Research on the Experts

Stephen Hawking
is the former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and author of A Brief
History of Time which was an international bestseller. Now Director of Research at the Centre for
Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge, his other books for the general reader include A Briefer History of
Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby Universe and The Universe in a Nutshell.
In 1963, Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live. Yet he went
on to Cambridge to become a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College.
Since 1979 he has held the post of Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, the chair held by Isaac Newton in
1663. Professor Hawking has over a dozen honorary degrees and was awarded the CBE in 1982. He is a
fellow of the Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Science. Stephen Hawking is
regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein.(source:
http://www.hawking.org.uk/)
Oren R. Lyons
is a
traditional Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, and a member of the Onondoga Nation Council of Chiefs of the
Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy (the Haudenosaunee).
Lyons graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Fine Arts and soon moved to New York
City, where he worked for Norcross Greeting Cards. He started as a paste-up artist but later became an art
and planning director for Norcross. His background in art has helped him become an accomplished
illustrator of books and a painter.
In 1970, Lyons returned to his ancestral homeland in upstate New York to act as Faithkeeper of the
Turtle Clan. In this capacity, he is entrusted with keeping alive his people's traditions, values and history.
Oren Lyons is Associate Professor at SUNY (University at Buffalo), in the Center for the Americas.
He teaches courses on Native American history and studies, and advises graduate students. Prof. Lyons
also appears at many conferences and meetings, speaking on American Indian topics, human rights,
interfaith dialogue, and the environment. Aside from his work at the University and the Turtle Clan,
Lyons is the co-founder of the national American Indian quarterly news magazine Daybreak, of which he
has been the publisher since 1987. He also edited the book Exiled In The Land Of The Free: Democracy,
The Iroquois and The Constitution (1992) , a major study of the Indian's impact on American democracy
and the United States Constitution. (source: http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/authors/OrenLyons.aspx)
Andy Revkin
is an American, non-fiction, science and environmental writer. He reported on the global environment in
print and on Dot Earth. He has spent a quarter century covering subjects ranging from Hurricane Katrina
and the Asian tsunami to the assault on the Amazon and the troubled relationship of climate science and
politics. He has been reporting on the environment for The New York Times since 1995, a job that has
taken him to the Arctic three times. In 2003, he became the first Times reporter to file stories and photos
from the sea ice around the Pole. He spearheaded a three-part Times series and one-hour documentary in
2005 on the transforming Arctic and another series, "The Climate Divide," on the uneven impacts of
climate change.
He has written books on the Amazon rain forest, global warming and the once and future Arctic.
Before joining The Times, Mr. Revkin was a senior editor of Discover, a staff writer for the Los Angeles
Times, and a senior writer at Science Digest. Mr. Revkin has a biology degree from Brown and a Master's
degree in journalism from Columbia. He has taught at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and the
Bard College Center for Environmental Policy. (source:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/andrew_c_revkin/index.html)

Paul Hawken
is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author. His work includes starting ecological businesses, writing
about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with heads of state and CEOs on
economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy.
He authors articles, op-eds, and peer-reviewed papers, and has written seven books including four
national bestsellers The Next Economy (Ballantine 1983), Growing a Business (Simon and Schuster
1987), and The Ecology of Commerce (HarperCollins 1993) and Blessed Unrest (Viking, 2007).
Paul has founded several companies including some of the first natural food companies in the
U.S. that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods. He presently heads OneSun, Inc., an energy
company focused on ultra low-cost solar based on green chemistry and biomimicry. Paul is founder of the
Natural Capital Institute (www.naturalcapital.org), a research organization located in Sausalito,
California. The Natural Capital Institute created Wiser Earth (www.WiserEarth.org), an open source
networking platform that links NGOs, foundations, business, government, social entrepreneurs, students,
organizers, academics, activists, scientists, and citizens concerned about the environment and social
justice. (source: http://www.paulhawken.com/paulhawken_frameset.html)
Janine Benyus
is a biologist, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired
by Nature. In Biomimicry, she names an emerging discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by
emulating natures designs and processes, In 1998, Janine co-founded the Helena, Montana-based
Biomimicry Guild. The Guild is an innovation consultancy providing biological consulting and research,
workshops and field excursions, and a speakers bureau.In 2005, Janine founded The Biomimicry
Institute (TBI), a nonprofit organization based in Missoula, MT. TBIs mission is to nurture and grow a
global community of people who are learning from, emulating, and conserving lifes genius to create a
healthier, more sustainable planet.
Janine has received several awards including a Time Magazines Heroes of the Environment
award, the Rachel Carson Environmental Ethics Award, the Lud Browman Award for Science Writing in
Society, and the Barrows and Heinz Distinguished Lectureships. In 2009, Janine was honored with a
Champion of the Earth award in Science & Innovation from the United Nations Environment Programme.
She traveled to Paris to accept the award on Earth Day and then participated in a two-day conference
hosted by Business 4 Environment.(source: http://biomimicry.net/about/our-people/founders/janinebenyus/)
Stuart Pimm
is Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth
Sciences at Duke and one of the most cited scientists working in the field of conservation biology. Hes
also worked with the best minds in the world to share his passion for protecting the Earths biodiversity.
Dr. Pimm is author of A Scientist Audits the Earth, a globe-circling tour of our endangered
planet. Before coming to Duke, Dr. Pimm was professor of conservation biology at the Center for
Environmental Research and Conservation at Columbia University in New York. He was the recipient of
a Pew Scholarship for Conservation and the Environment (in 1993) and an Aldo Leopold Leadership
Fellowship (in 1999). Pimm has testified before both the House and Senate Committees on the reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act. Hes also taken a lead role in a major initiative to restore the
Florida Everglades. Pimm is the author of more than 150 scientific papers, as well as three books. He is
passionate about sharing science with those outside his field, including non-scientists, and has published
numerous popular articles and book reviews in such publications as New Scientist, Scientific American,
Nature, and Science.(source: http://thepimmgroup.org/about/dr-stuart-pimm/)

Paolo Soleri
one of the best-known Utopian planners of the twentieth century, founder of Arcosanti. His elaborate
sociological philosophies and city plans, bearing the unmistakable evidence of a highly creative mind,
depict the ideal self-sufficient societies that have always been the stuff of visionary dreams. His
controversial megaplans and experimental communities are poetic manifestos of the type of world that is
possible once man decides to live in harmony with nature.
After receiving a doctorate with highest honors from the Polytechnic University of Torino, 1946,
Paolo Soleri moved to the United States where he was apprenticed to Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin
West from 1947 to 1949. In 1950 Paolo Soleri returned to Italy where he designed and built a uniquely
sculptural ceramics factory on the Amain Coast, south of Naples. Although the factory at Vietri sul Mare
is decidedly influenced by Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, it is a remarkably original work. Bulging, thinshelled walls enhance rather than disturb the natural curves of the cliffside setting. Another important
project from Paolo Soleri's early years was the tubular bridge designed in the late 1940s. This ingenious
reinforced concrete bridge unfolds where structural stresses are small, then closes back into tubular
shapes at midspan. Although the project was never built, it is possibly the first innovative concept in
bridge design since Maillart. (source: http://architect.architecture.sk/paolo-soleri-architect/paolo-soleriarchitect.php)

David Suzuki
is the Co-Founder of the David Suzuki Foundation, is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and
broadcaster. He is renowned for his radio and television programs that explain the complexities of the
natural sciences in a compelling, easily understood way.
Dr. Suzuki is a geneticist. He graduated from Amherst College (Massachusetts) in 1958 with an Honours
BA in Biology, followed by a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961. He held a
research associateship in the Biology Division of Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Lab (1961 62), was
an Assistant Professor in Genetics at the University of Alberta (1962 63), and since then has been a
faculty member of the University of British Columbia. He is now Professor Emeritus at UBC.
In 1972, he was awarded the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship for the outstanding research scientist
in Canada under the age of 35 and held it for three years Dr. Suzuki has written 52 books, including 19
for children. His 1976 textbook An Introduction to Genetic Analysis ), remains the most widely used
genetics text book in the U.S. and has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek, Indonesian, Arabic,
French and German.In 1974 he developed and hosted the long running popular science program Quirks
and Quarks on CBC Radio for four years. He has since presented two influential documentary CBC radio
series on the environment, It's a Matter of Survival and From Naked Ape to Superspecies. His national
television career began with CBC in 1971 when he wrote and hosted Suzuki on Science. He was host of
Science Magazine (1974 79) then created and hosted a number of television specials, and in 1979
became the host of the award-winning series, The Nature of Things with David Suzuki. His eight part
television series, A Planet for the Taking, won an award from the United Nations. His eight part
BBC/PBS series, The Secret of Life, was praised internationally, as was his five part series The Brain for
the Discovery Channel. On June 10, 2002 he received the John Drainie Award for broadcasting
excellence.Dr. Suzuki is also recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology. He is the recipient of
UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for Science, the United Nations Environment Program Medal, UNEPs Global
500 and in 2009 won the Right Livelihood Award that is considered the Alternative Nobel Prize.(source:
http://davidsuzuki.org/david/)

Kenny Ausubel
is the Co-CEO and founder (in 1990) of Bioneers, is an award-winning social entrepreneur, journalist,
author and filmmaker. A pathfinder in advancing "backyard biodiversity" conservation and organic
farming and food, he co-founded the organic seed company, Seeds of Change, serving as its CEO until
1994. His film Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime (specially screened for members of Congress)
and its companion book helped influence national policy on alternative medicine. Kenny has edited
several books and written four, including 2012's Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the
Age of Nature. Among his honors: runner-up, 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge award for Dreaming
New Mexico, a Bioneers program Kenny co-directs with Peter Warshall; more than 30 awards in
international radio competitions; with Nina Simons, the 2007 Rainforest Action Network REVEL Award,
and the 2006 Global Green-Green Cross Millennium Award for Community Environmental Leadership.
(source: http://www.bioneers.org/presenters/kenny-ausubel)
Thom Hartmann
progressive national and internationally syndicated talkshow host (also simulcast as TV in 40 million
homes by Dish Network/Free Speech TV), and New York Times bestselling, 4-times project Censored
winning author of 24 books in print in 17 languages on five continents. Leonardo DiCaprio was inspired
by Thom's book "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight" to make the movie "The 11th Hour." Talkers
Magazine named Thom Hartmann as the 8th most important talk show host in America in 2011 (10th the
two previous years), and for three years the #1 most important progressive host, in their Heavy Hundred
ranking. In 2012 Talkers again named him 8th most important host in the US.
Thom has spent much of his life working with and for the international Salem relief organization
(www.saleminternational.org) and he and his wife Louise founded a community for abused children in
New Hampshire (www.salemchildrensvillage.org) and a school for learning disabled and ADHD kids
(www.hunterschool.org). As an entrepreneur, he's also founded several successful businesses which still
are operating, and lived and worked with his wife, Louise, and their three children on several continents.
(source: http://www.thomhartmann.com/)
James Hillman
is considered to be one of the most original psychologists of the 20th century. Trained at the Jung Institute
in Zurich, he developed Archetypal psychology. Hillman is a prolific writer and international lecturer as
well as a private practitioner. He served in the US Navy Hospital Corps from 1944-1946, after which he
attended the Sorbonne in Paris and Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 1950. In 1959, he received his
Ph.D. from the University of Zurich as well as his analyst's diploma from the Jung Institute. He was
immediately hired as the Director of Studies at the Jung Institute, a position he held until 1969. In 1970,
Hillman became editor of Spring Publications. His magnum opus, Re-visioning Psychology, was written
in 1975 and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Hillman then helped co-found the Dallas Institute for
Humanities and Culture in 1978. His text The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling was on
the New York Time's best seller list. (source: http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/James_Hillman)
Reverend James Parks Morton
is retired Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, and Founder and current
President of the Interfaith Center of New York. In 25 years Dean Morton achieved recognition throughout
the world as one of the most energetic and accomplished religious leaders of our time. During his long
career, Dean Morton conceived and founded numerous social service organizations, became a force
within the sacred ecology movement, and served as an ambassador of tolerance and understanding
through a respect for all faith traditions.(source:
http://www.sevenpillarshouse.org/people/detail/reverend_james_parks_morton/)

Nathan Gardels
has been editor of New Perspectives Quarterly since it began publishing in 1985. He has served as editor
of Global Viewpoint and Nobel Laureates Plus (services of Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media)
since 1989. These services have a worldwide readership of 35 million in 15 languages. Gardels has
written widely for The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post,
Harper's, U.S. News & World Report and the New York Review of Books. He has also written for foreign
publications, including Corriere della Sera, El Pais, Le Figaro, the Straits Times (Singapore), Yomiuri
Shimbun, O'Estado de Sao Paulo, The Guardian, Die Welt and many others. His books include, "At
Century's End: Great Minds Reflect on Our Times" and "The Changing Global Order."(source:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nathan_Gardels)
Wes Jackson
is one of the foremost figures in the international sustainable agriculture movement. Founder and
president of The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, he has pioneered reserach in Natural Systems
Agriculture including perennial grains, perennial polycultures, and intercropping for over 30 years.
He was a professor of biology at Kansas Wesleyan and later established the Environmental Studies
program at California State University, Sacramento, where he became a tenured full professor. He is the
author of several books including Becoming Native to This Place (1994), Altars of Unhewn Stone (1987),
and New Roots for Agriculture (1980).
The work of the Land Institute has been featured extensively in the popular media, including The Atlantic
Monthly, Audubon, The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, and All Things Considered. Life magazine
predicted Wes Jackson will be among the 100 "most important Americans of the 20th century." He is a
recipient of the Pew Conservation Scholars award and a MacArthur Fellowship, and has been listed as
one of Smithsonian's "35 Who Made a Difference". Wes has an M.A. in botany from University of
Kansas, and a Ph.D. in genetics from North Carolina State University.(source:
http://www.postcarbon.org/person/36224-wes-jackson)
Richard Heinberg
is the author of nine books and is widely regarded as one of the world's most effective communicators of
the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels. With a wry, unflinching approach based on facts and
realism, he exposes the tenuousness of our current way of life and offers a vision for a truly sustainable
future. Senior Fellow-in-Residence at Post Carbon Institute in California, Heinberg is best known as a
leading educator on Peak Oil and its impacts. His expertise, publications and teachings also cover other
critical issues including the current economic crisis, food and agriculture, community resilience, and
global climate change.(source: http://www.newsociety.com/Contributors/H/Heinberg-Richard)
Joseph Tainter
is an American anthropologist and historian. Tainter studied anthropology at the University of California,
Berkeley and Northwestern University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1975. As of 2012 he holds a
professorship in the Department of Environment and Society at Utah State University. His previous
positions include Project Leader of Cultural Heritage Research, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range
Experiment Station, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Professor of Anthropology at the University of New
Mexico. Tainter has written or edited many articles and monographs. His arguably best-known work, The
Collapse of Complex Societies (1988), examines the collapse of Maya and Chacoan civilizations, and of
the Western Roman Empire, in terms of network theory, energy economics and complexity theory.
Tainter argues that sustainability or collapse of societies follow from the success or failure of problemsolving institutions and that societies collapse when their investments in social complexity and their
"energy subsidies" reach a point of diminishing marginal returns. He recognizes collapse when a society
rapidly sheds a significant portion of its complexity.
(source:http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Joseph_Tainter)

James Woolsey
the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) under President Bill Clinton from 1993-1995, is a
well-connected advocate of a militarist U.S. foreign policy. He has supported the work of several
neoconservative-led interest groups, including the Committee on the Present Danger, the Committee for
the Liberation of Iraq, the Project for the New American Century, and the Center for Security Policy,
among numerous others.
Mr. Woolsey's law practice has been in the fields of civil litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and
corporate transactions; increasingly his practice has been international. He has served recently as counsel
for major American and overseas corporations in both commercial arbitration and the negotiation of joint
ventures and other agreements. He serves regularly as a neutral (both as an arbitrator and a mediator) in
commercial disputes between major companies.(source:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/bio/woolsey_bio.html)
Vijay Vaitheeswaran
is a global correspondent for The Economist. He joined the magazines staff as the London-based Latin
America Correspondent in 1992. Two years later, he opened its first bureau in that region in Mexico City.
He wrote about political, financial and cultural developments in that part of the world until 1997, when he
returned to the editorial headquarters in London. As the newspapers Global Environment & Energy
Correspondent, he covered the politics, economics, business and technology involved in those topics from
1998 to 2006.
Vijay is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has lectured at Stanford, Yale and
Oxford, and is an adjunct faculty member at New York University. He is a commentator on NPR and
Marketplace radio, and a regular guest on the BBC, PBSs NewsHour, ABCs Nightline and other
television programs.
He is also the author of a book on the future of energy, POWER TO THE PEOPLE: How the Coming
Energy Revolution will Transform an Industry, Change our Lives, and Maybe Even Save the Planet
(www.vijaytothepeople.com). Harvards John Holdren, reviewing the book in Scientific American, called
it by far the most helpful, entertaining, up-to-date and accessible treatment of the energy-economyenvironment problematique available.
Vijay holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives
in New York.(source: http://www.vijaytothepeople.com/author.html)
Brock Dolman
is a founding member and resident of the Sowing Circle LLC, an intentional community where he lives
and works in the Sonoma County hamlet of Occidental, California. He is Occidental Arts and Ecology
Center's WATER (Watershed Advocacy Training Education & Research) Institute director. He also codirects OAEC's Permaculture design and wildlands biodiversity programs. He holds a BA in Biology and
Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz.
At this Eleventh Hour as the cheap energy Titanic sinks away after fouling planetary systems,
Brock advocates a broad awakening that the future lifeboat you are looking for is shaped exactly like your
local watershed. Watershed by watershed, each community will be tested on how well they come together
to batten down their watershed's resiliency hatches as lifesaving adaptations to the impending
uncertainties of global warming. Climate changing opportunities will demand of us to bring forth a
Reverential Rehydration Revolution, one that will necessarily engage the spirit of Planet Water towards
activating more water literate human settlement patterns. Pragmatically these newly dynamic conditions
will demand us to implement solution oriented concepts like 'Conservation Hydrology' land use practices
and 'Basins of Relations' social organizing as strategies for restoring communities through participatory
regeneration of watersheds (source: http://springofsustainability.com/node/17733).