Daniel Lashof
Dan Lashof is the director of NRDC’s climate and clean air program and is active in the areas of solutions to global warming, national energy policy, and climate science. Dan is involved in developing...
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Laurie Tipton Johnson is the Chief Economist at NRDC’s Climate and Clean Air Program in Washington, DC. Her work at NRDC focuses on modeling the costs and benefits of climate change pollution,...
View ArticleNigel Sizer
Nigel Sizer is the Director of WRI’s Global Forest Initiative. Nigel comes to WRI from Rare, an international conservation organization, where he served as vice president for Asia. While at Rare, he...
View ArticleBernd Blossey
Bernd Blossey is an ecological generalist with wide ranging interests (plants, birds, insects, mammals, amphibians) in aquatic and terrestrial systems. His academic training is in ecology, particularly...
View ArticleGarrit Voggesser
Garrit Voggesser is NWF’s National Director for Tribal Partnerships. He works nationwide with tribes on a variety of wildlife, habitat, climate change, energy, water, and other conservation issues....
View ArticleAmy Moas
Amy Moas, Ph.D. is Senior Forest Campaigner for Greenpeace. For more than 40 years Greenpeace has been a leading independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful direct action and creative...
View ArticleAndrew Wetzler
Andrew Wetzler is Director of NRDC’s Land and Wildlife Program and is based in NRDC’s Chicago, Illinois, office. Andrew has worked on issues related to wildlife and habitat conservation and open space...
View ArticleJohn Seager
John Seager is the President and CEO of Population Connection – having first joined the organization in 1996. He previously served with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton...
View ArticleKyle Ash
As Greenpeace’s Senior Legislative Representative, Kyle Ash is responsible for domestic and international climate change policy analysis and campaign strategy. He has been quoted in Politico,...
View ArticleBruce Stein
Dr. Bruce A. Stein leads the National Wildlife Federation’s work on safeguarding people and wildlife from the impacts of climate change. Dr. Stein has a long history of working on biodiversity...
View ArticleJohn Hocevar
John directed a campaign that helped secure the first cap on factory fishing for menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay (menhaden is the second largest fishery in the United States). John’s team has been...
View ArticleJamie Rappaport Clark
Jamie came to Defenders after a 20-year career in conservation with the federal government, mostly with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In recognition of her accomplishments and national leadership...
View ArticleDonald Barry
Don Barry joined Defenders as executive vice president in June 2011 and oversees all day-to-day operations and programs at Defenders of Wildlife, supervises the senior leadership team and is the...
View ArticleAmy Atwood
Ms. Atwood is a public interest environmental litigator who addresses biodiversity protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. She is an expert on listing of species as endangered or threatened...
View ArticleAlex Matthiessen
Alex Matthiessen is the founder and president of Blue Marble Project, an environmental consulting firm based in New York City. From 2000-2010, Matthiessen was the CEO and president of Riverkeeper, a...
View ArticleKierán Suckling
Kierán Suckling is a founder and the executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. He has led the Center from its beginnings in 1989 as a local New Mexico environmental group, to its...
View ArticleObama Takes Bold Action to Protect Marine Life in the Pacific Ocean
This is great day for anyone who has ever marveled at wide-open seas and rich ocean life. President Obama announced plans to protect a vast stretch of the central Pacific Ocean home to coral gardens...
View ArticleThe Passenger Pigeon’s Everlasting Mark: America’s Most Infamous Extinction
We rarely know the exact date and time an entire species goes extinct, but in the case of the passenger pigeon, we do. Martha, the very last of her species, took her final breath at the Cincinnati Zoo...
View ArticleWe Must Demand the Impossible to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change
The following is an excerpt from fromThis Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate: What gets me most are not the scary scientific studies about melting glaciers, the ones I used to avoid. It’s...
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