Peter M. Lavigne
F.O.R.San
Bernard
Guest Speaker
Pete Lavigne,
M.S.E.L., J.D. is an environmental attorney,
organizer
educator and
writer. In July 2006 he was appointed Director
of the Colorado
Water Workshop
and Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies
at Western
State College of
Colorado. An avid sea kayaker and mountain
climber, Peter
founded and still
teaches in the Watershed Management Professional
Program
of the Executive
Leadership Institute and is an adjunct Associate
Professor
in the Public
Administration Graduate Program and in the
Leadership for
Ecology, Culture
and Learning Program at Portland State
University, where he
teaches a variety
of intensive courses in sustainability, natural
resources,
and water policy.
He is co-founder
and a board member of the Rivers Foundation of
the Americas
(www.riversfoundation.org)
where he served as the first president and CEO
from 2000-2005.
Among his efforts at the Rivers Foundation was
co-authoring
the article
ReThinking Green Philanthropy with David W. Orr.
Pete is author or
co-author of dozens of articles and
presentations on
environmental and
other issues, in publications as diverse as The
New York
Times, the UCLA
Journal of Environmental Law and Policy and
River Voices. He
is co-author of a
book on land use and aesthetic preservation,
Vermont
Townscape, and
has chapters in the books Voices for the
Watershed:
Environmental
Issues in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Drainage
Basin and
Forest
Communities, Community Forests.
He has served as
executive director of the Merrimack River
Watershed Council
as Northeast
Coordinator for American Rivers, executive
director of the
Westport River
Watershed Alliance, as Deputy Director of For
the Sake of the
Salmon, and as
legislative lobbyist for the Vermont Natural
Resources
Council. He also
has extensive experience in political campaigns
including
several
presidential primary campaigns in New Hampshire.
As Director of
River Network's national River Leaders Program
from 1992-1996
he formed the
River Alliance of Wisconsin and helped to start
or strengthen
over twenty other
state and regional river watershed protection
groups
throughout the
United States and Canada.
If you have a question
that you would like for Peter to address- please
contact Pat Webb, at
pat@sanbernardriver.com or call 964.4503
