Ray Anderson, Founder and CEO, Interface Inc.
www.interfaceglobal.com
Esperide Ananas, International Coordinator, Federation of Damanhur, Italy. Founded in 1975, Damanhur is an U.N. agency award-winning sustainable society numbering 1,000 citizens; it is a member of G.E.N. and an active supporter of the Earth Charter Initiative. www.damanhur.org
Bill Becker, Executive Director, Presidential Climate Action Project; Project Director and Senior Consultant, National Leadership Summits for a Sustainable America; and former Director, Department of Energy, Central Regional Office. www.natcapsolutions.org
Dr. Brent Blackwelder, President of Friends of the Earth
www.foe.org
Barrett C. Brown, Co-Director, Integral Sustainability Center, organizational consultant, author, and specialist in leadership development for global environmental and social sustainability. www.integrallife.com
Lester Brown, Founder, Earth Policy Institute, World Watch Institute, author of numerous books, including Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. www.earth-policy.org
Michael Brune, Executive Director Rainforest Action Network
www.ran.org
Brian Castelli, Executive Vice President for Programs and Development, Alliance to Save Energy. www.ase.org
Chip Comins, Founder, Producer and Director of AREDAY- American Renewable Energy Day. The 6th Annual AREDAY – “The Problem IS The Solution: Wall St. Meets Green St. - Creating The New Energy Economy” takes place August 20-22, 2009 in Aspen CO. Comins is a presenter for The Climate Project by Al Gore. www.areday.net & www.americanspiritproductions.com
Michael Cox, Chair, Executive Committee, California Student Sustainability Coalition. www.sustainabilitycoalition.org
Sean Esbjorn-Hargens, Chair, Integral Theory Department, John F. Kennedy University; Executive Editor, Journal of Integral Theory and Practice; co-author, Integral Ecology. www.integralinstitute.org
Steve Farrell is the Worldwide Coordinating Director for Humanity’s Team, a global grassroots spiritual movement with 18,000+ teammates in over 90 countries. www.humanitysteam.org
Morel Fourman, Founder, Gaiasoft; author Managing in the New Economy - Performance Management Habits; and The Book of Personal and Global Transformation. www.mindofmany.com
Vasilis M. Fthenakis, Senior Scientist, Head, National Photovoltaic Environmental Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Director, Center for Life Cycle Analysis, Earth and Environmental Engineering Department, Columbia University www.bnl.gov
Jim Garrison, President and Chairman of Wisdom University, a graduate academic institution that explores both ancient wisdom traditions and the wisdom culture shaping our future today. He is also founder and president of State of the World Forum, a San Francisco based non-profit institution with a global network of leaders dedicated to developing a more sustainable global civilization.
Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace www.janegoodall.org [photo by Jeff Orlowski]
Richard Hames, Distinguished University Professor, Founding Director, Asian Foresight Institute, Dhurakij Pundit University, Bangkok, Thailand www.richardhames.com
Marilyn Hamilton, Founder, Integral City Meshworks Inc.; author, Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligence for the Human Hive.
James Hansen, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth and Earth Sciences Division, Columbia University. www.giss.nasa.gov
Randy Hayes, Climate Policy Officer at the World Future Council and Founder of Rainforest Action Network. www.worldfuturecouncil.org
Johannes Heimrath, Executive Director, Club of Budapest. www.johannesheimrath.de
Jean Houston, mythologist, philosopher and researcher in human capacities, long regarded as one of the principal founders of the human potential movement; author of 19 published books, including The Possible Human, A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story, The Passion of Isis and Osiris, and Jump Time. www.jeanhouston.org
Ross Jackson, Founder and Chairman, Gaia Trust, a Danish foundation which since 1987 has supported over 300 sustainability products in over 40 countries, especially in the ecovillage movement. He is also a major shareholder in the Urtekram International, the largest organic wholesaler in Scandinavia.
Jurriaan Kamp, President, Editor-in-Chief, Ode Magazine
www.odemagazine.com
Chuck Kutscher, Principal Engineer/Group Manager, Thermal Systems Electricity, Resources, and Building Systems Integration, National Renewable Energy Laboratory www.nrel.gov
Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder/artist of the International Cheemah and Mari Monument Projects, which are dedicated to environmental sustainability, cultural diversity and societal transformation. www.ospreyoriellelake.com
Ervin Laszlo, President, The Club of Budapest; Founder and University Chancellor, The Institute at GlobalShift University. www.clubofbudapest.org
Pierre-Yves Longaretti, Theoretical astrophysicist, Astrophysics Laboratory of Grenoble, France. http://www-laog.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr/~pyl/
Hunter Lovins, President and Founder, Natural Capitalism Solutions. She is currently a founding Professor of Business at Presidio School of Management, one of the first accredited programs offering an MBA in Sustainable Management. www.hunterlovins.com
David Martin, Executive Chairman, M∙CAM, Fellow, Batten Institute, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. www.m-cam.com
Peter Merry, Founding partner of Engage! InterAct; Chair of the Board of the Center for Human Emergence; author, Evolutionary Leadership. www.engage.nl
Aubrey Meyer, Co-founder Global Commons Institute
www.climateactionprogramme.org, CarbonCountdown.pdf and GCIEAC.pdf
Caroline Myss, Author of five New York Times bestselling books, including Sacred Contracts, The Interior Castle, The Anatomy of the Spirit; founder, Caroline Myss Education Institute. www.myss.com
Karen O'Brien, Chair, Global Environmental Change and Human Security Project Professor, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo http://www.iss.uio.no/instituttet/ansatte/karenob.xml
Andrew H. Orgel, Founder and Chairman, Human Planet Media Group, Inc., an emerging humanitarian media company within the personal, social and global consciousness category and Chairman & CEO, Global Media Group, a select portfolio of media businesses in television, film, online, video-on-demand, radio and mobile platforms. He has been a start-up executive at Arts & Entertainment (A&E), Nickelodeon, MTV and Wisdom Media Group.
Mary Otto-Chang, Consultant, UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Children and Climate Change; UN Secretariat for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (2003-2007); UN Development Program, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (2000-2003). UNICEF and UNICEF in Latin America and the Caribbean
Rajendra Pachauri, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2007); Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Director, Tata Energy Research Institute; author of over twenty books and numerous articles on ecology, climate change and technology. www.climatescience.gov
Sandra Postel, Director, Global Water Policy Project and Center for the Environment at Mount Holyoke College. www.globalwaterpolicy.org
James Quilligan, Economic development policy advisor and writer for many international politicians and leaders, including Pierre Trudeau, François Mitterand, Jimmy Carter, Edward Heath, Julius Nyerere, Olof Palme, Willy Brandt, Tony Blair, and His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal. www.global-negotiations.org
Sally Ranney, CEO, StillWater Preservation LLC.
www.stillwaterpreservation.com
Paul Ray, Sociologist; Director, Institute of the Emerging Wisdom Culture, Wisdom University; author, The Cultural Creatives. www.wisdomuniversity.org
Jerome Ringo, Chairman, Apollo Alliance; Associate Research Scholar “ Yale University; former Chairman, World Wildlife Fund. www.jeromeringo.com
Robb Smith, CEO, Integral Institute; Chairman, CEO and co-founder, Integral Life. www.integrallife.com
Richard Tarnas, author of The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche; Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. www.cosmosandpsyche.com
Ted Turner, Chairman United Nations Board of Directors; founder CNN network www.tedturner.com
Lynne Twist, Co-Founder, Pachamama Alliance; Author of The Soul of Money www.soulofmoney.org
Marc Weiss, Founder and CEO of Global Urban Development.
www.globalurban.org
Tom Weis, President of Wind Power Solutions, is a social change agent with over 20 years of environmental and political organizing experience. He has been active in the industry since 2004, having served as Strategic Advisor to the President of the American Wind Energy Association and co-created the American Wind Wildlife Institute. http://www.windpowersolutions.com/
Herman Wijffels, Member, Office of the Executive Director, World Bank, representing Armenia, Bosnia and Herzengovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Israel, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Romania and Ukraine; former Chairman of Rabobank; Chairman, Economic and Social Council of the Netherlands. www.clubofbudapest.org
Ken Wilber, Author of 25 books translated into some 30 foreign languages, he is the most widely translated academic writer in the United States. Ken is the internationally acknowledged originator of Integral Theory and co-founder of Integral Life. www.kenwilber.com
Robertson Work, Founder/Director, The Hillside Institute; NYU Adjunct Professor; Local Governance consultant to the UN, East-West Center and the Prince Salman Center for Local Governance; Former UNDP Principal Policy Advisor on Decentralised Governance; Former Executive Director, the Institute of Cultural Affairs.
Christiana Wyly, operating partner at Satori Capital, an investment firm focused on sustainable investing, providing conscious capital and helping to grow the market for products and firms dedicated to a sustainable future.
Michael Zimmerman, Director, Center for Humanities and the Arts, and Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder; co-author, Integral Ecology. www.colorado.edu
Ken Zweibel, former Program Leader for the Thin Film Photovoltaic Partnership Program, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and is often credited with the success of thin film photovoltaics in the U.S. Zweibel also cofounded a thin film CdTe PV start-up, PrimeStar Solar and became the founding Director of the Institute for Analysis of Solar Energy at George Washington University. He has written two books on photovoltaics and co-authored a Scientific American article (January 2008) on solar energy as a solution to climate change. solar.gwu.edu






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