Nominee's Background:
Brown has come a long way from his first job growing tomatoes on a southern New Jersey farm. Now as founder, president, and senior researcher for the Earth Policy Institute, he leads a mission to provide a vision of an environmentally sustainable economy.
The journey from farmer to global environmental leader has been marked by many remarkable accomplishments along the way. After earning a degree in agricultural science from Rutgers University in 1955 and spending the next six months in rural India, Brown began a 14-year career with the U.S. Government's Department of Agriculture. During these years, Brown served as an international agricultural analyst, adviser to Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman on foreign agricultural policy, and administrator of the department's International Agricultural Development Service.
In 1969, Brown left government service to help establish the Overseas Development Council, and then, in 1974, he founded the Worldwatch Institute, which became the premier research institute devoted to the analysis of global environmental issues. In 1984, Brown launched the State of the World reports, annual assessments translated into 30 languages that have become the bible of the global environmental movement. Four years later, Brown expanded Worldwatch's publications by launching World Watch, a bimonthly magazine featuring articles on the Institute's research.
In May 2001, he founded Earth Policy Institute, whose purpose is to provide a vision of an environmentally sustainable economy, a roadmap of how to get from here to there, and an ongoing assessment of this effort, of where we are moving ahead and where we are not.
Brown, a MacArthur Fellow, has been awarded 22 honorary degrees. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the 1987 United Nations' Environment Prize, the 1989 World Wide Fund for Nature Gold Medal, and the 1994 Blue Planet Prize.
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Progressive Criteria:
Immediately promote practices ensuring that 1. resources and ecosystems are used in a non-polluting manner, 2. only biodegradable waste is left behind, 3. all the stakeholders in a community benefit, 4. nature itself is renewed and replenished;
Serve as a liaison among all the Cabinet positions due to the urgent and holistic nature of the Department;
Set up and maintain an Office of Integrated Design where information is shared and disseminated nationwide about examples of successful models of local living communities;
Present comprehensive legislation that focuses on sustainability for all by considering long term natural systems maintanence of food production, energy, waste recycling, lifestyle, economic well being, and environment;
Advise the President and other Cabinet members about successfully integrating community design, economic, energy, public health, education, transportation, labor, and environmental policies for the benefits of all life systems in the U.S.;
Promote local, living communities by setting in place economic incentives (both taxes and subsidies for instance) at the regional, state and local level.
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