Advisory Board

Ambassador Richard E. Benedick, President, National Council for Science and the Environment; Senior Adviser, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/Joint Global Change Research Institute; former chief U.S. negotiator of Montreal Protocol on protecting the ozone layer.

Kelly Cash, Communications Director/West, The Nature Conservancy, Oakland, California.

Ms. Christina Desser, Vice President for Marketing and Social Research, Muir Investment Trust, San Francisco, California. Ms. Desser was the Executive Director for the twentieth anniversary activities of Earth Day 1990.

John Gamboa, Executive Director of Greenlining Institute, San Francisco, a non-profit coalition working to promote small, women-owned, and minority-owned business and economic opportunity for people of color.

Dr. Deborah Jensen, President, Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, Washington.

Henry Izumizaki, Chief Strategist, Urban Strategies Council, Oakland.

Dr. Michael F. Maniates, Professor of Political Science and Environmental Science at Allegheny College, Pennsylvania.

Steven Nightingale, Businessman, Reno, Nevada. Serves as a director of Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford, CA.

Ms. Nancy Ramsey, President, Morningstar Imports, a small Sausalito-based company. Independent analyst on disarmament, security issues, and international telecommunications. Ms. Ramsey is also a Legislative Director for Senator John Kerry (D - Massachusetts).

Dr. Peter H. Raven, Director, Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, Missouri.

Hon. Claudine Schneider, Director, The Artemis Project. Former U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.

Dr. Stephen H. Schneider, Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford University.

Peter Schwartz, President of Global Business Network, Berkeley, California.

Mal Warwick, Chairman of Mal Warwick & Associates, Inc., Berkeley, California.