Edward Bass is extensively involved in business, conservation and ranching. He has been a leader in what is recognized as one of the most successful urban revitalization efforts in America, and along with other members of his family, has developed the Sundance Square area into a highly successful mixed use, urban core district in Fort Worth. As Chairman of Performing Arts Fort Worth, he led the development of the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall, which opened to international acclaim in downtown Fort Worth in 1998.

He serves on the boards of numerous national and international conservation and ecological concerns. He is chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Wildlife Fund, serves on the executive committees of the New York Botanical Garden and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. He is President of the parent company of Biosphere 2 in Tucson, Arizona, which he co-founded in 1984.

Mr. Bass is an avid rancher with interests in Texas, the Flint Hills of Kansas, and Australia. He is Chairman of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show, a member of the Advisory Board of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, and the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Foundation.

In addition to graduating from Yale College, Mr. Bass studied at Yale's School of Architecture from 1968-70. His service to Yale includes co-chair of the Leadership Council of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, member and former founding chair of the External Advisory Board of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, former member of the University Council and former chair of the Council Committee on the Peabody Museum. He was named Successor Trustee in 2001.

His work focuses on public policy, agenda-setting, and interest groups in American politics and has appeared in such journals as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Comparative Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. His first book was on French politics and he maintains a keen interest in comparative public policy and policy processes. His most recent book, The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems (with Bryan D. Jones) will appear with the University of Chicago Press in 2005. It draws extensively from the Policy Agendas Project, which Baumgartner and Jones jointly direct. This project allows scholars to trace policy changes since World War II using a number of comprehensive databases collected with the support of the National Science Foundation.

Previous books include Policy Dynamics (co-edited, with Bryan D. Jones), presenting essays drawn from Policy Agendas Project (Chicago, 2002); Basic Interests (with Beth Leech), on the importance of interest groups in American politics and political science (Princeton University Press, 1998); Agendas and Instability in American Politics (with Bryan Jones) (Chicago, 1993), on agenda-setting in American politics; and Conflict and Rhetoric in French Policymaking (Pittsburgh, 1989), on agenda-setting in French politics. His current research projects, beyond the Policy Agendas Project, include a large study of Washington lobbying processes (conducted with extensive support of the National Science Foundation, and with four collaborators, involving over 300 interviews with Washington-based policy advocates and decision-makers), and a study of the changing nature of public discussion surrounding the death penalty. Two major web sites document this work: The Policy Agendas Project at www.policyagendas.org and the Lobbying and Public Advocacy Project at lobby.la.psu.edu.

In 2001, NRDC made climate a top institutional priority and created a dedicated program, the NRDC Climate Center, to focus exclusively on advancing global warming solutions, complementing the organization's extensive expertise in the areas of energy and air policy. NRDC has played an instrumental role in advancing climate policies at both the state and federal level and in pioneering legal strategies for reducing emissions from electric power and vehicle sectors.

Ms. Beinecke serves on many boards, including the World Resources Institute, the American Conservation Association, New York League of Conservation Voters, and Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, and the Prospect Hill Foundation. She co-chairs the Leadership Council of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. She has also served as the Board chair of the Wilderness Society and the Adirondack Council and as a fellow of the Yale Corporation. She was presented with the Annual Conservation Award by the Adirondack Council, the Robert Marshall Award by the Wilderness Society, the Wave Hill Annual Award and the Distinguished Alumna Award of the Yale School of Forestry. In January 2006, Ms. Beinecke will become NRDC's President, succeeding John Adams, NRDC's Founding Director.

Ms. Beinecke received her M.F.S and B.A from Yale University.

Dr. Blockstein joined the organization in 1990 and was its first Executive Director. Presently, he organizes NCSE's annual National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment. Dr. Blockstein also serves as Executive Secretary of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD). CEDD, formed in 2001, is the professional organization for the nation's deans of colleges of environment and natural resources and directors of institutes for environmental studies. As the 1987-88 Congressional Science Fellow of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and American Society of Zoology, Dr. Blockstein worked with the House of Representatives Environment Subcommittee of the Science Committee to prepare the National Biological Diversity Conservation and Environmental Research Act.

Dr. Blockstein has a B.S. in wildlife ecology from the University of Wisconsin and a M.S. and Ph.D. in ecology from the University of Minnesota. He has conducted research on conservation of tropical pigeons and doves and on population and community ecology of forest birds. He is the author of the Birds of North America account of the extinct Passenger Pigeon. He is the founding chair of the Ornithological Council, an association of North America's professional societies that provide scientific information about birds to policymakers and represents the interests of ornithologists in Wasington, DC.

Dr. Blockstein has worked on a wide range of policy issues, including increasing the representation of minorities in science, mechanisms to improve the linkage between science and decision-making on environmental issues and electronic processes to communicate scientific information on the environment. He has delivered more than 50 public lectures and more than 20 scientific papers and is a frequent contributor to both technical and popular literature about science and environmental policy.

He serves on or has served on committees for scientific and conservation organizations including: American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Institute of Biological Sciences; American Chemical Society; American Society of Zoologists; Society for Conservation Biology; American Ornithologists' Union; Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters; University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences; American Bird Conservancy; World Conservation Union (IUCN); Commission on Education and Communication; Project Learning Tree/World Wildlife Fund; Aldo Leopold Foundation; National Foundation for Environmental Education; and the Environmental Education Coalition.

At Trent he teaches courses on science and environmental politics, environmental politics in developing countries, environmental history, and the university environment.�His research is focused on understanding the roles of science in environmental politics, examined both historically and through contemporary case studies.�For the last several years his efforts have been, in part, devoted to achieving a synthetic understanding of these roles across several realms of environmental politics, including natural resource management, climate change and other global issues, and environmental risks. In addition, case studies now underway include the history of environmental science in northern Canada, the environmental history of Toronto (with special reference to the evolving role of experts in urban planning and development), and the science and politics of suburban land use controversies.

Professor Bocking's publications include many scholarly articles, as well as two books: Ecologists and Environmental Politics: A History of Contemporary Ecology (Yale University Press, 1997), and Nature's Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment (Rutgers University Press, 2004).�He also writes a regular column in Alternatives Journal, a Canadian environmental magazine.�He has also completed several editing projects, including, most recently: a theme issue of Urban History Review on the environmental history of Canadian cities (2005), a theme issue of the Journal of Canadian Studies on "Science and Politics in Canada" (2003), and an edited book, Biodiversity in Canada: Ecology, Ideas, and Action (2000).

For the last four years, Mr. Brill has also taught a seminar for aspiring journalists at Yale College, and this year he began working with the College to expand that class into a broader array of nonfiction writing activities aimed at channeling Yale students into the profession. He worked his way through Yale Law School by writing magazine articles for New York and Harper's magazines. When he graduated, he became a legal columnist for Esquire and wrote a best-selling book about the Teamsters Union. He then founded The American Lawyer magazine, which soon expanded into a national chain of legal publications. In 1991 he also created Court TV. He sold the legal publications and Court TV in 1997 and returned to journalism full time, with the founding of Brill's Content, a magazine about the media that ceased publication in 2001. �

Ms. Brill was previously Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Brill Media Holdings, LP, and Media Central. She was General Counsel to American Lawyer Media, LP, and Court TV from 1985 to June 1997. While at American Lawyer Media, Ms. Brill helped launch various publications, including a monthly newsletter covering corporate takeovers. She was responsible for all legal aspects of Court TV, as well as being involved in general corporate and business affairs of American Lawyer Media.

Ms. Brill practiced law as a commercial litigator for Wall Street firms from 1977 to 1982. Prior to that, she worked for the City of New York, Office of Neighborhood Government for two years.

Ms. Brill holds a Bachelor's degree from Yale College and a law degree from New York University. She is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the New York State Bar Association. She is on the Boards of Directors for Phoenix House, the Fund for Public Advocacy and the New York League of Conservation Voters. She also serves on the Yale Development Board, and the Chairman's Council of Conservation International. A former member of Community Board 8 in Manhattan, Ms. Brill volunteers with an after school program at St. Ann's Church of Morrisania, Bronx, NY and served on the Capital Campaigns for the Brearley School and Collegiate School.

�Mr. Burnside spent several years in politics. He wrote policy papers, gave speeches, advised candidates for Congress and Governor, and did media work with think tanks and NGO's. He is a frequent speaker and moderator on media ethics, the white supremacy movement, and the environment. He is the recipient of more than 20 awards.

Deb Callahan has devoted her career to empowering voters to exercise their strength on Election Day. She brought that dedication to LCV, determined to mature the organization from the environmental community's Political Action Committee into a more complete political campaign organization. She doubled LCV's size and forged the organization into a potent, bipartisan political force with a national presence.

Ms. Callahan got her start in the most basic form of politics—grassroots organizing. As a field coordinator for a presidential campaign, she learned the value of politics with a personal touch. She began her first tour of duty with LCV as director of its political activities in New England. She went back to the campaign trail as deputy campaign manager for a U.S. Senate race in 1986 and in 1988 became the national field director and deputy political director of another run for the White House. In 1990, she managed a successful congressional re-election effort.

Environmental policy has always been a passion for Callahan. She studied environmental biology and natural resources management at Cal Poly in San Louis Obispo and earned her bachelor's in environmental studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Ms. Callahan wedded her interests in politics and the environment in 1988 when she became executive director of the non-profit group Americans for the Environment. In 1991 she advocated restricting the export of dangerous pesticides for the grassroots-oriented National Toxics Campaign. From 1992 to 1996 she directed the grassroots environmental program of the W. Alton Jones Foundation before moving to Seattle to become the first executive director of the Brainerd Foundation, an organization dedicated to providing financial support to organizations that protect biodiversity and the environment in the Pacific Northwest.

Returning to LCV in 1996 as the organization's president, she lost no time amplifying the organization's role as the political voice of the national environmental community. LCV had already gained prominence through its annual National Environmental Scorecard that evaluates every member of Congress based on his or her environmental votes. Ms. Callahan added electoral muscle in 1996 when the LCV Action Fund unveiled its "Dirty Dozen" campaigns that target for defeat the most vulnerable, anti-environment candidates for Congress. To support pro-environment candidates, LCV also added the "EarthList" program in 1996 and the "Environmental Champions" campaign in 2000.

Ms. Callahan is nationally recognized as an expert on politics and the environment, appearing regularly on television and in print, including such programs as PBS' The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, MSNBC's Hardball, Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity and Colmes, and on numerous CNN shows.

Ms. Catto founded Elk Mountain Builders, Inc. a Colorado company with a focus on energy saving construction. She served as Vice Chairman of H&C Communications, Inc. a broadcasting company of network affiliated television stations.

Ms. Catto is former vice-chairman of Environmental Defense and serves on the boards of The Conservation Fund, the National Parks Conservation Association, Conservation International and the World Resources Institute. Under the auspices of the American Land Trust Association and the Conservation Fund, she established the American Land Conservation award, given annually to a citizen conservationist, selected from nationally submitted nominations. She is a contributing editor of the American Journalism Review, a magazine for which she served as publisher from 1980 to 1987. She has written for that magazine, The Washington Post in this country and the Independent, the Sunday Times and the Guardian in London on press, political and environmental issues. She has published a novel under a pseudonym.

President Clinton appointed her to the Advisory Board of the National Parks System in 1993 and President Nixon appointed her to the Kennedy Center's Presidential Advisory Committee on the Arts. Ms. Catto accompanied her husband, Henry E. Catto, in his diplomatic missions abroad while he was ambassador to El Salvador, the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, and to Great Britain.

Ms. Chertow's B.A. is from Barnard College, Columbia University; her M.P.P.M. and Ph.D. are from Yale University.

Dr. Chertow's research and teaching concern environmental management and policy as they relate to the private sector. Primary research interests are the application of innovation theory to the development of environmental and energy technology and the study of industrial symbiosis: geographically based exchanges of wastes, materials, energy, and water within networks of businesses. She is the editor of Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy (with Daniel Esty), to which she also contributed work on the relevance of industrial ecology to public policy, and the author of Innovation and Environmental Technology. Prior to Yale, Dr. Chertow spent ten years in environmental business and state and local government. She also serves on the faculty of the National University of Singapore.

Benson Chiles directs the Coastal Ocean Coalition (COC) on behalf of Environmental Defense, NRDC, the Conservation Law Foundation, and the Marine Conservation Biology Institute.�COC advocates for state level ocean policy reform in the coastal United States.�Previously, Mr. Chiles worked as a Regional Director with the Public Interest Research Group, and he has consulted to numerous environmental organizations.� He launched and managed N Space Labs, a data visualization company, and the Front Porch Club, a social and community service organization.�Mr. Chiles is a member of the Atlantic Highlands, NJ Planning Board.�He holds a BA from the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas and an MA in Organizational Change Management from the New School University.

Reverend Cizik's primary responsibilities include editing publications such as NAE Washington Insight, directing NAE's Washington Insight Briefing and Christian Student Leadership Conferences, setting its policy direction on issues before Congress, the White House, and Supreme Court, as well as serving as a national spokesman on issues of concern to evangelicals.

Reverend Cizik has been involved in international religious liberty causes for the Association since 1980, when he urged policy-makers to add "religion" to the annual human rights report.. He proposed to the Reagan Administration a major address on religious freedom and the nuclear arms race that eventuated in the "Evil Empire" address of President Reagan to the NAE annual convention in March 1983. One of the principal drafters of NAE's 1996 "Statement of Conscience on Worldwide Religious Persecution," Reverend Cizik is frequently quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and has appeared on CNN "HEADLINE NEWS," C-SPAN, PBS "Ethics & Religion News Weekly," WORLD NET, Voice of America, and many other media outlets. He is regularly called upon as an expert witness on human rights and religious freedom before professional groups, and in meetings with officials of the National Security Council in the White House, the State Department and Congress. In 1996, he served as professional staff to the "Religious Leader's Delegation to the People's Republic of China," at the invitation of President Clinton. In 2002, Reverend Cizik was a participant in Climate Forum 2002, at Oxford, England, which produced the "Oxford Declaration" on global warming.

His background includes a B.A. (cum laude) in Political Science from Whitworth College; an M.A. in Public Affairs from the George Washington University School of Public & International Affairs (now called the Elliot School of International Affairs); a Master of Divinity from Denver Seminary, and overseas studies at the National Political Science University, Taipei, Taiwan, and the Taipei Language Institute, Taipei, Taiwan. Post-graduate research awards include a Scottish-Rite Graduate Fellowship to George Washington University and a Rotary International Graduate Fellowship to the Republic of China. He is the author of over one hundred published articles and editorials, author and editor of The High Cost of Indifference (Regal Books), a contributor to On Christian Freedom (University Press of America), the Dictionary of Christianity in America (Inter-Varsity Press), and recently started a regular column for national circulation on religion and public policy.

Reverend Cizik was ordained in 1992 to a specific ministry calling in public affairs with the National Association of Evangelicals by the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (one of 51 member denominations of NAE).

Ms. Claussen is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. Prior to joining the Department of State, Ms. Claussen served for three years as a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Environmental Affairs at the National Security Council. She has also served as Chairman of the United Nations Multilateral Montreal Protocol Fund. Ms. Claussen was Director of Atmospheric Programs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she was responsible for activities related to the depletion of the ozone layer; Title IV of the Clean Air Act; the Clean Air Accord with Canada; and the EPA's energy efficiency programs, including the Green Lights program and the Energy Star program.

Currently, Ms. Claussen is a member of the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute; Council on Foreign Relations; China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development; the Board of Visitors of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and the UK's Sustainable Energy Policy Advisory Board. She also served as a Commissioner on the Pew Oceans Commission.

Ms. Claussen is the recipient of the Department of State's Career Achievement Award, and the Distinguished Executive Award for Sustained Extraordinary Accomplishment. She also served as the Timothy Atkeson Scholar in Residence at Yale University.

Roger Cohn is executive editor at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Editor of Yale Environment Online. He is the former editor of Mother Jones and Audubon, having led both magazines to periods of unprecedented success.

During his tenure at Mother Jones, from 1999 to 2005, Cohn revitalized the magazine by focusing on in-depth, investigative reporting and top-quality writing, winning the prestigious National Magazine Award for General Excellence and numerous other journalistic and publishing honors. From 1991 to 1998, Cohn was executive editor of Audubon, during an era when the magazine gained a national reputation for its cutting-edge environmental reporting. Prior to that, Cohn was a staff writer with The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he covered environmental issues. He was awarded an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship in 1985 for his reporting on the federal public housing system; and in 1980, he was part of a team of Inquirer reporters and editors who won the Pulitzer Prize for News Reporting for coverage of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident.

Cohn has written widely for numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, The New Republic, and Outside. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley where he taught magazine writing.

At the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) Mr. Coyle coordinates its citizen science and education programs, volunteer programs, education research and policy, campus ecology program and award-winning children's publications.

Prior to NWF, he served nine years as President of the National Environmental Education & Training Foundation, a Congressionally-authorized NGO and recognized leader in education program design, legislation and policy development. Mr. Coyle is the principal founder of National Environmental Education Week and presided over the creation of NEETF's green business and climate programs, health practitioners' education and an innovative approach to environmental education through television weather-casting. He also co-authored NEETF's influential annual NEET/Roper Report Card on Environmental Knowledge (from 1997 to 2001) and is a leader in documenting the effectiveness of environmental education in America and abroad. His new book, entitled Environmental Literacy in America, a comprehensive research evaluation of the state of environmental knowledge and learning in America, will be published in October of 2005.

Before NEETF, Mr. Coyle was President and program director of American Rivers, the nation's principal river conservation organization where he oversaw campaigns that protected 20,000 miles of outstanding rivers, five million acres of riverside land and made significant national policy reforms in water resource and hydropower development. At American Rivers he authored the Guide to Wild and Scenic River Designation, which is still considered the authoritative work on the legal and political aspects of the national rivers system.

He was also a founding board member and vice president of River Network and co-founder and president of the American Land Resource Association, publisher of the award-winning journal American Land Forum. He worked for ten years with the U.S. Department of the Interior managing the Wild and Scenic Rivers planning Program and Land and Water Conservation Fund Grants for the Northeast Region.

He has been honored by Paddler Magazine (1998) on the list of "top ten river conservationists of all time," River Conservationist of the Year by the U.S. Canoe Association (1992) and the Interior Department's Meritorious Service Award (1980). He also shared in the White House's "Reinventing Government" award (2000) for developing National Public Lands Day. In March of 2005, he received an Award of Honor from the U.S. EPA for overall support of the field of environmental education in the U.S. Mr. Coyle has served on a number of NGO boards, including having served as Chair of the Natural Resource Council of American for five years from 1996 to 2000.

He has a Juris Doctor degree from Temple University and a BA in sociology and social work from LaSalle University in Philadelphia. In 2001 he completed a Certificate Program in Conservation Leadership at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Susan Crown is a Principal of Henry Crown and Company, a family-owned and operated company, which includes diversified manufacturing operations, cellular phone, home furnishings and real estate. She also serves as President of the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, a private foundation established in 1947.

Born in Chicago, Ms. Crown received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her graduate degree from New York University.

She serves on the boards of Illinois Tool Works, and Northern Trust Corporation.

Ms. Crown is actively involved in a number of nonprofit organizations. She is a trustee of Yale University, a member of the Executive Committee of Rush University Medical Center, a trustee of The Juvenile Protective Association, The Covenant Foundation, The Aspen Valley Community Foundation, Chairman of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and a member of the United States Olympic Committee's Executive Council.

Ms. Curran's B.A. is from Harvard University. Her M.A. and Ph.D. are from Princeton University.

Professor Curran is interested in the mechanisms that underlie community structure and dynamics of tropical forests and how ecological interactions are altered by human activities. Her work aims to enhance equitable and responsible management of tropical forests by integrating knowledge of ecological processes in natural systems with the socio-political and economic realities as viewed by a diversity of users. Field research primarily in Indonesia has focused on long-term studies of the reproductive ecology, demography, and harvest of mast-fruiting Dipterocarpaceae, the most economically important family of tropical timber.

Current research interests include: spatio-temporal scale of natural and anthropogenic processes and disturbance; plant-animal interactions, especially seed predation, herbivory, and seed dispersal; canopy tree demography, phenology, and regeneration; ecological role of ectomycorrhizae in ecosystems; and effects of government policies and logging practices on ecosystem management and biodiversity in Asia.

Mr. Curwood created the first pilot of Living on Earth in the spring of 1990 and the show has run continuously since April 1991. Today, Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is aired on more than 300 National Public Radio affiliates in the USA.

Mr. Curwood's relationship with NPR goes back to 1979 when he began as a reporter and host of Weekend All Things Considered. He also hosted NPR's World of Opera. He has been a journalist for more than 30 years, with experience at NPR, CBS News, the Boston Globe, WBUR-FM/Boston and WGBH-TV/Boston.

He shared the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as part of the Boston Globe's education team. He is also the recipient of the 2003 Global Green Award for Media Design, the 2003 David A. Brower Award from the Sierra Club for excellence in environmental reporting and the 1992 New England Environmental Leadership Award from Tufts University for his work on promoting environmental awareness. He is president of the World Media Foundation, Inc. and a Lecturer in Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard University.

Fred C. Danforth, a native of Maine, is a graduate of Yale and began his career in banking with Citibank in New York City. In 1986, he was co-founder of Capital Resource Partners (CRP), a private equity investment firm located in Boston. He served as managing partner and oversaw the raising and investment of four institutional funds totaling nearly $1 billion in capital under management. Institutional limited partners in CRP's funds included leading public and private pension funds, major college endowments and foundations.

Mr. Danforth retired from CRP in 2002 and immediately shifted his time and energies to several business partnerships and related activities in Montana. While remaining a resident of Massachusetts, he has seen many of his passions evolve into active pursuits in the worlds of fly-fishing and conservation land management. In particular, he is the lead partner for Nevada Spring Creek Partners in Montana's renowned Blackfoot Valley, where he is overseeing comprehensive habitat, wetland, and stream restoration projects on the Nevada Spring Creek Ranch.

His experience in finance, and currently in the evolving arena of conservation finance, has led him to form Oxbow Land Management. Oxbow's mission is to work with private landowners on large, ecologically significant tracts of land to restore and protect critical natural resources and other disappearing open space while using market-based programs to generate economic returns.

Most recently, Mr. Danforth has joined with the Environmental Bank and Exchange (EBX), a national leader in ecosystem development on private lands, to develop a new private equity investment strategy. The investment activity will focus on critical land acquisition followed by the development of eco-asset values through habitat preservation and restoration. They are currently working to raise capital for the Sustainable Land Fund, a new sector private equity fund targeting the institutional alternative asset market.

Cornelia Dean is a science writer and commentator at The New York Times. From January 1997 until June 2003, she was science editor of The New York Times, where she was responsible for coverage of science, health and medical news in the daily paper and in the weekly Science Times section. She spent the 2003-2004 academic year at Harvard where she had a fellowship at the Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School of Government and taught in the program on Environmental Science and Public Policy. She is at work on a book about the misuse of scientific information in American public life.

Before becoming science editor at The Times she worked in the newspaper's Washington bureau as deputy Washington editor. Her portfolio was domestic policy. She began her newspaper career at the Providence Journal.

Her first book, Against the Tide: The Battle for America's Beaches was published in 1999 by Columbia University Press and was a N.Y. Times Notable Book of the year. She has taught seminars and courses at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Vassar College and the University of Rhode Island, and has spoken to a wide variety of government, journalism and scientific organizations.

Ms. Dean is a member of the advisory board of the Metcalf Institute for Environmental and Marine Reporting, a fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment and a member of the Corporation of Brown University, her alma mater.

Jim DiPeso is the policy director of REP America, the national grassroots organization of Republicans for environmental protection. Before joining REP's staff in 2001, he served on REP America's board of directors for five years, beginning in 1996. DiPeso serves as REP America's chief resource on energy, climate, and public lands issues. His work for REP includes:

"Climate Change: Why Conservatives Should Lead," article published in the Spring 2005 edition of Conservative Environmental Policy (C.E.P.) Quarterly; "For Spacious Skies: A Conservative Citizen's Guide to Clean Air," publication scheduled for release in spring 2005; "Environmental Politics in 2004," speech delivered to Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, February 2004; and "Opportunities for States in a Carbon-Constrained World," speech delivered to West Virginia Conference on the Environment, October 2003.

Before joining REP America's staff, Mr. DiPeso worked four years for the Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center, where he carried out research and publication projects on climate change, transportation, energy and water efficiency, sustainable building, and product stewardship.

Mr. DiPeso has a bachelor's degree in communications from California State Polytechnic University. He worked 14 years as a daily newspaper reporter, including four years as an environmental reporter, before joining the non-profit sector.

Strachan Donnelley founded the Center for Humans and Nature in 2003 and serves as its President. He previously worked at the Hastings Center, where he also served as President (1997-99). Among numerous published articles in philosophy and applied ethics, Donnelley has co-edited and written for three Special Supplements to the Hastings Center Report: "Animals, Science, and Ethics" (1990); "The Brave New World of Animal Biotechnology"(1994); and "Nature, Polis, Ethics: Chicago Regional Planning" (November-December 1999). He also edited a special edition on the philosopher and ethicist Hans Jonas, also in the Hastings Center Report (1995).

Recently, Mr. Donnelley has been writing several articles on philosophy, evolutionary biology, and ethical responsibility, including work on Whitehead, Jonas, Ernst Mayr, and Aldo Leopold. he also serves on several non-profit boards, including the Land Institute and the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.

Barrett I. Duke, Jr. is Vice President for Public Policy and Research and also Director of the Research Institute of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), the Southern Baptist Convention's agency for applied Christianity. He has been with the agency since 1997. Prior to joining the ERLC, he served 12 years as founding pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church in Littleton, Colorado, a suburb of Denver.

He received his bachelor's degree from the Criswell College in Dallas, TX, his master's degree in Old Testament studies from Denver Seminary, and his Ph.D. in Religious and Theological Studies through the Joint Ph.D. program of the University of Denver and the Iliff School of Theology.

Mr. Duke directs the work of the ERLC's advocacy arm in Washington, DC, where he communicates Southern Baptist convictions to elected and public officials in order to influence the development of sound public policy. As Director of the Commission's Research Institute, he oversees the Commission's research and the collection of data on a wide range of moral and religious liberty subjects. He is a Founding Fellow of the Research Institute and works with a group of distinguished Fellows who gather twice a year to share research on today's crucial moral and religious liberty issues.

He has written on such topics as the sanctity of human life, gambling, the environment, fatherhood, capital punishment, religious liberty, and cultural engagement. He is a translator for the new Holman Christian Standard Bible and a contributor to the forthcoming Broadman and Holman Apologetics Study Bible.

Mr. Duke has participated in numerous ways in church denominational life, including President of the Denver Association Pastor's Conference, the Board of Trustees of the Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, and many Southern Baptist Convention committees. He has served as an adjunct professsor of Old Testament for the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY and Denver Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary. He has been a guest lecturer in ethics at the Southern Baptist seminaries located in Louisville, New Orleans, and Wake Forest.

Robert Edgar is general secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Thirty-six Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox member communions, to which approximately 50 million congregants belong, work together in the Council to promote unity and to serve churches and people worldwide. �Dr. Edgar took office January 1, 2000 Under his leadership, the Council is focusing its energies on major initiatives in the areas of overcoming poverty, protecting the environment, fostering interfaith understanding, and building international peace.�

An ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, Dr. Edgar came to the Council from Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, Calif., where he was president from 1990-2000. During that decade, he brought a school on the brink of collapse back to institutional health. Dr. Edgar is well known for his service as a six-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was the first Democrat in more than 120 years to be elected from the heavily Republican Seventh District of Pennsylvania. Serving in Congress from 1974 to 1987, he led efforts to improve public transportation, authored the community Right to Know provisions of Super Fund legislation, co-authored the new GI bill for the all-volunteer service, fought wasteful water projects and supported environmental goals. Among other appointments, he served as chair of the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future (1982-86) and as a member of the Select Committee on Assassinations (1976-78) that investigated the deaths of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and President John F. Kennedy. In 1987, true to his belief in term limits, he voluntarily stepped down from office.�

An active volunteer, Dr. Edgar serves on the boards of several organizations, including Independent Sector, the National Coalition for Health Care, Common Cause, and the National Religious Partnership for the Environment. He serves on the board of directors of the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, an independent, non-profit organization that is a principal resource for Congress on environmental and energy issues.

Dr. Edgar received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pa., and a master of divinity degree from the Theological School of Drew University, Madison, N.J. He holds four honorary doctoral degrees.

Mr. Ehrmann has pioneered the use of collaborative processes for over two decades at the local, national and international level. He has led projects in national and international forums; in public policy arenas involving legislation, negotiated regulations and Federal Advisory Committees; in organizational management settings; in communities and site-specific disputes; and with stakeholder groups advising individual companies. For the most part, his work has focused on the environment, natural resources issues, health and the economic and social challenges associated with developing sustainable practices for communities and industries.

In addition to his extensive involvement in facilitating collaborative processes, Dr. Ehrmann also works to promote the use of collaborative decision-making. He lectures and has published numerous articles on collaborative decisions in public policy issues. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member for the University of Wyoming and provides advice to the Ruckelshaus Institute and School of Environment and Natural Resources on the use of collaborative problem solving in natural resource decision-making.

Dr. Ehrmann received his undergraduate degree from Macalester College and his Ph.D. in Natural Resource Policy and Environmental Dispute Resolution from the University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources. His doctoral dissertation involved developing a practice-based model of the policy dialogue, which can be applied to both practice and research. Between 1983 and 1997, Dr. Ehrmann was executive vice president at the Keystone Center, Keystone, Colorado. In September 1997, he became one of the founders of the Meridian Institute.

David Elisco is the Series Producer of Sea Studios Foundation and served in that capacity for phase one of Strange Days on Planet Earth. Mr. Elisco led the development of each of the four episodes and oversaw the production and post-production of each program.� Prior to Strange Days on Planet Earth, he served as Series Producer for the foundation's first project, The Shape of Life, an eight-part series that chronicles the dramatic rise of the animal kingdom as it is being pieced together through new scientific research. Additionally, he also produced, directed and wrote two of the films. As part of the senior management team, Mr. Elisco is responsible for the on-time, on-budget delivery of the foundations two major productions.

In more than fifteen years of science documentary production, his work spans a broad range of topics, including earth system science, evolutionary biology, biodiversity, mathematics, engineering and marine forensics.�Among his honors are first place in The Environmental Media Awards, a gold medal in The New York Film Festival, and an Emmy nomination.�He has served as a producer and series producer for three NSF-funded projects. His films have been narrated and hosted by Edward Norton, Martin Sheen, Danny Glover, Linda Hunt, Jonathan Price and Peter Coyote.

Before joining Sea Studios Foundation, Mr. Elisco served as Vice President and Producer of Stardust Visuals.� With Stardust, he helped organize and produce five films for Discovery Channel focusing on the ill-fated ocean liner RMS Titanic. (Two of the films had the distinction of being the most watched programs in Discovery Channel history from 1996 through the winter of 1999.)� The Titanic series included: Titanic Live, a two-hour special which was the first live broadcast ever from the Titanic site;�Answers From the Abyss, a two-hour special which chronicled the first full-scale forensic investigation into the disaster; and Anatomy of a Disaster, a two-hour special which made headlines around the world when it revealed for the first time new facts behind Titanic's tragic destruction.

Before forming Stardust Visuals, Mr. Elisco worked as a freelance writer/producer for WQED in Pittsburgh.� At WQED, he produced the NSF-supported PBS series about mathematics, Life By the Numbers.� In addition to serving as series producer, he also wrote and produced two episodes: Patterns of Nature, which revealed the fascinating and surprising connection between mathematics and biology; and New Age, which explores some of the mathematics that drive and interpret the information age.�While at WQED, he also wrote and produced a two-hour special on biodiversity and ecology, entitled Web of Life, which aired on PBS.

Mr. Elisco received his bachelor's degree in film production from Penn State University.

Mr. Ellis joined Yale's environment school in 1995 just after retiring from Northeast Utilities, New England's largest electric and gas utility. He had served that company as its chief financial officer beginning in 1976 and was its chief executive officer for ten years before retiring.

Mr. Ellis is on the Board of Directors of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, the Board of Trustees and several academic advisory boards at Carnegie Mellon University, and a steering committee for the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund. He also serves on a number of corporate boards, including Catalytica Energy Systems, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of high-tech catalysis systems for environmental mitigation.

Mr. Ellis received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland, where he was a National Science Fellow. He was selected as the Businessperson of the Year by New England Business Magazine in 1987 and New Englander of the Year by the New England Council in 1994. His primary academic interests at Yale are the links between energy use and the environment, and business decision-making processes as they are related to environmental concerns.

Mr. Esty has a B.A. from Harvard University; an M.A. from Oxford University, and a J.D. from Yale University.

His research interests cover a wide range of environmental policy issues. His recent work focuses on new approaches to environmental regulation, including the use of economic incentives and other market mechanisms, environmental performance measurement and the benefit of data-driven environmental decision-making, environmental protection in the Information Age, environmental effects on competitiveness, trade and environment linkages, global environmental governance, corporate environmental management, and environment and security.

He is the author or editor of many books, including Global Environmental Governance: Options and Opportunities; Greening the Americas: NAFTA's Lessons for Hemispheric Trade; Economic Integration; Regulatory Competition and Economic Integration; Environmental Performance Measurement: The Global Report 2001–2002; Greening the GATT: Trade, Environment, and the Future; Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy; and Sustaining the Asia Pacific Miracle: Environmental Protection.

named as "One of the 100 most influential P.R. people of the 20th Century" by PR Week magazine, Mr. Fenton founded Fenton Communications in 1982 to create issue-oriented public relations campaigns focusing on the environment, public health and human rights. Over the course of two decades, he has pioneered the use of professional P.R. and advertising techniques by nonprofit public interest groups in the United States and around the world.

Mr. Fenton is also a co-founder of three independent nonprofit organizations: Environmental Media Services, which coordinates communications activities for environmental groups; New Economy Communications, which works on human rights issues in the global economy; and the Death Penalty Information Center. He was formerly director of public relations at Rolling Stone magazine and co-producer of the "No Nukes" concerts in 1979 with Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt and other artists. He is a native of New York City.

Lisa Fernandez is the Program Manager for the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Her previous work involved independent consulting in urban environmental conservation and economic development in the US and Latin America. She was also a fellow at the World Wildlife Fund and a Planner implementing solid waste prevention policy for the City of New York. Lisa's most recent publications are "Institutionalizing Sustainability in Higher Education" (co-editor, YFES Publications, 2007) and "The Wheels Go 'Round: Is Walking to School Just a Nostalgia Trip?" in This American City.

Lisa serves on the boards of the East Coast Greenway Alliance and the Farmington Canal Rail-to-Trail Association and holds an appointment on the Connecticut Greenways Council. Her B.A. is from Princeton University and she has two Masters, an MEM from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and an MPPM from the Yale School of Management.

Under Mr. Fink's guidance, Marshall Street�Management is leveraging its investment expertise to develop a mission-driven, but return-focused investment strategy.�In 2004, the firm established MSM Capital Partners as a mission-oriented, multi-strategy vehicle to manage its investment activities in the emerging environmental finance sector.�MSM Capital Partners is actively investing in three core areas: environmental commodities, ecosystem services, and clean technologies.�In recent months, the firm has become increasingly focused on opportunities in global carbon trading markets.

Mr. Fink began his business career as a forest and land manager for Georgia-Pacific.�After attending business school, he continued his career in marketing and operations management as well as business development, first with Citicorp and then with CUC International, later known as Cendant.�He joined entrepreneur Jay Walker as COO of Walker Digital Inc., a leading inventor and developer of business method solutions.�Mr. Fink was the founding COO of priceline.com, running operations from inception through IPO.�He then founded Marshall Street Management.

He is a graduate of the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, where he received a B.S. in Resource Management. He also earned an MBA from Syracuse University's School of Management.�He and his wife Betsy manage the Betsy and Jesse Fink Foundation, which focuses on catalytic environmental and educational grant making.�They serve on a number of non-profit and start-up company boards.

Professor Fischhoff is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and has served on some two dozen NAS/NRC/IOM committees. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and recipient of its Early Career Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Psychology and for Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest. He is President of the Society for Risk Analysis and recipient of its Distinguished Achievement Award. He has been President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Advisory Committee and of the Environmental Protection Agency's Scientific Advisory Board, where he chairs the subcommittee on homeland security. He is a member of the World Federation of Scientists Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism.

Dr. Fischhoff's research includes risk perception and communication, risk analysis and management, adolescent decision-making, medical informed consent, and environmental protection. He has co-authored or edited four books, Acceptable Risk (1981), A Two-State Solution in the Middle East: Prospects and Possibilities (1993), Preference Elicitation (1999), and Risk Communication: The Mental Models Approach (2001).

He holds a B.S. in mathematics and psychology from Wayne State University and an MA and Ph.D. in psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Al Franken is an Emmy Award-winning television writer and producer, New York Times best-selling author, Grammy-winning comedian, and now host of The Al Franken Show, the flagship program of Air America Radio.

In 1975,Mr. Franken was part of the original writing staff that created the groundbreaking late night show Saturday Night Live. Franken remained with the original show until 1980 and then returned in 1985. He stayed for another 10 years, leaving after the 1994-95 season. He received four Emmys for his writing on SNL and a fifth for producing. He also won recognition for his on-camera work, first as half of the comedy team of "Franken and Davis," then for his "Al Franken Decade" persona. He also was recognized for such characterizations as the one-man mobile uplink unit and Stuart Smalley, the new age cable TV host.

Smalley was the subject of Mr. Franken's first book, I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough and Doggone It, People Like Me, which was published in 1992. It provided the basis for a movie that he wrote and starred in for Paramount Pictures. The 1995 movie, "Stuart Saves His Family," was directed by Harold Ramis and received "two thumbs up" from Siskel and Ebert.

Mr. Franken's second book, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations spent over eight months on The New York Times bestseller list and was number one for five weeks. There are now over a million copies of the book in print. His recording of the book on tape won the 1997 Grammy for Best Comedy Album. His third book, Why Not Me: The Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency chronicles the rise and fall of Al Franken, 43^rd President, and was also a New York Times bestseller. His fourth book, Oh, the Things I Know! A Guide to Success, or Failing That, Happiness, was on the New York Times Bestseller List for five weeks. His latest book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, was on The New York Times bestseller list for thirty-five weeks and was number one for seven weeks. His recording of Lies on tape won the 2003 Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album.

Mr. Franken's radio show, The Al Franken Show (formerly The O'Franken Factor), was launched in March 2004 and delivers three hours a day of fearlessly irreverent commentary, comedy, and interviews. The Al Franken Show airs 12-3pm EST and can be heard across the country.

Before joining the museum, Ms. Futter served as President of Barnard College for thirteen years. She was graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Barnard College and earned her J.D. degree from Columbia Law School. She was elected to the Board of Trustees of Barnard as a student representative and was subsequently elected to full membership to complete the term of Arthur Goldberg, former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. She began her career as an associate at the Wall Street firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy where she practiced corporate law. In 1980, Ms. Futter took a leave of absence from Milbank, Tweed to serve as Barnard's Acting President for one year. At the end of that period, she was appointed President of the College and served in that capacity until 1993 when she joined the Museum.

Ms. Futter currently serves on the boards of American International Group, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Consolidated Edison, Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and NYC & Company, as well as on the board of the American Museum of Natural History. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Institute of Social Sciences and the Academy of American Poets, as well as of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the New York State and American Bar Associations. She formerly served as Chairman of the Board of New York Federal Reserve Bank and Chairman of the Commission on Women's Health of The Commonwealth Fund. She has received numerous honorary degrees and awards.

Michel Gelobter is the Executive Director of Redefining Progress (RP), an activist think-tank dedicated to shifting the economy and public policy towards sustainability. His prior experience includes being a professor at U.C. Berkeley, Rutgers, and Columbia University; co-founding the Community-University Consortium for Regional Environmental Justice (CUCREJ) as well as several grassroots environmental justice networks; a Congressional Black Caucus Fellowship with the U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee; and being the Director of Environmental Quality for the City of New York. He presently serves on the Boards of RP, NRDC, and CERES.

Mr. Gentry's B.A. is from Swarthmore College; his J.D. is from Harvard University.

Mr. Gentry's work explores the opportunities for using private investment to improve environmental performance. He works both across and within particular sectors/problems. The cross-sectoral work focuses on the steps policy makers can take to help develop opportunities for sustainable investments, including market frameworks, information systems, and shared investments/ partnerships. The sectoral work is concentrated in three major areas—increasing private investment in the delivery of urban environmental services (particularly drinking water and sanitation), and sustainable forest use and management and cleaner energy. Projects in all these areas are undertaken across a range of contexts from New Haven, to developing country mega cities and to wilderness forest systems. He has written extensively on the links between private investment and environmental performance, including the book Private Capital Flows and the Environment: Lessons from Latin America.

Mr. Gore is also Chairman of Current TV and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer and as a Senior Advisor to Google. He is a Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Mr. Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990, and was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993. During the Clinton Administration, he was a central member of the President's economic team and served as President of the Senate, as a Cabinet member, as a member of the National Security Council, and as the leader of a wide range of Administration initiatives.

Mr. Gore led the Clinton Administration's efforts to protect the environment and authored a best selling book on the topic, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992). He led the Clinton Administration's efforts to protect the environment in a way that also strengthens the economy—such as working with the Big Three automakers to support the development of a new generation of fuel-efficient cars.

Mr. Gore and his wife, Tipper, reside in Nashville, Tennessee.

Paul Gorman has been the Executive Director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment from its founding in 1993 to the present. In 1999 he received the Heinz Award for the Environment. Mr. Gorman is a graduate of Yale and Oxford. He worked in the United States Congress and served as press secretary and speechwriter to Senator Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 presidential campaign. He also taught at the City University of New York, Sarah Lawrence College and Adelphi University, hosted a public radio program for 29 years and co-authored How Can I Help? From 1985-91, Mr. Gorman served as the Cathedral of St. John the Divine's Vice President for Program, overseeing community-based initiatives and helping to organize international conferences on religion and the environment in Assisi, Oxford, and Moscow.

Melanie C. Green is a social psychologist whose research has focused on the power of narrative to change beliefs, as well as the ways in which technology affects social interactions.�Her work has highlighted the phenomenological experience of being absorbed in a story—a process called "transportation into a narrative world" —as a mechanism of narrative impact.�She has also explored the persuasive power of fiction, with the (perhaps) counterintuitive finding that fiction is often as influential as fact.

She has published articles on these topics in leading psychological journals, and has extended these findings to applied domains such as health communication (treatment-seeking for heart attacks; cancer prevention behaviors).�

Dr. Green's research has been funded by the American Psychological Association, the National Library of Medicine, and the Russell Sage Foundation. She is the co-editor of Narrative Impact: Social and Cognitive Foundations (2002; with J.J. Strange and T.C. Brock), a cross-disciplinary volume about the power of stories, and Persuasion: Psychological Insights and Perspectives (2005; with T.C. Brock), an introduction to key concepts and theories of attitude change.�

Dr. Green teaches courses in social psychology, political psychology, and research methods. She received her PhD from Ohio State University and from there joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania.� She is currently Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

John Grim is a co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. With Mary Evelyn Tucker, he organized a series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. They are series editors for the ten volumes from the conferences distributed by Harvard University Press.

As a professor of religion, Mr. Grim has taught courses in Native American and Indigenous religions, religion and ecology, ritual, and mysticism in the world's religions. His published works include The Shaman: Patterns of Religious Healing Among the Ojibway Indians (University of Oklahoma Press, 1983) and, with Mary Evelyn Tucker, a co-edited volume entitled Worldviews and Ecology (Orbis, 1994, 5th printing 2000). In the 10 volume series on "World Religions and Ecology," John has edited Indigenous Traditions and Ecology (Harvard, 2001). He also co-edited the Daedalus volume titled Religion and Ecology: Can the Climate Change? (2001). He is currently President of the American Teilhard Association.

Mr. Grubler's degrees include an M.S. (Dipl.Ing) and Ph.D. from the Technical University in Vienna.

Professor Grubler's research and teaching interests focus on the interplay between energy and technology systems and their implications on the environment, in particular on climate change. Both his research and teaching embrace a truly long-term view. He has studied major transitions in energy and technology systems that occurred during the last 300 years and is also an energy/environment futurist serving as lead author for the two major 100-year scenario studies available to date: The World Energy Council (WEC) study on Global Energy Perspectives and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. Other recent books include Technology and Global Change, and Technological Change and the Environment.

Mr. Habicht possesses an extensive environmental and energy background in both the public and private sectors.

The Global Environment & Technology Foundation (GETF) is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation that fosters innovation in environmental management and applications of clean technology that make business and environmental sense. Mr. Habicht is a founding Principal of Capital E, LLC, a firm that promotes investment in new energy technology and also serves as Commissioner on the National Commission on Energy Policy.

Previously, Mr. Habicht was Senior Vice President of Safety-Kleen Corporation, a provider of industrial and recycling services to 400,000 customers with sales of over $1 billion.

Prior to his position with Safety-Kleen, Mr. Habicht was Deputy Administrator of U.S. EPA under Administrator William K. Reilly. Mr. Habicht's responsibilities included budget and program management authority for a $7 billion budget and 18,000 employees. Mr. Habicht initiated quality-oriented management improvements to improve planning and integrate U.S. EPA's diverse science, policy and enforcement functions.

From 1987 to 1989 Mr. Habicht was with William D. Ruckelshaus Associates as Vice President and Counsel. Mr. Habicht's responsibilities included counsel for companies on environment-related operational, legal and financial issues along with assisting in development of new business ventures. Prior to this position, Mr. Habicht was Assistant Attorney General of the United States in the Reagan Administration where he directed the Environment and Natural Resources Division.

Mr. Habicht serves as a Member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board; Chairman of Board of Resolve, Inc.; Director of 3E Company; NREL Advisory Board; and as a Member of President's Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiation; and the Steering Committee of the Energy Future Coalition. He also serves on the Dow Chemical Corporate Environmental Advisory Council, the Princeton Environmental Institute and the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable Advisory Boards. He received his A.B. from Princeton University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia.

In 2004, Mr. Hamilton became director of undergraduate studies in the public policy department. Hamilton's scholarly work and publications reflect his interests in the economics of regulation, public choice/political economy, environmental policy and the media.

Professor Hamilton joined Duke's faculty in 1991 and has held a number of titles since then, including Oscar L. Tang Family Professor of Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science (2003-04), assistant director of Sanford Institute (2001-2002) and director of the Duke Program on Violence and the Media (1993-2000). He has written or coauthored six books, including All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News and Regulation Through Revelation: The Origin and Impacts of the Toxics Release Inventory Program.

For his accomplishments in teaching and research, Professor Hamilton has received such awards as the David N. Kershaw Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (2001), the Kennedy School of Government's Goldsmith Book Prize from the Shorenstein Center (1999), and Trinity College Ôs (Duke) Distinguished Teaching Award (1993).

He earned his B.A. in economics and government in 1983 and his Ph.D. in economics in 1991, both from Harvard.

From 1990 through 2001, Mr. Harvey served as founder and President of the Energy Foundation, a joint initiative of six large U.S. Foundations.

Mr. Harvey has served on energy panels appointed by Presidents Bush (41) and Clinton, has published one book and dozens of articles on energy and national security issues, and speaks widely on energy topics. He serves on the board of directors of two foundations, one bank, and one museum. Earlier in his career, he designed and built solar homes. In 2005, he served as Rhodes Chair and Lecturer in Public Policy at Arizona State University.

Mr. Harvey has B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University in Engineering, specializing in Energy Planning.

Susan J. Hassol is a researcher and writer with 20 years of experience in global change science. She is known for her ability to translate science into English, making complex issues accessible to policymakers and the public. She is the author of Impacts of A Warming Arctic, the synthesis report of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, on which she worked for four years with 300 scientists from the Arctic and beyond. She also testified about the impacts of Arctic warming before the U.S. Senate, and served as a media spokesperson for the assessment's findings.

While her recent focus has been on the impacts of climate change on human and natural systems, her interests also include energy and environmental policy. Ms. Hassol was a lead author of Climate Change Impacts on the United States, the synthesis report of the U.S. National Assessment of the Consequences of Climate Change. She authored a chapter on energy efficiency in a book entitled Innovative Energy Strategies for CO₂ Stabilization, published by Cambridge University Press in 2002. She wrote a feature article titled "A Change of Climate" in Issues in Science and Technology (Spring 2003) focusing on the actions of U.S. states, localities, and corporations in mitigating climate change.

Ms. Hassel has also written and edited numerous articles, papers, and books for organizations including the United Nations Environment Programme, Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. She has served as Environment Fellow for the Aspen Institute, and as Research Associate and Director of Communications for the Aspen Global Change Institute. She is currently writing a 90-minute documentary about global warming for HBO to air in April 2006.

In the early 1970s, Mr. Hawkins was successful in persuading the U.S. EPA to deny delays to the auto industry in meeting pollution cleanup schedules; he also won a major case requiring EPA to develop programs to improve transportation systems in urban areas as an air pollution control strategy.

In 1977 he was appointed by President Carter to be Assistant Administrator for Air, Noise, and Radiation at EPA. In that position he was responsible for initiating major new programs under the 1977 Amendments to the Clean Air Act. With President Reagan's election in 1981, Mr. Hawkins returned to NRDC to co-direct NRDC's Clean Air Program. Working with the Clean Air Coalition, NRDC defeated a prolonged effort by the new administration to roll back the protections of the Clean Air Act. Eventually Congress passed a much-strengthened law in 1990 and NRDC was a major architect for all of its provisions.

Since 1990 Mr. Hawkins has directed NRDC's Air and Energy Program, and in 2001 became director of the NRDC Climate Center, which focuses on advancing policies and programs to reduce pollution responsible for global warming and harmful climate change.

The New York Times has called Ms. Heinz "one of the nation's leading philanthropists." Named by Utne magazine as one of 100 American visionaries ("people who could change your life"), she is recognized as one of the country's premier environmental leaders. She is also a tireless educator and advocate on behalf of women's health and economic security.

Under her leadership, The Heinz Endowments have become widely known for developing innovative strategies to protect the environment, improve education, enhance the lives of young children, broaden economic opportunity and promote the arts. Programs spearheaded by the Heinz Family Philanthropies include the Heinz Plan to Overcome Prescription Drug Expenses (HOPE), the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, endowed professorships in environmental management at the Harvard Business School, and a chair in environmental policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In addition, she has established the Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research, and endowed the John Heinz Environmental Fellows Program for the United Negro College Fund.

Ms. Heinz has for many years been a strong advocate for women, and continues to be at the forefront of women's issues and causes. She has sponsored and hosted annual conferences on Women's Health and the Environment, and established the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER), a Washington-based think tank.

Teresa Heinz is married to Senator John Kerry.

Mr. Hickman has a quarter century of experience providing opinion research and consulting services to Democratic candidates and officeholders, progressive public interest groups, and businesses nationwide.�

In 2004, Mr. Hickman was the pollster and a main strategist for John Edwards's Presidential campaign.

His other presidential clients include Al Gore (2000) and Bob Kerrey (1992).�Mr. Hickman is perhaps best known for helping Democrats win office in "red" states, including Senators Mark Pryor (AR), John Edwards (NC), and Ben Nelson (NE), and Governors Jim Hunt (NC), Ray Mabus (MS), and Ann Richards (TX).�Other past and present clients include Senators Paul Sarbanes (MD) and Sam Nunn (GA); and Governors Don Siegelman (AL) and Jim Doyle (WI), among others.

His firm was named "Best in the Business" by CNN and America's "Most Valuable Pollster" by U.S. News & World Report.�Mr. Hickman has been an election night consultant to CBS News for over 20 years, including more than a dozen years as the principal election night consultant to Dan Rather and the anchor desk.

Anthony C. Janetos joined The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment as a Senior Fellow in June 2002, and became its Vice President in 2003. Previously, he served as Vice President for Science and Research at the World Resources Institute, and Senior Scientist for the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program in NASA's Office of Earth Science. He also was Program Scientist for NASA's Landsat 7 mission.

Dr. Janetos has many years of experience in managing scientific and policy research programs on a variety of ecological and environmental topics, including air pollution effects on forests, climate change impacts, land-use change, ecosystem modeling, and the global carbon cycle. He was a co-chair of the US National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, and an author in the IPCC Special Report on Land-Use Change and Forestry, and the Global Biodiversity Assessment. Dr. Janetos has served on numerous NRC committees, and chaired the NASA-supported Landsat Global Data Working Group. He was a co-chair of the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change and an author of the IPCC Special Report on Land-Use Change and Forestry and the Global Biodiversity Assessment, and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Most recently he has served on National Research Council Committees on Funding Scientific Research at the Smithsonian Institution, Reviewing the Bush Administration's Climate Change Science Strategic Plan, and The Decadal Study for Earth Observations.

At the Heinz Center, Dr. Janetos is responsible for new directions in global change issues, and overall program oversight. He has written and spoken widely on the needs for scientific input and scientific assessment in the policymaking process to policy, business, and scientific audiences. With many collaborators, Dr. Janetos has written and spoken about the need to understand the scientific, environmental, economic, and policy linkages among the major global environmental issues, and the need to keep basic human needs in the forefront of the thinking of the environmental community. Dr. Janetos graduated Magna cum Laude from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in biology and earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. in biology from Princeton University.

M. Albin Jubitz, Jr. is a native Oregonian and retired businessman. He became an environmental activist 25 years ago upon reading The Global 2000 Report, a study commissioned by President Carter and co-authored by Gus Speth. It was this early awareness that led him to establish student internships at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in the belief that supporting good science would lead to good public policy. Since 1991 upwards of 50 Yale graduate students have benefited from Jubitz summer internships throughout the Pacific Rim. At the invitation of Gus Speth, he joined the Yale FES Leadership Council in 2001.

Also in 2001, having sold his business, Mr. Jubitz established the Jubitz Family Foundation, which supports early childhood education, environmental stewardship and the fostering of peace. Since its founding, the foundation has actively supported many environmental non-profits throughout Oregon and most recently has focused on creating healthy streams as a primary mission. During 2004 he served as a member of the Oregon Governor's Advisory Group on Global Warming.

Mr. Jubitz has been active on numerous boards and service organizations including The Rotary Club of Portland, Portland Schools Foundation, Outward Bound, Morrison Child and Family Services and the Energy Trust of Oregon. He is a current participant in the American Leadership Forum.

He received his BS degree from Yale University in 1966 and an MBA from the University of Oregon Graduate School of Business in 1968.

Martin Kaplan has a general corporate law and trust practice, emphasizing the representation of charitable foundations and the active management of their charitable grant programs. He joined Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in 1964. Mr. Kaplan serves as a Trustee of the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation and the Germeshausen Foundation.

Mr. Kaplan's clients also have included a broad range of public and family-controlled companies in financial services, manufacturing and distribution. He has managed a large number of complex transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures, corporate split-ups, partnership roll-ups, public and private offerings, and real estate and oil syndications. Mr. Kaplan is a former chair of the firm's corporate department and served as a founding general partner of Hale and Dorr Capital Management LLC, the investment advisory subsidiary of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP.

He has held a number of leadership positions at Columbia University, most recently serving as president of the Columbia College Alumni Association (1994-1996) and is a member of the Board of Visitors. He is a recipient of the Columbia University Medal (1993) and the College's John Jay Award (2000). Mr. Kaplan is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and completed ten years of service as a member of the Board of the Boston Foundation in June 2003.

From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Kaplan served as chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Education, a position to which he was appointed by Governor William F. Weld, and has been a major proponent of the education reform movement in Massachusetts. He also served as a member of the Education Commission of the States, and as a director of the National Association of State Boards of Education. Mr. Kaplan has served as national chair of the American Jewish Committee's Interreligious Affairs Commission and a member of the AJC National Executive Committee, and is presently a member of its Board of Governors.

Mr. Kaplan received a J.D. degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School (1964), and an A.B. degree from Columbia College (1961). He clerked for Chief Judge Bailey Aldrich of the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, in Boston, and has practiced law at Hale and Dorr his entire career. After many years in the Boston office, Mr. Kaplan is now primarily located in the New York office. He is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the state of New York.

Randall Katz is President and CEO of Milestone Entertainment, one of the world's leading developers of innovative, patented game concepts for use in all electronic media from television to mobile phones to the Internet. Milestone currently has projects in England, France, Sweden, Finland, South Africa, Israel, Japan, as well as in the United States.

Prior to founding Milestone, Mr. Katz has held several key positions in the entertainment industry, including division President at Sony Pictures Columbia Tri-Star Television. He was also Vice President at legendary game show producer Mark Goodson Productions.

In addition to his professional endeavors, Mr. Katz and his family are involved in a number of philanthropic efforts. He is a 1979 graduate of Yale College.

Mr. Kellert's B.A. is from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale University.

Professor Kellert's work focuses on understanding the connection between human and natural systems with a particular interest in the value and conservation of nature and designing ways to harmonize the natural and human built environments.

His awards include the National Conservation Achievment Award (1997, NWF); Distinguished Individual Achievement Award (Society for Conservation Biology, 1990); Best Publication of the Year Award (International Foundation for Environmental Conservation, 1985); Special Achievement Award (NWF, 1983); Fulbright Research award; as well as being included among 300 individuals listed in "American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present." He has served on committees of the National Academy of Sciences, is a member of IUCN Species Survival Commission Groups, and has been a member of the board of directors of many organizations.

He has authored more than 100 publications, including the following books: Kinship to Mastery: Biophilia in Human Evolution and Development (Island Press, 1997); The Value of Life: Biological Diversity and Human Society (Island Press,1996); The Biophilia Hypothesis (edited with E. O. Wilson, Island Press,1993); The Good in Nature and Humanity: Connecting Science, Religion, and Spirituality with the Natural World (edited with T. Farnham, Island Press, 2002); Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations (edited with P. H. Kahn, Jr., MIT Press, 2002); Building for Life: Understanding and Designing the Human-Nature Connection, (Island Press, 2005).

The Honorable John F. Kerry has been an environmental leader throughout his career, fighting on our behalf to clean up toxic waste sites, to keep our air and water clean, and to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other pristine wilderness areas. Senator Kerry has been called the Senate's most outspoken environmentalist, and the League of Conservation Voters has called him an "environmental champion."

In 1970 he helped organize Massachusetts' first Earth Day, then led the fight against acid rain in the northeast as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. He helped defeat efforts to roll back the environmental accomplishments of a generation whether in the form of regulatory reform or efforts to drill in national monuments and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Teaming up with John McCain, he stood up to the Bush Administration and led an uphill fight to improve fuel efficiency in automobiles. Having attended global climate change summits from Rio and Kyoto through the Hague, Kerry led the Senate effort to make environmental preservation a global priority through comprehensive treaties and pushing for the inclusion of important environmental protections in free trade agreements. In addition to supporting important environmental initiatives, John Kerry has turned a spotlight on the Bush Administration's rollbacks of our hard-won environmental gains and their outdated, old-economy notions that clean air, clean water and our national treasures must be sacrificed in the name of short-term profit.

John Kerry was elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1982. Two years later, he was elected to the United States Senate and he has won reelection three times since. He is now serving his fourth term, after winning again in 2002 by the largest margin in Massachusetts history. In 2003, John Kerry announced that he would be a candidate for president of the United States—and he went on to mount a come from behind campaign that won the Democratic nomination.

Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. is president and CEO of Atlanta-based West Hill Investors, a privately held equity firm. Prior to founding West Hill Investors in 1998, he was chairman and CEO of Production Operators Corporation, which specializes in the handling of gases for maximizing the recovery of hydrocarbon resources. In 1998, Production Operators was acquired by Schlumberger Limited.

While still a student at the Harvard Business School in the 1950s, Mr. Knobloch established the Rhodesia Chemical Corp. in what is now Zimbabwe, and in 1954 he developed Central Africa's first drive-in movie theater. In subsequent years, his career took him back to New York into industrial finance, and to Jacksonville, Fla., where his company financed and built small rural homes in the South, eventually becoming the South's largest source for home improvement financing.

Mr. Knobloch is founder and chairman of the West Hill Foundation for Nature, a nonprofit corporation he founded in 1999 that focuses its giving on land preservation efforts in the United States. He also is the recently retired chairman of Automated Logic Corporation, a leading state-of-the-art building automation energy controls company that was acquired by the Carrier division of United Technologies in Farmington, Conn. He holds an economics degree from Yale, having graduated in 1951.

Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999. She has written dozens of pieces for the magazine, including profiles of Senator Hillary Clinton, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Her series on global warming, "The Climate of Man," appeared in The New Yorker in the spring of 2005. Her stories have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and Mother Jones, and have been anthologized in "The Best American Science and Nature Writing" and "The Best American Political Writing." A collection of her work, "The Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit," was published in 2004. Her book on global warming, "Field Notes from a Catastrophe," will come out in April 2006.

Prior to joining the staff of The New Yorker, Ms. Kolbert was a political reporter for The New York Times. She is a graduate of Yale University.

Richard E. Kroon retired from the Sprout Group venture capital fund in mid-2001, after serving as its Managing Partner from 1981 to 2000, and more recently as Chairman. He is a past Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and currently serves on the boards of Finlay Enterprises, Cohen and Steers mutual funds, and several private companies. Mr. Kroon joined Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, Sprout's corporate parent, in 1969, serving as a Securities Analyst for the electrical equipment industry; later as Director of DLJ International, working in the firm's London office; then as a member of the firm's investment banking group; and finally became part of Sprout in 1977. Prior to joining DLJ, he worked as an assistant to the Comptroller of the U.S. Department of Defense.

Mr. Kroon received an M.B.A. with high distinction from the Harvard Business School and was a Baker Scholar and member of the Century Club. He received his B.A. from Yale University where he graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and was a Corning Traveling Fellow. He is a member of Yale's Development Board and the Leadership Council of its School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He is a member of the Investment Subcommittee of Monmouth University and a member of the board of the Community YMCA Foundation.

Author of four books and more than 100 articles and chapters, Dr. Krosnick conducts research in three primary areas: (1) attitude formation, change, and effects, (2) the psychology of political behavior, and (3) the optimal design of questionnaires used for laboratory experiments and surveys, and survey research methodology more generally.�

Dr. Krosnick received a B.A. degree in psychology from Harvard University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in social psychology from the University of Michigan.�He has taught courses on survey methodology around the world at universities, for corporations, and for government agencies, has provided expert testimony in court, and has served as an on-air election-night television commentator and exit poll data analyst.�

Dr. Krosnick's scholarship has been recognized with the Phillip Brickman Memorial Prize for Research in Social Psychology, the Midwest Political Science Association's Pi Sigma Alpha Award, the Erik Erikson Early Career Award for Excellence and Creativity in Political Psychology, and a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Steven Kull is the director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), a joint program of the Center on Policy Attitudes and the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland.�Through polls, focus groups, and in-depth interviews, he carries out studies of public attitudes on international issues such as America's role in the world, NATO enlargement, foreign aid, the United Nations, global warming, globalization, and European-American relations.

His most recent book, co-authored with I.M. Destler, is Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism�(Brookings Institution Press, 1999). Dr. Kull has been interviewed on CNN, NBC, BBC, NPR, the PBS series "Great Decisions," C-SPAN, Monitor Radio, the Defense Monitor, News Talk TV, the award-winning documentary "Faces of the Enemy" and other radio and TV news programs. He regularly gives briefings for Congress, the State Department, NATO, the UN and the EU.

In the 1980s, as a fellow at the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University, he carried out a study that resulted in his book, Minds at War: Nuclear Reality and the Inner Conflicts of Defense Policymakers (Basic Books). Later, he carried out a study of Soviet Ônew thinking', publishing his findings as Burying�Lenin: The Revolution in Soviet Ideology and Foreign Policy (Westview Press). He was a SSRC MacArthur Fellow and has taught at Stanford University. His articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, Harper's, Public Opinion Quarterly, the Washington Post and the Christian Science Monitor. Dr. Kull is a faculty member at the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Association for Public Opinion Research.

William C. Kunkler is currently Executive Vice President for CC Industries, Inc. (CCI), a private equity firm focused on manufacturing companies and real estate investments. He is also Vice President of Henry Crown and Company, the parent company of CCI.

Mr. Kunkler has over 25 years of manufacturing company experience. He is responsible for general operating issues at each of CCI's companies and serves as a director of several of the companies. Prior to joining CCI in 1994, he was Executive Vice President for Marblehead Lime Company, a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation. Mr. Kunkler began his career at USG Corporation in 1979 as a project engineer.

In addition to his responsibilities at CCI, Mr. Kunkler is a director of Envestnet Asset Management Inc., a financial services company based in Chicago, and NIBCO Inc., a manufacturer of valves and fittings based in Elkhart, Indiana. He is a director of The Northwestern Memorial Foundation, a trustee of Brookfield Zoo and The Field Museum of Natural History, and a member of the Yale Development Board.

Mr. Kunkler received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University and his Master of Management degree from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.

Mr. Lakoff previously taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a Visiting Professor at the école des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1995) and at the Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute at the University of New Mexico (Summer, 1995).

He has been a member of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society (1989-1995), a Senior Fellow at the Townsend Center for the Humanities (1995-1996), and President of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (1989-1993). He is currently on the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute (1995-01) and is co-director with Jerome Feldman of the Neural Theory of Language Project at the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley.

Dr. Lakoff has published a multitude of articles in major scholarly journals and edited volumes. He is the author of the influential book, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Second Edition, (2002). He is also the author of Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About The Mind (1987) and co-author of Metaphors We Live By (1980) [with Mark Johnson], More Than Cool Reason (1989) [with Mark Turner], Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge To The Western Tradition (1999) [with Mark Johnson], Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being (2000) [with Rafael Nœ¯ez] and, most recently, Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values, Frame the Debate (2004).

In addition to his teaching and research commitments, Dr. Lakoff has been on the editorial board of Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, Journal of Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics, Philosophical Psychology, Connection Science, and the University of Chicago Press Cognitive Linguistics Book Series. He is regularly interviewed in the public media and has appeared on such radio shows as Talk of the Nation (with Ray Suarez), Bridges (with Larry Josephson), To the Best of Our Knowledge, and Forum (with Michael Krasny).

Gara LaMarche is Vice President and Director of U.S. Programs for the Open Society Institute, a foundation established by philanthropist George Soros to promote open societies around the world. His articles on human rights and social justice issues have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Texas Observer, and The Wharton Magazine. He is the editor of�Speech and Equality: Do We Really Have to Choose?

Mr. LaMarche has taught at New School University and The John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He serves on the boards of Article 19, the international free expression organization, PEN American Center, and The Nation; as a member of the Sundance Documentary Fund Selection Committee; on the U.S. Advisory Committee for Index on Censorship, the London-based human rights magazine; and on the Advisory Committees for the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Division and U.S. Programs.

Jonathan Lash is president of the World Resources Institute (WRI), a global environmental think tank that goes beyond research to provide practical solutions to problems of environment and development. During the past ten years under his leadership, WRI has pioneered the use of digital technologies to solve environmental problems, engaged the business community in helping to foster development that is sustainable, and created new mechanisms to empower civil society groups.

From 1993 until 1999, Mr. Lash served as co‑chair of the President's Council on Sustainable Development, a group of U.S. government, business, labor, civil rights, and environmental leaders that developed visionary recommendations for strategies to promote sustainable development. At various times, he served as a member of advisory groups to the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Trade Representative.

He has served on a broad range of national and international groups, including: the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's Round Table on Sustainable Development; the Tata Energy and Resources Institute (India); the Keidanren Committee on Nature Conservation (Japan); the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development; and the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (Japan). He is a member of the board of the Institute for Sustainable Communities, the Wallace Global Fund, and the Heinz Center.

Before joining WRI, Mr. Lash directed the environmental law and policy program of the Vermont Law School. From 1987 to 1990, he headed the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, having served the previous two years as Vermont's Commissioner of Environmental Conservation. During his tenure in Vermont government, Mr. Lash helped write a score of innovative statutes on issues ranging from pollution prevention and solid waste management to protection of pristine streams. In 1990 he became director of the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School.

A former Peace Corps volunteer and a former federal prosecutor, Mr. Lash also worked as a senior staff attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) from 1978 to 1985, litigating on issues related to public lands, federal coal leasing, strip mining, energy conservation, and synthetic fuels.

Mr. Lash earned his baccalaureate degree from Harvard University and his masters and law degrees from the Catholic University of America.

With a Board of Directors that include some of the most influential names in the entertainment business, EMA has unique access to content of both feature films and television. Taking over the reins five and a half years ago, Ms. Levin has moved EMA in new directions with a strong emphasis on Young Hollywood. Under her leadership, EMA has emerged as the leading entertainment organization to use the industry to role model and influence globally on essential environmental issues and lifestyle.

The Environmental Media Association (EMA) mobilizes the entertainment industry in a global effort to educate people about environmental issues and inspire them into action.

EMA was created in 1989, as a non-profit 501(c)3, with the simple but powerful concept that through television and film, the entire entertainment community could influence the environmental awareness of millions of people. Through the use of weaving environmental messages within entertainment programming and utilizing "celebrity" for positive role modeling, EMA continues to have a profound effect on how the public receives environmental information. EMA was founded by some of the biggest names in film and television world, who help EMA serve as a valuable link between the entertainment industry and the environmental community.

Ms. Levin has a degree in Film from the University of Southern California.

Eugene Linden writes about the environment, nature, and social issues. He is the author of seven books, and for many years he wrote about global environmental issues for TIME. He has also contributed articles, essays and op-eds to The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Atlantic, Fortune, and Slate, among other publications. His writings on climate change include "Warnings From the Ice," a 1997 cover-length story for TIME on Antarctica (one of the first national stories to deal with the threat of rapid climate change), his 1998 book, The Future in Plain Sight (updated in 2002), and his 2000 TIME cover story, "Arctic Meltdown" as well as many essays and short pieces.

In Feb. 2006, Simon and Schuster will publish The Winds of Change: A Short History of Climate Changes that Extinguished Civilizations—And the Looming Threat to Our Own. Linden is the winner of numerous journalistic awards, and in 2001 was named by Yale as a Poynter Fellow in honor of his work in environmental journalism. Apart from his writing, Linden serves as Chief Investment Strategist for Bennett Management, a family of hedge funds specializing in distress situations. He also serves on several corporate and non-profit boards. He lives in Washington D.C.

Amory Lovins, a MacArthur Fellow and consultant physicist, has advised the energy and other industries for nearly three decades as well as the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense. Published in 29 books and hundreds of papers, his work in approximately 50 countries has been recognized by the "Alternative Nobel," Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, the Happold Medal, nine honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Time Hero for the Planet, and World Technology Awards. He advises industries and governments worldwide, and has briefed 18 heads of state. He co-founded and leads Rocky Mountain Institute (www.rmi.org), an independent, market-oriented, nonprofit applied research center. Much of its work is synthesized in Natural Capitalism (www.natcap.org). RMI spun off E source (www.esource.com) in 1992 and Hypercar, Inc. (www.hypercar.com), which he chairs, in 1999. His 29^th book, Winning the Oil Endgame (www.oilendgame.com), was published 20 September 2004.

Mindy S. Lubber is the President of Ceres, the leading U.S. coalition of investors and environmental leaders working to improve corporate environmental, social and governance practices. She is also the Director of the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), an alliance of institutional investors that coordinates U.S. investor responses to the financial risks and opportunities posed by climate change.Ms. Lubber has held leadership positions in government as Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; in the financial services sector as Founder, President and CEO of Green Century Capital Management, an investment firm managing environmentally screened mutual funds; in the private sector as the President of an environmental law and policy consulting group; and in the not-for-profit sector for more than a decade leading environmental and public interest law organizations, including the National Environmental Law Center, which she founded. She received her JD from Suffolk University, and her MBA from State University of New York, Buffalo.

Jane Lubchenco is an environmental scientist and marine ecologist who is actively engaged in teaching, research, synthesis and communication of scientific knowledge to the public, policy makers, business leaders and others. Her expertise includes biodiversity, climate change, the state of the oceans and the planet.

Dr. Lubchenco is currently President of the International Council for Science and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Her past leadership positions include president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Ecological Society of America. She founded and co-leads the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, COMPASS (the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea) and PISCO (the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans—an interdisciplinary research, outreach and training program devoted to understanding the near shore marine ecosystem along the west coast of the U.S.). She co-led the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment's Synthesis for Business and Industry.

She has received numerous awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, the Heinz Award in the Environment, the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest, and the 2004 Environmental Law Institute Award. Dr. Lubchenco was born in Denver, received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and has taught at Oregon State University since 1978. She is the Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology at OSU.

Mr. Lupia has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Rochester. He writes on subjects including persuasion, opinion change, civic education, coalition governance, legislative-bureaucratic relationships and decision-making under uncertainty. The work addresses these topics by integrating insights from his interactions with mass and elite decision makers with tools and concepts from cognitive science, economics, political science, and psychology. His books include The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? and Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality. His work has been honored by the American Political Science Association and the National Academy of Science and he is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Professor Lupia is also very active in developing new means for researchers to better serve science and society. With Jon A. Krosnick, he is Principal Investigator of the American National Election Studies, the longest-running scientific study of elections and voting behavior in the world. With Diana C. Mutz, he developed and serves as Principal Investigator of Time-Shared Experiments for the Social Sciences, an innovative NSF-sponsored program that allows scientists from many disciplines run critical experiments on opinion formation and change using nationally representative subject pools.

He has developed a reputation for taking matters at the intersection of science and society and making them accessible to broad audiences. He makes such presentations regularly, having given over 200 research presentations in 12 countries. He has also consulted for organizations ranging from the Markle Foundation and the Public Policy Institute of California to the (U.S.) Department of Justice and the World Bank.

Jerry Mahlman received his Ph.D. in 1967 in Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University.�After a three-year stay in the Meteorology Department of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, he accepted a Senior Research Scientist position at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) at Princeton University. While at GFDL, he led the development of pioneering mathematical models of the transport of chemicals in the global atmosphere, and of the circulation of the stratosphere.�Those models are still used today to address global pollution questions, as well as a variety of problems related to continued stratospheric ozone depletion, and its interactions with the global warming problem.

In 1980, as a GFDL employee he was designated as a Lecturer with rank of Professor in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University.� In 1984, he was selected to be the Director of GFDL.�In that position, he became immersed in the interpretation of the science behind many of the public policy questions relating to ozone depletion and global warming, and testified at numerous Congressional Hearings on these subjects.�In 2000, he retired from GFDL and from NOAA.�

Dr. Mahlman has received many awards and recognitions, the most prominent being the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Award of the American Meteorological Society (its highest honor), and the Presidential Rank Award from President Clinton.

Dr. Mahlman currently holds a part-time position at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, and as a consultant to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change in Washington, D.C.�His main�emphasis in both of these positions is as an interpreter of the science�and implications of global warming to policymakers and to a highly�diverse set of potentially impacted communities, human and otherwise.

Michael B. McElroy began his research career as an atomic physicist, graduating at age 22 with a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Queens University Belfast. Following a post- doctoral appointment in the Chemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin, he moved to the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona in 1963. He served as a Staff Scientist at Kitt Peak until 1970 when he was appointed as the Abbot Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Harvard University.

Dr. McElroy's research at Kitt Peak emphasized studies of the physics of the Earth's upper atmosphere, extended later to include studies of the atmospheres of other planets. He continued his work on planetary atmospheres in his early years at Harvard serving as a Principal Investigator on missions to Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. In the mid 1970's, his interests switched to more intensive studies of the Earth with a particular emphasis on studies of the effects of human activity on the integrity of the global environment. He is the author of more than 200 technical papers and a major textbook on topics ranging from planetary atmospheres, to stratospheric ozone, to the chemistry of the troposphere, to changes in biogeochemical cycles and factors underlying both natural and human-induced changes in global climate. He was been engaged more recently in studies of the environmental consequences of rapid industrialization in China, exploring strategies to minimize adverse effects of this industrialization while accommodating at the same time China's legitimate aspirations for economic development.

At Harvard, Dr. McElroy has served as Director of Center for Earth and Planetary Physics (1975-1978), as founding Chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (1986-2000), as Chair of the University-wide Committee on the Environment (1991-2001) and as first Director of the Center for the Environment (2001-2004), an organization linking faculty from 8 of Harvard's 10 professional schools. He was appointed as the Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Sciences in 1997.

He is a Fellow and former member of the Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the International Academy of Aeronautics, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was the recipient of the Macelwane Award of the American Geophysical Union in 1968, the NASA Public service Medal in 1978 and the Eire Society Gold Medal in 1987. In 1989, he was awarded the George Ledley Prize at Harvard University for the person who "since the last award of said prize, has by research, discovery, or otherwise made the most valuable contribution to science, or in any way for the benefit of mankind" and received the Research and Development Award from the National Energy Resources Organization. He was honored by Queens University Belfast with an honorary degree as Doctor of Science in 1991.

In addition to his work at Harvard, Dr. McElroy serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Research Institute at Columbia University and is a member of the Boards of the World Media Foundation, the Climate Institute, and Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc. He is a member also of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, an organization set up in 1993 to advise the Chinese Government on matters relating to sustainable development.

Ronald Edward Nordhaus is an author, researcher, and political strategist. In the fall of 2006, Houghton Mifflin will publish The Death of Environmentalism and the Birth of a New American Politics, to be co-authored with Michael Shellenberger. In October 2004, Shellenberger and Nordhaus published an essay by the same name, creating an international debate over the future of progressive politics.

Mr. Nordhaus is also a managing partner of American Environics (LLC), a new research and consulting firm created to bring cutting edge research and methodologies used to understand the evolution of American social values to progressive political projects.

Over the last twenty years, he has run major campaigns and initiatives for a large assortment of environmental and progressive political causes, including the Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense, and Clean Water Action. He also served as the Campaign Director for Share the Water, a coalition of environmentalists, fishermen, farmers, and urban water agencies advocating reform of federal water policies in California; Executive Director of the Headwaters Sanctuary Project; and as a partner and political strategist with Next Generation, a political consulting firm serving environmental organizations and campaigns. For the last four years, he has been a pollster and Vice President at Evans McDonough Company, an opinion research firm based in Oakland.

Mr. Nordhaus holds a BA in history from the University of California, Berkeley.

Mr. Repetto was vice president of the World Resources Institute, a non-profit policy research center in Washington D.C. and director of its economics program, prior to his appointments at the University of Colorado and Yale. From 1998 to 2000, he was a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Earlier in his career, Mr. Repetto was a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, a World Bank official working in Indonesia, an economic advisor to the planning commission in Bangladesh, a Ford Foundation staff economist in India, and an economic analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.

Mr. Repetto is known for his writings and research on the interface between environment and economics and on policies to promote sustainable economic development. His recent work with Duncan Austin on environment and finance was awarded the Moskowitz Prize for 2000.

He has served as a member of the National Research Council's Board on Sustainable Development and as a member of the Environmental Economics Advisory Board of EPA's Science Advisory Board. He holds a BA and a PhD in economics from Harvard University and an M.Sc. Degree from the London School of Economics.

From 1993 to 1995 Mr. Riggs was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and then Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs at the Department of Energy. Previously he served for 20 years on the staff of the U.S. Congress, including 13 years as staff director of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power. He also served in Vietnam and Brazil with the Agency for International Development (1966-72) and taught energy policy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Riggs has a B.A. from Swarthmore College, where he is a member of the Board of Managers, and a masters in public policy from Princeton University.

Prior to the formation of Cinergy, Mr. Rogers joined PSI Energy, Inc., in 1988 as the company's Chairman, President and Chief executive officer. Prior to joining PSI, he was Executive Vice President, Interstate Pipelines for the Enron Gas Pipeline Group. Before joining Enron Corp., Mr. Rogers was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld (a law firm based in Dallas, Texas). He represented energy companies before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Department of Energy, various Congressional committees and federal courts.

Immediately before joining Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Mr. Rogers was Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Enforcement of the FERC. In this position he directed all aspects of the FERC's litigation and enforcement. Previously, Mr. Rogers served as Assistant to the Chief Trial Counsel at the FERC, as a Law Clerk for the Supreme Court of Kentucky, and as Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, where he acted as intervener on behalf of State consumers in gas, electric, and telephone rate cases. He was a reporter for the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader from 1967 to 1970.

Mr. Rogers has served more than 38 years cumulatively on the boards of Fortune 500 companies. He is currently a director of the following corporations: Cinergy Corp., Fifth Third Bancorp and Fifth Third Bank. He serves as 2^nd Vice Chairman of the Board, is on the Executive Committee and is Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Edison Electric Institute. He previously served as Chairman of the Environmental Policy Committee. He also serves on the Board of the American Gas Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Rogers also serves on numerous civic boards and has published numerous articles on energy and environmental issues. He formerly served as director of the following corporations: Duke Realty Corp., Bankers Life Holding Corporation; A O Irkutskenergo (a Russian hydroelectric/coal-fired steam utility), INB (Indiana National Bank) and NBD Indiana Inc. He has testified before Congressional Committees 13 times since 1989.

He attended Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) and holds a B.B.A. and J.D. degree from the University of Kentucky, where he was a member of the Kentucky Law Journal and Beta Gamma Sigma (Academic Honorary Society).

The firm is�organized around four studios:� planning, project management,�development and acquisitions. Together, these studios carry out the firm's mission of repairing the fabric of communities by�collaborating with cities, towns and not-for-profits to plan and�develop or acquire environmentally responsible projects by creating�vibrant, diverse cultural centers with a balance of jobs, housing,�open land and mass transit.�

�Mr. Rose's projects range from low income housing for homeless�people with AIDS, seniors and first time home buyers, to�state-of-the-art academic buildings, performing arts centers and�libraries.�His work also includes land preservation, urban infill,�inner city urban industrial, wholesale, artists and� telecommunications projects.� All of his projects are "green."

Mr. Rose's not-for-profit cultural activities include serving as�Chairman of the Executive Committee of Jazz at Lincoln Center, and�as Chair of its Building Committee which was responsible for the�development of the Frederick P. Rose Hall, a state-of-the-art� performing, broadcast and education facility at Columbus Circle.�With his wife, Diana Calthorpe Rose, Mr. Rose is the co-founder of�the Garrison Institute, a global NGO, connecting contemplation with�social and environmental action.

Mr. Rose's community development activities include serving as a�member of the Executive Committee of the Board of the Enterprise�Foundation.� Environmental not-for-profit affiliations include current service on the Boards of the American Museum of Natural�History (Chair of the Building Committee), the Natural Resources�Defense Council, the Real Estate Advisory Board of the Trust for� Public Land, and the Leadership Council of Yale University's School� of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Lincoln Center� Building Advisory Group. Mr. Rose's work has been recognized by many awards.

Mr. Rose graduated from Yale University in 1974 with a B.A. in�Psychology, and received a Masters in Regional Planning from the�University of Pennsylvania in 1980.�

Auden Schendler is director of environmental affairs at Aspen Skiing Company (ASC), where he is responsible for improving the company's environmental performance. ASC, which has won thirty national and international awards for its environmental work, is widely considered to be the environmental leader in the ski industry, and has pioneered such programs as the US Green Building Council LEED system, use of biodiesel in snowcats, and sustainability reporting (www.aspensnowmass.com/environment).

Mr. Auden was previously research associate in corporate sustainability at Rocky Mountain Institute. He currently serves on Colorado Governor Owens' pollution prevention advisory board and on the board of the General Service Foundation.� His writing on sustainable business and life in the West has been published in Harvard Business Review, the L.A. Times, Salon.com, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Rock and Ice, Canoe and Kayak and many other journals.

Mr. Schneider is co-director of the Center for Environmental Science and Policy and serves on the Faculty Leadership Committee for the Stanford Institute for the Environment. Dr. Schneider was honored in 1992 with a MacArthur Fellowship for his ability to integrate and interpret the results of global climate research through public lectures, seminars, classroom teaching, environmental assessment committees, media appearances, Congressional testimonies, and research collaboration with colleagues.

He has served as a consultant to federal agencies and/or White House staff in the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush I and II, and Clinton administrations. He also received, in 1991, the American Association for the Advancement of Science/ Westinghouse Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology, for furthering public understanding of environmental science and its implications for public policy. In 1998 he became a foreign member of the Academia Europaea, Earth and Cosmic Sciences Section. He was elected Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences (1999-2001) and was elected to membership in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in April 2002. He received the National Conservation Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation for 2003 as well as the Edward T. Law Roe Award of the Society of Conservation Biology, also for 2003.

Dr. Schneider received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Plasma Physics from Columbia University in 1971. He studied the role of greenhouse gases and suspended particulate material on climate as a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in 1972 and was a member of the scientific staff of NCAR from 1973-1996, where he co-founded the Climate Project. In 1975, he founded the interdisciplinary journal, Climatic Change, and continues to serve as its Editor. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather and author of The Genesis Strategy: Climate and Global Survival; The Coevolution of Climate and Life; Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse Century? and Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford to Lose, among others. He has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific papers, proceedings, legislative testimonies, edited books and book chapters; some 120 book reviews, editorials, published newspaper and magazine interviews and popularizations.

Dr. Schneider's current global change research interests include: climatic change; global warming; food/climate and other environmental/science public policy issues; ecological and economic implications of climatic change; integrated assessment of global change; climatic modeling of paleoclimates and of human impacts on climate, e.g., carbon dioxide "greenhouse effect" or environmental consequences of nuclear war. He was a coordinating Lead Author in Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program) from 1997-2001, and was a Lead Author in Working Group I from 1994-1996. He was also a Lead Author of the IPCC guidance paper on uncertainties. He is co-anchor of the IPCC Cross-Cutting Theme on Vulnerability for the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).

Larry J. Schweiger became President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) in March 2004. Previously, he served for eight years as President and CEO of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC), where he pioneered and promoted a number of programs including expanded ecological research. He increased visibility for WPC through public advocacy and community garden and greening projects.

Prior to joining WPC ,Mr. Schweiger was first vice president of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation where he was responsible for the Foundation's resource protection, land trust activities and advocacy programs.

In an earlier tour at NWF from 1981 to 1995, he served in several positions, including publisher of the magazines, senior vice president for constituent development and conservation action, and vice president of NWF's affiliate and regional programs department.

Mr. Schweiger is an active community leader, having served on more than 40 governing boards, commissions and committees. He has received many awards for his efforts in conservation including the Distinguished Service Award for Special Conservation Achievement from NWF in June 1995, and the Conservation Service Award from the Christian Environmental Association in September 1995. He was selected as Pennsylvania's Environmental Professional of the Year in 2002

Mr. Seligmann is one of today’s most dynamic leaders in the global conservation movement—bringing innovation and action to the forefront of biodiversity protection for more than 25 years. In 1987, he co-founded Conservation International (CI) and as Chairman and CEO, has positioned CI at the cutting edge of conservation, creating lasting solutions to biodiversity and sustainable development challenges—becoming a leading international conservation organization with field offices in over 40 countries on four continents.

A strong advocate of building partnerships, Mr. Seligmann has forged groundbreaking projects between the environmental community and other sectors, including government and private industry. Under his leadership, CI has pioneered conservation tools that are economically sound, scientifically based, and culturally sensitive.

Mr. Seligmann holds a master’s degree from Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He holds honorary Doctorates in Science from Michigan State University and Rutgers University and in 2001, he was awarded the Order of the Golden Ark from the Netherlands. He serves on the board of the Wild Salmon Center in Portland, Oregon and the Mayor’s Environmental Council in Washington, D.C. He also serves on the advisory councils of the Jackson Hole Land Trust, Ecotrust and other not-for-profit organizations, including the Japanese Keidanren’s Nature Conservation Fund. In 2000, President Clinton named him a member of the Enterprise for the Americas Board.

Edward Skloot is Executive Director of the Surdna Foundation, a family foundation headquartered in New York City. Its assets are approximately $725 million and in 2004-05 grant making will exceed $30 million. Surdna makes grants in five fields; the environment, neighborhood revitalization, youth organizing, arts, and nonprofit sector issues.

Surdna was established in 1917 and is today one of the country's 75 largest foundations. The Foundation has earned a national reputation for entrepreneurial grant making, collaborative approaches with other funders and grantees, and aggressive solution-finding to highly complex problems.

Currently, Mr. Skloot serves on the board of directors of Independent Sector and is a member of its Panel on the Nonprofit Sector. Also, he serves as a board member of Venture Philanthropy Partners, a group of venture capitalists helping youth-serving organizations in the Washington, DC region and of the advisory board of The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consulting firm affiliated with Bain and Co. He recently completed a four year term on the board of Consumer's Union (publisher of Consumer Reports).

Mr. Skloot has written and spoken widely on the subjects of nonprofit management, social venturing and sectoral leadership. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Following six years as president of the Agricultural Development Council focused on agrarian resource policy issues in Asia and Africa, Mr. Smith became the founding director of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity, building a consortium of some 30 American and Canadian foundations. Five years hence he led a U.S. government team in designing the Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation. Consultancies with the World Bank, USAID, and the Rockefeller Foundation filled gaps between full-time posts.

Since 1993 he has directed the Henry P. Kendall Foundation where climate change and landscape conservation dominate current program interests. Nobel Laureate (Physics) Henry W. Kendall and his brother John P. Kendall created the foundation in their father's name nearly 50 years ago.

Mr. Smith lives in Cambridge with his wife Mary who heads the Cambridge Friends School. His current non-profit directorships include the Alaska Conservation Foundation, National Parks Conservation Association, Clean Air-Cool Planet, and the New England Grassroots Environment Fund.

Mr. Somerville received the Ph. D. degree in meteorology from New York University in 1966 and has been a professor at Scripps since 1979.�There he works with an interdisciplinary group of scientists studying the variability and predictability of climate.�He is an authority on the prospects for climate change in coming decades.

Professor Somerville is a climate theorist.�His research is focused on critical physical processes in the climate system, especially the role of clouds and the potentially important feedbacks that can occur as clouds change with a changing climate.�Using a broad spectrum of observations, ranging from satellite images of storm systems to detailed measurements of microscopic cloud particles, he compares computer simulations with reality.�His work has led to many innovations and important improvements in climate models.

He comments frequently on climate and environmental issues for the media and has also trained schoolteachers, testified before the United States Congress, briefed United Nations climate change negotiators, and advised government agencies on research, education and outreach.

Among many honors, Dr. Somerville has received awards from the American Meteorological Society for both his research and his popular book, The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change. He is a Coordinating Lead Author for the next major climate science assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to appear in 2007

Throughout his career, Dean Speth has provided leadership and entrepreneurial initiatives to many task forces and committees whose roles have been to combat environmental degradation, including the President's Task Force on Global Resources and Environment; the Western Hemisphere Dialogue on Environment and Development; and the National Commission on the Environment. Among his awards are the National Wildlife Federation's Resources Defense Award, the Natural Resources Council of America's Barbara Swain Award of Honor, a 1997 Special Recognition Award from the Society for International Development, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Environmental Law Institute, and the Blue Planet Prize. His publications include Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment; Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment; and articles in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Environmental Science and Technology, the Columbia Journal World of Business, and other journals and books.

Dean Speth holds a B.A. and J.D. from Yale University and an M.Litt from Oxford University.

Vikki N. Spruill is President of SeaWeb, a non-profit organization that uses strategic communications and social marketing techniques to advance ocean conservation. In 1995, the Environment Group of the Pew Charitable Trusts recruited her from Ruder Finn public relations to direct this new ocean initiative. Ten years and many successes later, Ms. Spruill has used her marketing and communications skills from the private sector to lead SeaWeb to become an important ocean conservation organization supported by grants from a large number of national and international foundations.

Current signature SeaWeb programs include The Seafood Choices Alliance, an association of seafood professionals, and conservation and education institutions that work together to make informed choices that protect fish and the ocean environment, and COMPASS, the Communications Partnership for Science and the Sea which aims to accelerate the pace of solutions to important marine conservation problems by bridging gaps between academic science, the media and NGO's. Other Sea Web programs include the SeaStrategy Network, SeaWeb Aquaculture Clearinghouse and the Caviar Emptor campaign to protect the Caspian Sea's imperiled beluga sturgeon. Several years ago SeaWeb created and successfully completed the "Give Swordfish a Break" campaign, which mobilized hundreds of chefs in the United States in support of stronger fisheries management policies.

Most recently, Ms. Spruill founded FoundationWorks, a nonprofit organization working with foundations to enhance effectiveness for foundations and grantees. FoundationWorks is built on the premise that the drive to improve philanthropic effectiveness can succeed only if foundations commit to new standards for performance in strategic communication. FoundationWorks has recently published a report entitled "Bridging the Gap: Connecting Strategic Communications and Program Goals" which emphasizes the importance of integrating a strategic communications approach in achieving the sector's goals.

Prior to SeaWeb and FoundationWorks, Ms. Spruill was a Senior Vice President at Ruder Finn, one of the largest independently held public relations firms in the world. In the Washington, D.C. office she was responsible for client management and new business development. She managed a variety of clients, ranging from prestigious Washington, D.C. law firms to ambitious non-profits and universities.

Previously, Ms. Spruill was a principal at Peabody Fitzpatrick Communications, which specialized in conducting communications audits, developing strategic plans, designing identity campaigns and national advertising programs, and providing crisis communications counsel. Earlier she was a partner at Williams Whittle Advertising and Public Relations after beginning her career in communications in the Washington, D.C. office of Burson Marsteller Public Relations.

Ms. Spruill is a graduate of Leadership Washington, a leadership-training program sponsored by the Washington Area Board of Trade and a frequent speaker on communications planning and campaigns. She is a member of the board of directors for Sky Truth and Environmental Media Services and sits on the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Steering Committee. She is also a managing director of COMPASS, the Communications Partnership for Science and the Sea.

Ms. Spruill is a cum laude graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans and the University of West Florida with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in communications and a minor in religious studies.

Todd Stern, former Assistant to President Clinton and Staff Secretary and Counselor to Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers, is a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, where he is Vice Chair of the firm's Public Policy and Strategy practice.

As Deputy Staff Secretary and then Staff Secretary in the White House from 1993 to 1998, Mr. Stern played a central role in preparing the key issues of domestic, economic and national security policy for the President's decision. He also coordinated the Administration's initiative on global climate change from 1997 to 1999, acting as the senior White House negotiator at the Kyoto and Buenos Aires negotiations. At Treasury, from 1999 to 2001, Mr. Stern advised the Secretary on the policy and politics of a broad range of economic and financial issues.

After leaving the Government, Mr. Stern served as an Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and as a Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Mr. Stern graduated with highest honors from Dartmouth College in 1973, and with honors from Harvard Law School in 1977. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Adam C. Stern has served as executive director of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL) since 2003. COEJL is the leading Jewish environmental organization in the United States. COEJL's mission is to deepen the Jewish community's commitment to the stewardship of creation and to mobilize the resources of Jewish life and learning to protect the Earth and all its inhabitants.

Mr. Stern has more than 20 years of experience in environmental outreach and advocacy. Previously vice president for business development at Care2.com, a successful environmental web site, he has held senior positions at Environmental Defense, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and several environmental and philanthropic ventures in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has an M.B.A. from Stanford and a B.A. in History from Yale. His involvement with Jewish organizational life has included serving on the board of the San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council.

At General Electric Company Mr. Stoler leads a global team responsible for developing GE's EHS standards and programs and monitoring the worldwide performance of GE operations. He is also responsible for GE's annual Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory, led the team that developed GE's recently announced GHG reduction targets and is currently working on the company's implementation plan. He also works with institutional investors and analysts interested in GE's EHS profile in the context of social responsibility. Most recently, he participated in the development of GE's "ecomagination" initiative.

Prior to joining GE in 1999, Mr. Stoler was Environmental Counsel and Director of EHS at W.R. Grace & Co. Before joining Grace, he worked as a consultant to USEPA and the National Commission on Air Quality.

Mr. Stoler is currently a member of the Design Committee for the State of the Nation's Ecosystems project of the John J. Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment and a member of the Business Roundtable's Climate Resolve Steering Committee. He is a graduate of Boston College Law School.

Ellen Susman is Producer and Host of Superwoman Central, a weekly Houston PBS program that celebrates the strength of women as they work to balance career and family. Ms. Susman began her career in 1977 as one of the original hosts of Philadelphia's KYW-TV Evening/PM Magazine and had a successful career as a reporter and anchor.

She created a Speakers Bureau in Bermuda, which produced seminars and conferences for multi-national corporations. She created, produced and hosted "The Aspen Institute Television Show," which focused on leadership issues with high-profile people in industry and government. With The Executive Education Network (EXEN), she moderated a series called "Experience Teaches", which featured guests like Bob Galvin and Warren Bennis in live 2-hour broadcasts with as many as 600 participants interacting in open-forum discussions.

Besides interviewing Fortune 500 CEOs for a variety of projects, Ms. Susman created and moderated Leaders Forum, a monthly, live conference on the Internet from 1995-2000. This unique program has provided insight into the world of leadership development for three years to clients as diverse as Lands End, Protective Life Insurance and the Veterans Administration.

In 2001, she became fascinated with the challenges facing women in the workplace. With support from Houston companies such as Reliant Energy, JP Morgan Chase, KPMG and others, The Myth of Superwoman conference was a sellout, with 300 women attending one week after 9/11.

Her firm, The Spencer Connection, Inc. specializes in creating, moderating and facilitating programs and seminars for the corporate marketplace. Past clients include The Santa Fe Institute, Vistakon, Aspen Highlands, The Aspen Educational Research Foundation, the Eagles' Don Henley, The Bermuda Heritage Foundation, Project Lighthawk, and many others.

Ms. Susman serves on the Board of Directors for The Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, the Student Conservation Association, the Alley Theatre, the Houston Grand Opera, the National Council of the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Aspen Art Musuem. She is also a member of the deToqueville Society of the United Way and The National Speakers Association.

Mitchell Thomashow is the Chair of the Antioch New England Department of Environmental Studies, where he has worked since 1976. The department serves 350 masters and doctoral students, offering programs in environmental education, environmental policy, and conservation biology. He also serves as Associate Dean for Institutional Advancement at Antioch New England. In that capacity, he promotes sustainability initiatives at the graduate school.�

Dr. Thomashow is specifically interested in developing reflective, interdisciplinary pedagogy for graduate programs in environmental studies. He teaches courses such as Global Environmental Change, Ecological Thought, Cultures of Natural History, and Music and Nature. Currently he supervises twelve doctoral students.

Dr. Thomashow's book, Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist (The MIT Press, 1995) offers an approach to teaching environmental education based on reflective practice—a guide to teachers, educators and concerned citizens alike that incorporates issues of citizenship, ecological identity, and civic responsibility within the framework of environmental studies. His most recent book, Bringing theBiosphere Home (The MIT Press, 2001) is a guide for learning how to perceive global environmental change. It shows readers that through a blend of local natural history observations, global change science, the use of imagination and memory, and spiritual contemplation, you can learn how to broaden your spatial and temporal view so that it encompasses the entire biosphere. It suggests how global environmental change might become the province of countless educational initiatives—from the classroom to the Internet, from community forums to international conferences, from the backyard to the biosphere.

Dr. Thomashow is the founder of Whole Terrain, an environmental literary publication. He serves on the advisory boards of The Orion Society, the Coalition on Environmental and Jewish Life (COEJL), and the Teleosis Institute. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD), a national organization that supports interdisciplinary environmental studies in higher education.

Mary Evelyn Tucker was formerly Professor of Religion at Bucknell University where she taught courses in Asian religions and Religion and Ecology. From 1993-1996 she was a National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at Bucknell. She is currently Research Associate at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. With John Grim, she organized a series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at Harvard and they are series editors for the ten volumes from the conferences distributed by Harvard University Press. They are now coordinating the Harvard Forum on Religion and Ecology.

She is the author of Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press, 2003) and Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism (SUNY 1989). She co-edited Worldviews and Ecology (Orbis, 1994), Buddhism and Ecology (Harvard, 1997), Confucianism and Ecology (Harvard, 1998), and Hinduism and Ecology (Harvard, 2000) and When Worlds Converge (Open Court, 2002). With Tu Weiming she edited two volumes on Confucian Spirituality (Crossroad, 2003, 2004).

Professor Tucker is a member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and served as a member of the International Earth Charter Drafting Committee from 1997-2000.

Professor Wargo's most recent work has focused on children's exposure to air pollution, especially diesel emissions. He has conducted extensive research on childhood vulnerability to complex mixtures of toxic substances, particularly pesticides. His research explores spatial, temporal, and demographic distribution of environmental health risks, providing a basis for evaluating past environmental and natural resource management policies, and for suggesting legal reform.

In his book Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides (Yale Press 1996), Professor Wargo presents a history of law governing pesticides and a history of scientific evidence of pesticide risks during the second half of the twentieth century. The work suggests fundamental reforms of science and law necessary to identify and contain health risks. It won the American Association of Publishers award as the Best Scholarly Professional Book in Government and Political Science in 1996. Professor Wargo has also conducted extensive research on the ecological basis of park and protected area management, concentrating on the Adirondack Park in New York, barrier islands within U.S. National Seashores, and UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. He is affiliated with the Yale–New Haven Teachers Institute, and works with urban primary and secondary school teachers in developing environmental curriculum units.

Timothy E. Wirth is the President of the United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund. These organizations were founded in 1998 through a major financial commitment from R.E. Turner to support and strengthen the work of the United Nations.

Mr. Wirth began his political career as a White House Fellow under President Lyndon Johnson and was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education in the Nixon Administration. In 1975, he returned to his home state and successfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Colorado's 2nd Congressional District from 1975-1987. In the House, he concentrated his efforts in the areas of communications technology and budget policy. In 1987, Mr. Wirth was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he focused on environmental issues, especially global climate change and population stabilization. He chose not to run for re-election.

Following those two decades of elected politics, Mr. Wirth served in the U.S. Department of State as the first Undersecretary for Global Affairs from 1993 to 1997. In this position he coordinated U.S. foreign policy in the areas of refugees, population, environment, science, human rights and narcotics.

As President of the UN Foundation since its inception in early 1998, Mr. Wirth has organized and led the formulation of the Foundation's mission and program priorities, which include the environment, women and population, children's health and peace, security and human rights. The Foundation also engages in extensive public advocacy, resource mobilization, and institutional strengthening efforts on behalf of the UN.

Prior to entering politics, Mr. Wirth was in private business in Colorado. He is a graduate of Harvard College and holds a PhD from Stanford University. The recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, he also served as a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers.

Richard B. Wirthlin is perhaps best known as President Reagan's strategist and pollster. But that is only part of the story. He is one of this country's most respected political and business strategists, and his firm, Wirthlin Worldwide, is widely recognized as a premier communications strategy and market positioning group.

He was chief strategist for two of the most sweeping presidential victories in the history of the United States. In 1981 he was acclaimed "Adman of the Year" by Advertising Age for his role in Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign, and he was designated "Pollster of the Year" by the American Association of Political Consultants. In 2001 he received the first-given award from the American University for "Outstanding Contributions in Campaign Consulting."

The Washington Post described Richard Wirthlin as "the prince of pollsters." George Gallup, Jr. said he is "one of the very best at our craft." A leading business publication honored him for his "extreme accuracy" and "his ability to translate information into effective strategy." President Reagan said, "Dick Wirthlin is the best in the business. . . ." "When he speaks, I listen."

WirthlinWorldwide has worked for three-fourths of the�Fortune top 100 companies, and 29 of the 30 firms that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Mr. Wirthlin is a member of the board of directors of Harris Interactive, which acquired WirthlinWorldwide in 2004.

Adam R. Wolfensohn is a New York-based producer of enviromental�documentaries. His current film is entitled Melting Planet and is on schedule for theatrical release in 2006. Directed by Judith Helfand�and Dan Gold, the film explores the roots of America's inaction on�global warming through the stories of six "messengers" who are�struggling to raise the political and cultural profile of the issue.

He also directs environmental grant making for the Wolfensohn Family�Foundation.

Previously, he worked in the climate program of Conservation International and composed music for numerous films, plays and�television commercials. He is a trustee of the Alaska Conservation�Foundation, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and president of the new music organization, Bang on a Can.

George M. Woodwell founded the Woods Hole Research Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1985 and served as its director until 2005. He is currently Director Emeritus and Senior Scientist at the Center. Dr. Woodwell holds degrees from Dartmouth College and Duke University. Between 1957 and 1961 he was a professor of botany at the University of Maine in Orono. He joined the staff of the Biology Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1961, and in 1975 he founded and became Director of the Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. In 1985 he founded and became Director of the Woods Hole Research Center, an institute for global environmental research.

Dr. Woodwell's research has been on the structure and function of natural communities and their role as segments of the biosphere, and he has made well-known studies of the ecological effects of ionizing radiation and the circulation and effects of pesticides and other toxins. For many years he has studied the biotic interactions associated with the warming of the earth. He has published more than 300 papers in ecology and is the author and editor of books on the effects of nuclear war, the global carbon cycle, biotic impoverishment, and satellite imagery used in measuring the area of forests globally.

Dr. Woodwell is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the recipient of the 1996 Heinz Environmental Prize, the John H. Chafee Excellence in Environmental Affairs Award of 2000, and the Volvo Environment Prize of 2001.

Dr. Woodwell was a founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the World Resources Institute. He is a member of the Boards of Trustees of the Ocean Conservancy, the Grand Canyon National Park Foundation, the Institute for Environmental Research in the Amazon Basin (IPAM), the World Media Foundation, and serves on the advisory board of the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment.