USGBC COLORADO CHAPTER
FALL CONFERENCE AND EXPO

FORT COLLINS, COLORADO
SEPTEMBER 20-22 2007

Heidi VanGenderen

Friday, September 21st. 8:50 am to 9:50 am

Heidi serves as Governor Bill Ritter’s Climate Change Advisor, tasked with developing a Climate Change Action Plan for Colorado.  Prior to being selected by Governor Ritter, Heidi was Senior Associate to the Wirth Chair in Environmental and Community Development Policy at the University of Colorado where she organized, researched and wrote about issues related to sustainable  development.  Heidi has over twenty years of experience working on natural resource issues.  She is a graduate of Carleton College and is a third-generation Colorado native.

         Clint Wilder

Friday, September 21st. 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Clint Wilder is a veteran award-winning business and technology journalist and co-author of The Clean Tech Revolution. He joined Clean Edge in 2002 after 17 years covering the high tech and Internet industries for Optimize, Information Week, Computerworld, and Corporate Computing magazines. He won the 2002 American Society of Business Publications Editors award for best feature series. As contributing editor at Clean Edge, he often writes the monthly CE Views column on the cleanedge.com web site, co-authors the firm's annual Clean Energy Trends Report, and has helped research and write reports for Clean Edge clients in industry, finance, government, and the NGO sector. Wilder is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events including United Nations World Environment Day, the Wharton Private Equity Conference, Columbia Business School's Social Enterprise Conference, DowJones' VentureOne, and the AustralAsian Clean Tech Forum in Melbourne, Australia.

  Jonathan Waterman

Friday, September 21st. 715 pm to 8:30 pm

Jonathan Waterman started shooting photographs on his expeditions three decades ago, but also found his calling as a writer and author.   He has starred in and written films for television, including “The Logan Challenge” (PBS, 1991), “Surviving Denali” (ESPN 1004) and “Odyssey Among the Unit” (OLN 2000).  He’s mostly known for his time exploring the North, detailed in six of his nine books and in journals such as The Washington Post, Adventure, Hooked on the Outdoors, Outside, Backpacker, Climbing, and Rock and Ice

In June 2005, W.W. Norton released his Where Mountains Are Nameless; Passion and Politics in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.  His awards include: NEA Literary Fellowship, Colorado State Council of the Arts Literary Award, The Banff Book Festival’s Best Adventure Book, The American Alpine Club Literary Award, and the National Park Service Special Achievement Award.