Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson

Ghanaian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

He was president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace from 24 October 2009 to 1 January 2017.

Pope Francis named him the first prefect of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, which began operations on 1 January 2017.

He previously served as Archbishop of Cape Coast.

He was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2003.  

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Guillermo Kerber, Ph.D.

Dr. Kerber is originally from Uruguay, engaged in ecumenical institutions for 30 years, coordinated the work on Care for Creation and Climate Justice at the World Council of Churches until 2015. A board member of the Global Call for Climate Action (GCCA-tcktcktck) his passion for eco-theology started in Latin America in the 1980s and led to his doctoral thesis on Ecology and Latin American Theology. An academic and an activist, he has extensively published on the topic and has led WCC delegations to COPs since 2007 to 2015. He presently teaches at the Atelier Œcuménique de Théologie and collaborates with the Formation Service of the Catholic Church in Geneva, Switzerland, where he lives his wife and children.

Christoph Stückelberger, Ph.D.

Stückelberger is Founder and Executive Director of the global network on ethics Globethics.net Foundation, based in Geneva/Switzerland. He is part-time Professor of Ethics at the University of Basel. He got his PhD with a doctoral thesis on Peace Ethics and his habilitation (“second thesis”) on Environmental Ethics.  He is regularly visiting professor in developing countries (Africa and Asia).

Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist . His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared n 24 languages. 

Bill is a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized twenty  thousand rallies around the world in every country save North Korea, spearheaded the resistance to the Keystone Pipeline, and launched the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement.  

The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities. Foreign Policy named him to their inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers, and the Boston Globe said he was “probably America’s most important environmentalist.”   

Mark Z. Jacobson is Director of the Atmosphere/ Energy Program and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment and of the Precourt Institute for Energy. He received degrees in Civil Engineering, Economics, and M.S. Environmental Engineering from Stanford. He received an M.S. and PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from UCLA and joined the faculty at Stanford in 1994. He has published two textbooks and ~150 peer-reviewed journal articles.  He received the 2005 AMS Henry G. Houghton Award and the 2013 AGU Ascent Award for his work on black carbon climate impacts and the 2013 Global Green Policy Design Award for developing state and country energy plans. In 2015, he received a Cozzarelli Prize from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences for his work on the grid integration of 100% wind, water and solar energy systems. He has served on an advisory committee to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, appeared in a TED talk, appeared on the David Letterman Show to discuss converting the world to clean energy, and cofounded The Solutions Project (www.thesolutionsproject.org).

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Gernot Wagner is a research associate at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, a lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy, the executive director of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program, an associate at the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, and an associate at the Harvard University Center for the Environment.

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Gernot wrote Climate Shock, with Harvard’s Martin Weitzman, a Top 15 Financial Times McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015.

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Gernot teaches “Climate Policy—Past, Present, and Future” at Harvard College. Previously he taught energy economics at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.  He served as economist at the Environment Defense Fund. 

John Dominic Crossan 

Dom is an Irish-American New Testament scholar, historian of early Christianity, and former Catholic priest who has produced both scholarly and popular works. His research has focused on the historical Jesus, on the anthropology of the Ancient Mediterranean and New Testament worlds and on the application of postmodern hermeneutical approaches to the Bible. Crossan emphasizes the historical context of Jesus and of his followers immediately after his death.   

Andrew Simms is a political economist, environmentalist, campaigner and co-founder of the New Weather Institute.

Andrew is a research associate at the Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, and a fellow of the New Economics Foundation (nef), where he was policy director for over a decade. During that time he founded the nef’s work programme on climate change, energy and interdependence;  coining the term ‘clone towns’ to describe the homogenisation of high streets by chain stores. 

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Andrew wrote the book ‘Tescopoly’ on Tesco’s dominance of the grocery market, ‘Ecological Debt’ on framing the transgression of planetary boundaries, and co-authored ‘The New Economics’ and ‘Green New Deal’, devising the concept of ‘ecological debt day.’  

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Andrew writes often for The Guardian and broadcasts with the BBC World Service. His latest book ‘Cancel the Apocalypse: the New Path to Prosperity’ is manifesto of new economic possibilities.

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Stewart Wallis earned degrees in Natural Sciences at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and obtained a MSc in Business and Economics from the London Business School.  He spent 1976 to 1983 with the World Bank in Washington, D.C. working on industrial and financial development in East Asia.  He joined Oxfam in 1992 as International Director with responsibility, latterly, for 2500 staff in seventy countries and for all Oxfam’s policy, research, development and emergency work worldwide. Stewart joined the New Economics Foundation as Executive Director on 1 November 2003. He is a Trustee of the Overseas Development Institute and Habitat for Humanity. And he is a Fellow of the Club of Rome. Stewart has authored or co-authored several books. 

 

Sanjoy Mukharjee is Professor at the Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Shillong where he is member of the Sustainability, CSR and Ethics Group. A graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, he obtained his Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, and Ph.D from Jadavpur University. He has industrial experience of 7 years. Till 2009 Mukherjee was engaged in research, teaching and consulting on the human dimension of Management with focus on values and culture at the Management Centre for Human, IIM Calcutta. He has been conducting workshops and management development programs on Human Values in Management since 1993. 

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Dr Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien has 15 years experience in strategic management, corporate sustainability and responsibility, advisory services, microfinance, rural development, project design and implementation, capacity building, enterprise development, and corporate governance spanning the private sector, public sector and civil society in Africa and Europe. As the Chief Strategy Officer of Strategy and Execution Ltd, Dr Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien consulted for the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources on the development of the National Food Security Program (2008-2010). She holds a BSc (Economics) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a Diploma in Catholic Social Teaching; and undertook her PhD at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, in the area of “Ownership and Management Structures” with a specific focus on the global applicability of “an African Model of Corporate Governance and Sustainability”.    

Joseph J. Romm is an American author, blogger, physicist and climate expert. Romm is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2009, Rolling Stone magazine named Romm to its list of "100 People Who Are Changing America."

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Romm is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he founded their climate blog, Climate Progress, part of their

Think Progress website. In  2008, Time 

magazine named Romm's blog one of the "Top 15 Green Websites". 

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In the 1990s, Romm served as Acting Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy. He has published several books on global warming and energy technology.  His 2015 book, Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know, covers basic climate science in a Q&A format.

Kate Raworth (‘Ray-worth’) is a renegade economist dedicated to making economics fit for the 21st century. Her best-selling book Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist has been translated into eight languages. She teaches at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, and is also a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and an advisor to the Global Challenges programme of the Stockholm School of Economics. 

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Over the past two decades Kate has worked as Senior Researcher at Oxfam, as a co-author of the UN’s Human Development Report, and as a Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute based in the villages of Zanzibar. She holds a BA and MSc from Oxford University and an honorary doctorate from Business School Lausanne.

Marie Venner is Chair of the Climate Change, Energy and Sustainability Subcommittee at the National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board.  She has done over 45 projects for the National Academies TRB and is a nationally and internationally known researcher and speaker on infrastructure, process improvement, and sustainability.  She is a former public manager and public servant who now works with agencies, citizens, and faith communities on how we can make the big transitions that are coming, in a life-giving way for all.  She has worked for the International Council of Scientific Unions and as a US expert on European Commission research projects.  She is on multiple NAS Transportation Research Board committees, subcommittees, and task forces.  She is also on the board or steering group of multiple faith-based organizations.

Norman Kurland heads the interfaith Center for Economic and Social Justice and Equity Expansion International, Inc., an investment banking/consulting company promoting global free enterprise reform through universal access to capital ownership.  His philosophy combines “Personalist” ideas of Louis Kelso, Buckminster Fuller, Fr. William Ferree, Martin Luther King, Jr. and “World Citizen” Garry Davis. President Reagan appointed Kurland as deputy chairman of the bipartisan Presidential Task Force on Project Economic Justice. He co-authored Capital Homesteading for Every Citizen, a blueprint for green economic growth enabling everyone to share private property ownership, profits and governance power. After studying law and economics at the University of Chicago, he became in 1960 a civil rights and anti-poverty lawyer before joining Kelso’s “Just Third Way” peaceful revolution. 

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Mark Campanale is the Founder of the Carbon Tracker Initiative whose goal is to align capital markets with natural ecological limits to growth.  He conceived the ‘unburnable carbon’ capital markets thesis and commissioned and was editor to the ground breaking Unburnable Carbon – Are the World’s Financial Markets Carrying a Carbon Bubble? Report. Mark is responsible for management strategy, board matters and developing their capital markets framework analysis.

Prior to forming these groups, Mark had twenty five years experience in sustainable financial markets working for major institutional asset management companies.  Mark is a co-founder of some of the first responsible investment funds firstly at Jupiter Asset Management in 1989 with the Ecology Funds, NPI with Global Care, the AMP Capital Sustainable Future Funds, and Henderson Global Investor’s Industries of the Future Funds.  Mark has a BA in Politics & Economic History and an M.Sc in Agricultural Economics.

Fletcher Harper, an Episcopal priest, is Executive Director of GreenFaith, an international interfaith environmental organization.  He has developed a range of innovative programs to make GreenFaith a global leader in the religious-environmental movement.

In the past four years, Fletcher coordinated the 2015 OurVoices campaign, which mobilized religious support globally for COP 21, led organizing of faith communities for the People’s Climate Marches in NYC and Washington DC, helped lead the faith-based fossil fuel divestment movement, supported the launch of the global Interfaith Rainforest Initiative, and co-founded Shine, a faith-philanthropy-NGO campaign to end energy poverty with renewable energy by 2030.  He helps lead GreenFaith’s new local organizing initiative, creating multi-faith GreenFaith Circles in local communities globally.  He is an Ashoka Fellow and author of GreenFaith: Mobilizing God’s People to Protect the Earth (Abingdon Press, March 2015).

Richard is Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School, Honorary Professor at University College London and Visiting Professor at the University of York.  His books and research papers have drawn attention to the tendency for societies with bigger income differences between rich and poor to suffer a heavier burden of health and social problems. Two of his books have been the subject of documentary films – The Great Leveller  (for the Channel 4 TV’s Equinox series broadcast in 1996) was based on his Unhealthy Societies.  The Divide (based on The Spirit Level) was  released in April 2016 (available on Netflix).  The Spirit Level, written with Kate Pickett is now in 24 languages and has won several awards.  His TED talk ‘How economic inequality harms societies’ has been watched over 3 million times.  Richard has received Solidar’s Silver Rose Award, the Irish Cancer Society’s Charles Cully Memorial medal, was The Australian Society for Medical Research medallist in 2017.

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The Rev. Jerry Cappel is an ordained Episcopal priest currently serving as the Environmental Network Coordinator for Province IV of The Episcopal Church.  Jerry’s vocational interests are in adult education, ecology and faith. He is interested in helping faith communities to adopt a “deeper shade of green” in their worship, liturgies, fellowship and practice.

Jerry serves as a member of the Advisory Council on the Stewardship of Creation for The Episcopal Church, and is a fellow with the Center for Religion and the Environment and with GreenFaith.  He is a graduate of Harding Graduate School of Religion (M.Div.) in Memphis, TN, and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY (Ph.D.).  

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You can follow Rev. Cappel on Twitter at RevCappel and visit his website at Deepgreenchurch.org

Michael Pirson joined the Gabelli School of Business as an associate professor of management systems in 2008. A scholar of humanistic management, which holds that business and commerce ought to advance human dignity and society, Dr. Pirson helped to establish an undergraduate sustainable-business concentration at Fordham. He teaches courses such as Social Entrepreneurship, Fundamentals of Management and Principles of Management, and his work spans the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Dr. Pirson is the social entrepreneurship track chair for the Oikos-Ashoka Global Case Writing Competition in Social Entrepreneurship. He is also a founding partner of the Humanistic Management Network, an organization that brings together scholars, practitioners and policymakers around the common goal of creating a 'life-conducive' economic system. In that capacity, he is the co-editor of the Humanism in Business book series, published by Palgrave-McMillan.

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Dr. Pirson is a research fellow at Harvard University and serves on the board of three social enterprises in the United States.

George Marshall is Climate Outreach’s Director of Projects. George has 25 years experience in environmental campaigning and communications including senior campaign positions with Greenpeace and the Rainforest Foundation International. He has provided consultancy communication advice to organisations including WWF UK, the RSPB, The National Trust and the Welsh Government. He is the author of Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change

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Bob Brecha graduated from Wright State University (B.S. in Physics, 1983) and from the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D. in Physics, 1990). 

Since 1993 Bob has been at the University of Dayton where he is Professor of Physics and in the Renewable and Clean Energy Program, and was founding coordinator of the Sustainability, Energy and the Environment (SEE) initiative from 2007 - 2015. 

Since 2006 Bob has been a regular visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany and is spending 2018 at the Berlin think-tank Climate Analytics.  

Bob's  research publications focus on energy efficiency in buildings, climate change mitigation strategies, and energy needs for sustainable development. 

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Chris Laszlo, PhD is the Char and Chuck Fowler Professor of Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management, and serves as the Faculty Executive Director of the Fowler Center. He is the author of Flourishing Enterprise (2014), Embedded Sustainability (2011), and Sustainable Value (2008), all from Stanford University Press. His earlier book, The Sustainable Company (2003, paperback 2005), was published by Island Press. His work over the last decade has helped launch mainstream management approaches to sustainability for value and profit. In 2012, he was selected a “Top 100 Thought Leader in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by Trust Across America™. In 2015, he was elected Fellow of the International Academy of Management.

Physicist Amory Lovins has advised major firms and governments worldwide for 40+ years; written 31 books and over 600 papers; and received the Blue Planet, Volvo, Zayed, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, 12 honorary doctorates, the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood, National Design, and World Technology Awards, and Germany’s Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit. An honorary architect, Swedish engineering academician, and former Oxford don, he has taught at ten universities. In 2009, Time named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people, and Foreign Policy, one of the 100 top global thinkers.

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Rocky Mountain Institute

Jochen Wermuth the Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Wermuth Asset Management GmbH (WAM) and the principal of the Wermuth family office. He serves as a member of the steering committee of the peer-to-peer investor networks “Europeans for Divest-Invest” and “100% Impact Network“ and on the investment committee of the German Government’s new €24.6bn Energy Transition Fund.

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WAM is a BaFin regulated investment adviser, committed to alternative and sustainable investments with a positive impact on the environment and fighting corruption. Founded in 1999, it has launched and advised investment funds with peak assets in excess of $1bn.  

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Previously, Jochen Wermuth was a Director at Deutsche Bank London and an EU-TACIS and World Bank-financed Head of the Economic Expert Group at the Russian Ministry of Finance. Born in 1969, he was educated at Brown and Oxford Universities in Mathematics and Economics.  Committee of the newly set up Energy Transition Fund of the German Government, funded with €26.6bn.

David Bollier is Director of the Schumacher Center’s Reinventing the Commons Program. He is an American activist, author, and blogger whose work focuses on the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics, and culture.

David has co-organized a wide variety of pioneering international conferences on the commons, strategy workshops, seminars, and public events, especially in Europe.  He also spent many years in various policy positions in Washington, D.C.

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He is an author of  Think Like a Commoner:  A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons , Patterns of Commoning; The Wealth of the Commons; and has contributed chapters to more than a dozen books .  

For twenty-five years, until 2010, David collaborated closely with television producer Norman Lear on a wide variety of non-television public affairs and political projects. In 2012, Bollier received the Bosch Berlin Prize in Public Policy from the American Academy in Berlin for his work on the commons. 

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Mary Christina Wood is a Philip H. Knight Professor of Law at the University of Oregon and the Faculty Director of the law school's nationally acclaimed Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center.

Professor Wood's most recent book, Nature's Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age, sets forth a new paradigm of ecological responsibility. 

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Professor Wood originated the legal theory called Atmospheric Trust Litigation, which seeks to hold governments accountable to reduce carbon pollution within their jurisdictions.  Further, her research is being used in cases brought on behalf of youth throughout the world.  Professor Wood is a frequent speaker on climate issues and has received national and international attention for her sovereign trust approach to global climate policy.

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Michel Bauwens is the founder and director of the P2P Foundation and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. Michel is also research director of CommonsTransition.org. a platform for policy development aimed toward a society of the Commons and a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group, with Silke Helfrich and David Bollier, who have organised major global conferences on the commons and economics. He has (co-)published various books and reports in english, dutch and french, such as (with Vasilis Kostakis), ‘Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy’. Michel currently lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand and last spring, has crafted a Commons Transition Plan for the city of Ghent in Belgium, after a similar project for Ecuador in 2014. Michel now works mostly on realizing value and technology sovereignty, and on institutional design for public-commons partnerships to commonify provisioning systems for territories, so they can function within the carrying capacity of the bioregion and the planet.

Michael  Shuman is an economist, attorney, and globally recognized expert on community economics.  He’s Director of Local Economy Programs for Telesis Corporation, a nonprofit affordable housing company, and currently an adjunct instructor at Bard Business School in New York City and at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.  He’s also a Fellow at Cutting Edge Capital and at the Post-Carbon Institute, and a founding board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE).  He is one of the architects of the crowdfunding reforms that became the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), signed into law in April 2012. He is the author of nine books, including Local Dollars: Local Sense, The Small-Mart Revolution, and Going Local. In 2015, Michael published The Local Economy Solution.  It presents the stories of 28 “pollinator” enterprises that are nurturing local businesses in self-financing ways.  Michael has also advised countless communities on strategies to increase local economic multipliers, and just completed (with Gwen Hallsmith) a handbook on local investment opportunities in Vermont.   

MBA Program Coordinator Moira Tolan provides an overview and discussed the role that sustainability plays in corporations.

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Business Law Professor Michael Fox will talk about Sustainability in Business, Society & Law. 

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Accounting Professor Tracey Niemotko talks about sustainability in accounting reporting.

Marketing Professor Anthony Scardillo's lecture is titled, I Want Six-Pack Abs: How the Dominican Pillars Can Help Marketers Build Sustainable Practices. 

Finance Professor Thomas Fitzmaurice talks about finance services sustainability.  

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Healthcare Management Professor Veronica McMillan 's lecture is titled, Sustainability is Critical to the Long-Term Health of Healthcare.  

Mt St Mary College of Business Administration 

John Odhiambo Onyango, Ph.D. is an academic, scholar and is currently an Associate Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame (USA). He has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Architecture from the University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK); a Master of Architecture degree from University of Notre Dame, (USA); Certificate in Professional Practice & Management in Architecture (RIBA Part 3-Architect's License in the United Kingdom) from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, (England, UK) and a Bachelor of Architecture (honors) degree from University of Nairobi (Kenya).

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Current Research Interests:

• Understanding Energy Use in Traditional Buildings using Simulation and Biomimetic Epidemiology

• Built Environment and Aging & Wellbeing

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https://architecture.nd.edu/faculty/john-onyango/

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Marisa Vertrees is the Campaigns Director for the Global Catholic Climate Movement. She was the Social Justice Director at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, where she also assisted the Peace and Justice Commission of the Arlington Diocese. After that, she was an organizer with the U.S. faith community for the ONE Campaign, a global anti-poverty organization. Marissa is passionate about engaging people in social justice and care for creation, and brings over 12 years of organizing work and ministry to the organization. She lives just outside Washington, D.C. with her husband and three children.

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Julia M. Puaschunder, Ph.D., an economist from the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the The New School for Social Research in NYC. She has earned Doctoral degrees in Social and Economic Sciences and in Natural Sciences, a Masters degrees in Business, Public Administration, Philosophy and Psychology.  Before starting as a Prize Fellow in the Inter-University Consortium of New York at the New School and Columbia University, Julia served at the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences conducting research on intergenerational equity.  She is an expert member of the Harvard Law School Law and Mind Sciences Initiative and the Academic Council on the United Nations System.   In 2011, she participated in a U.S. White House conference call on environmental justice.  

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https://juliampuaschunder.com/

Born on September 11, 1953 in Buenos Aires - Argentina, Héctor Julio Cobello studied at the middle level of the "Dulcísimo Nombre de Jesús" Institute - Ciudad Buenos Aires. He studied Geography at the National University of Buenos Aires (UBA).  Hector graduated in Geography and History at the Higher Institute of Teachers "San Agustín", City of Buenos Aires - Argentina. He is a technical specialist in the field of Soil Conservation and Fight against Desertification.

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Referent "Common House Care Program" - Social Work of the Church - Project: "My Neighbor the Creek - Water Bioremediation through Fungi", with students of Middle School.

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Co-founder of the World Catholic Movement to Combat Desertification, Neutralization of Land Degradation and Poverty (MCMLCDP)

Dr. Sylvia Lindinger-Sternart is originally from Austria, engaged in mental health for many years and an academic and activist for health, environmental protection and social justice. Dr. Lindinger-Sternart has taught at Penn State University and serves currently as the program director and core faculty for the M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (MSC) program at the University of Providence. Dr. Lindinger-Sternart is licensed as a Professional Clinical Counselor in Montana and her clinical experience includes service in inpatient clinics, mental health agencies, and private practice. She emphasizes multicultural competence and loves to engage with other cultures. Her major research interests are mindfulness, trauma, and online counseling, particularly in male populations. Dr. Lindinger-Sternart has presented and published in the counseling field.  

 

Meg Stapleton Smith is a second year doctoral student in Theological and Social Ethics at Fordham University. She graduated from Yale Divinity School in 2016 with a M.A.R. in Ethics, and holds a B.A. in Theology from Boston College with concentrations in Faith, Peace, and Justice Studies and Catholic Studies. While at Boston College, Meg studied abroad in El Salvador with the Casa de la Solidaridad program. After graduating from Boston College, Meg was Director of Campus Ministry and a Theology teacher at Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School in Lawrence, MA. 

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Meg’s academic interests are wide ranging, but she is principally interested in exploring the contemporary retrieval of virtue ethics from a liberationist perspective. In addition, Meg's work explores how the intersection of these two fields might serve as a challenge for both virtue ethics and liberationist thought, as well as guide how we think about Catholic Social Teaching and Christian Social Ethics today.

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For more information, please visit 

https://megstapletonsmith.wordpress.com/

Dr Thomas Smith is Assistant Professor in Environmental Geography and a member of the Environmental Economics and Policy Cluster, a part of the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He teaches on a number of environmental courses, focussing on innovative technology-enhanced experiential learning and field-based education in geography. Tom is a geographer and environmental scientist, specialising in interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the role of biomass burning (wildfires) in the Earth system. Tom enjoys highly collaborative research focusing on greenhouse gas and reactive emissions from wildland fires in savannas and tropical peatlands. He is particularly interested in complex interactions between agricultural practices, land degradation, fire emissions characteristics and their associated impacts. 

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http://www.lse.ac.uk/geography-and-environment/people/academic-staff/thomas-smith

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David Bollier is Director of the Schumacher Center’s Reinventing the Commons Program. He is an American activist, author, and blogger whose work focuses on the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics, and culture.

David has co-organized a wide variety of pioneering international conferences on the commons, strategy workshops, seminars, and public events, especially in Europe.  He also spent many years in various policy positions in Washington, D.C.

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He is an author of  Think Like a Commoner:  A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons , Patterns of Commoning; The Wealth of the Commons; and has contributed chapters to more than a dozen books .  

For twenty-five years, until 2010, David collaborated closely with television producer Norman Lear on a wide variety of non-television public affairs and political projects. In 2012, Bollier received the Bosch Berlin Prize in Public Policy from the American Academy in Berlin for his work on the commons. 

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 www.bollier.org]  

Michel Bauwens is the founder and director of the P2P Foundation and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. Michel is also research director of CommonsTransition.org. a platform for policy development aimed toward a society of the Commons and a founding member of the Commons Strategies Group, with Silke Helfrich and David Bollier, who have organised major global conferences on the commons and economics. He has (co-)published various books and reports in english, dutch and french, such as (with Vasilis Kostakis), ‘Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy’. Michel currently lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand and last spring, has crafted a Commons Transition Plan for the city of Ghent in Belgium, after a similar project for Ecuador in 2014. Michel now works mostly on realizing value and technology sovereignty, and on institutional design for public-commons partnerships to commonify provisioning systems for territories, so they can function within the carrying capacity of the bioregion and the planet.

Michael  Shuman is an economist, attorney, and globally recognized expert on community economics.  He’s Director of Local Economy Programs for Telesis Corporation, a nonprofit affordable housing company, and currently an adjunct instructor at Bard Business School in New York City and at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.  He’s also a Fellow at Cutting Edge Capital and at the Post-Carbon Institute, and a founding board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE).  He is one of the architects of the crowdfunding reforms that became the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), signed into law in April 2012. He is the author of nine books, including Local Dollars: Local Sense, The Small-Mart Revolution, and Going Local. In 2015, Michael published The Local Economy Solution.  It presents the stories of 28 “pollinator” enterprises that are nurturing local businesses in self-financing ways.  Michael has also advised countless communities on strategies to increase local economic multipliers, and just completed (with Gwen Hallsmith) a handbook on local investment opportunities in Vermont.   

MBA Program Coordinator Moira Tolan provides an overview and discussed the role that sustainability plays in corporations.

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Business Law Professor Michael Fox will talk about Sustainability in Business, Society & Law. 

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Accounting Professor Tracey Niemotko talks about sustainability in accounting reporting.

Marketing Professor Anthony Scardillo's lecture is titled, I Want Six-Pack Abs: How the Dominican Pillars Can Help Marketers Build Sustainable Practices. 

Finance Professor Thomas Fitzmaurice talks about finance services sustainability.  

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Healthcare Management Professor Veronica McMillan 's lecture is titled, Sustainability is Critical to the Long-Term Health of Healthcare.  

Mt St Mary College of Business Administration 

John Odhiambo Onyango, Ph.D. is an academic, scholar and is currently an Associate Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame (USA). He has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Architecture from the University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK); a Master of Architecture degree from University of Notre Dame, (USA); Certificate in Professional Practice & Management in Architecture (RIBA Part 3-Architect's License in the United Kingdom) from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, (England, UK) and a Bachelor of Architecture (honors) degree from University of Nairobi (Kenya).

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Current Research Interests:

• Understanding Energy Use in Traditional Buildings using Simulation and Biomimetic Epidemiology

• Built Environment and Aging & Wellbeing

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https://architecture.nd.edu/faculty/john-onyango/

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Marisa Vertrees is the Campaigns Director for the Global Catholic Climate Movement. She was the Social Justice Director at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, where she also assisted the Peace and Justice Commission of the Arlington Diocese. After that, she was an organizer with the U.S. faith community for the ONE Campaign, a global anti-poverty organization. Marissa is passionate about engaging people in social justice and care for creation, and brings over 12 years of organizing work and ministry to the organization. She lives just outside Washington, D.C. with her husband and three children.

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Julia M. Puaschunder, Ph.D., an economist from the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the The New School for Social Research in NYC. She has earned Doctoral degrees in Social and Economic Sciences and in Natural Sciences, a Masters degrees in Business, Public Administration, Philosophy and Psychology.  Before starting as a Prize Fellow in the Inter-University Consortium of New York at the New School and Columbia University, Julia served at the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences conducting research on intergenerational equity.  She is an expert member of the Harvard Law School Law and Mind Sciences Initiative and the Academic Council on the United Nations System.   In 2011, she participated in a U.S. White House conference call on environmental justice.  

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https://juliampuaschunder.com/

Born on September 11, 1953 in Buenos Aires - Argentina, Héctor Julio Cobello studied at the middle level of the "Dulcísimo Nombre de Jesús" Institute - Ciudad Buenos Aires. He studied Geography at the National University of Buenos Aires (UBA).  Hector graduated in Geography and History at the Higher Institute of Teachers "San Agustín", City of Buenos Aires - Argentina. He is a technical specialist in the field of Soil Conservation and Fight against Desertification.

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Referent "Common House Care Program" - Social Work of the Church - Project: "My Neighbor the Creek - Water Bioremediation through Fungi", with students of Middle School.

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Co-founder of the World Catholic Movement to Combat Desertification, Neutralization of Land Degradation and Poverty (MCMLCDP)

Dr. Sylvia Lindinger-Sternart is originally from Austria, engaged in mental health for many years and an academic and activist for health, environmental protection and social justice. Dr. Lindinger-Sternart has taught at Penn State University and serves currently as the program director and core faculty for the M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (MSC) program at the University of Providence. Dr. Lindinger-Sternart is licensed as a Professional Clinical Counselor in Montana and her clinical experience includes service in inpatient clinics, mental health agencies, and private practice. She emphasizes multicultural competence and loves to engage with other cultures. Her major research interests are mindfulness, trauma, and online counseling, particularly in male populations. Dr. Lindinger-Sternart has presented and published in the counseling field.  

 

Meg Stapleton Smith is a second year doctoral student in Theological and Social Ethics at Fordham University. She graduated from Yale Divinity School in 2016 with a M.A.R. in Ethics, and holds a B.A. in Theology from Boston College with concentrations in Faith, Peace, and Justice Studies and Catholic Studies. While at Boston College, Meg studied abroad in El Salvador with the Casa de la Solidaridad program. After graduating from Boston College, Meg was Director of Campus Ministry and a Theology teacher at Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School in Lawrence, MA. 

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Meg’s academic interests are wide ranging, but she is principally interested in exploring the contemporary retrieval of virtue ethics from a liberationist perspective. In addition, Meg's work explores how the intersection of these two fields might serve as a challenge for both virtue ethics and liberationist thought, as well as guide how we think about Catholic Social Teaching and Christian Social Ethics today.

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For more information, please visit 

https://megstapletonsmith.wordpress.com/