Andrew Halloran

Andrew R. Halloran is a primatologist and professor of Environmental Studies at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. He studies primate behavioral ecology, primate vocal communication, and human-environment interactions. He is the author of the book, Song of the Ape.

Bill Giebler

Bill Giebler is a freelance writer based in Longmont, Colorado. His writing on food and farming has appeared in the Edible Communities magazines, Denver’s 5280 Magazine, and Organic Spa Magazine.

Chantal Jolagh

David Helvarg

David Helvarg is an author and Executive Director of Blue Frontier an ocean conservation and policy group. His latest book The Golden Shore – California’s Love Affair with the Sea has just been released in paperback.

Jessica Groenendijk

Jessica is a Dutch biologist turned conservationist and writer. She fuses her work in conservation and her personal experiences of wildlife and wild places with her passion for words and photography to help deepen our connection with nature. Her blog Nature Bytes was Highly Commended in the International Category of the 2015 BBC Wildlife Blogger Awards and her writing has been published in BBC Wildlife Magazine, Africa Geographic, Sevenseas, Zoomorphic, and Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine, amongst others. Please visit her author web site: http://www.jessicagroenendijk.com and her Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/jessica.groenendijk.author.

Kate Dougherty

Kate Dougherty is a freelance writer, researcher and geographer. She has written about science, technology and the environment for Next City, ideaCONNECTION, Healthy Times Indonesia magazine, and EnvironmentalScience.org. She lives in Philadelphia.

Patrick McGinley

Patrick McGinley is Professor of Law at West Virginia University. He was co-editor of the multi-volume treatise Coal Law & Regulation and of the Annual Proceedings of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation.

Patrick Robbins

Patrick Robbins is a climate organizer who worked for Sane Energy Project for the last three years, where he designed and implemented strategies to fight fossil fuel projects (such as the Port Ambrose LNG port and Spectra’s AIM Pipeline) and to support a just transition to renewable energy. He holds a Masters in Climate and Society from Columbia University and leads trainings on both climate science and strategies for social change. He was born and raised in Brooklyn.

Pete Dronkers

Pete Dronkers is the Southwest Circuit Rider for Earthworks

Peter Rugh

Peter Rugh is a facilitator for Occupy Wall Street Environmental Solidarity and chairs the Action Committee of Shut Down Indian Point Now! He has written for The Indypendent, Terraspheres.com, Common Dreams and Socialist Worker. Pete blogs at EartoEarth.org.

Rhone Resch

Rhone Resch is the president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the national trade organization for America’s solar energy industry.

Roberto Pedraza Ruiz

Conservationist turned in to photographer

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Aaron French

Aaron Lehmer

Aaron Miguel Cantú

Aaron Cantú is an investigative journalist based in New York City.

Aaron Mintzes

Aaron Mintzes is a policy advocate with EARTHWORKS, an advocacy group that focuses on the negative impacts of mineral and energy extraction.

Aazan Ahmad

Aazan Ahmad is fifteen years old and lives in Seoul, South Korea. He loves to read and write.

Abbie Mood

Abbie Mood is a freelance writer and editor based in Colorado who covers topics ranging from sports to social/environmental issues. She tries to spend as much time as possible exploring the Rocky Mountains, usually with a dog (or two) in tow.

Abigail Sarno

Abigail Sarno, an east coast native, completed an M.A. from Portland State University, where she studied eco-criticism and ecopsychology. She and her husband live outside of Seattle with their two cats.

Adam Calo

Adam Calo is a PhD student in the department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley. He is studying how participatory research methods might create improved and innovative agricultural systems.

Adam Federman — Contributing Editor, Earth Island Journal

Adam Federman is a contributing editor at Earth Island Journal. He is the recipient of a Polk Grant for Investigative Reporting, a Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism, and a Russia Fulbright Fellowship. You can find more of his work at adamfederman.com.

Adam Federman and Paul Lewis

Adam McGibbon

Adam McGibbon is a campaigner, activist, and writer. He was Campaign Manager for the UK Green Party MP, Caroline Lucas, from 2013 to 2015.

Adrian Brune

Adrian Brune is a shoe-leather journalist who has written for The Nation, the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and various other national publications, including a well-received blog for the Huffington Post. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, less than a mile from the Gowanus Canal. Her work can be seen at www.blindfolio.com.

Aja Hannah

Aja Hannah is a freelance writer, traveler, and author. She believes in the Oxford comma, cheap flights, and a daily dose of chocolate. She writes for trade and regional publications on subjects of conservation, business, and travel.

Alan Septoff

Alan Septoff is Director of Strategic Communications at Earthworks.

Alan Weisman

Alastair Bland

Alastair Bland is a freelance journalist in San Francisco, California. He writes about water, fisheries, agriculture and the environment, and his work has appeared at NPR.org, SmithsonianMag.com, the Sacramento News and Review and Yale E360.

Alba Charles

Alba Charles is a freelance environmental journalist currently living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Alden Moffatt

Alden Moffatt first entered the Klamath’s 45 years ago. In the past decade, aided by modern GIS and satellite imagery, he drew the boundary for the proposed Ancient Forest National Park, focusing on preservation of migration corridors between the remaining old growth ecosystems of the Klamath’s. Moffatt scouted most of the locations featured in ‘Klamath’ as well as serving as the film’s lead editor. His maps depicting roadless land in the Klamath bioregion are at www.ancientforestnationalpark.org.

Alex Carr Johnson

Alex Carr Johnson is a writer who lives and works in the high country of the Sierra Nevada.

Alex Doukas

Alex Gulsby

Alex Gulsby is a freelance writer, public land advocate, and the founder of WanderWritings.com. She’s based out of Durango, Colorado, but still makes plenty of time to explore the distant deserts that raised her.

Alex Johnson

Alex Johnson's writing has appeared in Orion, Astrobiology, Camas, and elsewhere.

Alex Marinides

Alexander Kleinschrodt

Alexander Kleinschrodt studied Music / Sound Studies, Art History and German at Bonn University, where he teaches in the field of transdisciplinarity. He writes for newspapers and magazines, works in cultural education and volunteers as a tour guide to further the appreciation of post-war architecture as well as the latter's adaptation for an alternative modernity.

Alexander Reid Ross

Alexander Reid Ross works with Bark in Portland,Oregon, and is a co-founding moderator of the Earth First! Newswire. He is the editor of Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab, featuring Noam Chomsky and Vandana Shiva, and hosts a podcast with Elona Trogub called Mutiny in Cascadia .

Alison Hawkes

Alison Hawkes is a freelance reporter based in San Francisco. She primarily covers environmental stories and has contributed pieces to public radio programs at KQED and KALW in San Francisco, The World, and NPR’s Morning Edition. In a former life, she was a newspaper bureau chief covering the Pennsylvania state capital, then moved into radio at Deutsche Welle in Bonn, Germany. She has a master’s in science journalism from Columbia University. Alison spends her off-time hiking the Bay Area and snooping around farmers markets for something tasty to eat.

Allison Lee

Amalie Obusan

Amalie Obusan is the Regional Climate and Energy Campaigner for Greenpeace Southeast Asia. She can be contacted at amalie.obusan@greenpeace.org

Amanda Koehn

Amanda Koehn is a freelance science and social science reporter in the Bay Area. Follow her on Twitter: @AKCountryRose

Amber Hasselbring

Ambika Kandasamy

Ambika Kandasamy is a reporter and an assistant news editor at the San Francisco Public Press, where she reports on international development, scientific research and local culture. She was awarded the Women Immigrants Fellowship by New America Media this year. Her work has appeared on KQED News, Christian Science Monitor, GreenBiz, Shareable, World Journal and other news websites. She received her master's degree in Journalism from Boston University in 2010.

Amory Lovins

Amy Gigi Alexander

Amy Gigi Alexander writes about places, people, animals, and environments in both nonfiction and fiction, and has been published by National Geographic Traveler , the BBC, and Lonely Planet, as well as numerous literary journals. She edits several publications, including Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel.

Amy Larkin

Amy Larkin is the author of the new book, Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy. She is an award-winning entrepreneur and environmental activist who has launched cultural institutions, co-founded one of the first affinity-marketing businesses. She has been involved with Greenpeace for 30 years as a board member, advisor, and, from 2005 to 2012, Director of Greenpeace Solutions.

Amy Lewis

Amy Lewis is a freelance journalist from Dublin, Ireland who specializes in scientific and environmental issues. Her work has been featured in publications such as Science, The Scientist, the Guardian UK, Australian Geographic, and the Irish Times.

Amy Trainer

Amy Trainer is Executive Director of Environmental Action Committee of West Marin.

Amy Westervelt — Journalist

The former Managing Editor of the Journal, Amy is associate editor for The Faster Times and This Week in Earth, a columnist for Forbes, 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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Andreas Weber

Andrew Budziak

Andrew Budziak is a Toronto based journalist who covers stories around the globe. His most recent work focuses on species threatened by human-wildlife conflict.  Follow Andrew on Instagram to keep up with his latest projects: @andrew_budziak

Andrew Lam

Andrew Lam is an editor with New America Media and the author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora (Heyday Books, 2005) and East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres. His next book, Birds of Paradise Lost, is due out in 2013.

Andrew Lewis

Andrew Lewis is a New York City-based journalist. His work focuses on travel and the environment. He is a regular contributor to Outside magazine.

Andrew Light and David Waskow

Andrew Nikiforuk

Andrew Nikiforuk writes regularly for The Tyee about the politics and economics of the energy industry. His latest book, The Energy of Slaves, examines the vulnerabilities of high-spending energy cultures.
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Andrew Oloye

Andrew Richy Oloye is a freelance investigative reporter, International correspondent for Africa, and SEO professional who is based in Lagos and writes for nakedconvos.com.

Andrew Stelzer

Andrew Stelzer is a Producer at Making Contact, a weekly social justice radio program that’s been on the air for more than 20 years. He’s also reported or written for NPR, Living on Earth, The Progressive, Latino USA, In These Times and other publications. Find him at andrewstelzer.com.

Andy Rowell

Aneesa Bodiat

Aneesa Bodiat is a freelance writer and editor from South Africa. She enjoys writing about culture, religion and how the global economy affects real people.

Anena Hansen

Anena Hansen lives in Nairobi, where she writes educational content for female entrepreneurs.

Anirvan Chatterjee

Anirvan Chatterjee is a bibliophile, technologist, and climate activist from Berkeley, California.

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

Ann and Steve Toon

Ann and Steve Toon are UK-based photojournalists specialising in wildlife and conservation. They are most at home in the savanna and semi-desert regions of Southern Africa, and say that their rainy season expedition to the tropical forests of South East Asia took them out of their comfort zone both mentally and physically.

Anna Lappé

Anna Lappé Earth Island Journal’s new regular columnist, is co-founder of the Small Planet Institute. and director of the Real Food Media Project. She is a strategic advisor to Corporate Accountability International.

Anna Vignet

Anna Vignet is a photographer for the San Francisco Public Press. She has photographed for the Daily Californian and San Francisco Chronicle and is particularly interested in how people use public space.

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Anna-Katrina Gravgaard and Lorenzo Morales

Annie Leonard

Antonella Ciancio

Antonella Ciancio is a freelance journalist, based in Washington, DC. She has covered politics, business, finance and lifestyle for Reuters in Italy, Paris, Dublin and London. Her articles have been published in the International Herald Tribune, the Guardian, the Chicago Tribune, and many other news outlets across the globe. She tweets as @ciancioreporter.

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Antonia Juhasz

Antonio Roman-Alcala

Antonio Roman-Alcala is an urban farmer, community organizer, musician, and film maker in San Francisco. Learn more about his work here.

Anuradha Sengupta

April Dávila

Arielle Klagsbrun

Arielle Klagsbrun is an organizer with Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment and Rising Tide North America. She is a 2013 recipient of the Brower Youth Award. Arielle graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2012.

Arun Gupta

Arun Gupta wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Arun is an investigative reporter who contributes to YES! Magazine, The Nation, Telesur, The Progressive, Raw Story, and The Washington Post. He is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York City and author of the upcoming “Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction: A Junk-Food-Loving Chef’s Inquiry into Taste” (The New Press). Follow him on Twitter @arunindy.

Ashish Kothari

Ashish Kothari is one of the founding members of Kalpavriksh, a Pune, India-based organization that works on environmental and social issues.

Ashley Blacow

Ashley Blacow is the Pacific Policy and Communications Manager for Oceana, an international marine conservation group.

Athar Parvaiz

Athar Parvaiz is an award-winning journalist with more than 12 years of experience. He has extensively reported on environment and climate change apart from his reporting on other issues. His stories appear in a number of international news outlets which include www.ipsnews.net, www.trust.org, www.thirdpole.net, www.scidev.net and many local newspapers in Kashmir. He can be reached at atharparaviaz.ami@gmail.com

Audrey Haynes — Journal intern

Audrey is a recent graduate of Wesleyan University in Earth and Environmental Science. She can most reliably be found boppin around the mountains and wilderness.

Audrey Webb — Journalist

Audrey Webb was Journal Associate Editor through tremendous growth during the for nearly a decade.

Barbara Grady

Barbara Grady is a freelance journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area and former staff reporter for Reuters and the Oakland Tribune.

Barnali Ghosh

Barnali Ghosh is a is a California based landscape architect, climate activist and educator. She presents regularly on climate and transportation justice as part of the Year of No Flying project and organizes with Brown and Green: South Asians for Climate Justice. She is a board member of TransForm, a California transit, walking and biking advocacy group.

Barry Luck

Bassent Atef

Bassent Atef is a freelance journalist based in Alexandria.

Baylen Linnekin

Baylen J. Linnekin, a food lawyer, scholar, and lecturer, is an adjunct professor at the George Mason Universtiy Antonin Scalia Law School, where he teaches Fool Law and Policy. He also serves on the board of the Academy of Food Law and Policy. Linnekin's work has appeared in the Wisconsin Law Review, Boston Globe, New York Post, Newsweek, and elsewhere.

Beckie Elgin

Ben A. Minteer

Ben A. Minteer, an environmental ethicist and conservation scholar, holds the Arizona Zoological Society Endowed Chair at Arizona State University in Tempe. His newest book (co-edited with Steve Pyne) is After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans (University of Chicago Press).

Ben Corey-Moran

Ben Corey-Moran is the president of Thanksgiving Coffee and serves on the Advisory Council of The Resilience Fund, an Earth Island Institute-sponsored project that helps coffee farmers adapt to global climate change. Lean more about The Resilience Fund at www.theresiliencefund.org.

Ben Eagle and Matt Williams

Matt Williams is a writer and photographer based in the UK. He’s associate director of the UK youth nature network A Focus on Nature. He’s also founder and director of the Wild Voices Project, a podcast series telling the stories of the people saving nature. In the past he helped to set up and was a co-director of the UK Youth Climate Coalition. He has written articles for Birdwatching and BBC Wildlife magazines and contributed a chapter to Resist Against a Precarious Future as well as to the recent Summer anthology of nature writing. You can follow him on twitter @mattadamw or visit mattadamwilliams.co.uk. Ben Eagle is a British environmental and agricultural writer. Alongside Matt, he sits on the committee of the UK youth nature network A Focus on Nature. He has written articles for The Guardian, Countrysquire Magazine, Farmland Magazine, Rewilding Britain, the Sustainable Food Trust and others. His blog, thinkingcountry.com was recently highly commended in the 2017 UK Blog Awards. You can follow him on twitter @benjy_eagle or visit thinkingcountry.com.

Ben Goldfarb

Ben Goldfarb is an environmental writer whose work has appeared in The Guardian, OnEarth magazine, Yale Environment 360, and elsewhere.

Benjamin Alva Polley

Benjamin Alva Polley is a nontraditional graduate student in Environmental Science and Natural Resource Journalism at the University of Montana. His work has been published in Esquire, Canoe & Kayak, Lake Superior Magazine, Whitefish Review, Written River, Flathead Living , Literary Orphans, Black Heart Magazine, Montana Headwall, Medium, and in other publications. He also helped with podcast reststopradio.org. He is one of the associate editors of the Whitefish Review .

Benjamin Hodgdon

Benjamin Preston

Benjamin Preston is Associate Editor at the Telluride Daily Planet in Southwest Colorado. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he contributes regularly to Miller-McCune Magazine and sporadically to a number of other publications.

Beth Terry

Beth Terry blogs at MyPlasticFreelife.com, where she's been collecting and tallying her personal plastic waste and reporting on plastic-free solutions for the past 5 years. A founding member of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, Terry gives presentations on plastic-free living and why, despite what some critics assert, our personal actions do matter.

Betsy L. Howell

Betsy L. Howell is a wildlife biologist with the US Forest Service. Her previous articles on spotted owls, ensatina salamanders, and wildfire have appeared in American Forests.

Bevan Chignell

Bevan Chignell is a keen observer of humans and animals and has spent a lifetime exploring the mountains and hidden places of his beloved homeland, New Zealand. His extensive global travels have brought him a wealth of experience, which he puts to good use in his career as a writer. You can read more about his work as a writer at styluswriter.com

Bibi Farber

Bibi Farber is a songwriter and musician who feels passionately about environmental issues. For four years she published a daily video blog "NextworldTV", (still online at www.nextworldtv.com) on topics ranging from food politics and homesteading skills to alternative energy and other solutions for a sustainable future: www.bibifarber.com.

Bill Chameides

Bill Chameides is the dean of Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. His research focuses on elucidating the causes of and remedies for global, regional and urban environmental change and identifying more sustainable pathways forward. He has authored or co-authored 140 peer-reviewed papers and eight books. He also blogs at TheGreenGrok.com, ScientificAmerican.com, The Huffington Post, the University of Minnesota’s digital magazine Ensia, TheEnergyCollective.com, and National Geographic’s Great Energy Challenge blog. Visit Bill’s blog TheGreenGrok and keep up with him on Twitter @TheGreenGrok.

Bill Kovarik

Bill Kovarik is a journalist, historian and a professor of communication at Radford University in Virginia. He has covered the Appalachian region for a decade and is the author of the Environmental History Timeline. His latest project is Brilliant, a book about the history of renewable energy.

Bill Patenaude

Bill Patenaude is an environmental engineer and regulator. He holds a masters degree in theology and is a special lecturer in theology at Providence College. He writes at CatholicEcology.net.

Bill Weinberg

Björn Philip Beer

Björn Philip Beer is writer, in Charlottesville, VA. Follow him on Twitter at @BjornPhilipBeer

Bjorn Dihle

Bjorn Dihle is a Juneau writer. He can be reached at bjorndihle at yahoo.com.

Bob Ferris

Bob grew up in Silicon Valley as urban sprawl was absorbing the natural playgrounds of his youth. This profound experience was the catalyst for his career in conservation. He has worked for 30 years as a researcher, teacher, and advocate working on issues ranging from Yellowstone wolf restoration to stopping coal exports through the Pacific Northwest. In his spare time he looks for that perfect trout stream and is creating an urban homestead with his green architect and artist wife.

Bob Koigi

Bong S. Sarmiento

Bong S. Sarmiento is a Filipino journalist based in the southern Philippines.

Bonnie Gestring

Bonnie is based in Missoula, Montana, and has been leading campaigns at Earthworks reduce the destructive impacts of mining since 2001. Bonnie blogs at: http://www.earthworksaction.org//earthblog/byauthor/5

Boyd Norton

Bram Ebus

Brannan Lagasse

Brannan teaches sustainability and social justice courses at Sierra Nevada College, and is a doctoral student in sustainability education at Prescott College. His writing and photography has been published in numerous outlets on topics ranging from indigenous rights and land use, to backcountry skiing and travel. He guides human powered ski experiences around the globe and resides on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe, California.

Brent Bucknum

Brian Awehali

Brian Barth

Brian Bienkowski

Brian lives in Michigan's a cold Upper Peninsula in a house where dogs outnumber people. When not waving a fly rod around, he's sending mandolin notes over the St. Mary's River to Canada or wearing out hiking shoes with his fiancé.

Brian Scoles — Intern, Earth Island Journal

When not writing for the Journal, Brian pursues all sorts of interests not at all related to his degree. He is passionate about intentional community living, wilderness exploration and leadership, and most recently, activism. He also works with Applied Mindfulness and is a contributor at Sustainablog.

Brian Smith

Brihannala Morgan

Brihannala Morgan is director of The Borneo Project, an Earth Island Institute sponsored project that brings international attention and support to community-led efforts to defend forests, sustainable livelihoods, and human rights in the island of Borneo.

Brittany Patterson

Brittany Patterson is a freelance journalist and a recent graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her work has been published on TheAtlantic.com, Mother Jones and KQED. Follow her on Twitter @amusedbrit.

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Bron Taylor

Bron Taylor is a professor of religion and nature, environmental ethics, and environmental studies at the University of Florida, and a fellow of the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany.

Brooke Maree Williams

Brooke Williams is an Australian Freelance Journalist specializing in equine issues. She has written for numerous publications both in Australia and worldwide, and also writes and produces her own magazine dedicated to the pony industry in Australia. Her main interests include breed genetics and history as well as equine nutrition and she completed a Bachelor of Equine Science in 2015.

Brooke Williams

For the past decade, Brooke Williams has been exploring routes connecting wild places in southern Utah, Alaska, and southwestern Wyoming with those hidden in his own psyche.

Bruce Goldstein

Bruce Goldstein, an attorney, is president of Farmworker Justice, a national advocacy organization for farmworkers based in Washington, D.C.

Bryan Farrell

Bud Russo

Bud Russo came to New Mexico in 1961 to go to college, then went into the world to make his mark as a journalist. Forty years later, he returned to find the sunshine. He writes for several local magazines and newspapers, traveling the state and exploring New Mexico’s people, places, history, and culture. He also covers water issues and commercial/personal spaceflight. Many of his stories are available at his website, Bud Russo — Storyteller.

Cailynn Klingbeil

Cailynn Klingbeil is a freelance journalist based in Calgary, Alberta.

Caleb O'Brien

Caleb O’Brien is a journalist based in Paraguay, where he reports on issues surrounding science, social justice, and the environment. His Twitter handle is @caleb_obrien.

Caleigh Lynn Hall

Caleigh Lynn Hall is the Operations and Outreach Manager for Project Coyote which is a North American coalition of scientists, educators, ranchers and citizen leaders promoting compassionate conservation and coexistence between people and wildlife through education, science and advocacy. For more information visit ProjectCoyote.org

Camilla Fox

Camilla Fox is Executive Director of Project Coyote, an Earth Island Project, and a Wildlife Consultant for the Animal Welfare Institute. She is co-author of Coyotes in Our Midst and co-editor and lead author of Cull of the Wild ~ A Contemporary Analysis of Trapping in the United States.

Candice Bernd

Candice Bernd is an editor/staff reporter at Truthout. With her partner, she is writing and producing Don't Frack With Denton, a documentary chronicling how her hometown became the first city to ban fracking in Texas, and its subsequent overturn in the state legislature. She is a contributor to Truthout's anthology on police violence, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?, and was recently honored with the Dallas Peace and Justice Center's "Media Peacemaker of the Year" award. Follow her on Twitter: @CandiceBernd.

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Carey Gillam

Carina Molnar

Carly Nairn

Carly Nairn is a freelance audio and print journalist. She has created work for The San Francisco Bay Guardian, J. The Jewish Weekly, and KQED, among others. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism, and currently lives in San Francisco.

Carly Vester

Carly Vester is a visual journalist whose work incorporates editorial writing, design, and multimedia. Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, she specialized in marketing and publishing before deciding her toolkit could be better used to make the public aware of environmental challenges facing the west. Her rubber boots are permanently caked with mud from harvesting oysters with her family.

Carol Patterson

Carol Patterson inspires everyday explorers to look for wildlife and cool creatures — animal or human. When she isn’t travelling for work, Carol is travelling for fun. More of her adventures can be found at www.carolpatterson.ca

Carol Ramos

Carol Ramos is a journalist and environmental activist. She is a member of MUDA SP – a network that supports urban agriculture.

Carole Excell and Alejandra Rodriguez

Carole Excell is the Acting Director of World Resources Institute's Environmental Democracy Practice and the Project Director for The Access Initiative, working on access to information, public participation and access to justice issues around the world. Alejandra Rodriguez is a Masters student at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Her research and policy interests lie at the intersection of environmental policy and gender inequality.

Carole Knight

Carole Knight is a futurist and freelance investigative writer with specializations in sustainability, emerging trends, and adaptive leadership. She lives in the Western Cape of South Africa.

Carolyn Heneghan

Carolyn Heneghan is a New Orleans-based freelance writer, blogger and journalist who works with businesses as well as regional and national magazines, including Loews Magazine, Draft, BeerAdvocate, Where Y'at magazine and Destinations Travel.

Cat Johnson

Cat Johnson is a freelance writer covering community, the commons, and the future of work. She's also a content strategist working with purposeful businesses and organizations. More info: thefreelancecat.com and on Twitter at @CatJohnson

Cathy McMullen

Cathy McMullen is president of Denton Drilling Awareness Group.

Chad Hanson

Chad Hanson, the director of the John Muir Project (JMP) of Earth Island Institute, has a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of California at Davis, and focuses his research on forest and fire ecology in the Sierra Nevada. He can be reached at cthanson1@gmail.com, or visit JMP’s website at www.johnmuirproject.org for more information, and for citations to specific studies pertaining to the points made in this article.

Charles Pekow

Charles Pekow is a Washington writer who has reported on environmental issues for the Washington Monthly, In These Times, Washington City Paper, Forest Magazine and other publications. He won the Washington Writing Prize for his coverage of pipeline safety and was one of six journalists profiled in the book Writing Green: Advocacy & Investigative Reporting about the Environment in the Early 21st Century.

Charles Victor Barber

Charles Wilkinson

Charles Wilkinson is a law professor at the University of Colorado Law School.

Charlotte Du Cann

Charlotte Du Cann is a writer, editor, and community activist based in Suffolk, England.

Chelsea Griffie

Chelsea Skojec

Chelsea Skojec is a natural resources conservation student based in Gainesville, FL. Her writing has appeared in the New York Observer, Huffington Post, and LiveScience. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram @ChelSkoj

Chelsea Skojec and Michael Sainato

Chelsea Skojec is a natural resources conservation student based in Gainesville, FL. Her writing has appeared in the New York Observer, Huffington Post, and LiveScience. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram @ChelSkoj. Michael Sainato is a freelance writer from Albany, New York, currently residing in Gainesville, Florida. His work has appeared at The Huffington Post, Miami Herald, Miami Times, and Gainesville Sun. Follow him on Twitter @msainat1.

Chris Clarke

Chris Clarke is a former editor of the Earth Island Journal. He's a natural history writer and environmental journalist currently at work on a book about the Joshua tree, living in Joshua Tree, California.

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Chris Milton — Contributor

Chris Milton is a UK based freelance journalist specialising in all things sustainable. His work regularly appears in The Ecologist and other notable scalps include The Washington Post (Foreign Policy) and republication by Scientific American. He was Society and Business Editor of Sideways News before “that money thing” happened and is currently working on a project about reducing the working week. In between times he blogs in a number of places on the Guardian’s Environment and Sustainable Business networks and spends far too much time on twitter.
Feel free to have a look at his (usually out of date) portfolio and investigate the truth of the twitter jibe.

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Chris Whittier

Christabel Ligami

Christabel Ligami is a Freelance Kenyan journalist based in Nairobi whose reporting work focuses on gender, human rights, science/health, development, environment, climate change, culture, regional integration issues and business in Africa.

Christine Heinrichs

Christine Keogler

Christine Keogler is a writer and graduate student of Environmental Sustainability at Long Island University at C.W Post. She lives in Long Island, NY.

Christine Malossi

Christine Malossi is a freelance writer based in New York City. Her work focuses on public health and sustainable living. Find her at www.christinemalossi.com and follow her on Twitter: @cmalossi.

Christine Ro

Christine Ro writes about the environment and international development from London.

Christine Shearer

Christine Shearer and Ted Nace

Christine Shearer is a Senior Researcher at CoalSwarm. Her twitter is here. Ted Nace is Director of CoalSwarm. His twitter is here.

CoalSwarm also publishes CoalWire, a weekly bulletin on global coal industry developments. (You can sign up for it here.)

Christopher Clark

Christopher Clark is a British journalist and wanderer based in South Africa. He writes for a range of local and international publications on travel, conservation and international affairs and has twice been featured among South Africa’s best writers and thought leaders by The Big Issue magazine.

Christopher D. Cook

Christopher D. Cook is an award-winning investigative journalist who writes for Mother Jones, Harper’s, The Nation, and elsewhere. He is author of Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry Is Killing Us. His website is www.christopherdcook.com.

Christopher Johnson

Christopher Johnson is a writer on conservation issues who is based in Evanston, Illinois. He has published articles in a variety of magazines, including Appalachia, Chicago Wilderness, Chicago Life, E: The Environmental Magazine, and Snowy Egret. In 2013, Island Press published Forests for the People, which Johnson co-authored with David Govatski. His previous book was This Grand and Magnificent Place: The Wilderness Heritage of the White Mountains (University of New Hampshire Press, 2006).

Christopher Ketcham

Christopher McLeod

Christopher “Toby” McLeod directs the Sacred Land Film Project. His most recent film series, the award-winning Standing on Sacred Ground, tells the stories of eight embattled indigenous communities around the world struggling to protect their sacred places. It is now airing on PBS stations around the country. Read more at StandingOnSacredGround.org.

Christopher Pala

Christopher Round

Christopher Round is an environmental scientist and policy analyst living in Washington D.C. He grew up in North Andover Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Merrimack College and holds Masters Degrees in Environmental Science and Public Affairs from Indiana University. He is a lifelong student of Judo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He enjoys video games, a mild orange soda addiction, and hanging out with his wife, Maggie, and their cat.

Chuck Graham

Chuck Idol

Chuck Idol lives on Long Island NY and is in the technology field. You may reach Chuck via his LinkedIn profile.

Claire Arkin

Claire Arkin is GAIA's Campaign and Communications Associate in Berkeley, with a focus on plastic pollution.

Claire Baiz

Claire Baiz is a native and lifelong Montanan who has been published in the USA Today, Untitled Magazine, The Knoxville News Sentinel, the Indy Star, The Pensacola News-Journal and the Great Falls Tribune. She is the sole featured columnist in Signature Montana Quarterly. Her fiction has been published by Molotov Cocktail and The JJ Outre Review.

Claire Perlman

Claire Perlman is Earth Island Journal's summer intern. She is an English major at the University of California, Berkeley and is the lead Research and Ideas reporter and a senior staff writer at the student newspaper, The Daily Californian.

Claire Porter

Claire Schoen

Claire Schoen is the producer of Stepping Up. She creates audio documentaries for radio and podcast that open your ears with sounds, scenes and surprising characters.

Clara Rowe

Clara Rowe first came to coastal communities in Greece through her graduate studies at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She finished her masters in environmental management in May and is off to the Netherlands to work in international conservation.

Claudia Thöny

Claudia Thöny reports for FUTURZWEI from Switzerland. She studied business administration with a focus on journalism and communication in Lucerne and Berlin.

Climate News Mosaic

Clive Hamilton

Clive Hamilton is the author of Earthmasters: The dawn of the age of climate engineering (Yale University Press) and Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change (Earthscan), among other books. He is professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra.

Colleen Morton Busch

Colleen Morton Busch is the author of Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire.

Conor Gallagher

Corey Hill

Corey Hill is a human rights activist, community arts supporter, and freelance journalist. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Corinne Pinfold

Corinne Pinfold is a British writer recently returned from the West Bank. She has written articles for Birzeit University, Key Insights, Pink News, and her own blog Somewhere Slowly.

Courtney Fullilove

Courtney Fullilove is assistant professor of history and affiliated faculty in the Science in Society programme and the College of the Environment at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. She is author of The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture.

Craig Childs

Craig Childs is the author of several books on wilderness and science, including his most recent, Apocalyptic Planet.

Crispin Andrews

Crispin Andrews is a freelance writer. www.crispinandrewsfreelancewriter.com

Dahr Jamail

Dahr Jamail, a Truthout staff reporter, is the author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, (Haymarket Books, 2009), and Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, (Haymarket Books, 2007). Jamail reported from Iraq for more than a year, as well as from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Turkey over the last 10 years, and has won the Martha Gellhorn Award for Investigative Journalism, among other awards. His third book, The Mass Destruction of Iraq: Why It Is Happening, and Who Is Responsible, co-written with William Rivers Pitt, is available now on Amazon. He lives and works in Washington State.

Dajr Jamail

Dahr Jamail, a Truthout staff reporter, is the author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, (Haymarket Books, 2009), and Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, (Haymarket Books, 2007). Jamail reported from Iraq for more than a year, as well as from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Turkey over the last ten years, and has won the Martha Gellhorn Award for Investigative Journalism, among other awards. His third book, The Mass Destruction of Iraq: Why It Is Happening, and Who Is Responsible, co-written with William Rivers Pitt, is available now on Amazon. He lives and works in Washington State.

Dan Chu

Dan Chu is the director of the Sierra Club "Our Wild America" campaign.

Dan Imhoff

Daniel Imhoff is the author of Food Fight:The Citizen's Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill and numerous essays and books, including CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories;Farming with the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches; and Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World. He is the co-founder of Watershed Media, a nonprofit research institution and publishing house, and co-founder of the Wild Farm Alliance, a national organization that promotes farming systems that accommodate wild nature. He lives on a small homestead farm in northern California.

Dan Price

Dan Price is a Middle East analyst who specializes in helping to build a better understanding of the region in the West. He has lived, studied, and worked throughout the Middle East and holds a degree in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies from the Australian National University in Canberra. He can be contacted at: linkedin.com/in/danpricemena

Dan Zukowski

Dan Zukowski is an environmental journalist and nature photographer. Follow him on Twitter @DanZukowski and visit DBZ Photo

Dana Drugmand

Dana Drugmand is a freelance environmental journalist from western Massachusetts. She has a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Mt. Holyoke College and has interned at the Worldwatch Institute and YES! Magazine. See more of her writing at www.oneearthnow.org and follow her on Twitter @Dana_Drugmand.

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Dana Frasz

For over a decade, Dana Frasz has worked to inspire, support, and create social change through her work on college campuses, with businesses, and at Ashoka. She is the Founder and Director of Food Shift, an Earth Island Institute-sponsored project based in Oakland, CA dedicated to developing long-term sustainable solutions that reduce food waste, feed the hungry and provide jobs.

Dana Ritzmann

Daniel Adel — Contributor, Earth Island Journal

Daniel Adel, a former Earth Island Journal intern, is studying Environmental Studies, with concentration in Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice, at San Francisco State University.

Daniel Grossman

Daniel Grossman has been a print journalist and radio and web producer for 25 years. He has reported from all seven continents including from near to both the south and north poles. View a selection of his work at dangrossmanmedia.com

Daniel J. Newcomer

Daniel J. Newcomer is an American journalist and writer currently living in southern Italy. His past work has been published in 34th Parallel, Crack the Spine, Howl Magazine, Elite Daily, and Indonesia Expat.

Daniel Kessler

Daniel Kessler is communications director of Citizen Engagement Laboratory's Climate Lab.

Daniel Lee Henry

Daniel Moss

Daniel Moss has worked in community-based resource management in the US and Latin America for 30 years. He writes on water issues for a variety of journals and blogs and coordinates Our Water Commons. He recently published a study entitled, “Urban Water Utilities and Upstream Communities Working Together”, about how Latin American water operators collaborate with upstream communities for watershed protection and water governance.

Daniel Nzohabonimana

Daniel Nzohabonimana is a blogger and freelance journalist. He's a member of the Forum for African Investigative Reporters and the Society of EnvironmentalJournalists. He has written articles for The African Report and other online platforms. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Mount Kenya University, a diploma in Internet Journalism from London School of Journalism, and a diploma in Freelance Journalism from The Writer’s Bureau.

Daniel Ross

Daniel Simberloff

Daniel Stiles

Danielle Nierenberg

Danielle Nierenberg is co-founder of Food Tank. She is an expert on sustainable agriculture and food issues. She recently spent two years traveling to more than 35 countries across sub-Saharan Africa and Asia looking at environmentally sustainable ways of alleviating hunger and poverty. Her knowledge of global agriculture issues has been cited widely in more than 3,000 major publications including The New York Times, USA Today, the International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, BBC, The Guardian(UK), the Mail and Guardian (South Africa), the East African (Kenya), TIME magazine, Reuters, Agence France Presse, Voice of America, the Times of India, and other major publications. Danielle worked for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic.

Daphne Whysham

Daryl George

Daryl George is a writer, as well as a current member and former executive board member of the Environmental Awareness Group, a leading Caribbean conservation group based in Antigua and Barbuda. He has first-hand experience in conservation work, including endangered species such as the Hawksbill turtle and the Antiguan Racer.

Dave Blanton

Dave Blanton is cofounder of Serengeti Watch, an Earth Island Institute project

Dave Foreman

Dave Foreman is one of North America’s leading conservationists, co founder of the Rewilding Institute, and author of eight books. Laura Carroll, a veteran editor and nonfiction author, collaborated with Dave Foreman in the development of the new edition of Man Swarm.

David Bacon

David Biello

David Foster

David Gilbert

David Guion

David Guion has been interested in environmental issues since the first Earth Day in 1970. He publishes the respected blog Sustaining Our World. Follow him on Twitter at ecofhp@ecofhp.

David Kroodsma

David Kroodsma is a climate researcher, environmental consultant, and author of the new book The Bicycle Diaries. Beginning in Fall 2005, Kroodsma rode his bicycle 21,000 miles – from California to the southern tip of South America, then across the United States – over two years to raise awareness of climate change.

David Kupfer

David Lee Drotar

David Lee Drotar's nature stories appear in USA Today, Mountain Living, The Globe & Mail, New York Post, The Buffalo News and numerous other publications. He is the author of seven books including Steep Passages: A Worldwide Eco-Adventurer Unlocks Nature's Spiritual Truths.

David McGuire

David Osborn

David Osborn is a climate organizer with Rising Tide North America. He is also a faculty member at Portland State University.

David Phillips

Biologist David Phillips serves as executive director of the Earth Island Institute. From 1978-1984, David was director of Wildlife Conservation for Friends of the Earth. In 1982, he co-founded Earth Island Institute, serving as co-executive director and specializing in international marine wildlife conservation. He directs Earth Island Institute’s International Marine Mammal Project.

David Suzuki

Dr. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author, and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. He is Companion to the Order of Canada and a recipient of UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for science, the United Nations Environment Program medal, the 2009 Right Livelihood Award, and Global 500. Dr. Suzuki is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and holds 27 honorary degrees from universities around the world. He is familiar to television audiences as host of the long-running CBC television program The Nature of Things, and to radio audiences as the original host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, as well as the acclaimed series It’s a Matter of Survival and From Naked Ape to Superspecies. His written work includes more than 52 books, 19 of them for children. Dr. Suzuki lives with his wife, Dr. Tara Cullis, and family in Vancouver, B.C.

David Volz

David Volz is a freelance journalist who has written a variety of publications including the Sun Sentinel, South Florida Business Journal, Miami Herald, Parklander Magazine and Physician’s Financial News. He has a Masters in Communications from Florida Atlantic University and teaches Speech Communications at Miami Dade College and Broward College.

Dawn Starin

Dawn Starin, an honorary research associate at University College London, spent years studying the social behavior of the endangered red colobus monkeys in the Abuko Nature Reserve, The Gambia, West Africa. Some of her non-academic articles have been published in publications as varied as The Ecologist, The Humanist, In These Times, Natural History, New Internationalist, New Statesman, The New York Times, and Philosophy Now.

Dayton Duncan

Dayton Duncan is an award-winning writer and film producer. He was one of the co-producers and co-writers of the PBS documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. Buy a copy of Seed of the Future here.

Dayton Martindale

Dayton Martindale is a writer and activist attending UC Berkeley’s journalism school. He is a contributor to Rural America In These Times and tweets @daytonrmartind.

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Deborah Bassett

Debra Atlas

An environmental journalist and green business culture consultant, Debra Atlas is reachable via her blog at Envirothink.wordpress.com or at debraatlas@gmail.com.

Debra White Plume

Democracy Now!

Dena Montague

Denise Hruby

Denise has covered Southeast Asia for more than five years and won several awards for her reporting, including the Young Asian Environmental Journalist of the Year award in 2014. She published Transitioning Cambodia with photographer Nicolas Axelrod and is now based in Shanghai.

Deogracias Benjamin Kalima

Deogracias Benjamin Kalima is a Malawian independent journalist based in Blantyre. He specializes in governance and solution based journalism by writing about rural livelihoods in Malawi. His work has been published in several European online magazines like Eufrika and JournAfrica.

Derrick Jensen

Desiree Kane

Desiree Kane (Miwok) is a transmedia journalist with a focus on the intersection of energy and the environment. She’s served on a number of boards, the most prestigious being The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, has received a TED scholarship to travel to Doha, Qatar where she spoke to organizers from around the world on building digital media internships in the NGO environment, and is a founder of The PPL, the home for independent media during the 2012 DNC. Learn more about her work at desireekane.com.

Devin Currens

Devin Currens is a freelance journalist based in Inverness, California.

Dhyana Levey

Diana Lind

Diego Ponce de Leon Barido

Diego Ponce de Leon Barido is a MS/PhD student at the Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley. His research is in low-carbon (low-impact) economic development, modeling high renewable energy future scenarios, and finding ways of bringing the smart grid, and other disruptive ICTs to the rising south. His current work is in Nicaragua developing the SWITCH model – optimizing the penetration of renewable energy into the country’s electric power system, with the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab (ERG/UC Berkeley). Read more about Diego: dleonb.com.

Diogo Veríssimo

Diogo Veríssimo is a conservation research fellow at Georgia State University.

Don Lyman

Don Lyman is a freelance journalist, biologist, and health care professional.

Don Scott

Donna Lisenby

Donna Lisenby is the Upper Watauga Riverkeeper and the Waterkeeper Alliance Coal Campaign Coordinator from Boone, North Carolina. Donna is one of the most experienced Waterkeepers in the world with 15 years of history advocating for the protection, preservation and restoration of waterways. She plays a key role in investigating the coal industry and working with coalitions to end their illegal pollution. She appeared in the film Wal-Mart, the High Cost of Low Price where she exposed the retailers appalling failure to protect the environment. She also contributed to the National Geographic mini-documentary Clean Coal: Water Pollution at the Light Switch which recounted her research and response to the largest industrial spill in U.S. history. She was named an environmental hero in a video by the University of NC School of Journalism in 2009. Donna is the recipient 12 awards for her work to engage citizens and reduce industrial, sewage and sediment pollution into waterways. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Clemson University and two beautiful grandchildren who motivate her work to ensure a healthy environment for future generations.

Doorae Shin

Doug Fine

Doug Scott

Doug Scott spent 40 years lobbying to persuade Congress to protect more national parks and wilderness areas. He is the author of The Enduring Wilderness: Protecting Our Natural Heritage Through the Wilderness Act (2004) and Wild Thoughts: Short Selections of Great Writing about Nature and Wilderness and the People Who Protect Them (forthcoming 2015).

Douglas Bevington

Dustin Wicksell

Dustin Wicksell is a freelance writer currently residing in Saratoga Springs, NY. Follow him on Twitter @drwicksell.

Ecowatch

Ed Brotak

Ed Rampell

Ed Rampell is an L.A.-based journalist and film historian/critic. A repeat contributor to Earth Island Journal, Rampell is co-author of The Hawaii Movie and Television Book. The book’s third edition will be released by April 2018.

Eddie Bautista

Eddie Bautista is an award-winning community organizer and urban planner who serves as executive director of the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance.

Eilís O'Neill

Eilís O'Neill is a freelance radio and print reporter based in New York City. Her work has appeared in The Nation, the Christian Science Monitor, and Sierra and has aired on many public radio shows. She has an MA in health and environment journalism from Columbia University.

Eleanor K. Sommer

Eli Ens

Eliza Murphy

Eliza Murphy writes from the Willamette Valley, Oregon.

Elizabeth Claire Alberts

Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a writer and environmental activist based in Australia. Her website is www.elizabethclairealberts.com

Elizabeth Dougherty

Elizabeth Glazner

Elizabeth Glazner is editorial director of Plastic Pollution Coalition.

Elizabeth Gower

Elizabeth Gower is from a small suburb outside the Kansas City area. She graduated this past spring with a Bachelor of Journalism and a business minor from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her goal is to educate Missourians on renewable energy while advocating for energy efficiency policies. In her spare time, she enjoys swimming, traveling and hanging out with her dog.

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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Elizabeth L. Bennett

Elle Kurancid

Elle Kurancid is an interdisciplinary newsgatherer from Peace River, Alberta, Canada, and is currently based in London, England. Portions of this article originally appeared on the VICE website. Kurancid did the reporting and photography for that article, which Michael Toledano wrote.

Ellen Choy

Emily DeMarco

Emily DeMarco is a PublicSource fellow. She has been an independent journalist for Rustbelt Radio and worked in non-profit advocacy and media relations. She is originally from Pittsburgh and graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in fine arts.

Emily DiFrisco

Emily DiFrisco is the director of Ditigal Strategy for Plastic Pollution Coalition. For all the latest news, action alerts, and plastic-free living tips, follow PPC on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.

Emily Kirkland

Emily Kirkland is a senior at Brown University.

Emily Rehberger

Emily Wortman-Wunder

Emily Wortman-Wunder is a Denver-based essayist and science journalist who has written for High Country News, Birdwatcher’s Digest, Terrain.org and elsewhere.

Emily Zak

Emily Zak is a Santa Fe-based freelance writer. Her work has also appeared in Ms. Magazine, Ms. Online, xoJane, Time.com and various newspapers.

Emma Hutchinson

Emma Hutchinson is a senior at Stanford University studying environmental communication and policy. She served as a student journalist at COP 21 and has written for Climate Central, Indonesia Media, Kuli Kuli, and WILD Cities.

Eric Freedman

Eric Wagner

Erica Etelson

Erica Etelson is a Berkeley-based community activist and journalist.

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.

Erik Assadourian

Erik Assadourian is Senior Fellow at Worldwatch Institute and co-director of State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? He is author of the book’s “Chapter 10: Re-engineering Cultures to Create a Sustainable Civilization” and “Chapter 27: Building an Enduring Environmental Movement.”

Erik Hoffner

Erin Banks Rusby

Erin Banks Rusby is an intern at Earth Island Journal. A transplant from the greater Seattle area to the San Francisco peninsula, Erin works with volunteers on projects to help restore native south Bay Area ecosystems. She is exploring pursuing a career in environmental journalism.

Erin O’Sullivan

Esperanza Pallana

Ethical Traveler

Eunice Blavascunas

Eunice Blavascunas is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Whitman College in Washington.

Evan Lund

Evan Lund is a former scientist based in Chicago. He started a research scientist interview series called B-sides and Research that you can visit here.

Fabíola Ortiz

Fabíola Ortiz is a Brazilian journalist reporting about human rights, politics, international affairs, sustainability, gender and social issues.

Fiona McAlpine

Fiona McAlpine is the Communications Manager for The Borneo Project: an Oakland based non-profit that has worked with grassroots activists in Malaysian Borneo for over 25 years. You can find out more about The Borneo Project here or support their work here.

Fired Up Media

Forest Ray

Forest Ray is a science journalist and travel writer. His work has appeared in The Ecologist, Verge Magazine and WanderGoGo. He currently collects stories while traveling throughout the Americas with his wife in a converted Subaru Forester.

Franziska Grobke

Free Speech Radio News

Gabriel Dunsmith

Gabriel Dunsmith was born and raised in the mountains of Southern Appalachia. A graduate of Vassar College, he lives in Seattle, Washington.

Gabriel Furshong

Gabriel Furshong writes from Missoula, Montana. His work has appeared in High Country News, In These Times, the Cossack Review and elsewhere. He is deputy director for the Montana Wilderness Association. Views expressed here are his own. Follow him on Twitter @gfurshong

Gail Ablow

Gail Ablow is a producer for Moyers & Company and a Carnegie Visiting Media Fellow, Democracy.

Gar Smith

Gar Smith is an award-winning investigative journalist, editor emeritus of Earth Island Journal, co-founder of Environmentalists Against War, and author of Nuclear Roulette (Chelsea Green). His new book, The War and Environment Reader (Just World Books) will be published on October 3. He will be speaking at the World Beyond War three-day conference on "War and the Environment," September 22-24 at the American University in Washington, DC. (For details, visit: http://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2017.)

Gary Cook

Gary has been director of Earth Island's programs in eastern Russia and Mongolia for the last quarter century. Throughout this time he has worked to nurture the environmental movement in northern Asia, offering particular support to the many activists who are fighting to protect the Lake Baikal watershed.

Gary Wockner

Gary Wockner, PhD, is an award-winning international environmental activist, writer, and consultant who focuses on water and river protection. He is author of the 2016 book, River Warrior: Fighting to Protect the World’s Rivers. Web: GaryWockner.com

Gautham Krishnadas

GBSNP Varma

Gemma Bulos

Genna Marie

Genna Marie is a bilingual travel writer, blogger and photographer based in Costa Rica. She specializes in covering Latin American and conservation issues. You can see more of her writing and photography at www.gennamarie.com.

George Lavender

George Lavender is an independent radio and print journalist. He is a producer of Making Contact, a weekly half-hour public affairs program. He has worked as a radio reporter for several outlets, including Radio France International, Free Speech Radio News, and the Pacifica Network. His work has also appeared in The Guardian, New Internationalist, In These Times, Journal of Race, Poverty, and the Environment, Truth Out, and local newspapers in the US and UK. Follow him on Twitter @GeorgeLavender

George Wuerthner

George Wuerthner is an ecologist who has been studying predators for four decades. He serves on the Science Advisory Board of Project Coyote and is the author of 38 books including Welfare Ranching, Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy, Energy: The Delusion of Endless Growth and Overdevelopment, Thrillcraft, and Keeping the Wild.

Gerry Wigenbach

Gershon Cohen

Gianmarco Marzo

Gianmarco Marzo is a student of interpreting, translating and cultural mediation in the Italian city of Triest. He has also lived in Sydney, where he studied marketing.

Ginger Strand

Gleb Raygorodetsky

Greg Palast

Greg Palast is the author of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, Vultures' Picnic and The New York Times bestsellers, Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

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Gus Speth

Haley Zaremba

Haley Zaremba is an undergraduate Media Studies student at the University of San Francisco where she helps lead Active Minds, a student group that works to destigmatize mental illness. In her free time, she enjoys reading and eating burritos.

Hallie Turner

Hanna Morris

Hanna Morris is an intern at Earth Island Journal. She is studying Society and Environment with a focus in Global Environmental Politics at the University of California, Berkeley. Hanna is the communications director for the UC Berkeley Student Environmental Resource Center and founder of the Communicating Sustainability DeCAL.

Hannah Chenoweth

Hannah Chenoweth is a freelance writer and conference producer based in Hoboken, NJ. Feel free to say hi on Twitter @hannahchen2!

Harvey Wasserman

Harvey Wasserman works for the permanent shutdown of the nuclear power industry and the birth of Solartopia, a democratic and socially just green-powered Earth free of all fossil and nuclear fuels. He writes regularly for a wide internet readership through solartopia.org, freepress.org and nukefree.org, which he edits. His current radio show, “the Solartopia Green Power Hour,” runs at TalktainmentRadio.com

Heather Coleates

Heather Taylor-Miesle

Heather is the day-to-day director of the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund where she guides the organization’s strategies to pass priority legislation.

Heather Watrous

Helene Hesselager O’Barry

Hilary Hueler

Hilary Lewis

Hilary Lewis is the online communications coordinator at Earthworks. Her broader commitment to protecting the environment has led her in a variety of directions, most notably to found her own organization, Composting Toilets International, which seeks to spread the critical, inexpensive technology around the world.

Holly Haworth

Holly Haworth is a recipient of the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism and a certified Southern Appalachian Naturalist. She was the Summer 2015 Artist-in-Residence at Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Her work appears at Orion and the Oxford American.

Howard Schneider

Ido Liven

Ido Liven is an independent journalist based in the UK. Covering mainly the environment and international affairs for over eight years his stories have appeared in a range of international publications including IPS, Die Welt, Swissinfo, Haaretz and others. Twitter: @IdoLiven

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International Marine Mammal Project Staff

Isabell Zipfel

Ishmael Akahoho

Ishmael Akahoho is a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Jacalyn Beales

Jacalyn Beales is a writer and animal welfare advocate in Toronto, Canada. She is also the founder of PACH (People Against Canned Hunting). You can follow PACH here.

Jack Wax

Jack Wax is a freelance writer living in Columbia, Missouri. His focus is the environment and agriculture.

Jacob Bourne

Jacob Bourne is a freelance journalist. He covers topics pertaining to the environment, land use, urban development, and politics.

Jacob Shea

Jacob Wheeler

Jacqueline Keeler

Jacques Leslie

Jacques Leslie writes narrative nonfiction about global environmental issues. His book on dams, Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for its “elegant, beautiful prose.” His latest work is an ebook, A Deluge of Consequences, that portrays a heroic high-altitude project in Bhutan to counter the effects of climate change.

Jakub Mejer

Jakub Mejer is a freelance writer from Poland, currently based in Jordan. His works in English have been published by the Mubi Notebook and the New Eastern Europe.

James Bargent

James Bargent is a journalist based in Medellin, Colombia. He has covered Colombia for a broad range of publications including The Independent, Miami Herald, Al Jazeera America and Toronto Star .

James Card

James Kelly

James Kelly is a writer and translator with a strong interest in the natural environment. He has spent the last ten years moving between Scotland and Chile, and is currently based in France. More of his work can be found on blog.geosoph.scot.

James McVey

James McVey recently rafted the Río Baker from its source to the sea. He is the author of The Wild Upriver and Other Stories (Arbutus Press) and The Way Home: Essays on the Outside West (The University of Utah Press).

James Studarus

James Studarus is an adventurer, photojournalist and nonprofit accountant residing in Santa Barbara, CA. He has started www.stardustimages.org to promote beautiful natural images to benefit environmental and social charities.

James William Gibson

James William Gibson writes regularly for Earth Island Journal. Among his books is The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam (1986).

Jamie Henn

Jamie Rappaport Clark

Jamie Rappaport Clark, president of Defenders of Wildlife, is the former head of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Janaki Jagannath

Janaki Jagannath is the coordinator with the Community Alliance for Agroecology

Janika Oza

Janika Oza is from Toronto, Canada and is currently studying at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

Jared Bernard

Jared Bernard has a B.Sc. in Biology and a keen interest in the conflict between humans and the environment. His writing has recently appeared in American Forests and History Today.

Jarni Blakkarly

Jason Gregg

Jason Gregg is a conservation field biologist and writer based in the United States.

Jason Halm

Jason Halm is a Chicago native and a millennial; he likes to travel with an open mind and a deep heart, cook with no recipe and a cup of coffee, and get outside as much as possible.

Jason Kaminsky

Jason Kaminsky is the Chief Operating Officer at kWh Analytics, a leader in data analytics and risk management for solar investors.

Jason Mark

Jason Mark is the Editor in Chief of SIERRA, the national magazine of the Sierra Club, and the author of Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man. From 2007 to 2015 he was the Editor of Earth Island Journal.

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Jean Friedman-Rudovsky

Jean Tepperman

Jean Tepperman is a longtime journalist who currently freelances for the East Bay Express. She is an activist in the movement for climate and environmental justice.

Jeff Conant — writer and social justice activist

Jeff Conant is author of A Community Guide to Environmental Health and is Communications Director at Global Justice Ecology Project.

Jeff Greenwald

Jemma Williams

Jemma Williams has an Honours degree in International Studies and specialises in sustainable development. She writes about social justice and environmental issues. Jemma is currently based in Sydney, Australia.

Jennifer Billock

Jennifer Billock is an award-winning writer, bestselling author, and editor. She is currently dreaming of an around-the-world trip with her Boston terrier. Check out her website at jenniferbillock.com.

Jennifer Castner

Jennifer Castner is Director of The Altai Project, an Earth Island Institute-sponsored project. She has been involved in civil society in Russia and Ukraine for 20 years. You can follow her on Twitter @jennifercastner. You can follow The Altai Project on Twitter @thealtaiproject or on Facebook.

Jennifer Kennedy

Jennifer Kennedy is an independent journalist living in Central America. She reports on the environment and human rights.

Jennifer Krill — Executive Director, EARTHWORKS

As program director at Rainforest Action Network, Jennifer Krill helped lead campaigns to protect old growth forests and break America’s oil addiction. She is currently the executive director of EARTHWORKS, an advocacy group that focuses on the negative impacts of mineral and energy extraction.

Jennifer Meszaros, Photos by Gabriele Stoia

Jennifer Meszaros and Gabriele Stoia form the perfect marriage as a writer-photographer duo. Based in Southeast Asia, they are always on the hunt for extraordinary stories not yet told. To learn more about their ethnography work around the globe, visit: www.gabryandjenny.com

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor is a professor of Women's Studies and English at Penn State University. She is active member of and writer for the Plastic Pollution Coalition, which she is pleased to serve as a public ambassador. She lives in central Pennsylvania, a region that's currently under severe duress by the natural gas industry.

Jeremy Kryt — Contributing writer, Earth Island Journal

Jeremy Kryt is a Chicago-based journalist.

Jeremy Miller

Jess Worth

Jesse Alston

Jesse Alston is a freelance science writer, wildlife research technician, and incoming graduate student in the University of Wyoming’s Zoology and Physiology program. You can check out his research and writing at jmalston.com or have a conversation on Twitter @integratecology.

Jesse Lewis

Jesse Lewis is a conservation biologist and freelance journalist. His work focuses on issues of conservation, the environment, and people's relationship to nature. His website is https://jesselewisphotography.squarespace.com/

Jessi Phillips

Jessi Phillips is a freelance writer and musician who lives in Oakland, California.

Jessica A. Knoblauch

Jessica Abbe

Jessica Abbe is a producer and writer of documentaries on Indigenous peoples, environmentalism, community and nature. Her credits for the Sacred Land Film Project include Standing on Sacred Ground and In the Light of Reverence.

Jessica C. Kraft

Jettie Word

Jettie Word is the director of Earth Island Institute's The Borneo Project

Jhon Arbelaez

Jill Yordy

Jill Yordy is the clean water and mining program director at Northern Alaska Environmental Center.

Jim Motavalli

Jim W. Harper

Jim Yuskavitch

Jim Yuskavitch is a conservation writer and photographer based in Sisters, Oregon. He is also editor of The Osprey, a journal published by the International Federation of Fly Fishers Steelhead Committee that advocates for wild Pacific salmon and steelhead conservation.

Jo Miles

Jo Miles is an online organizer with Education and Outreach team.

Joanna Pocock

Joanna Pocock is a British-Canadian writer living in London via Montana. Her essays, reviews, and travel pieces have appeared in The Dark Mountain Project, Distinctly Montana, Litro, The London Sunday Independent, The Los Angeles Times, the Nation, Orion, The Tahoma Literary Review, and 3:AM, among other publications. In 2017, she was shortlisted for the Barry Lopez Narrative Nonfiction Prize. She teaches creative writing at the University of the Arts in London, England and works as a freelance editor when she isn't writing and teaching.

Jocelyn Edwards

Joe Arvai

Joe Arvai is the Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, and Director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan.

Joe Harless

Joe Harless is a freelance writer based in Tampa, FL. His work has focused on the area's history and politics.

Joe Hosmer

Joe McCannon

Joe McCannon is the co-founder of Shared Nation. He was previously the CEO of the Billions Institute, an Obama administration appointee at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and an executive at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Johanna Hoffman

John Davis

Through his work with the Wildlands Network and the Rewilding Institute, John Davis has hiked or paddled across much of North America. Learn more at www.wildlandsnetwork.org

John de Graaf

John Fleck

John Fleck is director of the University of New Mexico's Water Resources Program. Fleck is Professor of Practice in water policy and governance in the university's Department of Economics and has been the Water Resources Program's writer-in-residence since January 2015. For 25 years, he covered science and the environment for The Albuquerque Journal. He is author of The Tree Rings’ Tale, a children’s book about the climate of the West.

John Frederick Walker

John Frederick Walker is the author of Ivory’s Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants. He has written on ivory trade issues for The Washington Post, National Geographic News, World Policy Journal, and other publications.

John Gibler

John Mulrow

John Mulrow is the Interim Executive Director of Plant Chicago, a nonprofit organization working to develop closed-loop systems of food production, energy conservation and material reuse. Plant Chicago seeks to empower people of all backgrounds to make their cities healthier and more efficient.

John Pabon

John Pabon has spent the past 15 years championing sustainable development and stakeholder engagement, leading the creation of some of the private sector’s most forward-thinking strategic sustainability approaches. He is the founder of Fulcrum Strategic Consulting, which works with businesses to make sense of how policy changes in the Asia-Pacific impact operations, reputation, and revenue generation. His previous work includes posts with the United Nations, McKinsey, AC Nielsen, and as a consultant with BSR, the world’s largest sustainability-focused business network. Pabon has been honored as one of the world’s top 100 voices on modern China, is a regular contributor to China-based business magazines and speaks to an array of global audiences on issues of sustainability and societal change.

John Quinn

John Quinn is a teacher and writer, focusing on environmental and community resource issues. He lives in Santa Rosa, California.

John Soltes

John Soltes is an award-winning journalist who has written previously on wolves, turkeys, ticks, bears, bats, and resplendent quetzals. Oh my!

Jon Gensler

Jonathan Frænkel-Eidse

Jonathan Fraenkel-Eidse is a freelance writer who covers Nordic environmental issues. He is a graduate of the Norwegian Center for Environment and Development’s MA program, and also works as editor for several publications.

Jonathan Henderson

Jonathan M. J. Henderson is a freelance writer based in Scotland. He has published articles on the outdoors, culture and the arts, and has recently completed a Ph.D. at the University of Glasgow.

Jonathan Mingle

Jonathan Mingle's writing on the environment, climate and development has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, The Boston Globe, and other publications. He is a former Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism, a recipient of the American Alpine Club's Zach Martin Breaking Barriers Award, and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group. He lives in Vermont.

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Jonathan Thompson

Jonathan Thompson is a senior editor of High Country News. Follow @jonnypeace

José González

José González is the Founder of Latino Outdoors, a national organization working to connect Latino communities in the US with a diversity of outdoor experiences.

Joseph Sorrentino

Joseph Sorrentino is a writer and photographer. He has been documenting the lives of agricultural workers on both sides of the US/Mexico border for 12 years.

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.

Josh Gabbatiss

Josh Gabbatiss is a UK-based science writer whose primary focus is zoology and life sciences. He has previously written for BBC Earth and New Scientist.

Josh Schlossberg

Josh Schlossberg is an investigative journalist living in Denver, Colorado.

Joshua Blanco

Joshua Blanco is a freelance writer attending the University of Oklahoma. He is a senior majoring in both Psychology and Zoology, with keen interests in the environment and environmental policy. He will be applying to medical school in the spring of 2017.

Joshua Frank

Joshua J. Lawler

Joshua Kahn Russell

Joshua Kahn Russell has trained thousands of young activists in nonviolence, civil disobedience, and campaign strategy. He is an organizer and trainer for 350.org and the Program Manager for Global Power Shift. For the last two years he has been focused on fighting the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Joshua Zaffos

Joshua Zaffos writes on science and the environment from Fort Collins, Colorado. His work has appeared in High Country News, Wired, Pacific Standard, Daily Climate, and other print and online publications, and can be viewed at joshuazaffos.com. Support for this article came, in part, from COMPASS.

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Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill gained international attention for living over two years in an over 1,000-year-old redwood tree without touching the ground in order to protect the tree from being cut down and to draw attention to the plight of the world’s old growth forests. She continues to work to help bring attention and support to crucial issues all over the world. www.juliabutterfly.com

Julia Travers

Julia Travers is a writer and artist. View her writing portfolio here.

Julie Dermansky

Julie Dermansky is a multimedia reporter and artist based in New Orleans. She is an affiliate scholar at Rutgers University's Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. Her work deals with climate change and social injustice. Her website at www.jsdart.com.

Juliet Grable

Writer Juliet Grable lives in Southern Oregon, where she frequently writes about regional environmental issues.

Juliet Kemp

Jurriaan van Eerten

Jurriaan van Eerten is a freelance reporter based in Lima, Peru. He writes about social and environmental issues for a wide variety of media.

Justin Gerdes

Justin Gerdes is an acting contributing editor for Earth Island Journal. He is an independent journalist specializing in energy issues whose work has appeared at the Guardian, Yale Environment 360, Forbes.com, Smithsonian.com, Ensia, City Lab, and MotherJones.com, among others. Follow him on Twitter @JustinGerdes

Justin Guay

Justin Guay is the Program Officer, Climate at the Packard Foundation. He was formerly the Associate Director for the Sierra Club's International Climate Program, where he focused on energy lending reform at international financial institutions and global efforts to transition energy systems beyond coal to clean energy. He is based in San Francisco, California. Follow him on Twitter @guay_jg

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Kahea Pacheco and Melinda Kramer

Kaimana Barcarse

Karen Dalton Beninato

Karen Hoffmann

Karen Hoffmann is a freelance journalist covering human rights and the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean. Follow her on Twitter at @karhoff.

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Karen Pickett

Kari Lydersen

Kari Mutu

Kari Mutu is an independent writer and special correspondent based in Nairobi, Kenya. She writes for various media in East Africa on the environment and wildlife, arts, culture, and tourism, as well as inspirational stories of people making a difference in these fields. Mutu is particularly motivated to create a better understanding and awareness of these issues as people move further away from the natural world and their heritage.

Karin Klein

Kate Aronoff

Kate O'Neill

Kate O'Neill is an associate professor of global environmental politics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Kate Weiner

Katherine Gustafson

Katherine Hanly

Katherine Koller

Katherine Koller is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with a special interest in the environment. Her latest documentary project, Sustainable Me, is a six-part web series about Edmonton youth changing their world.

Kathleen Braden

Kathleen Braden is a Professor of Geography at Seattle Pacific University who has written on nature reserves and wildlife conservation in Russia.

Kathleen Dean Moore

Kathryn Arnold

Kathryn M. Huber

K. M. Huber’s work appears in Post Road and The MacGuffin among others. She just finished writing Desert Voices, a novel about a reluctant heroine in sixth-century Nasca.

Katy Neusteter

Katy Neusteter is the Vice President of External Relations for Global Greengrants Fund. One of the world’s top funders of environmental and human rights initiatives, Global Greengrants believes that when local people have a say in the health of their food, water, and resources, they are forces for change. Since 1993, Global Greengrants has made more than 11,000 grants in 168 countries.

Ken Caldeira

Kendra Pierre-Louis

Kendra Pierre-Louis is a researcher, strategist and independent journalist based in Queens, New York. The author of Green Washed: Why We Can’t Buy Our Way to a Green Planet (Ig Publishing), Kendra is obsessed with travel, language, nature, and human behavior. Kendra has worked for the United Nation’s Environment Programme, written for a number of publications including Newsweek, and appeared on CSPAN. You can find her on twitter @kendrawrites and on the web at morethanstuff.com/writing.

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Kenneth Brower

Ken Brower is the author of many books, including Hetch Hetchy: Undoing a Great American Mistake and Freeing Keiko: The Journey of a Killer Whale from Free Willy to the Wild. A regular contributor to National Geographic magazine, he is a member of the board of directors of Earth Island Institute.

Kenneth Steven

Kenneth Steven is a Scottish poet, novelist and children's author. Much of his writing - fact and fiction - is inspired by the wildscape of Highland Scotland. As well as having many books in print, he has put much of his writing onto Kindle. His newest children's book, 'Why Dogs have Wet Noses' has been published in 11 languages - most recently in English by Enchanted Lion in New York. www.kennethsteven.co.uk

Kerstin Schweighöfer

Kerstin Schweighöfer is a freelance foreign correspondent for German media in the Netherlands, reporting on the Benelux countries for the ARD public radio stations, for Deutschlandfunk, FOCUS and art magazine, among others.

Kevin Brouillard

Kevin Brouillard is an Upstate New York-based writer and aspiring goat farmer.

Kevin M. Bailey

Kevin Bailey is a Seattle-based writer and scientist. He is author of Billion Dollar Fish and The Western Flyer: Steinbeck's Boat, the Sea of Cortez, and the Saga of Pacific Fisheries. He is currently working on a book about artisanal fisheries.

Kimberley Delfino

Kim Delfino is the California Program Director for Defenders of Wildlife.

Kinjal Dagli-Shah

Kinjal Dagli-Shah is a formally-trained journalist who has worked in newsrooms in India, USA and Canada. Her work has appeared in publications like City Parent, The Toronto Star and Good Life magazine. She is also a mother of two tinies and lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband.

Kirkpatrick Sale

Kirkpatrick Sale is a prolific scholar and author of more than a dozen books — including Human Scale, Rebels Against the Future, and After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination. He has been described as the “leader of the Neo-Luddites,” is one of the pioneers of the bioregional movement, and throughout his career has been a regular contributor to The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, CounterPunch, Lew Rockwell, The New York Review of Books, and The Utne Reader, which named him one of 100 living visionaries. Sale is currently the director of the political think tank the Middlebury Institute for the study of separatism, secession, and self-determination.

Kit Duane — editorial intern at Earth Island Journal

Koohan Paik

Koohan Paik is Campaign Director, Asia-Pacific Program, International Forum on Globalization, as well as a writer and filmmaker. She is co-author with Jerry Mander of “The Superferry Chronicles: Hawaii’s Uprising Against Militarism, Commercialism and the Desecration of the Earth” (Koa Books, 2009).

Kyle Boelte

Kyle Seewald Hemes

Kyle S Hemes is a doctoral candidate in ecosystem sciences at the University of California, Berkley, interested in communicating science and policy at the interface between the biosphere and the atmosphere. Kyle has worked on climate policies in California and southeast Asia, and published science communication pieces for the National Geographic Blog and Berkeley Science Review.

Kyle Thiermann

Kyle Thiermann is a 22-year-old pro surfer and creator and host of the hit YouTube series, Surfing For Change. A 2011 Brower Youth Award winner, Theirmann combines surfing great waves with making a series of short films about current issues that focus on the power we have to create a better world through everyday decisions.

Lana Straub

Lana Straub is a freelance journalist living in the middle of West Texas, which at the moment is oil boom country. She focuses her efforts on energy related issues in the area, as well as groundwater conservation and contamination. She is trained paralegal with a bachelor's degree in political science, emphasis in legal assistant studies from Texas A&M University-Commerce. She has taken several distance education sources to hone her journalism skills. She is a member of several professional journalism organizations, including SEJ, IRE, SPJ, AIR, NASW, JAWS and SABEW, and has written for the National Ground Water Association and ABC-Clio. She is also a radio producer for KXWT, West Texas Public Radio.

Larry Keller

Larry Keller is an Atlanta writer whose work has appeared in national, regional and local publications.

Laura Bridgeman

Laura Bridgeman is director of Sonar, an organization that advocates for dolphin and whale personhood, and Campaign & Communications Specialist at Earth Island's International Marine Mammal Project.

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Laura Kiesel

Laura Kiesel is an environmental freelance writer who lives in the Boston area. Her essays and articles have appeared in Earth Island Journal, E Magazine, Mother Jones, and Z Magazine

Laura Moser

Laura Moser is a freelance writer based in Sacramento, California. She is primarily interested in environmental issues, and her work in climate change includes co-authoring a Sacramento region transportation climate adaptation plan.

Lauren Johnson

Lauren Markham

Lauren Markham is a writer and educator based in Northern California. She was a 2011 Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism, reporting on issues of climate migration in East Africa.

Lauren Pagel

Lauren Weiner

Leah Carter

Leigh Cuen

Leigh Raper

Leigh Raper is a writer based in Palisades, New York. Her work has appeared in places such as mental_floss and Atlas Obscura. She holds a BA in English from the University of Miami, a JD from Pepperdine University, and an MFA from the University of California, Riverside-Palm Desert. She is passionate about the National Parks and will use any excuse to visit one of her favorites, Joshua Tree in California.

Leila Salazar-Lopez

Lenny Antonelli

Lenny Antonelli is a journalist based in Ireland who covers the environment, science and the outdoors. He is deputy editor of the green building magazine Passive House Plus. His first book, East of Ireland Walks: on River and Canal has just been published by the Collins Press. His personal website is www.lennyantonelli.ie.

Leonie Sherman

Leonie Sherman interned for the Earth Island Journal a decade ago and is delighted to be writing for them once again.

Letters to the Future

The Paris Climate Project asks writers, scientists, artists and others to predict the outcome of the Paris talks (the success or failure and what came subsequently) as if writing to their children’s children, six generations hence. In the letters, they tell future members of their own family or tribe, living at the turn of the century, what it was like to be alive during and after the historically crucial events of the upcoming U.N. climate talks.

Libby Foley

Linda Farthing

Linda Hogan

Linda Wells

Linda Wells is the associate director of organizing at Pesticide Action Network. Follow her @LindaatPAN

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Linley Boniface

Linley Boniface is a freelance writer from Wellington, New Zealand.

Lisa Owens Viani

Lisa Owens Viani is co-founder of Raptors Are The Solution, an Earth Island Project working to educate the public about the dangers to children, pets, and wildlife from rodenticides.

Liz Cunningham

Liz Cunningham is currently at work on Ocean Country, an adult non-fiction book which examines ocean conservation issues in four regions of the globe, the Carribean, the Coral Triangle, the Eastern Pacific and the Mediterranean. She is the author of Talking Politics: Choosing the President in the Television Age (Praeger), a series of oral-history interviews with top television journalists such as Tom Brokaw, Larry King, Robin MacNeil, and Bernard Shaw. To learn more about her work, visit lizcunningham.net.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Loanna Fotiadi

Loanna Fotiadi has been working as a journalist for Athens-based daily Kathimerini since 2008. She focuses on topics such as the environment and rural development.

Logan Egan

Lori Freshwater

Lori Pottinger

Lori Pottinger has worked for the California-based International Rivers for 17 years. She works on African river issues, and is the editor of the group’s magazine, World Rivers Review.

Lorne Stockman

Lorraine Chow

Louella Hill

Louella Hill is a cheesemaking instructor and the author of Kitchen Creamery, a book on home cheesemaking. She also serves as president of the California Artisan Cheese Guild. For more info, visit: www.sfmilkmaid.com.

Louis Blumberg

Lucy Brake

Lynette Wilson

Lynette Wilson is a New York City-based freelance journalist.

Madeline Kovacs

Madeline Kovacs, Project Survival Media Co-Coordinator, has been a youth climate movement organizer and leader for five years, attending regional Midwest youth movement-building summits and events like Powershift ’07 and ’09. In college, she helped to develop campus renewable energy projects, received a Lilly research grant to study labor/environment coalition building, presented at the 2008 Pawlenty Governor’s Forum, and studied Amazon Resource Management and Human Ecology in Brazil. In 2009, she served as the Midwest Outreach Coordinator for the National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions. She has a degree in Political Science and a minor in Environmental Studies from Macalester College, where she received the Dean of Students Community Recognition Award for co-organizing a Focus the Nation 2008 campus event that drew 600 people. Madeline presently also serves as the Working Films Community Engagement Coordinator for Dirty Business, a new documentary film by the Center for Investigative Reporting.

Madhusree Mukerjee

Magdi Mansoor

Magdi Mansoor is the manager of frequency planning at the Ministry of Telecommunications & IT in Yemen. He holds a bachelor degree in Telecommunications Engineering and an MBA from the Open University of Malaysia OUM. He is interested in environmental issues. He can be reached at magdi5000@hotmail.com.

Maggie De Pano

Mahwish Qayyum

Mahwish Qayyum is journalist based in Peshawar, Pakistan. Her work appeared in The Express Tribune, Women’s eNews, Women Media Center, CityMetric and other publications. Follow her @MahwishQayyum

Maia Danks

Maia Danks is an intern at the International Marine Mammal Project. A senior at Berkeley High School, she's interested in animal conservation, especially marine conservation, is a certified scuba diver, and loves to travel to see animals around the world. She's also a ceramic artist, and founded Octopus Ceramics.

Mandy Gardner

Mandy Gardner is a Canadian freelance writer currently residing on Isla Cozumel. She lives with 2 Canadian cats, 1 Mexican gato and her Chilango husband.

Manuel Maqueda

Marc Bekoff

Marc Bekoff’s latest books are Jasper’s Story: Saving Moon Bears (with Jill Robinson), Ignoring Nature No More: The Case for Compassionate Conservation, Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation, Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence, and The Jane Effect: Celebrating Jane Goodall (edited with Dale Peterson). His website is marcbekoff.com; Follow him on twitter @MarcBekoff

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Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce

Marc Geller

Marc Yaggi

Marc Yaggi is Executive Director of Waterkeeper Alliance.

Marcela Basch

Marcela Basch is the editor of El Plan C, the first web portal in Latin America dedicated to collaborative economic news and open culture. The journalist and lecturer has organized the Collaborative Economics Week (Semana de la Economía Colaborativa) since 2014, and been part of Comunes, an initiative of the Goethe-Institut Argentina, since 2016.

Margaret Zhou

Margaret Zhou is an environmentalist working at the intersection of development, human rights, and environmental sustainability with NGOs working on dams and hydro power in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Margo Pierce

Margo Pierce is a freelance writer exploring STEM subjects. She's particularly interested in the impact of diverse perspectives on the development of new knowledge and communicating those discoveries in a way that everyone can understand. More of her work can be found at www.writerdiva.com

Maria Bakkalapulo

Maria Bakkalapulo is a journalist and filmmaker based in Miami, Florida. You can see more of her work at www.mariabakkalapulo.com

Maria Ioshpa

Marianne Werner

Marianne Werner’s passion is travel; she journeys to distant places and often writes about or photographs her experiences. A retired English teacher who lives in California and Oregon, she has published poetry and articles in varied local and national literary magazines including Empirical, Watershed, San Miguel Literary Sala Solamente, Pilgrimage, River Poets Journal, Minerva Rising, White Pelican, Written River, and a self-published collection of photos and poems, Simple Images.

Mark Andrew Boyer

Mark Andrew Boyer wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas and practical actions. Mark is a photographer and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work has appeared in GOOD, Inhabitat, and Mindful Metropolis.

Mark Berman

Mark D. Jordahl

Mark D. Jordahl is communications specialist for TreeViver.

Mark Davis

Mark Dowie

Mark Dowie is an investigative historian living in Willow Point, CA.

Mark Evanoff

Mark Evanoff bicycled across the United States in 1976, was arrested at Diablo Canyon in 1978 and 1981, wrote for Not Man Apart at Friends of the Earth, served 10 years as the East Bay Field Director for Greenbelt Alliance, became disillusioned staffing the California Legislature, and spent the last 17 years staffing the environmental cleanup and creation of a walkable community adjacent to the Union City BART Station.

Mark Hendricks

Mark Hendricks is an award winning wildlife and conservation photographer and writer working on environmental issues. A former marine mammal biologist and animal rescuer, he turned to using his camera as a storytelling tool for conservation purposes. Current work focuses on the diverse habitats of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and the Maryland Coastal Bays. His work has been featured in Nature Photographer, Earth Island Journal, Audubon, The Maryland Natural Resource, National Parks Traveler, Africa Geographic, and many others. Mark is an adjunct faculty member at Towson University and a fellow in the International League of Conservation Writers. Find his book Natural Wonders of Assateague Island here and here.

Mark Hertsgaard

Mark J. Palmer

Mark J. Palmer is Associate Director of the International Marine Mammal Project.

Mark Jannot

Mark Schapiro

Award-winning journalist Mark Schapiro explores the intersection of the environment, economics, and political power, most recently as a correspondent at the Center for Investigative Reporting. His work has been published in Harpers, The Atlantic, Yale 360, and other publications. He has reported stories for the PBS newsmagazine Frontline/World, NOW with Bill Moyers, and public radio's Marketplace. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Marshall Gause

Marshall Gause is a writer and researcher based in Oregon. He is active in the Community Rights Movement and lives on a small farm with his partner and their two sons.

Martin Lee Mueller

Martin Lee Mueller, PhD, received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oslo in 2016. Before that, he received his master’s degree in culture, environment, and sustainability at the University of Oslo’s Center for Development and the Environment. He has previously helped build teaching centers in rural Mongolia, worked as a kindergarten teacher, been an elementary school librarian, and led a wilderness school in the Norwegian forest. Recently he has also been touring as a storyteller to festivals in the U.K. and Scandinavia, with a stage performance inspired by this book.. He lives in Oslo with his partner and daughter.

Marty Holtgren, Stephanie Ogren, and Kyle Whyte

Mary Catherine O'Connor

Mary Catherine O’Connor writes about the environment, adventure sports, and technology. www.mcoconnor.com

Matt Blois

A biologist by training, Matt chased jaguars in Mexico and condors in California before pursuing a master’s degree in journalism at the University of Montana. Easily distracted by colorful birds.

Matt Moir

Matt Moir has written and reported in Canada for the CBC, CTV News and Sun Media. He lives in Beijing.

Matt Weiser

Matt Weiser is a contributing editor at Water Deeply. Contact him at matt@newsdeeply.org or via Twitter at @matt_weiser.

Matthew Hirsch

Matthew Hirsch is a freelance journalist living in Berkeley, CA. You can reach him at matthewbhirsch@gmail.com.

Matthew Sherman

Matthew Sherman is a Blackfoot Indian of the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia and a certified chemical dependency counselor in Ohio. He serves as a Federal Native American Spiritual Advisor for the Federal Bureau of Prisons and is an American Indian Movement organizer. An activist against mountaintop removal mining, his life work has been to organize fellow American Indians to fight for human rights and against social and environmental injustices.

Maureen Nandini Mitra and Michael Stoll

Maya Khosla

Maya Khosla is a biologist, poet, and environmental filmmaker who has been documenting birds in the California Rim Fire Area since 2014. Her latest film is Searching for Gold Spot.

Maya Silver

Maya Silver is a writer based in Golden, Colorado, and an editor at DiningOut magazines. She is the co-author of My Parent Has Cancer And It Really Sucks. For more about Maya, visit her blog at livingenius.com.

Maywa Montenegro

Maywa Montenegro studies the politics of sustainable agriculture at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a former editor of Seed magazine and enjoys reading and writing about movements at the intersection of environment, development, and food.

Maywa Montenegro de Wit and Alastair Iles

Maywa Montenegro de Wit is a PhD candidate in Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley, with a masters degree in science writing from MIT. Her writings on the politics of agriculture and food have appeared in Gastronomica, Earth Island Journal, Seed Magazine, Grist, and the Boston Globe. Alastair Iles is a professor at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. He researches regulatory science in green chemistry and sustainable food, and is currently writing a book on the subject.

Megan Alpert

Megan Claase

Megan Claase is a wildlife researcher from South Africa. She has spent the last three years working on projects ranging from studying geladas in Ethiopia to large carnivores and herbivores in Botswana. In October 2017 she will join a team researching bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She holds a biology degree from the University of York, UK.

Meika Jensen

Melina Sempill Watts

Melina Watts recently launched an environmental consulting firm and is developing a new edition of Living Lightly In Our Watersheds: A Guide to Living in the Santa Monica Mountains for an array of cities and agencies at the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains, where she has raised more than $14 million to implement community-based watershed goals. She is shopping for a publisher for her environmentally-themed novel.

Melissa K. Nelson

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.

Michael Ableman

Michael Berry

Michael Berry is a freelance writer and a long-time science fiction and fantasy columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon.com and a wide range of other publications.

Michael Brune

Michael Carl

Michael Carl is a lifelong angler as well as a freelance writer and photographer. His writing and photography have been published in American Angler, Bay Nature, Northwest Fly Fishing, Outdoor Life, Salmon & Steelhead Journal, Southwest Fly Fishing and TROUT Magazine. A goal of his work is spotlighting the struggle of native and wild fish to survive in the American West where freshwater and healthy ecosystems are becoming scarce.

Michael Carolan

Michael Dax

Michael Dax is a regular contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News.  His first book, Grizzly West: A Failed Attempt to Reintroduce Grizzly Bears in the Mountain West, was published by University of Nebraska Press earlier this year.  He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Michael Engelhard

Michael Engelhard is the author of a new essay collection, American Wild, and of lce Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon, from which this essay has been excerpted. He lives in Fairbanks, Alaska and works as a wilderness guide in the Arctic.

Michael Fox

Michael French Smith

Cultural anthropologist Michael French Smith first worked in Papua New Guinea in 1973 and in Kragur Village in 1975. His most recent book, A Faraway, Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guinea is a story of Papua New Guinea village life in the new millennium, and is due out in 2013.

Michael Holtz

Michael K. Stone

Michael K. Stone is senior editor at the Center for Ecoliteracy, coeditor of Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable Future (Sierra Club Books), author of Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability (Watershed Media), and winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature.

Michael McColl

Michael Sainato

Michael Sainato is a freelance writer from Albany, New York, currently residing in Gainesville, Florida. His work has appeared at The Huffington Post, Miami Herald, Miami Times, and Gainesville Sun. Follow him on Twitter @msainat1

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Michael Sainato and Chelsea Skojec

Michael Shapiro

Michael Silverstein

Michael Silverstein is a former senior editor at Bloomberg’s Markets magazine. His most recent book is Gorilla Warfare Against The Bureaucratic State (Confessions of a Lefty Libertarian).

Michael T. Klare

Michael T. Klare, a TomDispatch regular, is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author, most recently, of The Race for What’s Left. A documentary movie version of his book Blood and Oil is available from the Media Education Foundation. Follow him on Twitter at @mklare1.

Michele Hertz

Michele Hertz is an artist, sculptor, very enthusiastic gardener and an environmental activist.

Michele Kvistad, Lena Pfeifer, and Paul Weisser

Michele Kvistad, Lena Pfeifer, and Paul Weisser are Environmental Planning students at the Technische Universität Berlin

Michelle Adelman

Michelle Simon

Michele Simon, JD, MPH, is a public health lawyer specializing in legal strategies to counter corporate tactics. She is president of Eat Drink Politics, a corporate watchdog consulting firm. She has been writing about the politics of food since 1996 and her book, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back, was published in 2006 by Nation Books. Her groundbreaking 2007 report on alcoholic energy drinks led to a federal ban. Simon has a master’s degree in public health from Yale University and received her law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Michelle Tolson

Michelle Tolson has an MSc in community development from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has worked on research projects in New York City and Cambodia. As an international correspondent, she has written from the Asia Pacific and U.S. for publications such as Inter Press Service, The Diplomat, and RH Reality Check.

Mick Sweetman

Mick Sweetman is a journalist and communications specialist. His articles and photos have also been published in Alternet, Basics, The Calgary Straight, Canadian Dimension, Clamor Magazine, Industrial Worker, Linchpin, The Media Co-op, New Socialist, Northeastern Anarchist, They call it struggle, Vox Magazine and ZNet. He calls Toronto home and is unabashedly a supporter of Toronto FC. You can follow him on Twitter @Mick Sweetman.

Mike Ives

Mike Ludwig

Mike Murphy

Mike Murphy is an environmental activist, citizen journalist, and educator.  Murphy and his elementary school students study ecoliteracy in San Francisco.  He lives with his family a couple of blocks from Pacific Ocean in San Francisco’s La Playa neighborhood. He and his 6-year-old son, Finn, are community gardeners actively working to protect their urban environment.

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Mike Shanahan

Mike Shanahan is an author and freelance writer with a doctorate in rainforest ecology. He has lived in a national park in Borneo, bred endangered penguins, investigated illegal bear farms, produced award-winning journalism and spent several weeks of his life at the annual United Nations climate change negotiations. He is interested in what people think about nature and our place in it. He has written for numerous publications including The Economist, Nature, The Ecologist and Ensia. He maintains a blog at Under the Banyan. His book Gods, Wasps and Stranglers, Chelsea Green, 2016, will be out in paperback this April.

Mike Van Abel

Mike Van Abel is the executive director of the International Mountain Bicycling Association, which since 1988 has worked to create, enhance, and preserve the mountain biking experience.

Minda Berbeco

Minda Berbeco is the Programs and Policy Director at the National Center for Science Education and a Visiting Scholar at the UC Museum of Paleontology. You can follow her on Twitter at @MindaBerbeco or online at ncse.com/blog.

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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.

Mustafa Santiago Ali

Mustafa Santiago Ali is the senior vice president of climate, environmental justice & community revitalization for the Hip Hop Caucus. He previously served for 24 years at high-levels within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and has worked with more than 500 domestic and international communities to secure environmental, health and economic justice reforms.

Nadia Steinzor

Nadia Steinzor is the Eastern Program Coordinator for Earthworks. Nadia provides residents and local groups with information on the impacts of oil and gas development and helps advance environmental protections and policy and regulatory reform. She has a background in communications, research, and policy on environmental issues.

Nancy Averett

Nancy Averett is a freelance science journalist. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications such as Pacific Standard, Audubon, Discover, E/The Environmental Magazine and others.

Nangayi Guyson

Nangayi Guyson is a freelance journalist based in Kampala, Uganda. He writes about environmental, social life, business, humanitarian, religious and political issues from around the African continent. His work has appeared on, Aljazeera English and elsewhere. You can follow him on Twitter at @nguyson or read his blog.

Natalie Cherot

Nate Seltenrich

Nathan Heintz

Nathan Heintz, is a change agent, storyteller, and social scientist passionate about Indigenous rights and Latin American social movements. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Master of Arts in Social Sciences issued jointly by Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany, and the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa. He has also studied at the Center for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS) at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.

Nathanael Johnson

Nathaniel Young

Nell Greenberg

Nicky Ouellet

After teaching English for three years in Russia and on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Nicky now writes for the Earth Island Journal.

Nicole Ellena

Nicole Ellena is the founder of MVMT, an environmental communication collective based in Santiago, Chile. Her love for the environment has driven her to work on conservation efforts in both Chile and California, and she specializes in conservation and new media.

Nicole Ghio

Nicole Ghio is a campaign representative of the Sierra Club's International Climate Program

Niki Beigi

Niki Beigi is a fourth-year Environmental Studies major studying at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has a passion for environmental journalism, and is interested in keeping the public informed on the global issues of today.

Nikki Yeager

Nikki Yeager is an entrepreneur and startup consultant who works primarily with holistic and wellness professionals. She currently runs a holistic products company, The Relievery, which sells Pregnancy & Postpartum socks that outline reflexology and polarity therapy points as well as essential oil blends.

Nithin Coca

Nithin Coca is a freelance journalist who focuses on environment and economic issues in developing countries, and has specific expertise in Southeast Asia. Nithin's feature and news pieces have appeared in global media outlets including Al Jazeera, Quartz, Atlantic Cities, SciDev.Net, Southeast Asia Globe, The Diplomat, and numerous regional publications in Asia and the United States

Nityanand Jayaraman

Nityanand Jayaraman is a Chennai-based writer and volunteer with the Chennai Solidarity Group for Koodankulam Struggle

Noah Sudarsky

Noelle Robbins

Nora McDevitt

Nora McDevitt is a documentary filmmaker, writer and owner of Little City Pictures. She is in post-production on a feature documentary on climate change’s collateral damage and the race to save planet Earth. She blogs at: littlecitypictures.wordpress.com.

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Oakley Brooks

Oakley Brooks works for the Wild Salmon Center, an international conservation group based in Portland, OR. He has worked as an environmental journalist and advocate for 15 years in North America and Southeast Asia.

Owen Poindexter

Owen Poindexter is a freelance journalist, covering technology and politics. His work has appeared in Alternet, the Huffington Post, and FutureStructure, among others. Follow him on Twitter @owenpoindexter, and see his work at owenpoindexter.com.

Pamela Flick

Pamela Flick is Defenders of Wildlife's California representative, based in Sacramento.

Pamela Keletso

Pamela Keletso is a research enthusiast, writer, and aspiring science journalist. She has written for the Equal Times Magazine in the past.

Panagioti Tsolkas

Panagioti Tsolkas is the program coordinator of Human Rights Defense Center’s burgeoning Prison Ecology Project. He is also a former editor of the Earth First! Journal, a father and a community organizer based currently in Lake Worth, Florida.

Patrick Holian

Paul Connett

Paul Keeling

Paul Koberstein

Paul Koberstein is editor of Cascadia Times, an online environmental journal published from Portland, Oregon. Koberstein has been a staff writer for The Oregonian, a daily newspaper published in Portland, and Willamette Week. In 2004 he won the John B. Oakes Award for distinguished environmental journalism for articles on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Paul Koberstein and Eliza Murphy

Paul Koberstein is editor of Cascadia Times, an environmental journal published in Portland, Oregon. He has written previously about open-air GMO experimentation in Hawaii for PR Watch. Eliza Murphy is an independent writer based in Eugene, Oregon.

Paul McGinniss

Paula Dupraz-Dobias

Paula Dupraz-Dobias is a freelance journalist who regularly covers Latin America and environmental issues for international print and broadcast media, including French public television and swissinfo. Born in New York, Paula has worked and lived in Peru, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Paula MacKay

Paula MacKay is a freelance writer/editor, field biologist, and communications consultant for conservation. For the past two decades, she has studied wild predators with her husband, Dr. Robert Long. Paula served as managing editor for Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores, and earned an MFA in creative writing from Pacific Lutheran University in 2015. She has written for numerous nonprofits, books, journals, and magazines — including Wild Hope, Washington Trails, The Bark, E Magazine, Wild Earth, and Wildlife Conservation. MacKay currently manages Wildlands Network’s blog Trusting Wildness, and is writing a conservation memoir about searching for wolverines and grizzly bears in the North Cascades.

Payal Sampat

Payal Sampat is the No Dirty Gold campaign director at Earthworks, a nonprofit environmental organization.

Pei-Ru Ko

Pete Dronkers

Pete Dronkers is the Southwest Circuit Rider for Earthworks, and lives in Ridgway, Colorado, adjacent to lands managed by the BLM’s Uncompahgre Field Office.

Peter Bosshard

Peter Bosshard is the Interim Executive Director of International Rivers. He tweets at @PeterBosshard.

Peter Dreier

Peter Dreier is professor of politics and chair of the Urban & Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. His book, The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame, was recently published by Nation Books. Barry Commoner is one of the people profiled in that book.

Peter Dykstra

Peter Kalmus

Peter Kalmus wrote this article for YES! Magazine as part of his monthly column, “The Climate Conversation.” Peter is a climate scientist working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (he speaks here on his own behalf, not on behalf of NASA, JPL, or Caltech). At work, Peter uses satellite data, in situ data, and models to study the rapidly changing Earth with a focus on boundary layer clouds. At home, he explores how dramatically reducing carbon emissions can lead to a happier, more connected life. His new book, “Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution,” is due out in August. Peter volunteers with Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a group focused on implementing carbon fee and dividend.

Peter Willcox

Phil Brown

Phil Radford

Phil Radford is the executive director of Greenpeace-USA.

Philip Ackerman-Leist

Philip Ackerman-Leist is a professor of Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems at Green Mountain College in Vermont, where he established the college’s organic farm and undergraduate and graduate programs in sustainable agriculture and food systems. He and his wife, Erin, farmed in the South Tyrol region of the Alps and North Carolina before beginning their homesteading and farming venture in Pawlet, Vermont. With more than two decades of field experience working on farms, in the classroom, and with regional food systems collaborators, Philip’s work is focused on examining and reshaping local and regional food systems from the ground up. His newest book is (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017).

Prasadini Nanayakkara

Prasadini Nanayakkara is a freelance writer based in Sri Lanka who has penned numerous articles on wildlife, travel, architecture, and culture for local and international magazines. Visit her site at prasawrites.wordpress.com.

Prathap Nair

Prathap Nair is a Bangalore, India-based independent writer keen on writing about wildlife conservation, sustainable livelihoods and offbeat destinations. His travel blog can be accessed at thesunlitwindow.wordpress.com

Rachel Shulhafer

Rachel Shulhafer is a video editor and freelance writer specializing in environmental issues. She holds a degree in journalism from Ball State University, and is based in Louisville, KY.

Rachel Smolker

Rachel Smolker is codirector of Biofuelwatch and a climate justice activist. She has a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Michigan, and worked previously as a field zoologist.

Rachel Tamigniaux Gupta

Rainforest Action Network

Raj Patel

Randy Hayes

Randy Hayes is Executive Director of Foundation Earth, an environmental think tank established to advance a big rethink the industrial economy and to propose bold, positive solutions.

Randy Salzman

Raphael Mweninguwe

Ravindra Krishnamurthy

Ravindra Krishnamurthy is a freelance science writer based in Bangalore, India. He writes regularly for Permaculture News on environment, sustainable living, renewable energy, organic farming, permaculture, global warming and climate change.

Ray Mwareya

Ray Mwareya is an international reporter for the Global South Development Magazine.

Rebecca Heisman

Rebecca Heisman is a naturalist, writer, and educator who lives in Walla Walla, Washington. For more of her writing, visit her website at http://rebeccainthewoods.wordpress.com or follow her on Twitter @ twitter.com/r_heisman.

Rebecca Solnit

San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit is the award-winning author of 13 books about art, landscape, public and collective life, ecology, politics, hope, meandering, reverie, and memory. They include November 2010’s Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, a book of 22 maps and nearly 30 collaborators; last year’s A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, and many others, including Storming the Gates of Paradise; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities and, Wanderlust: A History of Walking. Solnit has worked with climate change, Native American land rights, antinuclear, human rights, antiwar and other issues as an activist and journalist. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a contributing editor to Harper’s and frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com and has made her living as an independent writer since 1988.

Rebecca Tarbotton

Rebecca Tarbotton is the executive director of the San Francisco-based Rainforest Action Network, www.ran.org.

Rebekah Wilce

Reynard Loki

Rhea Almeida

Rhea Almeida is a St. Xavier's College graduate who lives to travel and explore new cultures and communities. She writes about art, photography, and architecture as well as human rights, the environment, and health issues for various content and journalism platforms such as Homegrown, The Quint, and Outlook India Digital.

Rhiannon Tomtishen and Madison Vorva

Rhiannon Tomtishen and Madison Vorva received the Brower Youth Award in 2011 for their campaign to reform the Girl Scouts’ palm oil purchasing policy.

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

Rich Tenorio

Rich Tenorio has previously reported on animal rescue efforts in the Middle East for National Geographic, The Times of Israel and Haaretz.

Richard Blaustein

Richard Blaustein is a freelance science and environmental journalist. He can be followed on twitter @richblaustein.

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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.

Richard Heinberg

Richard Heinberg is Senior Fellow at Post Carbon Institute and is the author of 11 books, most recently Snake Oil: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future. More at www.richardheinberg.com.

Richard Mahler

Richard Schiffman

Richard Ward

Rick Bass

Author-activist Rick Bass has written more than 20 books. He’s a board member of the Yaak Valley Forest Council: www.yaakvalley.org.

Riki Ott — Project Director for Ulitmate Civics

Riki Ott, PhD, directs the ALERT Project, a project of Earth Island Institute. For more information about the EPA rulemaking, please visit the Federal Register. Comments on EPA’s rulemaking must be received by April 22.

Rina Herzl

Rina Herzl is dedicating her career toward advancing awareness and action on pressing global conservation issues. She is a freelance writer specializing in environmental and conservation topics. As well, she is a consultant to environmental organizations, helping to ignite their social and digital media messaging and accelerate their impact strategies. Rina holds a Master of Science in Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management from the University of Oxford and an Executive Certificate in Social Impact Strategy from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ritu Bhradwaj

Ritu Bharadwaj is Project Survival Media’s team leader in India. An independent filmmaker based in New Delhi, Ritu is a zealous storyteller. She wants to use the power of visual media to build a stronger climate change movement and documentary production is a means by which she derives greater meaning in her work. Project Survival Media is a project of Earth Island Institute.

RL Miller

RL Miller (@RL_Miller on twitter) is a climate blogger, chair of the California Democratic Party’s environmental caucus, and founder of the Climate Hawks Vote SuperPac. The author’s opinions expressed in this piece do not represent the views of any of those organizations.

Robert Bateman

Robert Bateman is an author as well as an avid sailor and enthusiastic environmentalist. He lives in Gloucerstershire, England.

Robert Beringer

Robert Beringer is a Florida-based freelance marine journalist & photographer, and member of Boating Writers International. He is the holder of a USCG 50-ton Master's License, logging over 28,000-miles under sail. His articles regularly appear in most national sailing and boating magazines. His first book, Waterpower! a collection of marine short stories, is available at Barnes & Noble.

Robert C. Thornett

Robert C. Thornett is a Geography professor at Trinity Washington University, Northern Virginia Community College, and American Public University. He has written previously in Yale Environment 360 about wildlife protection innovations in Kenya and urban socioenvironmental innovations Brazil, and in The Solutions Journal about innovative urban farming and traditional medicine programs in Argentina. He has also presented twice on Bolivia’s migration patterns and Kenya’s wildlife wars at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers.

Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton is a Los Angeles based writer, living in the Silver Lake/Los Feliz neighborhood with his wife and two cats. Fulton writes about health care, housing, sustainability, entertainment, music, sports and pretty much everything under the sun.

Robert Goodland

Robert J. Cabin

Robert J. Cabin is a professor of ecology and environmental science at Brevard College. He is the author of Intelligent Tinkering: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice (Island Press, 2011) and Restoring Paradise: Rethinking and Rebuilding Nature in Hawaii (University of Hawaii Press, 2013)

Robert Ovetz

Robert Rogers

Robert Rogers is an intern at the Mattole Restoration Council, a wildlife restoration non-profit located along the Mattole River in Northern California. He is currently a senior at San Francisco State University studying natural resource management and journalism, and solemnly swears that he has never smoked weed, like, ever.

Robert Walker

Robin Scher

Robin Scher is a freelance writer from South Africa currently based in New York. He tweets infrequently @RobScherHimself.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robynne Boyd

Robynne Boyd began writing about people and the planet while living barefoot and by campfire on the North Shore of Kaua‘i, Hawaii. Over a decade later, and now fully dependent on electricity, she continues this work from her home in Atlanta, Ga.

Roderick Frazier Nash

Dr. Roderick Frazier Nash, Professor Emeritus of History and Environmental Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara, is the author of the seminal books Wilderness and the American Mind (re-issued this year by Yale University Press) and The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics.

Roger Kaye

Roger Pielke, Jr.

Ron Engeldinger

Ron Engeldinger is a freelance writer living in Portland Oregon. He is an avid outdoorsman and international traveler. His writings focus on culture, history, travel, and environmental issues.

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.

Rucha Chitnis

Ryan Langley

Ryan Langley is a 24-year-old, USCG-licensed captain and travel writer from Washington State. His writing has appeared in Cruising World, Yachting World, and Outpost Magazine, among others. He is currently raising funds for an expedition to sail around the world and visit every country on the planet. You can follow the adventure, support it, and even sign up to join a leg by emailing him at captainryanlangley@gmail.com.

Ryan Van Lenning

Ryan Van Lenning is a writer, communications consultant, and aspiring wilderness guide/ecotherapist in California.

Sabrina Gyorvary

Sabrina Gyorvary is the Mekong Program Coordinator for the global river protection group International Rivers. She lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Sally Barber

Sally Barber is a Great Lakes-based magazine and news writer. She is the author of The Michigan Eco-Traveler: A Guide to Sustainable Adventures in the Great Lakes State. Published by the University of Michigan Press, it is Michigan’s first green travel and tourism guide.

Sam Davis

Dr. Sam Davis is the Research Manager at Dogwood Alliance.

Sam Worley

Sam Worley is a writer and editor in southwest Ohio. His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Awl, Next City, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter @samuel_worley.

Samantha Harvey

Samantha Harvey is a fellow with EDGE Funders Alliance, working on their new Just Transition Collaborative in partnership with funders and movement leaders. She is also on the board of the Center for Diversity and the Environment.

San Francisco Public Press

Sandra Cuffe

Sandra Cuffe is a freelance journalist reporting on environmental, Indigenous, and human rights issues in Central America and Canada. You can find her on Twitter: @Sandra_Cuffe or read more of her work at sandracuffe.com.

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Sandra Steingraber

Sara Lafleur-Vetter

Sara Lafleur-Vetter is a documentary filmmaker and photojournalist who’s been at the Standing Rock camp since late August. She is working on a documentary that seeks to memorialize the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Check out her GoFundMe campaign for details.

Sara Santiago

Sara Santiago is a Stakeholder Engagement Manager at Future 500, a global nonprofit specializing in stakeholder engagement and building bridges between parties at odds — often corporations and NGOs, the political right and left, and others — to advance systemic solutions to urgent sustainability challenges.

Sarah Bardeen

Sarah Bardeen is a Berkeley-based writer and editor who works for the environmental and human rights nonprofit International Rivers. She has been known to jump into a wild river or two.

Sarah Craig

Sarah Craig is a writer and radio journalist living in Oakland, California. She is the Associate Producer for the Stepping Up podcast. Her work has been published by Marketplace, KQED, Grist, and others.

Sasha Harris-Lovett

Sasha Harris-Lovett is a freelance environmental journalist and a graduate student in UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group.

Saul Elbein

Scott Faber

Scott Faber is Vice resident of Government Affairs at Environmental Working Group.He leads a team working to improve food and farm legislation, chemicals policy and a host of other issues important to EWG and its supporters.

Scott Parkin

Scott Parkin is a climate organizer working with Rainforest Action Network, Rising Tide North America and the Ruckus Society.

Sean Mowbray

Sean Mowbray is a freelance journalist based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Sejal Choksi-Chugh

Sejal Choksi-Chugh is the Executive Director of San Francisco Baykeeper. Baykeeper uses on-the-water patrols of San Francisco Bay, science, advocacy, and the courts to stop bay pollution. To report pollution, call Baykeeper's hotline at 1-800-KEEP-BAY, e-mail hotline@baykeeper.org, or click “Report Pollution” at baykeeper.org.

Sena Christian

Sena Christian is an independent journalist based in Sacramento, California. Find her on Twitter @SenaCChristian.

Seraine Page

Seraine Page is a freelance writer living near Seattle who enjoys writing about health, wellness, local businesses and people doing good deeds. Her work has been featured in MASSAGE Magazine, Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal, Kitsap Sun, Liberty Life Magazine, and others. See more of her work at www.serainepage.com.

Serda Ozbenian

Serda Ozbenian is the Executive Director of Armenia Environmental Network, an Earth Island Project. She is a native of Maryland but frequently visits and works in Armenia on various environmental and wildlife projects.

Serge Fedorowsky

Serge Fedorowsky is a freelance writer whose work focuses on a variety of environmental and social issues. He currently lives in Kewaskum, WI, where he is waiting for summer.

Seth Martin

Seth Martin is a roots musician and writer from the Pacific Northwest (USA) who now lives and works in Korea with his partner, artist Nan Young Lee, whose art about the struggle in Gangjeong can be seen above. Find his music on BandCamp, including "Gureombi Norae," adapted from from Woody Guthrie's famous protest song "I've Got to Know" which was written in part as a response to the Korean War.

Seth Sandronsky

Seth Sandronsky is a journalist and member of the Pacific Media Workers Guild. Email sethsandronsky@gmail.com.

Shadia Fayne Wood

Shadia Fayne-Wood is a founder and director of Project Survival Media, a global youth media network (sponsored by Earth Island Institute) producing photo and video stories of survival and ingenuity in the face of climate change. Shadia is also a member of the Energy Action Coalition Board of Directors.

Shana Gallagher

Shana Gallagher is one of seven organizers around the U.S. launching Mighty Earth's #CleanItUpTyson campaign, an effort to reduce fertilizer pollution and preserve American waterways. Follow her on Twitter @shanag888.

Shannan Stoll

Shannan Stoll wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Shannan is a senior editor at YES! She holds a master’s degree in environmental studies and her work focuses on environmental justice and science. In the past, she has worked as a natural resource planner and researched at the intersection of environmental justice, science, and policy.

Shannon Biggs

Shannon Biggs is the Executive Director of Movement Rights, advancing rights for Indigenous peoples, communities, and ecosystems. She is also the co-founder of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and the co-editor of the book, The Rights of Nature: The Case for the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth.

Sharla Stone

Sharla Stone is a freelance writer and blogger, focusing on green living, environmental and humanitarian issues. She is an advocate of our planet and its citizens (including non-human ones) and she volunteers with Earth Cause Global.

Sharon Kelly

Sharon Kelly is a Philadelphia-based lawyer and freelance writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Legal Intelligencer.

Sharon Wilson

Sharon Wilson is the Gulf Regional Organizer of the watchdog group Earthworks. Most people know her as TXsharon, author of the blog, Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS that focuses on local and global drilling issues.

Shay Totten

Shelton Johnson

Shem Oirere

Shem Oirere is a freelance journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya with an interest in Africa’s energy, water and construction sectors and has covered the sector for both national and international publications.

Shepherd Bliss

Shepherd Bliss has operated the Kokopelli Farm for two-dozen years in Sebastopol, CA. He, teaches part-time at the Dominican University of California, and has contributed to 24 books.

Shirley G. Koelling

Shirley G. Koelling is a writer, educator, and enjoys photography. She has a Masters of Science in Education.

Simon Arms

Simon Arms is a Berlin-based freelance writer.

Simon Davis-Cohen

Simon Davis-Cohen is a freelance journalist. He is reporting on issues affecting the citizens' initiative process in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. Follow him @SimonDavisCohen.

Simon P. James

Slok Gyawali

Slok Gyawali is a Kathmandu-based journalist.

Sonia Luokkala

Sonia Luokkala is an environmental journalist from Finland, where during the past ten years she has written about issues such as the civil and land rights violations against the indigenous Sámi people of Finnish and Swedish Lapland. She moved to the States two years ago, and is currently leading a nomadic lifestyle with her baby daughter, dog and husband.

Sophie Zweifel

Sophie Zweifel is currently an undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh, studying environmental chemistry. She hopes to go on to research the effects of ocean acidification on marine megafauna. Zweifel has been a dedicated advocate for ocean conservation since, as an eighth-grade student, she contacted OceanCare after learning about the Taiji, Japan dolphin slaughter. Since then Zweifel has been writing for several publications trying to inspire others to do their part in preserving what’s left of our beautiful seas.

Spencer Fleury

Spencer Fleury is a former geography professor who lives and writes in Florida.

Sribala Subramanian

Sribala Subramanian is a New York-based journalist who writes about health and environment in South Asia. Her work has been published in The Guardian and The Wire. She was formerly a reporter for Time International.

Stack Jones

Stav Dimitropoulos

Stav Dimitropoulos is a freelance journalist, correspondent, and writer for CBC, CBS Radio, Earth Talk, Permaculture Magazine, Discover and others. Follow Stav on Twitter @TheyCallMeStav

Stephanie Spear

Stephen Kretzmann

Stephen Kretzmann is Founder and Executive Director of Oil Change International, a research and advocacy organization focused on exposing the true costs of our addiction to fossil fuels. Learn more at priceofoil.org.

Stephen Leahy

Stephen is an independent journalist who covers international environmental issues in the public interest. He's reported from every continent in the world over the past 20 years. The bulk of his journalism in recent years has been for the Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS) as senior correspondent for science and the environment. IPS is a non-profit news service headquartered in Rome with a focus on events and issues affecting the developing world. His work also appears in National Geographic NewsWatch, New Scientist, Mo Magazine (Brussels), The Guardian (UK), Al Jazeera, Reuters, The Toronto Star, Common Dreams, Alternet and many others. To continue this work at a time of severe cutbacks and closure of many media, Leahy launched Community Supported Journalism, please visit the link and offer your support.

Stephen Miller

Stephen Miller wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Stephen is a senior editor at YES! He writes about climate justice.

Stephen Quirke

Stephen Quirke is a community organizer and journalist based in Portland, Oregon. He has worked with Bark – Defenders of Mt. Hood National Forest, and actively organizes with Portland Rising Tide. He is currently the community organizer at Portland-based Neighbors for Clean Air.

Stephen Wells

Stephen Wells is executive director of the Animal Legal Defense Fund.

Steve Blank

Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur-turned-educator who is changing how startups are built and how entrepreneurship is being taught. He created the Customer Development methodology that launched the lean startup movement, and wrote about the process in his first book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany. His second book, The Startup Owner's Manual, is a step-by-step guide to building a successful company. Blank teaches the Customer Development methodology in his Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, Columbia University and the National Science Foundation. He writes regularly about entrepreneurship at www.steveblank.com.

Steve Early

Steve Early is a journalist, lawyer, and Richmond-based author of Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City (Beacon Press, 2017). The author can be reached at Lsupport@aol.com

Steve Horn

Steve Winter and Sharon Guynup

Steven DeWitt

Steven DeWitt is a Colorado based outdoor adventure and conservation photographer.

Stuart Brand

Sumana Narayanan

Sumana Narayanan has worked in a wide range environmental fields, including medicinal plant conservation and traditional knowledge; livelihood and sustainability in fisheries; journalism; urban waste management; and energy policy. She is also a freelance writer, covering the environment, culture, and history, among other topics.

Susan Bruce

Susan Casey

Susan Gately

Susan P. Gateley has authored several nonfiction books including a recent environmental history of Lake Ontario. She has a MS in fisheries and has sailed the lake for fifty years. For more on her latest book and a video based on it visit susanpgateley.com

Susan Pi

Susan Pi is a freelance writer, specializing in cats, dogs, and wildlife. Her work has been published in Bay Woof Magazine, Take on the Road, and DogTime.

Suzanne York

Suzanne York is Director of Transition Earth, a project of Earth Island Institute.

Sy Montgomery

New York Times bestselling authors Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas are pioneers in the field of animal writing and have published more than 30 books between them. They live in New Hampshire and are best friends.

Tamira Jones

Tanya Dimitrova

Tanya Dimitrova is a reporter for Mongabay.com and a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. Support for this article was provided by UC Berkeley School of Journalism.

Tao Orion

Tao Orion is a permaculture designer, teacher, homesteader, and mother living in the southern Willamette Valley of Oregon. She teaches permaculture design at Oregon State University and at Aprovecho, a 40-acre nonprofit sustainable-living educational organization. When she is not writing, she is busy keeping up with her toddler and wrangling a diverse array of plants and animals on her 6.5-acre homestead, Viriditas Farm.

Tara Holmes

Tara Holmes is the Communications Coordinator at The Borneo Project, an Earth Island Institute-sponsored project that, for more than 20 years, has worked with Indigenous communities to protect the rainforest and support fights for land rights.

Tara Lohan

Tara Lohan, taralohan.com, an independent journalist, runs the multimedia project Hitting Home documenting the impacts of energy development on communities. Follow her on twitter: @TaraLohan

Taran Volckhausen

Taran Volckhausen is a freelance writer based in Medellin, Colombia. He contributes to the English news site Colombia Reports. Say hello on Twitter @tvolckhausen.

Taylor Brorby

Taylor Brorby is Reviews Editor at Orion Magazine and a fellow at the Black Earth Institute. He is currently at work on both a poetry and essay collection.

Ted Bruning

Ted Grudin

Ted Grudin lectures at Santa Clara University in the Department of Environmental Studies & Sciences. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management.

Ted Hamilton

Ted Hamilton is a writer and co-founder of the Climate Defense Project, a non-profit organization that provides legal support to the climate movement.

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.

Teresa M. Telecky, PhD

Teri Shore

Teri Shore is program director at the Turtle Island Restoration Network.

Terri Hansen

Terri Hansen is a member of the Winnebago Tribe. She has covered Indigenous peoples’ issues since 1993. Hansen’s focus is science and the environment, and she has reported on climate change in tribal communities since 2008, as well as on Indigenous participation in the annual UN climate summits. Follow her on Twitter @TerriHansen.

The Borneo Project

For over twenty years, The Borneo Project has worked with indigenous communities in Malaysian Borneo to protect their rainforests and land rights.

The Christensen Fund

The Christensen Fund is a nonprofit that promotes biocultural diversity. It seeks to support the resilience of living diversity at landscape and community level around the world in partnerships with Indigenous peoples and others.

The Guardian

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.

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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The Rev. Canon Sally G. Bingham

Theresa Soley

Theresa Soley is a freelance writer from Wisconsin. She is now based in Juneau, Alaska and has an interest in all things aquatic. Reporting for this piece was part of her graduate school work at Marquette University.

Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He is the author of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence; Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (with Marcus Boon and Eric Cazdyn); Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World; and other books.

Tina Gerhardt

Tina Gerhardt is an independent journalist and academic who covers international climate negotiations, domestic energy policy and related direct actions. Her work has appeared in Alternet, Grist, The Nation, The Progressive and the Washington Monthly, as well as Business Green and Climate Progress.

Tobin Hack

Todd Miller

Todd Miller, a TomDispatch regular, has written on border and immigration issues for the New York Times, Al Jazeera America, and the NACLA Report on the Americas. His new book, Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (City Lights Books), has just been published. You can follow him on Twitter @memomiller and view more of his work at toddmillerwriter.com.

Tom Arms

Tom Arms is a broadcaster and columnist focused on world affairs. His podcast can be heard at lookaheadnews.com. Arms is also available for speaking engagements.

Tom Athanasiou — Author and director of Earth Island Project EcoEquity

Tom Athanasiou, the director of the Earth Island projectEcoEquity has been a close observer of the climate negotiations since 1999. He codirects both the Climate Action Network’s Equity Working Group and the Climate Equity Reference Project. His principle interest is distributional justice within the context of an emergency global climate mobilization, which he hopes to live to see.

Tom Clynes

Author and photojournalist Tom Clynes covers environmental issues, science, and extraordinary personalities for magazines such as National Geographic, Popular Science, Men’s Journal and GQ, and is the author of the book “Wild Planet.” Tom’s magazine stories often appear in Houghton-Mifflin’s “Best American” series of magazine-writing anthologies.

Tom Kuglin

Tom Kuglin is a graduate student in Environmental Science and Natural Resource Journalism at the University of Montana where he tells the stories of wildlife and wild places. A Montana native, Tom has called Missoula, home for the last 10 years, taking full advantage of the outdoors with his wife Dusty and their lab Karma.

Tom Levitt

Tom Molanphy

Tom Molanphy is a San Francisco-based freelance writer and Daly City resident.

Tom Turner

Tom Verde

Tracy Mann

Tracy Mann is the pro-bono director for Earth Island Project Climate Wise Women. She leverages her 25 year-plus career as a communications and business development specialist in entertainment and new technologies to create greater visibility and access to resources for global grassroots women who lead the resilience response to climate change.

Trish Riley

Trish Riley covers environmental issues for national and international publications. She is a founding directorof the environmental film festival Cinema Verde and publisher of www.GoGreenNation.org.

Tristan McConnell

Turtle Island Restoration Network Staff

Turtle Island Restoration Network carries out four initiatives: the Sea Turtle Restoration Project, Shark Stewards, the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network and the Got Mercury Campaign.

Ty Trumbull

Ty Trumbull is a Canadian journalist and musician living in Mexico City. He worked as an editor and business reporter at one of Canada’s biggest news radio stations before moving to Mexico to pursue freelance writing. He may be the only professional banjo player in Mexico.

Vanessa Kellerhals

Vanessa Kellerhals is a young Swiss journalist currently based in Beirut, Lebanon, where she works for a local newspaper.

Vanessa Nirode

Vanessa is a writer, solo traveler, cyclist, and runner based in New York City. In her spare time she works as a tailor and pattern maker for television shows and movies.

Victoria Clayton

Victoria Clayton is a writer in Southern California. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Barrelhouse, Garden Collage, Education Post and elsewhere. She’s also an instructor in the communications department at Cal Lutheran University. Find her on Twitter @vicclay.

Viji Sundaram

Walter Echo-Hawk

Walter Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) is an attorney, author, activist, law professor, and tribal judge. He represents Indian tribes on important legal issues, such as treaty rights, water rights, religious freedom, prisoner rights, and repatriation rights. He is the recipient of the Federal Bar Association’s Lawrence Baca Lifetime Achievement Award. More at:  www.walterechohawk.com

Will Kitson

Will Kitson is a London-based journalist and editor. He is a passionate travel writer and reporter, focusing on issues across the United Kingdom and mainland Europe.

Will Wilson

William Falk

Will Falk is a writer and lawyer based in Heber City, Utah. After practicing as a public defender in Kenosha, WI, he now focuses on grassroots environmental campaigns. For Will, the needs of the natural world are primary and his work is devoted to protecting the natural world.

William H. Funk

William H. Funk is a freelance writer, documentary filmmaker and environmental lawyer living in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. His work explores the confluences of the natural world, history, culture, law and politics, and as an attorney he has had broad experience with land preservation and endangered species. He may be contacted at williamhfunk@icloud.com or williamhfunk.com

William Mueller

Bill Mueller is the Director of the Western Great Lakes Bird and Bat Observatory in southeastern Wisconsin, and is involved in many bird conservation-related initiatives in the Midwest. He’s been studying birds since being given a bird book in the first grade, and continually learns new things about birds and the natural world.

William Ryerson

William Ryerson is the CEO of the Population Institute and founder and President of Population Media Center, which has pioneered ways to use television and radio dramas to spread effective messages about family planning.

Winifred Bird

Winifred Bird is a freelance journalist and translator focusing on the environment and architecture. From 2005 to 2014 she lived in rural Japan, where she covered the 2011 tsunami, earthquake, and nuclear disaster for publications including the Japan Times, Environmental Health Perspectives, and Yale Environment 360. When she’s not writing she can usually be found in her vegetable garden. She currently lives in the northern Illinois.

Winona LaDuke

Woody Hastings

Woody Hastings is the Renewable Energy Implementation Manager for the Sonoma County-based Climate Protection Campaign. He can be reached at woody@climateprotection.org

World Resources Institute

Yao Li

Yao Li, a graduate student majored in communication in Pepperdine University, concentrating on science communication. She used to be an editor of Chinese National Geography for two years and published more than 20 science reports on Geography E-weekly and dili360.com/

Ynske Boersma

Ynske Boersma is an investigative journalist and travel writer based in Bogota. After leaving the Netherlands in 2014, she has been traveling all over Latin America, reporting from wherever she found a story. Her work is published in Dutch, Colombian and North-American media.

Yotam Merom

Yotam Marom is a political organizer, activist, educator, musician, and writer based in New York City, and a founding member of the Organization for a Free Society. His writing can be found at www.ForLouderDays.net.

Yulia Salij

Yulia Salij is Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of the Kyiv-based online-magazine Hmarochos (means ‘skyscraper’ in ukrainian) about urban culture, urbanism and city development.

Zack Porter

Zack Porter writes from Missoula, Montana.

Zak Klein and Bill Buck

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