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Pete serves as chair of the Board of Directors of the new Center for Generative Solutions in Gunnison Colorado, and was a co-founder of the Rivers Foundation of the Americas, a public foundation devoted to Clean Water, Biodiversity and Human Health in North, Central and South America.
A regular commentator and analyst on environmental issues for CNN Radio, Pete is also Senior Fellow in the Executive Leadership Institute’s Watershed Management Professional Program, and an adjunct associate professor of Public Administration in the Mark O. Hatfield Graduate School of Government at Portland State University. He is an environmental lawyer and author or co-author of dozens of articles and presentations on environmental and other issues in publications as diverse as the New York Times, the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, Natural Resources Journal and River Voices. As Director of River Network’s national River Leaders Program from 1992-1996 he formed the River Alliance of Wisconsin and helped to start or strengthen over twenty other state and regional river watershed protection groups throughout the United States and Canada.
He is co-author of a book on land use and aesthetic preservation, Vermont Townscape, and has chapters in the books Voices for the Watershed: Environmental Issues in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Drainage Basin and Forest Communities, Community Forests. He has served as executive director of the Merrimack River Watershed Council, as Northeast Coordinator for American Rivers, executive director of the Westport River Watershed Alliance, as Deputy Director of For the Sake of the Salmon, and as legislative lobbyist for the Vermont Natural Resources Council. He also has extensive experience in political campaigns including several presidential primary campaigns in New Hampshire, including Mo Udall’s 1976 Presidential campaign where Pete co-organized a group of 30 Oberlin students working on the campaign and was a field coordinator and alternate delegate candidate.
He most recently was professor of environmental studies and director of the Colorado Water Workshop at Western State College of Colorado and was awarded a Fulbright to study in Brazil in summer 2007. Past jobs include work in construction, various factories, mills, foundries, farms and livestock operations, and stints in editing and publishing, high school teaching, and house painting and repair. He is also an avid reader, sea kayaker and mountain climber. Pete’s research interests include global and regional water policy; environmental governance; river, watershed and ecosystem management; civic capacity; and globalization.
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