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Janine Benyus (www.biomimicry.net) is an author of six books in the natural sciences including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature.

Singer & Musician, Will Bullock, who has been working with The Food Project -groundbreaking non-profit urban agriculture and education organization.

Michael Ableman is the executive Director of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens, CA, www.fairviewgardens.org

Ohki Simine Forest, is the author of Dreaming the Council Ways and visits the U.S. regularly to speak and lead retreats.

Omar Freilla, (www.ssbx.org), was a founding board member and Program Director of the renowned environmental justice group, Sustainable South Bronx (SSB).

Thom Hartmann , is a renowned innovator in the fields of psychiatry, ecology, and economics; an award-winning, best-selling author of fourteen books.

Rha Goddess is a performing artist, entrepreneur and social activist. As founder and CEO of Divine Dime Entertainment, Ltd., she was one of the first women in hip hop to create, independently market, and distribute her own music worldwide.

Renowned composer, singer, historian, music producer, author and cultural activist Bernice Johnson Reagon, has received many awards for her pioneering work as a scholar in the evolution of African American culture

Jeremy Narby, Ph.D., a Swiss-based anthropologist and indigenous land rights activist who has spent several years in the Amazon basin.

Bill McKibben is the author of several seminal books, including Maybe One, The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information; Hope, Human and Wild and Enough.

Carolyn Raffensperger (www.sehn.org), an environmental lawyer and former archaeologist, is the Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network.

Andy Lipkis (www.treepeople.org) founded and is President of TreePeople, a guiding light for the citizen forestry movement, and T.R.E.E.S.

Diane Wilson, mother of five and fourth-generation fisherman on the Texas Gulf Coast, has used civil disobedience to fight corporate chemical giants including Union Carbide and Dupont.

Slava Trigubovich, a native of Siberia and a graduate of Novosibirsk University with a degree in wildlife biology, is one of Russia’s best-known anti-poaching rangers and wilderness protection advocates.

David Orr, (www.oberlin.edu/envs/), is renowned for his pioneering work on environmental literacy in higher education and ecological design.