We invite and cultivate relationships with speakers across the spectrum of climate thought leadership. Political figures like Hillary Clinton and Governor Rick Perry have inspired and provoked. Executives like former Chevron CEO David O’Reilly have surprised and challenged. Psychologists like Daniel Goleman and economists like Gernot Wagner have expanded our notions of what climate change means for us as people and a society. We’re constantly adding more diverse voices to the conversation, changing its tone from doomsaying and despair to opportunity and resilience.
"We need to build an energy economy that actually works for people and for our communities and our society and for future generations. And the fossil fuel industry as it exists now doesn't have a role in that future. I think that regardless of how big a role they might've played in our past. I think their time is done."
Founder, Climate Disobedience Center
"[It] is not about what we’re fighting against, but what we’re fighting for."
National Director, Green for All
Lisa Goldberg, Director of Research, Aperio Group
Vice President, Goldman Environmental Foundation
President, Goldman Environmental Foundation
Executive Director, Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Author, Ecological Intelligence
Climate Change Manager, State Water Resources Control Board
Founder, Jane Goodall Institute;
United Nations Messenger of Peace
Director of Energy and Climate Program, Next Generation
Former Vice President
Manager of Water Policy and Strategy, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Director of Health Professional Outreach and Education, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, UCSF
Economics Professor, Stanford University
Senior Writer, GreenBiz.com
Former Co-Chair, National Oil Spill Commission
Executive Director, Friends of the Eel River
Executive Director of Strategy, China Light and Power Group
Principal, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy
Co-Founder and CEO, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
Former Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission
Author, The New New Deal
Maria Gunnoe, Community Organizer and 2009 Goldman Prize Winner
Author, Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change
Founder and Chairman of the Board, Alliance for Climate Education
Research Scientist, Smithsonian Institution/Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
