Gwendolyn Hallsmith.
She is the Director of Global Community Initiatives, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to sustainable development, and has been
a leader in the sustainable communities movement for more than
fifteen years. She is the author of The
Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community
Systems
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Walter McGuire. One
of America's most seasoned practitioners and trainers in building
public participation campaigns. He was national field director
for Earth Day 1990. In that role, he led The Global Cities Project,
an educational project promoting sustainable cities. Speaking
subjects include Building Sustainable Communities
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Chris Maser. Authored
or coauthored twenty-six books and more than 250 articles. His
books include Land-Use
Planning for Sustainable Development
and Resolving
Environmental Conflict .
He was a member of Yale's Peabody Museum Expedition to Egypt.
Topics include sustainable community development and resolving
environmental conflict
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Karen Walz. The founder
of Strategic Community Solutions, a consulting firm specializing
in innovative, consensus-based community planning, Karen Walz
has provided services for communities in Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana,
Missouri, Nevada, South Carolina and Texas. She served as Executive
Director of The Dallas Plan
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Peter Bronski. Coordinator
of the Sustainable Communities Program for Audubon International,
he works with municipal governments, businesses, universities,
state and federal agencies, and other stakeholders to foster more
sustainable communities rooted in environmental health, economic
vitality, and a high quality of life
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Peter Melhus. Currently
the Executive Director of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable
Communities, a multi-stakeholder, collaborative group in the San
Francisco Bay Area. He recently completed a 25-year career with
Pacific Gas & Electric Company, the last eight directing environmental
policy for the
company
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Richard Register.
Author of Ecocities:
Building Cities in Balance with Nature
and of Ecocity
Berkeley: Building Cities for a Healthy Future .
He links our auto-dependent sprawling cities to problems from
global warming to species extinction, but he focuses primarily
on what can be and is being done to craft community-oriented solutions
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Doug McKenzie-Mohr.
A pioneer in employing community-based social marketing to promote
recycling, waste reduction, pollution prevention, energy and water
efficiency, watershed protection, and soil conservation. His talks
and workshops cover identifying barriers, designing effective
programs, using pilots, and evaluation
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Nancy Lee. Contributed
to the development of more than 50 social marketing campaign strategies
for public sector agencies, including water and power conservation,
recycling, litter prevention, water quality, trip reduction, and
habitat preservation. She has conducted social marketing workshops
for hundreds of public sector employees
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