Gwendolyn Hallsmith:
CLASS OF 1977
Hall High SchoolClass of 1977
West hartford, CT
Brown University - Graduate SchoolClass of 1984
Providence, RI
University of ColoradoClass of 1980
Boulder, CO
Hartford College for WomenClass of 1978
Hartford, CT
Loomis-Chaffee SchoolClass of 1977
Windsor, CT
Gwendolyn's Story
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Gwendolyn Hallsmith, GCI's Executive Director and author of The Key to Sustainable Cities, Taking Action: the EarthCAT Guide to Community Development, and Local Action for Sustainable Economic Renewal, has over 20 years of experience working with municipal, regional, and state government in the United States and internationally. She has served for three years as the Town Manager of Randolph, Vermont, for five years as the Regional Planning Director in Franklin County, MA, as a Senior Planner for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy Resources, as the Deputy Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, and for over ten years as an international specialist on sustainable community development.
Her international experience has included work with the United Nations Environment Program, the United Nations Development Program, the Institute for Sustainable Communities, the International City/County Management Association, and Earth Charter Internat...Expand for more
ional. She has a Master's degree in Public Policy from Brown University and for several years she was a divinity student at the Andover Newton Theological School, exploring the links between our wisdom traditions, spirituality, and work on the community level.
She has developed the new planning methodology from her work with communities in North America and overseas to guide them when they decide they want to pursue sustainable development. She has played a leadership role in comprehensive sustainability planning projects in Burlington, Vermont, in Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, South Africa, Albania, Newburgh, New York, and Calgary, Alberta. The planning method is based on the global principles of the Earth Charter and a whole systems understanding, using an asset-based approach to help communities build on their strengths.
She lives in Montpelier, Vermont with her husband, George, and her son, Dylan. They are all members of the Plainfield Friends Meeting.
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