Marc Loveless is the Executive Director of the Coalition for Justice and Respect. CJR is a Civil Rights and Social Justice Organization of African-American Same Gender Loving Black Gays and Lesbians in the Chicago Area.
Sarah Lovinger, MD, an internal medicine physician, has worked in community health centers in Chicago and Boston for more than a dozen years, providing care to un-insured and under-insured adults. She is also the Executive Director of the Chicago chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, where she works hard to halt climate change, eliminate toxins from our environment, and keep the world safe from nuclear weapons. In her free time, she blogs for www.HuffingtonPost.com, hangs out with her husbandand daughter, and strives to live a greener life.
A worldwide recognized leader in helping companies and communities profit from more sustainable practices, Hunter Lovins has authored and co-authored numerous books, including Brittle Power (1982), Energy Unbound (1986), Factor Four—Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use (1997), Green Development (1998), Natural Capitalism (1999), and hundreds of papers and articles. She was named as a Time magazine “Hero for the Planet” in 2000, and a Newsweek “Green Business Icon” in 2008. Hunter has consulted for governments and the private sector, briefing senior management at such groups as Inte ...
Physicist Lovins is Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute (www.rmi.org) and Chairman Emeritus of Fiberforge Corporation. His wideranging innovations in energy, security, environment, and development have been recognized by the Blue Planet, Volvo, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, 11 honorary doctorates, honorary membership of the American Institute of Architects, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts, Foreign Membership of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and the Heinz ...
Adam Lowry is the cofounder and chief greenskeeper of Method Products, Inc., the leading innovator in hip, healthy home care products. Adam believes that business is our greatest vehicle for positive social and environmental change and that design, redefined, has the power to change our world. As chief greenskeeper at Method, Adam's focus is bringing sustainable innovations to product design, sourcing, production, and marketing.Prior to founding Method, Adam worked as a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, developing software for the modeling of climate change, includi ...
Sam Lubell is the West Coast Editor of the Architect’s Newspaper. He has written four books about architecture: Paris 2000+ (Monacelli Press), London 2000+ (Monacelli Press), Living West (Monacelli Press) and Julius Shulman Los Angeles: The Birth of a Modern Metropolis (Rizzoli). He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Architectural Record, Architect Magazine, Angeleno, Travel+Leisure, New York Magazine and other publications. He studied Architectural History at Brown University.
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The founder and Executive Director of All Ah We/All of Us, Suzanne Ludlum is teacher with Oakland Unified School District, teaching family literacy and ecology in East Oakland. She is an expert in organic gardening and soil remediation — utilizing the principles and concepts of permaculture design. Suzanne is currently facilitating both ArribaCycle and the Stonehurst Edible Schoolyard (a 12,000 square foot permaculture forest on the Stonehurst Campus). She was a featured presenter in the Bay Friendly Garden Tour 2010 – displaying her garden’s grey water and water catchment systems, tree ...
Andrew comes to SavATree with a wealth of experience in tree service gained over a career that includes stops at the Department of Housing and Economic Development for the City of Chicago and the Office of Sustainability at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Most recently Andrew worked for the Illinois Green Economy Network where he developed and maintained programs to further environmental sustainability goals at Illinois community colleges and in surrounding communities.
Mira Luna is an alternative economic activist, organizer, researcher and writer with a wide range of experience in transformative economic projects and a focus on exchange systems. She is the founder and coordinator of Bay Area Community Exchange, writer for Shareable.net, co-founder of Just Alternative Sustainable Economics, and serves on the Board of the US Solidarity Economy Network.
Umoh is a gifted speaker and author who uses her intuitive abilities to help women entrepreneurs clear their body blocks around money, sex, and being a woman so they can embrace the spotlight and their wealth. She uses sacred movement and her intuitive gifts to support them to come out of hiding, ignite their creative genius and build profitable successful businesses around who they really are. Umoh provides guidance and truth with clear practical action steps to reclaim passion and joy while they expand their wealth. She also teaches her clients how to access their own intuition and get answ ...
Miguel Luna is the executive director of Urban Semillas, a socially conscientious, reconnaissance and outreach, community-based, watershed-driven organization. Miguel is passionate about educating youth and providing them with the necessary tools to engage and participate in water dialogues, social justice, and environmental equity issues. Miguel is the founder of Agua University, a water-focused educational program for youth 15–20 years of age and collaborated on the development of the LA River Revitalization Master plan for the City of Los Angeles was appointed to the Proposition “O” ...
Celebrated chef and personality Raphael Lunetta is one of the most well-known and respected chefs in Southern California. Last year his famed restaurant JiRaffe in Santa Monica celebrated its 15th anniversary, and he is also co-owner of Lemon Moon in West Los Angeles. Chef Raphael has worked in many famous kitchens in Paris and Los Angeles and has also been a guest judge on BRAVO-TV’s popular “Top Chef”. Chef Raphael was honored in 1997 as one of the “Ten Top New Chefs” by Food and Wine Magazine. In 2009 he received the coveted “Fine Dining Award” from Nation’s Restaurant News ...
Lunsford (HERS Rater/BPI Trainer/LEED AP) is technical director of Green Dream Group LLC, a Chicagobased energy auditing and consulting firm, and is also head trainer for the Building Performance Workshop and executive director of the Illinois Association of Energy Raters ; Home Performance Professionals. In addition to the hundreds of energy audits he has performed, Corbett hosts the Building Performance Podcast and presents on home performance at festivals across the Midwest. Lunsford's passion for helping others make informed decisions keeps him active in many other sustainable initiatives ...
The LuvAmp Project is an artist collective that fuses interactive ceremonial performance with contemporary science of the heart. From frame drums and guitar, to poetry and song, their modern devotional music and performances amplify the experience, understanding and impact of love! The LuvAmp Project is comprised of Tony Moss, Dylan James Byrne, Sam Babayan, Miranda Rondeau, Sunny Solwind, and Daniel Pritchett.
Howard F. Lyman is a 4th generation family farmer (and vegan) from Montana. After 20 years of operating a feed lot, he sold his ranch and started working for farmers in financial trouble. He was a lobbyist in Washington, and ran for Congress in 1982.He is the former Director of the Beyond Beef Campaign ; the Humane Society of the United States' Eating With Conscience Campaign; past President of both the International Vegetarian Union, and EarthSave International; and is currently President of Voice for a Viable Future.Howard travels over 100,000 miles every year as a speaker and lecturer. A Fe ...
Sophia Lyman has been active in environmental concerns for many years as an educator and community volunteer. She spearheaded zero waste at Longfellow Elementary School in 2008 and is thrilled to be working with enthusiastic teachers, parents and students that have embraced the school-wide source reduction and recycling efforts. Sophia has been busy with fundraising, assessment, project implementation and education as the Chair of the Green Team. She is a strong supporter of incorporating the environment into the school curriculum as a way to explain cultural and environmental ideas and promo ...
In 1969 at the age of 25, Pat Lynch, having already served as the Press Secretary for a U.S. Senator and Congressman, and founded her first advertising agency in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Lynch was the first woman to begin an advertising agency single-handedly in the South. By 1977, she had been listed twice in The World’s Who’s Who of Women and most recently in the International Who’s Who and Strathmore’s Who’s Who. In 1996, she began Women’s Online Media and Education Network (W.O.M.E.N.) which producesWomensRadio®, in order to “give women a greater voice!” WomensRadio®, a co ...
Jacqueline Lyoussi has been an active participant in the New York City sustainability community for 7 years. She has been a board member and active participant with White Roof Project as of July of 2011. Jacqueline is also an event coordinator for Greendrinks NYC, a social networking organization that connects like-minded people interested in working with or supporting sustainability in local communities. As a profession, Jacqueline specializes in the residential real estate sales in Manhattan and Brooklyn New York. She is passionate about utilizing her knowledge and relationships with buildin ...