Honorees:
Eileen Horn, Sustainability Director, City of Lawrence; Founding Director, Kansas IPL
David Owen, Founding Steering Committee Member; Steering Committee Chair, 2011-2012

Report on this year’s activities

Music by Victor & Penny (“antique pop”)

Delicious Local and Sustainable food,
catered by Local Burger!

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Karl Brooks, Regional Administrator for EPA’s Region 7 Office in Kansas City

Appointed by President Barack Obama as EPA Region 7 Administrator in February 2010, Karl Brooks supervises Agency operations in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and nine tribal nations. He reports directly to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

He and his wife Mary are the parents of three college-age children. Mary Brooks, a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, is a professional indexer and editor of scholarly books for American publishers.

Born in Boise, Idaho, Brooks has lived in Lawrence, Kansas, since 1996. Since earning his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and joining the faculty in 2000, he has taught American environmental, political, and legal history as well as environmental law and policy to thousands of KU undergraduate, graduate, and law students. Author of Before Earth Day: The Origins of American Environmental Law, 1945-1970 (2009) and Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy (2006) and editor of The Environmental Legacy of Harry S. Truman (2009), Brooks has written many articles for newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals.