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Jerome C. Glenn (b.1945) is a futurist and co-founder with futurist Theodore J. Gordon of The Millennium Project in 1996, to “provide a context for global thinking.”  Based in Washington,...

Carl Folke (b.1955) is a transdisciplinary environmental scientist, co-founder and Science Director of the Stockholm Resilience Center, Director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy...

Tim Flannery (b.1956) is Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, and Chief Councillor of Australia’s independent Climate Council, launched in 2013 after the Australian government disbanded...

Christiana Figueres (b.1956) is a Costa Rican diplomat and international leader on climate change, and daughter of a former Costa Rican president.  She was Executive Director of the UN Framework...

Paul Ekins (b.1950) is a British leader in sustainable economics.  He is Deputy Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy and Director of the...

Sylvia A. Earle (b.1935) is an oceanographer, marine biologist, explorer, and well-known author.  She was a Research Fellow at Harvard University (1967-1981), the first woman appointed as Chief Scientist at...

Herman E. Daly (b.1938) is an ecological economist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs.  Previous positions include Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University,...

Paul J. Crutzen (b.1933) is a Dutch atmospheric chemist known for research on the ozone layer, introducing the concept of nuclear winter, coining the term “Anthropocene,” and joining with 27...

Robert Costanza (b.1950) is an ecological economist, Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and Professor of Public Policy at the Australian National University Crawford School of Public Policy. ...

Helen Caldicott, M.D. (b.1938) is an Australian physician and anti-nuclear advocate.  She is Founding President of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute (now Beyond Nuclear), President of the Helen Caldicott Foundation...