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  • Jeffrey Abramson

    Partner

    The Tower Companies

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    Scott Edward Anderson

    Founder

    The Green Skeptic: Blogging the New Green Economy

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    Miranda Anderson

    Director of Corporate Affairs, Sustainability

    Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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    Alcinda Antonio de Abreu

    Minister of Coordination and Environmental Action

    Ministry of Coordination and Environmental Action, Mozambique

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    Tim Appenzeller

    Executive Editor

    National Geographic magazine

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    Raj Atluru

    Managing Director

    Draper Fischer Jurvetson

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    Vicky Bailey

    Principal

    BHMM Energy Services

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    Jim Ball

    President and CEO

    Evangelical Environmental Network

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    James Balog

    Founder and Director

    Extreme Ice Survey

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    Angela Belcher

    Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Biological Engineering

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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    Sally Benson

    Director, Global Climate and Energy Project

    Stanford University

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    Bill Blakemore

    Correspondent

    ABC News

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    Barbara Bramble

    Senior Program Adviser, International Affairs

    National Wildlife Federation

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    Robert Bray

    Senior Vice President, Real Estate, Design, Construction & Energy

    Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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    Nora Mead Brownell

    Director, Leaf Clean Energy Company

    Principal, BC Strategies

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    Fred Butler

    President

    National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

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    Ken Caldeira

    Climate Scientist, Department of Global Ecology

    Carnegie Institution of Washington

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    Ligia Castro de Doens

    Minister of Environmental Conservation Affairs and General Administrator

    National Authority on the Environment, Panama

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    Jayni Chase

    Founder

    Center for Environmental Education

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    Libby Cheney

    Vice President of Corporate Support

    Shell Exploration and Production, Americas Region

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    Eugenia Choi

    Concert Violinist

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    Sarah Darby

    Research Fellow

    Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

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    Dennis Dimick

    Executive Editor for the Environment

    National Geographic magazine

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    Sylvia Earle

    Oceanographer; Explorer in Residence

    National Geographic Society

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    Anthony Eggert

    Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Chair

    California Air and Resources Board

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    Juliet Eilperin

    Environment Reporter

    The Washington Post

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    Peter Essick

    Photographer

    National Geographic magazine

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    Jia Feng

    Deputy Director

    Center for Environmental Education & Communications, China

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    Douglas Fischer

    Editor

    The Daily Climate

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    Chris Flavin

    President

    Worldwatch Institute

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    Maggie Fox

    Senior Advisor, Energy Future Coalition

    United Nations Foundation

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    Robert Freling

    Executive Director

    Solar Electric Light Fund

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    Elliot Gerson

    Executive Vice President for Policy and Public Programs, International Partners

    The Aspen Institute

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    Chip Giller

    President and Founder

    Grist.org

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    Bob Grady

    Managing Director

    Carlyle Group

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    Jason Grumet

    Founder and President

    Bipartisan Policy Center

    David Harrison

    Senior Water Resource Consultant, Global Freshwater Team

    The Nature Conservancy

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    Gary Hart

    US Senator (Ret.)

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    Susan Joy Hassol

    Director

    Climate Communication

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    John Heywood

    Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Sloan Automobile Lab

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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    Martin Hoffert

    Professor Emeritus of Physics

    New York University

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    Scot Horst

    Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Steering Committee Chair

    US Green Building Council

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    Mick Ireland

    Mayor of Aspen

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    Walter Isaacson

    President and CEO

    The Aspen Institute

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    Mark Jenkins

    Contributing Writer

    National Geographic magazine

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    Chris Johns

    Editor in Chief

    National Geographic magazine

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    Peter Kareiva

    Chief Scientist and Director Science

    The Nature Conservancy

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    Andy Karsner

    Director

    Applied Materials, Inc.

    David Keith

    Director

    ISEEE Energy and Environmental Systems Group

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    Sheila Kennedy

    Founding Principal

    Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd.

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    R. Andreas Kraemer

    Director

    Ecologic Institute

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    Margie Kriz

    Reporter

    National Journal

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    Robert Kunzig

    Environment Editor

    National Geographic magazine

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    Chuck Kutscher

    Principal Engineer and Manager

    Thermal Systems Group, National Energy Laboratory

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    Lorena Lanza

    Vice Minister

    Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Nicaragua

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    Elliott Laws

    Senior Counsel

    Crowell & Moring

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    Jeffrey Leonard

    CEO and Co-Founder

    Global Environment Fund

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    Richard Lester

    Founder and Director

    MIT Industrial Performance Center

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    Sven Lindblad

    President and Founder

    Lindblad Expeditions

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    Laura Liswood

    Secretary General, Council of Women World Leaders

    Senior Advisor, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

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    Jane Long

    Associate Director at Large

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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    Amory Lovins

    Chairman and Chief Scientist

    Rocky Mountain Institute

    Elizabeth Lowery

    Vice President, Environment, Energy and Safety Policy

    General Motors Corporation

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    Joel Makower

    Co-Founder and Chairman

    Greener World Media, Inc.

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    Dawn Martin

    President

    SeaWeb

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    Lee McIntire

    President and CEO

    CH2M Hill

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    Kara Mertz

    Assistant to the City Manager

    City of Boulder

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    Elvis Mitchell

    Host, The Treatment

    KCRW

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    Phil Moeller

    Commissioner

    Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

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    Ernest Moniz

    Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, Director of the Energy Initiative, Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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    David Monsma

    Executive Director, Energy and Environment Program, The Aspen Institute

    Director, Aspen Environment Forum

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    Patrick Moore

    Chair and Chief Scientist

    Greenspirit Strategies Ltd.

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    Greg Moore

    Executive Director

    Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy

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    Peter Murdoch

    Research Hydrologist, Watershed Research Group

    US Geological Survey

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    Michael Nick Nichols

    Editor at Large

    National Geographic magazine

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    Daniel Nocera

    Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy; Director, Solar Revolutions Project, Eni Solar Frontiers Center

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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    Her Majesty Queen Noor

    Chair

    King Hussein Foundation International

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    Judy Pasternak

    Author and Journalist

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    Rafe Pomerance

    President

    Clean Air-Cool Planet

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    Eric Pooley

    Author

    "Climate Wars"

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    Tom Price

    Senior Vice President-Corporate Development

    Chesapeake Energy

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    Charles W. (Chip) Ransler, IV

    Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder

    Husk Power Systems

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    Jack Riggs

    Senior Fellow, Energy and Environment Program

    The Aspen Institute

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    Jerome Ringo

    President

    Apollo Alliance

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    Bill Ritter

    Governor of Colorado

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    James Rogers

    Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO

    Duke Energy

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    David Sandalow

    Senior Fellow

    Brookings Institution

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    M. Sanjayan

    Lead Scientist

    The Nature Conservancy

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    Auden Schendler

    Executive Director,Community and Environmental Responsibility

    Aspen Ski Company

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    Gail Schwartz

    Colorado State Senator

    District 5

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    Craig Sieben

    Founder and CEO

    Sieben Energy Associates

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    Robert Socolow

    Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Co-Principal Investigator

    Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative

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    John Stanmeyer

    Photographer

    National Geographic

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    Achim Steiner

    Executive Director

    United Nations Environment Programme

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    Roland Stulz

    Executive Director

    Novatlantis - Sustainability at the ETH Domain

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    Nancy Sutley

    Chair

    White House Council on Environmental Quality

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    Betsy Taylor

    Principal Consultant

    Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions

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    Mark Tercek

    President and CEO

    The Nature Conservancy

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    Tsutomu Toichi

    Senior Managing Director and CKO, Chief Executive Economist

    The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan

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    Jessy Tolkan

    Executive Director

    Energy Action Coalition

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    Michael Totten

    Senior Director, Climate and Water

    Conservation International

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    B. Keith Trent

    Group Executive and Chief Strategy, Policy and Regulator Officer

    Duke Energy

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    Fran Ulmer

    Interim Chancellor

    University of Alaska, Anchorage

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    Vijay Vaitheeswaran

    Correspondent

    The Economist

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    Joel Velasco

    Chief US Representative in North America

    UNICA (Brazilian Sugar Cane Industry Association)

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    David Victor

    Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development

    Stanford Law School

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    David Vieau

    President and CEO

    A123Systems

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    Neville Williams

    Founder, Standard Solar, Inc.

    Author, "Chasing the Sun"

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    Sally Wilson

    Global Director, Environmental Strategy and Senior Vice President

    CB Richard Ellis

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    Ryan Wiser

    Staff Scientist

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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    Charles Wohlforth

    Author

    "The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change"

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    Tracy Wolstencroft

    Managing Director

    Goldman, Sachs & Co.

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    John Woolard

    CEO and President

    BrightSource Energy, Inc.

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    R. James Woolsey

    Senior Executive Advisor

    Booz Allen Hamilton

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    Zhao Xingshu

    Researcher, Institute of American Studies

    Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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