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Roger
Ballentine. A senior member of the White House staff
for President Clinton, he was Chairman of the Climate Change
Task Force and Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental
Initiatives. He directed the Administration's efforts on climate
change and represented the President in numerous international
meetings and negotiations
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Lester
Brown. Founder of Earth Policy Institute and Worldwatch
Institute, he is expert on climate change, food supply and agriculture.
He is the author of Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security
Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures.
He helped pioneer the idea of environmentally sustainable development
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Christine
Ervin. Appointed by President Clinton to serve as Assistant
Secretary of Energy, her office led development of most of the
Presidents 50 Climate Change Action Plan initiatives and the
influential "Five Labs Study" documenting the potential
of low-carbon technologies. She is an advisor to The Climate
Trust
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Denis
Hayes. Organizer of the first Earth Day in 1970, former
Stanford professor and Director of the federal National Renewable
Energy Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the American Solar Energy
Society and co-chairs Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels' Green Ribbon
Commission on Climate Protection, exploring non-nuclear climate
solutions
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Evan Mills. A scientist
at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he documented the role
of climate change in the rapid growth of weather-related insurance
claims. He is widely cited as expert on the issue, was lead author
on it for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and wrote
a seminal article for Science magazine… More
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George
Divoky. A scientist whose observations of seabirds provides
one of the best examples of the reality of global warming in
the arctic, his presentations focus on understanding climate
change and its impacts. Denis Hayes describes his presentation
as "hilarious, poignant, provocative, compelling. He held the
crowd rapt
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Eban
Goodstein. Executive Director of the Green House Network,
a non-profit organization doing public education on global warming.
It sponsors "The Race to Stop Global Warming," a run/walk now
in cities nationwide, including New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
He has given more than 100 presentations on global warming around
the country
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Raymond
Bradley. Director of the Climate System Research Center
at the University of Massachusetts, he has written or edited
eleven books on climatic change and paleoclimatology. He has
been an advisor on climate issues to the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration and the Inter-Governmental Panel
on Climate Change
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Francesca
Lyman. Author of  ,
she is an award-winning journalist, author and editor. For the
last five years she has written the "Your Environment" column
for MSNBC.com, and she has served as editor of The Amicus
Journal and Not Man Apart
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Bob
Doppelt. Director of The Climate Leadership Initiative,
part of the Institute for a Sustainable Environment at the University
of Oregon, he authored  .
It was deemed to be one of the nine most important books on
sustainability
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Jim
Motavalli. Editor of E Magazine, a national environmental
bi-monthly, as well as editor of the book  .
He has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe,
Salon, Grist, and many others. An engaging speaker, he can
enlighten audiences about climate change
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David Merrill. As founder
and Executive Director of Global Warming Solution, he has built
a national network of 35 member organizations representing 320
groups from Hawaii to New England. It advocates the most ambitious
greenhouse gas reduction proposal, 80 percent below 1990 levels
by 2025, of any national environmental group… More
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Tim Foresman. As Co-Principal
Investigator for the National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecosystem
Monitoring Program in the mid-1990s, he focused on detailing the
scientific evidence for climate change. At NASA Headquarters,
his work aimed to create accurate projections of the local and
regional impacts of climate change… More
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Peter
Melhus. Chair of the Board of the Silicon Valley Environmental
Partnership, he completed a 25-year career with Pacific Gas
& Electric Company in 1998, the last eight directing environmental
policy for the company. He speaks about energy policy, the energy
portfolio of the future, and saving money by reducing greenhouse
gases
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Jack
Robinson. Founder of Winslow Management Company, his
views have been featured in The Wall Street Journal and
The New York Times. He speaks on climate change as a
driver of investment risk and opportunity, and explains how
companies contributing most to global warming incur risks while
climate friendly companies gain advantage
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Wil
Burns. He specializes in the scientific, legal and political
issues related to climate change and biodiversity. He has edited
two books, and his articles have appeared in The San Francisco
Chronicle, The San Jose Mercury News, and The Milwaukee
Sentinel. He speaks on the impacts of global warming and
what we can do about it
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