Dr. Jason Venetoulis, Environmental Policy Fellow. Jason has over a decade of hands on experience researching, writing, advocating, teaching, and fund-raising for sustainability concerns. He has worked in the non-profit, private, and academic sectors, and has expertise in environmental policy, economics, footprint analysis, renewable (solar) energy, and (quantitative and qualitative) research design. Jason studied environmental politics, policy, and economics at Claremont Graduate University, and was a lead researcher for Dr. Lamont Hempel's Sustainable Communities Project -which took him around the country for interviews with leaders working on sustainable city, regional, and state indicator projects and, eventually, to the Whitehouse in 1999 as part of an invited group of sustainable indicator mavens. As a professor at the Claremont Colleges and the University of Redlands, Dr. Venetoulis developed and taught innovative courses on campus and community sustainability, ecological footprint analysis, renewable energy, and environmental politics and policy. Recently, Jason worked for Redefining Progress, where his team's work on the Genuine Progress Indicator and ecological footprint were taken up by the San Francisco Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities, City of Santa Monica, Canadian Businesses for Sustainability, and other non-profit and government bodies. He is a graduate of Pitzer College and earned a Master's in Public Policy and a Ph.D. in Political Science.

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