Benjamin Allen Goldman
Benjamin Allen Goldman is an entrepreneur, author, artist, inventor, and activist whose work has focused on societal, organizational, and personal change. He created the Wild Call Weekend, a three-day breakthrough experience in nature. It is a project of Nature Breakthroughs LLC, which he founded.
He was an advisor to the Clinton Administration, serving as a Charter Member of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, a committee member of the President's Council on Sustainable Development, and an author of reports for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency[1] and the U.S. Department of Commerce.[2] His work in technology and sustainability led to a Presidential Executive Order (No. 12898 in 1994), a Supreme Court victory (Federal Election Commission v. Political Contributions Data Inc., 943 F.2d 190, 2d Cir. 1991), and a new social movement called “environmental justice.”
At United Visual Arts LLC, which he founded in 2006, he invented and patented the defEYE frame, which The Museum of Modern Art carried in its holiday catalog. He directed New Jersey's longest-lived alternative art gallery, City Without Walls, which The New York Times called, "one of the most socially engaged and dynamic art spaces in the state."[3] There, he created and curated many programs, projects, and exhibitions involving art, technology, emerging artists, and inner-city kids in Newark, New Jersey, which changed the trajectories of many young lives, including children with severe disabilities who were part of a city-wide murals program that he launched. During the Great Recession, he created an arts stimulus plan that raised millions of dollars for these efforts.
Also in New Jersey, he ran for Mayor in Weehawken, organized a slate of opposition candidates, and helped several citizen organizations that advocated for better planning along the Hudson River, including Friends of the Weehawken Waterfront and cofounding Weehawken Initiative Now and the Weehawken Chamber of Commerce. He coined the acronym “NoHu” to advocate for the arts community in the northern section of Hudson County.
In the 1990s, he helped transform the environmental movement by coauthoring landmark studies about environmental justice[4][5][6] and green jobs.[7][8] Dr. Goldman served as Acting Executive Director and Research Director of the Jobs & Environment Campaign in Cambridge, MA, where he helped establish the now-ubiquitous notion of “green jobs”. He lectured at Tufts University, helping create its sustainability and environmental justice program, as well as at universities and colleges across the U.S. He also served as Executive Director of the Citizens Network for Sustainable Development, which coordinated the participation of U.S. NGOs at the Rio Earth Summit.
In the 1980s, he championed the First Amendment as co-founder and president of Public Data Access, Inc., advocating for the first federally mandated online public information system and winning a precedent-setting federal court battle over access to congressional finances. He also co-founded the Radiation & Public Health Project, and his extensive technical research on low-level radiation for civic organizations helped stop the expansion of nuclear power in Ontario, Canada.[9] He also was a leader in the successful fight against the Brooklyn Navy Yard incinerator, cofounding the Lower East Side Coalition for a Healthy Environment. His career began as a military economics researcher at the Council on Economic Priorities, where he was a Project Director in the early 1980s.
Dr. Goldman's work has been praised by Vice President Al Gore, Senators Cory Booker and Robert T. Stafford, and widely featured by ABC, CNN, NPR, USA Today, The Washington Post, and other media outlets.
Dr. Goldman has written many books and articles, and his paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries in over 33 cities throughout the world, including the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul and the Allied Museum in Berlin. Who's Who lists him as a statistician, author, and artist.
He was born in Philadelphia, studied painting at the New York Studio School, history and political philosophy at University College London, and received his undergraduate degree at Vassar College and doctorate at New York University.
Education
- 2010 Certificate, nonprofit executive leadership, RUTGERS BUSINESS.
- 1993 Ph.D., M.Phil., public administration, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY.
- 1985 Certificate, risk management, environmental health & protection, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
- 1982 A.B., history, VASSAR COLLEGE
- 1981 political philosophy, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
- 1980 painting, NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL
Books
- Manga for Men: Seven Secrets of Middle Age (United Visual Arts 2016).
- On Every Wall: Reproduction and the Future of Art (United Visual Arts 2008).
- Sustainable America: New Public Policy for the 21st Century (Economic Development Administration, 1995).
- Discounting Human Lives: Uranium and Global Equity (Avebury Studies in Green Research 1994).
- The Truth About Where You Live: An Atlas for Action on Toxins and Mortality (Times Books 1992).
- Deadly Deceit: Low-Level Radiation, High-Level Cover-Up (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1990; 2nd Ed. 1991; German Ed. 1991; Russian Ed. 1993; Japanese Ed. 1994; 2nd Japanese Ed. 2013 with new preface). (with Jay M. Gould).
- The U.S. Military's Toxic Legacy (National Toxics Campaign, 1991) (with Larry Siegel and Gary Cohen).
- Hazardous Waste Management: Reducing the Risk (Island Press, 1986) (with James Hulme & Cameron Johnson)
Appointments, Awards and Citations
- 2009 Strength for Capacity Initiative Business Plan Competition, THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION.
- 2008 Prize for Publicity Excellence, PARTNERSHIP IN PHILANTHROPY.
- 2006 Citation of Excellence, NEW JERSEY STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS.
- 2006 HUDSON COUNTY OFFICE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, Arts Masterplan Advisory Committee
- 2005 Technical Assistance Grant, HUDSON COUNTY OFFICE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS & TOURISM and PROARTS.
- 2005 ArtReach Mentor, CITY WITHOUT WALLS.
- 2004 Strategic Planning Seminar Awardee, ALJIRA and CREATIVE CAPITAL.
- 2005 Emerge 6 Fellow, ALJIRA-A CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART.
- 2005 Teaching Artist Fellow, YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY
- 2003 Artist-in-Education Certification, NEW JERSEY STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS (through 2006).
- 2003 Curated Artists Registry, WHITE COLUMNS.
- 2003 Artist Grant, VERMONT STUDIO CENTER.
- 2002 Artist in Residence, NEWARK MUSEUM.
- 1995-2000 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY AND CITY HEALTH OFFICIALS, Community Environmental Health Assessment Steering Committee
- 1994-1995 PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, Task Force on Sustainable Communities, Economic Development and Jobs Working Group
- 1994-1995 U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, Health and Research Subcommittee
- 1991-93 NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, Greenpoint/Williamsburg Environmental Benefits Program, Technical Advisory Panel
- 1985 Merit Scholarship, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (through 1993).
External Links
References
- ↑ Benjamin A. Goldman, et al., Sustainability in Action: Profiles of Community Initiatives Across the United States. Revised/Updated Edition, Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1995 and Revised/Updated Edition, 1998 (with CONCERN, Inc., Community Sustainability Resource Center, and Jobs and Environment Campaign).
- ↑ Benjamin A. Goldman, Sustainable America: New Public Policy for the 21st Century, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, 1995.
- ↑ Benjamin Genocchio, “A show of small works, and a group sampler” The New York Times, December 9, 2007.
- ↑ Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., Benjamin A. Goldman, and Charles Lee, Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States, New York, NY: United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice, 1986.
- ↑ Benjamin A. Goldman and Laura Fitton, Toxic Wastes and Race Revisited, Washington, DC: Center for Policy Alternatives, NAACP, and United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice, 1994.
- ↑ Benjamin A. Goldman, Not Just Prosperity, Washington, DC: National Wildlife Federation, 1994.
- ↑ Benjamin A. Goldman and John T. O’Connor, The National Green Jobs Report: How to Create 5 Million Jobs without Polluting the Environment, Cambridge, MA: Greenworks, Inc., 1998.
- ↑ John T. O’Connor and Benjamin A. Goldman, The Massachusetts Green Jobs Report: How to Create 100,000 Jobs while Cleaning the Environment, Cambridge, MA: Greenworks, Inc., 1998.
- ↑ Benjamin A. Goldman, Discounting Human Lives: Uranium and Global Equity, Avebury Studies in Green Research, 1994.
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