Endorsers

Zerofootprint Endorsers participate by sharing ideas and knowledge, and assist with our strategic planning.

Tom Bates

Mayor of Berkeley, California

Tom previously served in the California State Assembly from 1976 to 1996. He taught in the Political Science Department of the University of California at Berkeley for two years. Since retirement from the Assembly in 1996, he has worked to improve children's nutrition as the head of Food Partners. The City of Berkeley is a national center for producing and selling leading-edge environmental products and services. Berkeley also has the highest per-capita membership in environmental organizations of any city in the USA. Mayor Bates also serves on the national steering committee for the group of mayors called the "New Cities Project." The New Cities Project brings together research, policy innovators, and mayors to share best practices and develop innovative policies for American Cities.

Tim Brown

CEO, IDEO - USA

Tim Brown is CEO and President of IDEO, the world's leading design consultancy specializing in turnkey product development and innovation strategy. Prior to taking his current position in 2000, Tim led IDEO Europe from 1995 to 2000 and managed IDEO's San Francisco office from 1990 to 1995. Tim has led strategic client relationships with Apple, NEC, Steelcase, Sony, Epson, Whirlpool, and Matsushita. He has received numerous design awards, and his designs have been exhibited at the Axis Gallery in Tokyo and The Design Museum in London.

Edward Burtynsky

Artist, Photographer - Canada

For the past 24 years, Canadian photo-artist Edward Burtynsky has explored the impact of our expanding footprint and how it reshapes the planet. His breathtaking, large-format photographs can be found in prominent public collections at MOMA and the Guggenheim; his images are frequently featured in publications like the New York Times and Time Magazine; and his work has been honoured with a Rencontres d'Arles award and the inaugural TED Prize, 2005.

Ray Civello

Civello Salon/Aveda - Canada

As founder and President of the CIVELLO Salon-Spa Group and COLLEGA Inc., Canada's National Distributor of AVEDA Pure Plant & Flower Essence Lifestyle Products, former Vice President of Global Education, Artistic Director and most recently, Creative Consultant for the AVEDA Corporation, Ray Civello has been a visionary and a pioneer in the beauty & wellness industry in Canada for over two decades.

Sara Diamond

President, Ontario College of Art & Design - Canada

Sara Diamond received her post-secondary education in Canada and the United Kingdom as a social historian, communications and new media theorist and creative practitioner. Prior to arriving at OCAD, Diamond created the renowned Banff New Media Institute, taught at Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design and the California Institute for the Arts, and remains Adjunct Professor, University of California, Los Angeles in the Design/Media Department. She has led research teams in data visualization, mobile new media content and engineering, fashion and technology, distance learning, collaborative methods and tools for collaboration, and art and technology. She is a practicing artist and designer, working in video installation, artist's television and, most recently, conversation visualization software, artificial intelligence and performance.

Dr. Elizabeth Dowling

Director of Research, ImagineNations Group - USA

Elizabeth Dowling is director of research for the ImagineNations Group, a non-profit organization working to develop and implement youth investment strategies in the developing world. Elizabeth has a doctorate in child development and has worked with national (USA) and international organizations to help define and refine their strategies for promoting the positive development of youth.

Tim Draimin

CEO of Tides Canada Foundation & Sage Centre - Canada

Tides Foundation is a national public foundation focused on environmental and social causes, and Sage Centre is an operating charity that manages and incubates projects enabling environmental stewardship. Mr. Draimin has over 30 years experience in the charitable and non-profit sector in Canada and abroad. He was the NGO representative on the Canadian Delegation to the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) and serves on the advisory board of the International Development Studies Program - University of Toronto. He is the Chair of Causeway, a national collaboration working to accelerate the adoption of social finance, and is a past board member of the Canadian Environmental Grantmakers Network (CEGN).

Jake Eberts

Executive Film Producer

Jake currently serves on the Board of the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Channel. He is Chairman of National Geographic Feature Films and is Co-Founder and CEO of MPI International, which provides high-speed, two-way video transmission capabilities to telcos, cable companies, hotels, hospitals, and schools. A former Wall Street investor, Eberts began his career in features in the early 1970s arranging financing. Later he founded Goldcrest Films, a successful independent production company involved with such high profile films as Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning "Gandhi" (1982). He also founded Allied Filmmakers and the following year made his debut as executive producer on Jean-Jacques Annaud's "The Name of the Rose" (1986). Jake has also served as an executive producer on the first feature from Aardman Animation, "Chicken Run" (2000), co-directed by Peter Lord and three-time Oscar-winner Nick Park. By 2005, Eberts had been associated with films garnering 65 Oscar nominations, including eight for Best Picture. Most recently he produced the March of the Penguins. The Las Vegas Film Critics, The Phoenix Film Critics Society, The National Board of Review and The Southeastern Film Critics Association have all recently awarded the Best Documentary Award to this film. The film has also been nominated for an Academy Award, 2005.

Austin Hill

DarkGreenPC and MESH

Austin Hill is a Canadian entrepreneur who has been creating technology startups for 15 years. He was a founder of Zero- Knowledge Systems (now called Radialpoint) and as its President helped the company raise $75 million between 1997 and 2001.

In addition to his time as President with Zero-Knowledge Systems Austin Hill served as the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, the CEO of Synomos Inc. (a subsidiary of Zero-Knowledge Systems) and as the Executive-Vice President of Research for Radialpoint (Zero-Knowledge Systems was renamed Radialpoint in 2002). Radialpoint was honored by Deloitte & Touche one of Canadas fastest growing technology firms in their 2006 Technology Fast 50 award.

As a sought after public speaker, Austin Hill has spoken around the world on the issues of social entrepreneurship, civic society and the technologies of social change, and the role of entrepreneurs and corporations as agents of change in our society.

Steve Hounsell

Director, The Natural Step - Canada

Steve is a Director and founding member of The Natural Step - Canada, an organization dedicated to the promotion of sustainability. Steve is a biologist with over thirty years of experience working with Ontario Power Generation and the former Ontario Hydro. Steve's career path has included environmental policy development and implementation, environmental assessments, and applied environmental research where his work focused specifically on the effects of forest fragmentation on wildlife. In addition to his work at Ontario Power Generation, Steve also serves as President of Ontario Nature, formerly known as the Federation of Ontario Naturalists (FON).

Kuwabara, Payne, McKenna, Blumberg Architects - Canada

Bruce Kuwabara, Thomas Payne, Marianne McKenna and Shirley Blumberg founded Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB) in Toronto in 1987. The ethnic and gender diversity of the partnership offers a unique hybrid studio model. While this is one of the signature strengths of the practice, it is the thoughtful calibration of heterogeneneous influences in the design work that has established KPMB as one of Canada's premier architectural studios.

Jonathan Levin

Barrister & Solicitor, Fasken Martineau (Legal) - Canada

Jon joined the firm in 1973, and was made a partner in 1981. He is director of the Toronto office's Banking and Restructuring practice group. He chairs the Finance Committee of the firm's Toronto office and chairs the National Partnership Board. Jon is a frequent panelist and lecturer before various continuing legal education programs sponsored by the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Bar Association, Insight Professional Conferences, and the Canadian Institute.

Joseph Mapa

President & CEO, Mount Sinai Hospital - Canada

Joseph Mapa is a graduate of the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and he also obtained his MBA from the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is Fellow of the Canadian College of Health Service Executives as well as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Joseph is the author of numerous articles on health care management and he is co-author of three books focusing on the topic of humanistic health care. In 2003 he co-edited a new book on effective government relations in the health care industry with Professor Peggy Leatt of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and past President of the Department's Society of Graduates. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Hospital Association and as a Governor of the University of Toronto.

Joe has been honoured with numerous awards for his contributions to healthcare and academics, including: the Ontario Regent’s Award by the American College of Healthcare Executives (1997), the Leadership Achievement Award from the Society of Graduates in Health Administration (2000), and the Chairman’s Award for Distinguished Service from the Canadian College of Health Service Executives (2003).

Dean Roger Martin

Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto - Canada

Before beginning his term as Dean of the Rotman School in 1998, Roger was a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy-consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Roger does research in four primary areas: Canadian Competitiveness, Integrative Thinking, Business Design and Corporate Citizenship. He serves on the boards of Thomson Corporation, Workbrain Incorporated, Hospital for Sick Children, Skoll Foundation, Social Capital Partners and Tennis Canada.

Bruce Mau

Author, Designer - Canada

Bruce Mau studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, but left prior to graduation in order to join the Fifty Fingers design group in 1980. In 1983 he became part of the founding triumvirate of Public Good Design and Communications. Soon after, the opportunity to design Zone 1|2 presented itself and he left to establish his own studio, Bruce Mau Design, Inc. Bruce is an Honorary Fellow of the Ontario College of Art and Design and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art. He was awarded the Chrysler Award for Design Innovation in 1998, and the Toronto Arts Award for Architecture and Design in 1999. In 2001 he received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design.

Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt

Chairman & Founder, The Natural Step - Sweden

Professor Robèrt, MD, PhD, one of Sweden's foremost cancer scientists is the founder of The Natural Step (TNS), an international NGO that promotes a scientific consensus approach for social, ecological and economic sustainability. Founded in 1989, the TNS network of scientists have developed a scientifically based framework for strategic planning towards sustainability, and applied it to coach a growing number of role models among organizations and key decision makers, providing forums and tools to share best practices. Dr. Robèrt has served on faculties of many prestigious hospitals and universities. He won the Green Cross Award for International Leadership, the Blue Planet Prize, which is the 'Nobel Prize' for ecological sustainability, sponsored by the Asahi Glass Foundation and was awarded the Social Responsibility Laureate Medal award by the Global Center for Leadership & Business Ethics.

Jan Ross

Senior Vice President, BBC Worldwide - USA

Jan has more than 20 years senior management experience in stock footage marketing, film production and the commercial film licensing business. Jan was a founder of the Energy Film Library. She led the company's global expansion, conversion of its digital assets to digital media, and the development of its internet strategies. Jan has served as an executive of Blacklight Films, which recently produced the broadcast series, America!

Joel Solomon

President of Renewal Partners & Executive Director of Endswell Foundation - Canada

Renewal Partners & Endswell Foundation's complementary missions have been to utilize early-stage investing and charitable grant-making to promote a sustainable economy for British Columbia. Renewal is a seed capital company that invests in businesses that share its belief that the natural world and societal well being as important as economic returns. Endswell is British Columbia's largest private foundation focused on environmental issues. Joel is also a founding member of the Social Venture Network, Business for Social Responsibility, Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, the Tides Canada Foundation and the Sage Centre. He serves as a board member of a number of corporations (both for profit and not-for-profit), various foundations and other charitable organizations and was recently appointed to the Vancouver Economic Development Commission.

Robert Vipond

Professor & Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto - Canada

Professor Vipond has taught a variety of courses in Canadian and American politics at the University of Toronto, and won an Outstanding Teacher Award in the Faculty of Arts and Science in 1994. He was the first Director of the Centre for the Study of the United States. His research interests centre on Canadian and American constitutionalism. He has written extensively in these areas, notably Liberty and Community: Canadian Federalism and the Failure of the Constitution (SUNY Press: 1991), which explores the original meaning and contemporary resonances of the idea of provincial rights in Canada. His current research, funded by SSHRC, examines the ways in which American "rights talk" influenced Canadians in the 1960s and 1970s.

Richard C. Wiese

The Explorers Club - USA

Richard became the youngest president in The Explorers Club's hundred-year history in 2002. He has worked in the Yucatan jungle of Mexico putting satellite collars on jaguars; climbed and sampled the most geologically unique volcano in the world, and participated in two expeditions to Antarctica to core glaciers for the purpose of climatological studies. He was also a member of the 2004 Yeronisos Island Expedition in Cyprus and led an expedition to bio-prospect for extremophiles and new life forms in Mount Kilimanjaro's crater, resulting in the discovery of 29 new life forms. A television journalist and independent documentary film producer, Wiese is the host of the network show "Exploration with Richard Wiese." He has won an Emmy Award (Science, 1997) and received several Emmy nominations as a reporter and producer.

Dr. David Wheeler

Dean, Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University - Canada

David Wheeler is the Dean of Management at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Prior to this appointment he was Erivan K. Haub Professor of Business and Sustainability at the Schulich School of Business and Founding Director of the York Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability at York University. David's career has spanned international business, the water industry, public policy, academia and international development. David was Executive Director of Environmental and Social Policy at The Body Shop International. This involved strategic oversight of sustainability issues and direct responsibility for The Body Shop's award-winning sustainability reporting. Throughout his career, David has published articles in a wide variety of medical, academic and popular journals. His current research interests focus on private sector development in Africa, corporate governance and sustainable investing.

Dr. Rodney White

Director, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto - Canada

Dr. White is an infrastructure planner. Rodney co-chaired an industry/university research group that produced a report titled Coping with Natural Hazards in Canada: Scientific, Government and Insurance Industry Perspectives. He was Principal Investigator for the GIS-based Soil Erosion Management Project in North China and P.I. for the Toronto component of the Sustainable Water Management Project in the Beijing-Tianjin Region, both funded by CIDA. As an Associate Fellow of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, he offered a graduate course on The Financial Services Sector and Environmental Change.

John D. Wiebe

President and CEO of the Globe Foundation of Canada - Canada

Mr. Wiebe received a B.Sc. from the University of Manitoba, a PhD from McGill University, and a Diploma from the Senior Management Development Program of the Government of Canada. He has also been an Associate at the Banff School of Management and the East West Center in Hawaii. For the past 35 years, Mr. Wiebe has been an advisor to governments and corporations in the fields of sustainability, corporate governance and Asia Pacific, holding senior positions in both the public and private sectors. In 2003 he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by the Governor General of Canada.

Currently, Mr. Wiebe is President and CEO of the Globe Foundation of Canada. Until May of 2005, he was also the President and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He is Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Education Centre Network, Co-Chair of the Capital Markets Task Force of the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, Canadian Chair of the Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC) and Chair of PBEC's Corporate Responsibility Committee. Mr. Wiebe also sits on the Board for the Dragon Boat Festival Society, the International Centre for Sustainable Cities, the International Finance Centre, the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation, the McCrae Institute, Desert Gold Corporation, Tonbridge Power Corporation, and the Historica Advisory Board. Additionally, he is a member of the United Nations Finance Initiative's Expert Group on Responsible Investment and the Pacific Council.

Donald Ziraldo

President, Inniskillin Wines - Canada

Donald Ziraldo is Co-founder and President of Inniskillin Wines, one of Canada's world-class wineries, and is a tireless promoter of Canadian wines in global markets. As a Member of the Greenbelt Task Force he is a proponent of sustainable agriculture. He is a member of the Order of Canada and the Founding Chairman of the Vintners Quality Alliance, he has also chaired capital campaigns for both Brock University's Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute and Niagara College's Culinary Institute and Tourism and Hospitality School.

Moses Znaimer

Co-Founder of CityTV - Canada

Moses is known to the Canadian arts and business communities for having brought an original drive in television and allied communications arts into a comfortable alignment with the practical demands of commerce. Moses is the co-founder and former President and Executive Producer of Citytv (Toronto and Vancouver), MuchMusic, MusiquePlus, MuchMoreMusic, MusiMax, Bravo!, SPACE: The Imagination Station, CablePulse24, Star! (The Entertainment Information Station), FashionTelevision, SexTV, and the 'NewNet' group of stations. He was also founding Chairman/Executive Producer of the ACCESS Media Group, comprising ACCESS: The Education Station, Canadian Learning Television, BookTelevision, CourtTV Canada, The Learning Annex, Canada, and the annual ideaCity Conference. His Speakers Corner™ concept and his innovations in televised diversity, videography and on-air 'look and feel' have achieved widespread recognition and use throughout the broadcast world. Internationally, he licensed MuchaMusica, a Spanish language pop music joint venture seen in Argentina and other parts of South America, Jyrki in Finland, Citytv Bogotá in Colombia, and Citytv Barcelona in Catalunia, Spain. He is known to the world broadcasting community for his innovation: the Participatory and Interactive Streetfront, Storefront, Studioless, Television Operating System.