Press Release. For Immediate Release. Press Release. For Immediate Release.Plaut Elected President of Global Learning, Inc.Jonathan Plaut of Summit was recently elected president of the Board of Trustees of Global Learning, Inc. Mr. Plaut's extensive background and expertise in environmental affairs will be of great assistance to Global Learning's ongoing work in the area of environmentally sustainable development. Global Learning has been in the forefront nationally with quality curriculum materials for precollegiate teachers, linking the global concept of sustainable development to world history and cultures, US history, and now New Jersey Studies. Until February, 1996, Jon Plaut was the director of environmental quality for AlliedSignal Inc. of Morristown, NJ. During his distinguished 30-year career at AlliedSignal, he was responsible for initiating and leading a number of important initiatives including a corporate-wide global waste management process; a global health, safety and environmental program, and the AlliedSignal Mexican compliance program and Mexican environmental shared-resource program. Mr. Plaut is one of the five American members appointed by President Clinton to the Joint Public Advisory Committee of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation under the environmental side agreement to the NAFTA. He was elected by his peers to chair this committee during 1996. Among his many other activities in government and the private sector, Mr. Plaut served as Chair of the United States Council of International Business Environmental Committee. He was Co-chair of the International Chamber of Commerce's delegation at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and was Vice President of the EPA's National Advisory Committee on Trade and Environment. Mr. Plaut has been a keynote speaker at a number of conferences and workshops and has written widely on the management of toxic substances, environmental regulation, international environmental issues, and the relationship between trade and environment, among other issues related to the environment and the economy. He has lectured at institutions including Tufts University and the Harvard Graduate School of Business (1980-1995) and is currently a Visiting Lecturer on Environment and Public Policy at Penn State University. Mr. Plaut received his engineering degree from Penn State University. He also holds a J.D. from Georgetown University School of Law, and both a Master of Laws and an MA from New York University. Other members of Global Learning's Board of Trustees include Peter Maulbeck of Bloomfield, Controller of Aarhus, Inc., as Treasurer, Sandra Haftel of Mahwah, a middle school teacher in Allendale who is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Council for the Social Studies, Cliff Peterson of Harrington Park, a Professor of American and International Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey, and Nicky Schnarr, councilwoman-at-large in Montclair. Global Learning, Inc. was founded in 1974 as a nonprofit organization and is presently located in Union, NJ. Global Learning is currently working with teachers from five schools to create and field test lessons that incorporate environmental protection, economic development, and social equity issues within New Jersey Studies at the elementary and secondary levels. Two previous projects have focused on teaching about sustainable development in world history and cultures and in US History. In addition, Global Learning's conflict resolution work has helped establish student peer mediation programs in over 30 schools across New Jersey -- with demonstrable results in creating more peaceable schools. Current efforts are helping additional schools in Edison, Newark and Summit train teachers and students for the Conflict Mediators Program. Teacher training workshops have been scheduled through May. |
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