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Symposium Home Highlights
Keynote speaker, Daniel C. Esty, is the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University and is the Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Center for Business and Environment. His book, Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, written by Dan Esty and Andrew Winston of Yale University, provides clear how-to advice and concrete examples from companies that are achieving both environmental and business success. Green to Gold explores what every executive must know to manage the environmental challenges facing business and society. Based on the authors' years of experience and hundreds of interviews with corporate leaders around the world, Green to Gold shows how companies generate lasting value--cutting costs, reducing risk, driving new revenues and creating strong brands--by building environmental thinking into their core business strategies.
Walter spent his boyhood years in Venezuela, where his father worked as a field engineer for a petroleum company. The exotic birds in the jungles of South America caught the attention of the young boy and his interest in them eventually led Crawford to his life’s work — the propagation, rescue, rehabilitation, and preservation of birds, especially birds of prey. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, WBS is North America's premiere facility for the conservation of birds, and is recognized as being on the leading edge of public awareness regarding the plight of bird species worldwide. The non-profit organization works to preserve Earth's biological diversity and secure the future of threatened bird species in their natural environments through education, captive breeding, field studies and rehabilitation.
WHC will also be featuring the beautiful vocals of Jessica Elbert. Singing since the age of five, Jessica was raised in a family of singers, getting her start in church and school choirs. She is the recipient of numerous vocal awards, including "Best Soloist" by the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) in 2001 and other nods from Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards (CARA) as a runner up for the "Best Mixed Collegiate Song" for one of her solo works, and was also included on the Best of Collegiate A Cappella (BOCA) in 2002 for another of her solo works. After exploring a number of musical genres during her early years in New York, a chance series of events led her to study with Peter Eldridge, a noted jazz musician and teacher. Jessica has focused on the study and performance of jazz ever since, regularly performing in the New York metropolitan area and along the East Coast. Jessica released her debut album Anlage, an exciting collection of songs with accompaniment by such notables as tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm, and is a blend of popular standards (I Remember You, Midnight Sun) and Brazilian classics (Dindi, A Little Tear), all that showcase Jessica's remarkable talent and stunning ability so early into her career. |
