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Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and Chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that is focused on a new approach to Sustainable Investing. He is the author of An Inconvenient Truth, a best-selling book on the threat of and solutions to global warming, and the subject of the movie of the same title, which has already become one of the top documentary films in history.

Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of "Arithmetic, Population and Energy".

McNamara was elected to the Queensland Parliament in 2001 as the Labor Member for Hervey Bay and in September 2007 became the Queensland Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation.

Sets his internal vigorous cynicism upon society through rabid scrawling on paper

Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the need for more localized economies. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he led the organization of the largest demonstrations against global warming in American history.

Professor of Journalism (UT, Austin), peace writer & campaigner

Chris Skrebowski, Editor of the UK Petroleum Review

Dr. Colin J. Campbell is the founder of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO)

Daniel is Program Manager for Post Carbon Cities a program of Post Carbon Institute that provides resources and assistance to local governments on peak oil and climate change. He is the author of Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty, the first major local government guidebook on peak oil and global warming.

Professor of fisheries (UBC, Canada)

David Fridley is part of Lawrence Berkeley's Energy Analysis Program, Environmental Energies Technology Division. The EAP generates and interprets information to inform governments and international institutions on energy-related issues to assist in the formulation of energy and environmental policies. Fridley is also deputy group leader of Lawrence Berkeley's China Energy Group, which collaborates with the Chinese on end-use energy efficiency, industrial energy use, government energy management programs, data compilation and analysis, medium and long term energy policy research.

Vice Provost and professor of physics and applied physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena

David Holmgren, Co-Originator of the Permaculture Concept and Author of Permaculture: Principals and Pathways Beyond Sustainability

energy financial analyst (Houston, Texas)

David Room founded Energy Preparedness as a response to the lack of planning in the municipal and commercial realm to our energy predicament. Previously, he played a key role in many aspects of Post Carbon Institute’s emergence including conceptual frameworks, web design and development, policy, outreach, and fundraising. He is an interviewer for Global Public Media, as well as a frequent lecturer. Dave is the co-author of the forthcoming Relocalize Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil. He has a Masters in Engineering Economic Systems and a B.S, in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Former BBC journalist and author of Buy The Last Oil Shock.

Editor-in-Chief of Salon.com

Co-author of The Limits to Growth

Duncan Crary is the director of communications for the Institute for Humanist Studies. He is a former newspaper reporter, magazine editor and publisher. He has recorded face-to-face podcast interviews with Sir Salman Rushdie, E.O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Alan Dershowitz, Holly Near and Julia Sweeney. Crary says The Geography of Nowhere, by James Howard Kunstler, gave him a vocabulary to voice his growing disgust with the suburban project. It also helped him laugh.

author of "Diet for a Small Planet" [available soon]

Senior Fellowist & Linguist and UC Berkeley, Rockridge Institute, works to raise awareness of the importance of framing issues and to help progressives proactively re-frame the debate.

Journalist with Guardian & BBC and author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

author, independent futurist, economic advisor

Director of the International Society of Ecology and Culture (ISEC) in London.

Oil industry analyst, founder of Groppe, Long & Littell.

Hermann Scheer's unique renewable energy law has made Germany the world leader in production of wind energy with 7.000 megawatts (one third of the total world wind power capacity), and reached as much as 50 percent of the total European capacity

journalist, author (with David Suzuki) of 'Good News For A Change' & 'From Naked Ape to Super-species'

Earthsave; caused Oprah Winfrey to forswear hamburgers [available soon]

Author of "Geography of Nowhere", "Home from Nowhere", "The City in Mind", and the forthcoming book "The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century

Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin

oil economist [available soon]

He has spawned a movement to help his town face issues of resource depletion and environmental change by creating a locally sustainable economy.

Jeanette Fitzsimons is the Green Party of New Zealand's Co-Leader. "Being Green is certainly not about forcing your lifestyle onto others - it's showing how it is possible to live a rich, fulfilling lifestyle with less impact on nature," she emphasises.

Author of Seeds of Deception

Author of "Empty Tank" (aka "Half Gone") and head of solarcentury.

John Jeavons is known internationally as the leading researcher, developer, teacher and consultant of small-scale food production techniques utilizing GROW BIOINTENSIVE culture.

Director General of the World Nuclear Association

Founder of Earthsave [available soon]

Julian Darley is Founder and Director of Post Carbon Institute. He is author of High Noon for Natural Gas: the New Energy Crisis (2004) and co-author of the forthcoming Relocalize Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil. Julian has an MSc in Environment and Social Research from the University of Surrey in the UK, an MA in Journalism and Communications from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in Music & Russian. Before deciding to study the arts, Julian was studying for a career in the sciences. He currently lives in Sebastopol, California.

Kéllia, along with Bonnie Faulkner, is co-founder of the KPFA public affairs show Guns and Butter, where her involvment in the Peak Oil story began in 2001. She also produced a 5-part series called "The End of the Age of Oil" for the Internet in 2002.

Petroleum geologist, author of "Hubbert's Peak"

Norway's Deputy Minister of Petroleum and Energy.

food specialist [available soon]

Research Coordinator at INETI Lisbon, Renewable Energies Dep't

Executive Director for Strategy and Public Policy for Irish wind generator Airtricity, which was recently acquired by Scottish and Southern Energy for €1.1 billion.

His site has been the #1 "Peak Oil" site on Google since January 2004

Influential energy investment banker and analyst (Houston, Texas)

Maude Barlow, National Chairperson, Council of Canadians (Ottawa, ON) - The Council of Canadians is Canada’s largest public advocacy organization. Barlow is also the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which is working internationally for the right to water. She serves on the boards of the International Forum on Globalization and Food and Water Watch, as well as being a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. Maude is the recipient of six honorary doctorates, the 2005/2006 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship Award, and the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (known as the "Alternative Nobel") for her global water justice work. She is also the best-selling author or co-author of sixteen books, including Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop Corporate Theft of the World’s Water and the recently released Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water.

author of "Resource Wars", Prof of Peace and World Security Studies

designer of LETS (now in London, UK)

Publisher/Editor of From the Wilderness

Nate is a former Wall Street investments manager and has an MBA from University of Chicago. He is working on his doctorate at the University of Vermont's Gund Institute for Ecological Economics. Nate is also an editor for The Oil Drum, an online source for news, analysis and discussions about energy and our future.

Omar Freilla is the founder and director of Green Worker Cooperatives, a new organization that incubates worker-owned and environmentally friendly businesses in the South Bronx.

Executive Director of Community Service and The Community Solution (communitysolution.org)

She has taught Permaculture throughout the United States and Mexico, and has facilitated Dances of Universal Peace, prayer lodges, and local and continental Bioregional Congresses.

co-author of "One with Nineveh, Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future", biologist and Stanford Professor of Population Studies

Head of commodities research for Barclays Capital.

"I never put those plants on my land," says Schmeiser. "The question is, where do Monsanto's rights end and mine begin?"

From nine to noon every weekday, Nine To Noon on Radio New Zealand tackles everything from hard news to lifestyle issues, with the help of newsmakers, overseas commentators and correspondents, fellow journalists, experts in every imaginable field, writers, reviewers and ordinary New Zealanders. Lately, Nine To Noon has been tackling the issues of peak oil and climate change regularly.

Richard Bell is Communications Director for Global Public Media's parent organization, Post Carbon Institute.

economist; author of 'The Growth Illusion', 'Short Circuit' etc

author of five previous books including The Party's Over and Powerdown

Rob Hopkins is a permaculture designer and instructor. He and his students launched the very successful Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan in Cork, Ireland. His lates project is Transition Town Totnes, his website is TransitionCulture.org.

former BBC News editor ('The Today Programme'), now Channel 4 film-maker and journalist for The Guardian & The Spectator (UK)

Dr. Roger Bezdek is president of Management Information Services Inc. (MISI) and coauthor of Peaking Of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management (the Hirsch report) and the followup to the Hirsch report, Economic Impacts of Liquid Fuel Mitigation Options.

The Cultural Economist

Maryland Congressman Roscoe Bartlett aims to educate his peers about the realities of Global Oil Peak.

Sharon Astyk is a writer, teacher and subsistence farmer, and the author of two forthcoming books on Peak Oil and Climate Change — Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front (Fall ‘08) and A Nation of Farmers (And Cooks) (Spring ‘09), the latter co-authored with Aaron Newton. Both books are forthcoming from New Society Publishers.

Independent journalist whose writing has appeared in Salon.com, The Nation, The Progressive, Knight-Ridder, and elsewhere

author of A Citizen's Guide To The WTO, environmental lawyer (in Canada)

Considers himself a humble toadie

Van is leading the fight against police brutality, racial bias, infringement on civil liberties, and other violations.

Professor of Community & Regional Planning, originator of Eco-Footprint concept