Speakers
Mr. Denis Hayes
President, Bullitt Foundation; Chair, Earth Day Network; and Co-Founder of Earth Day
Denis Hayes is President of the Bullitt Foundation, a $100 million environmental philanthropy located in Seattle. Denis is also the immediate past chair of the Energy Foundation—a joint project of the Hewlett, Packard, MacArthur, McKnight, and Mertz-Gilmore Foundations to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy in the United States and China.
In 1970, Denis was National Coordinator of the first Earth Day, an event often credited with launching the modern American environmental movement. Denis still chairs the board of the Earth Day Network, which is now active in 170 nations, having added China in 2000 and the Ukraine last year.
During the Carter Administration, Denis headed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In 1982, he was Regents' Professor of Energy and Resources at the University of California at Santa Cruz. From 1983 to 1988, Denis was an adjunct professor of energy engineering at Stanford University.
In 1979, Denis received the national Jefferson Medal for Greatest Public Service by an Individual under 35. In 1985, he was given the John Muir Award by the Sierra Club. He has also received the highest honors awarded by the National Wildlife Federation, the Natural Resources Council of America, the Humane Society of the United States, and the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility.
In 1993, Denis received the Charles Greeley Abbot Award of the American Solar Energy Society; in 2000, he was elected as a Fellow of the Society; and in 2006, he was elected chairman of the Society's board of trustees. Denis is the only North American to have received the Global Environmental Fund's Global Environmental Leadership Award.
Time Magazine selected Denis as one of its "Heroes of the Planet," and the National Audubon Society included him in its list of the 100 Environmental Heroes of the Twentieth Century. He has been profiled as "Newsmaker of the Week" by ABC News and as "Today's Person in the News" by The New York Times.
Links and Publications
http://www.ef.org/documents/Hayes_Final.pdf
