Environmental historian Ann Vileisis is author of Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get It Back, and Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America’s Wetlands. She loves to discover and share history that helps to illuminate pressing modern-day issues.
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Timothy Beatley is Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for the last eighteen years. He is the co-author of Resilient Cities and Green Urbanism Down Under and is the author of the upcoming Planning for Coastal Resilience.
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Frank Ackerman is an economist who has written extensively about the economics of climate change and other environmental problems. He is the Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. His new book is Poisoned for Pennies: The Economics of Toxics and Precaution.
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Peter Newman is a renowned academic and planner who invented the term “automobile dependence” to describe how we have created cities where we have to drive everywhere. He is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, and co-author of Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems, Resilient Cities, and Green Urbanism Down Under.
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Jonathan Isham is Luce Professor of International Environmental Economics at Middlebury College in Vermont and co-editor of Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement. Since early 2005, he has spoken widely throughout the nation about building the new climate movement. Visit his website.
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Gary Paul Nabhan is a world-renowned ethnobiologist, conservationist and essayist. He is Director of Northern Arizona University’s Center for Sustainable Environments. Nabhan is a leader on topics including pollinators, native agriculture and conservation, and cultures and habitat. His latest book is Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine.
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Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population Studies and Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. He is the author of hundreds of scientific papers, and numerous books including The Population Bomb. His latest book is The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment.
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One of the world’s leading experts on endangered species, David Wilcove is professor of ecology, evolutionary biology, and public affairs at Princeton University and author of The Condor’s Shadow, which the Washington Post called a “State of the Natural Union Address.” He is the author of No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations.
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Walker Wells, AICP LEED AP, is Director of the Green Urbanism Program at Global Green USA and the editor and co-author of Blueprint for Green Affordable Housing. He is a member of the American Institute of City Planners and is a LEED Accredited Professional.
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Christopher Leinberger is a land use strategist, developer, teacher, consultant and author, helping to make progressive development profitable. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream.
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Rep. Jay Inslee, who was first elected as a member of Congress from Washington State in 1992, serves on the Energy Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and on the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. He is the author of Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy.
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Terry Tamminen, author of Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction, is with the New America Foundation and Pegasus Capital Advisors. He is a prolific author and policy consultant, and advises the Governor of California, Canadian Premiers, and other state leaders on climate and energy policy.
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Robert Engelman is author of More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want and Vice President for Programs of the Worldwatch Institute. He is a veteran expert of the population and reproductive health fields.
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Elizabeth Grossman is the author High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health. A resident of Portland, Oregon, her writing has appeared in The Nation, Orion, The Seattle Times, The Washington Post and other publications.
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