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Our Advisory Panel
To ensure that we continue to live up to the highest standards, we've asked a few of our most respected member-bloggers to serve as an advisory panel for the site. They were selected for the outstanding quality of their work, their expertise across the spectrum of disciplines that make up our community, and most of all for their commitment to the ideals that drive us: inclusiveness, balance, community and civility.
Watch for original, exclusive posts from our advisory panel members. They'll enliven our podcast series, appear in our webinars, and cover events for us as the opportunities arise. And we look to them to be advocates for the community-at-large as well, keeping us focused on our mission as we expand, and making sure we don't forget...
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Director, Sustainable Communities, NRDC; co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; co-founder, Smart Growth America coalition; author, Once There Were Greenfields (NRDC 1999), Solving Sprawl (Island Press 2001), Smart Growth In a Changing World (APA Planners Press 2007), Green Community (contributing author; APA Planners Press 2009); voted one of the "top urban thinkers" in 2009 poll on Planetizen.com and named one of "the most influential people in sustainable planning and development" in 2010 by the Partnership for Sustainable Communities. Attorney, recovering litigator, cyclist, blogger, dreamer. You may access my full blog at www.kaidbenfield.com. Connect with Kaid » |
Kaid
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/
@Kaid_at_NRDC on Twitter
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Jared
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Warren Karlenzig is president of Common Current (www.commoncurrent.com), a global consultancy for urban sustainability planning, policy and development. He has led urban sustainability strategy with clients including the nation of China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MoHURD); The United Nations (Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the UN Center for Regional Development); the nations of South Korea and Japan; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; US Department of State; the White House; US EPA; State of California; Asian Institute of Energy, Environment & Sustainability; Guangzhou, China Planning Agency; Ecocity Builders; the Packard and Columbia foundations, and the private sector (energy; food and beverages; real estate development; architecture, construction and engineering; information and communications technology). He is co-author of the United Nations publication, the "Shanghai Manual: Guide for Sustainable Development in the 21st Century." Warren wrote the original language for one of the nation's first municipal green building ordinances (San Francisco). The former Chief Strategy Officer of SustainLane, Warren is author of How Green is Your City? The SustainLane US City Rankings. Connect with Warren » |
Warren
LinkedIn profile
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Charles R. Wolfe, M.R.P., J.D. is an attorney in Seattle, where he focuses on land use and environmental law and permitting, including the use of innovative land use regulatory tools and sustainable development techniques on behalf of both the private and public sectors and the successful redevelopment of infill properties under federal, state and local regulatory regimes. He is an accomplished speaker and author on growth management and innovative zoning, “transit-oriented development”, and brownfield/sustainable development topics, regularly participates in regional and national seminars and serves as a reporter for the national publication, Planning & Environmental Law. He is also an Affiliate Associate Professor in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington, where he teaches land use law and a range of planning and development courses to planners and future design professionals and is a contributor to major research efforts addressing urban center, transit oriented and brownfield redevelopment. Additionally, Chuck has served as Vice Chair, Fund Development for the Urban Land Institute (ULI), Northwest District Council, is a Member of the Boards of Futurewise and Great City, and is a King County Trustee of Forterra (formerly the Cascade Land Conservancy). He contributes regularly on urban development topics for several publications including The Atlantic Cities, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, seattlepi.com, and Crosscut.com. He blogs regularly at myurbanist.com. His upcoming book, Urbanism Without Effort (Island Press, 2013) will be available in April, 2013. Connect with Chuck » |
Chuck
Facebook page
Sustainable Cities Collective
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