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Ron Dembo

Ron Dembo

Professor, author and founder of Zerofootprint.net

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Josh Dorfman

Author and radio show host known as The Lazy Environmentalist...

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Jennifer Hattam

Journalist and blogger at The Green Life

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Eric Schaeffer

The executive director of the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) since 2002, Schaeffer has experience as director of the Office of Civil Enforcement for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, among other positions. He also worked as an environmental attorney and assisted Congress members.
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Gil Friend

Friend is president and CEO of Natural Logic. He has over 35 years of ecological and business experience from founding and managing companies dealing with sustainable developing. Friend was a founding board member of internet pioneer Institute for Global Communications, and helped tremendously with other environmental organizations. He was also co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, one of the nation’s leading urban ecology and economic development think-tanks, and a presenter of “The Natural Step,” an environmental management system.
Posted: 03/29/2008 03:11 PM EST more »

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Gloria Flora

Flora is the director of Sustainable Obtainable Solutions, a nonprofit organization working to sustain and protect public land and creatures that live there. She worked for U.S. Forest Service for 22 years and is known nationally for her leadership in ecosystem management and for her principled stands at the Lewis and Clark National Forest in north-central Montana and the Humboldt-Toiyabe in Nevada and eastern California.
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Jennifer Boulden

Co-founder of Idealbite.com, Boulden leads the business strategy and marketing programs for this company, which shares how small changes to your daily life can have big results.
Posted: 12/18/2007 01:12 PM EST more »

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Jennifer Hattam

A lifestyle expert for Sierra Magazine, Hattam also runs the Green Life, a web site devoted to living the green life.
Posted: 12/18/2007 01:15 PM EST more »

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Joel Makower

A green business expert, Makower is a writer, speaker and strategist whom the Associated Press dubbed “the guru of green business practices.” He is the co-founder and executive editor of Greener World Media, Inc., which produces GreenBiz.com, as well as the co-founder and principal of Clean Edge Inc., a research and publishing firm focusing on building markets for clean energy technologies.
Posted: 12/18/2007 01:16 PM EST more »

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Josh Dorfman

Dorfman hosts a national talk radio show, "The Lazy Environmentalist," and is the author of The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish Green Living. He is also the founder and CEO of Vivavi, which specializes in eco-friendly home furnishings.
Posted: 12/18/2007 01:14 PM EST more »