Dianne Dillon-ridgley
Dianne Dillon-ridgley
Role : Environmentalist and Human-Rights Activist
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Ray Anderson – A tribute from Dianne Dillon-Ridgley
posted by Dianne Dillon-Ridgley  on August 15, 2011

The outpouring for Ray has been so warm and fitting for all that he did and so many that he touched. I hadn't really thought about how many "overlaps" we had until I got numerous requests from groups all over the world for comments to post on Ray. In addition to being on the Interface board for almost fifteen years, Ray and I were on the Second Nature board together as well as The Natural Step-US and the PCAP (Presidential Climate Action Project). We were on the US delegation during one year's CSD at the UN, as well as for UNGASS in 1997. We were at Tallberg together in '09 for Tomorrow's Company and several times at GLOBE in Vancouver. Of course it all started with the PCSD (President's Council on Sustainable Development) under President Clinton. There are too many other events and conferences to count, from USGBC, to IQLA at the UN, from CHEP to the Upper Chattahoochee River Keepers or last year when Ray became the first man to receive the WNSF "Businesswoman" of the Year award-that's right WOMAN!. He REALLY changed my life, which is exactly what he said he intended to do when he asked me to join the Interface board. When he was the keynote speaker for the National Council on Science and the Environment a few years back, he said we have to shake up the status quo on education...Ray always knew when it was time to shake things up!

Issue(s): Sustainability

Region(s): North America

Tag(s): Interface , RayAnderson

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