2012

Paul Stamets has written six seminal mushroom-related books, the most recent being Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World. Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms and The Mushroom Cultivator are used as textbooks around the world by the specialty and medicinal mushroom industries. Paul started a medicinal and gourmet mushroom business, Fungi Perfecti, LLC, in 1980. He has received numerous environmental awards, including from Bioneers and the National Geographic, as well as Adventure's Magazine's Green-O-vator and the Argosy Foundation's E-chievement awards.

John Heymann has more than 35 years experience as an entrepreneur, business owner, and nonprofit leader.

William is the President and CEO of the Presidio Graduate School, where he is also the Richard M. Gray Fellow in Sustainability Practice. Established in 2003 in San Francisco, Presidio is among the world’s first and leading graduate schools for sustainability. William is the author of the award-winning book, The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century, and A Republic of Trees: Field Notes on People, Place, and the Planet.

Tom Szaky is founder and Chief Executive Officer of TerraCycle, a company which enables consumers to collect traditionally non-recyclable waste which is upcycled and recycled into thousands of various consumer products and materials, which are sold at the world's biggest retailers from Wal-Mart to Target. TerraCycle has been named the producer of most eco-friendly products in America and has won over 100 environmental and social awards including the Home Depot Environmental stewardship award twice.

Lisa Arie is a master at navigating the unknown.  She’s done it all her life.

The former founder and CEO of two multi-million dollar companies, Lisa learned at a very young age how to wake up in a world without context, and thrive. Tucked in the arms of her globetrotting parents, she travelled from the Aboriginal outback to the safaris of Africa, crossing six continents and experiencing a smorgasbord of culture.

Jane Iredale is the president and founder of Iredale Mineral Cosmetics. She was the first to supply the aesthetics industry with a full-line of makeup based on minerals and the first to see the potential of offering physicians a makeup that was good for the skin.

Considered to be the nation's foremost expert on green marketing and eco-innovation, Jacquie Ottman is the founder and principal of the NYC-based J. Ottman Consulting, Inc., advisers on green marketing and eco-innovation to Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurial firms and several U.S. government ecolabeling programs. Clients include 3M, Nike, and Johnson and Johnson, among others. She has helped to guide the marketing of several consumer product labels including the U.S. EPA's Energy Star, Green Seal and the new USDA Certified Biobased label.

Barbara Marx Hubbard has been called “the Voice for Conscious Evolution of our time” by Deepak Chopra and is the subject of Neale Donald Walsch’s new book “The Mother of Invention”.  A prolific author, visionary, social innovator, evolutionary thinker and educator, she is co-founder and chairperson of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution.

At the age of 26, Chip Conley started his own hospitality company, Joie de Vivre (JDV), guiding the company as CEO for two-dozen years and expanding it into a collection of over 35 award-winning hotels, restaurants and spas – the second largest boutique hotel company in America. No longer CEO, Chip is an author, speaker and veteran practitioner of emotional intelligence in business and in his New York Times bestselling book, EMOTIONAL EQUATIONS: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success, he takes us from emotional intelligence to emotional fluency.

John Francis, Ph.D., is known the world over as the Planetwalker. In 1971, Dr. Francis witnessed an oil spill in San Francisco Bay. The effects of the spill compelled him to stop using motorized vehicles. Several months later, to stop the arguments about the power of one person’s actions, he took a vow of silence. His non‐motorized lifestyle lasted twenty‐two years, and his silence seventeen. During that time Dr. Francis walked across the United States earning a B.A at Southern Oregon State College, an M.S. in Environmental Studies at the University of Montana and a Ph.D.