Expert Speaker Series

Climate Ride California October 2-6, 2011 Speakers. (Scroll down to see speakers from the 2011 NYC-DC Climate Ride)

Temra Costa --  Nationally Recognized Sustainable Food and Farming Advocate

Temra Costa's recent book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat is the product of the past seven years she has spent working to promote a more vibrant local food economy in California and beyond. Her previous role as statewide director of California's Buy Fresh Buy Local campaign, and other positions held with Community Alliance with Family Farmers, worked to engage stakeholders in our food system from farm to table.

Rebecca Calahan Klein -- Vice President, Organizational Development at 1% For the Planet 

Rebecca leads 1% for the Planet's organizational development efforts. During the past twenty years, she has worked with companies including Alcan, Clif Bar, Ford Motor Company, Gap, HP, Levi Strauss & Co., Nike, Target and Williams-Sonoma, Inc. on a broad range of environmental and sustainability issues. She has extensive experience building business networks at the local, state, national and international level and has held leadership positions in organizations including Organic Exchange, Business for Social Responsibility and the Massachusetts Green Business Alliance. These organizations have helped companies adopt more sustainable business practices, and leverage millions of dollars of investment in non-profit organizations throughout the world.

Tour of the Solar Living Institute

Climate Riders will tour the Solar Living Center in Hopland, CA to learn about a wide range of fascinating topics, from solar and wind power, to environmentally friendly building materials, to passive and active solar design in architecture, to organic gardening and permaculture.

Brendan Brazier --  Accomplished Vegan Athlete, Author and Expert on Plant-based Nutrition for Athletes

Brendan Brazier is a former professional Ironman triathlete, a two-time Canadian 50km Ultra Marathon Champion, a bestselling author on performance nutrition, and the creator of an award-winning line of whole food nutritional products called Vega.

Brendan is recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on plant-based nutrition for athletes. In an online Cornell University certificate program, Brendan presents a lecture based on his best-selling books entitled: Plant-Based Diet and Elite Athleticism. It is part of a new course presented by eCornell and the T. Colin Campbell Foundation.

Brendan's intentions of spreading the word of an ethical, environmentally friendly, and healthy lifestyle through plant-based foods have taken him across North America, speaking at events such as the Chicago Green Festival and the United States Humane Society Gala. Brendan was also invited to address US Congress on Capitol Hill, where he spoke of the significant social and economic benefits that could be achieved by improving personal health through better diet. The focus of his speech was to draw attention to the role that food plays in the prevention of most chronic diseases currently plaguing North Americans.

Brendan's latest book is called Thrive Foods: 200 Recipes for Peak Health and will be published in September, 2011.

Leah Shahum -- Executive Director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

Leah Shahum has served as Executive Director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition since 2002. For four years prior, she was the SFBC's Program Director. Leah most recently served on the Board of Directors of the SF Municipal Transportation Agency. She previously served for five years on the 19-member Board of Directors of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway, and Transportation District. She is also a San Francisco representative to the state Democratic Party.

Ruthie Matthes -- World Champion, National Champion, Olympian

These are a few of the many titles held by Ruthie Matthes. Beginning on the road in 1983, she won a hat trick of three National Road Championships in three disciplines (Road Race, Criterium and Team Time Trial), plus a silver medal at the World Road Race Championships. In 1990 Ruthie traded her slick tires for knobbies and grabbed the bronze medal at the World Mountain Bike Championships.  Officially switching to mountain biking in 1991, she won the World Mountain Bike Championship and continued her winning ways over the next decade.  Some of Ruthie's top results include:

•          World Mountain Bike Champion - 1991

•          Grundig Mountain Bike World Cup Champion - 1992

•          5-Time US National Cross Country Champion-1996, 1997,1998, 2000, 2001

•          US National Road Race Champion-1990

•          US National Team Time Trial Champion - 1990

•          US National Criterium Champion - 1989

•          US Olympic Mountain Bike Team Member - 2000 Summer Olympic Games

In 2011, Ruthie remains highly involved in the cycling industry as the brand and product liaison for Magura Direct. She also serves as a cycling advocate and spokesperson for Focus Bicycles USA, who utilize Ruthie's considerable expertise to further the cause of bicycle awareness, trail advocacy and the overall cycling experience.

Jamie Henn -- 350.org Communications and Development Director

In 2009, Jamie coordinated media for over 5,200 simultaneous events in more than 180 countries, landing 350.org on front pages and newscasts around the world. CNN called the events "the most widespread day of political action in history." As East Asia director for 350.org, Jamie coordinated nearly 500 events across East Asia, including over 300 rallies in China. In 2010, 350.org organized a Global Work Party on 10/10/10, with thousands of events planned across the globe where people got to work on climate solutions. Before co-founding 350.org with environmental writer Bill McKibben, Jamie helped lead the Step It Up 2007 campaign. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and co-author of the book Fight Global Warming Now. 

Amanda Eaken -- Deputy Director of Sustainable Communities with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Ms. Eaken's primary focus is reducing transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions through improved land use and transportation planning and policy. Ms. Eaken was actively involved in the passage of SB 375, which will provide transportation funding and regulatory incentives for regions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through improved long term growth plans.  She represented the environmental community on the Regional Targets Advisory Committee, which was charged with advising the California Air Resources Board on SB 375 implementation.  Prior to joining NRDC, Ms. Eaken managed the construction of affordable housing projects with a non-profit developer in San Francisco. Ms. Eaken received her Master's Degree in Transportation and Land Use Planning from U.C. Berkeley's College of Environmental Design, and her B.A. in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology from Dartmouth College.

Lauren Van Ham --Interfaith Eco-Chaplain and Sustainability Consultant

Lauren holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, Naropa University and The Chaplaincy Institute. She received her ordination as an interfaith minister in 1999 and served as a hospital chaplain for eight years. During her tenure as a healthcare chaplain, Lauren served on the hospital's Environmental Action Committee where she advocated for more sustainable practices throughout the healthcare system, specifically regarding the reduction of single-use materials used in surgery and creative re-use and recycling for products formerly sent to the landfill.

Lauren also served as Executive Director for the non-profit organization, Green Sangha, a commmunity committed to spiritually-based environmental activism. In June of 2007, with her seminary's endorsement, Lauren renewed her ordination vows and professed herself an "Eco-chaplain." Wearing this hat, Lauren worked within corporate America as the Director of Consulting Services for Saatchi & Saatchi S, a sustainability agency providing facilitation and employee engagement retreats for Fortune 100 companies committed to becoming more sustainable in their business practices. Lauren was part of the team that traveled nationally, facilitating sustainability training retreats with the 1.3 million associates of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

She is featured in RENEWAL, an award-winning independent film, documenting America's religious environmental movement. Currently, Lauren serves as Dean at her alma mater, The Chaplaincy Institute, an interfaith seminary in Berkeley, CA.

Johanna Gregory Partin -- Director of Climate Protection Initiatives, Office of San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee

Johanna Gregory Partin serves as Director of Climate Protection Initiatives in the office of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, where she advises Mayor Lee on citywide sustainable energy, climate, transportation, green building and other programs promoting sustainability for San Francisco. Ms. Partin served in the same position under Mayor Gavin Newsom from August 2009-January 2011. Ms. Partin is also a Board Member for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and a Faculty Member for the Climate Leadership Academy.

From 2006-2009, Ms. Partin served as Renewable Energy Program Manager at the San Francisco Department of Environment, where she worked to help the City meet its renewable energy targets, focusing on the residential and commercial sectors. Ms. Partin has over 17 years' experience in the fields of renewable energy, microfinance, gender equity and sustainable development, and has worked both locally and in more than 15 countries around the world. Johanna has a Master's degree in Energy & Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware and a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies and Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara. 

Nils Moe -- Mayor's Sustainability Advisor for the City of Berkeley

Nils Moe currently serves as the Mayor's Sustainability Advisor for the City of Berkeley. In this role, he is helping to implement Berkeley's Climate Action Plan and working with the city staff and the community to reduce their GHG emissions. Nils was one of the founding team members responsible for creating Berkeley's innovative solar financing program, which has since become a national model of renewable energy financing (PACE).

Nils is also very active in regional environmental policy planning. He is working on the proliferation of climate friendly policies as a member of the East Bay Green Corridor's Innovative Policy Committee and a steering committee member of the Bay Area Climate Collaborative.  Nils is also helping to make the Bay Area the EV Capitol of the U.S. in his role on the Bay Area Electric Vehicle Strategic Council and a member of the California Clean Cars Campaign Advisory Committee. 

Most recently Nils participated in a United Kingdom Climate and Behavior Change delegation and was selected by the Heinrich Boell Foundation as one of five US representatives to meet with environmental leaders across Europe and the Garrison Institute's Symposium on Behavior Change.  He is currently co-chair for the National Public Engagement Sub-committee for the Urban Sustainability Director's Network, a faculty member of the Institute for Sustainability Communities' inaugural China Climate Leadership Academy Faculty 2010-2012 and on the 2011 steering committee for the Garrison Institute on Behavior Change.

Peter Lehman -- Founding Director of Schatz Energy Research Center and Professor of Environmental Resources Engineering at Humboldt State University

Lehman's work at the Schatz Center focuses on renewable energy and hydrogen technologies. Under his direction, the Center built and operated a solar-hydrogen energy system for 20 years, designed and built the first fuel cell vehicle licensed to drive in the U.S. along with the first hydrogen fueling station and recently, designed and built a modern hydrogen fueling station on the HSU campus. Peter Lehman

Lehman's current work includes producing a national hydrogen energy curriculum for high school students in collaboration with Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley, studying gasification of woody biomass, and photovoltaic module durability and degradation testing.

As a faculty member in the Environmental Resources Engineering Department, Lehman developed the energy resources option of the curriculum and served as department chair, guiding the department through national accreditation. He is the founding faculty advisor for the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology, a live-in and hands-on demonstration center at HSU that provides an opportunity for students to practice "living lightly on the earth." Peter Lehman

Lehman has a B.S. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Chicago.

Rider-Speakers (5-minute presentations by Climate Riders)

Scott Warner has worked as a consulting hydrogeologist for more than 25 years - the past 20 with AMEC Geomatrix in Oakland, California - where his focus has been in developing and implementing treatment methods for removing contaminants from groundwater using technologies that are sustainable, require no energy, and are resource conservative. He received his M.S. in geology from Indiana Unviversity and B.S. in engineering geology from UCLA and also is a regular author on cycling related stories for the Marin County Bicycle Coalition quarterly newsletter, Pedal Press - including a recent article on local Marin County geology touring by bicycle. He also is a Vice President of the Marin School of the Arts Foundation and a Director with the San Francisco Bay Planning Coalition. Scott loves talking geology (as well as playing guitar and ukelele - key traits of a geologist) and looks forward to our pedaling adventure along the San Andreas Fault!

The Green Riders (brother and sister Catherine and Oliver Bock) rode electric recumbent bicycles across the country in the Spring of 2010.  During their 2 month journey they visited a broad palette of sustainable projects and people dedicated to sustainability.  From a wind turbine facility in Tehachapi to an Organic Farm in Kansas to a Green building renovation project in Illinois and to the municipality of  Boulder where passionate City employees are creating more livable bicycle friendly communities.  In addition, The Green Rider's goal was to share the fun of electric bicycles and explore sustainability projects across America. 

Lucy August-Perna is a member of the music division of Minneapolis-based Effect Partners. She has been across the country and around the globe while working with musicians like Dave Matthews Band, U2, and Jack Johnson to help reduce their environmental impact while on tour.  As the tour greening manager, Lucy has worked with 50+ venues and counties to help integrate comprehensive waste reduction programs, carbon offset programs, green retrofits, and community participation while promoting environmental initiatives for artists, production crews, and fans. Lucy, based in San Francisco, is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara and enjoys riding her bike when not riding a tour bus.  Her goals include completing a double century, improving her French, and riding her bike throughout Europe. 

Climate Ride NYC-DC May 2011 Speakers

Eugene Linden -- Acclaimed Journalist and Environmental Writer

For over thirty years Eugene Linden has traveled the world researching his books and writing for National Geographic, Time, and many other publications, on nature and the environment.

In his latest book, THE RAGGED EDGE OF THE WORLD: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples Meet award-winning author and environmental journalist Linden puts a human face on globalism by examining how various cultures around the world are succumbing to-or resisting-modernity.

Publishers Weekly has named "Ragged Edge" one of their "picks for the 10 most intriguing forthcoming travel books" and the April issue of Oprah magazine lists "Ragged Edge" as a "Title to pick up now."

Check out Linden's recent column on Huffington Post and his interview with Leonard Lopate/WNYC NPR. Linden will meet the Climate Riders at Princeton University on May 13th on Brita Climate Ride NYC-DC.

Bill McKibben -- Environmentalist and Writer, Founder of 350.org

Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming and alternative energy and advocates for more localized economies. In 2010 the Boston Globe called him "probably the nation's leading environmentalist" and Time magazine described him as "the world's best green journalist. In 2009 he led the organization of 350.org , which coordinated what Foreign Policy magazine called "the largest ever global coordinated rally of any kind," with 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. The magazine named him to its inaugural list  of the 100 most important global thinkers, and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential men of 2009.

Bill grew up in suburban Lexington, Massachusetts. He was president of the Harvard Crimson newspaper in college. Immediately after college he joined the New Yorker magazine as a staff writer, and wrote much of the "Talk of the Town" column from 1982 to early 1987. He quit the magazine when its longtime editor William Shawn was forced out of his job, and soon moved to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.

His first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 by Random House after being serialized in the New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages. Several editions have come out in the United States, including an updated version published in 2006.

His next book, The Age of Missing Information, was published in 1992. It is an account of an experiment: McKibben collected everything that came across the 100 channels of cable tv on the Fairfax, Virginia system (at the time among the nation's largest) for a single day. He spent a year watching the 2,400 hours of videotape, and then compared it to a day spent on the mountaintop near his home. This book has been widely used in colleges and high schools, and was reissued in a new edition in 2006.

Subsequent books include Hope, Human and Wild, about Curitiba, Brazil and Kerala, India, which he cites as examples of people living more lightly on the earth; The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation, which is about the Book of Job and the environment; Maybe One, about human population; Long Distance: A Year of Living Strenuously, about a year spent training for endurance events at an elite level; Enough, about what he sees as the existential dangers of genetic engineering; Wandering Home, about a long solo hiking trip from his current home in the mountains east of Lake Champlain in Ripton, Vermont back to his longtime neighborhood of the Adirondacks.

In March 2007 McKibben published Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future. It addresses what the author sees as shortcomings of the growth economy and envisions a transition to more local-scale enterprise.

In late summer 2006, Bill helped lead a five-day walk across Vermont to demand action on global warming that some newspaper accounts called the largest demonstration to date in America about climate change. Beginning in January 2007 he founded stepitup07.org to demand that Congress enact curbs on carbon emissions that would cut global warming pollution 80 percent by 2050. With six college students, he organized 1,400 global warming demonstrations across all 50 states of America on April 14, 2007. Step It Up 2007 has been described as the largest day of protest about climate change in the nation's history. A guide to help people initiate environmental activism in their community coming out of the Step It Up 2007 experience entitled Fight Global Warming Now was published in October 2007 and a second day of action on climate change was held the following November 3.

March 2008 saw the publication of The Bill McKibben Reader, a collection of 44 essays written for various publications over the past 25 years.

Bill is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He is also a board member and contributor to Grist Magazine.

Bill has been awarded Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Fellowships, and won the Lannan Prize for nonfiction writing in 2000. He has honorary degrees from Green Mountain College, Unity College, Lebanon Valley College and Sterling College.

Bill currently resides with his wife, writer Sue Halpern, and his daughter, Sophie, who was born in 1993, in Ripton, Vermont. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College.

Bracken Hendricks -- Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Bracken Hendricks works at the interface of global warming solutions and economic development. He is a longtime leader in promoting policies that create green jobs, sustainable infrastructure, and investment in cities. 

Hendricks served as an advisor to the campaign and transition team of President Barack Obama, and was an architect of clean-energy portions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  He also served in the Clinton administration as special assistant to the Office of Vice President Al Gore, with the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and with the President's Council on Sustainable Development.

He was founding executive director of the Apollo Alliance for good jobs and energy independence and has served as an energy and economic advisor to the AFL-CIO, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell's Energy Advisory Task Force, and numerous other federal, state, and local policymakers and elected officials. 

Hendricks' publications include the book Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy, which he co-authored with U.S. Congressman Jay Inslee (D-WA).  
  

Michael Lemonick -- Senior Writer, Climate Central and former Senior Science Writer at Time Magazine

Michael D. Lemonick is the senior writer at Climate Central, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating nonpartisan, non-advocacy journalism about climate change science and solutions. Prior to joining Climate Central, he spent nearly 21 years at TIME Magazine, where he wrote more than 50 cover stories on topics ranging from climate change to genomics to particle physics before stepping down as a Senior Science Writer in early 2007. 

Lemonick has also written for Discover, Scientific American, National Geographic, Yale E360 and Newsweek and other magazines, and has taught science and environmental writing at Princeton, Columbia, Johns Hopkins and New York University, as well as a course on ethics in journalism at NYU. He holds an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College and an M.S. in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  

Hardik Savalia --  B-Lab

Hardik Savalia is one of B Lab's first employees and now leads the ratings team at B Lab.  Prior to joining B Lab, Hardik helped businesses measure their environmental performance using the Global Reporting Initiative guidelines with the consulting firm Strategy Arts.  Hardik also helped GPUAC (Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition) implement a foreclosure prevention strategy for Philadelphia. Hardik is also a Senior Fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program.  Hardik is a graduate of Boston University's School of Management.  

Certified B Corporations are a new type of corporation which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.  B Corps are unlike traditional businesses because they:

• Meet comprehensive and transparent social and environmental performance standards;
• Meet higher legal accountability standards;
• Build business constituency for good business

There are now:

• 399 B Corporations
• $1.87 Billion in Revenues
• 54 Industries
• $1 million in Annual Savings

Carolyn Szczepanski -- Communications Coordinator, Alliance for Biking and Walking

Carolyn Szczepanski will join Climate Ride to give a talk on the role of women in the rapidly growing biking movement.

Women have played a critical role in gearing up support and instituting the innovative ideas that have boosted biking and walking in the halls of Congress, at City Hall and on the streets of countless communities across the continent. Learn about women leaders who got us to where we are today and the up-and-coming advocates who are the future of this exciting movement.

Carolyn works directly with more than 170 local and state bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations to grow the movement for active transportation across North America. She lives car-free in Washington DC and writes for the People Powered Blog, Bicycle Times, Momentum, and Mother Earth News.

Jason Kowalski -- Policy Coordinator, 1Sky

Jason manages 1Sky's policy team, working with elected officials on Capitol Hill to push for strong climate and energy legislation. He plans strategic grassroots campaigns that maximize the impact concerned citizens can have on the political process. Before working at 1Sky Jason co-authored Clean Air-Cool Planet's Campus Carbon Calculator, the leading tool for carbon reduction analysis on college campuses, currently in use on over 12,000 campuses. At StepItUp2007.org Jason helped organize thousands of climate rallies nationwide, making climate change a major issue in the 2008 presidential primary. 

And introducing the Rider-Speakers! There are so many interesting and accomplished people who participate in Climate Ride. We're doing 5-minute Rider-Speaker blasts this year. Here are some of the people you'll hear from:

SustainabilityExperts Panel Discussion -- Night 3

Rosi Kerr, Director of Sustainability at Dartmouth College
Josh Lasky, Sustainability Manager for the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) 

Mark Zimring --Senior Research Associate, Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

Mark Zimring's work focuses on the financing and deployment of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Prior to joining LBNL, Mark spent eight years working in finance at Deutsche Bank. Mark has a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently pursuing an MPP from the Goldman School of Public Policy and a Masters from the Energy & Resources Group at UC Berkeley.

Kristin Schulz -- Clean Currents , Residential Green Power Outreach Coordinator

Clean Currents is the Mid-Atlantic's leading, independent green energy company providing residents & businesses in Washington DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware with affordable, renewable wind power through the electric grid. 

Thank you so much to our 2010 speakers for educating and inspiring Climate Riders during Climate Ride California. Below are some of the speakers we heard from each night during the Expert Speaker Series.  

Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan is an internationally acclaimed photographic artist and social activist whose work explores the detritus of American mass culture. His best-known series, titled "Running the Numbers," depicts the staggering statistics that define contemporary America, in huge intricately detailed panels as large as thirty feet wide.  See Chris's amazing TED talk here.

These compelling works invite the viewer to walk up close and see every detail as a metaphor for the role of the individual in our hypermodern society. Chris's work is exhibited widely in the US and Europe, and has been featured in magazines, newspapers, weblogs, documentary films and television programs all over the globe. He lives in Seattle with his wife the poet Victoria Sloan Jordan, and his son Emerson. 

David Helvarg 

David Helvarg is President of the Blue Frontier Campaign and the author of four books, Blue Frontier, The War Against the Greens, 50 Ways to Save the Ocean and Rescue Warriors. He's editor of the Ocean and Coastal Conservation Guide, organizer of several ‘Blue Vision' Summits for ocean activists, and winner of Coastal Living Magazine's 2005 Leadership Award and the 2007 Herman Melville literary Award.

Helvarg worked as a war correspondent in Northern Ireland and Central America, covered a range of issues from military science to the AIDS epidemic, and reported from every continent including Antarctica. An award-winning journalist, he produced more than 40 broadcast documentaries for PBS, The Discovery Channel, and others. His print work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, LA Times, Smithsonian, Popular Science, Sierra, and The Nation. He's done radio work for Marketplace, AP radio, and Pacifica. He's led workshops for journalists in Poland, Turkey, Tunisia, Slovakia and Washington DC. He is a licensed Private Investigator, body-surfer and scuba diver.

Dr. Philip Duffy

Philip Duffy is Chief Scientist at Climate Central, Inc. and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and at the Carnegie Institution for Science. Prior to joining Climate Central, he was a physicist and manager at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he worked for 22 years. Dr. Duffy has worked in climate research for 20 year, primarily in modeling and analysis of observations. His current focus is on working with stakeholders to incorporate climate change into real-world decisions.

Dr. Duffy has won numerous honors, including the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared for his involvement with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers on many aspects of climate science, atomic physics, and astrophysics. Dr. Duffy holds a BS degree in astrophysics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford. Dr. Duffy was co-captain of the Stanford Cycling team in 1982-1983.

Peter Lehman

Peter Lehman is Founding Director of Schatz Energy Research Center (www.schatzlab.org) and Professor of Environmental Resources Engineering at Humboldt State University.

Lehman's work at the Schatz Center focuses on renewable energy and hydrogen technologies. Under his direction, the Center built and operated a solar-hydrogen energy system for 20 years, designed and built the first fuel cell vehicle licensed to drive in the U.S. along with the first hydrogen fueling station and recently, designed and built a modern hydrogen fueling station on the HSU campus. Peter Lehman

Lehman's current work includes producing a national hydrogen energy curriculum for high school students in collaboration with Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley, studying gasification of woody biomass, and photovoltaic module durability and degradation testing.

As a faculty member in the Environmental Resources Engineering Department, Lehman developed the energy resources option of the curriculum and served as department chair, guiding the department through national accreditation. He is the founding faculty advisor for the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology, a live-in and hands-on demonstration center at HSU that provides an opportunity for students to practice "living lightly on the earth."

Lehman has a B.S. in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Chicago. He is an avid cyclist (that's him at the Tour of the Unknown Coast-California's toughest century ride!)

Roz Savage

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner. She has rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean and is attempting to become the first woman to row solo across the Pacific.

A latecomer to the life of adventure, Roz was previously a management consultant and project manager at an investment bank, before realizing in her mid-thirties that there might be more to life than a steady income and a house in the suburbs. In 2005, she competed in the 3,000-mile Atlantic Rowing Race, the first solo woman ever to compete in that race and the sixth woman to row solo across an ocean. In 2008 she became the first woman to row solo from California to Hawaii. In 2009 she continued her Pacific bid by rowing from Hawaii to Kiribati. The third and final stage of her Pacific row takes place in Spring 2010, when she will attempt to row from Kiribati to Australia.

Roz is a United Nations Climate Hero, a trained presenter for the Climate Project, and an Athlete Ambassador for 350.org. She is supported by the Dot Eco campaign and the Blue Planet Foundation. Her Pacific row is a project of the Blue Frontier Campaign and she is an Ambassador for the BLUE Project.

She has been listed amongst the Top 20 Great British Adventurers by the Daily Telegraph, the Top 10 Adventure Twitters by Outside Magazine.  Roz's inspirational book about her Atlantic row, "Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean", is published in the US by Simon & Schuster.

Jenn Fox

Jenn Fox is the Director of Strategic Planning at ClimateWorks. She formerly worked in the environment program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. From 1998 to 2007, she worked for Energy Solutions on energy efficiency-related policy development. Ms. Fox wrote the first Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Plan for the city of Oakland, including performing baseline analysis and projections for the transportation, solid waste, and energy sectors.

In 1996, Ms. Fox was awarded a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Service Medal for work on the Puna Geothermal Facility and California air quality implementation plans. Her work at EPA focused on air pollution control in California's Central Valley and rule making for national emissions trading. She has worked domestically and internationally to apply science in resource conservation policy, including research as a Fulbright Scholar into the interplay between policymakers, engineers, geologists, and corporations in hydroelectric decisions. Ms. Fox is president of the board of directors of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and has B.S. and M.S. degrees in environmental engineering from Stanford University.

Keegan Eisenstadt

Keegan Eisenstadt is president and CEO of ClearSky Climate Solutions. He has over 17 years of international environmental consulting experience. He is actively involved in the design and implementation of climate change mitigation projects; carbon credit monitoring and accounting; marketing and sales of carbon credits; carbon credit project certification; climate change adaptation; carbon forestry; forest management; forest conservation planning; protected areas management; agroforestry extension; forest hydrology; watershed analysis, spatial and quantitative modeling; ecological and environmental impact assessment; environmental education; community outreach; organizational and rural development. Mr. Eisenstadt has a particular focus on climate change and forestry resources, and is currently developing novel techniques and approaches for native species reforestation and carbon sequestration as part of ClearSky.

Other global climate change work includes corporate approaches to environmental and social responsibility through the reduction and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions; the implementation of certified emissions reduction and carbon-sequestration projects; national and international climate change policy assessment; and country adaptation strategies. He is working with actors involved with corporate social responsibility in promoting concepts of eco-efficiency and triple-bottom-line accounting, where corporations do well by doing good. Also, he has carried out natural resources management consulting activities throughout the world for private companies, multilateral and bilateral donor agencies, and nongovernmental organizations. Mr. Eisenstadt is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Guarani.

Dan Garofalo

Daniel Garofalo is the University of Pennsylvania's first environmental sustainability coordinator and senior facilities planner, responsible for Penn's sustainability strategy, including energy conservation, waste management, green buildings, transportation and planning.  

Garofalo is a founding member of the U.S. Green Building Council and current chair of the Delaware Valley Chapter, and he was the founder of Community Design Collaborative, Philadelphia's pro-bono design center. He has served twice as a Peace Corps volunteer, first in Malawi in 1992-94, where he worked as the architect in charge of design for the capital city of Lilongwe, and in 2005 on a three-month assignment to Sri Lanka to assist in disaster recovery after the tsunami.  

Garofalo, a LEED certified architect, has been a planner and architect in Penn's Facilities and Real Estate Services Division since 2002. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Virginia, a master's in architecture from Penn's School of Design and a master's in government administration from Penn's Fels Institute of Government.  

Friis Arne Petersen - Denmark's Ambassador to the US, host of the COP15 UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen Dec. 2009

Colin Beavan aka NO IMPACT MAN - aka NO IMPACT MAN - The man who lived one year with zero carbon impact--the extraordinary movie will be previewed on Climate Ride. Watch the trailer

Alison Gannett - Founder Save Our Snow Foundation, voted Outside Magazine's '08 Green All-Stars, US Champ Freeskier

Mike Tidwell - inspiring activist, writer and documentary filmmaker, President Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and his own home is fueled almost entirely by wind, solar and corn power

Mikael Colville-Andersen - Denmark's leading bicycle ambassador and advocate, accomplished writer, director, photographer and blogger who created the famous European blog Copenhagenize.com. Colville gives a passionate talk on cycling as an environ-mentally friendly, viable, and sustainable transportation alternative.

Wood Turner - the one climate scorekeeper you need to know, Executive Director Climate Counts

Ben Strauss - associate director at Climate Central, founding board member of Grist.org and founding director of the Environmental Leadership Program. Dr. Strauss holds a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University and will challenge us to think about the psychology of climate change communications.

Roz Savage - first woman to row across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, environmental activist, United Nations Environmental Program Climate Hero

Garett Brennan - 1% for the Planet & Clif Green Notes artist, Executive Director of 2008 and 2009 beneficiary Focus the Nation.  Check out his Americana/roots band, The Great Salt Licks, that played at Climate Ride 2009!

Josh Dorfman, The Lazy Environmentalist -watch his new Sundance show

Betsy Taylor - President of 1Sky and founder of the Center for the New American Dream

Marcus Schmidt - Germany Trade and Invest

Keith Laughlin - President of Rails-to-Trails Conservancy

Alisa Gravitz -- Executive Director of Green America

Jason Kowalski - Policy Analyst, 1Sky

Adrien Benepe - NYC Parks and Recreation Commissioner

Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Oregon

Senator Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire

Senator Benjamin Cardin, Maryland

Congressman Edward Markey, Massachusetts

Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Ohio

Congressman Lloyd Doggett, Texas

Mike Eckhart - President, ACORE, American Council on Renewable Energy

Janet Larsen - Director, Earth Policy Institute

Randy Swisher - Executive Director, AWEA, American Wind Energy Association

David Kroodsma - Stanford-trained climate expert who pedalled 21,000 miles to research and raise awareness of climate change.

Elliot May - Director of Strategic Partnerships, Reverb greens huge music tours and unites musicians and fans to reduce their impact. Reverb has greened several tours including Jack Johnson, John Mayer, and Cold Play.

Fernando Migliassi - Eco-Technologies Group - a look at pursuing new technologies such as sequestering carbon by advancing the commercialization of Biochar for farming and agriculture.

2010 Speakers will be announced in August. Stay tuned.

Friis Arne Petersen - Denmark's Ambassador to the United States

Bill McKibben - Leading environmentalist, writer and founder of 350.org

Bracken Hendricks - Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Chris Jordan - Acclaimed visual artist

Colin Beavan aka NO IMPACT MAN - blogger and subject of NIM film

Michael Lemonick - Former Science Writer for Time, Senior Writer at Climate Central

Eugene Linden - Author and acclaimed journalist

Alison Gannett - US Champion Freeskier and Founder, Save Our Snow Foundation

Mike Tidwell - President, Chesapeake Climate Action Network

David Helvarg - Acclaimed journalist, author and founder of Blue Frontier Campaign

Mikael Colville-Andersen - Denmark's Bicycle Ambassador

Wood Turner - Executive Director, Climate Counts

Ben Strauss - Executive Director, Climate Central, Princeton University

Dr. Philip Duffy - IPCC Nobel Prize Winning Climate Scientist

Roz Savage, International Rower - 1st woman to solo row Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, National Geographic Adventurer

Josh Dorfman, The Lazy Environmentalist - writer, host and Sundance Channel star

Mike Eckhart - President, American Council on Renewable Energy

Co-Founders of B Lab

Janet Larsen - Director, Earth Policy Institute

Randy Swisher - Executive Director, American Wind Energy Association

Betsy Taylor - President, 1Sky, Founder, Center for the New American Dream

Keith Laughlin - President, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy

Alisa Gravitz -- Executive Director, Green America

Adrien Benepe - NYC Parks and Recreation Commissioner

Dan Garofalo - University of Pennsylvania Sustainability Coordinator

Rosi Kerr - Dartmouth College Director of Sustainability

Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Oregon

Congressman Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire

Senator Benjamin Cardin, Maryland

Congressman Edward Markey, Maryland

Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Ohio

Congressman Lloyd Doggett, Texas

Congresswoman Donna Edwards, Maryland

Dr. Peter Lehman - Director, Schatz Energy Research Laboratory

Jennifer Fox - Director of Strategic Planning, ClimateWorks

Marcus Schmidt - Germany Trade and Invest

Jason Kowalski - Policy Analyst, 350.org

David Kroodsma - Stanford University Climate Scientist, Huffington Post blogger

Elliot May - Development Director, Reverb.org