ADVISORY BOARD

Ed Begley. Ed is an actor and environmental advocate. He starred in the hit television series “St. Elsewhere,” for which he received six Emmy nominations. He has also appeared in “Six Feet Under,” “Arrested Development,” “Boston Legal,” “Gary Unmarried,” and feature films like “Pineapple Express,” “Recount,” “A Mighty Wind,” and “Best in Show”. Ed is currently the host of “Living with Ed,” a green living series on Discovery’s Planet Green. He has served as chairman of the Environmental Media Association and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. His lionhearted devotion to the environment has earned him numerous awards from the California League of Conservation Voters, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Coalition for Clean Air, among others.

Andrew Federici. Andrew is the online product lead for Epix, a next generation movie channel backed by Viacom, Lionsgate and MGM set to launch in 2009. Prior to his role at Epix, Andrew was VP of online for mtvU where he created Campus Daily Guide, a local entertainment guide for college students and led the double digit growth of mtvU's portfolio of Web businesses including RateMyProfessors.com and College Media Network, the largest interactive network of college newspapers in the US. Before joining Viacom, Andrew was Director of Proprietary Portals at IAC where he managed the Excite.com and iWon.com businesses. Andrew began his digital career at AOL, where he held a variety of roles in product, strategy, and programming, co-developing Coaches.com, a Webby-recognized life improvement destination. Andrew joined AOL after several years in Hollywood working on such projects as The Opposite of Sex and Bounce. Andrew is a passionate environmentalist and is currently working on a dramatic script about climate change. Andrew holds a BA in English from Haverford College and an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at The University of Maryland.

Bryan Garcia. Bryan is the program director for the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale University. He previously served as Director of Energy Market Initiatives for Connecticut Innovations, a quasi-public venture capital fund. In this capacity, Bryan invested resources that made Connecticut the regional leader in voluntary clean energy markets, including co-founding SmartPower and creating the EPA and DOE award-winning Connecticut Clean Energy Communities Program. He has also served as the climate change coordinator for the Governor’s Steering Committee on Climate Change, which received the EPA Climate Protection Award in 2005. Bryan is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. He holds an MPA in public-non-profit management and MBA in finance from New York University, and an MEM in environmental management from Yale University.

Arnulf Grubler. Arnulf is a Professor of Energy and Technology at Yale University and a Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, where his research focuses on the interplay between energy and technology systems and their implications on climate change. He is widely recognized as a global authority on major transitions in energy and technology over the past 300 years and is a lead author on two major 100-year scenario studies: The World Energy Council study on Global Energy Perspectives and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. He is the author of Technology and Global Change and Technological Change and the Environment.

Brian Keane. Brian is the President of SmartPower, a nationwide non-profit marketing organization dedicated to promoting clean, renewable energy. The US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy awarded SmartPower its coveted Green Power Pilot Award for its cutting edge and groundbreaking outreach for clean energy. SmartPower was also awarded the Gold Medal from the Service Industry Advertising Award (SIAA) and was recognized as a Connecticut Clean Energy Hero by the CT Department of Environmental Protection. Keane has an extensive background in non-profit management, political organizing and communication. From 1999 to 2002, he served as Director of Public Affairs for the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation. He also previously served as the Executive Director of Economic Security, 2000, a national non-profit organization that became a leader in the effort to protect Social Security.

Reid Lifset. Reid is a Research Scholar and Resident Fellow in Industrial Ecology, Associate Director of the Industrial Environmental Management Program, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Industrial Ecology at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Reid’s research focuses on the emerging field of industrial ecology, the study of the environmental consequences of production and consumption. Reid is currently investigating the evolution of extended producer responsibility (EPR), the global life cycle of metals, and the environmental implications of a shift to bio-based materials and fuels. He has published extensively on EPR and solid waste issues. He serves on the Science Advisory Board of the US Environmental Protection Agency and is a member of the governing council of the International Society for Industrial Ecology.

Gus Speth. Gus is a nationally recognized environmental advocate and the Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1964, attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and graduated from Yale Law School in 1969. From 1969 to 1970, Gus served as a law clerk to US Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. In 1970, Gus co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council. In 1980, he began a two-year tenure as Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President, where he had principal responsibility for developing President Carter’s environmental program. From 1981 to 1982, he was Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. In 1982, he founded the World Resources Institute, a leading environmental think tank in Washington, D.C. He has also served as Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. Gus is the recipient of numerous awards and four honorary degrees.