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Frank Ackerman (Waste) is an expert on recycling and waste management and author of Why Do We Recycle? He is a program director of the Global Development and Environment Institute and associate professor at Tufts University. Ackerman has been a speaker on issues of waste and recycling in Australia, Japan, the United States, and other countries and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. (RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE)

Tetsuji Arata* (General Vision) is an environmental planner working for the Research Institute for Environment and Society. With a background in landscape architecture and plant ecology he is engaged in research relating to Local Agenda 21 and environment management planning in local governments. Arata is on the staff of the Japan Association of Environment and Society for the 21st Century (JAES21) and is part of that organization’s Environmental Ethics Project. (RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE)

Yoko Arisaka* (Consumption/Lifestyle, Philosophy) is assistant professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of San Francisco and teaches on the faculty of the Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies Program at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim. She is currently completing a book titled Asian Modernism in Prewar Japan: Imperialism and Philosophy, and serves as a co-editor of Nishida and the Question of Modernity, forthcoming. (RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE)

Lis Drake, Sc.D.* (Energy) has been associate director for New Tech-nologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Laboratory since 1990. Prior to joining MIT she was a cryogenic engineer at Arthur D. Little, Inc. (ADL) in the LNG field and eventually became vice president and leader of ADL’s Environment, Health, and Safety Practice. Previously she was Cabot Professor and department chair of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University. (RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE)

Konoe Fujimura* (Lifestyle/Consumption, Environmental Education) has long-time experience in environmental education and will present a Japanese woman’s perspective. She is one of the founders and senior members of the JAES21, and is running a company of her own, specializing in environmental education. (RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE)

Toshihiko Goto(RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE) (Green Business) specializes in environmental management, auditing, and reporting, as well as in “Eco-Funds.” After graduation from Tokyo University, Faculty of Law, he worked in the insurance industry on risk management and insurance production for large oil and petrochemical corporations. In 1991 Goto established the Environmental Auditing Research Group (EARG), a research NGO, and has been co-chair of the group since 1992. (RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE)

Saburo Kato* (General Vision) received his training as a civil engineer at Tokyo University before serving with Japan’s Ministry of Health, Welfare, and the Environment from 1966 to 1993. During this time he represented Japan at the 1972 U.N. Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm and the 1992 “Earth Summit” in Rio. Kato is the founder and president of JAES21. (RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE)

Kazumitsu Matsuo received his training as an environmental researcher at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. He joined JAES21 as a staff member in April 1997. His current work explores the possible regulation of vending machines. Matsuo also serves as secretariat for a group at JAES21 that explores new relationships between people and cars. (RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE)

Susan Murcott* (General Vision) is a lecturer on environmental engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and heads her own company, Ecosystems Engineering, which specializes in water and wastewater technologies for developing countries. She also coordinates the “Sustainable Living Network.” Murcott is a long-time practitioner of Buddhism and is author of The First Buddhist Women: Translations and Commentary on the Therigatha (Parallax Press, Berkeley; 1991). (RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE)

Masaaki Naito (General Vision), professor in the School of Global and Regional Environmental Engineering, Kyoto University, has conducted research on “What an ecologically sound society is and how do we to realize it?” His current study focuses on organic material recycling. A characteristic of Naito’s work is its wide view encompassing not only technology, but society as a whole. (RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE)

Yoshitaka Nitta (Renewable Energy) is professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Science, Yokkaichi University. He is also associate vice-president of the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry. Nitta is currently working on global environment and energy problems and is coordinating an international project in Australia on soil reclamation. (RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE)

Harvey Stone (Green Business) is the Vice President of Marketing for Bizbots, Inc. He has run a communications company specializing in presentation and event design for high-tech companies. Stone has worked with the Natural Step-US since its inception, producing training and presentations for this NGO. His Ph.D. from Union Graduate School is in Clinical Psychology. (RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE)

Mimi Takayanagi (Intern) holds a Masters in Environmental Engineering from Hokkaido University. She has worked for the Japanese Environmental Agency on water quality and waste management issues and legislation since 1995. She is currently working toward a second Masters degree in Technology and Policy at MIT. (RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE)

Yukari Miyamae* (Translator), Boulder (RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE)
Susan Stansbury* (Commentator), Foundation for Global Community,Palo Alto (RETURN TO SYMPOSIUM PAGE)

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