Advisory Board
SustainLane is honored to have the depth and breadth of advisors serving on our Board. We strive to maintain a balanced Board reflecting the perspectives of academia, business, government, and NGO sectors. Our advisors have been selected for their intelligence, heart, and insight when it comes to understanding what needs to be done in order for our society to become aligned with basic principles of sustainability. Many are activists in their communities and the greater world, and support philanthropic organizations that strive to support peace, economic prosperity, and better health in our people and our environment.
We graciously thank each member for his or her outstanding contribution in assisting SustainLane with coming this far, and for supporting our ambitious goals to create the largest and most vibrant online community for the sustainability movement, and ultimately our intention to live in a more sustainable world.
Allan Hunt Badiner
Allan Hunt Badiner is a writer and an activist. He is a contributing editor at Tricycle Magazine - The Buddhist Review, and edited the book, Dharma Gaia: A Harvest in Buddhism and Ecology (Parallax Press, 1990), Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics Chronicle Books, 2002), and Mindfulness in the Marketplace: Compassionate Responses to Consumerism (Parallax, 2002). Allan serves on the Board of several non-profit activist organizations including Rainforest Action Network, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and the Institute for Global Communications. He lives in Big Sur, California.
John-Paul Clarke
John-Paul Clarke is an associate professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering, and director of the Air Transportation Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Prior to joining the Georgia Tech faculty in 2005, he was an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his S.B. (1991), S.M. (1992) and Sc.D. (1997). He has also been a researcher at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a visiting scholar at the Boeing Company. Dr. Clarke is recognized globally for developing advanced operating procedures to reduce noise and emissions, for his contribution to noise and emissions modeling and simulation, and for his expertise in air traffic management and airline operations and management. He was the first director of the Partnership for Air Transportation Noise and Emissions Research (PARTNER), the Center of Excellence for Aviation Noise and Aircraft Emissions Mitigation, and is leading PARTNER's efforts to develop operational procedures with reduced environmental impact. In 1999, Dr. Clarke was awarded the AIAA/AAAE/ACC Jay Hollingsworth Speas Airport Award, and in 2003, he was awarded the FAA Excellence in Aviation Award.
Bruce L. Erickson
Bruce L. Erickson, is a futurist, writer, speaker and international management consultant. He is an internet pioneer having been a member of the development team of "The Source" the first public Internet Service in 1979. He's been a speaker at the World Future Society Int'l Conferences. He's a former member of the Institute for Sustainable Future and has served on the Board of Directors for the Monterey Bay Region Futures Network. Bruce has addressed many audiences, including the 2001 UN NGO Summit in New York - on the history of the NGO movement and enhancing Internet services for non-government agencies in their communities worldwide. In October, 2001 he lectured at The City University of New York (CUNY) on "On Recovery & Renewing the Spirit of New York City Communities." Bruce has also conducted workshops at the "International Sustainable Resource Conference" at the University of Colorado, in Boulder, CO and addressed the UN World Environmental Day in San Francisco 2005.
Dr. Richard L. Gay
Dr. Gay is a distinguished chemical engineer and was the Manager of the Process Development Group of the Advanced Programs business segment of Rocketdyne Corp. Processes under development included catalytic systems for cleanup of exhaust gases from air pollution sources. Dr. Gay was the technical lead for the Department of Energy's (DOEs) molten salt oxidation project for mixed waste treatment. In that role he coordinated the research and development work being done at Rockwell, and Pacific Northwest, Oak Ridge, Lawrence Livermore, National Renewable Energy, and Los Alamos National Laboratories. He has authored or co-authored numerous papers on topics such as hazardous waste destruction, and he holds thirteen US patents in the development of processes for cleaning up wastes or rendering them into a non-toxic form. Dr. Gay received his BS in chemical engineering (summa cum laude), MS in Engineering, and PhD in Engineering from UCLA.
Alisa Gravitz
For over 20 years, Alisa Gravitz has helped pioneer and lead the national agenda to create a socially and environmentally responsible economy. As the Executive Director of Co-op America, the national nonprofit membership organization working on marketplace solutions to social and environmental problems, Ms. Gravitz has pioneered effective techniques for addressing issues of sustainable consumption and production with American consumers and businesses. In recent years, Ms. Gravitz helped develop ground breaking initiatives in a broad range of markets including the magazine industry for increased use of paper with recycled content, solar energy for achieving economies of scales and price reductions, and financial services for reforming predatory lending practices. Alisa is a leader in helping people reduce their consumption, and shift consumer demand to goods and services that are environmentally responsible and socially just.
Mike Helft
Mike Helft has more than thirty years of experience in building and managing high technology, management consulting and non-profit organizations. He most recently served as Director of Strategic Investments and Strategic Technology Partnerships for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGEY), for the United States. Previously he served as Managing Director, High Growth Middle Market Consulting for CGEY and was a member of the Executive Committee overseeing the national practice of more than $300 million in 1999 - a practice that he launched and helped build from a start-up over a six year period. Mike's private sector experience includes executive and operational roles at Korn Ferry International, Westinghouse, Arthur Young, Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co., and Federal Pacific Electric Corporation. Mike's non-profit management experience includes being on the Executive Committee of the Beyond War Foundation, an international non-profit educational foundation. He has taught at Golden Gate, City of New York and Fairleigh Dickinson Universities and conducted numerous educational seminars and management training programs. Previously, Mike has held board positions with the Career Action Center of Santa Clara, Economy of the Future Task Force, the Business Advisory Board of the University of San Francisco School of Business, the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, and Big Brothers / Big Sisters of San Mateo.
Dr. Michael Marx
Michael is that rare breed of executive that has the ability to move in and out of the NGO and Private sectors. His unique abilities enable him to creatively problem solve, and build consensus across organizations with dramatically differing viewpoints and agendas. As the Executive Director of Corporate Ethics International, Michael has been involved in developing the Business Ethics Network (BEN) with the goal of improving marketplace corporate campaign organizations' skills and collaboration. Prior to this, he served on the Board of Directors for the Rainforest Action Network. Michael was also the Executive Director of the Coastal Rainforest Coalition (now called ForestEthics). He has provided strategic advice to a wide array of organizations and campaigns, including Hewlett-Packard, Memorex, Fireman's Fund, Transamerica, Pacific Bell, American Express, Riggs Bank, and other Fortune 1000 companies. Michael earned his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught organizational behavior in the business school.
LaDonna Redmond
LaDonna Redmond has devoted herself to serving the needs of economically disadvantaged people of color in her local community, Chicago's Westside. Her focus on securing access to healthy, locally grown, chemical-free foods for her community led her to found the Institute for Community Resource Development, of which she is the President and CEO. She has formed working partnerships for the Institute with Loyola University, Chicago State University, Heifer International, and Sustain. LaDonna is a tireless fighter for the Westside community, developing residential programs for the developmentally disabled, creating a structured residential program that empowers women at Sisterhouse, and creating a collaboration of universities, businesses and NGOs to build locally owned and operated grocery stores in underserved communities. LaDonna sits on numerous local and national boards, including the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago's Children, and the Chicago Public School Task Force to Improve Healthy Eating. LaDonna is a member of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's Council on Agriculture, and she is 2003 Food and Society Fellow of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
