Harold Glasser

Harold Glasser is executive director for campus sustainability and professor at Western Michigan University. He holds degrees in physics, energy systems design, and environmental engineering. He was a visiting Senior Fullbright scholar at the University of Oslo’s Center for Development and Environment and Department of Philosophy, and has lectured at Schumacher College.

He has lectured widely in Taiwan, Japan, Norway, the U.K., and throughout the U.S. His research focuses on the evaluation of complex environmental problems and the processes used to make individual and collective choices for using and protecting the environment. He has written on education for ecocultural sustainability, social learning, environmental policy, ecological economics, planning, multicriteria analysis, green accounting, deep ecology, campus sustainability assessment, and environmental values. Most recently, Harold has begun to apply his analytical and philosophical approach to better understand the basis of the disconnect between peoples’ stated values and concerns and their everyday actions and lifestyles and to explore strategies for bridging this gap.