The Keystone Center

The Keystone Center is a primarily corporate-driven organization that works to influence public policy on "our society’s most challenging environmental, energy, and public health problems. Founded in 1975 by Robert W. Craig, The Center is a non-profit organization headquartered in Keystone, Colorado with offices in Washington, DC and Denver, CO." Their board is dominated by representatives of large corporations, including agrochemical and biotech companies, energy companies, pharmaceutical companies, and soft drink and snack food companies.

Field to Market
Field to Market: The Keystone Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture is a project of The Keystone Center that brings together the largest industrial ag, agrochemical, biotechnology, and food manufacturing trade groups and corporations, along with a few environmental organizations and universities, to influence food and agriculture policy.

Board of Trustees
The Executive Committee is as follows:
 * Co-Chair: Glenn T. Prickett, The Nature Conservancy
 * Co-Chair: Dede Hapner, Pacific Gas & Electric Company
 * Peter Adler, The Keystone Center
 * Robert W. Craig, The Keystone Center
 * Shelby Coffey III, The Newseum
 * John Fitzgerald
 * John J. Hall, Hall Consulting, Inc.
 * David Nicoli, AstraZeneca
 * Jerry Steiner, Monsanto

The Trustees are as follows:
 * Elizabeth Arky, Accenture
 * David Beier, Amgen
 * Wayne Brunetti, Xcel Energy (retired)
 * Kateri Callahan, Alliance to Save Energy
 * Kevin Chavous, SNR Denton
 * John E. Echohawk, Native American Rights Fund
 * Rick Frazier, The Coca-Cola Company
 * The Honorable Edward M. Gabriel, The Gabriel Company, LLC
 * David E. Greenberg, Denver School of Science and Technology
 * David I. Greenberg, LRN, Inc.
 * Sally Greenberg, National Consumers League
 * Millie Hamner, Colorado House of Representatives
 * Neil C. Hawkins, The Dow Chemical Company
 * Karen Hollweg, North American Association for Environmental Education
 * Stewart Hudson, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
 * David Jhirad, Johns Hopkins University
 * Ann Klee, General Electric Company
 * Jonathan Lash, World Resources Institute
 * Felicia Marcus, Natural Resources Defense Council
 * Scott Marion, National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment
 * Carlo Parravano, Merck Institute for Science Education
 * Cassie Phillips, Weyerhaeuser
 * Nicholas Reding
 * Benjamin Schwartz, CARE
 * Doug Sims
 * Gary Spitzer, DuPont
 * Sherry Strong
 * Alison Taylor, Siemens Corporation
 * Mostafa Terrab, OCP Group
 * Susan Tomasky, American Electric Power
 * Keith Trent, Duke Energy
 * Clinton Vince, SNR Denton
 * Derek Yach, PepsiCo

Contact

 * 1628 Sts. John Road
 * Keystone, CO 80435
 * Ph: 970-513-5800
 * Fax: 970-262-0152
 * Web: http://www.keystone.org/

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Environmental Resources Trust
 * Howard Ris
 * John Ehrmann
 * Stewart J. Hudson

External Resources

 * Growers, Industry and NGOs Join to Create Agriculture Sustainability Initiative, Monsanto, February 29, 2008.