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Gar AlperovitzGar Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political-Economy at the University of Maryland and a Founding Principal of the Democracy Collaborative, an organization devoted to developing community wealth-building approaches to local and national democratic reconstruction. Alperovitz is a former Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University, of the Institute of Politics at Harvard, and of the Institute for Policy Studies; he was also a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. He received his Ph.D. in Political-Economy as a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University.

Faith Bautista Faith Bautista is the President and CEO of National Asian American Coalition (NAAC), a HUD-approved homeowner, small business and consumer advocacy organization serving our nation's 28 million Asian Americans. Through Ms. Bautista's leadership, the NAAC has expanded to a national organization with its headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area, a regulatory office in Washington, DC, and five housing offices throughout California. Ms. Bautista advocates in the halls of Congress, California legislature, and before key federal regulatory agencies, such as the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Housing and Finance Agency, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Department of Justice, and Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as with America's Fortune 500 corporations, as a major voice for the Asian American community. She was a member of the Office of Thrift Supervision Minority Depository Institutions Advisory Committee and sits on the Low-Income Oversight Board for the California Public Utilities Commission. Ms. Bautista currently serves as a member of California Utilities Diversity Council and is also the Chair of the City of San Diego's Home Ownership Advisory Committee. Ms. Bautista is also the host of a prime time news show on The Filipino Channel, "Asian News in America" that discusses issues, such as the future of homeownership, small business lending, technical assistance and consumer protection. Through her leadership, she has gained the support of Corporate America in effectively reaching out to minority groups and has been a leading advocate for low-income and the underserved communities.
Ellene Felder-Scharnott A Senior Leadership Developer with Next Level USA, an innovative, Swedish firm providing leadership and organizational development solutions, Ellene is a diversity strategy and multicultural marketing management consultant. Her executive experience encompasses the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. In 2012, she was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Temple of Understanding, an organization closely affiliated with the United Nations, that has led the way in understanding diversity, multicultural communications, overcoming injustice, and interfaith education and advocacy for over 50 years. Ellene has been a trusted advisor to Fortune 1000 companies and also has advised leading German, British, and Japanese corporations in developing new market entry strategies, marketing, diversity, cross-cultural management, integrating multi-national work teams, and workforce development. Ellene has held business development and leadership roles at Deloitte & Touche, Right Management, and Greater Philadelphia First. She is a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where she earned her BA, and a graduate of The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University where she earned her MA.
Hunter Lovins L. Hunter Lovinsis President and founder of the Natural Capitalism Solutions (NCS). NCS educates senior decision-makers in business, government, and civil society about the principles of sustainability. Natural Capitalism is regenerative of human and natural capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. In partnership with leading thinkers and groups, NCS creates innovative, practical tools and implementation strategies for companies, communities, and countries. Trained as a sociologist and lawyer, Hunter is also a professor of sustainable business management at Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Bard College, and Denver University, and the Chief Insurgent of the Madrone Project. In her 30 years as an intellectual insurgent in sustainability, Hunter has written hundreds of articles and 14 books. The Way Out: Kickstarting Capitalism to Save Our Economic Ass(2012) succeeds her international bestselling book, Natural Capitalism, now in use in hundreds of colleges. Her latest publication, Creating a Lean and Green Business System won the 2014 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research.
Bill Ritter Bill Ritter Jr. was the 41st Governor of Colorado from 2007 to 2011. During his term in office, Ritter pursued an aggressive agenda that included education reform, transportation funding, and health care reform. Ritter also signed 57 clean energy bills into law and, in the process, made Colorado a national and international hub of the "new energy economy". Due to Ritter's efforts, Colorado has one of the most aggressive Renewable Energy Standards in the nation and a variety of policies that support the development of a clean energy economy. After leaving the Governor's Office, Ritter became the Director of the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Michael Shuman Michael H. Shuman is an economist, attorney, author, and entrepreneur, and Director of Community Portals for Mission Markets in New York City. He’s also a Fellow of three organizations: Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), Cutting Edge Capital, and Post-Carbon Institute. He has authored, coauthored, or edited eight books. His most recent book, just published by Chelsea Green, is Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Move Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity. His previous book, The Small Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (Berrett-Koehler, 2006), received as bronze prize from the Independent Publishers Association for best business book of 2006. He regularly helps communities analyze economic “leakages” and job-creation opportunities from expanded “LOIS” businesses (locally owned, import substituting), particularly those linked to local food, energy, and finance. A prolific speaker, Shuman has given an average of more than one invited talk per week, mostly to local governments and universities, for the past 30 years. He has lectured in 47 U.S. states and eight countries.
Vince Siciliano Vince Siciliano is president and CEO of New Resource Bank, a mission-oriented bank in San Francisco that works with businesses, nonprofits, and individuals seeking environmental and social as well as financial returns. The bank is dedicated to advancing sustainability with everything it does - lending, operations, and putting deposits to work for good. Vince has previously been the president or CEO of a number of San Diego financial institutions. He started his banking career in Bank of America's International Division. Vince serves on the advisory board of the American Sustainable Business Council based in Washington DC. He is also chairman of the board for the Ken Blanchard Center for Faith Walk Leadership. Vince and the bank are founding members of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values. He is a graduate of Stanford University and earned a master's degree in environmental planning from the University of California at Berkeley.
Gus Speth JamesGustave (Gus) Speth, is Professor of Law at Vermont Law School in Royalton, Vermont as well as a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. Until his retirement in 2009, he served as Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy. From 1993 to 1999, Speth served as administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World Resources Institute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chairman of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality; and senior attorney and co-founder, Natural Resources Defense Council. Throughout his career, Speth has provided leadership and entrepreneurial initiatives to many task forces and committees whose roles have been to combat environmental degradation, including the President's Task Force on Global Resources and Environment; the Western Hemisphere Dialogue on Environment and Development; and the National Commission on the Environment.
Jennifer Vervier Jenn Vervier started on the bottling line at New Belgium Brewing (NBB) in She became NBB's first CFO and later COO. She is now the Director of Sustainability & Strategic Development. Her responsibilities include the sustainability management system, corporate responsibility reporting, greenhouse gas accounting, natural resource management, legislative advocacy, philanthropy, public/private renewable energy partnerships, strategic planning, and property development. Jenn creates opportunities to expand New Belgium Brewing's business role model practices. She's active on the Boards of the Colorado Conservation Voters and Colorado State University's Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Enterprise. Jenn received a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities from Washington College in Maryland. She also holds an MBA in Finance from Regis University and completed the course work for a Masters in Applied Ethics from Colorado State University.
Judy Wicks Judy Wicks founded the White Dog Cafe on the first floor of her Philadelphia row house in 1983. As the restaurant grew, so did her notion that the strength of her business relied upon the quality of its locally grown ingredients. Envisioning how strengthening relationships among like-minded independent, locally owned businesses could inspire profound social change, she founded the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia in 2001, and co-founded the nationwide Business Alliance for Local Living Economies that same year. Judy also founded Fair Food in 2000, dedicated to building a local food system in the Philadelphia region. In 2009, she sold the White Dog through a unique agreement that preserves local, independent ownership and maintains sustainable business practices, including buying from local farmers, composting and using renewable energy. Her book, Good Morning, Beautiful Business was published by Chelsea Green, in March, 2013.

Faith Bautista

Faith

Bautista is the President and CEO of National Asian American Coalition

(NAAC), a HUD-approved homeowner, small business and consumer advocacy

organization serving our nation's 28 million Asian Americans. Through

Ms. Bautista's leadership, the NAAC has expanded to a national

organization with its headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area, a

regulatory office in Washington, DC, and five housing offices throughout

California.

Ms. Bautista advocates in the halls of Congress,

California legislature, and before key federal regulatory agencies, such

as the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office

of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Housing and Finance Agency,

Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Department

of Justice, and Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as with

America's Fortune 500 corporations, as a major voice for the Asian

American community. She was a member of the Office of Thrift Supervision

Minority Depository Institutions Advisory Committee and sits on the

Low-Income Oversight Board for the California Public Utilities

Commission. Ms. Bautista currently serves as a member of California

Utilities Diversity Council and is also the Chair of the City of San

Diego's Home Ownership Advisory Committee. Ms. Bautista is also the host

of a prime time news show on The Filipino Channel, "Asian News in

America" that discusses issues, such as the future of homeownership,

small business lending, technical assistance and consumer protection.

Through

her leadership, she has gained the support of Corporate America in

effectively reaching out to minority groups and has been a leading

advocate for low-income and the underserved communities.

Ellene Felder-Scharnott

Senior Leadership Developer with Next Level USA, an innovative, Swedish

firm providing leadership and organizational development solutions,

Ellene is a diversity strategy and multicultural marketing management

consultant. Her executive experience encompasses the private, public,

and not-for-profit sectors. In 2012, she was elected to the Board of

Trustees of the Temple of Understanding, an organization closely

affiliated with the United Nations, that has led the way in

understanding diversity, multicultural communications, overcoming

injustice, and interfaith education and advocacy for over 50 years.

Ellene

has been a trusted advisor to Fortune 1000 companies and also has

advised leading German, British, and Japanese corporations in developing

new market entry strategies, marketing, diversity, cross-cultural

management, integrating multi-national work teams, and workforce

development. Ellene has held business development and leadership roles

at Deloitte & Touche, Right Management, and Greater Philadelphia

First. She is a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania

where she earned her BA, and a graduate of The Paul H. Nitze School of

Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University where she

earned her MA.

Hunter Lovins

Hunter Lovinsis President and founder of the Natural Capitalism

Solutions (NCS). NCS educates senior decision-makers in business,

government, and civil society about the principles of sustainability.

Natural Capitalism is regenerative of human and natural capital while

increasing prosperity and quality of life. In partnership with leading

thinkers and groups, NCS creates innovative, practical tools and

implementation strategies for companies, communities, and countries.

Trained

as a sociologist and lawyer, Hunter is also a professor of sustainable

business management at Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Bard College, and

Denver University, and the Chief Insurgent of the Madrone Project. In

her 30 years as an intellectual insurgent in sustainability, Hunter has

written hundreds of articles and 14 books. The Way Out: Kickstarting Capitalism to Save Our Economic Ass(2012) succeeds her international bestselling book, Natural Capitalism, now in use in hundreds of colleges. Her latest publication, Creating a Lean and Green Business System won the 2014 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research.

Bill Ritter

Bill

Ritter Jr. was the 41st Governor of Colorado from 2007 to 2011. During

his term in office, Ritter pursued an aggressive agenda that included

education reform, transportation funding, and health care reform. Ritter

also signed 57 clean energy bills into law and, in the process, made

Colorado a national and international hub of the "new energy economy".

Due to Ritter's efforts, Colorado has one of the most aggressive

Renewable Energy Standards in the nation and a variety of policies that

support the development of a clean energy economy.

After leaving the

Governor's Office, Ritter became the Director of the Center for the New

Energy Economy at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Michael Shuman

Michael

H. Shuman is an economist, attorney, author, and entrepreneur, and

Director of Community Portals for Mission Markets in New York City. He’s

also a Fellow of three organizations: Business Alliance for Local

Living Economies (BALLE), Cutting Edge Capital, and Post-Carbon

Institute. He has authored, coauthored, or edited eight books. His most

recent book, just published by Chelsea Green, is Local Dollars, Local

Sense: How to Move Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and

Achieve Real Prosperity. His previous book, The Small Mart Revolution:

How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition

(Berrett-Koehler, 2006), received as bronze prize from the Independent

Publishers Association for best business book of 2006. He regularly

helps communities analyze economic “leakages” and job-creation

opportunities from expanded “LOIS” businesses (locally owned, import

substituting), particularly those linked to local food, energy, and

finance. A prolific speaker, Shuman has given an average of more than

one invited talk per week, mostly to local governments and universities,

for the past 30 years. He has lectured in 47 U.S. states and eight

countries.

Vince Siciliano

Vince

Siciliano is president and CEO of New Resource Bank, a mission-oriented

bank in San Francisco that works with businesses, nonprofits, and

individuals seeking environmental and social as well as financial

returns. The bank is dedicated to advancing sustainability with

everything it does - lending, operations, and putting deposits to work

for good. Vince has previously been the president or CEO of a number of

San Diego financial institutions. He started his banking career in Bank

of America's International Division.

Vince serves on the advisory

board of the American Sustainable Business Council based in Washington

DC. He is also chairman of the board for the Ken Blanchard Center for

Faith Walk Leadership. Vince and the bank are founding members of the

Global Alliance for Banking on Values. He is a graduate of Stanford

University and earned a master's degree in environmental planning from

the University of California at Berkeley.

Gus Speth

JamesGustave (Gus) Speth, is Professor of Law at Vermont Law School in

Royalton, Vermont as well as a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos.

Until his retirement in 2009, he served as Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of

the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Sara

Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy.

From 1993 to 1999, Speth served as administrator of the United Nations

Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to

his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World

Resources Institute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chairman

of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality; and senior attorney and

co-founder, Natural Resources Defense Council. Throughout his career,

Speth has provided leadership and entrepreneurial initiatives to many

task forces and committees whose roles have been to combat environmental

degradation, including the President's Task Force on Global Resources

and Environment; the Western Hemisphere Dialogue on Environment and

Development; and the National Commission on the Environment.

Jennifer Vervier

Jenn

Vervier started on the bottling line at New Belgium Brewing (NBB) in

She became NBB's first CFO and later COO. She is now the

Director of Sustainability & Strategic Development. Her

responsibilities include the sustainability management system, corporate

responsibility reporting, greenhouse gas accounting, natural resource

management, legislative advocacy, philanthropy, public/private renewable

energy partnerships, strategic planning, and property development.

Jenn creates opportunities to expand New Belgium Brewing's business

role model practices. She's active on the Boards of the Colorado

Conservation Voters and Colorado State University's Center for the

Advancement of Sustainable Enterprise. Jenn received a Bachelor of Arts

in Humanities from Washington College in Maryland. She also holds an

MBA in Finance from Regis University and completed the course work for a

Masters in Applied Ethics from Colorado State University.

Judy Wicks

Judy

Wicks founded the White Dog Cafe on the first floor of her Philadelphia

row house in 1983. As the restaurant grew, so did her notion that the

strength of her business relied upon the quality of its locally grown

ingredients. Envisioning how strengthening relationships among

like-minded independent, locally owned businesses could inspire profound

social change, she founded the Sustainable Business Network of Greater

Philadelphia in 2001, and co-founded the nationwide Business Alliance

for Local Living Economies that same year. Judy also founded Fair Food

in 2000, dedicated to building a local food system in the Philadelphia

region. In 2009, she sold the White Dog through a unique agreement that

preserves local, independent ownership and maintains sustainable

business practices, including buying from local farmers, composting and

using renewable energy. Her book, Good Morning, Beautiful Business was

published by Chelsea Green, in March, 2013.