Board of Directors

Celine Rich, Executive Director

Celine has been working with Post Carbon Institute and Global Public Media since its inception. She has led community cultural development projects in Vancouver for six years previous to working with Post Carbon Institute. Celine is the co-author of the forthcoming Relocalize Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil (forthcoming in 2006) in collaboration with Julian Darley, Dave Room and Richard Heinberg. Celine has a MA in Design for the Environment from the Chelsea College of Art and Design, UK; a BA in Fine Arts from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Canada, and a Certificate of Marketing from Kwantlen College, Canada, 1987.

Richard Douthwaite
Richard Douthwaite is an economist and author. His books, The Growth Illusion: How Economics Growth has Enriched the Few, Impoverished the Many and Endangered the Planet (New Society, 1999) and Short Circuit (Green Books, 1996), give dozens of examples of currency, banking, energy and food production systems which communities can use to make themselves less dependent on an increasingly unstable world economy. In 1998-9 he was a consultant to an EU-funded project to establish experimental community currencies in Scotland, Ireland, Amsterdam and Madrid.

Dr. William Rees
Dr. William Rees is a Professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC. His teaching and research emphasize the public policy and planning implications of global environmental trends and the necessary ecological conditions for sustaining socioeconomic activity. Much of his work is in the realm of ecological economics and human ecology. He is best known in this field for his invention of 'ecological footprint analysis', a quantitative tool that estimates humanity's ecological impact on the ecosphere in terms of appropriated ecosystem (land and water) area. Dr. Rees was awarded a UBC Killam Research Prize (1996) in acknowledgement of his research achievements.

Anthony Duggleby
President and Chief Executive Officer of Katabatic Power, a California wind energy company in the pre-development stage of two major wind farm sites. Mr. Duggleby is a Canadian wind energy pioneer with several decades of construction experience in West Coast waters and wide experience of water power and of the electrical power generation and transmission industry. He runs his own wood and metal workshops for manufacturing items ranging from boats to full-scale meteorological towers. He has long been interested in manufacturing co-operatives, especially Mondragon in Northern Spain.

Richard Bell
Dick Bell has had a long and distinguished career bringing political and activist organizations to the online world. He is currently serving as media director for Friends of the Earth. He served as Blogmaster for the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign. During his tenure at the Democratic National Committee between 1993-1996, he oversaw the development of the first national party website and a massive bulletin board. He served as vice president for communications at the Worldwatch Institute from 1997-2002. He won the 1982 National Council of Teachers English "George Orwell Award" as co-author of "Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Myths, and Mindset" (Sierra Club Books).

Philip Jensen

Philip Jensen grew up in upstate New York and received a B.A. in applied mathematics from Harvard College. He recently retired from a career in computer programming, culminating with an exciting five years at Google, Inc. He now does extensive reading in an effort to understand the coming challenges for the human species.

 

 Randall Wallace

Randall was trained as a musician at Sarah Lawrence College, but upon completion he changed direction by assisting and training under 40 different editorial photographers during the course of three years. Randall shot photographs commercially until 2005 when he found out about peak oil and left New York after 27 years. Randall works full-time as a board member of the Wallace Global Fund, focusing on peak oil related issues and other grant making concerns. Randall is still an active musician and is presently finishing a cd and dvd for Roosevelt's Hyde Park Institute of Henry Wallace's campaign songs of 1948, on which Randall also performs. Randall currently lives in Big Sur, California with his wife Jackie (active co-founder of droppingknowledge.org) and their two children.

 

 

 Debbie Cook

Debbie Cook is serving her second term on the Huntington Beach City Council. She served as Mayor in 2002 and has also served on numerous regional boards including the Southern California Association of Governments Regional Council, the SCAG Energy Working Group (Chair), the Orange County Council of Governments and ASPO-USA. Debbie holds a Bsc from Cal State Long Beach, a Jurisdoctorate from Western State College of Law, and a license to practice law in California.  She is also a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government National Preparedness Leadership Initiative and Leadership Southern California. Debbie is a 40 year resident of Orange County. Prior to her election she served on the Bolsa Chica Land Trust legal team.  

 This Board of Directors also serves as the Board of Directors for MetaFoundation, the legal entity of Post Carbon Institute