CRRA 2007 Conference

CRRA• 31st Annual Conference • July 29 - August 1, 2007 • Marina Hotel • San Pedro

Featured Speakers

SUNDAY

John Zavalney
John Zavalney has been with LAUSD for 19 years. He is currently the secondary science advisor working out of the San Pedro Math Science Technology Center. John started a partnership with the Department of Fish & Wildlife to take in animals that were smuggled into the country. As result of these efforts John won several prestigious educational awards including, the Disney American Teacher Award, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching and the President’s Council on Environmental Quality Professional Development Award. Currently, after being trained by Mr. Al Gore and his staff, John is on a mission to get the word out about the dangers of global warming and offer suggestions and how we can help to solve this crisis.

MONDAY

The Honorable Janice Hahn
Councilwoman, 15th District, City of Los Angeles Janice Hahn was elected as Councilwoman of the 15th District of the City of Los Angeles in June of 2001. In response to concerns about port-related truck traffic on Los Angeles streets and highways, as well as concerns about air quality and port related emissions in the communities she serves, Councilwoman Hahn led recent efforts to open gates at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to trucks on nights and weekends. The program, which has been in place since July of 2004, is already moving 35% of cargo during off-peak hours, significantly reducing road congestion throughout the region. Councilwoman Janice Hahn is the daughter of the late Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn and the sister of former Los Angeles Mayor, James Hahn. She is a lifelong resident of Los Angeles and lives in San Pedro.

Bridgett Luther
As Director of the Department of Conservation, Bridgett Luther oversees a department within the Resources Agency, with a budget of $915 million and more than 600 employees in 15 offices around California. The Department of Conservation has a wide variety of programs, including: AND Resource Protection , Recycling, Geological Survey , Mine Reclamation , Oil, Gas and Geothermal. Ms. Luther has a long history of involvement in environmental protection. While a resident of North Carolina, she helped create the first recycling program in the history of Mecklenburg County. She created and founded the Carolinas office of the Trust for Public Land, a national land conservation organization. After moving to California three years ago, Ms. Luther was the national development director for REP America (Republicans for Environmental Protection), which supports proenvironment Republicans.

S. David Freeman
President, Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners S. David Freeman was appointed to the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and confirmed by Los Angeles City Council on September 9, 2005. President Jimmy Carter appointed Freeman as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1977, where he cut sulfur oxide emissions in half. He then served as general manager of large public power agencies for the next two decades, including the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, from 1997 to 2001.
Freeman has won awards from the Los Angeles Coalition for Clean Air, National Wildlife Association and Global Green for his devotion to clean air, clean water, and renewable energy. Freeman served as a U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II, transporting gasoline across the North Atlantic. He authored Energy: the New Era in 1974, holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech, and an L.L.B. from the University of Tennessee.

John Francis,
Planetwalker
After witnessing a massive oil spill in San Francisco Bay in 1971, John Francis stopped using motorized vehicles. He gave voice to his protest by taking a vow of silence, which lasted 17-years. In 1983, he set off on an 18-year pilgrimage, walking across North and South America, to raise environmental awareness and promote earth stewardship. While silent, he taught courses, and obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees in environmental studies. Francis regained his voice on Earth Day 1990, and now shares what he learned in his years of silence. Francis, founded and directs Planetwalk, an educational organization dedicated to encouraging peace among people by making peace with nature. In 2005, he published his book Planetwalker: How to Change Your World One Step at a Time.

David Refkin, NRC President
David J. Refkin was named Director of Sustainable Development for
Time Inc. in January 2004. In his current position, Mr. Refkin oversees the environmental and sustainable development activities of
the company. His primary areas of focus are forestry (specifically Time Inc.’s Certified Sustainable Forestry Program), global climate change and recycling, including Re-Mix (recycling magazines is excellent). Mr. Refkin serves as Board President of the National Recycling Coalition and also serves on the board of Trustees of the H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. Mr. Refkin was Time Inc.’s representative on the Paper Task Force, a group organized by the Environmental Defense Fund, and was one of the authors of “Purchasing & Using Environmentally Preferable Paper.” Currently he is Time Inc’s representative on the Paper Working Group, a group of 12 companies, organized by Metafore, promoting the availability of environ-mentally preferable paper. Mr. Refkin also represents Time Warner as its Liaison delegate on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
(WBCSD).

TUESDAY

David B. Jones
Dave currently is an Associate Director in the Waste Management Division of EPA Region 9. His current program responsibilities include pollution prevention, waste minimization, recycling, energy conservation, industry partnership, and tribal solid waste programs. In his 30 years at EPA, Dave has been a manager in the Superfund hazardous waste site clean-up, wastewater permitting, water quality standards, drinking water, enforcement, wastewater treatment plant construction grant, information management, and hazardous waste management programs in the San Francisco Regional office. Dave received a B.S. and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.

Greig Smith
Greig Smith was elected to Los Angeles City Council in 2003. For more than 20 years, Greig has been a leader in the effort to end the use of landfills in urban areas, and has been at the forefront of the movement to shut down the Sunshine Canyon landfill in Granada Hills. Before Greig was elected, Mayor James K. Hahn recognized his unique experience by appointing him to the City’s Landfill Oversight Committee, where he chaired the Future Alternatives Technology subcommittee. He is dedicated to closing all neighborhood landfills in order to preserve the health and safety of our families and communities.

Greig authored and introduced his RENEW LA plan in 2005. RENEW LA stands for Recovering Energy, Natural Resources and Economic Benefit from Waste for Los Angeles. This 20-year blueprint will end the City’s use of landfills by maximizing recycling and reuse, and converting much of the trash that currently would go to landfills into clean electricity and valuable raw materials. It would create a new, clean, hightechnology hightechnology sector with high-value jobs in Los Angeles.

Jon M. Myers
Assistant Director for Public Affairs, CIWMB, Jon is responsible for overseeing all public outreach activity as well developing programs designed at changing public behavior and attitude on waste reduction, reuse and recycling. Furthermore, Jon works with Board members in writing speeches, developing marketing material and acting as Board spokesperson. Prior to his appointment to CIWMB Jon held the position of Deputy Director for Constituent Affairs for the Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger where he oversaw correspondence to and from California residents as well as people from around the world writing to the California Governor. Before joining the 2003 California Recall Campaign for then candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger which brought him to Sacramento, Jon was the Director of Public Affairs for a public relations agency in San Diego, California. Jon also worked on many policy issues in the San Diego region during his tenure as both Senior Policy Advisor to then Mayor Susan Golding and County Supervisor Bill Horn including issues regarding land-use, energy and transportation.

Sally Brown
Professor, University of Washington Sally Brown got her BA in political science from Williams College, MS and PhD in Soils from the University of Maryland. Her research has focused on use of residuals including composts and municipal biosolids as a means to solve environmental problems. She was a member of the National Academy of Science panel on Bioavailability of Contaminants in Soils and Sediments and is currently a member of the Academy’s standing committee on Soils. Sally is a Research Associate Professor at the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington.

WEDNESDAY

Thomas E. Kiser
Thomas E. Kiser is Chairman, CEO and founder of Professional Supply Inc. (PSI), an international leader in the innovation, design and application of the most advanced heating, ventilating and energy systems in the world. Mr. Kiser, an aeronautical engineer, is a pioneer in the field of energy and has developed many revolutionary patents that have changed the way industries integrate and utilize HVAC and process energy loads. He is famous for the “Kiser Concept” which was installed in the Ford Motor Company in 1998 and produced 15 million dollars in annual energy savings. That year, Ford also received an ASHRAE National Energy Savings Award. Current annual energy savings realized by Ford Motor is in excess of $50 million/year (2006).

Mr. Kiser is known throughout the industrial world as America’s Energy Coach. While saving companies millions of dollars, he has also shared his expertise and strong discipline with leaders across the world, including China where he was appointed Senior Energy Advisor to the Shanghai Economic Commission in 2001 at the request of then Vice President Al Gore. His concepts and leadership are in high demand as the world struggles to meet the intense energy demands today and in the future. Tom Kiser’s energy systems and energy answers will continue to change the lives of millions of people and radically alter the way companies use energy.

Mr. Kiser is also the creator of a training concept referred to as Corporate Coaching, which specializes in implementing an Energy Sustainability Team into the corporate culture of a company for future generations. He believes that Sustainability of Energy Efficiency can become a new corporate culture that drives an organization’s economic engine. As a professional speaker and energy coach, his strategies continue to produce life changing and company enhancing results.

Professional Supply Inc.’s corporate headquarters is located in Fremont, Ohio where
Mr. Kiser resides with his wife, three sons, a daughter and 3 grandchildren.