Every year, DUGI brings amazing speakers to campus. Just to name a few...

2006-2007

• Ana Lape

2005-2006

• Denis Hayes - the founder of Earth Day

2004-2005

• Elaine Alexi - Elaine is 25 years old and has been involved in several environmental campaigns in the northern Arctic of Canada. She helped to launch a national campaign in Canada called the National Boreal Rendevous in 2003 with the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, a campaign that focused on raising awareness about threatened rivers in Canada. As a participant in the Three Rivers Campaign within the central Yukon of her ancestral territory, Elaine made a strong contribution to ensure that her elders and youth be taken back to within their grounds. Over the summer of 2004, as a recent graduate of the Gulf Islands Film and Television School in British Columbia, Elaine created The Flowing Generations Project, where she led her elders and youth down one of the last remaining pristine rivers in the Arctic, the Wind River, a historic and important river to her people and she documented it in the form of a film.

2003-2004

• Amory Lovins - Amory Lovins is the chief executive officer - research and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a 15-year-old independent, nonprofit resource policy center established to advise firms and governments worldwide on advanced resource productivity and environmental issues. A physicist educated at Harvard and Oxford, Mr. Lovins is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Nissan, Mitchell, and Onassis Prizes. He has briefed nine heads of state, published 26 books, and consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide. The Wall Street Journal named Mr. Lovins among 28 people in the world most likely to change the course of business in the 1990s. His work focuses on transforming the car, electricity, and real estate toward advanced resource productivity.
• Steven Strong-Steve Strong will be giving his talk entitled “ Sunlight is Life .” Sunlight is Life weaves technology, politics and social policy together with humor and vivid graphics to clearly demonstrate that renewable energy is ready here and now and, to help define the path to a sustainable energy future in the post-petroleum world. He has represented the US on the International Energy Agency's expert working group on Solar Electricity in the Built Environment for the past 8 years and has served as an advisor on energy and environmental issues to 3 Governors, 8 US Senators and 3 presidential candidates as well as a number of electric utilities.
  
• Nitin Desai - In 1993 the then United Nations Secretary-General appointed Nitin Desai at the Under-Secretary-General level to head the newly created Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development. In 1997, Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Mr. Desai to coordinate, and subsequently head, the consolidation of the three economic and social Departments. Mr. Desai is also the convenor of the Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs which brings together the heads of all the UN Secretariat entities directly concerned with economic, environmental and social issues.

2002-2003

• William McDonough - William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and shapers of what he and his partners call “The Next Industrial Revolution.” Time recognized him as a “Hero for the Planet” in 1999, stating that “his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that—in demonstrable and practical ways—is changing the design of the world.”

And there are plenty more on tap! Helping with the Distinguished Lecture Series, you get to know incredible people on a first name basis. Get involved now!