American environmentalist
Denis Allen Hayes
(born August 29, 1944)
[1]
is an environmental advocate and an advocate for
solar power
. He rose to prominence in 1970 as the coordinator for the first
Earth Day
.
Hayes founded the
Earth Day Network
and expanded it to more than 180 nations. During the
Carter administration
, Hayes became head of the Solar Energy Research Institute (now known as the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
), but left this position when the
Reagan administration
cut funding for the program.
Since 1992, Hayes has been president of the
Bullitt Foundation
in
Washington
and continues to be a leader in environmental and
energy policy
.
He is also the author of
Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America's Health, Economy, Politics, Culture, and Environment
[2]
and
Rays of Hope
.
[3]
Hayes has received the national
Jefferson Awards Medal for Outstanding Public Service
as well as many other awards.
Time
magazine named him a "Hero of the Planet" in 1999.
Early life and education
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Denis Hayes was born in
Wisconsin
in 1944, but mainly raised in the small town of
Camas, Washington
, where in 2007 the Hayes Freedom High School was named in his honor.
[4]
His experiences growing up in the
Pacific Northwest
instilled a lifelong love of nature.
[5]
His father worked at a
paper mill
on the
Columbia River
, where both the discharges from the mill and the lack of
worker protections
showed Hayes the impact of
industrialization
on both people and the environment.
[6]
In 1964, Hayes graduated from
Clark Community College
in Vancouver, Washington.
[6]
Hayes received his undergraduate degree in history from
Stanford University
,
[7]
where he was president of the student body and an activist against the
Vietnam War
.
[8]
[9]
During those years, he spent significant time backpacking to remote corners of the world.
[10]
Hayes later enrolled at the
Harvard Kennedy School
at
Harvard University
,
[11]
although he eventually was graduated from
Stanford Law School
.
[12]
Earth Day
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He left Harvard after being selected by
Senator
Gaylord Nelson
to organize the first Earth Day.
[13]
The first Earth Day (April 22, 1970) had participants and celebrants in two thousand colleges and universities, about ten thousand primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities.
[14]
It is believed that some 20 million demonstrators participated.
[15]
[16]
In 2009, the story of Earth Day was told in the film
Earth Days
[17]
which closed that year's
Sundance Film Festival
.
[18]
Following the success of the first Earth Day, Hayes founded the
Earth Day Network
and served as international chairman for Earth Day's anniversaries in 1990
[19]
and 2000.
[20]
[21]
Internationally, he is recognized for expanding the
Earth Day Network
to more than 180 nations.
[22]
It is now the world’s most widely observed secular holiday.
[23]
Hayes continues to chair the board of the international
Earth Day Network
and is the Chair of the Earth Day 2010 Global Advisory Committee.
[24]
Earth Day celebrated its 50th anniversary in April 2020, and marked the day with environmental activism across the globe [www.earthdaynetwork.org].
Career
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During the
Carter administration
, Hayes became head of the Solar Energy Research Institute (now known as the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
),
[25]
[26]
but left this position when the
Reagan administration
cut funding for the program.
[27]
Hayes went back to school and completed a
Juris Doctor degree
at
Stanford Law School
, and went on to become an adjunct professor of engineering in that university and litigator with law firm
Cooley Godward
.
[28]
Since 1992, Hayes has been president of the
Bullitt Foundation
[29]
in
Seattle, Washington
and continues to be a leader in environmental and energy policy.
[30]
[31]
[32]
By mobilizing the resources of The Bullitt Foundation, Hayes intends to make the
Pacific Northwest
the best-educated, most environmentally aware, most progressive corner of America?a global model for sustainable development. He is currently overseeing construction of
The Bullitt Center
, expected to be the most energy efficient commercial building in the world,
[33]
firmly planting Seattle at the forefront of the
green building
movement. The goal of the
Bullitt Center
is to change the way buildings are designed, built and operated to improve long-term environmental performance and promote broader implementation of energy efficiency, renewable energy and other green building technologies in the Northwest. The building is seeking to meet the ambitious goals of the
Living Building Challenge
, the world’s most strenuous benchmark for sustainability. For example, a solar array will generate as much electricity as the building uses and rain will supply as much water, with all wastewater treated onsite. Also in Seattle are Hayes' wife, Gail Boyer Hayes
[34]
(daughter of
Paul D. Boyer
), and daughter, Lisa A. Hayes,
[35]
a lawyer defending the Northshore
United Church of Christ
regarding
Tent City 4 (King County, Washington)
.
[36]
Over Hayes' career, he has been a visiting scholar at the
Woodrow Wilson Center
in Washington, DC
[37]
and at the Bellagio Center in Italy, a senior fellow at the
Worldwatch Institute
,
[38]
an adjunct professor of engineering at
Stanford University
, a Richard von Weizsacker Fellow of the Bosch Foundation, a
Silicon Valley
lawyer at the Cooley Firm,
[39]
and author.
[40]
He has served on dozens of governing boards, including those of
Stanford University
, the
World Resources Institute
, the
Federation of American Scientists
, The Energy Foundation,
[41]
Children Now
, the National Programming Council for
Public Television
, the
American Solar Energy Society
,
Greenpeace
,
CERES
, and the Environmental Grantmakers Association.
[42]
[43]
Awards
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Hayes has received the national Jefferson Awards Medal for Outstanding Public Service,
[44]
as well as the highest awards bestowed by the
Sierra Club
,
The Humane Society of the United States
, the
National Wildlife Federation
, the Natural Resources Council of America,
[45]
the Global Environmental Facility of the
World Bank
, the
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
, and the
American Solar Energy Society
.
[46]
He was featured in the 2009 documentary film
Earth Days
.
Time
has named him "Hero of the Planet."
[47]
Hayes was selected by
Engineering News-Record
as one of the Top 25 Newsmakers of 2014 for using
biomimicry
in the development of the
Bullitt Center
.
[48]
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