CareBridge Members
Members A–G
Dr. Mark Adkins is the Director
of Research at the University of Arizona's Center
for the Management of Information at the University
of Arizona. His areas of interest include small
group interaction, group decision making, group
support systems, group writing, organizational
communication, and the impact of information technologies
on human interactions. For 15 years Mark has been
teaching and conducting research in the fields
of Communication and Information Technology. He
has taught courses in small group decision making,
organizational communication, communication skills,
public speaking, and group facilitation. Mark
has facilitated for a number of DoD and Corporate
organizations. His research has been sponsored
by a number of organizations including: Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency; U.S. Air Force
Research Laboratory; U.S. Army Research Laboratory;
National Science Foundation; and Defense Environmental
Security Corporate Information Management (DESCIM).
He has a doctorate in human communication from
the University of Arizona and is a GroupSystems®
facilitator at the Center for the Management of
Information.
Dr. Maurice Albertson is president
of Village Earth and Professor Emeritus at Colorado
State University. He has been an educator, engineer
and scientist with an unwavering commitment to
the betterment of humankind for more than 40 years.
During his career, Dr. Albertson has filled a
number of positions with major international organizations
and educational institutions in designing, managing,
and evaluating major international projects. These
positions include: Director of the US Congressional
Study on the Peace Corps (which became the design
of the Peace Corps), Chairman of the US National
Committee for the International Commission on
Irrigation and Drainage, Consultant to UNESCO,
USAID, UNDP, World Bank, and National Energy Administration
of the Government of Thailand; and President of
the Rocky Mountain Research Institute. He also
designed and created the Asian Institute of Technology
in Bangkok, Thailand in 1959. He holds a Ph.D.
in Hydraulic Engineering and a doctorate in Physical
Science, from the University of Grenoble, France.
Bernard Amadei is Professor
of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado
at Boulder. Prof. Amadei is interested in the
topics of sustainability, green construction,
and renewable energies. He is leading a new paradigm
shift in engineering education and practice called
Earth Systems Engineering (ESE). This new initiative
emphasizes the interaction between engineering
structures (the built environment) and natural
systems. He is also the Founder and current President
of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-USA), an outreach
program and non-profit organization dedicated
to helping the economic development of rural areas
in developing countries with their engineering
needs for water, sanitation, and energy systems.
The mission of EWB-USA ranges from the construction
of sustainable systems that rural communities
can own and operate without external assistance,
to empowering such communities by enhancing local
social, technical, managerial, and entrepreneurial
skills. One of Prof. Amadei's goals is to promote
sustainable development and system thinking in
the curriculum and research of civil engineering
programs at CU Boulder and other U.S. universities.
He obtained his MaSc. degree in Civil Engineering
in 1979 from the University of Toronto, Canada
and his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering in 1982
from the University of California, Berkeley, California.
Fauzia (Faye) Sharifi Assifi is
a founding member of Afghan Women Association
of Southern California, a non-profit organization
that provides community services for seniors and
youth, in addition to humanitarian help for Afghan
women and children in Afghanistan. She is the
Co-Founder of the Women's Coalition for Middle
East & Asia, a non-profit organization which
provides community services in Southern California.
She is a Board member of the Afghanistan Peace
Council, the Afghan Medical Association of America,
and the Laguna Niguel Preserve. Fauzia has been
a Member of the United Nation Women’s Organization
and the American Women’s Organization in
Bangkok, Thailand, the World Affairs Council of
Los Angeles, and of the Women's Club of Laguna
Beach. She serves as the Chair for Fundraising
of Laguna Niguel Rotary Club, and is a volunteer
for Afghan American Youth of Southern California,
for Laura’s House Shelter in San Clemente,
and the South Orange Cancer Society. She has also
served as a Peace Corps Instructor teaching Afghan
culture and language in Colorado. Fauzia is the
Founder & President of Fauzia’s Gems,
Exclusive designs and minerals. She has extensive
experience in sales and marketing for a number
of international hotels. She has a B.A. Business
Education, University of Kabul, Afghanistan, diplomas
in Finance, Barclays College, San Bernardino,
California, Hotel Marketing & Sales, Washington
State University, Washington, Science of Gemology,
Gemological Institute of America, and has done
graduate work in psychology, University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, Utah (MA).
Janine M. Benyus is a life sciences
writer and author of six books, including her
latest--Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature.
In Biomimicry, she names an emerging science that
seeks sustainable solutions by mimicking nature's
designs and processes (e.g., solar cells that
mimic leaves, agriculture that looks like a prairie,
organizations that run like a redwood forest).
Janine's other titles include an animal behavior
guide entitled Beastly Behaviors and three ecosystem-first
field guides: The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats
of the Western US, The Field Guide to Wildlife
Habitats of the Eastern US, and Northwoods Wildlife:
A Watcher's Guide to Habitats. She ghostwrote
The Bodywise Woman: Reliable Information about
Physical Activity and Health for the Melpomene
Institute for Women’s Health Research. She
now writes popular books in the life sciences,
consults with sustainable business and government
leaders, serves on the Dream Team at Interface,
Inc., and gives talks about what we can learn
from the genius that surrounds us. Janine is a
graduate of Rutgers University, New Jersey, with
degrees in Natural Resource Management and English
Literature/Writing. She has worked as a backcountry
guide as well as a “translator” of
science-speak at several research labs. Janine
feels fortunate to live in the Bitterroot Valley
in Montana, where she is actively involved in
community planning and wilderness protection.
Catherine Bragdon – Spanning
a 20-year career in the interior furnishings industries,
Catherine currently holds a part time position
as the Director of Sustainable Strategies at Interface
Research Corp, a division of Interface, Inc. As
liaison to a think tank led by Ray Anderson to
steer their company towards a goal of sustainability
known as the Dream Team, she facilitates the interactions
of the consultants and meshes their ideas and
goals with that of Interface's vision to become
the world's first restorative company. Formerly
Vice President of Product Development and Marketing,
Catherine led the concept and creative development
including product design, development and advance
research functions at Guilford of Maine, a division
of the Interface Fabrics Group, which serves the
interiors industry with soft surface needs. She
has consulted with several organizations on business
development and recently participated in the development
of an NSF grant in support of the work of Janine
Benyus on Biomimicry. Prior to joining GOM in
1998, Catherine held various positions at Herman
Miller, Inc. over a 10-year period, the last of
which was in New Business Development. Bragdon
founded Creamer Textile Design in 1985, a design
studio in NYC, which provided product prototypes
for the textile industry and design consulting
services. She has been a member of the faculty
of the Parson School of Design and the New School
for Social Research in NYC and as an artist, shown
her work nationally. Her woven ikats are included
in several private collections. Catherine lives
in West Michigan along with her husband, three
children, a menagerie of pets and a jungle of
orchids.
Barrett C. Brown is the International
Development Director for The Sustainable Village
and Marketing Director for Village Alliance. Both
companies are social ventures, where all profits
fund micro-enterprise, renewable energy and appropriate
technology projects in developing countries. Barrett
is responsible for crafting strategies, creating
partnerships and deploying marketing programs.
Barrett has worked extensively in communications,
marketing and sales. He has founded businesses
in fair-trade importing, direct marketing and
communications consulting, working in Bolivia,
Peru, Alaska, California and Vermont. Barrett
is currently studying the confluence of Natural
Capitalism, Social Entrepreneurism, Integral Business
(using Ken Wilber's model), Spiral Dynamics (using
Don Beck's model) and the anti-corporate globalization
movement. Barrett speaks Portuguese and Spanish,
performs publicly on stilts, and plays the Native
American flute. Barrett and his wife, Rita (also
a stilt-performer), live in Boulder, Colorado.
William D. Browning, Principal,
founder of Rocky Mountain Institute's Green Development
Services. He has led or supported innovative design
efforts for scores of clients including the Sydney
2000 Olympics, Wal-Mart, the White House, the
Pentagon, Monsanto, Hines, and George Lucas. He
received a bachelor's in environmental design
from the University of Colorado, specializing
in energy-conscious architecture and resource
management. He has an MS in real estate development
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
where he was the 1991 Public-Sector Fellow at
the Center for Real Estate. He has served as a
science advisor on the environment for the American
Institute of Architects (AIA), and was vice-chair
of the ASTM's Green Building Rating Committee.
Mr. Browning is the principal of Anaskenoan LLC,
a Virginia-based development company; a partner
in the commercial development of a new town (Haymount,
Virginia); and works independently with eco-resort
developers. He serves on the boards of directors
of the U.S. Green Building Council, Greening America,
and the Roaring Fork Conservancy. He co-authored
A Primer on Sustainable Building (1995), an introduction
to green building; "Greening the Building
and the Bottom Line," a 1994 study of increased
worker productivity in energy-efficient buildings;
and Green Development: Integrating Ecology and
Real Estate (1998), an acclaimed textbook. His
papers have been published in Urban Land, Architectural
Record, Progressive Architecture, and AIA's Environmental
Resource Guide. In 1995 MIT presented him with
the Charles H. Spaulding Award.
David Bruce, award winning film
maker, is currently serving as director of communications
and media for ZERI North America. David started
his film work in NYC 28 years ago in animation,
graphics, and special effects. Through the years
the emphasis has changed from effects to live
action, from commercials, music videos and network
openings to longer form documentaries. "I've
always been a student of science and sustainability,
so I love the chance to work with ZERI. I look
forward to collaborating with others to broadcast
the innovative ideas we are all developing, and
to tell the stories which will give the public
a new perspective on how things can and should
be. Like many of you, I have kids. We're all working
for them."
Australian born Cameron M. Burns, is a Colorado-based
communications specialist. He has a bachelor's
degree in Environmental Design from the University
of Colorado, with an emphasis on Architecture
and Urban Design. After graduating, he worked
as a movie technician in Hollywood before taking
up writing, photography and design full-time.
As a writer, he authored or co-authored six guidebooks,
including Kilimanjaro & Mt. Kenya, Colorado
Ice Climber's Guide, California's Fourteeners:
A Hiking & Climbing Guide, Climbing California's
Fourteeners, Selected Climbs of the Desert Southwest,
and 50 Hikes Colorado. His essays have appeared
in the books: World Mountaineering (UK), Ascent,
The Walker Within, I Really Should Have Stayed
Home, and The Best of Rock & Ice, as well
as many other books and journals. As a photojournalist,
Burns has been a staff correspondent/contributing
editor for several dozen publications and has
won seven awards for his writing and three for
his photography. He has shot assignments for The
(London) Times, Newsweek and GQ Magazine, among
others. As a designer, he has advised various
outdoor equipment companies (such as The North
Face and Jagged Edge Mountain Gear) on product
development and marketing.
Peter Buxton, Surgeon Commander,
joined the Royal Navy as a medical cadet in 1981
whilst a medical student at Oxford University
from where he graduated with a MA(Oxon) in Physiological
Sciences in addition to his medical degrees. He
undertook general duties in the surface fleet,
serving in destroyers and mine counter measures
vessels, and in shore establishments. Following
a brief period as a medical senior house officer
at Royal Naval Hospital Haslar he started a 5
year training programme in diagnostic radiology
and was appointed a Consultant Radiologist in
1994. He was appointed the Tri-Service Adviser
in Telemedicine to Surgeon General in 1998, Consultant
Adviser in Radiology to Medical Director General
(Navy) in 2000 and Surgeon General's Defence Consulant
Adviser in Radiology in 2002. He is the UK national
representative on the NATO Telemedicine Panel
and chairs one of this panel's subcommittees.
He sits on the Information Technology Committee
of the Royal College of Radiologists. He has published,
in peer reviewed literature, 9 radiological papers
and 5 papers on telemedicine. He has been invited
to give keynote addresses and major presentations
at numerous national and international telemedicine
conferences. He has developed, with colleagues
in the Telemedicine Unit, a complete telemedicine
software package, which is currently on trial.
Clare Cooper Marcus is Professor
Emerita in the Departments of Architecture and
Landscape Architecture at the University of California,
Berkeley. The author of a number of books —
Easter Hill Village: Some Social Implications
of Design; Housing as if People Mattered: Site
Design Guidelines for Medium-Density Family Housing
(with Wendy Sarkissian); People Places: Design
Guidelines for Urban Open Space (with Carolyn
Francis); Healing Gardens: Therapeutic Benefits
and Design Recommendations (with Marni Barnes);
and House as a Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper
Meaning of Home — she has also contributed
numerous articles to design and academic journals.
Her work has received a number of awards and she
has lectured and consulted in the U.S., Canada,
Britain, Scandinavia, Australia, and China. Current
work includes two books “in progress”:
Cohousing: Architecture and a Sense of Community
and Iona Dreaming: The Healing Power of Place.
Healing Landscapes, a consulting firm (principals:
Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes) offers services
related to the programming, design, and evaluation
of outdoor spaces in healthcare settings. Her
areas of special interest include medium-density
housing, public housing modernization, public
open space design, children’s environments,
housing for the elderly, post-occupancy evaluation
of designed settings, design guidelines, healing
environments, and the psychological meaning of
home and garden.
Arthur Cuyugan is the senior
member of the Technical Service Teams for Center
for the Management of Information (CMI). He is
also an undergraduate at the University of Arizona.
As the senior member, he maintains and assigns
the daily operations for all Technical Service
Teams. His duties include assisting in the network
administration of CMI computer operations. He
has acquired skills in Group Systems Facilitation
that has enabled him to work and travel to unique
places. Most recently, he has facilitated in The
Center of Excellence located in Hawaii. He has
participated in the design of collaborative spaces
aboard the USS Coronado (Command ship of the U.S.
Navy Third Fleet). He plans to graduate May 2001
where he hopes to make a career in a computer
related field.
Leonard (Len) J. Duhl, M.D.
is Professor of Public Health and Urban Planning,
University of California, Berkeley; Clinical Professor
of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco.
He currently is editor or reviewer for a number
of scholarly journals and other publications,
including but not limited to: Revista de Saude
Publica (Brazil); Journal of Social Epidemiology;
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health;
Journal of Prevention; Journal of the American
Medical Association; Johns Hopkins Press; and
others. Len has also served as: 1968-91 Professor
of City Planning, University of California, Berkeley;
1973-76 Director, Dual Degree Option and Integrating
Seminars, Health and Medical Sciences Program,
UC Berkeley; 1972-76 Health and Medical Sciences
Program, UC Berkeley; l971-73 Co-Director, Documentation
and Evaluation of The Experimental Schools Programs,
Berkeley Unified School District, Berkeley, CA;
1966-68 Special Assistant to the Secretary, Department
of Housing and Urban Development, Washington,
D.C.; 1964-66 Chief, Office of Planning, National
Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
He resides on a number of boards such as the Coordinating
Council, Coalition of Healthier Cities and Communities;
the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas; and
the International Healthy Cities Foundation. Education:
Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, 1964; Menninger
School of Psychiatry, 1954; Albany Medical College
- M.D., 1948; Columbia University - A.B., 1945.
Jason Elliott – Since his first visit
to Afghanistan in 1979, at the age of 19, British writer Jason
Elliot has journeyed through that troubled nation several
times, during the Soviet occupation, which ended in 1989,
as well as afterward. Two of those visits, including time
spent fighting with the anti-Soviet mujahedin resistance,
became the basis for a recently published book, "An Unexpected
Light," a travelogue and paean to what he describes as
"a place you either love or hate. I came to love it for
better or worse."
Huston Eubank, Principal, a member of the Green Development
Services team for Rocky Mountain Institute, is a registered
architect with 30 years' diverse experience, both inside and
outside the construction industry. Prior to joining RMI, he
was Director of Building Futures Services at Gottfried Technology,
Inc., where he helped develop and implement energy-efficient
and environmentally responsible solutions for new commercial
construction. Earlier, as the "Earth Smart Ambassador"
for Enron/Portland General Electric in Portland, Oregon, he
managed an innovative energy-efficiency utility program. He
was a founding member of the Oregon Natural Step network,
liaison to the NW Regional Council of the President's Council
on Sustainability, Chair of the Los Angeles CSI Technical
and Environmental Committees, Chair of the Oahu Citizen's
Advisory Committee on Coastal Zone Management, and currently
serves on the Board of Envirosense, and as an advisor for
the Architecture+Energy Award program. The recipient of a
Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University, he
has served as a senior project architect at Gensler, a certified
construction specifier, a developer, a contractor, a US Navy
officer, and the proprietor of his own firms.
Pliny Fisk III is Co-director
of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems,
founded in 1975. His training is in architecture,
ecological land planning, and systems sciences.
His architecture and planning work for the Center
revolves around the creation of a shared framework
for design, ecological master planning, and green
specification. Based on the combination of a life-cycle
framework, inter-scalar performance using an infinite
grid GIS projection system, and ecological footprinting,
the approach can be related to a range of design
and planning issues. The design methodology is
equally incorporated into architectural design,
eco-village master planning, city or regional
design and planning. From an architectural design
standpoint the Advanced Green Building Demonstration
and the Laredo Demonstration Farm have created
what some refer to as "the design icons for
the next century". He holds the Bruce Goff
Chair for Creative Architecture at the University
of Oklahoma and is the Hearin Distinguished Fellow
at Mississippi State University. Pliny's work
and the work of the Center for Maximum Potential
Building Systems have had a total national and
international exposure of over 200M people during
the period between 1999-2001 including mass media,
books, architectural journals, and conference
proceedings.
Dr. Ashok Gadgil has a doctorate
in Physics from University of California, Berkeley.
He is a Senior Staff Scientist and Group Leader
in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division
of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has
substantial experience in technical, economic,
and policy research on energy efficiency and its
implementation -- particularly in developing countries.
For example, the utility-sponsored compact fluorescent
lamp leasing programs that he has pioneered are
being successfully implemented by utilities in
Mexico and Brazil. When scaled up, as currently
planned by these utilities, these programs will
delay the construction of several thousand megawatts
of electric generation capacity with their associated
adverse environmental impacts. He has several
inventions to his credit, among them the “UVWaterworks,”
a technology to inexpensively disinfect drinking
water in the developing countries, for which he
received the Discover Award in 1996 for the most
significant environmental invention of the year.
Dr. Gadgil has received several other awards and
honors for his work, including the Pew Fellowship
in Conservation and the Environment in 1991 for
his work on accelerating energy efficiency in
developing countries. He serves on several international
and national advisory committees dealing with
energy efficiency, and issues of development and
the environment. He is also a member of the STAP
roster of experts of the Global Environmental
Facility. He has authored or co-authored 63 papers
in refereed archival journals and 89 conference
papers.
John Gage is the Chief Researcher
and Director of the Science Office, for Sun Microsystems,
Inc. He is responsible for Sun's relationships
with world scientific and technical organizations,
for international public policy, and governmental
relations in the areas of scientific and technical
policy, and for alliances with the world's leading
research institutions. John is the creator of
NetDay, a volunteer project to bring the resources
of world high-technology companies to all schools
and libraries to connect them to the internet.
He attended the University of California, Berkeley,
the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and
the Harvard Graduate School of Business, and did
doctoral work in mathematics and economics at
the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Gerard Gibbons is president
and founder of Visual Eyes Inc., an advanced multimedia
and story production company based in Southern
California. For more than 16 years, Visual Eyes
has grown to serve Fortune 1000 corporate, government,
and defense markets. Dr. Gibbons’ company
focuses on medical, biotech and advanced technology
fields covering such topics as humanitarian assistance,
global disease surveillance, robotic surgery,
and alternative power generation. Visual Eyes
has gained an impressive reputation for creating
high impact marketing, training and educational
multimedia for broadcast use, computer-based applications
and for delivery over the internet. In addition
to being an eye doctor, Gerard is also a noted
presenter, author and consultant in these areas:
broadband media applications, interactive multimedia,
web-marketing and distance learning. His Visual
Eyes team develops marketing media strategies,
training programs, interactive courseware and
scenario-based storytelling that capture attention,
increase understanding and encourage action. Gerard
personally guides clients to better strategies
for using multimedia to energize and enlighten
decision-makers, customers, employees, and the
world.
Jonathan "Jock" Gill is President
and Founder of Penfield Gill, Inc., a consulting firm specializing
in New Media communications, marketing, and strategic planning.
The firm also provides its clients with special scouting services:
people, ideas, and companies. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Gill
was Director of Special Projects in the Office of Media Affairs
at The White House, where he was a key member of the communications
innovations team which introduced electronic publishing, public
access email to the President, and, in October 1994, the first
White House web site - Welcome to the White House. Previously,
he was a consultant to the 1992 Clinton/Gore presidential
campaign, responsible for all public access e-mail and electronic
publishing activities. Mr. Gill is a frequent speaker on the
history and future of information technology and new media.
He has also been a senior product manager at Lotus Development
Corporation, and was the founding president of Computer Access
Corporation.
Steve Gliessman, Alfred E.
Heller Professor of Agroecology for the Department
of Environmental Studies at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, has more than 25 years
of teaching, research, and production experience
in agroecology. After his graduate work, he lived
in Latin America for almost 10 years where he
farmed coffee and vegetables in Costa Rica, managed
an ornamental plant business in Guadalajara, Mexico,
and taught tropical agroecology at an agricultural
college in Cardenas, Tabasco, Mexico. For the
last 20 years he has taught agroecology, natural
history, ethnobotany, and natural resource management
in the Department of Environmental Studies at
the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was
the founding director of the UC Santa Cruz Agroecology
Program, occupies the Alfred Heller Endowed Chair
of Agroecology, and recently authored the first
textbook of Agroecology now available in English,
Portuguese, Spanish, and Farsi. Steve frequently
leads international workshops and training courses
in agroecology, and consults broadly on sustainable
agriculture. Much of his research has focused
on issues threatening the sustainability of agriculture,
with a particular focus on small, family farms
and farming communities. He pioneered the development
of research approaches that help farmers through
the difficult transition from conventional to
alternative and more sustainable farming practices.
He also farms organic wine grapes and olives with
his wife on their family farm in northern Santa
Barbara County, California. Steve holds a B.A.,
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara.
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