Global Service Corps

Bob Ferris

Executive Director
Center for a New American Dream

MA Zoology, San Jose State University
BA Biology and Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Cruz

Career and Personal Web Pages:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/bobferris

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=1076947502&ref=profile

http://transitionus.ning.com/profile/BobFerris

Other Efforts:

www.carbonshredders.org

www.kingsburycommunityfarm.org

www.valleyfutures.net

http://transitionus.ning.com

Bob on Video:

http://www.youtube.com/user/robertmferris (see my videos and favorites)

Bob on the Radio:

Vermont Public Radio—

http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/81799/

The Carbon Shredders Show—

http://www.carbonshredders.org/node/100

Vermont Commons Radio—

http://www.vtcommons.org/content/free-vermont-radio-designing-independent-vermont-vernacular-july-15-2008

Vermont commons Radio—

http://www.vtcommons.org/content/free-vermont-radio-carbon-shredding-energy-independence-july-22-2008

Democracy Now— http://i1.democracynow.org/2001/3/27/arctic_drilling_bush_administration_rewrites_the

Bio:

Bob has been a leader in the conservation, environmental, and sustainability arenas for more than 20 years.  Best known for innovative problem solving and insightful campaigns, Bob has worked on issues ranging from wolf recovery and federal farm policy to climate change and green building.  He has held leadership positions with the Wildlife Habitat Council, Defenders of Wildlife, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Community Environmental Council, and Yestermorrow Design/Build School.  More recently he launched the Fossil-Free by ’33 campaign in Southern California and was a co-founder of the Carbon Shredders—a low carbon diet group.  He is also an accomplished writer with a new book on natural building, several seminal policy and campaign documents as well as dozens of opinion pieces.

At New American Dream he hopes to accelerate the societal change needed to build a sustainable future for all life.  He and his wife, a green architect and landscape designer, also hope to take full advantage of the “extra” day by exploring options in urban homesteading.

 Past and Current Affiliations:

­- Member–Biodiversity on Private Lands Steering Committee, PCEQ (1992-1993).
­- Member–Cooper River Task Force (1993-1994).
­- Member–Black Bear Conservation Committee (1995-2003).
­- Member–Conservation Network (1995-Present).
­- Participant–Keystone Dialogue on Economic Incentives (1995).
­­- Member–Building on Leopold’s Legacy Conference Committee (1998-1999)
­- Member–Bison Working Group, PCEQ (1997-1998).
­- Member–MD Task Force on Mute Swans (1999-2000).
­- Staff–Green Group CAFO Task Force (2000).
­- Advisor–National Invasive Species Council (2000-2001).
­- Facilitator–2001 Farm Policy Alliance Summit (2001).
­- Staff Vice Chair–Green Group Farm Bill Task Force (2001).
­- Member—Advisory Group to 101 in Motion (2004-2005)
­- Vice President—Mad River Housing Coalition (2006-Present)
­- Member—Steering Committee Kingsbury Farm (2007-2008)
­- Co-founder—Mad River Carbon Shredders (2007-Present)
­- Advisor—Rootswork (2008-Present)