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Master of Ceremonies
Tony Richards
Radio Personality from the Steve Harvey Morning Show on WHUR 96.3 FM
Tony Richards is a 25 year veteran radio personality who has worked in some of the top cities including Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas and Houston to name a few. Since 1981, Mr. Richards (a native of Chicago, Illinois) has been involved extensively in multitudes of areas in broadcasting, programming, promotions and management. His personality and commitment to the community earned him nominations for the prestigious national "Billboard Magazine Air Personality of the Year Award." He has been the recipient of numerous "Achievement in Radio (AIR)" awards for excellence, and was named the "Top Urban Radio Personality in the Country" on the nationally syndicated Jenny Jones Show.
Tony Richards, a dedicated advocate for children, was responsible for the creative and operational execution of programs such as The A-Team for Kids, The Baby DJ Fund and The Christmas Toy Drive-By. He enjoyed these activities so much so that he referred to his community projects as "edu-tainment". Tony now finds his home in the nations capital weekday mornings on the Steve Harvey Morning Show on Washington?s WHUR-FM.
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 Graham Hill
Founder TreeHugger.com
Vice President, Interactive Media, Planet Green
Alternately described as Serial Entrepreneur, Do-Gooder and Designer, Graham Hill certainly enjoys variety although now finds his future happily confined to the social entrepreneurship arena. Past businesses include forays into fashion, web-development, viral email and plant-based air filters. In 1995, with his cousin, he started and grew the web-developer, SiteWerks, to 60 people doing work for large companies such as Microsoft and sold it to a New York company in 1998. He currently focuses on pushing sustainability into the mainstream through TreeHugger.com, which in 4 short years has become one of the most respected and trafficked environmental sites on the web. Hill and the TreeHugger.com team recently joined the Discovery Communications family of networks as part of its Planet Green multi-platform, global environmental initiative. Additionally, he owns a product business that sells a New York souvenir he designed a few years ago into 150 stores including MOMA. Graham has a Bachelor of Architecture with distinction from Carleton University in Ottawa and did advanced studies in Industrial Design at E.C.I.A.D, Vancouver. Graham has lived all over the world and his guiltiest sin is air travel (offset of course). He speaks English, French, German and Spanish and is addicted to squash.
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Summer Rayne Oakes
Correspondent, Planet Green
www.summerrayne.net
Summer Rayne Oakes is a model, activist, and on-air correspondent and advisor for Discovery's Planet Green. The Cornell University graduate and environmental scholar has received media accolades including Vanity Fair naming her a Global Citizen, Outside naming her one of the Top Environmental Activists, Cosmopolitan naming her Fun, Fearless Female of 2007, and CNN?s Nicole Lapin nominating her as a "Young Person Who Rocks." Through her work as a consultant Summer Rayne advises companies and organizations, and works on sustainable development and environmental programs in the U.S. and abroad including RecycleBank, Alcoa Foundation and Conde Nast.
Recently tapped by Portico and Payless ShoeSource as a sustainability-strategist and spokesperson for the green initiatives of both (Payless ShoeSource?s green footwear line, ?zoe & zac? is due in stores April 2009, Portico?s line due out in August 2009), Summer Rayne will advise on how to create and develop the green brands and promote them in domestic and international markets.
Oakes also works closely with the youth climate change movement through Energy Action and assisted in producing PowerShift, the largest lobby day on climate change and green jobs; helps manage community sustainable development and forest conservation programs in Africa; and spends countless hours a week on various pro-active, social and environmental-programs. Her first book Style, Naturally: The savvy shopping guide to sustainable fashion & beauty hits stores February 1, 2009 (Chronicle Books).
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Margie Alt
Executive Director of Environment America
Ms. Alt is the Executive Director of Environment America. She oversees all aspects of the organization, from policy and strategy development for major campaigns to building the organization?s visibility and field power, to recruiting and training hundreds of staff and activists.
Prior to the launch of Environment America, Ms. Alt spent 25 years building U.S. PIRG and the state PIRGs (Public Interest Research Groups). While at PIRG she helped oversee the passage and implementation of Renewable Energy Standards in 20+ states, passage of vehicle emissions standards in 12 states, restoration of protections to national forests, passage of state and federal ethics reform, defense of the public?s right to know about chemical exposures and protections for local parks and beaches.
Since 1989, Ms. Alt served as the Executive Director of the Center for Public Interest Research, leading efforts to build effective and self-sufficient state PIRG organizations and run successful public interest programs across the country. As Executive Director for the Center, Ms. Alt assisted state directors and advocates around the country in strengthening their programs, building their membership base, and becoming financially independent organizations. She has recruited, trained and overseen numerous staff and conducted literally hundreds of training sessions on topics ranging from running meetings and raising funds to developing campaigns and building and activating members.
In 2004, Ms. Alt oversaw the student PIRGs' New Voters Project, which registered 524,000 young (18- to 24-year-old) voters in 22 states and made 500,000 contacts with students and other young people reminding them to vote, including 48,000 contacts on Election Day alone. Under Ms. Alt?s guidance, the 2004 New Voters Project hired more than 150 organizers who worked to recruit, train, and develop more than 10,000 young volunteers to spearhead the effort?the nation?s largest non-partisan grassroots youth voter mobilization and student activist training project of the 2004 election.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Alt successfully directed MASSPIRG's statewide campaign to establish the nation's first Toxics Use Reduction Law in 1989. This landmark legislation has become a national model for reducing unnecessary use of toxic chemicals, helping to reduce the generation of toxic waste in the state by 50 percent. Ms. Alt also served as the national Field Director for U.S. PIRG, running one of the largest field operations in the public interest community. From 1982 to 1988 Ms. Alt held positions ranging from MASSPIRG Campus Organizing Director to Citizen Outreach Director for the first citizen outreach program for Florida PIRG. Ms. Alt started her organizing career with the PIRGs, upon graduation from Yale in 1982. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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Honorable Consul Thassanee Wanick
General Consul of Thailand
An environmentalist, a diplomat, a professor, and a businesswoman, the Honorable Consul Thassanee Wanick has worn many ?hats? throughout her diverse career.
She is a World Green Building Council Board Member and the Founder and Chair of the Board of the Brazil Green Building Council.
In only one year, GBC Brazil trained nearly 7,000 professionals from engineers, architects and landscape designers to governments? employees on green buildings and new green business opportunities. A specialist in business and sustainability strategy, she has advised high level businesses executives and governments on both energy and environmental strategies for success from alternative energy to sustainable real estate development. She has been invited as a speaker and/or to chair at conferences including for The United Nation Environmental Program, World Bank-IFC, São Paulo Federation of Industries, American Chamber of Commerce - Brazil, PTT- Petroleum of Thailand, and the Wharton Business School at The University of Pennsylvania where she received her Masters Degree. At Wharton, she championed for changes in the MBA program to include sustainability as part of the MBA curriculum.
Consul Thassanee Wanick is the recipient of Knight Officer of The Most Noble Order of the Crown for meritorious services to the country and the people of Thailand, given by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.
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 Christiana Wyly
Environmental Entreprener
As an author, lecturer, producer and investor, Christiana Wyly has dedicated her intellect, her energy, her time and her capital to issues and efforts that will change the world. A true leader and expert in her field, Christiana's understanding and commitment to social and environmental causes is both deep-seated and widespread.
An evangelist for social change, she has built her reputation through sheer force of will and her ability to stay ahead of the curve. Christiana as a young girl, inspired her father's environmental education which led him to found Green Mountain Energy, one of the largest Clean Energy companies in the world. And it was that experience that showed her how business can be a powerful force (and partner) for change. A founding investor herself, Christiana remains actively involved.
Her commitment to the environment began at age 10 thanks to an environmental ethics class. Her compassion, her drive and her compass are clearly innate. Now, her knowledge base makes her conversant on issues from organic food and green gifts to free trade and micro-loans to photovoltaics and wind energy to social responsibility and social networking.
Christiana's current projects are exciting and far-reaching, running the gamut from investment to filmmaking to sustainable development. Christiana was a lead investor and key strategic contributor at Zaadz, Inc., a social networking website for people who devoted to global change; she founded Be the Change Productions, a documentary film production company dedicated to producing films which document sustainable communities and lifestyles around the world; she is a venture partner at Satori Capital, an investment firm focused on green investing, providing conscious capital and growing the market for products and firms dedicated to healthy and sustainable living; and is developing Pecos River Ranch, an eco-spa and resort in New Mexico, with actor and Wilderness advocate Val Kilmer.
Christiana is active with a variety of non-profits. A member of the Founder's Circle of FLOW, an organization which promotes entrepreneurial initiatives that focus on creating sustainable prosperity, Christiana works to accelerate women's entrepreneurship globally. She also serves on the L.A. Committee for Global Green USA and the advisory board of The New Media Foundation.
Her involvement in subjects like sustainable living, climate change, conscious capitalism, green investing and ecological, social and technological networks that has landed her on the cover of Kiplinger, and inside The New York Times, WIE Magazine, the Dallas Morning News, The Herald Tribune and Treehugger.com, among others.
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 Gay Browne
Founder, Greenopia
Gay began to search for ways to improve her environment and take better care of herself and her children. She started from the inside out ? choosing all natural alternatives for everything from nutritional habits to bed sheets. In 1994, Gay built the first green home in her Los Angeles? Pacific Palisades community and began the journey that eventually gave rise to the Greenopia guides. In her experience with researching and working with green home developers, interior designers and furniture dealers, she realized that there was a wealth of green options, but no simple resource to find them. In response, Gay developed Greenopia to provide a resource to help people like herself make choices to green their lives on a daily basis.
Founded in 2005, Greenopia has developed guides for Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and plans for a 20-city rollout that includes Seattle, Portland, and Chicago among others. There are also plans to expand Greenopia?s web presence to create a local green community where consumers can browse Greenopia?s listings, buy and rate green products, share other products that they find, learn about living green, and much more.
With exhaustively researched, non-paid listings, Greenopia provides consumers with a resource for where to find a wide range of local green businesses, services and organizations for metropolitan cities. Gay has also created a unique, easy-to-understand Green Leaf award system that rates the level of organic and sustainable products that a listed company provides to the consumer.
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