Andrea Jones is the Coastal Programs Director with the National Audubon Society, but her journey toward studying birds and their habitats actually began as a child on the East Coast, where she grew quite a passion for backpacking and camping. Always the outdoor enthusiast, Jones describes the “sky highways” that birds take above North America this time […]

Karen Hobbs, Senior Policy Analyst at the NRDC Water Program, has dedicated her work toward studying the health of our waterways and the role that plays in beermaking, particularly as it relates to the growing craft brewing trend in the U.S. This focus birthed the Brewers for Clean Water campaign, which challenges breweries to pledge to […]

Joy Pierson and Bart Potenza are the husband-and-wife owners of New York City-based Candle Café, Candle 79 and Candle Café West. Potenza has 30 years of experience in New York’s health-focused food industry, and he met Pierson, a nutritionist, when she was a daily customer at his former 500-square-foot New York restaurant. When Pierson’s health dramatically changed for […]

Jihad Rizkallah is the Vice President for Responsible Retailing at Stop & Shop, a Northeast chain of 750+ markets. The role that supermarkets play in carbon output, and conversely, climate change, is a major concern moving forward, and it is something Rizkallah and his team work tirelessly studying and improving upon. The chain is committed to reducing […]

In four of the past five years, Vancouver has been named as having the highest quality of life of any city in the entire world.

Eric Lowitt is the Managing Director of Nexus Global Advisors and the author of The Future of Value, a guide that provides a model for companies to connect sustainability with future growth. His newest book, The Collaboration Economy, which was published on Earth Day 2013, aims to answer the question “How do you affect change quickly?” by examining how various […]