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FORT COLLINS, COLORADO
SEPTEMBER 20-22 2007 |
Speakers
Keynote
Friday, September 21st, 8:50 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.
Heidi VanGenderen
Heidi serves as Governor Bill Ritter’s Climate Change Advisor, tasked with developing
a Climate Change Action Plan for Colorado. Prior to being selected by Governor Ritter,
Heidi was Senior Associate to the Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community
Development Policy at the University of Colorado where she organized, researched
and wrote about issues related to sustainable development. Heidi has over twenty
years of experience working on natural resource issues. She is a graduate of Carleton
College and is a third-generation Colorado native
Guest
Friday, September 21st, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Clint Wilder
Clint Wilder is a veteran award-winning business and technology journalist and
co-author of The Clean Tech Revolution. He joined Clean Edge in 2002 after 17 years
covering the high tech and Internet industries for Optimize, Information Week,
Computerworld, and Corporate Computing magazines. He won the 2002 American Society of Business Publications Editors award for best feature series. As contributing editor at Clean Edge, he often writes the monthly CE Views column on the cleanedge.com web site, co-authors the firm's annual Clean Energy Trends Report, and has helped research and write reports for Clean Edge clients in industry, finance,
government, and the NGO sector. Wilder is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events including United Nations World Environment Day, the Wharton Private Equity Conference, Columbia Business School's Social Enterprise Conference and Dow Jones' Venture One
Multi-Media Presentation
Friday, September 21st, 7:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Jonathan Waterman
Jonathan shooting photographs on his expeditions three decades ago, but also found
his calling as a writer and author. He has starred in and written filmsfor television,
including “The Logan Challenge” (PBS, 1991), “Surviving Denali” (ESPN 1004) and
“Odyssey Among the Unit” (OLN 2000). He’s mostly known for his tim exploring the
North, detailed in six of his nine books and in journal such as The Washington Post,
Adventure, Hooked on the Outdoors, Outside, Backpacker, Climbing, and Rock and
 Ice. In June 2005, W.W. Norton released his Where Mountains
Are Nameless; Passion and Politics in the Arctic National
Wildlife Reserve. His awards include: NEA Literary Fellowship,
Colorado State Council of the Arts Literary Award, The Banff Book
Festival’s Best Adventure Book, The American Alpine Club Literary
Award, and the National Park Service Special Achievement Award
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