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...	Dr. Joe MacInnis Deep Leadership “Looking at the ocean, the snow tipped mountains and the great glaciers releasing their over-burden of ice you are in emotional over-drive, your mind a fusion...
Jon Bowermaster Adventurer/Environmentalist For over 20 years, Jon Bowermaster has pursued adventure with a passion. On every continent and ocean...	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...
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. Mark Moffett Doctor Bugs From the top of the world’s largest tree to deep in unexplored caves, Mark Moffett is an explorer, ecologist...
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. Richard Murphy Ocean Guru For 40 years, Dr. Richard Murphy has been an oracle for understanding the ocean realm and communicating this...
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...	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...
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...	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...
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 ...	Dr. Johan Reinhard High Altitudes Archeologist Johan Reinhard is one of the world’s foremost high-altitude archeologists and has spent a lifetime studying...
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...	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. 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...	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...
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 ...	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...
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...	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...
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...	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...
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 ..	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...
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...	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...	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...
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...	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...
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...	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 ...
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...	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...
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...	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 ...
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...	Dr. Lisa Weasel The Food Detective In 2008, 80 percent of all corn and 92 percent of all soybeans grown in the United States were products of genetic engineering. Is a diet rich in recombinant DNA...
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...	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...
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...	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...
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...	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...