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Bio

👉🏻Me. Now. Nutshell.👈🏻
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❗️Strategic Sustainability pioneer, thinker, advisor.
🪄Board director, CEO, CSO, serial social entrepreneur.
🎤Professional keynote speaker, exec coach, author.
🐉Systems ecologist, lapsed aikidoka, dancin’ fool.

🦉“One of the ten top sustainability voices in the US” - The Guardian

Current:
🪑Chair & CEO of Natural Logic Inc, (NatLogic.com), advising leading companies, communities and investors on business-driving sustainability strategies. (💎We’ve identified and unlocked billions of dollars in hidden value for our clients. So far. 💎)
🕸 Founder, Critical Path Capital: a holding company investing in the picks and shovels of the next economy.
🕸 Founder, Critical Path Academy
👁Board director, BluePlanetEnergy.com
👁 Board director, InquiringSystems.org
👂🏻Advisor: Bflo, KoraSustainability, 100K Trees
🕹Steering Committee, Capital As A Force For Good, forcegood.org

Former:
🌈 1st CSO, City of Palo Alto; developed the most aggressive municipal climate action plan in the US
📉 City Council unanimously adopted “80x30” GHG goal in 2016)
🌈 California Governor Jerry Brown’s Office of Appropriate Technology
🌈 ExecDir, Foundation for the Arts of Peace
🌈 Co-Founder, Institute for Local Self-Reliance ILSR.org

🏅50-year sustainability pioneer
🏅 Inaugural member, Sustainability Hall of Fame
🏅“One of the top 25 movers and shakers in cleantech.” (Twice)

⏩Designed and built first (?) rooftop farm in US (1974)
⏩CoFounder of one of the first internet companies (1984)
⏩Inventor of the first corporate sustainability dashboard (1995)

⌨️Author of The Truth About Green Business (FTpress), The Green Business Field Guide, more.
⌨️ Contributor, WorldChanging, GreenBiz, SustainableBrands, more.
⌨️ Former columnist, LATimesSyndicate

🔮Deep mentors🦠:
Buckminster Fuller, Murray Bookchin, Hazel Henderson, Gregory Bateson, Stafford Beer, Howard T. Odum, Bill Mollison, Fernando Flores, Chauncey Bell, Janine Benyus, Gershon Winkler, Karl-Henrik Robèrt, others.

📃Reading:
The New Dawn
Down To Earth
The Deficit Myth
Braiding Sweetgrass
Ministry for the Future
Mobilize!: Dancing In The World
Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity

Host:
Critical Path Academy
Financing Climate Futures

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