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Robert Fredrick Young, Jr. is a sustainable business entrepreneur and academic with an emphasis on green city planning.

In 1996, he was appointed by then Governor Christine Todd Whitman to head the nation's first state-wide office of sustainable business. 1997/04/23 Wed	Pg A1,	 927 words 	Whitman's greener side PETER PAGE	... declined to grant him a permit after he successfully completed a pilot food waste composting program that was enthusiastically backed by the supermarket industry. Young said a major part of his job will be guiding other entrepreneurs out of such regulatory deadends. `There was a time when I wished there had been somebody in this role when I was out there in business,' he said. In yet another twist, Whitman praised Dolores Phillips, executive director of the nonprofit Center for...

His research focuses on the governance issues in the transition to sustainable cities and regions.

He wrote a regular column, titled Sustaianble Commerce, in InBusiness magazine

John F. Forester is a planning theorist with a particular emphasis on participatory planning. He is the author of Critical Theory and Public Life (1987), Planning in the Face of Power (1989) and The Deliberative Practitioner (1999).

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Robert F. Young was educated at Cornell University, receiving a BA in 1982. He completed a Master of City Planning in 1996, and a PhD in 2007, also at Cornell University.

In 1998 Forester was appointed chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, a position he held until 2001. He has remained with the College as an academic, and has served as associate dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.

He is a mediator for the Community Dispute Resolution Center of Tompkins County, has consulted for the Consensus Building Institute, and has lectured in Seattle, Chapel Hill, Sydney, Melbourne, Helsinki, Palermo, Johannesburg, Brisbane and Aix en Provence.

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