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AASHE 2006: The Role of Higher Education in Creating a Sustainable World

October 4-6 (Wed-Fri) - Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Final Program
Session Abstracts

Keynote Speakers

Ray Anderson
Ray C. Anderson is Chairman of Interface, Inc., the world's largest producer of commercial floorcoverings, whose modular carpet tiles helped revolutionize the modern office. Mr. Anderson founded the company in Atlanta in 1973. Paul Hawken's book, The Ecology of Commerce (1993), motivated him to turn Interface into an environmentally friendly enterprise, and he has since reduced its environmental footprint by one third. His book Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model, helped prove to other businesses that they could protect the environment while increasing profits. Today, Mr. Anderson is recognized as one of the world's most environmentally progressive chief executives, having served as co-chairman of the President's Council on Sustainable Development during the Clinton administration; and been recognized by Mikhail Gorbechev with a Millennium Award from Global Green in 1996. His honors also include the prestigious Mitchell International Prize for Sustainable Development (2001); the SAM-SPG Sustainability Leadership Award (2001); the U.S. Green Building Council's Inaugural Leadership Award (2002); and the National Wildlife Federation's Conservation Achievement Award for Corporate Leadership (2002). He was recently named a Senior Fellow and Leading Voice for Green and Sustainable Design by the Design Futures Council. An honors graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology, he holds honorary doctorates from Northland College, LaGrange College, and N.C. State University.

Beverly Wright
Dr. Wright is a sociologist and leading scholar on environmental and economic justice and public policy. She is the founder and director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ), one of the few community/university partnerships that addresses environmental and health inequities in the Lower Mississippi River Industrial Corridor, commonly referred to as "Cancer Alley." Dr. Wright has conducted groundbreaking research in the area of environmental justice, and has developed an environmental justice curriculum for use at the elementary school level. She directed numerous grassroots, community-initiated health surveys, evaluated community buyouts, and supervised community development initiatives around contaminated sites. She has served on the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), chaired the Second National People of Color Leadership Summit, and is co-chair of the Environmental Justice Climate Change Initiative.

Bill McKibben
Mr. McKibben is a visiting scholar in environmental studies at Middlebury College, and the author of "The End of Nature," (1989) which sounded one of the earliest alarms about global warming. His six other books include "Hope, Human and Wild," "Long Distance," and "Maybe One" which took on the most controversial of environmental problems - population. A former staff writer for the New Yorker, his work appears regularly in the Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, Harpers, Outside, and many other national publications. Mr. McKibben continues to question society's path and advocates for simplifying our everyday lives and recovering the things that really matter. Prior to his arrival at Middlebury, he was a fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Study of Values in Public Life. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and Lyndhurst fellowships, and the winner of the 2000 Lannan Prize in Nonfiction Writing. Mr. McKibben holds honorary doctorates from several institutions and received a Bicentennial medal from Middlebury College in the fall of 2000. He lives with his wife and daughter in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.

Hunter Lovins
L. Hunter Lovins, Esq., is President of Natural Capitalism, Inc. (www.natcapinc.com). She holds a JD and several honorary doctorates, and has taught at numerous universities including Dartmouth College and the Universities of California and Colorado. Currently a professor of business at Presidio World College, she has founded and grown several businesses. Ms. Lovins co-founded Rocky Mountain Institute, where she served for 20 years as CEO. She has lectured extensively in over 15 countries, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos, The International Symposium on Sustainable Development in Shanghai, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development. She has consulted for industries and governments worldwide, as well as such multinational companies. She has also worked with community groups, local economic development agencies and municipal governments. Ms. Lovins shared a 1982 Mitchell Prize, a 1983 Right Livelihood Award (often called the "alternative Nobel Prize"), the 1993 Nissan Prize, and the 1999 Lindbergh Award. In 2000 she was named Time Magazine Hero of the Planet. She has co-authored nine books, including the 1999 book, Natural Capitalism, and hundreds of papers, including briefings for Presidents Clinton and Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. She is currently working in Afghanistan on a variety of projects, including the Afghan Cluster Competitiveness Project.


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