lovins is president and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions (NCS). NCS educates senior decision makers in business, government, and civil society to restore and enhance natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. Lovins is also currently a faculty member at Bainbridge Graduate Institute and the chief insurgent of the Madrone Project. Lovins has consulted for scores of industries, governments, and large and small companies worldwide. Recipient of such honors as the Right Livelihood Award, Lindbergh Award, and Leadership in Business, she was named Time Magazine 2000 Hero of the Planet and in 2009 Newsweek dubbed her a “Green Business Icon.” She has co-authored nine books and hundreds of papers, including the 1999 book Natural Capitalism, 2006 e-book Climate Protection Manual for Cities, and the 2009 book Transforming Industry in Asia. She has served on the boards of governments, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit companies. Lovins’s areas of expertise include natural capitalism, sustainable development, globalization, energy and resource policy, economic development, climate change, land management, fire rescue, and emergency medicine. She developed the Economic Renewal Project and helped write many of its manuals on sustainable community economic development. She was a founding professor of business at Presidio Graduate School, one of the first accredited programs offering an M.B.A. in sustainable management.

Bob Sheppard

Environmental Sustainability Consultant

Bob Sheppard is a New England–based sustainability consultant working to advise companies as diverse as General Motors, Verizon Communications, and Oakhurst Dairy on a range of projects. As vice president of the Corporate Program at Clean Air–Cool Planet, Sheppard was responsible for carbon management and reduction relationships with more than three dozen corporations from Maine to Pennsylvania, including Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Shaw’s Supermarkets, and Timberland. During a decade-long tenure at CA-CP he oversaw the publication of Cool Solutions to Global Warming, a compendium of case studies highlighting best practices across the Northeast, as well as the Consumer’s Guide to Retail Carbon Offset Providers. Sheppard is frequently called upon to present at a variety of climate- and energy-related conferences, business meetings, and before college audiences. He was also a contributing writer for the publication "Getting to Zero: Defining Corporate Carbon Neutrality." Prior to joining CA-CP, Sheppard spent three years as senior social research analyst at Citizens Funds, where he was involved in several shareholder resolutions filed by the socially responsible mutual fund. Sheppard’s background includes a decade in the field of broadcast journalism with radio stations across New England, where he focused on waterfront development, municipal planning, and the environment. A father of two college students and a charter member of the Portsmouth Men’s Chorus, Sheppard is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine with a B.S. in business administration.

Carolyn Marks Blackwood

Film Producer, Screenwriter, Fine Art Photographer

Carolyn Marks Blackwood is a writer, producer, and fine art photographer. She started Magnolia Mae Films with Gaby Tana in 1997. She was a producer on The Moth storytelling evenings, which had one season on Trio Television. Magnolia Mae Films was the lead producer of The Duchess and Carolyn Marks Blackwood was an executive producer. She is a writer and producer on the film Barbette, which will be filmed in 2011. The Alan Klotz Gallery in New York City represents her photography. Marks Blackwood had a career as a singer-songwriter and backup singer in the 1970s and early 1980s and helped to develop television programs in Paris in the mid to late 1980s when television there became privatized. She holds a B.A. from Livingston College at Rutgers University.

Auden Schendler

Executive Director of Sustainability, Aspen Skiing Company

Auden Schendler is vice president of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company. He worked previously in corporate sustainability at Rocky Mountain Institute. Schendler has been a trailer insulator, burger flipper, ambulance medic, Outward Bound instructor, high school Math and English teacher, freelance writer, and Forest Service goose nest island builder. An avid outdoorsman, Schendler has climbed Denali, North America's highest peak, and kayaked the Grand Canyon in winter. His writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Scientific American Earth 3.0, Salon.com, and other media. His work has been covered in Outside, Fast Company, Travel and Leisure, and Businessweek. In 2006 Schendler was named a global warming innovator by Time magazine. He has also been named a Wirth Chair "Pioneer of the New Energy Economy" by the University of Colorado, a "Climate Saver" by the Environmental Protection Agency, and an E-Chievement Award winner by the radio show eTown. Schendler has testified to Congress on the impacts of climate change and speaks widely on sustainability. His book Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution was called "an antidote to greenwash" by NASA's James Hansen. He lives in Basalt, Colorado with his wife Ellen and their children Willa and Elias.

Rick Stuckey

Investment Professional 

Ph.D. (Economics), The George Washington University, B.S. (Economics), University of Delaware. For the past decade Rick has been involved in solving some of the financial markets’ thornier problems. In the late 1990s Rick and five others from selected financial institutions managed the failing hedge fund, Long Term Capital Management (LTCM), which threatened the stability of numerous financial institutions. In 2007 and 2008 Rick managed and liquidated Citigroup’s portfolio of Subprime mortgage derivatives. In 2009 when Citigroup split itself into “legacy and ongoing banks” Rick managed and liquidated their portfolios of corporate loans, commercial real estate properties, residential mortgage securities and derivatives from around the world. Previously, Rick headed a number of global trading businesses for Salomon Brothers and Citigroup. Rick is currently an advisor to a global credit hedge fund. He also teaches courses on Financial Markets and Corporate Finance to MBA students at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and gives lectures on the financial system to universities and other organizations. Rick is on the Board of Millbrook School, a college preparatory school with a mission of environmental stewardship including the country’s only accredited zoo at the secondary school level.