Terrell (Terry) J. Minger
Terry Minger is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center
for Resource Management (CRM). The CRM is a Colorado-Utah based non-profit
organization that, since its founding in 1981 by Robert Redford, has been
dedicated to environmental problem solving and bringing together parties
with divergent, often conflicting interests, to find common ground and
reach sustainable solutions.
Minger's interests and career span the public, private, and not for profit
sectors. He has served as President and CEO of Sundance Enterprises, a
resort, ski area, and international conference center and film and fine
arts community; as President, CEO, and developer of Whistler-Blackcomb
Resort in British Columbia, Canada; as Deputy Chief of Staff to Colorado
Governor Richard Lamm; as Assistant City Manager in Boulder, Colorado;
and as City Manager of Vail, Colorado for a decade.
Serving as a business, environmental and community advisor to many corporations,
foundations and governments, Minger has worked with the Adolph Coors Company,
Wal-Mart, Browning-Ferris, DuPont, Proctor & Gamble, Chevron, Phillips
Petroleum, Andersen Corporation, Sony, Ben & Jerry's, King Soopers,
S.C. Johnson Wax, Pebble Beach Corporation, Southern California Edison,
US WEST, Inc. and AT&T. He has also served as an advisor and consultant
to the World Bank, the United Nations Environmental Programme, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, United Nations University, the National Center for
Atmospheric Research, the Earth Summit, the Western Governor's Association,
Earth Council, the United States Forest Service, various Native American
tribal governments and environmental groups, and the President's Council
on Sustainable Development.
Currently, some of Minger’s responsibilities include chairing Wal-Mart's
Environmental Advisory Board; Trustee of the National Council on the Lewis
and Clark Bicentennial; leading the Golf and the Environment Initiative;
directing the North American Telecommunications Environmental Excellence
Initiative; co-leading the Western Charter Project with Daniel Kemmis
of the University of Montana; serving as an environmental advisor to the
2002 Olympic Games; and leading dialogue between the ski industry, environmental
community, and others focusing on sustaining mountain ecosystems.
Minger has written two books on the impacts of growth and development
in the Rocky Mountain West, and Greenhouse Glastnost, on the United States
and Russia's impact on global climate change. He is founder and Honorary
Chairman of the 25 year old Vail Symposium on environmental and development
issues facing the West and Co-Founder and President of the Western Rendezvous,
a diverse gathering of Westerners to discuss critical regional issues.
He also serves on the Boards of The Piton Foundation, Stapleton Foundation
for Sustainable Urban Communities, Water Watch Partnership, the White
River Institute, the Western Consensus Council and the Montana Consensus
Council.
Minger is a frequent writer and speaker on greening business, sustainable
communities, and global environmental and resource management issues.
Some of his most recent endeavors include organizing a "Sustainable
Summits" Conference held in Vail, Colorado to provide a forum for
constructive national dialogue between the ski industry, environmental
community, and others focused on sustaining the health of mountain ecosystems;
serving as Project Director for Wal-Mart's "Eco-Mart" prototype
stores in Lawrence, Kansas, Moore, Oklahoma and City of Industry, California;
organizing and co-chairing the First Sustainable Business and Advertising
Awards Conference at the United Nations; conducting an environmental corporate
assessment of Ben & Jerry's; hosting the founding conference on "Golf
and the Environment" at the Pebble Beach and Pinehurst Resorts; and
co-founding Leadership Vail Valley.
Other recent endeavors include co-organizing and convening the UN North
American and European Roundtable on Sustainable Development in preparation
for the larger World Summit in Johanessburg in 2002; convening a working
group on the "North American Mountain Agenda" for the United
Nations; coordinating the 1994, 1995 Global Youth Forum for the United
Nations; serving on the Center for Strategic International Studies "Enterprise
for the Environment" project; organizing an international conference
on "Skiing and the Environment" as well as serving as an environmental
advisor to the 2002 Olympic Games; managing the State of Colorado's "Global
Climate Change Strategic Plan;" working on a task force for renewable
energy in Indian country and Pollution Prevention Programs for tribal
governments; and helping to make the film "Subdivide and Conquer,"
which focuses on sprawl issues and solutions.
Minger received a B.A. in History and Economics from Baker University,
an M.P.A. from the University of Kansas, and an M.B.A. from the University
of Colorado. He was an Urban Executive Fellow, Sloan School of Management
at M.I.T., a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard
University, and a graduate of the Executive Management Program at Stanford
University. Minger frequently teaches Environmental Ethics & Management
in the M.B.A. graduate program at the University of Denver as well an
annual course at the United Nations. Minger recently received the 1999
Jane Silverstein Ries Foundation Award for his lifelong environmental
contributions to the Rocky Mountain West.