Environmental Defenders of McHenry County 2023 Annual Dinner

Please join the Environmental Defenders of McHenry County for their 2023 Annual Dinner.

Full details and tickets here.

Featuring keynote speaker John H. Girodanengo, author of Ecosystems as Models for Restoring Our Economies.  

Giordanengo began building his career in ecological restoration throughout the Western US in 1996, but his dedication to conservation goes back further. While studying business in the eighties, John became intrigued by a universal challenge: preserving earth’s ecosystems while meeting humanity’s economic needs. Inspired by the growing protests against globalization, and then the 2007 Great Recession, he began the research and writing of Ecosystems as Models for Restoring our Economies. This work integrates 30 years of experience in ecology, business, and economics, which indicates that the core drivers of the health and resilience of ecosystems also govern our economies. After sharing his experience in ecological restoration with hundreds of audiences across the Americas, John now turns to a deeper passion—shedding light on our shared knowledge of economic restoration.