Replay of the January 9th event

Andre Angeletoni, Consultant, Inspiring Green Leadership
Peak Oil and A New Game for Humanity, a discussion on the decline of oil production and its effect on climate and society.
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Justine Burt, Sustainability Consultant
Lessons on Sustainability from NASA
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Adam Werbach, Founder and CEO of Act Now
Taking the next step, employee challenge for sustainability
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Speakers' Biographies

Andre Angelantoni – Consultant, Inspiring Green Leadership

Peak Oil and A New Game for Humanity, a discussion on the decline of oil production and its effect on climate and society

André Angelantoni is the founder of Inspiring Green Leadership (www.inspiringgreenleadership.com), a training and coaching company dedicated to supporting businesses as they prepare for a world in which the environment plays a critical role in their operations.

Inspiring Green Leadership has worked with over 30 companies in the Bay Area supporting them as they green their operations and in most cases obtaining their Green Business Certification.

André has consulted to companies ranging from startups to the Fortune 500. Before entering the environmental industry, he worked in information technology, providing strategic input and leading teams for companies in the manufacturing, software, insurance, energy and non-profit sectors.

André is an incisive and engaging speaker who educates his audiences on environmental topics critical to businesses today, from preparing for peak oil and addressing climate change to effective, dynamic leadership. His favorite trip actually is to rain forests and has visited them in Australia, Central America and British Columbia.

Justine Burt - Sustainability Consultant

Lessons on Sustainability from NASA

Justine Burt is a practical visionary with 17 years of environmental sustainability experience. For the past two years Ms. Burt has served as the sustainability manager at NASA Ames Research Center inspiring multi-disciplinary teams with a vision of a sustainable future.

From 2000 to 2005, she led a talented SAIC team for the award winning StopWaste.org program which helped businesses, public agencies and institutions divert 54,000 tons of non-hazardous solid waste from Alameda County landfills. Ms. Burt has a solid grounding in environmental compliance from her work at the Texas state environmental agency explaining complicated regulatory statutes to well-meaning and overworked small business presidents.

Armed with the economics toolkit of cost benefit analyses and life cycle analyses she honed during her Master’s degree in Environmental Policy at Tufts University, Ms. Burt supports results-oriented and learning-oriented clients to supercharge their efforts toward a sustainable future.

Dave Douglas - VP of Eco Responsibility, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

As Vice President of Eco Responsibility at Sun Microsystems,Inc., David Douglas is responsible for the strategy and execution ofenvironmental initiatives across the company, including enhancements to Sun's products in the areas of energy efficiency, cooling technologies, product recycling and clean manufacturing; continued improvements inSun's day-to-day operations; and management of Sun's asset sharingthrough programs, donations and access to Sun Grid resources. Douglasbrings more than a decade of experience leading organizations to buildmore innovative, efficient, and eco responsible products and has along-standing passion about environmental issues.

Adam Werbach - Founder and CEO of Act Now

Taking the next step, internal employee challenge for sustainability

Adam Werbach is highly regarded as one of the world’s experts in sustainability. At age 23, Adam was elected as the youngest president ever of the Sierra Club, the oldest and largest environmental organization in the United States. Under his leadership, the Sierra Club helped create the largest new national park in the country and protect over 3 million acres of public land. Adam left the Sierra Club and founded Act Now in 1998 to engage the corporate and media world in sustainability. By 2004, Adam had become critical of the pace of change of the environmental movement and delivered the controversial speech “Is Environmentalism Dead?” Adam is a highly sought-after speaker and writer who has appeared on TV shows such as The O’Reilly Factor, Charlie Rose, and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. He is a contributing editor to In These Times magazine and author of Act Now, Apologize Later, published by Harper Collins in 1997. Adam currently serves on the six-member International Board of Greenpeace.

Andrew Winston - Author, From Green to Gold

Green Business Strategies/Leadership in Green

Andrew Winston is founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and works with leading companies to use environmental thinking to drive growth. He has consulted with start-ups and Fortune 500 companies such as Bank of America, Reuters, Coca-Cola, and IKEA. He is co-author of the bestseller Green to Gold, which highlights what works – and what doesn’t – when companies go "green."

Andrew is a nationally recognized expert on green business, and has written for or appeared in Time, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Forbes, The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC News, National Public Radio, and CNBC. He is a sought-after and engaging speaker, providing audiences with a timely and dynamic view on how companies turn green to gold. Andrew gives keynote addresses and also moderates "Q&A" and panel discussions at events of all sizes and venues -- from small meetings to large conferences, from world-class universities to corporate campuses.

Andrew bases his work on significant on-the-ground, in-company business experience, including executive positions and P&L responsibility at global companies, start-ups, and dot-coms. With the Boston Consulting Group, he helped Fortune 500 companies grow and prosper. He also served as Marketing and Development Director for Time Magazine, Director of Business Development for MTV and VH1, and VP of Marketing and Business Development for the online arm of a national retailer.

Andrew sits on the Antron Sustainability Advisory Council for the $6 billion industrial manufacturer Invista. He also served as the Director of the Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at Yale’s renowned School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and is a Fellow of the Center for Environment and Business at Yale.

Andrew received his BA in Economics from Princeton, an MBA from Columbia, and a Masters of Environmental Management from Yale. Andrew lives in Riverside, CT with his wife and two sons.