EcoPerks

Carter Brooks - EcoExpert (EcoSystem & EcoWorkplace)
Carter Brooks has been working on sustainable business and climate change issues for over a decade. A storyteller, philosopher, researcher, and author, his presentations investigate the depths of the climate crisis, range from science and policy, to ethics, to metaphor and the promise of art. Carter was selected to be one of the first 50 people trained to give Al Gore’s slide show as part of The Climate Project. His artistic endeavors have taken him to the top and the bottom of the world with aerial artist John Quigley to help produce international media events that spark the imagination, including “SOS Antarctica” and “Arctic Warning,” an aerial art photograph of hundreds of Inuit gathered on the sea ice. Currently, he is the Co-Founder and Vice-President of Climate Earth, Inc., a climate change solutions company for businesses.

He holds a Master of Science from the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley, and a BA in History from Yale University.

Sites:
www.carterbrooks.com
www.spectralq.com
www.climateearth.com

Leona Graham - EcoExpert (EcoVillage)
Her (now 94 year-old) feisty mum in London, Ontario, Canada, helped motivate Leona into an environmental activist when she brought home a copy of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking Silent Spring (1962). Many of us were deeply involved in ‘Pollution Probe’ and ‘Wholefood Coop’ type efforts, presaging the larger ecological-conservation movement. The birth of Leona’s daughter motivated her further. Before abandoning her successful academic teaching career, Leona turned her ‘60’s university students onto environmental and other good causes. She embraced full-time activism, heading off round the world to see how the other half lived (not very well), and finally settled down (in the 70’s) in the Findhorn Community in NE Scotland—a truly organic eco-village, founded, significantly, in the same year as Rachel’s book appeared—its roots based in ‘Cooperation with Nature’—a hands-on but ‘spiritual’ focus. ‘Findhorn’ and its eco-projects have remained a constant factor through the years, despite stints spent in other ‘active’ communities round the world: Glastonbury (England), founding the Sustainable Living Company from an eco-charitable enterprise called The Wise Crone Café (Glastonbury Festival); Ojai and Topanga Canyon (California). Now living in a small fen village in Cambridgeshire, her ecological/conservation work continues. Through the years she has been involved in major conservation work as International Program Director at The WILD Foundation (USA), including two World Wilderness Congresses (1983 in Scotland & 1997 in India) and the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) (Namibia/ USA/ UK/ Canada/Japan). Both WILD’s and CCF’s work includes a strong ‘eco-village’ aspect as they are involved in on-the-ground community-building.

Sites:
www.findhorn.org
www.ecovillagefindhorn.com
www.cheetah.org.uk
www.wild.org

Clare Munn - EcoExpert (EcoHabits)
Clare E. Munn, a native of Zimbabwe, Africa, founded The Communication Group (tcg) in 2002 as a full-service communications agency to develop and launch internal and external marketing campaigns utilizing a variety of global media, including their own proprietary products and methodologies.
A social activist and entrepreneur herself, Munn guided tcg to become one of the first 50 companies to be “green” certified in San Francisco. In turn, tcg provides gratis consulting to organizations that wish to become familiar with green certification processes through tcg’s internally developed system called Green Prepare

Tom Lloyd - EcoExpert (EcoTransit)
Tom’s professional life thus far divides into three parts: Music, Science, and Business. Tom spent ten years as a performing and recording artist, playing bass and cello in The Del Fuegos (1980) from its inception to its completion (1990). Having received his B.S. in 1993 in Bioresource Sciences from UC Berkeley, he attended Caltech, where he received an M.S. (1995) and Ph.D. (1998) in Environmental Engineering Science. From Caltech he slipped up the hill to work at JPL as Manager of New Venture Processes (technology transfer) with the plan of continuing his research on biologically mediated geochemistry of transition metals. Before diving into the high-pH chemical environment of Mono Lake, he was recruited by McKinsey as a management consultant. Tom worked as a consultant at McKinsey for four years in the Los Angeles office, focusing on two areas: the intersection of media and technology and the non-profit sector. Tom left McKinsey to become the Interim Executive Director at My Friend’s Place, a non-profit center for homeless youth based in Hollywood. Tom currently works as an investment analyst and manages a portfolio of assets within the environmental, electrical and auto industries, spending time learning about the companies, people, and technologies that make these industries tick.
Tom continues to play the cello, bass, and guitar (trying to make his kids dance), and to volunteer as a Board member for My Friend’s Place, Padua Playwrights (a Los Angeles non-profit theater group), The Right Start (a Boston counseling service), and the Caltech Alumni Association.