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Members H–Q

Michael Hawley, Director of Special Projects, has a passion for exploration. On the faculty of MIT for nearly a decade, Hawley has worked on a wide array of creative projects with students in Electrical Engineering, and in the Media Lab where he held the Alex. W. Dreyfoos professorship. He is co-founder of Things That Think, a groundbreaking research program that explores the limitless ways digital media will infuse everyday objects. He also founded and led Toys of Tomorrow, which engages many of the world's leading toy companies to invent wonderful new playthings, and Counter Intelligence, to explore domestic technologies from the kitchen countertop and beyond. His research career has involved psychology and human-computer interfaces (at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill), computer music (at IRCAM in Paris, France) and pioneering work in digital cinema at Lucasfilm, Ltd (in San Rafael, CA), where he was a scientist in the Computer Research Division. At MIT he produced A Day in the Life of Cyberspace in 1995 and his team developed a number of new inventions for the 1997 WEARABLES event. In 1998 his research team deployed technology for the American Everest Expedition. Hawley is proudest of his students: his graduate and undergraduate teams have undertaken astonishingly ambitious field efforts, in places ranging from Iceland to Hawaii. Also an accomplished pianist, he has studied with Ward Davenny, Claude Frank, David Deveau, and Earl Wild, and performs occasionally. He was one of the winners in the Van Cliburn piano competition in 2000. He writes columns in Technology Review magazine. Hawley received undergraduate degrees in music and computer science from Yale University and did his doctoral work under Marvin Minsky at MIT.

William C. Holmberg is on the steering committee of the Sustainable Energy Coalition (America’s most prominent grouping of renewable energy, energy efficiency, environmental and public interest organizations), the American Council for Renewable Energy, and the Patriots Energy Campaign. He is on the Board of the New Uses Council and a principal in the Sun Grant Initiative. Following 9/11, he has pioneered a campaign to involve NGOs, businesses and citizens in community-based nation building in Afghanistan. This effort has gained the support of the renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable agricultural communities. Bill graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served in the Marine Corps, where during his service, he was also a Soviet Specialist and a Russian linguist. He worked for the Environmental Protection Agency, working on Defense Department environmental issues, regional operations, nuclear power systems and pesticide programs. At the Department of Energy he helped set up and run the Office of Alcohol Fuels. He was also an advocate for renewable and energy efficiency programs, forming relationships with pioneers in those fields that prevail today. In that endeavor, he highlighted the importance of stabilizing greenhouse gases and the role of sustainable agriculture and biofuels in that effort. Upon retirement from government service, Bill has run several associations and businesses promoting the biorefinery concept: the use of all forms of biomass to produce biofuels, biochemicals and bioenergy. His most recent focus is on Integrated Farm Energy Systems for the production of ethanol, cattle, biogases and biofertilizers. The system will also incorporate solar, wind and geothermal technologies. Holmberg has advanced degrees in Personnel Administration, Russian Language, Soviet Affairs and in Amphibious and Integrated Combat Operations. He was recognized by President Bush in his address to the Naval Academy in May of 2001 and by Senator Daschle in a Congressional Record citation for his work on the biorefinery concept.

Gregory A. Hurst, P.E., Vice President/Principal, is a Civil Engineer with over 25 years of professional experience in land development related design, including infrastructure planning, water, sewer, grading and drainage, hydraulic structure, irrigation system design, and water resource studies and design. As Director of the Site Engineering Services Team and a Principal at EDAW, Mr. Hurst is responsible for design and layout of domestic water systems, sanitary sewer systems, best management practices for storm water quality enhancement, storm drainage retention ponds and channels, irrigation systems, lake engineering and constructed wetlands, and water resource demand and balance studies. The emphasis for domestic and international work is on appropriate solutions and efficient, maintainable, and constructable designs. The majority of the engineering work performed under Greg's supervision is in concert with and supports landscape architecture, environmental planning, and EDAW's other core services.

Alexis Karolides, Principal, Team Leader of Green Development Services for Rocky Mountain Institute, received her BA in physics magna cum laude from Carleton College where she was recognized for research into solar/alternative energy systems. Following a Richter Fellowship in Germany, where she studied post-war architecture, she completed a Masters of Architecture at Rice University. Her recent consulting projects for GDS have included the Monsanto life-sciences incubator building, spec homes being developed by Hines Developers, various projects with the Aspen Skiing Company, and a monastery in Tibet. She has conducted numerous integrated design workshops, and addressed a variety of audiences on green design. A registered architect with six years' commercial experience, she was previously the sustainability manager for the architectural firm Sussman Tisdale Gayle, and before that researched sustainable staff housing for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and interned at the Texas Governor's Energy Office. While in Austin, Texas, she was also an adjunct faculty member at Austin Community College in the Building Construction Technology Department, and she was a member of the local AIA chapter's Sustainability Committee and the Austin Sustainable Building Coalition.

Richard Kidd graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1986 and served as an Infantry Officer until 1991. After receiving a Masters Degree in Public and Private Management from Yale University, Richard joined the United Nations in 1993. As an Emergency Officer, Richard “traveled to the sound of the guns” serving in a variety of conflict and post-conflict areas to include Tajikistan, Moldova, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Afghanistan. He also worked in the Headquarters of WFP and UNHCR to develop and improve each organization’s emergency response and supply chain management capabilities. He has twice served as a Country Director for the World Food Programme and his last assignment with the United Nations was as the Deputy Program Manager for the UN Mine Action Program in Afghanistan. Returning to the United States, Richard joined the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation where he lead the “Survey Action Center” in a pioneering effort to conduct comprehensive socio-economic surveys of the impact of war, mines and abandoned ordnance on post-conflict countries. Richard recently joined the U.S. Department of State where he serves as a Foreign Affairs Officer in the Bureau of Political Military Affairs.

Michael Kinsley, Principal, a member of the Commercial & Industrial Services team for Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), co-founded RMI's Economic Renewal program in 1982. As the Institute's senior practitioner of techniques for creating sustainable local economies, he has provided economic development planning, facilitation, and training to communities in 40 states and three foreign countries. He is the author of The Economic Renewal Guide (1997)-a distillation of nearly three decades' experience-and several papers addressing community growth issues and sustainable development alternatives. As a Pitkin County (Colorado) Commissioner (1975-85) he pioneered programs in affordable housing, environmental and growth management, fiscal efficiency, and economic stability. A former journalist, he co-founded the Western Colorado Congress and a community-based mediation service, for two years chaired the Governor's Health Coordinating Council, and for four years directed the Pitkin County Environmental Task Force. He holds a BS in political science from the University of Houston and has taken advanced environmental and governmental management training. He serves on numerous local committees and organizations. Outside of work, his two passions are kayaking and painting; he has won several local awards for his landscape paintings.

Joanie Klar is the President of ZeriFoundation in North America and is also on the board of the International Bamboo Foundation. She has spearheaded a development project with the people of Timor in 1997 and is a founded member of the International Foundation of Hope (formerly the Afghan Peace Foundation). She has spent half of her life living in Asia as a business consultant for projects focused on economic development, women, children, indigenous people and health. She has launched several businesses involving adventure travel, global marketing networks, fashion design and media projects.

Dr. John Kruse is a full-time as a Research Fellow at the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona. His research has led him to work extensively with the U.S. Navy. John has spent a fair amount of time at sea on a number of ships. Primarily, his research is concerned with collaborative computing. Within that broad area he is most interested in providing situation awareness and decision support through collaborative tools. Another Air Force sponsored project Kruse has been working on is concerned with automatically detecting deceptive messages. Although he doesn't participate actively anymore Kruse was the commander of A Battery, 1-180th Field Artillery Battalion, Arizona Army National Guard. The battery serves as the direct support artillery to the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment at Ft. Irwin, California. He has also served as an air traffic controller, cavalry troop fire support officer, battery fire direction officer, battalion S-1 (staff personnel officer), battery executive officer, and as commander of C Battery, 2-180th Field Artillery. His artwork is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Bad Art. Kruse says his greatest responsibility is looking after Java — his 105 pound male Akita.

Phil Lenton works for philanthropist Michael Watt and is based in Newcastle UK. He has been involved in sending ambulances to Cuba for four years and will have sent 150 by June 2002. Phil is also involved in developing a permanent sustainable settlement for 12,000 internally displaced persons in Mozambique who lost everything in the floods of 2001. This is in the area of Chupanga on the banks of the Zambesi river in Sofala province. Phil worked for a UK public service trade union (UNISON) for 30 years and developed trade union aid for developing countries through TU NGO Salud International. In 1994, his trade union sent him as an organizer to work in the first multi racial elections in South Africa, for the African National Congress, in the troubled province of Kwa Zulu Natal. He attended the charrette, representing Michael Watt, specifically to relate the outcomes of the charrette to our project in Mozambique.

Amory B. Lovins, Chief Executive Officer (Research) of Rocky Mountain Institute, is a consultant experimental physicist educated at Harvard and Oxford. He has received an Oxford MA (by virtue of being a don), seven honorary doctorates, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood ("Alternative Nobel"), World Technology, and Time Hero for the Planet awards, the Happold Medal, and the Nissan, Shingo, Mitchell, and Onassis Prizes. His work focuses on transforming the automobile, real estate, electricity, water, semiconductor, and several other manufacturing sectors toward advanced resource productivity. He has briefed 15 heads of state, held several visiting academic chairs, authored or co-authored 27 books (including 1999's Natural Capitalism) and hundreds of papers, and consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide. The Wall Street Journal named Mr. Lovins one of 39 people worldwide "most likely to change the course of business in the '90s"; Newsweek has praised him as "one of the Western world's most influential energy thinkers"; and Car magazine ranked him the 22nd most powerful person in the global automotive industry.

L. Hunter Lovins, Chief Executive Officer (Strategy) of Rocky Mountain Institute. She holds BAs from Pitzer College (political studies and sociology), a JD from Loyola University School of Law (Los Angeles) with the Alumni Award for Outstanding Service to the School, and two honorary doctorates. A member of the California Bar, she helped establish and for six years was Assistant Director of the California Conservation Project (Tree People), an innovative urban forestry and environmental education group. She has co-authored nine books, including Natural Capitalism (1999), and dozens of papers. She was 1982 Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, and has taught at several other universities. She has consulted for dozens of clients in the public and private sectors, has addressed hundreds of audiences, and appeared in numerous broadcast interviews. She received the 2001 Lottas Award, and with colleague Amory Lovins has shared a 2001 Shingo (Research) Prize, 2000 Time Hero for the Planet Award, 1999 Lindbergh Award, 1993 Nissan Award, and 1982 Mitchell Prize. Ms. Lovins serves on the boards of two private corporations and many public interest groups. In her spare time, she serves on the local fire/rescue service as an EMT. She trains polocrosse horses, competes at polocrosse, and rides rodeo.

Gay Mathews is the CEO of the North Hawaii Community Federal Credit Union, an island wide, low income community development credit union located on the north shore of the Big Island of Hawaii, a position she has held for the last 15 years. The credit union was originally chartered in 1955 to serve the needs of the sugar plantation town of Honoka‘a, which dissolved in 1992. Gay is known throughout the state as being an innovative lender, creating a number of programs and products that serve the disadvantaged. The credit union has also been designated a CDFI by the US Treasury. Gay is a founding member and the current chairperson of the Hawaii Community Loan Fund, Hawaii’s first statewide initiative to provide access to capital to individuals and groups when such services will benefit disadvantaged individuals & or economically distressed communities. In addition, she has served on a number of organizations and committees including community capacity building and economic development. Gay has been an active disaster services member of the American Red Cross for 25 years, holding a variety of local leadership positions.

S.J. (Terry) McKenna III has been with the Center for the Management of Information University of Arizona since 1993. During a prototype class in 1992, "The Quality Teaching Fellowship Program," encompassing three components of seminars, individual project, and double-loop-learning, his research interests in voice recognition brought him into contact with CMI. For the next two years he supported various research projects involving EMS room dynamics, collaborative graphic software tools, and technically supporting a MIS class. In 1994, he somehow inherited the task of supporting the three Electronic Meeting System (EMS) rooms. Once he deployed an in house e-mail system using Lotus Notes, he inherited support of the entire research center. This grew into a full time position now supported by another full time staff member and four to eight students. This team of individuals now supports roughly 200 in-house computers, including three fixed rooms, a portable network, and the computers of the Administrative, Research, and Programming staffs. As the technical team continually seeks new "toys" and work on integrating new technologies into unlikely circumstances, they also provide consulting to the research and programming staffs. The technical support team is a forward deploying arm of CMI. Once a system is ready to be tested, the tech team deploys to a sponsor or test site to implement the new system.

Captain Scot Miller started his Naval career as a Naval Aviator after graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1978. Scot flew the P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft where he deployed four times to Japan and the Indian Ocean. He also served as a flight instructor in the mid-1980s and as a catupult and arresting gear officer on an aircraft carrier. In the mid-1990s Scot changed his professional focus to naval operational experimentation and acquisition management. He was the first Director of the Navy's Sea Based Battle Laboratory and the first Director of the Navy's Network Centric Innovation Center. His primary interest areas have been in modeling and simulation, collaboration, humanitarian assistance/disaster relief operations, and communications. Scot holds three masters degrees. He enjoys marathons and golf.

Sue Ellen Moore is currently working as a government contractor, Engineer/Analyst for DARPA technology transformation and transition. She has been a Technical Support Specialist, facilitating information distribution web site configuration and database maintenance. Sue Ellen did scientific work with senior scientists and engineers in University research, design, experimental architecture development, installation, logistics, production and maintenance of a major program. In addition, she has experience in network and database design and support; qualitative evaluation of alternative solutions to problems and prepare justifications to support the most appropriate recommended solution; and has developed advanced concepts of automation on information acquisition, real-time processing, display control and transfer methods; and performed research on fundamental problems in the design and development. Sue Ellen has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS).

Gary Naughton has more than 40 years of professional experience as forester with 29 years as Extension Forester, Kansas State University (professor emeritus 1995); presently private consulting forester and Vice President, Foresters, Inc. International experience since 1981 in 17 countries around the world in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America; served four years as long-term technical advisor (field demonstration and outreach forester) on the USAID Forestry Planning and Development Project, Pakistan (1989-1993). Specialization in small tract farm forestry, forest products marketing, and agro-forestry. Author of over 50 articles on farm forestry, forest economics, and silviculture. Present member of the Society of American Foresters (Certified Forester No. 279 since 1995), President of the Kansas Chapter of the International Walnut Council.

Ken Novak is Director of Network Services; B.S., Computer Science, Yale. Ken manages CGNET's expanding network services and CGNET's growing technical network support staff. He is responsible for the planning and implementation of most of CGNET's network services. He has more than 20 years experience in wide-area network design and implementation. Previously Ken served as CGNET's lead consultant, traveling extensively performing consulting assignments in over 25 countries.
Michael Ogden, P.E., is a founding director of Natural Systems International. Since 1989, NSI (Formerly Southwest Wetlands Group) has completed more than 450 constructed wetlands projects varying in size from 450 gpd to 4.0 million gpd. throughout the U.S., Canada, and Mexico and most recently China. The company specializes in the design and implementation of natural treatment systems to treat municipal, residential, commercial, and industrial wastewater as well as non-point sources from mine tailings, landfills, agriculture as well as storm water run-off. Michael received a BSCE from the University of California (Berkeley) and a MBA from the University of Chicago. He is registered as a professional engineer in 6 states, and co-author with Craig Campbell of a textbook entitled “Constructed Wetlands in the Sustainable Landscape” published by John Wiley. Michael is the author of numerous technical papers on the subject of natural systems for wastewater treatment.

Christina Page, a member of the Commercial & Industrial Services team for Rocky Mountain Institute, she received her bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies and Religious Studies magna cum laude from Brown University, and a master's degree in Environmental Studies from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. While at Yale, Chris specialized in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and was awarded the Environmental Protection Agency's STAR fellowship for scientific research in conservation. In the early '90s, she wrote interviews, newscasts and satirical pieces for "Living on Earth," National Public Radio's weekly program on the environment. As an instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School, Chris has logged almost 100 weeks in the field in Wyoming, Utah, Washington State, Alaska, Mexico, and East Africa. She has trained a wide range of individuals in wilderness skills, ecology and leadership, including US college students and Ugandan park rangers. She is an avid fencer, telemark skier, and birder.

Gunter Pauli is the founder of ZERI (Zero Emissions Research & Initiatives), which was begun in Japan in 1994 and seeks to reduce waste and pollution to zero by uncovering the "hidden assets" in ANY enterprise, and through innovative science, create multiple revenue streams, generate jobs and move toward zero waste and a healthy environment. He is a graduate of INSEAD, the prestigious European business school, and has spent several years as a lecturer and consultant for IBM. He's the former CEO of Ecover, has written eight management books, and is fluent in seven languages. ZERI has been involved in more than 25 projects around the world.

Morten Rugtved Petersen is a Planning Consultant in urban planning and international development with more than 10 years of professional experience in urban planning, human settlements, shelter and housing programs, planning of relief operations and co-ordination of reintegration activities leading to more conventional development programs. Morten has extensive experience in emergency situations, including identification/selection of camps sites, camp planning, camp construction/establishment, temporary shelter and rehabilitation of social infrastructure. He used to perform technical management and co-ordination of multiple sectors and agencies. He has worked extensively on inter-agency co-operation to bridge gaps between relief and development, which naturally has included intensive collaboration between agencies such as UNHCR, UNDP, WFP, UNICEF, ECHO, EU (DGVIII) and bilateral development agencies. Morten specializes in synthesizing multi-sectorial work experiences into environmental management training programs for relief workers. Holds a BSc. in Civil Engineering and a MSc. in Urban planning and International Development.

Stacy Plemmons is Managing Director of Village Earth. After a 29-year business career, Stacy retired from active service with Hewlett Packard during 2001 to use his experience and background in public service. He has been working with Village Earth as a volunteer and consultant prior to being appointed as Managing Director. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Marketing and a Master of Science in Information Systems from Colorado State University. Most recently Stacy was the Region General Manager for Hewlett Packard's Complementary Product business in South East Asia, based in Singapore. Prior to that assignment he was Vice President and Country General Manager for Hewlett Packard India's Computer Systems business, based in New Delhi. In that capacity Stacy and his wife Nancy established a micro-credit program with their personal staff, and Nancy led creation of a cookbook that was used to establish a scholarship fund for "scheduled caste" children in New Delhi. During their time in New Delhi and Singapore Stacy and Nancy traveled extensively in rural India, Nepal, Thailand and throughout Southeast Asia, frequently observing and interacting with villagers and 'appropriate technology' systems.

Enrica Porcari currently serves as the Chief ICT Field Services at the United Nations World Food Programme, in Rome. While in this position she has been awarded a fellowship under the Reuters Digital Vision Programme at Stanford where she will be researching transitionable technologies for the first half of 2002. Previously, Enrica has held various positions as chief telecommunications (WFP), ICT coordinator (WFP), Director Telecommunications Department (Inter Press Service), Technical Officer (the UNDP Technological Information Promotion Service, Field Project Analyst (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization), and as Special Project Coordinator at CGNET Services International a US-based organization that provides communications services to philanthropic and humanitarian organizations worldwide. Enrica has worked and traveled extensively throughout the world. She is fluent in Italian, English, French and Spanish. She holds an MA in Social Sciences.

Mark T. Prutsalis' extensive service in humanitarian relief and disaster management began in 1991 at Refugees International a Washington-based refugee advocacy non-governmental organization, where he reviewed assistance projects and reported on the status of humanitarian assistance in areas of conflict. He has traveled to Southeast Asia as an International Polling Station Officer, and extensively in Bosnia and Herzegovina, overseeing administration of the $50 million Soros Humanitarian Fund for Bosnia-Herzegovina, and later spending months in the Rwandan refugee camps in Tanzania. Following the August 1994 influx of Rwandan refugees into Goma, Zaire, Mark joined the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as the regional flight coordinator for the Great Lakes emergency in Entebbe, Uganda, as part of Operation Support Hope’s Civil Military Operations Center, and later in UNHCR’s Nairobi office, and later returned to Washington to work as a consultant to UNHCR in external relations. He was the Emergency Communications Officer for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); has led and coordinated two interagency missions focused on improving communications for staff security and operational effectiveness for Operation Lifeline Sudan; and jointly led a UNICEF/World Food Programme team to Central America following Hurricane Mitch in 1998, which set up a regional communications network for the relief efforts in Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador. In 1999, Mark joined the U.S. Government-funded Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance to develop methods to integrate new technology solutions in field environments. Following Turkey’s August earthquake, Mark designed and implemented a medical commodity tracking system to manage the reception and distribution of donated medicines and medical supplies from over 80 countries to the relief effort. He also traveled to East Timor in October to evaluate the potential for implementing better disaster information management systems to help coordinate UN humanitarian relief efforts. For the last two years, Mark has been consulting with a number of governmental, non-governmental, and corporate entities. This has taken him to Taiwan, to consult with the government on improving its disaster and rescue services information technology infrastructure, to India, to provide direct support for the 2001 Gujarat earthquake relief efforts, and to Hawaii, in support of Exercise Strong Angel on the Big Island, where he coordinated UN-agency participation in a humanitarian exercise during RIMPAC 2000.

Iqbal Z. Quadir is Lecturer in Public Policy. He is a Fellow at the Center for Business and Government and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Business Innovation At Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and advisor to MIT Media Lab Asia. He founded GrameenPhone in collaboration with Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and Telenor AS of Norway. GrameenPhone provides telephone access throughout Bangladesh, including to its rural poor, by adding cellular telephony to village-based micro-enterprise. In January 1999, the World Economic Forum based in Davos, Switzerland honored him as a "Global Leader for Tomorrow." Quadir worked as a vice president of Atrium Capital Corp., was an associate at Security Pacific Merchant Bank and Coopers & Lybrand, and earlier as a consultant to the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He received an MBA and an MA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BS with Honors from Swarthmore College.

Members R–Z