Vermont's Green Mountains provide the perfect backdrop for a typical fall pre-Halloween harvest scene. © Photo by Cheryl Dorschner / The University of Vermont.

Alphabetical Speaker List
(a work-in-progress)
A-C
D-F
G-J
K-M
N-Q
R-S
T-Z

A-C
Ackland, Len
Adler, Jonathan
Allen, Frank
Bazilchuk, Nancy
Beeman, Perry
Bendrick, Lou
Blakemore, Bill
Bowden, William
Bradford, Peter
Brooks, Richard
Bruggers, James
Brynn, David
Cappiello, Dina
Clark, Delia
Clifford, Hal
Cohen, Ben
Cohn, Art
Cortesi, Lafcadio
Costanza, Robert

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D-F
Davis, Joseph
Dillon, John
Donovan, Richard
Dorschner, Cheryl
Douglas, James
Dunn, David
Fagin, Dan
Fisher, Linda
Fogel, Daniel Mark
Folsom, Jackie
Friesen, Ron

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G-J
Garcia, Dawn
George, Christy
Goss, Richard
Grubinger, Vernon
Grumbles, Benjamin
Hamilton, Joan
Hansen, James
Haseltine, Susan
Heinrich, Bernd
Helmuth, Laura
Hopey, Don
Hudson, Dana
Huff, Richard
Inkley, Doug
Judy, Martha

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K-M
Kamen, Dean
Karpinski, Gene
Kitman, Jamie Lincoln
Klinkenborg, Verlyn
Kolan, Matt
Kolbert, Elizabeth
Kovacs, William
Kovarik, Bill
Kunstler, James Howard
Kupchella, Rick
Latham, Mark
Leahy, Patrick
Leslie, Jacques
Levine, Andrea
Livingston, Gil
Lord, Peter
Lyman, Francesca
Magdoff, Fred
Marsden, Ellen
McClure, Robert
McKibben, Bill
Miller, Peter
Milne, Janet
Moore, Patrick
Morano, Marc
Morse, Kathryn
Motavalli, Jim

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N-Q
Neme, Laurel
Neuzil, Mark
Overholser, Geneva
Page, Candace
Patton, Vince
Perkins, Timothy
Piltz, Rick
Poleman, Walter

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R-S
Raap, Will
Rensberger, Boyce
Revkin, Andrew
Riccio, Jim
Rosenzweig, Cynthia
Rosner, David
Ross, Sean
Ruben, Andy
Sample, Alaric
Schaberg, Paul
Schleifstein, Mark
Seabright, Jeff
Shields, Geoffrey
Singer, Peter
Smith, Kristine

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T-Z
Valenti, JoAnn
Vogelmann, Hubert
Ward Jr., Ken
Watkiss, Dan
Watzin, Mary
Wheeler, Tim
Wiles, Richard
Willman, Dale
Wilmot, Timothy
Wishart, Ian
Woodside, Christine
Woodward, Mark
Wroth, Kinvin

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Len Ackland
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT: The Well-Educated Writer: Journalism Fellowships and Continuing Education

Len Ackland is an associate professor of journalism and founding director and current co-director of the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Len was a former reporter for the Des Moines Register and Chicago Tribune and former editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine. He is author of "Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West."

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Jonathan Adler
Events:
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. — THE INDUSTRY: Money Talks: But What Price Sustainability?
Saturday, Lunch and Plenary Session, 12:15 p.m. — Government Secrecy: What We Don't Know Can't...

Jonathan H. Adler is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he teaches courses in environmental, regulatory, and constitutional law. Prior to joining the faculty at Case Western, Professor Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1991 to 2000, Professor Adler worked at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market research and advocacy group in Washington, D.C., where he directed CEI's environmental studies program. Professor Adler is the author or editor of three books on environmental policy, including "Environmentalism at the Crossroads" (1995), and several book chapters. A contributing editor for National Review Online, his articles have appeared in numerous publications, ranging from Environmental Law and Supreme Court Economic Review to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. His television and radio appearances span an even broader spectrum, from CNN World News and NPR's Talk of the Nation to the Fox News Channel's O'Reilly Factor and Entertainment Tonight. He holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University and a J.D. summa cum laude from the George Mason University School of Law. In 2004, Professor Adler was awarded the Paul M. Bator Award, given annually by the Federalist Society for Law and Policy Studies to an academic under 40 for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to students.

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Frank Allen
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE CRAFT: Telling Environment Stories Better

Frank Edward Allen is president and executive director of the Institutes for Journalism & Natural Resources. For more than 25 years he has been a reporter and editor, having worked for dailies and news services in Oregon, Arizona, Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania. Frank spent 14 years at The Wall Street Journal, as an editor for Page One and for the Second Front in New York, as chief of the Philadelphia bureau for nine years and later as the paper's first environment editor. Many of the journalists hired and coached by Frank have since distinguished themselves as award-winning reporters, foreign correspondents, bureau chiefs and senior editors.

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Nancy Bazilchuk
Events:
Wednesday, Welcome to Vermont, 8:00 p.m.
Friday, Welcoming Remarks, 9:00 a.m.

Nancy Bazilchuk is a freelance science and environmental writer based in Trondheim, Norway. Before moving overseas in 2002, she was environmental writer at The Burlington (VT) Free Press from 1986-1988 and 1990-2002. She has been honored with a AAAS/Westinghouse Science Journalism Award, as a finalist for the Edward J. Meeman Award, and with the Vermont Press Association's Mavis Doyle Award for Investigative Reporting. She was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996-1997 and is the co-author of a natural history guide to Vermont, published by the Longstreet Press.

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Perry Beeman
Events:
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 16, 12:30 p.m. — SEJ: Coming Attractions
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. — THE NATION: The U.S. Farm Bill: It's Not Just Crop Payments

SEJ president Perry Beeman has reported for The Des Moines Register since 1981. Beeman began covering environmental issues full time in 1991. His work at The Register has included a number of award-winning investigative pieces, including a water-sampling effort that prompted the state's first comprehensive testing of state-park swimming areas. Beeman has documented widespread concerns about pollution and health threats from livestock confinements. In 2003, he won first place for outstanding beat reporting in the independently judged SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment and was a finalist for the Oakes Award after reporting about political pressure on and censorship of scientists studying the effects of agricultural pollution. He was part of a team that won first place for special projects in the 1998 National Association of Agricultural Journalists' national competition. In 1999, he won a science-writing fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA., where he studied environmental science before working with scientists in the field in Brazil's Amazonia region. In 2004, he studied tropical ecology in Belize with a team from Loyola University New Orleans and the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Beeman is a graduate of Iowa State University in journalism and environmental studies.

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Lou Bendrick
Event: Sunday, Breakfast Café, 10:00 a.m. —
New England's Nature Writing Legacy: From Thoreau to Burroughs to McKibben

Lou Bendrick holds the oxymoronic title environmental humorist. She is a former humor columnist with the Aspen Times, High Country News and Northern Sky News. Her work has appeared in various and sundry green publications such as Utne Reader, Grist, Plenty, Whole Life Times and Orion Online.

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Bill Blakemore
Events:
Friday, Breakfast Session, 7:00 a.m. —
The Biggest Story, the Biggest Challenge: Capturing Climate Change
Friday, Evening Plenary, 5:30 p.m. — And Now a Word from Our Critics...

Bill Blakemore is a senior domestic and foreign correspondent for ABC, covering stories in conflict and politics, the arts, nature and science. He has covered 12 wars since he joined ABC News in 1970, including both Iraq wars, two Arab-Israeli wars and the Palestinian intifada, the Iranian Revolution, the Beirut civil war, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and the Indo-Pak Bangladesh war. He was the first television correspondent to win the Edward R. Murrow Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations, and once spent a year reporting for ABC Radio while traveling around India by motor scooter. He is currently ABC's lead reporter on climate change.

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William Bowden
Event: Thursday Tour — Lake Champlain: Ecosystem at Risk

William "Breck" Bowden is professor of watershed science and planning at the University of Vermont's Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. He is the director of the Vermont Water Resources and Lake Studies Center and a member of the Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research program.

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Peter Bradford
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE FUTURE: Cradle to Grave: New Nukes and Old Radioactive Waste

Peter Bradford is president of Bradford Brook Associates, and board vice chair of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He advises and teaches on utility regulation and energy policy in the United States and overseas. A former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and former chair of the New York and Maine utility commissions, he has advised many states on utility restructuring issues. He has taught energy law and policy at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Vermont Law School. He served on a panel advising the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on how best to replace the remaining Chernobyl nuclear plants. He was also part of an expert panel advising the Austrian Institute for Risk Reduction on issues associated with the opening of the Mochovche nuclear power plant in Slovakia.

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Richard Brooks
Event: Wednesday, VLS Environmental Law Workshop for Journalists, Closing Plenary: "Where's My Next Environmental Law Story Coming From?" 2:10 p.m.

Richard O. Brooks is the founding director of the Vermont Law School's environmental law center, from 1978 to 1990. He also served as the coordinator of the school's foreign, international and comparative law program. Since 1980, Richard has served as visiting professor in environmental studies at Dartmouth College and as visiting professor of law at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada, and at the University of Trento in Italy.

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James Bruggers
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. — THE CRAFT: Bye, Bye TRI?

James Bruggers covers the environment for The (Louisville) Courier-Journal and served as SEJ president from October 2000 through October 2002. He's worked as a journalist in Montana, Alaska, Washington, California and Kentucky, and has been an SEJ board member since 1997. He was a founder of the SEJ First Amendment Task Force, and frequently uses the Toxics Release Inventory in his reporting. He also writes a blog, Watchdog Earth.

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David Brynn
Event: Thursday Tour — Keeping a Patchwork Forest from Unraveling

David Brynn set up his office and classroom in the Jericho Forest in 2005 when he helped the University of Vermont's Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources launch its Green Forestry Education Initiative. As director, David is exploring new directions for forestry, "to integrate sustainable design, land ethics, and real-world learning in community-based forest conservation." He is also founder, in 1995, of Vermont Family Forests, a nonprofit organization aiming to conserve forest health.

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Dina Cappiello
Events:
Saturday, Breakfast Session, 7:30 a.m. — Covering the Big Stories: Up a Creek, Without a News Hook
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT II: Visualizing Your Stories: Moving Beyond Words When Covering the Environment

SEJ board member Dina Cappiello is the environment writer for the Houston Chronicle, where she has been on staff since 2002. Her 2005 investigative series "In Harm's Way," which documented the risk industrial pollution poses to fence-line communities, won SEJ's Kevin Carmody Award for Investigative Reporting, Print, last year. It was also recognized by the National Association of Environmental Professionals for environmental education. Prior to moving to Houston, Cappiello reported on environmental issues for the Albany Times Union in upstate New York. Her work on acid rain and dredging PCBs from the Hudson River there resulted in her being named a finalist for the John B. Oakes Award twice, and a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. In 2001, Cappiello was named the Young Journalist of the Year by the New York State Associated Press Association. Cappiello holds masters degrees in environmental science and journalism from Columbia University, and a bachelor's degree in biology from Georgetown University.

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Delia Clark
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour #3, 2:30 p.m. —
A New Approach to Reading Landscapes: A Handy Journalist's Tool (Shelburne Farms)

Delia Clark is director of the Center for Place-based Learning and Community Engagement, a partnership project of Marsh Billings Rockefeller National Historical Park and Shelburne Farms. She also co-directs Project CO-SEED through the Antioch New England Institute, and she serves on the National Park Service Conservation Study Institute. Delia is the co-author of "Questing: A Guide to Creating Community Treasure Hunts" (University Press of New England, 2004).

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Hal Clifford
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CRAFT: Editors' Pitch Slam: Instant Feedback on Your Freelance Ideas

Hal Clifford has been executive editor of Massachusetts-based Orion magazine since 2003. He's been a journalist since 1984, though, working in America's smallest daily newspaper war at The Aspen Daily News. From 1992 to his position at Orion, Hal actually made a living as a freelance writer in the West. He is the author of three books and has worked as a freelance journalist for more than 60 publications, many of which you've never heard of.

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Ben Cohen
Event: Wednesday, The "Real Scoop" on Vermont, 8:15 p.m.

Ben Cohen is co-founder of Ben and Jerry's Homemade, Inc. — the ice cream guys. The company grew out of an ice cream scoop shop in a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vermont, in 1978. He now runs TrueMajority and Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, activist nonprofit organizations whose aim is to shift government spending away from the military.

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Art Cohn
Events:
Thursday Tour — Lake Champlain: Ecosystem at Risk
Saturday, Mini-Tour #6, 2:30 p.m. — Afloat on Burlington Bay

Art Cohn is executive director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor in Vermont, and director of its Maritime Research Institute, which oversees much of the current research on Lake Champlain shipwrecks. A professional diver and nautical archaeologist, Art has served as coordinator of the state of Vermont's Underwater Historic Preserve Program since 1985. Art is the author of "Lake Champlain's Sailing Canal Boats: An Illustrated Journey from Burlington Bay to the Hudson River," and other works.

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Lafcadio Cortesi
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE LAND: Greening up the Forests: Sustainable Forestry in the 21st Century

Lafcadio Cortesi is boreal markets and solutions director for ForestEthics, based in San Francisco, Calif. He has been working in Canada's Boreal Forests from the California office for the last four years. Before that he had 15 years' experience working in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Asia-Pacific region. As a specialist in biodiversity conservation and natural resources management, Cortesi has helped pioneer market-based approaches and advocacy that have prevented logging in more than one million acres worldwide and strengthened many indigenous and civil-society organizations. He has co-authored "Stories from the Forest Edge," and "Collaborative and Community Based Coral Reef Management."

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Robert Costanza
Events:
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE INDUSTRY: Money Talks: But What Price Sustainability?
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE BORDER: Invasives: Global Trade Brings Local Costs

Robert Costanza is a professor of ecological economics and director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. Robert is co-founder and past president of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and is founding editor of the society's journal, Ecological Economics. His research has focused on ecological and economic systems, including landscapes, energy and dysfunctional incentive systems.

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Joseph Davis
Events:
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. — THE CRAFT: Bye, Bye TRI?
Friday, Beat Dinner #6, 7:00 p.m. — Dinner with SEJ's FOI Task Force
Saturday, Lunch and Plenary Session, 12:15 p.m. — Government Secrecy: What We Don't Know Can't...

Joseph A. Davis is SEJ WatchDog Project Director, EJToday Editor, TipSheet Editor and a free-lance writer/editor in Washington, D.C. He directs the WatchDog Project, an activity of SEJ's First Amendment Task Force that reports on secrecy trends and supports reporters' efforts to make better use of FOIA. He also edits EJToday, SEJ's daily selection of new and outstanding stories on environmental topics in print and on the air, and TipSheet, a biweekly electronic newsletter of story ideas and sources co-published by SEJ and the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation.

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John Dillon
Event: Thursday Tour —
From Cow Power to Urban Farms: Sustainable Agriculture in the 21st Century

John Dillon covers the environment, politics and other beats for Vermont Public Radio. Previously, John was a staff writer for the Sunday Times Argus and the Sunday Rutland Herald, was communications director for the Vermont Health Care Authority and bureau chief for UPI in Montpelier.

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Richard Donovan
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE LAND: Greening up the Forests: Sustainable Forestry in the 21st Century

Richard Z. Donovan is deputy director, chief of forestry and director of SmartWood, part of the Rainforest Alliance, an international non-profit conservation organization. The Rainforest Alliance Forestry Division, of which SmartWood is a part, is headquartered in Richmond, Vermont, 20 minutes from Burlington. Richard has field experience in over 50 countries in all forest types (tropical, temperate and boreal), including resident experience in Mexico, Costa Rica and Paraguay. He speaks Spanish (fluent), Portuguese (working knowledge) and an Amazonian basis Indian language called Guarani (working knowledge).

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Cheryl Dorschner
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour #3, 2:30 p.m. —
A New Approach to Reading Landscapes: A Handy Journalist's Tool (Shelburne Farms)

Cheryl Dorschner directed the University of Vermont's effort to bring SEJ's 16th annual conference to Vermont. UVM co-hosted the conference with Vermont Law School. She is senior communications specialist for UVM's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, after more than 25 years in journalism.

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James Douglas
Events:
Wednesday, Welcome to Vermont, 8:00 p.m.

James Douglas is the governor of Vermont. He was the first governor to agree to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cooperative effort by northeastern and mid-Atlantic states to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and he was recently selected by the Coalition of New Eastern Governors (CONEG) to serve as the lead governor for energy policy. He recently signed into Vermont law new energy standards for commercial buildings and appliances; has also strongly supported the expansion of the biofuels market; and has been increasing the use of biofuels in state buildings and vehicle fleets.

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David Dunn
Event: Thursday Tour —
From Cow Power to Urban Farms: Sustainable Agriculture in the 21st Century

David J. Dunn is a senior energy consultant who led the team that developed CVPS Cow Power and the CVPS Renewable Development Fund which, through grants, is focused on developing new renewable energy systems on farms in Vermont. David holds a 1998 U.S. Patent for a milking system control, and speaks on farm energy efficiency and farm renewable energy.

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Dan Fagin
Events:
Wednesday, SEJ's Journalism Awards Presentation, 9:00 p.m.
Friday, Evening Plenary, 5:30 p.m. — And Now a Word from Our Critics...

Dan Fagin is associate director of the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) at New York University. Previously, he was the environment writer at Newsday for 14 years, where he was a principal member of two reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His stories on cancer epidemiology in 2003 won both of the best-known science journalism prizes in the United States, from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Association of Science Writers. He is also the co-author of the book "Toxic Deception" (1997), which was a finalist for the Investigative Reporters and Editors book-of-the-year award. Fagin has been a Templeton-Cambridge Fellow in Science and Religion at Cambridge University and is a former president of the Society of Environmental Journalists.

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Linda J. Fisher
Event: Friday, Opening Plenary, 9:15 a.m. — Corporate Green

Linda J. Fisher is vice president and chief sustainability officer at DuPont. She has works on the company's sustainable growth, environmental, health and stewardship programs, and global regulatory affairs. Before joining DuPont in 2004, Linda served as deputy administrator and in several other positions with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Linda is also a board member of the Environmental Law Institute, The National Parks Foundation, and RESOLVE.

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Daniel Mark Fogel
Events:
Wednesday, Welcome to Vermont, 8:00 p.m.
Friday, Welcoming Remarks, 9:00 a.m.

Daniel Mark Fogel took office in 2002 as the 25th president of the University of Vermont. Under his leadership, UVM swiftly embarked upon a 10-year strategy of investment and growth designed to solidify the institution's rank as one of the nation's top small public research universities. The founding editor of the Henry James Review, he is also an authority on the literature of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

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Jackie Folsom
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE FUTURE: The Future of Farming: Can Traditional Crop and Livestock Farming Be Sustained?

Jackie Folsom is president of the Vermont Farm Bureau. She is also president of Vermont Farm Bureau Service Company and has previously served as vice-president of Vermont Farm Bureau, Women's Chair of Vermont Farm Bureau and a member of the American Farm Bureau Dairy Advisory Committee. In addition to all her Farm Bureau activities, Jackie is currently chair of the advisory council for the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, a director of the Champlain Valley Exposition, a trustee of the Eastern States Exposition, a member of the Vermont Dairy Task Force and an executive committee member of the Northeast Dairy Leadership Team. Jackie and her husband Roy operate a 100-cow dairy farm with land in Washington and Caledonia counties. They have two children and two grandsons.

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Ron Friesen
Events:
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 17, 12:30 p.m. —
The U.S. Farm Bill: Farm Supporter or Trade Distorter? A Canadian Perspective
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE FUTURE: The Future of Farming: Can Traditional Crop and Livestock Farming Be Sustained?

Ron Friesen writes for The Manitoba Co-operator, a weekly farm newspaper published in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has been an agricultural journalist since 1988. His diverse beat includes livestock, grain, agricultural policy, international trade and, of course, the environment. Ron is a member of the Canadian Farm Writers Federation and the Canadian Association of Journalists, and has previously served on the national boards of each organization. He also belongs to the North American Agricultural Journalists and is currently the Canadian regional vice-president. Ron received his second SEJ Canadian fellowship this year, having won previously in 2004. Ron lives in Winnipeg with his wife Gail, a certified accountant, and two cats, who are more work than any baby.

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Dawn Garcia
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT: The Well-Educated Writer: Journalism Fellowships and Continuing Education

Dawn Garcia was a newspaper reporter and editor for 18 years before being appointed deputy director of the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists at Stanford University in 2000. Dawn was a Pulitzer Prize juror in 1998, 1999 and 2006. She is an adviser for students in Stanford's Graduate Program in Journalism in the Department of Communication, and is currently serving on the boards of the Journalism and Women Symposium and the California First Amendment Coalition.

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Christy George
Events:
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: Shrinking Globe, Growing Bugs: The Avian Flu and Other Diseases
Friday, Evening Plenary, 5:30 p.m. — And Now a Word from Our Critics...

Christy George, SEJ's Second Vice President of the Board and Membership Chair, produces documentaries at Oregon Public Broadcasting. She started at OPB in 1997, creating a bureau covering the intersection of business and the environment for the Los-Angeles based national business show, "Marketplace". Before that, George edited foreign and national news for The Boston Herald and covered politics for WGBH-TV, where she won a New England Emmy for an investigative documentary about Massachusetts political corruption. She started out in 1976, covering noise and air pollution and neighborhood encroachment by Logan Airport for The East Boston Community News — a dream beat that led to jobs in print, radio and television. George shared in "Marketplace's" Peabody Award in 2001 and her special "Liquid Gold," on how water is being bought, sold and marketed like any other commodity, was part of "Marketplace's" 1998 winning submission for a Columbia-DuPont Silver Baton award. A high school graduate, she was a 1990-91 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University.

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Richard Goss
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE INDUSTRY: High-Tech Trash: E-Waste and Toxic Wastes

Rick Goss is the director of environmental affairs for the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) in Washington, D.C. Before joining EIA, Rick worked as an environmental consultant and supervised projects involving Superfund and brownfield sites, and has worked as a legislative director in the New York State Assembly.

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Vernon Grubinger
Event: Thursday Tour —
From Cow Power to Urban Farms: Sustainable Agriculture in the 21st Century

Vernon Grubinger is the state coordinator for the USDA's Northeast Sustainable Agriculture and Research Education program at the University of Vermont. Vernon was formerly director of UVM's Center for Sustainable Agriculture. He is a technical advisor to the Vermont Organic Farmers certification program, a vegetable and berry specialist for UVM Extension and a member of the board of trustees for the Vermont Land Trust and the Windham County Farm Bureau. He has been a Vermont Public Radio commentator on farming and food issues since 1997. These commentaries were published in 2004 in a collection called "With an Ear to the Ground."

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Benjamin Grumbles
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE NATION: Blowout: America's Aging Water and Sewer Infrastructures

Benjamin H. Grumbles was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 20, 2004, as assistant administrator for the office of water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to his confirmation, Benjamin served as deputy assistant administrator for water and acting associate administrator for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations. For more than fifteen years, he served in various capacities on the House transportation and infrastructure committee staff, and was an adjunct professor of law at the George Washington University Law School, teaching a course on the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Ocean Dumping Act, and Oil Pollution Act.

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Joan Hamilton
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CRAFT: Editors' Pitch Slam: Instant Feedback on Your Freelance Ideas

Joan Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Sierra, a bimonthly environmental magazine published by the Sierra Club. She has also been the top editor at Climbing magazine, and at High Country News. Her freelance work has appeared in Audubon, Defenders and National Wildlife.

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James Hansen
Event: Saturday, Lunch and Plenary Session, 12:15 p.m. — Government Secrecy: What We Don't Know Can't...

Dr. James Hansen heads the NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York City, which is a division of Goddard Space Flight Center's (Greenbelt, MD) Earth Sciences Directorate. He was trained in physics and astronomy in the space science program of Dr. James Van Allen at the University of Iowa. His early research on the properties of clouds of Venus led to their identification as sulfuric acid. Since the late 1970s, he has worked on studies and computer simulations of the Earth's climate, for the purpose of understanding the human impact on global climate. Dr. Hansen is best known for his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue. Dr. Hansen was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995 and he received the prestigious Heinz Environment Award for his research on global warming in 2001.

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Susan Haseltine
Event: Friday, Concurrent Sessions 1, 11:15 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: Shrinking Globe, Growing Bugs: The Avian Flu and Other Diseases

Susan Haseltine is associate director for biology with the U.S. Geological Survey, working in research administration at the regional and national level for the National Biological Service and the USGS. In recent years she has provided executive leadership to USGS studies of chronic wasting disease and West Nile virus as they emerged in wildlife, and led the Department of Interior effort in partnership with federal and state agencies to provide wildlife surveillance and research for Asian strain highly pathogenic avian influenza.

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Bernd Heinrich
Event: Sunday, Nature Writers: A Breakfast Café, 10:15 a.m.

Bernd Heinrich is professor emeritus of biology at the University of Vermont and a wildlife biologist. His 15 books include the natural history classic and National Book Award nominee, "Bumblebee Economics." His at-home aviary inspires many of the detailed drawings and photos for his articles in magazines including Scientific American and Smithsonian. Bernd is also a record-breaking long-distance runner.

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Laura Helmuth
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE CRAFT: Editors' Pitch Slam: Instant Feedback on Your Freelance Ideas

Laura Helmuth is the science editor for Smithsonian magazine. She edits and helps select most of the magazine's stories about the environment. She previously worked for Science magazine's news department as a writer and editor. She has written for Science News, California Wild, National Wildlife, various other magazines and web sites, and a travel guide to Eastern Europe.

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Don Hopey
Events:
Friday, Beat Dinner #1, 7:00 p.m. —
Fish or Cut Bait: Frank Talk about the Future of Conservation with USFWS Director Dale Hall
Sunday, Nature Writers: A Breakfast Café, 10:15 a.m.

SEJ board member Don Hopey has covered the environment for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since 1992. He has written series about an 80-mile canoe trip through the Wild & Scenic sections of the Allegheny River, the "Wise Use" movement in Pennsylvania and problems with the nation's hazardous waste incinerators. He participated in an end-to-end hike of the Appalachian Trail by five eastern newspapers in 1995, hiking more than 500 miles from Virginia through Pennsylvania. Reports on the hike were reprinted in a book, "An Appalachian Adventure." He is co-author of "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Mid-Atlantic States," one of five guide books in a series that highlights the trail's social and natural history. He teaches an environmental issues and policy class at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Dana Hudson
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour #1, 2:30 p.m. —
Beyond Artisanal Cheese and Micro-Greens: Ensuring Local Food Reaches Everyone (Shelburne Farms)

Dana Hudson is coordinator of Shelburne Farms Farm-to-School program and the Food Education Every Day program.

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Huff, Richard
Event: Saturday, Lunch and Plenary Session, 12:15 p.m. — Government Secrecy: What We Don't Know Can't...

Richard Huff is the former co-director of the Office of Information and Privacy, U.S. Department of Justice. His public service career entailed more than 36 years with the federal government, the last 24 as a founding director of OIP. During that time, he became a pioneer in the administration of the Freedom of Information Act and made unprecedented contributions to the development and implementation of sound information policy throughout the executive branch. Huff, a graduate of Stanford University with B.S. and law degrees, held primary responsibility for adjudicating the many thousands of FOIA and Privacy Act administrative appeals filed with the Justice Department each year.

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Doug Inkley
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE FUTURE: Global Warming: Reporting on What's Going to Be Changing in Your Backyard

Doug Inkley is senior scientist at the National Wildlife Federation. A wildlife biologist, Inkley helped write the National Wildlife Federation's individual fact sheets on global warming impacts for all 50 states and two territories.

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Martha Judy
Event: Thursday Tour —
The Historic Hudson River: Cleanup Controversy at a Superfund Mega Site

Martha Judy is an associate professor of law at Vermont Law School, where she has taught on CERCLA (Superfund), RCRA (the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) and a unit on environmental problem solving. She organized the research for the National Commission on Superfund, a group of environmentalists, corporate CEOs, citizens, and government leaders seeking consensus on ways to improve the cleanup of Superfund sites. Martha serves as a member of the Brookfield (Vermont) Planning Commission.

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Dean Kamen
Event: Friday, Opening Plenary, 9:15 a.m. — Corporate Green

Dean Kamen is an inventor, entrepreneur, and a tireless advocate for science and technology. He is the founder of DEKA Research & Development Corporation, where he develops internally generated inventions and provides research and development for major corporate clients. He holds more than 440 U.S. and foreign patents for innovative devices that have expanded the frontiers of health care worldwide. Some of his notable inventions include the first wearable insulin pump for diabetics, the HomeChoice, a portable peritoneal dialysis machine, the INDEPENDENCE® iBOT® Mobility System, and the Segway® Human Transporter. Among Mr. Kamen's proudest accomplishments is founding FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an organization dedicated to motivating the next generation to understand, use, and enjoy science and technology. Mr. Kamen was awarded the National Medal of Technology in 2000, the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2002, is a member of the National Academy of Engineers and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2005.

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Gene Karpinski
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE NATION: Whither Congress? Midterm Elections and the Environment

Gene Karpinski became president of the League of Conservation Voters and the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund in April, after spending the last 21 years as Executive Director of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group in Washington, D.C. In that time, Mr. Karpinski also served over 12 years on the board of directors of LCV and LCVEF. The independent political voice of the environment, LCV in 2004 mobilized 18,000 volunteers who knocked on over 1.3 million doors in six states in support of environmental issues.

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Jamie Lincoln Kitman
Event: Thursday, Talk Back to Your Car, 8:00 p.m.

Jamie Lincoln Kitman, New York bureau chief for Automobile Magazine, won an investigative reporting award from Investigative Reporters and Editors for his Nation article on leaded gasoline. A member of the Society of Automotive Historians, Jamie Lincoln Kitman drives a 1966 Lancia Fulvia and a 1969 Ford Lotus-Cortina, both of which run fine on unleaded.

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Verlyn Klinkenborg
Event: Sunday, Nature Writers: A Breakfast Café, 10:15 a.m.

Verlyn Klinkenborg comes from a family of Iowa farmers and is the author of "Making Hay" and "The Last Fine Time." Verlyn is a member of the editorial board of The New York Times, and his most recent book is "Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile."

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Matt Kolan
Event: Saturday, Mini-Tour #2, 2:30 p.m. —
Wildlife Tracking as Scientific Research, Ecosystem Management and Engaging Your Community (Shelburne Farms)

Matt Kolan is the phenology project director for PLACE (Place-based Analysis and Community Education), a cooperative program between the University of Vermont and Shelburne Farms. Matt teaches in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at UVM.

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Elizabeth Kolbert
Event: Friday, Breakfast Session, 7:00 a.m. —
The Biggest Story, the Biggest Challenge: Capturing Climate Change

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of "Field Notes from a Catastrophe." Last year she received the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine writing award for the series of articles on which the book is based. Before moving to The New Yorker in 1999 she was a reporter for The New York Times. She is also author of "The Prophet of Love," a collection of profiles from The New Yorker.

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William Kovacs
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE NATION: Whither Congress? Midterm Elections and the Environment

William Kovacs, vice president, Environment, Technology and Regulatory Affairs, is the primary officer responsible for developing U.S. Chamber policy on environment, energy, natural resources, agriculture and food safety, regulatory, and technology issues. Kovacs spent nearly 20 years in private law practice before joining the Chamber and is a recognized expert on environmental policy.

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Bill Kovarik
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT: The Well-Educated Writer: Journalism Fellowships and Continuing Education

Bill Kovarik, SEJ's Board Representative for the Academic Membership, is a professor of Media Studies at Radford University in southwestern Virginia where he teaches science and environment writing, media history, media law and web design. He has also served on the faculty at Virginia Tech and the University of Maryland. Kovarik's professional experience includes reporting and editing for Jack Anderson, the Associated Press, The Charleston (S.C.) Courier, The Baltimore Sun, Time-Life Books, Latin American Energy Report and Appropriate Technology Times. His books include "The Forbidden Fuel" (1982), "Mass Media and Environmental Conflict" (with Mark Neuzil, 1996), and "Web Design for the Mass Media" (2001). He is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University (1974), the University of South Carolina (M.A., 1983) and the University of Maryland (Ph.D., 1993).

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James Howard Kunstler
Event: Sunday, Looking Forward, Looking Back, 9:00 a.m.

James Howard Kunstler says he wrote "The Geography of Nowhere," "Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work." His latest book, "The Long Emergency," published by the Atlantic Monthly Press in 2005, is about the challenges posed by the coming permanent global oil crisis, climate change, and other "converging catastrophes of the 21st Century." He is also known for his online writings, speeches and appearance in the film "The End Of Suburbia."

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Rick Kupchella
Event: Friday, Breakfast Session, 7:00 a.m. —
The Biggest Story, the Biggest Challenge: Capturing Climate Change

Rick Kupchella is the weekend anchor at KARE, where he has also served as a general assignment reporter and on the investigations and special projects teams. He has also served as president of the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. This past winter he produced a three-part series on the science and local impacts of climate change.

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Mark Latham
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE NATION: Whither Congress? Midterm Elections and the Environment

Mark Latham teaches corporations and environmental law and has served as defense counsel in state and federal, civil and administrative enforcement actions under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, CERCLA (Superfund), RCRA (hazardous waste handling), and EPCRA (protection of public health, safety, and the environment from chemical hazards).

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Patrick Leahy
Event: Saturday, Lunch and Plenary Session, 12:15 p.m. — Government Secrecy: What We Don't Know Can't...

Patrick Leahy was elected to the United States Senate in 1974 and remains the only Democrat elected to this office from Vermont. At age 34, he was the youngest senator elected from the Green Mountain State and is now serving his sixth term. Sen. Leahy is the Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee and is a senior member of the Agriculture and Appropriations Committees. He ranks seventh in seniority in the Senate. He has been a champion of open government and of the Freedom of Information Act and in 1996 was installed in the FOIA Hall of Fame in recognition of his efforts. Sen. Leahy also led several initiatives to assist farmers in meeting environmental objectives without reducing income, preserve Vermont farms and implement the national organic standards and labeling program, which took effect in October 2002.

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Jacques Leslie
Events:
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE GLOBE: James Bay II and Beyond: Is the Era of Big Dams Back?
Sunday, Nature Writers: A Breakfast Café, 10:15 a.m.

Jacques Leslie began his career as a Los Angeles Times war correspondent in Vietnam, and over decades shifted from newspaper stories to magazine pieces to narrative nonfiction books and essays. His most recent book is "Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005). It's a product of Jacques' current interest, writing narrative nonfiction about the world's most pressing environmental issues. His July 2000 cover story for Harper's magazine, "Running Dry: What Happens When the World No Longer Has Enough Freshwater?," was included in The Best American Science Writing 2001.

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Andrea Levine
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE INDUSTRY: Sticker Spin: The Murky World of Green Labeling

Andrea Levine is the director of the National Advertising Division (NAD) and a vice president of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, part of the advertising industry's voluntary self-regulation system. During the ten years that she served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of New York, Andrea worked closely with the Federal Trade Commission, Attorneys General nationwide, the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission on a wide variety of advertising issues.

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Gil Livingston
Events:
Thursday Tour —
From Cow Power to Urban Farms: Sustainable Agriculture in the 21st Century
Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 3, 9:00 a.m. —
THE LAND: Protecting the Land: Land Trusts and Conservation Easements

Gil Livingston is vice president and counsel for the Vermont Land Trust. He is also affiliated with other land trusts: Gil was a member of the national Land Trust Alliance board of directors and board member of the Richmond Land Trust. He remains on the board of the Center for Whole Communities in Waitsfield and the Black Family Land Trust, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting landownership and promoting economic growth in African American communities.

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Peter Lord
Event: Saturday, Concurrent Sessions 4, 10:45 a.m. —
THE CRAFT: The Well-Educated Writer: Journalism Fellowships and Continuing Education

Peter Lord is the environment writer at The Providence Journal and, since 1997, the journalism director of the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting. Based at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography, Metcalf supports three major programs: a week-long, hands-on seminar on environmental reporting each summer, fellowships in environmental reporting for minority journalists, and the $75,000 Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment.

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Francesca Lyman
Events:
Friday, Network Lunch, Table 6, 12:30 p.m. — Coffee: How Green Are Your Beans?
Friday, Concurrent Sessions 2, 2:15 p.m. —
THE LAND: Greening up the Forests: Sustainable Forestry in the 21st Century

Francesca Lyman is a freelance writer and investigative reporter who, for the last years, has been a contributing writer to Seattle Metropolitan magazine and Ms. For five years she regularly wrote the "Your Environment" column for MSNBC.com, and has also contributed to The New York Times, L.A. Times, Washington Post, This Old House and such environmental periodicals as Land and People, The Green Guide, Organic Style, Sierra, Orion and Orion Afield.

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