Allen Hershkowitz

Dr. Allen Hershkowitz

Hershkowitz at Fenway

Dr. Allen Hershkowitz is the president and co-founder of the Green Sports Alliance, a non-profit that helps sports teams, leagues and venues enhance their environmental stewardship. Previously, Dr. Hershkowitz served as a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council for 26 years, from 1988 and 2014.

He is a visiting scholar in the MBA Program of the Presidio Graduate School where he teaches a course on sustainability and sports.[1]

In 2009, Yoga + Joyful Living magazine dubbed him "The Godfather of Greening" for his work on sports and media events.[2]

Career

Dr. Hershkowitz joined the NRDC senior staff in 1988. He led large scale initiatives on critical issues including sustainable development, recycling, forestry, paper industry impacts, mountaintop coal mining, waste incineration, and medical wastes. While at NRDC, he was the director of the Sports and Entertainment Greening Project, the Solid Waste Project and the Paper Industry Project. His work on the Sports Greening Project in 2012 earned the Beyond Sport “Sport and the Environment Award” at a pre-Olympics event in London.

Dr. Hershkowitz has also led the charge in the greening of American icons and entertainment groups. He is the co-founder of the Broadway Green Alliance, where he currently serves on the Steering Committee. He helped lead the greening of Warner Music Group. He is also the environmental advisor to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Oscars telecast and the GRAMMY Awards. Dr. Hershkowitz designed the greening of the 2007 - 2013 Academy Awards,[3] and the 50th, 51st and 52nd GRAMMY Awards.[4]

Dr. Hershkowitz is the environmental advisor to many professional sports leagues, including Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, and many individual professional teams. Dr. Hershkowitz helped establish Major League Baseball,[5] the National Basketball Association,[6] the U.S. Tennis Association,[7] the National Hockey League[8] and Major League Soccer environmental programs. His work earned him the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2008 Environmental Merit Award.[9] Dr. Hershkowitz also served on the 2011 NCAA Final Four Sustainability Committee.

Dr. Hershkowitz’s work has ranged from advising corporations such as DuPont, Disney, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Hugo Neu and Sims Metal Management in their sustainability efforts, to protecting ecologically compromised areas in Belize,[10] fragile Appalachian ecosystems threatened by mountaintop removal coal mining,[11] the boreal forests[12] and other ecologically fragile areas. Dr. Hershkowitz led negotiations in NRDC’s 2006 forestry protection settlement with Bowater Paper Company,[13] which led to protection of the Cumberland Plateau region. He founded “Testing the Waters,” NRDC’s annual documentation of beach closures.

Affiliations

Hershkowitz served as a member of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science Advisory Board Subcommittee on Sludge Incineration.[14] Other appointments include the Principal Contractor for the United States Congressional Office of Technology Assessment's Report to Congress on Municipal Solid Waste Management.[15]

Personal Life

Dr. Hershkowitz grew up in Brooklyn and currently resides in Waccabuc, New York. He is married to Dale Clearwater. He has three children, Dylan, Lea, and Connor, as well as two step-children, Gabriel and Lily. Dr. Hershkowitz was previously married to Meg Carey, the founder and current president of MCEnergy, which is now owned by Yardi Systems.

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Faculty—Allen Hershkowitz at Presidio Graduate School
  2. ↑ 1. http://anywherebutacubicle.com/pdfs/Hershkowitz.pdf Yoga + Joyful Living, Fall 2009, “The Godfather of Greening,” By Anna Dubrovsky
  3. ↑ http://environment.about.com/od/environmentalevents/a/academy_awards.htm About.com, By Larry West
  4. ↑ http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/02/stepping-out-onto-the-100-post-consumer-waste-recycled-red-carpet.html LA Times, Greenspace Blog, By Susan Carpenter
  5. ↑ http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080430&content_id=2616746&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb MLB.com, “Phils to lead clean energy movement: By Andy Jasner
  6. ↑ http://www.nba.com/magic/news/green_week_040610.html NBA.com, “Magic Support NBA Green Week 2010”
  7. ↑ http://www.reuse.li/reuse-long-island-blog-long-island-state-of-mind-material-reuse-building-deconstruction-construction-recycling/?Tag=usta Reuse Long Island, “The Reuse Revolution: The U.S. Open You Didn't See” By Amanda Wills
  8. ↑ . http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=512477 NHL.com, “Mike Richter goes green with NHL panel at Fenway” By Bob Condor
  9. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laurie-david-and-allen-hershkowitz-phd/ HuffingtonPost.com
  10. ↑ http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressreleases/010410a.asp “Victory in Belize”
  11. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-perks/country-stars-come-out-ag_b_355386.html Huffington Post, “Country Stars Come Out Against Mountaintop Removal,” By Rob Perks
  12. ↑ http://www.livinggreenmag.com/archives/climate_nature/toilet_paper.html Living Green Magazine, “Americans Are Flushing Old Growth Forests Down the Toilet” By Richard Kujawski
  13. ↑ http://appvoices.org/2006/03/25/2595/ Appalachian Voices, “Conservationists, Industry Reach Historic Agreement to Protect Forests on the Cumberland Plateau” By Matt Wasson
  14. ↑ http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/2B5E65AA0D8D94EF852573280050EF26/$File/OW+SLUDGE+REGULATION++EEC-89-035_89035_5-22-1995_249.pdf
  15. ↑ https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/708218/8915.PDF?sequence=1

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