Sampling of Notable Signatures on the Sampling of Notable Signatures on the CASSE Position on Economic Growth The scientifically grounded CASSE position points out the trade-off between economic growth and environmental

protection and proposes the steady state economy as a sustainable alternative. Thousands of individuals have

signed the position, including many renowned thinkers and leaders. Some of these signatories are listed below.

Karim Ahmed, President of the Global Children's Health and Environment Fund; Secretary/Treasurer and Senior

Staff Advisor for the National Council for Science and the Environment; past Deputy Director of Health,

Environment and Development at the World Resources Institute; past Research Director and Senior Scientist

at Natural Resources Defense Council.

Will Allen, Founder-in-chief and CEO of Growing Power Inc., a farm and community food center in Milwaukee,

Wisconsin; former professional basketball player; John D. and Katherine T. McArthur Foundation Fellow and

“genius grant” recipient; named in Time magazine’s 100 World’s Most Influential People, May 2010.

John Asafu-Adjaye, Professor of economics at the University of Queensland; author of Environmental

Economics for Non-Economists; prolific scholar of environmental and natural resource economics.

Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology; cofounder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.

Michael Baranski, Professor of biology at Catawba College; past president of the Southern Appalachian

Botanical Society, Association of Southeastern Biologists, and the North Carolina Academy of Science.

Maude Barlow, Chairperson of the Council of Canadians; co-founder of the Blue Planet Project; councilor on the

World Future Council; winner of the Right Livelihood Award; former Senior Advisor on Water to the United

Nations; author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water, as

well as numerous other books.

Albert Bartlett, Emeritus professor of physics at the University of Colorado; former president of the American

Association of Physics Teachers; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; author

of The Essential Exponential!

John Battle, Former member of U.K. Parliament for West Leeds.

Ross Beaty, Geologist and resource company entrepreneur; founder of Pan American Silver and Lumina

Copper; patron of the Beaty Biodiversity Center at UBC and founder of the Sitka Foundation.

Ed Begley, Jr., actor and environmentalist. He is best known for his role as Dr. Victor Ehrlich, on the television

series St. Elsewhere, and his most recent reality show about green living called Living With Ed.

Wendell Berry, Farmer; author of more than forty books; past fellow of both the Guggenheim Foundation and the

Rockefeller Foundation.

Brent Blackwelder, President of Friends of the Earth; founder of American Rivers.

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John Bodley, Professor of anthropology at Washington State University; author of Cultural Anthropology: Tribe,

State, and the Global System, Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems, and Victims of Progress.

David Bollier, Author of The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State (2013); co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group; co-director of the Commons Law Project; and Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Gary Borisy, President and Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory, recipient of the NIH Merit award and the

Carl Zeiss award from the German Society for Cell Biology.

Peter Brown, Professor of natural resource sciences and geography at McGill University; author of Right

Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy and The Commonwealth of Life: Economics for a Flourishing

Earth.

Corey Bradshaw, Professor of ecology at the University of Adelaide; co-director of the Climate and Ecology

Centre and the Global Ecology Group; recipient of the Australian Ecology Research Award; founder and

editor of ConservationBytes blog.

Richard Brinker, Dean of the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University.

Bob Brown, Dean of the College of Natural Resources at North Carolina State University, and past president of

The Wildlife Society.

James Brown, Professor of biology at the University of New Mexico; fellow of the American Association for the

Advancement of Science; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; member of the National

Academy of Sciences; author of Macroecology; coauthor of Biogeography.

Marvin Brown, Professor of business and organizational ethics at the University of San Francisco; author of

Corporate Integrity: Rethinking Organizational Ethics and Leadership and Civilizing the Economy: A New

Economics of Provision; Alumni Achievement Award from Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Melanie Buffel, Coordinator of British Columbia Asset Building Collaborative.

John Byrne, Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy and Director of the Center for Energy and

Environmental Policy (CEEP) at the University of Delaware; contributing author since 1992 to Working Group

III of the IPCC, which shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize; chairman of the board of the Foundation for

Renewable Energy and Environment (FREE); cofounder and co-executive director of the Joint Institute for a

Sustainable Energy and Environmental Future; founding co-chair of the Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility

Oversight Board; Policy Advisor to the Environmental Forum of the Korea National Assembly; author of 17

books and over 150 research articles.

Philip Cafaro, Professor of philosophy at Colorado State University; author of The Pursuit of Virtue and

Thoreau's Living Ethics: Walden.

Robert Cahalan, Head of the Climate and Radiation Branch at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center; Fellow of the

American Meteorological Society; President of the International Radiation Commission.

John Cairns, Professor of environmental biology at Virginia Tech University; emeritus director of the Center for

Environmental and Hazardous Materials Studies; member of the National Academy of Sciences; author of 63

books, including Goals and Conditions for a Sustainable Planet and Handbook of Ecotoxicology.

Joe Cech, Professor of wildlife, fish, and conservation biology at the University of California, Davis; fellow of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the Copeia editorial board.

Mark A. Chandler, Climate scientist at Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies;

researcher on paleoclimate modeling.

David Cobb, Presidential candidate of the Green Party of the United States in 2004; steering committee member

of Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County; cofounder of the Green Institute.

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John B. Cobb, Jr., Founder of the Center for Process Studies; author of Sustainability: Economics, Ecology, and

Justice and The Earthist Challenge to Economism; coauthor with Herman Daly of For the Common Good.

Yves Cochet, Elected Member of the French National Assembly; former member of the European Parliament for

France.

John Coulter, President of Sustainable Population Australia; former parliamentary Senate leader of the

Australian Democrats.

Jean-Michel Cousteau, President of Ocean Futures Society, known as the “Voice for the Ocean;” producer of

over 80 films; recipient of the Emmy Award, Peabody Award, Environmental Hero Award, Ocean Hero Award,

National Marine Sanctuaries Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award; instrumental in designation of

Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument (then the largest marine protected area in the world); first

person to serve as environmental diplomat at Olympic Games.

Edward Crummey, founding executive director of the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance and the founding

president of the Clean Air Foundation.

Betty Dabney, Professor of environmental health at the University of Maryland; member of the Governor's

Commission for Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities (Maryland); past employee of IBM, Dow

Chemical, and CIBA.

Herman Daly, Professor of ecological economics at the University of Maryland; cofounder of the International

Society for Ecological Economics; author of Beyond Growth and Steady-State Economics; coauthor of For the

Common Good; recipient of the Right Livelihood Award.

Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange, founder and executive co-producer of the Green

Festivals, executive Director of the Global Citizen Center.

John Day, Professor emeritus of ecology at Louisiana State University; coauthor of Aquatic Ecosystems and

Global Climate Change.

Marie Dennis, Director, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns; Co-President, Pax Christi International;

Ambassador of Peace, Pax Christi USA, prolific author and contributing editor for Sojourners.

Richard Denniss, Executive director of the Australia Institute; coauthor of Affluenza: When Too Much Is Never

Enough.

Marq de Villiers, Author of Water: the Fate of Our Most Precious Resource, which won the Governor General's

Award for Nonfiction, and Our Way Out: Principles for a Post-Apocalyptic World, among other books; Member

of the Order of Canada (appointed in 2010).

Lumumba Di-Aping, Ambassador of the Republic of the Sudan to the United Nations; past chair and chief

negotiator of the Group of 77.

Mark Diesendorf, Deputy Director of the Institute of Environmental Studies, UNSW Australia; Founding Director

of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney; co-founder and vice-president

of the Sustainable Energy Industries Council of Australia; co-founder and president of the original

Australasian Wind Energy Association; president of the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological

Economics (ANZSEE); vice-president of Appropriate Technology for Community and Environment (APACE).

Andy Dobson, Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University; author of Conservation and

Biodiversity; recipient of the Wildlife Trust Conservation Award; Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow.

Mike Dombeck, Former Chief of the U.S. Forest Service; professor of global conservation at the University of

Wisconsin-Stevens Point; recipient of the Audubon Medal and the Lady Bird Johnson Conservation Award;

author of From Conquest to Conservation: Our Public Lands Legacy.

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Peter Doran, Lecturer in sustainable development at Queens University Belfast; former analyst with the United

Nations and legislatures in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland; founder of flagship masters

program in leadership and sustainable development.

Andrew Dorward, Economic Director at the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (CeDEP) at the

School of Oriental and African Studies; Honorary Principal Research Fellow, Imperial College, London; Editor

of Food Policy.

Richard Douthwaite, Cofounder of Feasta (Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability); author of The

Growth Illusion and The Ecology of Money.

Holly Dressel, Author, researcher, and adjunct professor at McGill University School of the Environment;

frequent collaborator with David Suzuki on film, radio programs, and books, including From Naked Ape to

Super-species and Good News for a Change.

Dianne Dumanoski, Award-winning author of The End of the Long Summer; coauthor of Our Stolen Future.

Ian Dunlop, Chairman of Safe Climate Australia; director of Australia 21; deputy Convenor of the Australian

Association for the Study of Peak Oil; fellow of the Centre for Policy Development; member of the Club of

Rome; former senior executive of Royal Dutch Shell; chair of Australian Coal Associations (1987-88); chair of

the Australian Greenhouse Office Experts Group on Emissions Trading (1998-00); CEO of Australian Institute

of Company Directors (1997-01).

Gwynne Dyer, freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs. Creator of the 7-

part television documentary War and numerous other tv and radio programs.

Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Explorer in Residence; Chief Scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration, 1990-1992; Time Magazine's first "hero for the planet" in 1998; Knight in the

Netherlands Order of the Golden Ark; TED Prize winner; co-founder of Deep Ocean Engineering; leader of

more than 400 expeditions worldwide; author of more than 125 publications.

David Ehrenfeld, Professor of biology at Rutgers University; founding editor of Conservation Biology; author of

Biological Conservation, Conserving Life on Earth, The Arrogance of Humanism, and numerous other books.

Paul Ehrlich, President of Stanford University's Center for Conservation Biology; fellow of the American

Association for the Advancement of Science; author of The Population Bomb and The Dominant Animal.

Jane Elder, Founding director of the Biodiversity Project; former director of the Sierra Club Midwest office;

recipient of the Bay Foundation Biodiversity Leadership Award.

Doug Everingham, Medical doctor; former member of Australian Parliament; former Minister for Health.

Cate Faehrmann, Chair of Sea Shepherd Australia; Greens New South Wales member of the New South Wales

Legislative Council (2011-2013); executive director of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW (2005).

Joshua Farley, Professor of community development and applied economics at the University of Vermont; fellow

of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics; board member of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics;

coauthor of Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications.

Colin Filer, Convenor of the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific (RMAP) Program; past member of the Papua

New Guinea National Economic and Fiscal Commission (1983-94); past head of Social and Environmental

Studies Division at the Papua New Guinea National Research Institute.

David Foster, Director of the Harvard Forest and professor of organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard

University; author of Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape.

James Gibson, Professor of sociology at California State University, Long Beach and faculty fellow at Yale

University’s Center for Cultural Sociology; author of The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam, Warrior

Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam America, and A Re-enchanted World: the Quest for a New

Kinship with Nature; writer for the LA Weekly and Los Angeles Times.

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Paul Gilding, Activist and social entrepreneur; former CEO of Greenpeace International, ECOS Corporation, and

Easy Being Green; author of The Great Disruption.

Azeb Girmai, Country Coordinator for Environmental Development Action – Ethiopia; member of LDC Watch

Secretariat.

Eberhard Goepel, Professor of social and health care at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg –

Stendal; member of the European Regional Committee; German national coordinator of the European Master

Program in Health Promotion.

Jane Goodall, World-renowned primatologist; United Nations Messenger of Peace; Commander of the Order of

the British Empire; recipient of the Medal of Tanzania; member of the advisory board of BBC Wildlife

magazine.

Robert Goodland, Former senior environmental advisor to the World Bank; president of the International

Association for Impact Assessment; Kenneth Boulding Award winner; author of more than 20 books.

Eban Goodstein, Director of the Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College; founder of the Green House

Network and Focus the Nation; author of Economics and Environment, The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction

about Jobs and the Environment, and Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics

Can Stop Global Warming.

Roger Gottlieb, Professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; author of This Sacred Earth: Religion,

Nature, Environment and A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth

contributing editor to Tikkun Magazine.

Kenneth Gould, Professor and chair of sociology at Brooklyn College; coauthor of Environment and Society: the

Enduring Conflict; Local Environmental Struggles; and The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and

Unsustainability in the Global Economy.

John Gowdy, Professor of economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; president of the International Society

for Ecological Economics; author of Paradise for Sale and Limited Wants, Unlimited Means.

Alisa Gravitz, Executive Director of Green America, board service includes Ceres, Positive Future Network,

Network for Good and People 4 Earth.

Lynn Greenwalt, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1974-1981; past vice president of the National

Wildlife Federation.

Paul Grignon, Artist; creator of Money As Debt, online animated feature about monetary systems and policies.

Maria José Guazzelli, Agricultural engineer; founder and past president of Centro Ecologica (Brazil); co-author of

Agropecuaria sem Veneno (Agriculture Without Poison).

Abbas Hachim, Director General of Economic Affairs, Union of the Comoros.

Jon Hall, Leader of the Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies at the Organization for Economic

Cooperation and Development; former leader of similar project for Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Robert W. Hall, Professor Emeritus, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University; founding director of the

Compression Institute, founding member of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence; author of

Compression and The Soul of the Enterprise.

James Hansen, Adjunct Professor of Earth Sciences at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, retired as director

of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in April 2013; author of Storms of my Grandchildren.

Paul Hawken, Founder and executive director of the Natural Capital Institute; author of The Ecology of

Commerce, Natural Capitalism, and Blessed Unrest.

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Denis Hayes, National Coordinator of the first Earth Day, and expanded it to over 180 nations; President of the

Bullitt Foundation; past chair of the boards of trustees of the Energy Foundation and of the American Solar

Energy Society.

Richard Heinberg, Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute; author of The Party's Over, Powerdown, The Oil

Depletion Protocol, and Peak Everything.

Lars Hektoen, CEO of Cultura Bank, a Norwegian savings bank with a specific mission to promote projects with

a social and ethical quality.

Hazel Henderson, Founder of Ethical Markets Media; fellow of Britain's Royal Society of Arts; author of The

Axiom and Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy.

Carsten Henningsen, Cofounder of Portfolio 21; chair of Progressive Investment Management.

Tim Hermach, President and founder of the Native Forest Council.

Hans Herren, President of the Millenium Institute; 1995 World Food Prize laureate; recipient of Kilby Award

(1995), Brandenberger Prize (2002), and Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2003); member, U.S

National Academy of Sciences; past director, Africa Biological Control Center.

Jack Herring, dean of Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University.

Kerryn Higgs, Author of Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet (2014).

Bill Hilty, State Representative in the Minnesota House of Representatives, District 8A, where he has served

since 1996 on several committees to advance energy legislation including a state renewable energy standard.

Mark Hixon, Professor of marine conservation biology at Oregon State University; honoree as the most cited

American author on coral reefs; Fulbright Senior Scholar; Fellow of the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program;

editorial board member of Coral Reefs, Ecology, and Ecological Monographs; chair of the Marine Protected

Areas Federal Advisory Committee.

Steven Hollenhorst, Professor of protected area policy at the University of Idaho; board member of the Idaho

Environmental Education Association; founder and president of the West Virginia Land Trust.

C.S. "Buzz" Holling, Emeritus eminent scholar at the University of Florida; originator of significant concepts to

ecological application, including resilience theory, adaptive management, and panarchy; one of the

conceptual founders of ecological economics; founding editor-in-chief of Conservation Ecology (now Ecology

and Society); winner of the Volvo Environment Prize; coauthor of Panarchy and Foundations of Ecological

Resilience; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; Officer of the Order of Canada.

David Holmgren, Co-originator of the permaculture concept.

Thomas Homer-Dixon, Chair of global systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo,

Canada; author of The Upside of Down, The Ingenuity Gap, and Environment, Scarcity, and Violence.

Charles Howe, Professor Emeritus of economics at the University of Colorado (Boulder); award winner for

Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work in Economics by the University of Colorado.

Roefie Hueting, Creator of the concept of Sustainable National Income; founder of the Department of

Environmental Statistics at Statistics Netherlands; author of New Scarcity and Economic Growth: More

Welfare Through Less Production.

Sharon Hrynkow, Associate director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; elected member

of the Council on Foreign Relations; recipient of the King of Norway's Order of Merit.

Helen Ingram, Emerita professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine; coauthor of Routing the

Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy and Saving Water in a Desert City.

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Vijavat Isarabhakdi, Appointed as Thailand’s ambassador to the United States. He previously served as deputy

permanent secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, and director-general of the Ministry’s

Department of International Organizations and deputy permanent representative of the Thai mission to the

United Nations.

Tim Jackson, Professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey; director of the Research Group

on Lifestyles, Values and Environment; economics commissioner to the U.K. Sustainable Development

Commission; author of Prosperity Without Growth.

Wes Jackson, Founder and President of The Land Institute; author of New Roots for Agriculture and Becoming

Native to This Place; MacArthur Fellow; recipient of the Right Livelihood Award.

Derrick Jensen, Environmental activist; author of Mischief in the Forest, Thought to Exist in the Wild, Endgame,

The Culture of Make Believe, and A Language Older Than Words.

H. Thomas Johnson, Professor of accounting at Portland State University; author of Relevance Lost: The Rise

and Fall of Management Accounting; former president of the Academy of Accounting Historians.

Ian Johnson, Secretary General, Club of Rome; former World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development;

former economist with British Government.

John Jopling, Cofounder and active member of FEASTA (Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability); co-

author of Gaian Democracies: Redefining Globalisation and People-Power and of Sharing for Survival,

Restoring the Climate, the Commons and Society.

Eugenia Kalnay, Professor of atmospheric and oceanic science at the University of Maryland; first woman to

earn a Ph.D. in meteorology from MIT; member of the National Academy of Engineering.

James Karr, Emeritus professor of fisheries and biology at the University of Washington; fellow of the American

Association for the Advancement of Science; creator of the Index of Biotic Integrity.

Judy Kepher-Gona, Founder and Director of Sustainable Travel and Tourism Agenda; executive director of

Kenya Land Conservation Trust; trustee and former CEO of Basecamp Foundation; former CEO of

Ecotourism Kenya; board member of Global Sustainable Tourism Council; advisory board member and

former CEO of The International Ecotourism Society; director of African Fund for Endangered Wildlife.

Andrew Kimbrell, Executive director of the International Center for Technology Assessment and the Center for

Food Safety; environmental attorney; author of 101 Ways to Help Save the Earth and Your Right to Know:

Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food.

Jonathan Kingdon, Research associate at Oxford University; author of Self-Made Man, a classic on the

economic and technological evolution of humans; distinguished scientist, artist, and author of numerous

books on zoology, anthropology and biogeography.

David Korten, Cofounder and board chair of YES! Magazine, co-chair of the New Economy Working

Group, founder and president of the Living Economies Forum, and author of When Corporations Rule the

World.

Paul Krausman, Boone and Crockett Professor of Wildlife Conservation at the University of Montana; Vice-

President of The Wildlife Society (2010); member of the University of Idaho Hall of Fame.

Charles Krebs, professor emeritus of population ecology in the University of British Columbia Department of

Zoology, author of Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance.

James Howard Kunstler, Best-selling author; non-fiction includes The Geography of Nowhere, Home From

Nowhere, The City in Mind, and The Long Emergency; fiction includes 11 novels including World Made By

Hand, The Halloween Ball, and An Embarrassment of Riches; regular contributor to the New York Times

Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page.

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Doug La Follette, Secretary of State of Wisconsin; author of The Survival Handbook: A Strategy for Saving

Planet Earth.

Philip Lawn, Professor of ecological economics at Flinders University; author of Frontier Issues in Ecological

Economics; executive editor of the International Journal of Environment, Workplace, and Employment.

Carmen Lawrence, Premier of Western Australia (1990-93); Member of Australian House of Representatives (1994-97 and 2000-02); President of the Australian Labor Party (2003); Winthrop Professor, University of Western Australia and Chair, Australian Heritage Council.

Sharachchandra Lele, Senior fellow and coordinator of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development; coauthor of Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Issues and Cases from South Asia.

Rex LaMore, Director of the Center for Community Economic Development at Michigan State University; Community Development Society's Distinguished Service Award (1995); Michigan Economic Developers Association Educator of the Year Award (2008); University Distinguished Academic Specialist (2011).

Annie Leonard, creator and narrator of The Story of Stuff, the animated documentary about the life-cycle of

material goods.

Joel Leventhal, Chief scientist of the Sustainable Business Group; fellow at the Bighorn Center for Leadership

and Public Policy.

Karin Limburg, Associate professor of environmental and forest biology, State University of New York, Syracuse;

SUNY Exemplary Researcher Award (2010); President, U.S. Society for Ecological Economics (2006-2007);

Fulbright Scholar (2006).

Richard Lindroth, Professor of ecology at the University of Wisconsin; fellow of the American Association for the

Advancement of Science; Fulbright Senior Scholar.

Bruce Lourie, president of The Ivey Foundation, a director of the Ontario Power Authority, a director of the

Ontario Trillium Foundation, founding executive director of the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance, and the

founding president of the Clean Air Foundation.

Peter Lynn, Professor of Research Methodology at the University of Essex; advisor to the UK Office for National

Statistics; past advisor to European Central Bank.

Richard Lamm, Co-director of the Institute for Public Policy at the University of Denver; 3-term governor of

Colorado.

Caroline Lucas, Member of British Parliament; former member of European Parliament; leader of the Green

Party of England and Wales.

Shane Mahoney, Executive Director of Sustainable Development and Strategic Science at the Department of

Environment and Conservation (Newfoundland and Labrador); founder and executive director of the Institute

of Biodiversity, Ecosystem Science and Sustainability; International Liaison of The Wildlife Society.

Ben Malayang III, President of Silliman University (Philippines); Senior Fellow at the Development Academy of

the Philippines; Fellow at the Strategic Studies Group, National Defense College of the Philippines; Member

of the Executive Committee of the United Nations Development Programme Portfolio Programs; past

Undersecretary of the Philippines Department of Environment and Natural Resources (1993 to 1995).

Jerry Mander, Founder of the International Forum on Globalization; author of In the Absence of the Sacred: the

Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations and Four Arguments for the Elimination of

Television; coauthor of Alternatives to Economic Globalization.

Michael Mann, Physicist and Climatologist, currently Director of the Earth System Science Center at

Pennsylvania State University; lead author of the peer-reviewed paper that included the “hockey stick graph”

often cited in IPCC reports and elsewhere; author of Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming and

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The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines; also a co-founder of the

climatology blog RealClimate.

Joan Martinez-Alier, Professor of economics and economic history at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona;

author of Ecological Economics: Energy, Environment and Society and The Environmentalism of the Poor: a

Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation; past president of the International Society for Ecological

Economics.

Rania Masri, Professor of environmental at the University of Balamand (Lebanon); director of the Southern

Peace Research and Education Center.

Chris Matthews, Host of Hardball with Chris Matthews (MSNBC) and The Chris Matthews Show (NBC News);

author of several best-sellers; regular commentator on NBC’s Today Show.

Manfred Max-Neef, Past Rector of the Universidad Austral de Chile; author of From the Outside Looking In:

Experiences in Barefoot Economics and Human Scale Development; winner of the Right Livelihood Award,

the Kenneth Boulding Award, and the Chilean National Prize for the Promotion and Defense of Human

Rights; former Chilean presidential candidate.

Peter May, Chairman of the Department of Development, Agriculture and Society at the Federal Rural University

of Rio de Janeiro; executive secretary of the Brazilian Agroforestry Network; president of the International

Society for Ecological Economics.

Professor Lord May of Oxford, Professor at Oxford University, Fellow of Merton College, member of the UK

Government’s Climate Change Committee, former President of The Royal Society, former Chief Scientific

Adviser to the UK Government and Head of the UK Office of Science and Technology, Blue Planet Prize

laureate.

Kozo Mayumi, Professor of ecological economics at the University of Tokushima; author of The Origins of

Ecological Economics; coauthor of Jevons' Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency.

Bill McKibben, Global warming activist; author of The End of Nature, Deep Economy, and Eaarth (among other

books); founder of 350.org.

Jeffrey McNeely, Senior Science Advisor, IUCN World Headquarters; Past chief scientist, IUCN; Secretary-

General of the World Congress on National Parks and Protected Areas IV (Caracas 1992); author/coauthor of

over 40 books.

Betty Meggers, Archaeological researcher at the Smithsonian Institution; author of Ecuador, Amazonia,

Prehistoric America, and Archaeological Investigations at the Mouth of the Amazon; recipient of the

Decoration of Merit from the government of Ecuador.

Juraj Mesik, Senior community foundations specialist with the World Bank; former director of the Ekopolis

Foundation; former Member of Parliament in the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly; chairman of the Green

Party.

Aubrey Meyer, Co-Founder of the Global Commons Institute; author of Contraction & Convergence; recipient of

Schumacher Award, 2000; Honorary Fellow of Royal Institute of British Architects, 2007; UNEP FI Global

Roundtable Financial Leadership Award, 2007.

Stanley A. Moberly, Former president of the American Fisheries Society; former board member of the National

Wildlife Federation; recipient of the American Fisheries Society’s Distinguished Service Award.

Stephen Mumford, President of the Center for Research on Population and Security; Humanist Distinguished

Service Award recipient; Margaret Mead Leadership Prize recipient; author of numerous books on population

security and reproductive rights.

Charles “Ched” Myers, Founder of Sabbath economics; author of Binding the Strong Man.

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Robert Nadeau, Professor of environmental science and public policy at George Mason University; author of nine

books including The Wealth of Nature and The Environmental Endgame; founder of the Global Environmental

Network Center (George Mason University); co-founder of Linus Computers.

N. M. Nayar, Professor emeritus of botany at Kerala University; former director of the Indian Council of

Agricultural Research; author of Tuber Crops and Cucurbits.

Gerard Ndabemeye, Director General of Agricultural Planning, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Burundi.

Gerald Niemi, Professor of biology at the University of Minnesota at Duluth; director of the Center for Water and

the Environment at the Natural Resources Research Institute; fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union.

K. N. Ninan, Professor of ecological economics at the Institute for Social and Economic Change; editor of The

Economics of Biodiversity Conservation-Valuation in Tropical Forest Ecosystems.

Helena Norberg-Hodge, Director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture; Right Livelihood Award

laureate; member of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture; author of Ancient

Futures: Learning from Ladakh (translated into 42 languages).

Richard Norgaard, Professor of Energy and Resources at the University of California – Berkeley; member,

National Academy of Sciences; past president, International Society for Ecological Economics; lead author,

5th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Boyd Norton, Wilderness photographer; Charter member and Fellow of the International League of Conservation

Photographers; Founder, Fellow, and member of the Board of Directors of the North American Nature

Photography Association (NANPA), and founder and Fellow of the International League of Conservation

Writers; his books include The Art of Outdoor Photography and Serengeti: The Eternal Beginning.

Reed Noss, Professor of conservation biology at the University of Central Florida; fellow of the American

Association for the Advancement of Science; chief scientist of Conservation Science, Inc.; member of the

board of governors of the Society for Conservation Biology; coauthor of Saving Nature's Legacy.

Gunilla Öberg, Professor and director of the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the

University of British Columbia; founding director of the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research,

Linköping University, Sweden; co-director of the Soil Water Environmental Laboratory (University of British

Columbia).

Ron O’Dor, Professor at Dalhousie University and Chief Scientist of the Census of Marine Life; Canadian

Geographic’s 2009 Environmental Scientist of the Year.

Elisabeth Odum, Professor emerita at Santa Fe Community College; coauthor with H.T. Odum of A Prosperous

Way Down.

Rosemary Ommer, Member of the board of directors of Genome BC; past director of the Calgary Institute for the

Humanities; past director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research at Memorial University,

Newfoundland.

Maggie Opondo, Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at

the University of Nairobi.

David Orr, Professor of environmental studies at Oberlin College; author of The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics,

and the Environment and The Nature of Design; contributing editor of Conservation Biology.

Camille Parmesan, Professor of ecology, behavior and conservation at the University of Texas; member of the

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Neil Patterson, CEO of Neil Patterson Productions; Emmy Award winner for the PBS documentary DNA: The

Secret of Life; President and CEO of W.H. Freeman and Company from 1980-1984; director of W.W. Norton

and Company's College Division from 1977-1980; co-founder of Scientific American Books.

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Alexandra Paul, Actress and activist; has starred in over 70 movies and television programs including the

documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?

Nancy Pearlman, Award-winning broadcaster, anthropologist, editor and producer; Global 500 Laureate (United

Nations Environment Programme); founder of the Ecology Center of Southern California; Executive Producer

and host of the three-time Emmy-nominated television series Econews.

Jules Peck, Chairman of the Bulmer Foundation; founding partner of Abundancy; developer of the ResPublica

think tank; coauthor of Citizen Renaissance.

John Peet, Senior faculty member of engineering at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand;

author of Energy and the Ecological Economics of Sustainability.

Renat Perelet, Research leader at the Institute for Systems Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow;

coauthor of Dictionary of Environmental Economics and Conflict and the Environment.

Joshua Peters, Political Director, Marion County (Indiana) Democratic Party.

Ann Pettifor, Director of Advocacy International; fellow of the New Economics Foundation; leader of the Jubilee

2000 debt relief campaign; coauthor of A Green New Deal.

William Platts, past president of the American Fisheries Society; Masters U.S. national champion in javelin and

long jump.

Jonathon Porritt, Chair of the United Kingdom Sustainable Development Commission; former director of U.K.

Friends of the Earth; former chair of the Green Party; cofounder of Forum of the Future; author of Capitalism:

As if the World Matters and Seeing Green.

Hugh Possingham, Professor of ecology at the University of Queensland; director of the Ecology Centre;

developer of Marxan software for conservation reserve design; council member of the Australian Academy of

Science.

Judy Prather, North American coordinator for the Rotarian Action Group for Population and Sustainability

Development; served as Chair of the delegation of North American nongovernmental organizations at the

1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio.

Tony Prato, Professor of agricultural economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia; co-director of the Center

for Applied Research and Environmental Systems; director of the Great Rivers Cooperative Ecosystem

Studies Unit.

Andrew Price, Honorary Professor at York University; Fellow, Linnean Society; British Consultant of the Year

Award Winner (1991).

John Proops, Professor of ecological economics at Keele University; past president of the International Society

for Ecological Economics; coauthor of Ecological Economics: Concepts and Methods.

Stephen Purdey, Lecturer at the University of Toronto; author of Economic Growth, the Environment and

International Relations.

Rod Quantock, Stand-up comedian; political activist; author of Double Disillusion.

Gabriel Quijandria, Peru Deputy Minister for Strategic Development of Natural Resources, Ministry of the

Environment.

George Rabb, President Emeritus of the Chicago Zoological Society; past director of the Brookfield Zoo (1976-

2003); past chairman of the Species Survival Commission of IUCN (1989-1996); board member of numerous

conservation organizations.

Andry Raharinomena, Director for Economic Cooperation and Aid Coordination, Ministry of Economy and

Industry, Republic of Madagascar; G77 representative for Madagascar.

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Ramesh Ramankutty, Head of Corporate Operations and Financial Services at the Global Environment Facility

(GEF).

Michael Raupach, Director of the Australian National University's Climate Change Institute (2014); Inaugural co-

chair of the Global Carbon Project (2000-2008); contributing author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

(2007).

William Rees, Professor of community and regional planning at the University of British Columbia; past president

of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics; co-creator of the ecological footprint concept; coauthor of

Our Ecological Footprint.

Henry Regier, Professor emeritus of zoology and director of the Institute for Environmental Studies at the

University of Toronto; recipient of the Order of Canada; past-president of AFS; commissioner on the Great

Lakes Fishery Commission; lead author of the fisheries chapter for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Change’s 1995 report.

Robert Repetto, Economist and Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation; professor of sustainable

development at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; vice president of the World

Resources Institute; World Bank official working in Indonesia; economic advisor to the planning commission in

Bangladesh; economic analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.

Arthur Riggs, Member of the California Board of Trustees of the Nature Conservancy; Director Emeritus of the

Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope National Medical Center.

Ingrid Rima, One of the first women to teach economics in the United States and the first ever to receive tenure

in the Economics Department and the School of Business at Temple University; author of Development of

Economic Analysis.

Holmes Rolston, University Distinguished Professor of philosophy at Colorado State University; author of

Conserving Natural Value, Environmental Ethics, Three Big Bangs, among other books; winner of the

Templeton Prize and the Mendel Medal.

Dick Roy, Co-founder and co-director of the Center for Earth Leadership; co-founder and executive director of the

Northwest Earth Institute; winner of 2010 President’s Sustainability Award presented by the Oregon State

Bar.

Jeanne Roy, Education director of the Center for Earth Leadership; co-founder of the Northwest Earth Institute;

founder and chair of the Oregon Natural Step Network.

Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. He is the

author of ten book including Life, Inc.

Carl Safina, President of the Blue Ocean Institute; author of Song for the Blue Ocean (New York Times Notable

Book of the Year) and numerous other publications; among Audubon Magazine’s 100 Notable

Conservationists of the 20th Century; Pew Scholar Award Winner.

Richard Sanders, Senior policy officer at the Australian Department of Environment and Resource Management;

president of Quest 2025; author of A Systems Approach to Governance for Sustainability.

Scott Russell Sanders, Distinguished professor emeritus at Indiana University; author of more than 20 books,

including A Conservationist Manifesto; winner of the Lannan Literary Award, the Great Lakes Book Award, the

Indiana Humanities Award, and the Mark Twain Award.

Kirsten Sanford, Neurophysiologist; originator of This Week in Science radio program; host of Dr. Kiki's Science

Hour.

Jack Santa-Barbara, Founder of the Sustainable Scale Project; former CEO of CHC-Working Well; founding

president of the Canadian Evaluation Society.

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Masahiro Sato, Associate Professor of Sustainable Economics at Kyoto University's Research Center for

Advanced Policy Studies, and Institute of Economic Research; Chief Director of Earth Summit 2012 Japan.

David Schindler, Killam Memorial Professor of Ecology at the University of Alberta; founder and director of the

Experimental Lakes Project of the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

Allan Schnaiberg, Emeritus professor of sociology at Northwestern University; coauthor of The Treadmill of

Production.

Stuart Scott, Founder of The Climate Summit, the Interfaith Declaration on Climate Change, and Climate Corps;

professor of theory of knowledge, critical thinking, statistics and mathematics in Honolulu, Hawaii; former

employee of Merrill Lynch and IBM.

Molly Scott Cato, Green economist; author of Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice

and Market, Schmarket: Building the Post-Capitalist Economy.

Vandana Shiva, Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology; author of Water

Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization and Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge; recipient of

the Right Livelihood Award.

Nova Silvy, Winner of The Wildlife Society’s 2003 Aldo Leopold Memorial Award.

Andrew Simms, Policy director of the New Economics Foundation; author of Ecological Debt: Global Warming

and the Wealth of Nations; co-editor of Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth?; board member of The Energy

Resources Institute (TERI) Europe.

Anthony Sinclair, Winner of The Wildlife Society’s 2013 Aldo Leopold Memorial Award.

Richard Slaughter, Director of Foresight International; president of the World Futures Studies Federation (2001-

2005); Foundation Professor of Foresight at the Australian Foresight Institute, Swinburne University (1999-

2004); author of Biggest Wake Up Call in History and Futures Beyond Dystopia: Creating Social Foresight.

Dick Smith, Founder of Dick Smith Electronics, Dick Smith Foods, and Australian Geographic magazine;

Australian of the Year award winner (1986); Founder of the Wilberforce Award.

Patricia Sorensen, Owner of Sorensen Financial Management, and a Registered Investment Adviser in the State

of Colorado.

Colin Soskolne, Professor of epidemiology at the University of Alberta; scientific and research associate of the

University of Alberta Hospitals; associate editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology; lead editor of

Sustaining Life on Earth: Environmental and Human Health through Global Governance.

Michael Soule, Emeritus professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz; cofounder

and first president of the Society for Conservation Biology; founder and president of The Wildlands Project;

fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; coauthor of Introductory Biology and

Conservation and Evolution.

Joachim Spangenberg, Vice President of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute; member of the Executive

Committee of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility; past program

director for Sustainable Societies at the Wuppertal Institute (1992-1999); past Chairman of Friends of the

Earth Europe (1989-1996).

Gus Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; founder and president of the World

Resources Institute; cofounder of the Natural Resources Defense Council; author of Red Sky at Morning and

The Bridge at the Edge of the World; former chairman of the President's Council on Environmental Quality;

former head of the U.N. Development Program.

Sigrid Stagl, Senior Fellow of Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex; coauthor of

Ecological Economics: An Introduction.

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William Steiner, Dean of the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management at the

University of Hawaii, Hilo Campus; former director of the Pacific Islands Ecosystems Research Center.

David Suzuki, Cofounder of the David Suzuki Foundation; host of television program The Nature of Things;

author of The Sacred Balance; Companion of the Order of Canada.

Daniel Svedarsky, Past President of The Wildlife Society, and winner of the The Wildlife Society’s fellows

program.

Gary Tabor, Landscape ecologist and philanthropic leader; founder and Executive Director of the Center for

Large Landscape Conservation.

Stanley Temple, Beers-Bascom professor emeritus in conservation at the University of Wisconsin; senior fellow

and science advisor at the Aldo Leopold Foundation; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement

of Science; former president of the Society for Conservation Biology; former chairman of the Wisconsin

Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.

John Terborgh, Professor of environmental science at Duke University; director of the Center for Tropical

Conservation; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; author of Requiem for

Nature and Diversity and the Tropical Rainforest.

Rick Theis, Founder and board chair of the Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy; former executive

director of the Sonoma County Grape Growers Association; founder of the Sonoma County Transportation

Land-Use Coalition.

Douglas Tompkins, Conservation philanthropist; president of the Foundation for Deep Ecology; cofounder of

The North Face and ESPRIT clothing companies.

Ted Trainer, Senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, University of New South Wales; founder of The Simpler

Way, an organization that analyzes global problems and sustainable alternatives; author of Abandon

Affluence and The Transition to a Sustainable and Just World, among other books.

Randy Udall, Director of the Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE); member of the board of directors

of Solar Energy International and Colorado Renewable Energy Society; cofounder of the Association for the

Study of Peak Oil and Gas.

Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Director of the Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy at the Central

European University, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

George Varughese, President of Development Alternatives; advisor to the World Bank Community Development

Carbon Fund, the Global Water Partnership, UNEP Global Environment Outlook, and various ministries of the

Government of India.

Arild Vatn, Professor of environmental sciences, economics, and resource management at the Norwegian

University of Life Sciences; president of the European Society of Ecological Economics; author of Institutions

and the Environment.

Frans Verhagen, Representative of the International Peace Research Association at the United Nations; Director

of Sustainability Research and Education at Earth and Peace Education Associates International; past Earth

Science Regent, NYC Board of Education; developer of Earth Community School for secondary education.

Peter Victor, Professor of economics and environmental studies at York University; advisory council member of

the Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science; founding president of the Canadian Society for

Ecological Economics; author of Managing without Growth: Smaller by Design, Not Disaster.

Robert Warren, Professor of wildlife ecology and management at the University of Georgia; former president of the Wildlife Society; recipient of Josiah Meigs Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Jack H. Berryman Institute's Communication Award.

Senator Larissa Waters, Queensland's first Greens Senator (took office in 2011).

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Andrew Weaver, Professor and Canada Research Chair in climate modeling and analysis at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria; world-renowned authority on global warming and climate change; lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2nd, 3rd and 4th Scientific Assessments; co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize; author of Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World.

Raoul Weiler, President of the EU-Chapter of the Club of Rome; professor of technology and ethics at Katholieke

Universiteit Leuven; past president of the Royal Flemish Engineers Association.

Paula Williams, Sustainability director at the University of Alaska (Anchorage); past president of Kids Corp.

James Wilsdon, Director of the Science Policy Center at the Royal Society; director of the Atlas of Ideas project.

E. O. Wilson, Professor of biology at Harvard University; author of Sociobiology, The Ants, The Diversity of Life,

Consilience, and many other books; winner of the U.S. National Medal of Science; Pulitzer Prize winner;

Crafoord Prize winner; BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge award winner.

Donald Worster, Hall Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, University of Kansas, and Distinguished

Foreign Expert, Renmin University of China, Beijing; one of the founders of, and leading figures in, the field

of environmental history.

Ronald Wright, Historian, novelist, and essayist; author of A Short History of Progress and A Scientific Romance.

Xiaojian (George) You, Senior Manager of China Programs at the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise,

Johnson School at Cornell University.

Mike Young, Executive Director of the Environment Institute at the University of Adelaide; member of the

Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists; winner of South Australian of the Year.