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 MacArthur Fellow and the recipient of many awards, Brown is founder and president of Earth Policy Institute, founder of the Worldwatch Institute and author or coauthor of 50 books.
 Hervé Kempf was born in 1957 in Amiens, north of Paris, in France.
After studies in economics, history, and political science, he became a
journalist. Since 1988 he has specialized in environmental and
ecological reporting. He created the environmental magazine Reporterre,
and has written for scientific and economic newspapers. He has worked
with Le Monde, the most influential French newspaper, since 1998, where
he is the Environmental Editor and covers ecological topics, notably
climate change and biodiversity. Le Monde now has an entire section
devoted to environment and science. Traveling worldwide for his
reporting, Kempf makes his home in Paris.
 Madeleine M. Kunin was the first woman governor of Vermont, and served as the Deputy Secretary of Education and Ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. She is the author of Living a Political Life and Pearls, Politics and Power, and is currently a Marsh Scholar Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont. She lectures on history and women's studies. She also serves as president of the board of the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC), a nongovernmental organization that she founded in 1991. Ms. Kunin lives in Burlington, Vermont.
 William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and shapers of what he and his partners call 'The Next Industrial Revolution.' Time magazine recognized him in 1999 as a 'Hero for the Planet', stating that "his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that-in demonstrable and practical ways-is changing the design of the world." Time Magazine again recognized Mr. McDonough and Michael Braungart as "Heroes of the Environment" in October 2007. In 1996, Mr. McDonough received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, the nation's highest environmental honor; and in 2003 earned the U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. In 2004 he received the National Design Award for ex ...
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 Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, which she chaired from 1988-2003. She also holds appointments as Professor of Sociology at NYU and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines scientific, economic, and social influences on food choice. She is the author of three prize-winning books: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (revised edition 2007), Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (2003), and What to Eat (2006). Her ...
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 John Perkins, a former economic hit man, is a founder and board member of Dream Change and the Pachamama Alliance, nonprofit organizations devoted to creating stable, sustainable, and peaceful worlds. He has lectured and taught at universities on four continents including Harvard, Wharton, and Princeton, and is a champion of environmental and social causes. His other books include Shapeshifting and The World Is As You Dream It.
John Perkins’s Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller lists and has been published in over 30 languages, details the clandestine operations that created the world’s first truly global empire. His new book, The Secret History of the American Empire (Jun ...
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 Bruce is the CEO and Founder of a G.A.P Adventures, a small group adventure travel company which has won numerous awards for their sustainable travel philosophy for the past 17 years such as Ethics in Tourism, Conde Nast's Green List & Millennium Ethics In Action Award.
G.A.P. Adventures offers 1000 trips to 100 countries. Bruce will discuss how he became an eco pioneer of low impact tourism such as travelling in small groups, taking local transportation and staying at locally owned accommodations. We particpate in a Carbon Offset Program. G.A.P. Adventures participates in a Carbon Offset Program and has a charitable foundation, Planeterra, which gives back to the international communities we visit, such as a Women's Weaving Project in P ...
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 Shallal is a peace activist, a restaurateur and the co-chair of Local First DC. He founded Busboys and Poets restaurants in the DC area.
 In business since 1980, Paul Stamets has run Fungi Perfecti®, a family-owned, environmentally friendly company specializing in using gourmet and medicinal mushrooms to improve the health of the planet and its people. We are leaders in a new wave of technologies harnessing the inherent power of mushrooms and fungal mycelium worldwide. Fungi Perfecti® is Certified Organic by the Washington State Department of Agriculture. Paul has published 5 books, and soon a 6th, entitled Mycelium Running, a book of mycological rescue for healing habitats and increasing sustainability using low-tech techniques for restoration of damaged ecosystems. Paul has received several environmental awards, and recently has been awarded a breakthrough patent for replac ...
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 Coauthor of Taking Back America: and Taking Down the Radical Right, vanden Heuvel is editor, part-owner, and publisher of The Nation, appearing frequently on television.
 Sharif Abdullah is an author, trainer and a leading catalyst for inclusive social, cultural and spiritual transformation. Sharif teaches groups and individuals how to understand and practice inclusivity – the connection with all other beings.
His books include The Power of One: Authentic Leadership in Turbulent Times and Creating a World That Works for All. He is the founder and president of Commonway Institute and the originator of the Commons Café dialog process and the Common Society Movement. He serves on the adjunct faculty at Portland State University (Conflict Resolution Department) and Lewis & Clark College.
Sharif has criss-crossed the planet, taking his inclusivity work to over twenty-five different countries and close to 10 ...
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 Mark Anielski is the author of The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth, which was published in June 2007 by New Society Publishers. Mark is a well-being economist, entrepreneur, professor and president of Anielski Management Inc. which specializes in measuring quality of life and sustainable well-being. In the 2004, Adbusters magazine recognized Mark as a “rising star” amongst international progressive economists. He has pioneered natural capital accounting in Canada and alternative measures of economic progress, including the US Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) and the Alberta GPI Sustainable Well-being measurement system. For 14 years he served as senior economic policy advisor to the Alberta Government. He is currently advisi ...
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 Executive director of the International Labor Rights Forum, Dr. Athreya joined ILRF in early 1998, just after returning from Cambodia as the AFL-CIO’s country representative.
 With 25 years of experience growing green and socially responsible nonprofits and businesses, Belanger is Co-op America’s new Green Business Network deputy director.
 A human rights and social justice supporter for more than 20 years, Medea Benjamin is coeditor of Stop the Next War Now and a cofounder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK. Click here to see her talk.
 Author of Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed?, Bernstein is senior economist and director of the Living Standards Program at The Economic Policy Institute.
 Steve Bhaerman is an internationally-known author, humorist, and workshop leader. For the past 20 years, he has written and performed as Swami Beyondananda, the “Cosmic Comic.” Swami’s comedy has been called “irreverently uplifting” and has been described both as “comedy disguised as wisdom” and “wisdom disguised as comedy.”
As the Swami, Steve is the author of Driving Your Own Karma (1989), When You See a Sacred Cow, Milk It For All It’s Worth (1993), Duck Soup for the Soul (1999) and Swami for Precedent: A 7-Step Plan to Heal the Body Politic and Cure Electile Dysfunction.
In his “past life” (before Swami), Steve started an alternative high school in Washington, D.C. and co-authored a book about his experiences, No Particular Pla ...
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 Eric Bloem has directly consulted with dozens of major corporations on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender- related workplace policies. Before joining the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Workplace Project in 2005, he spent six years as a manager with Accenture, where he provided change management consulting services to many Fortune 500 companies, including Best Buy, Fidelity, Walgreens and Citigroup. Bloem brings with him notable experience helping companies adapt to strategic change. Bloem developed the HRC Foundation Corporate Equality Series, a group of workshops designed to help human resources and diversity professionals better understand GLBT workplace issues. He conducts these workshops in strategic locations across the count ...
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 Annie is the editor and producer of Care2's Healthy Living channels and Health and Wellness Series newsletters. Bond teamed up with Maid Brigade to promote awareness of “true green” cleaning and what consumers should look for when selecting authentically green products and services, like Maid Brigade’s Green Clean Certified ™ system. She brings over 20 years of experience as a leading authority, writer and editor about the connections between the environment, personal health and well-being. Annie has authored four books, including her most recent work, Home Enlightenment: Practical, Earth-Friendly Advice for Creating a Nurturing, Healthy, and Toxin-Free Home and Lifestyle (Rodale, 2005). She has also written Better Basics for the Home (Thr ...
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 Award-winning photographer Braasch covers environmental issues for National Geographic, Time and the BBC.
 Caroline W. Casey is a Visionary Activist Astrologer, devoted to the principle that Imagination lays the tracks for the Reality Train to follow.
Based in Washington DC, Caroline broadcasts, for over ten years, her live weekly radio show, "The Visionary Activist Show", of which she is the host-creator-weaver-of-context, wedding spiritual magic to ingenious social action to Pacifica station KPFA (94.1) in Northern California , replayed on L.A.s KPFK.
Her audio book,Visionary Activist Astrology is published by Sounds True. She is the author of Making the Gods Work For You - the astrological language of the psyche (Harmony Books/Random House or Random Harmony) The audio version, a theatrical presentation of the material in the book, i ...
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 Lynne Cherry has been invited lecturer to dozens of conferences and schools internationally, speaking about integrating environmental children’s books into school curricula, how teachers and students can make a difference in their communities and in the world.
 Justin Conway is the Relationship Officer at Calvert Foundation, a nonprofit provider of innovative financial products and services that channel affordable capital to underserved communities and markets.
Before joining Calvert Foundation, Justin managed the Community Investing Program of Co-op America, where he currently serves on the Board of Directors, and the Social Investment Forum, where he was instrumental in helping grow the overall demand for community investing.
 Kevin Danaher is a co-founder of Global Exchange, the noted human rights organization based in San Francisco. Dr. Danaher received his PhD in sociology (1982) from the University of California at Santa Cruz. His areas of expertise include: Elite Globalization vs. People's Globalization; The World Trade Organization: Secret Global Government ; Fixing the Main Flaw in US Foreign Policy ;Building the Local Green Economy
Dr. Danaher has appeared on television and radio shows around the country. He has published articles in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the International Herald Tribune, Harvard Educational Review, The Nation, The Progressive, and many others. Click here to see Ke ...
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 Davis is the founder and president of United Poultry Concerns, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl.
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