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<< October 07
News for 15th November 2007
Ford forms 'Transformation Advisory Council'
Ford Motor Co’s new 'Transformation Advisory Council' will bring together senior Ford executives and outside sustainability 'thought leaders' to explore solutions to the challenges of energy independence and the threat of global warming.
Chairman Bill Ford announced the council's formation on 13th November as he presented the seventh annual Peter M. Wege Lecture on Sustainability at the University of Michigan. The Transformation Advisory Council's initial external members will include:
- Amory Lovins, the well-known thinker on resource use and the future of business and society. Lovins is chairman and chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute.
- Paul Hawken, an environmentalist, entrepreneur and author who has dedicated his life to sustainability issues and the relationship between business and the environment.
- Peter Senge, an authority on systems thinking and organizational learning, and senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning.