PCAP Advisory Committee
The Committee's ground rules do not require consensus; rather, the Committee has urged the project team to push the envelope of public policy as far as the urgency of the climate and energy issues requires. In other words, while the project's advisors do not all agree with all of the plan's proposals, they agree on the need for boldness.
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Members of the National Advisory Committee are:
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Co-chair: Gary Hart U.S. Senator (ret.) Wirth Chair, University of Colorado Denver |
Chairman Emeritus: Ray Anderson Founder and Chairman of the Board Interface Inc. |
| Members: | |
| Scott Bernstein President Center for Neighborhood Technology |
Jennifer Morgan Director, Climate Energy Program World Resources Institute |
| April Bucksbaum Vice President The Baum Foundation |
Michael Northrup Program Director Sustainable Development Rockefeller Brothers Fund |
Brian Castelli Executive Vice President Alliance to Save Energy |
David Orr Paul Sears Distinguished Professor Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College |
Roger Clark Air and Energy Program Director Grand Canyon Trust |
John L. Peterson President The Arlington Institute |
Reid Detchon Executive Director Energy Future Coalition |
Tom Peterson Founder, President & CEO Center for Climate Strategies |
Dianne Dillon-Ridgley Chair Plains Justice |
Theodore Roosevelt IV Chair Pew Center on Global Climate Change |
| Seth Farbman Managing Director, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide President, OgilvyEarth |
Larry Schweiger President and CEO National Wildlife Federation |
| Amy Fraenkel Director, Regional Office for North America United Nations Environment Programme |
James Gustave "Gus" Speth Former Dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Yale University |
Boyd Gibbons Former President Johnson Foundation |
Jeremy Symons Director Global Warming Campaign National Wildlife Federation |
Sherri Goodman Senior Vice President General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Center for Naval Analysis |
Terry Tamminen Cullman Senior Fellow and Climate Policy Director New America Foundation |
Van Jones Board President & Co-Founder Ella Baker Center for Human Rights |
Heidi VanGenderen Director of Regional and National Outreach American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) |
L. Hunter Lovins President Natural Capitalism Solutions |
Carol Werner Executive Director Environmental and Energy Study Institute |
Erin Meezan Vice President Sustainability Interface, Inc. |
A number of additional national experts have contributed ideas for the PCAP as participants in the
National Leadership Summits for a Sustainable America.
The PCAP Advisory Committee provides invaluable guidance in selecting and framing the action items in the presidential plan. However, final decisions about the PCAP's content are made by the project's Executive Director. The Advisory Committee has chosen not to seek consensus on the PCAP's recommendations, in part because consensus is unlikely on so many action items and in part because as it aligns with the lowest common denominator among policy options, consensus can be the enemy of boldness. As a result, not all Advisory Committee members agree with all PCAP recommendations. The Committee is unanimous, however, in supporting the need for courageous, comprehensive and timely climate action by the next President of the United States.
