Sampling5101 South 11th Street of ● Notable Arlington, VA 22204 Signatures ● USA ● www.steadystate.org on [email protected] the ● +1 703-901-7190 Sampling of Notable Signatures on the CASSE Position on Economic Growth The scientifically grounded CASSE position points out the trade-off between economic growth and environmental protection and proposes the steady state economy as a sustainable alternative. Thousands of individuals have signed the position, including many renowned thinkers and leaders. Some of these signatories are listed below. Karim Ahmed, President of the Global Children's Health and Environment Fund; Secretary/Treasurer and Senior Staff Advisor for the National Council for Science and the Environment; past Deputy Director of Health, Environment and Development at the World Resources Institute; past Research Director and Senior Scientist at Natural Resources Defense Council. Will Allen, Founder-in-chief and CEO of Growing Power Inc., a farm and community food center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; former professional basketball player; John D. and Katherine T. McArthur Foundation Fellow and “genius grant” recipient; named in Time magazine’s 100 World’s Most Influential People, May 2010. John Asafu-Adjaye, Professor of economics at the University of Queensland; author of Environmental Economics for Non-Economists; prolific scholar of environmental and natural resource economics. Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; cofounder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Michael Baranski, Professor of biology at Catawba College; past president of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society, Association of Southeastern Biologists, and the North Carolina Academy of Science. Maude Barlow, Chairperson of the Council of Canadians; co-founder of the Blue Planet Project; councilor on the World Future Council; winner of the Right Livelihood Award; former Senior Advisor on Water to the United Nations; author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water, as well as numerous other books. Albert Bartlett, Emeritus professor of physics at the University of Colorado; former president of the American Association of Physics Teachers; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; author of The Essential Exponential! John Battle, Former member of U.K. Parliament for West Leeds. Ross Beaty, Geologist and resource company entrepreneur; founder of Pan American Silver and Lumina Copper; patron of the Beaty Biodiversity Center at UBC and founder of the Sitka Foundation. Ed Begley, Jr., actor and environmentalist. He is best known for his role as Dr. Victor Ehrlich, on the television series St. Elsewhere, and his most recent reality show about green living called Living With Ed. Wendell Berry, Farmer; author of more than forty books; past fellow of both the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Brent Blackwelder, President of Friends of the Earth; founder of American Rivers. John Bodley, Professor of anthropology at Washington State University; author of Cultural Anthropology: Tribe, State, and the Global System, Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, and Victims of Progress. David Bollier, Author of The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State (2013); co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group; co-director of the Commons Law Project; and Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Gary Borisy, President and Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory, recipient of the NIH Merit award and the Carl Zeiss award from the German Society for Cell Biology. Peter Brown, Professor of natural resource sciences and geography at McGill University; author of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy and The Commonwealth of Life: Economics for a Flourishing Earth. Corey Bradshaw, Professor of ecology at the University of Adelaide; co-director of the Climate and Ecology Centre and the Global Ecology Group; recipient of the Australian Ecology Research Award; founder and editor of ConservationBytes blog. Richard Brinker, Dean of the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. Bob Brown, Dean of the College of Natural Resources at North Carolina State University, and past president of The Wildlife Society. James Brown, Professor of biology at the University of New Mexico; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; member of the National Academy of Sciences; author of Macroecology; coauthor of Biogeography. Marvin Brown, Professor of business and organizational ethics at the University of San Francisco; author of Corporate Integrity: Rethinking Organizational Ethics and Leadership and Civilizing the Economy: A New Economics of Provision; Alumni Achievement Award from Nebraska Wesleyan University. Melanie Buffel, Coordinator of British Columbia Asset Building Collaborative. John Byrne, Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy and Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP) at the University of Delaware; contributing author since 1992 to Working Group III of the IPCC, which shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize; chairman of the board of the Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment (FREE); cofounder and co-executive director of the Joint Institute for a Sustainable Energy and Environmental Future; founding co-chair of the Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility Oversight Board; Policy Advisor to the Environmental Forum of the Korea National Assembly; author of 17 books and over 150 research articles. Philip Cafaro, Professor of philosophy at Colorado State University; author of The Pursuit of Virtue and Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden. Robert Cahalan, Head of the Climate and Radiation Branch at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center; Fellow of the American Meteorological Society; President of the International Radiation Commission. John Cairns, Professor of environmental biology at Virginia Tech University; emeritus director of the Center for Environmental and Hazardous Materials Studies; member of the National Academy of Sciences; author of 63 books, including Goals and Conditions for a Sustainable Planet and Handbook of Ecotoxicology. Joe Cech, Professor of wildlife, fish, and conservation biology at the University of California, Davis; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the Copeia editorial board. Mark A. Chandler, Climate scientist at Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; researcher on paleoclimate modeling. David Cobb, Presidential candidate of the Green Party of the United States in 2004; steering committee member of Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County; cofounder of the Green Institute. P a g e | 2 John B. Cobb, Jr., Founder of the Center for Process Studies; author of Sustainability: Economics, Ecology, and Justice and The Earthist Challenge to Economism; coauthor with Herman Daly of For the Common Good. Yves Cochet, Elected Member of the French National Assembly; former member of the European Parliament for France. John Coulter, President of Sustainable Population Australia; former parliamentary Senate leader of the Australian Democrats. Jean-Michel Cousteau, President of Ocean Futures Society, known as the “Voice for the Ocean;” producer of over 80 films; recipient of the Emmy Award, Peabody Award, Environmental Hero Award, Ocean Hero Award, National Marine Sanctuaries Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award; instrumental in designation of Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument (then the largest marine protected area in the world); first person to serve as environmental diplomat at Olympic Games. Edward Crummey, founding executive director of the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance and the founding president of the Clean Air Foundation. Betty Dabney, Professor of environmental health at the University of Maryland; member of the Governor's Commission for Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities (Maryland); past employee of IBM, Dow Chemical, and CIBA. Herman Daly, Professor of ecological economics at the University of Maryland; cofounder of the International Society for Ecological Economics; author of Beyond Growth and Steady-State Economics; coauthor of For the Common Good; recipient of the Right Livelihood Award. Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange, founder and executive co-producer of the Green Festivals, executive Director of the Global Citizen Center. John Day, Professor emeritus of ecology at Louisiana State University; coauthor of Aquatic Ecosystems and Global Climate Change. Marie Dennis, Director, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns; Co-President, Pax Christi International; Ambassador of Peace, Pax Christi USA, prolific author and contributing editor for Sojourners. Richard Denniss, Executive director of the Australia Institute; coauthor of Affluenza: When Too Much Is Never Enough. Marq de Villiers, Author of Water: the Fate of Our Most Precious Resource, which won the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction, and Our Way Out: Principles for a Post-Apocalyptic World, among other books; Member of the Order of Canada (appointed in 2010). Lumumba Di-Aping, Ambassador of the Republic of the Sudan to the United Nations; past chair and chief negotiator of the Group of 77. Mark Diesendorf, Deputy Director of the Institute of Environmental Studies, UNSW Australia; Founding Director of the