-- Professor of Conservation Biology in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the former Chair of the Ecosystem Sciences Division and the department. Dr. Beissinger conducts research on conservation biology, behavioral ecology and population biology. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Conservation Biology and Current Ornithology, and is a research associate of the Smithsonian Institution and the University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Dr. Beissinger has worked extensively with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, and state agencies.
-- Director of the Tropical Research Program of the Center for Conservation Biology, Professor at Department of Biological Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. She has ongoing projects in Hawaii, Costa Rica, Kenya, and India. She works extensively with economists, lawyers, business people, and government agencies to incorporate environmental issues into business practice and government policy. Her recent honors include the 21st Century Scientist Award, a Smith Senior Scholarship, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences. She has published about 150 scientific and popular articles. Her most recent book is The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable, coauthored with Katherine Ellison.
-- Bing Professor of Population Studies and President of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. Co-founder of the field of Coevolution, he has also been a pioneer in alerting the public to the problems of overpopulation, and in raising issues of population, resources, and the environment as matters of public policy. A special interest of his is cultural evolution, particularly with respect to environmental ethics. He has received the John Muir Award of the Sierra Club, the Gold Medal Award of the World Wildlife Fund International, a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (given in lieu of a Nobel Prize in areas where the Nobel is not given), the Heinz Award for the Environment, the Blue Planet Prize, the Eminent Ecologist Award of the Ecological Society of America, and the Distinguished Scientist Award of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
-- Professor of Psychology at Sonoma State University. She is co-director, with Allen Kanner of Altars of Extinction: a memorial to species that have gone extinct at human hands. She co-edited Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind with Theodore Roszak and Allen Kanner.
-- Film-maker and executive with 30 years media experience. He has produced and directed documentaries for BBC, Channel Four and ABC Australia on the environment and social justice issues, his titles include 'Greenbucks: the Challenge of Sustainable Development' and 'Prophets and Loss'. As commissioning editor for documentaries at Channel Four he brought numerous documentaries to the screen and created and edited two long running series, one of which (True Stories) continues to run today. He is the co-founder and organizer of Be the Change a yearly London conference on global change issues.
-- Famed environmental activist and author, best known for living in a 180-foot-tall, 600-year-old Redwood tree named Luna for 738 days. She is the founder of the Circle of Life Foundation a non-profit dedicated to connecting people to the natural world through education and inspiration. She is author of One Makes the Difference: Inspiring Actions that Change Our World and The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods. She is the subject of the documentary film Butterfly (2000), is featured in the documentary film Treesit: The Art of Resistance and is now the subject of a major motion picture entitled Luna.
-- Activist, writer, teacher, and psychologist. He is a founder of the field of Ecopsychology and of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. In 1997, Utne Reader identified him as one of ten leading psychologist social activists. He co-edited Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind with Theodore Roszak and Mary Gomes, as well as Psychology and Consumer Culture with Tim Kasser.
-- The world's most famous paleoanthropologist, and one of the world's foremost authorities on wildlife and nature conservation. For more than 30 years Dr. Leakey has made international headlines for his anthropological, political, and environmental work. Heir to the legacy of his parents, famed fossil-hunters Louis and Mary Leakey, Dr. Leakey has been credited with some of this century's most successful paleoanthropologic finds. He is the former Director of Kenya's National Museums and former director of the Kenya Wildlife Service, and author of many books including The Sixth Extinction. Dr. Leakey is currently Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University.
-- Eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar, author, activist, & adjunct professor at California Institute of Integral Studies and Naropa Oakland. Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World with Molly Young Brown.
-- Founder and former President of the International Forum on Globalization, a North-South research and educational institution on economic globalization. Jerry Mander is also the program director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, and is a senior fellow at Public Media Center. Back in the 1960s Mander was president of a major San Francisco advertising company before turning his talents to environmental campaigns that kept dams out of the Grand Canyon, established Redwood National Park, and stopped production of the Supersonic Transport. His books include Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, In the Absence of the Sacred, The Case Against the Global Economy and For a Turn Toward the Local, and Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible.
-- British environmentalist and authority on biodiversity. He developed the concept of biodiversity hotspots. He is one of only two persons worldwide to receive all three leading environmental prizes: Volvo Environment Prize, UNEP/Sasakawa Environment Prize and Blue Planet Prize. He has been a senior advisor to organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the White House. Myers is a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, Professor and Visiting Fellow at Green College, Oxford University, and the Said Business School. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Duke University and holds visiting professorships at Harvard, Cornell, Stanford, and Berkeley. In 1997 he was appointed by Queen Elizabeth to The Order of St. Michael and St. George “For Services to The Global Environment.
-- Professor of American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University, Executive Director of the Cultural Conservancy, & member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa clan.
-- Associate Curator of Geology and Paleontology at the California Academy of Sciences. He specializes in the modeling of evolutionary and extinction consequences of increasing ecosystem complexity during the Phanerozoic; extinction dynamics, systematics and ecology/paleoecology of Venerid and Corbulid bivalves in the Neogene and Recent of tropical America; exploring the quantitative description of patterns of morphological integration, and relationship to adaptive and phylogenetic histories, of diverse animals; and examining origination, extinction, and recovery in terebratulide brachiopods. He is also Faculty Associate in the Department of Geology, University of California Davis, Research Professor in the Deptartment of Biology, San Francisco State University, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geosciences, San Francisco State University.
-- Mathematical cosmologist, philosopher, cultural historian, and well-known author. Among his books are The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos and The Universe Story. He was featured in the three-part BBC television series Soul of the Universe, and has presented at conferences sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The World Bank, UNESCO, The United Nations Millennium Peace Summit, and the American Museum of Natural History.
-- Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, co-founder of the Planetwork Project, and Publisher of the Planetwork Journal. She has been a pioneer in the New York and San Francisco art and culture scenes for over 15 years. Her work has centered on the creation, dissemination and synthesis of leading edge ideas, people, and networks of communities across disciplinary boundaries and media platforms including the worlds of information technology, sustainability, global change activism, digital media, art, architecture and design.
-- Professor of religion at Bucknell University and coordinator of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. Along with John Grim, she coordinated a ten-conference series on World Religions and Ecology at Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religions. Together they now direct the Forum on Religion and Ecology (FORE). Tucker has been a committee member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 1986 and is vice president of the American Teilhard Association. Author of many books on religion and ecology, she has recently published Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase. She is the co-editor of books on ecological views of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism.