Dr. May Berenbaum Queen Bee Want to know what’s bugging the planet? Dr. May Berenbaum is the person you want to ask. As head of the Department of Entomology...	Joseph Marshall III Native Intelligence The original conservationists on our planet were indigenous peoples who handed down their wisdom for maintaining Nature’s balance from generation...
Dr. Penny Boston From Cavewoman to Martian On an average day, Dr. Penny Boston goes to the office underground in a dark void that could be extremely hot...	Dr. Mark Moffett Doctor Bugs From the top of the world’s largest tree to deep in unexplored caves, Mark Moffett is an explorer, ecologist...
Jon Bowermaster Adventurer/Environmentalist For over 20 years, Jon Bowermaster has pursued adventure with a passion. On every continent and ocean...	Dr. Richard Murphy Ocean Guru For 40 years, Dr. Richard Murphy has been an oracle for understanding the ocean realm and communicating this...
Capt. Scott Cassell Undersea Voyager An ocean pioneer, Capt. Scott Cassell is the President and Founder of The Undersea Voyager Project, a five-year mission to circumnavigate the Earth...	Dr. Nalini Nadkarni The Queen of the Canopy Dubbed “The Queen of the Forest Canopy,” Dr. Nalini Nadkarni is a pioneer in forest canopy studies and communicating the biodiversity...
Dr. Kathy Clark NASA Scientist - The Right Stuff Kathryn Clark has one professional objective: "To entertain people and sneak education in when they're not...	Dr. Naomi Oreskes No Doubt About the History of Science It was the publication that shook the world. Former Vice President and Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore included her work in An Inconvenient Truth....
Ron Cogan The Green Car Expert “Our buying decisions have the potential to make a difference today- not years in the future. If demand forthese vehicles materializes is significant enough...	Chris Palmer Adventures in Wildlife Filmmaking An environmental and wildlife film producer who has swum with dolphins and whales, confronted sharks, come face-to-face with Kodiak bears...
Fabien Cousteau A Legacy of Exploring the Ocean Realm Fabien Cousteau, a third-generation ocean explorer and filmmaker, shares his famous father’s and grandfather’s love of deep-sea adventure...	Bob Parks The Dark Knight Light pollution obscures more than the Milky Way. Human-produced light pollution disrupts ecosystems, affects human circadian rhythms causing health risks...
Jean-Michel Cousteau Explorer, Environmental Educator, Filmmaker Explorer, environmentalist, educator, film producer--- for more than four decades Jean- Michel Cousteau has used his vast experiences to communicate to people ...	Judy Pasternak Digging Deep into the American Heart of Darkness Judy Pasternak is an award-winning investigative reporter and author whose celebrated book, Yellow Dirt, tells the story...
Heidi Cullen Climate Expert When Dr. Heidi Cullen talks, people listen. A climate expert at The Weather Channel, Dr. Cullen is also a scientist with Climate Central at Princeton University...	Dr. Johan Reinhard High Altitudes Archeologist Johan Reinhard is one of the world’s foremost high-altitude archeologists and has spent a lifetime studying...
Dr. Wade Davis Exploring the Ethnosphere Named by The National Geographic Society as one of the “Explorers for the Millennium,” Dr. Wade Davis is world-renowned as an author, researcher and speaker...	Andrew Revkin Eco-Journalist A prize-winning reporter and author who has spent a quarter of a century covering subjectsranging from the assault on the Amazon to the Asian tsunami...
Dr. Dickson Despommier Skyfarmer Dr. Dickson Despommier believes the future of food is up. Vertical farming, literally growing our food supply in high-rise towers, is a progressive alternative to ...	Joel Reynolds Nature's Lawyer For nearly 20 years, Joel Reynolds has been “the Earth’s best defense” to protect the environment and speakout for wildlife and habitats that have no human voice...
Thomas Joseph Doherty, Psy.D. Ecopsychologist Dr. Thomas Joseph Doherty is an expert in the emerging field of ecopsychology and is bridge between the world of scientific research...	Alexis Ringwald Energy and Climate Solutions Co-founder of Valence Energy, a smart microgrid start-up, and has worked in both the India and California offices. Prior to starting the company...
Dr. Mark Edwards It’s Green, it’s Slimy and it May Save the World Author of the 2008 Science Book of the Year, Green Algae Strategy, Mark Edwards is an advocate of sustainable and affordable food, fuel, and medicines...	Mike Rosen Changing the World, One Message at a Time A hippo flipped and snacked on his canoe, a mountain gorilla used him as a chair and a volcano came within 30 seconds of vaporizing him...
Julian Fennessy Sticking His Neck Out Giraffe are one of the iconic animals of Africa and seemingly plentiful. Yet, like so many species on the continent, giraffe are under siege ..	Dr. Stephen Scharper God's Green Earth Behind all science is a philosophy that binds those who inquire. Religious experts have re-discovered bedrock tenets in their faiths to protect an ailing planet...
James Fraioli Sustainable Seafood An award-winning author of Ocean Friendly Cuisine: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the World’s Finest Chefs. His newest cookbook, Trattoria Grappolo...	Auden Schendler On the Front Lines of Green Jobs Named a “Pioneer of the New Energy Economy” by the University of Colorado and a “Global Warming Innovator” by Time Magazine...
Kathleen Frith Food Cyclist Kathleen is a creative, visionary leader working for a smarter, more sustainable world. Kathleen's efforts are fueled by determination, grace and passion, resulting in...	Sea Change Reversing the Tide A dramatic lecture combining the knowledge of science with the wisdom of poetry in which renowned scientist Roger Payne and acclaimed actress Lisa Harrow...
Betty Fussell Getting to the Root of Food Food has become an increasingly important issue facing public policy and consumer decisions. From climate change to deforestation and genetically-modified...	Sandy Skinner The Angel Wears Green A fashion industry veteran, Sandy Skinner is making green more than just a color you wear. Reinventing how and why we buy fashion, Sandy has founded ecoSkin...
Adam Gollner In Pursuit of Fruit Adam Gollner sees the environment through the lens of…well…fruit. Fruits today are a part of everyday life the past, they were utmost rarities and luxury items...	Dr. Richard C. J. Somerville The Weather Wizard Somerville is one of the world’s leading atmospheric scientists, and his climate research has been at the forefront of the field for decades...
Gordon Hempton The Sound Tracker An Emmy Award-winning acoustic ecologist who has circled the globe more than three times in search of the planet's last quiet places and nature's music...	Amy Stewart Thorny Issues Author and garden guru Amy Stewart knows all the thorny issues of the botanical world. Like all good investigators, she knows how to follow the clues...
Denver Holt Who? Mr. Owl, that's who. Denver Holt has spent the last 35 years in the field studying owls — the harbingers of climate change -- on a year-round basis...	Bill Stone Space Cowboy Engineer and daredevil explorer Bill Stone is obsessed with discovery. After years of descending into the deepest unexplored caves on the planet...
Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka Gorillas in her Midst In the legacy of the late Dian Fossey, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka has working to save the critically endangered mountain gorillas of East Africa...	Dr. Tom Swetnam Seeing the Forest Through the Trees Tom Swetnam is the director of the world’s premier tree-ring research laboratory and a scientist who has a unique view of climate change on our planet...
Chris Kilham The Medicine Hunter Called “The Indiana Jones of natural medicine” by CNN, Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, author, and has conducted medicinal research in over 20 countries...	Solitaire Townsend Spinning Green Into Gold In her TED lecture, Solitaire Townsend calls herself a "spin doctor" and a "propagandist"-monikers that conjure up a less than flattering image ...
Peter Knights Guardian Against the Illegal Wildlife Trade Co-Founder of WildAid, one of the world’s most successful organizations fighting the illegal wildlife trade, Peter began his career as an ecological detective...	Ed Viesturs Peak Performer One of the foremost high-altitude mountaineers in the world, Ed Viesturs is the first and only American to summit all fourteen 8,000-meter peaks on the planet...
Dr. James Lee Natural Security: Global Warming and World Conflict “We’re used to thinking of climate change as an environmental problem, not a military one, but it’s long past...	Ingrid Visser Whale of a Tale Studies killer whales—or orca—and one of the few to ever research these incredible creatures underwater and without the protection of shark cages...
Jodi Lomask Dancing with Nature Acclaimed artistic director and choreographer Jodi Lomask focuses her work on the nexus of science and the art of dance...	Sheila Watt-Cloutier The Right To Be Cold The Nobel Peace Prize nominee & honored advocate for indigenous culture in the Arctic views herself as less of an environmentalist & more of a human rights activist.
Richard Louv Crusader For the Natural Child Focused on nature, family and community, his most recent book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder...	Robin Wilson The Real Green House National eco-friendly and healthy home interior designer Robin focuses on the four principles of eco-friendly design: sustainable, reusable, recyclable and nontoxic...
Mark Lynas Witness to Warming Worked for nearly a decade as a specialist on climate change and is the author of three books on the subject—“High Tide: News from a Warming World...	Dr. David Wolfe Tales From Underground What happens to all crops and plant life on Earth as our planet warms? Who are the “winners” and who are the “losers”? That’s the lifelong pursuit of Dr. David Wolfe...
Dr. Joe MacInnis Deep Leadership “Exploring the limits of human performance in outer space and the abyssal ocean is generating new forms of leadership for our workplace and our uncertain future on this planet....	Scott Zajac It Takes Green to Make Green in Green Investment We hear everyday about the new green economy we should expect in the United States and the thousands of...
Dr. Laurie Marker The Real Catwoman Acclaimed for almost single-handedly saving the cheetahs in the wild, Dr. Laurie Marker is passionate for this fastest of all land animals...