181 Matching Green and SustainabilitySpeakers

Canadian Musician Who Broke Through With 1995's "Jagged Little Pill"

Alex Steffen is cofounder and executive editor of WorldChanging.com.

Allan Savory works to promote holistic management in the grasslands of the world.

Founder and president of Telapak

first Egyptian to send a science experiment into space.

As oil prices rise and the global economy remains fragile - or worse - Amy Myers Jaffe is an important speaker for investment conferences and groups interested in the geopolitics of energy.

Andrew Beebe is President of Energy Innovations, where he is helping to build one of America's leading solar technology and service companies.

Executive Director, World Green Building Council

A prize-winning journalist and author, Andrew Revkin has spent 20 years covering subjects ranging from murder in the Amazon to the anthrax attacks, from the plight of the working poor to the political clash over global warming.

Andy Hobsbawm is the European chair of Agency.com and the founder of the website Green Thing.

Ann Cooper, CEC, is the Director of Nutrition Services for the Berkeley Unified School District and is the former Executive Chef and Director of Wellness and Nutrition of The Ross School in East Hampton, New York.

To promote smart water management, Anupam Mishra works to preserve rural India's traditional rainwater harvesting techniques.

Business and political journalist, expert on global industrial systems, corporate organization, trade, energy, emerging technology, and the development of middle-income nations

Barton Seaver is an advocate of sustainable seafood and a chef in Washington DC.

Ben Kacyra uses state-of-the-art technology to preserve cultural heritage sites and let us in on their secrets in a way never before possible.

CEO of Alcatel-Lucent.

Bill Drayton is a social entrepreneur. As a student at Harvard, Balliol College in Oxford University and Yale Law School, he founded a number of organizations, such as Harvard's Ashoka Table, an interdisciplinary weekly forum in the social sciences.

Governor of New Mexico (2003-2010), Former U.S. Energy Secretary, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Bruce Babbitt was sworn in as 47th Secretary of the Interior on January 22, 1993.

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In 1984, after completing college, Bruce moved his family back to Libby, Montana and joined Vincent Logging as business manager.

C. Ford Runge is the distinguished McKnight University professor of applied economics and law at the University of Minnesota, where he also holds appointments in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Department of Forest Resources.

Professor, University of York

Non-executive director of BP.

First, Caroline Casey put Ireland on the accessibility map.

Director of Medical Research, Intuitive Surgical

Growing up just 67 feet from the Mississippi River, Chad Pregracke grew outraged as countless abandoned items floated by and lodged in the riverbed behind his house.

Dr. C. S. Prakash teaches biotechnology and plant biology courses, and oversees the research on food crops of importance to developing countries and training of scientists and students in plant biotechnology at Tuskegee University, Alabama, USA.

Charles Moore is founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. He captains the foundation's research vessel, the Alguita, documenting the great expanses of plastic waste that now litter our oceans.

Founder, Context Partners.

Charlie Mayfield became the John Lewis Partnership,˜s fifth Chairman in March 2007.

Distinguished Film Producer in Residence and Director of the Center for Environmental Filmmaking School of Communication, American University.

The owner and chairman of global fashion brand hummel International.

Research Fellow, University of Oxford

President: Sapphire Energy

Vivienne has worked tirelessly for social and environmental causes.

Chef / Owner of New York's "Blue Hill" named one of America's Best Restaurants by Gourmet magazine, featured by Food and Wine magzine as one of the country's "Best New Chefs" in 2002.

Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Law School; Director, Yale World Fellows Program.

Co-Founder and Co-CEO.

Professor of Ethics at the University of San Francisco; Founding editor of Business 2.0 magazine and currently a senior editor of Motto magazine

Expert/author in Strategic Sustainable Tiger-hugging Design Thinking CSR

David Bloom is an economist and demographer and the Clarence James Gamble Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health.

David Hawkins is director of climate programs at Natural Resources Defense Council.

David Helvarg (born April 10, 1951) is an American journalist and environmental activist.

David Keith studies our climate, and the many ideas we've come up with to fix it. A wildly original thinker, he challenges us to look at climate solutions that may seem daring, sometimes even shocking.

Executive Director, Energy and Environment Program

avid Sandalow is an energy and environment scholar and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Managing Attorney, Earthjustice

Director, Center for Global Food Issues

Dennis vanEngelsdorp is Acting State Apiarist for Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture, studying colony collapse disorder -- the alarming, worldwide disappearance of worker bees and Western honey bees.

Dian Ogilvie is Senior Vice President and General Counsel, and Chief Environmental Officer for Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc.

Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Professor of Physics and Astronomy.

Dr. Dieter Zetsche has been a member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG.

Dr. Healthnut (David Nico, PhD) will inspire you to live a healthy and exciting lifestyle.

Internationally Respected Expert on Corporate Issues and Agent of Change; Named by Leadership Excellence Magazine as one of North America's top 100 Thought Leaders: Author of "Awakening Corporate Soul", "The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die" and the upcoming "Stepping Up: How Taking Responsibility Changes Everything" (January 2012)

Mike Magee is a recognized, cross-sector health populist and futurist. One of the most respected statesman in health care today, and a veteran medical journalist, author and media personality, he is a frequent headliner at national meetings on health, wellness and the future of the American Health Care system.

Author, Motivator, Visionary, Energy Expert, Businessman, Innovator, Researcher, Academic Leader, and Change Agent

Emmy-Nominated Actor, Television Host, Environmental Activist

To describe Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky's work in a single adjective, you have to speak French: jolie-laide.

This entrepreneur has been focusing on the needs of Brazil since 2000.

Elizabeth Economy is the C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Elizabeth Lindsey is a fellow of the National Geographic Society.

Executive Vice President for Policy and Public Programs, The Aspen Institute

Elon Musk is the CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors and the CEO/CTO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX).

Working at the intersection of science and policy, Enric Sala searches for the last pristine marine environments on Earth.

Environmental Correspondent, The Guardian.

Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

Franco Bernabè has been the CEO of Telecom Italia since December 2007.

Fred Dust leads the Smart Space design practice from IDEO's San Francisco office.

Fred Kent is a leading authority on revitalizing city spaces and one of the foremost thinkers in livability, smart growth and the future of the city.

Executive Director, water.org

Founder and CEO, The Catalyst Project

Israeli Director, EcoPeace

Graham Hill is the founder of TreeHugger.com; he travels the world to tell the story of sustainability.

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales is the eldest son of The Queen and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Hal Blackwell is the bestselling author of "Secrets of the Skim"

Physics and electrical engineering.

Chief Executive of Kingfisher plc.

Ian Joseph Somerhalder is an American actor, male fashion model and producer, most notable for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost.

Ivan Seidenberg is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Verizon.

Jamais Cascio follows the threads of civilization's intended (and unintended) consequences into an unpredictable future, bringing back glimpses of a green world wired beyond our wildest dreams.

Founder and Director, Extreme Ice Survey

I was attracted to science and research by James Van Allen's space science program in the physics and astronomy department.

Jane Goodall hasn't exactly found the missing link, but she's come closer than just about anyone else on Earth.

After weathering two years in Biosphere 2, Jane Poynter is trying to create technologies that allow us to live in hostile environments -- like outer space.

A self-proclaimed nature nerd, Janine Benyus' concept of biomimicry has galvanized scientists, architects, designers and engineers into exploring new ways in which nature's successes can inspire humanity.

Jay Gulledge is senior scientist and program manager for science and impacts at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change,

Founder and CEO, New Leaf Paper

founder and CEO.

Jim Harris is one of North America's foremost authors and thinkers on leadership and change, working with Fortune 500 companies, associations and government departments.

Jimmy McNichol is an actor, musician and environmentalist best known for his roles in the '70s, '80s and '90s.

Joan MacLeod was born and raised in North Vancouver,"spending many summers in Glengarry County in Ontario where both her parents came from.

Highly respected voice on green consumerism and green business; Chairman and executive editor of Greener World Media, a media and information services company that produces the acclaimed website GreenBiz.com, and the annual 'State of Green Business' report; Senior strategist at GreenOrder, a sustainability business consultancy; Co-founder of Clean Edge, a clean-technology research and publishing firm

Joel's Skydrop Enterprise has brought safe drinking water.

Redefining Sustainable Development

Resident Scholar in Environmental Studies

John Francis walks the Earth, carrying a message of careful, truly sustainable development and respect for our planet.

THE most important writer of interludes, at the period when they were merging into comedy, was John Heywood, choir boy at the Chapel Royal in London, and at one time connected with the production of plays at the court of Henry VII.

John P. Holdren is the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, as well as President and Director of the Woods Hole Research Center.