Environmental Policy & Law

John J. Berger is an energy and environmental policy specialist and a senior research fellow at the Pacific Institute. His 11 books include Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth and Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader’s Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis, which won the 2015 International Book Award for Science. His journalistic work has appeared in Scientific American, The Nation, The Progressive, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications.

In 1987, Steve received a BA in Geography/Ecology from UCLA. Steve served with the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone as a fisheries volunteer. In 1995, he completed his MS from U.C. Berkeley with a focus on river ecology and management. Steve...

Maureen Hart is the Executive Director of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP), the world's leading professional association of sustainability professionals. ISSP works to make sustainability standard practice...

Kathy directs a program on Science & Policy at Harvard Forest and runs the Science Policy Exchange - a new consortium of research insitutions dedicated to increasing the impact of ecological science in conservation and environmental policy...

Renee is participating on the multi-disciplinary Cal/EPA team implementing the Environmental Management System Innovation Initiative (http://www.calepa.ca.gov/EMS/). Through the evaluation of environmental mangement systems in pilot...

O'Malley's dissertation work took her to Asia, Africa, Latin America and finally the upper Sacramento Valley of California--where she used theory from community ecology to help assess impacts of rice management practices on wetland insects...

Karis is practicing law, and specializes in business litigation, environmental litigation, and regulatory and compliance counseling. She has a particular interest and experience in the area of brownfield redevelopment. She works with...

Enid was the Executive Director of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont, where she had been since 1987. In this position, she worked on federal and state policies on sustainable agriculture, and on programs such as...

Lissa Widoff is the former Executive Director of the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation (www.switzernetwork.org), an environmental foundation based in Belfast, Maine that supports graduate Fellowships in New England and California and a...