Deepak Chopra, 06.06.2011
Author, 'Soul of Leadership'; founder, The Chopra Foundation
The world has always been caught between progressive and destructive forces -- that duality is built into our nature -- yet until now most people would agree that progress had the upper hand. It takes a die-hard optimist to make such a statement today.
Philip Radford, 06.06.2011
Executive Director, Greenpeace
Perhaps President Obama could remind other Arctic nations that it was only after a spill that the US realized just what a farce BP's spill response plan was. If we'd all seen BP's spill plans, would anyone in their right mind have allowed them to drill?
Janet Redman, 06.06.2011
Co-director, Sustainable Energy and Economy Network
The United States must show that it cares deeply about all of its citizens, and people around the world, by encouraging countries to take on new commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.
Joan E. Dowlin, 06.06.2011
Freelance musician and French hornist
As the weather gets nastier and deadlier with more and more record breaking tornadoes and floods and wildfires around the country, the majority party...
Paul Loeb, 06.06.2011
Author, "Soul of a Citizen"
Media coverage rarely connects the unfolding cataclysms with the climate change that fuels them. We can't guarantee that any specific disaster is caused by our warming atmosphere, but considered together, they fit all the predicted models.
Kelly Rigg, 06.06.2011
Executive Director, GCCA
The stakes are getting higher, the speed of change is increasing, and the solutions are there for the taking. What are you waiting for?
Marcia G. Yerman, 06.05.2011
NYC writer focusing on women's issues; co-founder, cultureID
No study is complete without connecting the dots between health care costs and smog, which causes respiratory illness, particularly for the youngest and oldest among us.
Mason Inman, 06.03.2011
Journalist, The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University
Emissions dropped in 2009, but research now shows they rebounded quickly in 2010, setting a new all-time record. Economist Nicholas Stern said emissions are "now close to being back on a 'business as usual' path."
Shaun Donovan, 06.03.2011
U.S. Secretary for Housing and Urban Development
Greening our homes is one of the keys to the 21st century economy -- and to out-innovating our competitors. And that real change requires leadership, solutions and capital from the private sector.
Heidi Cullen, 06.03.2011
Climate scientist, Climate Central
"Is this global warming?" "Is climate change to blame?" "Is the weather getting worse?" These are big -- almost existential -- questions. I suspect they are a polite way of asking, "Is this our fault?"
Glen Pearson, 06.03.2011
Director, London Food Bank, former Member of Parliament
Oxfam's report is a clarion call to action, especially to Canada, with its impressive wealth but little resolve to deal with hunger's ultimate enemy: climate change.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen, 06.02.2011
Co-host of the radio's nationally syndicated 'Green News Report'
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Stephan B. Tanda, 06.02.2011
Managing Board Member, DSM
The human race will be around in a hundred years, even if oil won't -- in a big way at least. We will have long gone back to living off the land by that point, just as we did before the modern industrial revolution changed life seemingly irrevocably.
Sigourney Weaver, 06.02.2011
Academy Award nominated actress
You might think that a force as sweeping as global warming would be an equal opportunity threat, but the fact is climate change exacts a heavier toll on women.
Robert Koehler, 06.02.2011
Syndicated writer
I have a theory that it's all related, and all speeding up at once: global climate change, endless war. We are reaping the seeds we began planting 10,000 years ago, when we left the Garden of Eden and set out to achieve dominion over Planet Earth.
Bill McKibben, 06.02.2011
Author of a dozen books, including 'The End of Nature' and 'Deep Economy'
The Obama administration is making its biggest decisions yet on our energy future, and those decisions are intimately tied to this continent's geography.
Susanna Murley, 06.02.2011
Web Editor, Planet Forward
Now it's your turn. What is you community doing to build for the future and adapt to a changing planet? What are the engineering innovations that will transform the grid? What businesses are preparing to be resilient with extreme weather?
Carla Wise, 06.01.2011
environmental writer and conservation biologist
Although Claire Hope Cummings makes some good points, she fails to offers a coherent way forward. Do dire warnings turn people off? Perhaps sometimes. But here's the problem.
David Suzuki, 06.01.2011
Co-founder, the David Suzuki Foundation
For the first time in human history, we have to respond as a single species to crises of our own making. Until now, this kind of unified effort only happened in science fiction when space aliens invaded Earth.
Sahil Kapur, 05.31.2011
Political reporter
The United States is experiencing a golden era of conspiracy theories. From the 9/11 Truthers to the Obama Birthers to the Trig Birthers and, most recently, the bin Laden Deathers, alternate theories of reality are alive and thriving.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen, 05.31.2011
Co-host of the radio's nationally syndicated 'Green News Report'
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