A Matter of Degree with Sally Ranney

Speaking Engagements

Sally Ranney to Speak at TEDxMileHigh
April 7, 2011 Denver, Colorado

About this event

TEDxMileHigh (www.tedxmilehigh.com) will showcase Colorado's maverick thinkers and doers, big risk takers, big-time athletes, entrepreneurs and innovators, activists for the environment, humanitarians, and many more extraordinary people who will each give the "talk of their life." The day will include presentations and performances from 20 Colorado leaders who will stimulate, educate, and enrich as they take a concise 3-18 minutes to describe how they have accomplished something big and share the lessons they learned in teh process. Themes include transformation, inspired citizenship, and community.

Affiliations

Current Affiliations

Co-Founder A Matter of Degree Media, LLC
Co-Director of American Renewable Energy Day (AREDAY)
CEO Stillwater Preservation, LLC
Committee Member Women and Green Economy (WAGE),
Earth Day Network
Member of the Board Eco-Com, LLC (US/Mexico)
Board of Advisors Round Rock Partners, LLC
Member of the Board Galllman Africa Conservancy (U.S/Kenya)
Founding Board Member Grand Canyon Trust
Founding Board Member Lighthawk
Vice President Island Foundation
Chairman Earth Restoration Alliance

Former Affiliations

Member of the Board The Natural Step USA
Founder and former President American Wildlands
Advisory Board Zero Emissions Research Institute (U.S./Switzerland)
Partner Jaguar Yerba, LLC (Argentina)
Advisory Board Newt Biosphere Reserve
Advisory Board Project Wild (Canada)
Advisory Board Natural Resource and Agriculture Policy Institute,
Colorado State University
Resource Policy Analyst The Wilderness Society

A Matter of Degree

investigates the barriers and benefits of implementing a clean energy economy and addressing today’s changing climate. We gather the lions and leaders of industry, visionaries, and the brightest minds to reveal their work and ideas for solutions to climate change. We condense complex issues into simplified usable information so you, the viewer, are empowered to act.

Sally Ranney, Anchor

Sally Ranney, a renowned environmental specialist and green business strategist, has years of experience in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors with water, energy and land use policy; sustainable development, wildlife management and biodiversity. She has worked with several U.S. Presidents, including Carter and Clinton, and was appointed by President Reagan to serve on the President’s Commission on American Outdoors.

Ms. Ranney was a fellow at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the School of Organization and Management (SOM) and appointed to Project 88, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She founded Corridors of Life, the first and largest GIS project an NGO had ever undertaken in the U.S. Sally was Co-Chair in the Clinton transition team to develop a $650 million conservation youth corps, major components of which were included in AmeriCorps. Representative awards include the Horace Albright Award and the Meritorious Conservation Award.

Sally is currently Co-Director of AREDAY (American Renewable Energy Day) Summit; CEO of Stillwater Preservation, a wetlands mitigation banking company; Co-Founder and Anchor for the new TV show, “A Matter of Degree”; Managing Partner of American Renewable Energy Equity Partners, LLC, and President of Rising Wolf International, Inc., a specialized consulting group. She serves on the Earth Day Network’s Women and Green Economy Committee (WAGE), the advisory boards of the Sonoran Mexico Jaguar Project and Lighthawk, the Steering Committee for the iMatter Campaign of Kids vs. Global Warming, an international network of youth marching for climate justice. Her work extends throughout the United States, Canada, South America, the Arctic, Australia and Africa, with an expedition to the Congo planned this summer to study the world’s second largest carbon sink.