ROLF NORDSTROM
Age: 49.
Title: Executive director of the Great Plains Institute (www.gpisd.net).
Signature project: GPI's "Powering the Plains" report contributed to energy-and-climate accords signed by the Midwest governors in 2007.
Career: Worked for the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board and Office of Strategic Planning; U.S. Congress and World Wildlife Fund.
Education: B.A., Carleton College; M.A., international environmental policy, Tufts University.
Home: St. Paul.
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