MissionThe mission of The Future of Life, Inc. (“FOL”) is to help ensure there is a future of life on earth for all species. FOL pursues this goal through programs that:
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Bernard J. David A successful technology entrepreneur, Bernard has founded, built and sold several businesses. Amongst these activities, he co-founded SaveSmart, Inc. Lisa David Youngest child of Rudolph F. Zallinger, a Pulitzer Prize winning natural history artist and illustrator of several LIFE exposés and books, including The World We Live In, The Epic of Man and Early Man. He was the only non-scientist recipient of Yale's Addison Emery Verrill Medal for "outstanding contributions to the field of natural history". Her mother also illustrated close to 90 books for children, almost all natural history. With a BA in Russian Studies and later with an MBA in marketing and finance, Ms. David spent her early career at AFS International Scholarships supporting its participants which include thousands of young people throughout the world each year. Later, she spent 20 years in banking, primarily internationally. The family background in natural history and the appreciation of its diversity and beauty as well as her interest in creating a topic for common ground worldwide have culminated in the establishment of The Future of Life, Inc. Dr. Ellen J. Censky Dr. Ellen Censky joined the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History as Director on May 1, 2003. Prior to coming here, she was Director of the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History at the University of Connecticut (1998 - 2003) and Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, PA (1979-1998). She earned her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh (1994) and her B.S. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1979). Her research interests are in the field of herpetology and have involved field research in Costa Rica, Paraguay, British West Indies, Dominican Republic, and several states in the US. She has authored 42 scientific papers and 2 books. Her paper on overwater dispersal of iguanas in the Caribbean was published in the journal Nature and was featured in newspapers and on the radio around the world, including the front page of the New York Times and ABC News, National Public Radio, and BBC News. She has served on numerous professional boards and as an editor of a professional journal. L. Bert Cossaboon L. Bert Cossaboon, AICP is a Vice President of McCormick Taylor Inc, a consulting firm specializing in engineering, environmental planning and design throughout the mid Atlantic states. Since 1983, he has led many environmental studies and impact statements for major public transportation projects. In 2001, he led a consulting team to complete Pennsylvania's Sound Land Use Inventory in close coordination with Governor Ridge's Sound land Use Advisory Committee and the Governor's Center for Local Government Assistance. In 2002, he founded the firm's Land Use Planning and Urban Design Group which has developed many innovative planning techniques for linking land use and transportation planning. Medard Gabel Medard Gabel has developed and delivered programs for corporate and government clients around the world including Motorola, IBM, General Motors, Novartis, Chase Manhattan Bank, the United Nations and the U.S. Congress. He is the former Executive Director of the World Game Institute where he developed global simulation applications like World Game™, NetWorld Game, Global Data Manager™ and Global Recall. For 12 years, Gabel worked with Buckminster Fuller and acquired the power and utility of whole systems thinking, global perspectives and a good sense of humor. He is co-founder of o.s.Earth, a company dedicated to providing global simulations for education and corporate clients around the world. Gabel is a popular seminar and workshop leader and a prolific author: he's written five books on global problems, resources, and strategies. His latest book is Global Inc. An Atlas of the Multinational Corporation. In early 2005, Sierra Club Books is bringing out his new book, Seven Billion Billionaires: What the World Wants and How to Get It. Richard S. Grier-Reynolds A graduate of Trinity College (B.A. History) and Harvard University (M. Ed). A teacher for 33 years and currently the Head of the History/Social Science Dept. and the International Baccalaureate Coordinator at Wilmington Friends School, Wilmington, Delaware. Has traveled widely to regions where inter-communal violence has destabilized local communities (Cyprus, Lebanon, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina) and worked with a variety of reconciliation programs in these regions. Has been an active Board Member to various community and Quaker related organizations. Pacem in Terris, UN-USA Assoc. of Delaware, Clerk, Balkans Concerns Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Common Cause, and Peaceworkers. Currently the co-lead facilitator of the Alternatives to Violence Program at the State Correctional Facility at Chester, Pa. Rick has presented numerous workshops on the Teaching of Peace Studies, International Relations, and Economics to various statewide college and secondary teacher education organizations, religious organizations. He has spoken before small groups and at the United Nations on Peace Education and conflict prevention. Grier-Reynolds has consulted with numerous teachers at the University and secondary level in developing Peace Studies curriculums. He has also been featured in educational films by the Friends Council on Education, "Close Up to Life" and "The Stock Market Game" by the University of Delaware and Securities Industry Trade Association. Nathan Hayward III Nathan Hayward III served as Delaware's seventh Secretary for the Department of Transportation ("DelDOT"), from January 2001 until February 2006. During his five-year tenure he conceived and implemented the first Departmental reorganization in 40 years in order to speed up and improve the design and delivery of transportation construction and services. He championed projects throughout the state that solved current transportation problems, but also spoke to the need to foster orderly economic growth and to preserve Delaware's historic and environmental heritage. During this period, key DelDOT staff and the organization as a whole won an unprecedented number of awards for design and service excellence at a time when the state was experiencing rapid population and traffic growth. After graduating from Harvard College with a B.A. in 1965, he enlisted with the Delaware Army National Guard, in which he went on to become the outstanding graduate of his OCS class. After working for two years as a management trainee with the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, he earned an M.B.A. with honors (1970) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he majored in public finance. After seven years in Washington, DC with McKinsey & Co., the Senate Banking Committee, and the Office of Management and Budget, he spent the next eight years (1977-1984) in the administration of Governor Pete du Pont during which he served in three Cabinet positions. Subsequently, Mr. Hayward returned to the private sector as Senior Vice President for Financial Services at Wilmington Trust Company, the state's largest commercial and trust bank. At Wilmington Trust, Mr. Hayward was responsible for all of the bank's custody, corporate trust, investment research and portfolio management activities. Mr. Hayward has had a lifelong interest in conservation and the protection of open space. In his years as a member of the du Pont Cabinet, he helped engineer the State's purchase of several critical parcels of land (including more than 2,500 acres once earmarked for a new Shell Oil refinery). He served for 20 years as a Director and Chairman of the Finance Committee of Delaware Wildlands, Inc. and he helped author the State's Land Protection Act of 1989. He has served since 1990 as one of the founding members of the Open Space Council, under whose auspices more than 40,000 acres of land in Delaware has been protected. Since 2004 he has been a Director of the Delaware Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. Neen James Neen James is an international productivity expert known for her ability to deliver information with credibility, personality, and a genuine sense of fun. She is a high-energy speaker who educates, entertains and engages audiences across the globe. Neen specializes in helping people within organizations to achieve amazing results by improving productivity in every aspect of their operations. A friendly, outgoing Aussie, her clients include Australia and America's leading corporations. Her expertise is regularly published around the world in major newspapers, journals and magazines and she is the author of several books including Secrets of Super-Productivity, Strategic Networking, Network or Perish, and Balance: real life strategies for work-life balance. She earned her MBA in Australia. Dr. Daniel Janzen Dr. Daniel Janzen is Dimaura Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Technical Advisor to the Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica. An expert in basic and applied tropical ecology, Dr. Janzen now focuses on tropical conservation - concentrating on tropical caterpillars, their parasites, and their microbial biodiversity, and the conservation of tropical biodiversity through its non-damaging development. Author of over 405 publications, Dr. Janzen received the first Crafoord Prize in biology by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (1984), and the Kyoto Prize in Basic Biology (1997). The ACG was decreed a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and it is the working model for the revision of the entire Costa Rican national park system, forest service, and fish and wildlife service. The ACG is an example of Dr. Janzen's positive influence on society's awareness of the relevance and potential of tropical wildland biodiversity to global understanding, national sustainable development, and individual quality of life. Gwen Lacy Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy, a conservation biologist, made the fate of tropical forests a public issue in 1980 when he coined the term "biological diversity" and drew up the first projections of global extinction rates for the Global 2000 Report to the President. He conceived the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, defining the minimum size for national parks and biological reserves; and he introduced the idea of swapping international debt for conservation projects. Dr. Lovejoy spent years at the World Wildlife Fund US before moving to the Smithsonian Institution, where he has served in many roles since 1987. He has sat on various White House councils and has been advisor to the United Nations Environment Program, the World Bank and the U.N. Foundation. He serves on many scientific and conservation boards and advisory groups and is chair of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies. Author of numerous articles and books, he founded the public television series Nature. Brazil awarded him both the Order of Rio Branco and the Grand Cross of the Order of Scientific Merit, and he received the 2001 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement and the 2002 Lindbergh Award. Steven Mayer Steve Mayer was founder, CTO and chairman of Digital F/X, a leading-edge supplier of digital audio and video authoring workstations for the television, film and multimedia industries. Prior to Digital F/X he was one of the founders of Atari, where he served as chief architect for Atari coin-operated games and home programmable game systems. In recent years, Mayer has acted as advisor to Intel, Nintendo and other companies, and he has served as visiting lecturer and adjunct professor at NYU, Harvard, MIT, UCLA and Columbia University. He also has been active sitting on boards and advisory committees of various institutions including Activision, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Reed College, and the Aquarium of the Pacific. In addition to his contributions as a senior technical lead and general manager, he has lectured extensively in the design of User Interface and the appropriate use of technology. W. Michael McCabe W. Michael McCabe is President of McCabe & Associates, a private consulting firm committed to addressing high-stakes energy and environmental projects, policies and programs at the state and federal level. McCabe brings to the position 30 years of energy and environmental policy and leadership experience including a term as a deputy member of the President's Cabinet. Recent projects include analysis and guidance on state landfill capacity; state energy policy; Toxic Substances Control Act compliance; Clean Air Act NAAQS, PSD and NSR compliance; Clean Water Act permitting compliance; global warming policy; animal feedlot regulation; Pacific Northwest salmon restoration; and hazardous waste liability. In 2004, McCabe & Associates' client list included DuPont, Sunoco (Sun Oil Company), Patton Boggs LLP, Pew Charitable Trusts and Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC). Prior to establishing his consulting business, McCabe served as Deputy Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1999-2001. Together with the Administrator and key Administration officials he set and communicated national environmental policy and enforced federal environmental laws. As Deputy, McCabe functioned as the Agency's Chief Operating Officer, managing EPA's day-to-day policy and administrative operations and directing effective management of the Agency and its 18,000 employees. As the only individual in the Agency's history to hold both positions of Regional and Deputy Administrator, McCabe brought a unique perspective to Agency operations and management, its interaction with state partners and implementation of federal environmental laws. His community involvement includes serving on the Board of the Delaware Nature Society and acting as an advisor to the Delaware Nature Conservancy. Past involvement has included board membership with the Delaware Theatre Company and Delaware Futures, a non-profit charity that provides college scholarships to low-income, disadvantaged teenagers. William McDonough William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer known for his profound approach to design and commerce which incorporates concern for economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental intelligence. In 1996, McDonough received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, the nation's highest environmental honor, and in 2003 the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. In 1999, Time magazine recognized him as a "Hero for the Planet." Mr. McDonough is the founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, Architecture and Community Design. His designs range in scale from molecules to regions-from the environmental optimization of product chemical compositions, to community plans that restore native habitat and hydrology while spurring economic development. McDonough's clients include companies like the Ford Motor Company and Nike; cities such as Chicago and Williamsburg; and institutions including Oberlin College, Fuller Theological Seminary, and the Smithsonian Institution. A former dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, McDonough holds professorships at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Cornell University and Stanford University. He's also the U.S. Chairman of the Board of Councilors of the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development. Ms. Janet Milkman Janet Milkman joined The Future of Life, Inc. in 2007 with 20 years of experience working in the public and non-profit sectors on environmental and energy issues. Most recently, Janet served as President & CEO of 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania, where she grew the organization into the statewide voice for smart growth, recognized for credible research and effective communications and advocacy. At 10,000 Friends, Janet led a partnership with the Brookings Institution in the development of the Back to Prosperity and Restoring Prosperity reports, groundbreaking studies on Pennsylvania's economic competitiveness, land use and development that set the stage for major policy reform in Pennsylvania. During her tenure, 10,000 Friends published statewide studies on infrastructure investment and land use, and was a leader in efforts to pass conservation bond funds. Janet worked closely with the Ridge/Schweiker and Rendell Administrations to implement statewide land use planning reforms and policies to encourage redevelopment of Pennsylvania's older communities. Janet also directed non-profit organizations focused on land use and energy issues in New Jersey and Minnesota, and worked for New York City government, at the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Environmental Protection. Janet has a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a Master in Public Administration from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany. Ms. Maggie Morrison A ten year veteran of Cisco, Maggie Morrison has held several titles within the company. After joining in 1996 as Regional Sales Manager (Enterprise Sales Team) she soon advanced to become General Manager with responsibility for Scotland and Ireland. Her success, growing the business in both countries from $20 million to over $134 million in less than five years, then led in 2002, to her appointment as General Manager of The Netherlands. In spite of the difficult climate in the sector at that time, she went on to achieve the highest level of profit and growth in the region: expanding the revenue from $211 million to $325 million in less than three years. Recognizing the value of her experience, Morrison was then brought to Cisco's Corporate Headquarters in San Jose as Senior Director of Worldwide Sales Operations (Strategy and Productivity) controlling a budget of over $82.3 million. Having proven her strong commitment to life-long learning, solving skill shortages and corporate social responsibility in her previous positions (targeting a wide range of disadvantaged groups in a socially excluded area of Glasgow, Morrison was instrumental in founding Cisco's first community based Networking Academy) she is currently indulging her passion for education as Senior Director of the Cisco Sales Associate Program. A role regarded as pivotal to the future of the company at the very highest level, the yearly program draws 390 Sales Associates from 52 countries to three locations Worldwide (Raleigh, Amsterdam and Tokyo). General information During her time in The Netherlands, Morrison introduced a Civic Council and was active in improving and restructuring the management team for the Amsterdam site. She was also instrumental in the creation of an Advisory Council comprised of top business people across many different industry sectors. Under her leadership, Cisco became a Trusted Advisor of the Dutch government, and following a US Trade Mission in 2004, succeeded in setting up a meeting at Davos between Prime Minister Balkenende and Cisco CEO John Chambers. The company now works directly with the advisory office of the Prime Minister. Additionally, Morrison is a well known public speaker, often sharing the platform with senior Dutch business personalities such as Ben Verwaayen (CEO of BT), as well as Dutch government ministers. She continues speaking internationally: recent examples would include the FCEM congress, an international conference held at the Glasgow Concert Hall, and the 'Innovation and Global Partnerships' event, held at the Institute of Directors in London. Prior to joining Cisco, Morrison held senior sales management positions with several networking vendors (including 3Com and Cabletron). She has rich international experience having worked and lived in France, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, the USA and the UK. Dr. Peter H. Raven Dr. Peter Raven is one of the world's leading botanists and advocates of conservation and biodiversity; he's also the Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis. For three decades, Dr. Raven has headed the Missouri Botanical Garden, an institution he developed into a world-class center for botanical research, education, and horticulture display. Dr. Raven was a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology during the Clinton Administration. In 2001, he received from the President of the United States the National Medal of Science, the highest award for scientific accomplishment in this country. He served for 12 years as Home Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences and is currently the Chairman of the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration. Dr. Raven has written numerous books and publications, both popular and scientific, including the Biology of Plants, the internationally best-selling textbook in botany, and Environment, a leading textbook on the environment. Russell Read Russell Read is the Chief Investment Officer for the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). He oversees all asset classes in which CalPERS invests, including domestic and international equity, Treasury and agency debt, high yield bonds, mortgage backed securities, CDOs, real estate, corporate governance, currency overlay, securities lending, venture capital, leveraged buyouts, and hedge funds. Mr. Read is responsible for the strategic plan for CalPERS' Investment Office including tactical asset allocation, risk management, business development, budget authority, new investment programs, trading technology, staffing, and back office operations. Mr. Read joined CalPERS on June 1, 2006 after previously serving as Deputy Chief Investment Officer for Deutsche Asset Management and Scudder Investments. He was responsible for more than $250 billion of retail and institutional investments in equity, fixed income, and commodity-based products. He also was Chairman of the Deutsche's Americas Investment Committee and principal investment representative to the firm's retail mutual fund board of trustees. He previously served as Global Head of Quantitative Investing and Research at Zurich Scudder and has held senior investment positions with the OppenhiemerFunds, CNA Insurance, Prudential Insurance, and First Chicago. Mr. Read held academic positions at the University of Maine and Stanford University, and has taught courses in financial risk management and statistical methodology. He holds a doctorate in political economy, a master's in economics, and a master's in political science, all from Stanford University. Mr. Read also received a master's in business administration in finance and international business, and a bachelor's in economic statistics, both from the University of Chicago. Early in his career, he was an actuary at CNA Insurance. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, Chartered Financial Consultant and a Chartered Life Underwriter. Mr. Read has served as the socio-economic advisor for the Forest BioProducts Research Project at the University of Maine and as Chair of the Finance Committee for Maine's Fractionation Development Center, which is dedicated to the transformation of wood into energy and materials currently provided by crude oil. Dawn Rittenhouse Dawn joined DuPont in 1980 and has held positions in Technical Service, Sales, Marketing, and Product Management within the Packaging and Industrial Polymers business and Crop Protection businesses. In late 1997, she began working in the corporate organization to assist DuPont businesses in integrating sustainability strategies into their strategy and business management processes. She leads DuPont's efforts at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the United Nations Global Compact. She also manages the corporate recognition program for Sustainable Growth Excellence. In 2007 she also picked up responsibility for DuPont's efforts on climate change. In 2001 and 2002 Dawn served a co-chair of the Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) working group that developed the SD PlannerT. She has also cochaired the WBCSD working groups on Innovation and Technology and Sustainability through the Market. Dawn has a double major in Chemistry and Economics from Duke University. Dawn and her two children live in Wilmington, Delaware. When she is not being a taxi service to school, the stables and soccer activities, she loves to run. Benjamin S. Sax Ben Sax joined UBS in 2003 as a Private Wealth Advisor with over 25 years of financial services experience. Formerly a principal in Banc of America Securities' Private Client Services, he has extensive knowledge of marketing sales and trading across a wide range of fixed income, equities, and derivative products and economic market cycles. He has particular experience in strategic asset allocation, equity risk management, affiliate and restricted stock issues, structured products and alternative investments. Mr. Sax ran Salomon Brothers' Private Investment's fixed income management and trading desk and Kidder Peabody's New York regional municipal bond department. He earned his B.A., from Bowdoin College. He is a former chairman and current senior board member of the New York Regional Anti-Defamation League and serves on the Board of the Mamaroneck-Larchmont Student Aid Fund. Jerry R. Schubel Dr. Jerry R. Schubel has been President and CEO of The Aquarium of the Pacific since June of 2002. He is President emeritus of The New England Aquarium where he served from 1994 to 2001. From 1974 to 1994 he was Dean and Director of the Marine Sciences Research Center at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. During that period he served as the University's Provost for three years. He is a coastal oceanographer with broad experience in searching for strategies for humans to live in harmony with their coastal environments. He is on the Marine Board and previously served as Chair. He is Chair of the National Sea Grant Review Panel, and a member of NSF's Education and Human Resources Advisory Counsel. He serves on the National Science Panel for the South San Francisco Bay Salt Pond Restoration Program. He is past President of the Estuarine Research Federation. He serves on a number of other local, state and national committees. He has published several books and more than 200 articles. Andy Simon Andy Simon joined IMS Health as Vice President for Global Real Estate and Facilities in January 2008. He is responsible for a portfolio of properties and leases encompassing 140 locations on five continents, over 75 countries with approximately 2 million square feet of offices around the world. In addition to developing occupancy strategies and geographic master plans he has also begun to develop a sustainability program and set of corporate guidelines to help IMS in its efforts to reduce its carbon footprint and to generally adhere to more sustainable practices in all its locations. For six years Andy ran Simon Partners, a real estate consulting and advisory practice providing strategic portfolio and project specific advice to corporate occupiers of real estate around the world, and prior to that was a Managing Director at Jones Lang LaSalle, a leading global provider of real estate services. In the early 1990’s Andy assembled and then ran an international network of real estate service firms and was a strategic advisor to a UK investor consortium and the government on, what was at the time, the largest property outsourcing in the world. Andy holds a Bachelor of arts degree in History and American Studies from Wesleyan University and is currently Chairman of the Scarsdale, New York School Board Nominating Committee. Daniel Stark Daniel J. Stark is the Executive Director of the American Public Gardens Association (APGA). The membership of the APGA is made up of more than 500 public gardens and nearly 1,000 public garden professionals throughout North America. Throughout his four-year tenure with APGA, Dan has changed the name of the Association, nearly doubled the budget, begun offering professional development programs, restructured the membership and more than doubled participation in the Annual Conference. Born and raised in Central Pennsylvania, Dan has worked for membership organizations throughout is 20 year career, including the Chester County Bar Association and Pennsylvania Commission for Community Colleges. Ryan Sutter Ryan Sutter is perhaps best known as the Vail Fire Fighter who won Trista's heart on the ABC reality show The Bachelorette. Born and raised in Fort Collins, Colorado and later graduating with a degree in Environmental Design from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Ryan has always held a love for the natural world. In addition to a career as a fire fighter, Ryan is the founder and owner of an environmental strategies company which most recently launched an online shopping site called Mixed Market in which proceeds from shopping online are donated to charitable causes. Dr. Bernard W. Sweeney Dr. Bernard W. Sweeney is Director, President, and Senior Research Scientist at the Stroud Center, an independent research institution focused on stream and river ecology located in southeastern Pennsylvania. He has a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Pennsylvania and is keenly interested in and has published on the following topics: population and community ecology of temperate and tropical stream insects, ecology of streamside forests, genetic structure, bioenergetics and secondary production of aquatic insects, bioassay testing of toxic substances, stream pollution assessment, and stream restoration. Peter Triandafillou Peter runs Huber's Timber business and oversees the sustainable management of 680,000 acres of timberland in Maine, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Alabama and Virginia. 380,000 acres are owned by the JM Huber Corporation, and 300,000 acres are managed for other families and organizations. His experience in the forest products industry spans nearly three decades and includes research, consulting and timberland management for industrial, family and conservation property owners. Peter is currently President of the Maine Forest Products Council, and serves on the Board of Directors for the North Maine Woods Corporation and The Maine Technology Institute. He is past chair of the Cooperative Forestry Research Unit and the Maine Division of the Society of American Foresters. BA Biology – Columbia College, 1978; MS Forestry - SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 1980. Laura Webber Laura Webber, 14, resides in the coastal town of Pacifica, California, just south of San Francisco. She is participating in her fifth year in the Pacifica 4-H Club and her third year as club treasurer. Last April, after she watched the film An Inconvenient Truth, she conceived the idea to plant one million trees with all the 4-H clubs in the country. Over the next few months, the idea developed into a plan and a goal when she founded the 4-H Million Trees Project (www.4hmilliontrees.org). It was decided that there were to be two goals within the 4-H Million Trees Project, to unite all nationwide 4-H communities in a large-scale service-learning project and to plant one million trees to combat global climate change. Laura has always cared for the environment and the movie gave her the incentive to do something big. Laura cares so much for the environment because she loves nature and everything in it, especially the animal life. She understands the urgency of the climate crisis and wants to preserve what she can of the fragile ecosystem for future generations to enjoy and study. Dr. Edward O. Wilson Dr. Wilson is a preeminent biological theorist. He earned B.S. and M.A. degrees in biology from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University. Today he continues entomological and environmental research at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Two of his 21 books have been awarded Pulitzer prizes: On Human Nature (1978) and The Ants (1990, co-authored with Bert Hölldobler). Dr. Wilson's book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975) extended neo-Darwinism into the study of social behavior. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998) draws together the sciences, humanities and the arts into a broad study of human knowledge. His book, The Future of Life (2002), offers a plan for saving Earth's biological heritage. His most recent book is a monograph including 337 species new to science, Pheidole in the New World: A Hyperdiverse Ant Genus (Harvard, 2003). Dr. Wilson has received some 75 awards in international recognition for his contributions to science and humanity, including the U.S. National Medal of Science (1976), Japan's International Prize for Biology (1993), the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1990), the French Prix du Institut de la Vie (1990), Germany's Terrestrial Ecology Prize (1987), Saudi Arabia's King Faisal International Prize for Science (2000), and the Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society (1999). For his conservation work, he has received the Audubon Medal of the National Audubon Society and the Gold Medal of the World Wide Fund for Nature. He is also the recipient of 27 honorary doctoral degrees from North America and Europe. Patricia Zaradic Dr. Patricia Zaradic, co-founder of Red Rock Institute, is a conservation ecologist whose research explores the interface between humans and nature. She received her PhD in Ecology and Evolution from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Zaradic has conducted groundbreaking research in old growth forest and stream ecosystems. She has received support from an EPA Science to Achieve Results doctoral grant, the National Science Foundation and a Nature Conservancy Smith Conservation Research Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is a recent Environmental Leadership Fellow. Dr. Zaradic’s current work combines economic, social science and ecological approaches to address pressing conservation issues. Her research has been published in peer review journals, the source of expert Congressional testimony, and featured in popular media such as NBC Nightly News, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, NPR, The New York Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. |
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