A sustainable planet requires a collaborative effort.

THE TEAM
VR(Ex)Change Director

Assistant Professor, College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech

VR(Ex)Change Network Affiliation:
Global Change Center (GCC) at Virginia Tech

THE TEAM
VR(Ex)Change Program Coordinator

THE TEAM
Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Sustainability Studies at the New Jersey Institute of Technology

VR(Ex)Change Network Affiliation:
Systems of Sustainable Consumption & Production – Knowledge Action Network (SSCP – KAN)

THE TEAM
Professor, Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation at Virginia Tech

VR(Ex)Change Network Affiliation:
Global Change Center (GCC) at Virginia Tech

THE TEAM
Research and Innovation Officer at George Mason University’s Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE) and at the US Global Hub of Future Earth.

VR(Ex)Change Network Affiliation:
Future Earth

THE TEAM
Professor of Marketing in the School of Business at George Mason University

VR(Ex)Change Network Affiliation:
Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE)

STEERING COMMITTEE
Analyst, at Denmark's leading climate think tank, CONCITO, whose purpose is to translate knowledge into action by channeling science and knowledge-based analyses and information on pathways towards a net-zero emission and climate robust society.

VR(Ex)Change Network Affiliation:
Systems of Sustainable Consumption & Production – Knowledge Action Network (SSCP – KAN)

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Dr. Russell is the Officer in Charge at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica and Albany, New York, where he is a Professor of History and on a Leave of Absence (as of December 2022) from his position of Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences

VR(Ex)Change Network Affiliation:
The Maintainers

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Executive Director of George Mason University’s Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE)

VR(Ex)Change Network Affiliation:
Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE)

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Professor of Practice, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures at Arizona State University

VR(Ex)Change Network Affiliation:
The Global KAITEKI Center (TGKC)

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Professor, Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) and Environmental Technology and Management (MILJÖ) at Linköping University

VR(Ex)Change Network Affiliation:
Mistra-REES

STEERING COMMITTEE
Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and a Lecturer in Sustainable Manufacturing in the Department of Engineering, Systems, Processes and Data-Centric Engineering Section, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy (ESE), the University of Exeter

VR(Ex)Change Network Affiliation:
Exeter Centre for Circular Economy (ECCE)

STEERING COMMITTEE
Director, Research LEADERSHIP, Vice Chancellor's Research and Innovation Office Director, Global Sustainability Scholars at the University of Colorado, Boulder

VR(Ex)Change Network Affiliation:
Global Sustainability Scholars (GSS)

STEERING COMMITTEE
Associate Provost Academic Affairs and Director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS) at the Rochester Institute of Technology

VR(Ex)Change Network Affiliation:
REMADE Institute – A Division of the Sustainable Manufacturing Innovation Alliance Corp.

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Professora Associada UFMS - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul

VR(Ex)Change Network Affiliation:

Observatório do Ecossistema de Inovação Social - Observatory of the Social Innovation Ecosystem

Rede de Professores da Academia ICE - Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Scholars Network

Through close cooperation and mutual learning between leading industrial companies and academia, Mistra REES focuses on supporting the Swedish manufacturing industry’s ability to develop world-leading and resource-efficient solutions – all to promote a transition to a more circular and sustainable economy.

Through collaborative efforts across an interwoven network of communities, The Maintainers pursue a mission of maintaining self and society through reflection, research, and advocacy in the hopes of achieving a more caring and well-maintained world.

The vision of The Global KAITEKI Center (TGKC) is to become a premier research center for the advancement of KAITEKI, i.e., the advancement of a global enterprise for Sustainable Well-Being of People, Society, and our Planet Earth.

ISE ‘s mission is to connect members of the George Mason community with others across the George Mason community–and with other communities, policy-makers, businesses and organizations–so that, together, they can more effectively address the world’s pressing sustainability and resilience challenges.

An integral part of the GCC’s mission is to actively engage local and extended communities on issues pertaining to global change, as well as, elevate Virginia Tech as an innovative international leader in global-change science, from basic research to development of science-based solutions that inform actions & policy.

Global Sustain+Ability Scholars foster professional development of a new generation of scientists, who represent the diversity of today’s society, in transdisciplinary sustainability science and innovation.

Future Earth’s mission is to advance research in support of transformations to global sustainability by convening researchers and scholars from all parts of the world, across different societal and academic sectors, and across the natural, social, and human sciences.

The Institute focuses its efforts on driving down the cost of technologies essential to reuse, recycle and remanufacture materials such as metals, fibers, polymers and electronic waste.

The ECCE plays a leading role in the development of the theory and evidence base for Circular Economy by bringing world leaders in academia and industry to the Centre to share in co-creation of new research, educational initiatives and dedicated projects for our corporate partners.

SSCP-KAN is a global network of researchers and practitioners that are interested in ways that systems of sustainable consumption and production can be created, nurtured and contribute to a more sustainable world.