Faculty Profiles

Edward L. Quevedo

Ed Quevedo is Senior Counsel in the Paladin Law Group LLP, and Chair of our Sustainability Practice Group.  He has over 25 years of experience advising clients on domestic and international environmental and health & safety (EHS) law compliance and litigation matters, sustainability planning and program development, and strategic EHS program development and performance counseling, both as an attorney and consulting advisor. 
    
Ed provides his clients with traditional EHS compliance counseling and international EHS auditing program development, implementation of environmental management systems (EMS) and Sustainability Management Systems (SMS), sustainable development strategy, and green building and sustainable master planning.  He has also pioneered the implementation of Regenerative Management Systems (RMS), which promise to move organizations beyond sustainable development.

He began his GHG and carbon reduction management practice in Europe in 1994, and more recently has broad expertise in advising large multinational clients on AB32 and related national and international greenhouse gas reduction protocols.

His clients include major colleges and universities and firms in the high technology, wine, agricultural, food and beverage, life sciences, biotechnology, automotive and manufacturing industries, as well as public agencies at the municipal and state levels.

During his legal career, Mr. Quevedo has argued cases before the California Supreme Court, the International Board of Arbitrators in The Hague, and the European Court of Justice. He has led high-impact pro bono litigation teams in important Civil Rights, Clean Water Act, and environmental damages recovery litigation in public interest cases brought in state and federal courts. 

He is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Silicon Valley Environmental Partnership, serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance, and is Past President of the Pacific Industrial & Business Association.

Since 2003, Ed has also served on the faculty of, and is Director of Public Relations for, the Dominican University School of Business & Leadership MBA Program in Sustainable Enterprise (the Green MBA®).  He also teaches regularly at the Advanced Environmental Management Program at U.C. Santa Cruz Extension and the Department of Environmental Studies at De Anza College in Cupertino.

He has lectured on environmental management, applied ethics, sustainable development, and sustainable business practices at various universities, including the Haas Business School and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley; Tulane University; Lund University (Sweden); The San Jose State University School of Law, the Technical University of Berlin, and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

Michael Sammet

Michael Sammet is an educator, businessman and radio talk show host interested in industrial society and what comes next. With degrees from Berkeley and Stanford, Michael is the creator and developer of the UC Berkeley Extension Sustainable Design program and works with sustainability educators to design new higher education curriculum that bridges academic and technical training. He is currently at work planning a new book proposal and a sustainable design conference. He has presented his work at West Coast Green, the EcoCity World Summit, and the Esalen Institute.

Roseanne Quevedo

Ms Quevedo has more than 23 years experience in environmental health and safety (EHS) compliance strategy development and implementation, permit assistance, auditing, sustainability management systems design, environmental planning and training.  She has worked extensively in a broad range of sectors, including education, high technology, biotech, petroleum, light and heavy manufacturing, remediation, facilities management, and engineering for both public and private organizations.

Bob Brown

Bob Brown has been a planning manager and director for 31 years in some of the most progressive cities in the Bay Area, including Palo Alto, Berkeley and San Mateo.  He has specialized in reinvigorating downtowns into pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use and mixed-income community centers, promoting environmental protection and facilitating active public involvement. 

For the past 11 years, he has been the Community Development Director for the City of San Rafael and is currently assuming responsibility as the City’s Sustainability Coordinator.  He authored San Rafael’s Climate Change Action Plan and is currently leading an effort to create a county-wide energy efficiency and water conservation retrofit program for existing buildings. 

Bob holds an undergraduate degree in environmental biology from the University of Santa Clara and a Masters in Urban Planning from San Jose State University.  He was also a member of the inaugural Sustainable Practices Certificate Program at Dominican University.