Individuals:

Diana Ruiz

Works with Project Underground, an activist non-profit organization dedicated to supporting communities resisting oil and mining industries and challenging the abuses of extractive industries worldwide.

Betsy Rosenberg

An award winning reporter and anchor with the CBS Radio Network, launched the environmental feature "Eco Talk" which focuses on waste prevention and resource conservation.

Paul Hawken

An award-winning, environmentally and socially responsible entrepreneur, journalist, and author of many articles and books, including Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution.

Toby Hemenway

Author of the first major book on permaculture for North America, Gaia's Garden, and co-author of Permaculture Activist, a journal of ecological design and sustainable culture.

Julia Butterfly Hill

author of The Legacy of Luna, and co-author of One Makes The Difference, because a world-famous inspiration, living atop a 1000 old tree for two years, to protest the logging of old growth forests near Eureka, California.

Sandra Ingerman

A leading teacher of contemporary shamanic spirituality, and the author of many books on Soul Retrieval.

Andy Lipkis

Founder of Tree People, a guiding light for the citizen forestry movement, and T.R.E.E.S., a public/private partnership aimed at making Los Angeles a sustainable urban ecosystem.

Dr. Larry Dossey

A physician of internal medicine, former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital, is the author of many books on alternative medicine, including Space, Time and Medicine. He is executive director of the peer-review journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine.