Name Alan Durning Role Author | ||
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Books How Much is Enough, Stuff: The Secret Lives of E, This place on earth, The car and the city, Misplaced blame | ||
Organizations founded Sightline Institute |
10 stories of legalizing sustainability alan durning at tedxbellevue
Alan Durning (born 1964 as Alan Bresler Durning, then Alan Thein Durning from 1991 to 2008) is the founder and executive director of the Sightline Institute (formerly Northwest Environment Watch), a nonprofit organization based in Seattle, Washington, U.S.
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- 10 stories of legalizing sustainability alan durning at tedxbellevue
- 2015 build small live large keynote alan durning and dee williams
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Durning grew up in Seattle, spent his high school years in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and attended Oberlin College during the mid-1980s. From 1986 to 1993, Durning worked as a researcher at the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C. In 1993, Durning returned to Seattle and founded Northwest Environment Watch.
Durning is the author or coauthor of dozens of books and articles. His published books include:
Durning's newspaper and magazine articles have appeared in the New York Times, Slate, and the Utne Reader. Durning has been a commentator on National Public Radio and has lectured at universities, conferences, and at the White House.