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.

Members of the National Advisory Committee are:

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.