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Rajendra K. Pachauri (b.1940) is an economist and environmental scientist, former chair of the UN’s authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2002-2015), and former Director General of The Energy and...

Ernest J. Moniz (b.1944) is a nuclear physicist and former US Secretary of Energy (2013-2017), as well as Undersecretary of Energy for Energy and the Environment (1997-2001).  He is currently...

Bill McKibben (p.1960) is a journalist, environmentalist, and activist; Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College in Vermont, and founder (2007) and Senior Advisor of 350.org, a planet-wide climate change movement that...

Federico Mayor Zaragoza (b.1934) is a Spanish scientist and politician, best-known as Director-General of UNESCO (1987-1999), the UN educational, scientific, and cultural organization.  Before then, he served as Professor of...

Amory Lovins (b.1947) is a physicist, environmental scientist, and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute in 1982, where he serves as Chairman and Chief Scientist.  He is widely known for...

Frances Moore Lappé (b.1944) is co-founder with daughter Anna Lappé of the Small Planet Institute (2002, Cambridge MA) and the Small Planet Fund, which channels resources to democratic social movements. ...

Tim Jackson (b.1957) is a British ecological economist, Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey, and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity that emphasizes...

Hazel Henderson (b.1933) is a futurist and evolutionary economist, and founder/president of Ethical Markets Media in St. Augustine, Florida, as well as creator/co-executive producer of its TV Series.  Ethical Markets...

Paul Hawken (b.1946) is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, and widely-traveled speaker based in Sausalito CA, who heads Project Drawdown, based on his latest book, Drawdown—The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to...

James E. Hansen (b.1941) is Director, Program on Climate Science, Awareness, and Solutions, at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.  He served as head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a...