Carl W. Sigel, Chair, Steering Committee

Carl W. Sigel spent his professional life in the pharmaceutical industry.  Now retired, he is deeply committed to nonprofit organizations that focus on community service, youth education & development, and social justice. At the Church of the Nativity, for the last seven years, he has been Co-director of the Faith & Science Dialogue, a group that explores the nexus between religion and science. With a lifetime interest in sustaining the Creation, he is a member of several environmental groups and a volunteer for North Carolina Interfaith Power & Light.

 

Richard Fireman, Public Policy Coordinator

Richard Fireman has been a dedicated volunteer with NC IPL since 2005, when he helped organize Caring for Creation of WNC and  joined our Steering Committee. He was the founder of the Green Sangha of WNC, a Buddhist social and environmental justice community. As a student of Father Thomas Berry and deep ecology, he believes that humanity is poised on the cusp of either continuing a death spiral into cultural and ecologic collapse or a transformation of human society into a life enhancing age, named the Ecozoic Age by Berry. This will entail not only a reinvention of the conventional human institutions such as business, government, education, law, and medicine, but a transformation of the human spirit. He believes that our joy, passion, determination, and creativity are fully capable to create a sustainable earth democracy, in which the rights of all beings, both human and other than human can fulfill the highest potential of their evolutionary capacity.

Mark Ginsberg, Outreach Coordinator

Mark Ginsberg joined the staff of NC Interfaith Power & Light in November 2006. He currently serves on the speakers bureau of NC GreenPower and also the Climate Change Committee overseeing the Orange/Chapel Hill/Carrboro Greenhouse Gas Project.  Mark completed several years of service on the Orange County Commission for the Environment, and was formerly the Director of the N.C. Sustainable Energy Association (2002-2005). In the 1980s, Mark was a grassroots activist in Florida, serving on the Coordinating Council of the Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice and co-founding the Southeast Florida Greens. He holds a B.A. in International Studies from Bradley University, his graduate-level education was in international science and technology policy and the social impacts of technological change, and he earned a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Duke University. Mark is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh and previously served on the Boards of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft. Lauderdale, the Community Church of Chapel Hill, and was a co-founder of the UU Congregation of Hillsborough. He lives with his wife Luci on a horse farm in Zebulon, along with 7 horses, a donkey, and numerous cats and dogs.