Jason Mark — Editor, Earth Island Journal

Jason Mark is a writer-farmer with a deep background in environmental politics.  In addition to his work in the Earth Island Journal, his writings have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, The Progressive, Utne Reader, Orion, Gastronomica, Grist.org, Alternet.org, E magazine, and Yes!  He is a co-author of Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots and also co-author with Kevin Danaher of Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power. When not writing and editing, he co-manages Alemany Farm, San Francisco’s largest food production site.

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Tom Athanasiou — Author and director of Earth Island Project EcoEquity

Tom is the director of EcoEquity and a member of the Greenhouse Development Rights authors group. His interests focus on distributive justice within a context of global environmental emergency. He is the author or co-author of numerous books and reports, including The Right to Development in a Climate Constrained World, Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming, and Divided Planet: the Ecology of Rich and Poor. He is currently developing a new book, the working title of which is A New Deal for the Greenhouse Century.

Elizabeth Grossman — Contributing Writer, Earth Island Journal

Elizabeth Grossman is the author of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health and the Promise of Green Chemistry, High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health, Watershed: The Undamming of America, and other books. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Salon, The Washington Post, The Nation, Mother Jones, Grist, Earth Island Journal, and other publications.

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Adam Federman — Contributing Writer, Earth Island Journal

Adam Federman is a writer in New York and a regular contributor to Earth Island Journal.

Ted Nace — Author and director of Earth Island Project CoalSwarm

Ted Nace is the author of Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy and the director of CoalSwarm, a collaborative information clearinghouse on U.S. and international coal mines, plants, companies, politics, impacts, and alternatives.

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Jeremy Kryt — Contributing writer, Earth Island Journal

Jeremy Kryt is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Journalism, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has been in Tegucigalpa since August, and his reporting on Honduras has appeared in publications like In These Times, Alternet, and The Narco News Bulletin. He is at work on his first novel.

Amy Westervelt — Managing Editor, Earth Island Journal

In addition to her work for the Journal, Amy is associate editor for The Faster Times, a columnist for Solve Climate, and contributes to an assortment of other magazines and websites. In 2007, Amy won the Folio Eddie for excellence in magazine editorial for her feature on algae as a feedstock for biofuel, which was published in Sustainable Industries magazine.

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Rhys Gerholdt — project director of CarbonfreeDC

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Kit Duane — editorial intern at Earth Island Journal

Riki Ott — Project Director for Ulitmate Civics

Riki Ott, PhD, has written two books on the Exxon Valdez oil spill impacts on people, communities, and wildlife, including the recently released Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. A marine toxicologist and former fisherma’am, she is project director of Ultimate Civics, a project of Earth Island, and a national spokesperson with Move To Amend, a grassroots campaign advocating Constitutional amendments to restrict corporate power.

Kari Fulton — 2008 Brower Youth Award winner

Kari Fulton, the national campus campaign coordinator for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, has become a pioneer organizer working to mobilize youth of color around issues of campus sustainability and climate justice. She was a 2008 recipient of Earth Island Institute’s Brower Youth Award and acts as a spokesperson for Earth Island’s Energy Action Coalition.

Anisha Desai — Director of the Brower New Leaders Initiative at Earth Island Institute

The Media Consortium — Contributing group

The Media Consortium is a network of the country’s leading independent journalism organizations, including Earth Island Journal, as well as several other outlets (click here for a full list). The Media Consortium is creating a solid cooperative infrastructure that will serve a 21^st-century audience and offer a sustainable future for independent media. Millions of Americans are looking for honest, fair, and accurate journalism-We’re finding new ways to reach them.

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Ron Johnson —

Ron Johnson is based in Toronto, Canada, where he is an editor for Post City magazines and contributes to The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, The National Post and the London Business Times. He is covering the G20 Summit (2010) in Toronto for Earth Island Journal.

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Josh Coates — Contributor

Josh Coates is a campaigner for the Wilderness Society Australia. Coates is a qualified marine biologist and experienced conservation advocate who has been working for many years for the protection of Australia’s Kimberley region--one of the world’s last great wilderness areas. The Wilderness Society in Australia has no formal association with the US Wilderness Society and is one of Australia's largest environmental groups.

Ric O’Barry — Campaign Director, Save Japan Dolphins, Earth Island Institute

Richard Graves —

Climate activist, social entrepreneur, and online journalist Richard Graves is founder and director of Fired Up Media, a project of Earth Island Institute. He served as the blogger/online campaigner for the Global Campaign for Climate Action, the Editor for It’s Getting Hot in Here – Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement and served as a Program Director for Americans for Informed Democracy. He is a member of the international committee of the Online News Association, as well as the Society of Professional Journalists, and contributes to numerous online news outlets. He is a recipient of the International Youth Foundation’s Global Fellowship for 2008, was a semi-finalist for Echoing Green, and received the Project Slingshot award.

Melissa Prager —

With the Center for Safe Energy, a project of the Earth Island Institute, Melissa organizes two-way environmental exchanges between the U.S. and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Her most recent exchange took place this summer, when she brought three environmental delegations to Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Russia’s Siberia. In Ukraine, together with the city of Berkeley’s Climate Action Coordinator the group met with local government and NGO leaders. In Kazakhstan, Melissa brought the city of San Francisco’s recycling coordinator to address issues of waste management and recycling. In Siberia, together with an EarthCorps volunteer and trails expert Melissa visited Lake Baikal’s two major National Parks to help promote regional ecotourism.

Morgan Goodwin —

Morgan is a wandering climate activist and an editorial board member of It’s Getting Hot in Here. He organized at Williams College until his aprubt and unfortunate graduation in 2008. There, he was a Chinese major, student body co-president and one of the leaders of Thursday Night Group, the campus climate action group. Since graduating, in no particular order, Morgan has worked on a community energy efficiency campaign in western Mass, co-directed NH SPROG for the SSC and worked on Power Vote in Cleveland. He also traveled in China, networking with youth climate activists and learning about the solar hot water business. He worked on Long Island for a solar and wind company doing home evaluations and sales. And he spent the better part of a year in DC at the Avaaz Action Factory causing trouble for a good cause.

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Erica Gies —

In more than 10 years on the environment beat, Erica Gies has covered energy, water, climate policy, green business, green building and urban planning, waste of many kinds, ecosystem biology, and more. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and on Grist.org. She lives in San Francisco and, in her spare time, travels and raises vegetables and native plants.

The Guardian UK —

The Guardian UK, one of Britain's top daily newspapers, provides coverage of international environmental issues. Earth Island Journal is a member of the Guardian's Environment News Network.

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