Speakers

Dennis Dimick is National Geographic magazine’s executive editor for the environment and has been key to shaping the magazine’s award-winning reporting since 2003. Under his guidance, National Geographic has published stories on soil degradation, world oil supplies, biofuels, global ice melt, coal, climate change, Earth’s carbon cycle, alternative energy, and sustainable agriculture. Projects he edited on climate change have been recognized by the Overseas Press Club and the Society of Environmental Journalists. He has degrees in agriculture and agricultural journalism, and his slideshow lecture on the collision between energy and climate opened last year's Aspen Environment Forum.