Denis Allen Hayes was born on August 29,1944 and is an environmental advocate and an advocate for solar power.
20 Facts About Denis Hayes
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Denis Hayes rose to prominence in 1970 as the coordinator for the first Earth Day.
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Since 1992, Denis Hayes has been president of the Bullitt Foundation in Washington and continues to be a leader in environmental and energy policy.
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Denis Hayes is the author of Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America's Health, Economy, Politics, Culture, and Environment and Rays of Hope.
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Denis Hayes has received the national Jefferson Awards Medal for Outstanding Public Service as well as many other awards.
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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.
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Denis Hayes's experiences growing up in the Pacific Northwest instilled a lifelong love of nature.
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Denis Hayes's 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.
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In 1964, Denis Hayes graduated from Clark Community College in Vancouver, Washington.
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Denis Hayes received his undergraduate degree in history from Stanford University, where he was president of the student body and an activist against the Vietnam War.
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Denis Hayes later enrolled at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, although he eventually was graduated from Stanford Law School.
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Denis Hayes left Harvard after being selected by Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the first Earth Day.
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Denis Hayes continues to chair the board of the international Earth Day Network and is the Chair of the Earth Day 2010 Global Advisory Committee.
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Denis 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.
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Since 1992, Denis Hayes has been president of the Bullitt Foundation in Seattle, Washington and continues to be a leader in environmental and energy policy.
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Denis Hayes is currently overseeing construction of The Bullitt Center, expected to be the greenest, most energy efficient commercial building in the world, firmly planting Seattle at the forefront of the green building movement.
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Denis Hayes has served on dozens of governing boards, including those of Stanford University, the World Resources Institute, the Federation of American Scientists, The Energy Foundation, Children Now, the National Programming Council for Public Television, the American Solar Energy Society, Greenpeace, CERES, and the Environmental Grantmakers Association.
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Denis Hayes has received the national Jefferson Awards Medal for Outstanding Public Service, 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, the Global Environmental Facility of the World Bank [4], the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, and the American Solar Energy Society.
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Denis Hayes was featured in the 2009 documentary film Earth Days.
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Denis 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.