Frances Beinecke

Frances Beinecke is the former president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the nonprofit conservation group, serving since 2006.

She was appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. She currently serves on the boards of the World Resources Institute, the Energy Future Coalition, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, and Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business. She previously served on the boards of the Wilderness Society, the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development, and the New York League of Conservation Voters.

Beinecke received a bachelor's degree from Yale College and a master's degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

In 2007, Beinecke was awarded The National Audubon Society's prestigious Rachel Carson Award, a premier award honoring distinguished American women environmentalists.

Works

Clean Energy Common Sense: An American Call To Action On Global Climate Change, with Bob Deans, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4422-0317-4, OCLC 460060057
with Bob Deans, Sigourney Weaver (Foreword) (2014). The World We Create: A Message of Hope for a Planet in Peril. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 144223637X.

References

External links

Profile at Natural Resources Defense Council
Frances Beinecke on Facebook
Column archive at The Huffington Post
Appearances on C-SPAN
Works by or about Frances Beinecke in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Frances G. Beinecke at SourceWatch
Frances Beinecke collected news and commentary at Bloomberg

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