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Advisory Editorial Board

Eliot Abel
Sustainability Manager, G24i,
Cardiff, Wales

Robyn Beavers
Corporate Environmental Manager, Google, Silicon Valley

Leon G. Billings
Staff Environmental Consultant, Staff Author, Federal Clean Air/Water Bill

Morgan Binswanger
Director, Habitat for Humanity
Carter Work Project

Nick Bollman
Senior Fellow, Funders Network for Smart Growth, Florida

Frank Clark
Executive Director, LAXTEX Corp
(Foreign Air Carriers, LAX)

Michael Collins
Executive Vice President, LA Inc.

Jeremy Davies
Former Chairman & President, British American Business Council

Martha Davis
Manager, Strategic Policy Development, Inland Empire Utility Agency

John Doherty
Executive Director, Alameda Corridor Transportaton Agency

John Emerson
President, Capital Guardian Trust Company

Cecilia Estolano
General Manager, LA/CRA

John Shegerian
President and CEO, Electronic Recyclers of America

Hope Boonshaft
Executive Vice President & General Manager, Hill & Knowlton
Los Angeles

Michael Wallace
VP North American Operations, Trucost PLC

Daniel Garcia
Senior Compliance Officer,
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Oakland, CA

Michael George
Executive Vice President
American States Water

Gail Goldberg

Director, LA City Planning Dept

Tom Graff
W. Regional Director, Environmental Defense, Oakland, CA

Jim Hankla
President, Port of Long Beach

Lee Harrington

Executive Director
So. Calif. Leadership Council

Bill Hauck
President, California Business Roundtable


Elliot Hoffman

CEO, New Voice of Business

Michael Mitre
President, ILWU, Local 13

Mary Nichols
Director, UCLA/IOE

Peter Peyton
Legislative Chair, ILWU

Roger Platt
Senior VP and Counsel, Real Estate Roundtable
Washngton DC

Randy Pruitt
President, Hulen Oil
Oklahoma City

John Silva
President, Silva Artist Management

Allan Emkin
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Pension Consulting Alliance, Inc. (PCA)

Lily Lee
Public Affairs Director, Waste Management

Michelle Kydd-Lee
CAA/CAO, Foundation Director, Creative Artist Agency

Joel Kotkin
Futurist Journalist/Writer

Marsha Kwalwasser
Director, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman

Jack Kyser
Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation

Ray Landy
President, DMJM, AECOM

Lily Lee
Public Affairs Director,
Waste Management

Jack Lewis, Ph.D.
Director, IBEAR, University of Southern Califronia

Adi Liberman

Former President, Heal the Bay

Andy Lipkis
Founder, TreePeople

Felicia Marcus
CAO, Trust for Public Land,
San Francisco

John A. Pérez
Political Director, UFCW 324

S. David Freeman
President, Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners

Damian Miller
CEO,
Orb Energy
Singapore

Daniel G. Weiss
Managing Partner, Angeleno Group LLC
Los Angeles

Andy Howard
COO for the Americas, ARUP

Ed Feo, Esq.
Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP

Arthur Sohikian
Member, North County Transportation Coalition

Tom Soto
Partner, Craton Equity Partners

Nancy Sutley
Deputy Mayor, City of Los Angeles

Terry Tamminen
Sr. Advisor, The Climate Group
Former CalEPA Secretary

Frederick Terrell
Principal, Provender Capital
New York City

Lee Wallach
Co-Chair, Interfaith Environmental Council, Los Angeles

Diane Wittenberg
President, California Climate Registry

James Wunderman
President, Bay Area Council,
San Francisco

Roy Hearrean
Investor, SWI Group

Steven Erie, PhD.
Professor, University of California,
San Diego (UCSD)

Jack Flanigan, Esq.

Partner Attorney, Sacramento

Daniel Mazmanian
Former Dean USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, and Senior Fellow Public Policy Institute of Califronia

Fran Pavley
Sr. Climate Adivsor, NRDC
Co-Author, California AB 32

Linda Waade
Deputy General Manager of External Affairs, The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California