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Special thanks to the Embassy of Denmark – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference
(speakers subject to change, speaking events take place from 7 pm – 8:30 pm each night and are open to the public, please email caeli@climateride.org if you are interested in attending.)
Dr. James Hansen - Head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, renowned climatologist, Time Magazine top 100 influential people, and winner of the 2009 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, the highest honor of the American Meteorological Society.
Dr. Ben Strauss - Associate Director at Climate Central, founding board member of Grist.org and founding board member of the Environmental Leadership Program. Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University. Dr. Strauss will talk about the psychology of climate communications.
Germany Trade and Invest - Climate Riders who are members of Germany's foreign trade board to discuss the transition of East Germany to a "green" economy.
Alison Gannett - Founder Save Our Snow Foundation, voted Outside Magazine's '08 Green All-Stars, US Champ Freeskier.
Roz Savage - First woman to row across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, environmental activist, United Nations Environmental Program Climate Hero.
Wood Turner - The one climate scorekeeper you need to know, Executive Director Climate Counts.
Colin Beavan, 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
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Friis Arne Petersen - Denmark's Ambassador to the US, host of the COP15 UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen December 2009.
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-Anderson - 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.
Bracken Hendricks - Senior Fellow at Center for American Progress; an architect of clean-energy portions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; founding executive director of the Apollo Alliance.
Betsy Taylor - President of 1Sky and founder of the Center for the New American Dream.
Members of Congress to be announced.
The youngest rider is a 12 year old from Massachusetts and the oldest rider is an 82 year old woman from NYC who has been a bike commuter for 50 years.
Josh Dorfman, The Lazy Environmentalist - Watch his new Sundance show. He's not too lazy to ride for the climate!
Randy Swisher - Recently retired Executive Director of AWEA, the American Wind Energy Association, and avid cyclist.
Tom Burnett - 31 year old DC environmental science teacher, recovering from spinal cord injury and riding on behalf of disabled people to show that "we can overcome incredible adversity to do things that no one thought possible." Read his blog.
Elliot May, Reverb.org - 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.
David Kroodsma - Stanford-trained climate expert who pedalled 21,000 miles to research and raise awareness of climate change.
The World Bank Team
Fernando Migliassi, EcoTechnologies – a look at pursuing new technologies such as sequestering carbon by advancing the commercialization of Biochar for farming and agriculture.
(speakers subject to change, speaking events take place from 7 pm – 8:30 pm each night and are open to the public)
(in alphabetical order)
Bill Barnes
Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX)
Mike Eckhart
Janet Larsen
Keith Laughlin
Rafe Pomerance
Randy Swisher
Betsy Taylor
Mike Tidwell
Wood Turner
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