Our People

MURRAY HOGARTH, DIRECTOR

Murray Hogarth is a business environmentalist. He advises corporate, government and community clients on climate and sustainability strategy and communications through the 3rd degree.

A former Environment Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald in the late 1990s, Murray worked under contract as an associate of Australia’s oldest specialist sustainability firm Ecos Corporation from 1999-2008, including serving as joint managing partner in 2007-8. Through Ecos, he consulted to major national and international companies across numerous industry sectors in Australia, the US and Asia, including DuPont, Ford Motor Company, Diageo, Insurance Australia Group, TRUenergy, JPMorgan Australia and Rheem.

Murray is a regular speaker, writer and media commentator on climate and sustainability issues and is the author of The 3rd Degree: Frontline in Australia’s Climate War, published by Pluto Australia in 2007. Other recent publications include ‘The End of Greenwash’, ‘The Green CRED Checklist’ and ‘Crunch Time for Carbon Offsets’, all published with the Green Capital program in 2008, and ‘Building the New Green Economy’ in 2009.

His climate and sustainability roles also include:

• Senior Adviser to the Total Environment Centre’s groundbreaking Green Capital program
• Sustainability and Community Director for Wattwatchers, a new technology company focused on driving consumer behaviour towards energy efficiency, and
• Board Member of community mass action group Climate Coolers and adviser to its '1 Million Women’ campaign
• Board Member of the Environmental Defenders’ Office of NSW since 1999

In the 1980s and ‘90s, Murray had an award-winning career as an investigative journalist, reporting for flagship ABC-TV current affairs programs Four Corners and The 7.30 Report, and with top newspapers such as The National Times and The Australian.

NATALIE ISAACS, ASSOCIATE

Natalie Isaacs is the co-founder of Climate Coolers, a non-profit community organisation that exists to cut CO2 pollution through practical action. In 2007, Climate Coolers introduced grassroots community programs for kindergartens and schools, and in May 2009 launched its national ‘1 Million Women’ campaign www.1millionwomen.com.au, which aims to inspire, empower, motivate and mobilise a million women of Australia into action to cut a million tonnes of CO2 emissions.

A mother of four, Natalie has a deep concern about the world her children are inheriting. After training in aromatherapy and natural therapies in London as a young woman, she came home to Australia in 1986 to found and run her own skin and body-care business, the Natalie Group.

A compelling public speaker, Natalie has felt an urgent need to utilise her skills and passion as a businesswoman and communicator to promote action on climate change, including working with mass consumer energy efficiency group Easy Being Green in 2006-7 to mobilise community group support, especially with women's organisations.

Natalie also is an Al Gore climate change ambassador and trained presenter. (Gore, the former Vice President of the United States, has teamed with the Australian Conservation Foundation since 2006-7 to personally train a group of Australians to deliver his world-renowned presentations on the climate challenge and what the world needs to do about it.)

CHRISTOPHER BEAN, ADVISORY PRINCIPAL

Chris Bean mentors and advises the 3rd degree on business and marketing strategy and execution.

With long experience in the marketing industry, Chris started his professional career as an engineer and moved to marketing (market research at AC Nielsen, brand management at P&G and regional director of marketing at Revlon).

He formed his own company, Integrated Options, in 1991 which grew into a leading behavioural marketing and CRM Agency of 160 people, and sold it to the Havas group in 2000.

As part of Havas, Chris became CEO of Euro-RSCG (the world’s 4th largest advertising agency) in Asia-Pacific with a $60m income in 9 countries.

Chris became involved in energy and sustainability issues in 2004 and founded Wattwatchers Pty. Ltd in 2006 to commercialise the role that mass-market energy efficiency has to play in ushering in a low-carbon society. He has conducted a review of international research on energy use behaviour change programs and activities.