Below is a list of suggested speakers for sustainability-related events. Please use this list as a resource and consider using speakers who are local or regional to reduce carbon emissions and save on travel costs for your event.

Jim Ales, Monterey Bay Aquarium

Marc Alt, Marc Alt + Partners

Rolan Atwood, Director of Community Relations, American Apparel

Eric Benson, Partner, Outreach Lead, Re-nourish

Janine Benyus, Founder, Biomimicry Institute

John Bielenberg, Founder, Project M

Jean-Charles Boisset, President, DeLoach Vineyards and Boisset Family Estates

Jay Bolus, Executive Vice President of Benchmarking and Certification, MBDC

Stewart Brand, Founder, Whole Earth Catalog and Editor, CoEvolution Quarterly

Lester Brown, Founder and President, Earth Policy Institute

Blaine Brownell, Architect and Sustainable Building Advisor, NBBJ

Don Carli, Senior Research Fellow, The Institute for Sustainable Communication

Majora Carter, Founder, Sustainable South Bronx

Jamais Cascio, Writer, Ethical Futurist and Co-founder, Worldchanging

Valerie Casey, Founder, The Designers Accord

Allan Chochinov, Editor in Chief, Core77

Yvon Chouinard, Founder and Owner, Patagonia Inc.

Dawn Danby, Program Manager, Autodesk

Eames Demetrios, Filmmaker, Writer and Founder, Kymaerica

Pam Dorr, Hale Empowerment & Revitalization Organization

Brian Dougherty, Designer, Celery Design Collaborative

Frank Escher, Senior Editor, Dwell Magazine

Amy Franceschini, Principal, Futurefarmers

Robert Freling, Executive Director, Solar Electric Light Fund

Tom Friedman, Journalist, Author and Op-ed Contributor, The New York Times

Michel Gelobter, Climate Strategist and Founder, Cooler

Mark Galbraith, General Manager, Nau Clothing, Inc.

Saul Griffith, Inventor and Founder, Makani Power

Chris Hacker, Chief Design Officer, Johnson & Johnson

Phil Hamlett, AIGA National Board, Co-architect of The Living Principles

Paul Hawken, Environmentalist, Entrepreneur, Journalist and Author

Daniell Hebert, MOTO Development Group (part of Cisco)

Dan Imhoff, Author, Watershed Media

Corey Jones, California College of the Arts Materials Lab

Van Jones, Founder, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

Kalle Lasn, Founder, Adbusters Media Foundation

Joel Makower, Writer and Founder, Greener World Media, Inc.

Dawn Maxey, Spoken Word Artist, Stanford Spoken Word Collective

Jacinta McCann, AECOM

Gage Mitchell & Jennifer Stewart, Partners, Modern Species

Greg Moore, Executive Director, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy

Robin Petravic, Owner, Heath Ceramics

Emily Pilloton, Founder, Project H Design

Yvette Perullo, Partner, ReNourish

Ron Radziner, Principal, Marmol Radziner+Associates

Peter Robinson, CEO, David Suzuki Foundation

Hans Rosling, Professor, Karolinska Institute and Founder, Gapminder

Paul Saffo, Institute for the Future

Jane Savage, Director, Nike Considered

Michael Schwab, Principal, Michael Schwab Studio

Nathan Shedroff, Chair, MBA in Design Strategy, California College of the Arts

Cameron Sinclair, Co-founder and Executive Director, Architecture for Humanity

Derek Smith, Sustainability and Printing Consultant, Derek Smith & Associates

Ted Smith, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition

Alex Steffen, Executive Editor, Worldchanging

Bruce Sterling, Futurist and Author, Wired Magazine

Scott Stowell, Founder, Open

Richard Nelson Swett, US Ambassador to Denmark, 1998–2001, Swett Associates

Andrew Wagner, Senior Editor, Dwell Magazine

Jeff Walker, Principal, VSA Partners

Adam Werbach, Saatchi & Saatchi

Philip White, Orb Analysis for Design

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