Brad Allenby

A longtime columnist with GreenBiz.com, Brad Allenby is currently a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University. Prior to his work at the university, he was AT&T's vice president of Environment, Health and Safety.

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Brad Allenby is currently Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and of Law, at Arizona State University, having moved from his previous position as the Environment, Health and Safety Vice President for AT&T in 2004. Dr. Allenby received his BA from Yale University in 1972, his J. D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 1978, his Masters in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1979, his Masters in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers University in the Spring of 1989, and his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers in 1992. He is currently President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology; Chair of the AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; a Batten Fellow in Residence at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration; and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. From 1995 to 1997, he was Director for Energy and Environmental Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and from 1991 to 1992 he was the J. Herbert Holloman Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, DC. His areas of expertise include Design for Environment, industrial ecology, telework and netcentric organizations, and earth systems engineering and management.
  • How can we adopt an ethical and responsible personal stance given the increased complexity, multiculturalism, and contingency of the anthropogenic Earth? By Brad Allenby ...

  • Where should one seek grounding in a world where even the scientific discourse is losing at least some of its privileged status? By Brad Allenby ...

  • Science is segueing back into a structure where once again authority, not observation, is the basis of the exercise of power and establishment of truth by the elite. By Brad Allenby ...

  • The information revolution that is the Internet threatens to make current mental models of environmentalism obsolete. By Brad Allenby ...

  • Financial value is completing its historical shift from the physical to the informational realm. Is this a boon for environmentalism? By Brad Allenby ...

  • The perception of the city as the ultimate human environment has lead to a widespread impression that cities are inherently unsustainable. But as complex adaptive systems, cities have plenty to...

  • Columnist Brad Allenby has an unusual prescription for revitalizing the sluggish environmental discourse -- just take a look at . . . Las Vegas? ...

  • Classic, ideological environmentalism, born of the 1960's, is not just in trouble; as the Nietzschean "The Death of Environmentalism" notes, it is deceased as a viable mainstream public policy...

  • The cultural downside of "guns, germs, and steel." By Brad Allenby ...

  • Looking at humans from the outside, and starting with first principles, what is the dominant characteristic one would expect to find in a species that in an extraordinarily short time evolves to...

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