Auden Schendler

Auden Schendler is executive director of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company. His writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, the Los Angeles Times, Rock and Ice, and Salon.com, among other places. His book, Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution, was published in 2009.

Stephen Trimble

Salt Lake City writer and photographer Stephen Trimble has published more than twenty books on western wildlands and Native peoples including Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America, Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography, and The People: Indians of the American Southwest. His website is www.stephentrimble.net.

Todd Hartman

Todd Hartman conducts media relations for the Colorado Governor’s Energy Office in Denver. He was a journalist for twenty-four years, much of that in Colorado covering environmental and energy issues, most recently for the now-shuttered but still beloved Rocky Mountain News.

Laura Pritchett

Laura Pritchett is the author/editor of five books. Her fiction includes the novel Sky Bridge, which won the WILLA Fiction Award, and the short story collection Hell’s Bottom, Colorado, which won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and the PEN USA Award. She is also the editor/coeditor of three anthologies: The Pulse of the River, Home Land, and Going Green: True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers. Pritchett has published over seventy essays and short stories in numerous magazines. She lives in northern Colorado, near the ranch where she was raised.

David Akerson

David Akerson is an international criminal lawyer and lecturer on genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies and the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver.

Mark Eddy

Mark Eddy is a former environment writer for The Denver Post and current principal at Mark Eddy Communications, a Denver-based consulting firm specializing in strategic communications. In his spare time, he travels, hikes, and bikes with his wife, Diane, and dog, Charley—and tends his bees. He can be reached at wmmarkeddy@gmail.com.

Lisa Jones

Lisa Jones’s first book, Broken: A Love Story, the story of her friendship with quadriplegic Northern Arapaho horse gentler and traditional healer Stanford Addison, was published by Scribner in May 2009. She has written for High Country News, Smithsonian, Tin House, the New York Times Magazine, the Summit County Journal, the Burlington Free Press, and the Tico Times of San Jose, Costa Rica. She lives in Colorado with her husband and cat. Her website is www.lisajoneswrites.com.

Sean Kelly

Sean Kelly is an environmentally conscious chef and restaurateur. He lives in Denver with his wife, psychologist Randi Smith, and his two children, Meredith and Nolan.

Jackson Perrin

Jackson Perrin is a science educator who enjoys the challenges of living sustainably. He lives with his wife and daughter in their straw-bale house powered by the sun and watered by the rain in Paonia, Colorado.

Dev Carey

Dev Carey is a one-man educational think tank who has taught at all levels, from tots to graduate students, in subjects ranging from hitchhiking to botany. More of his writings and projects can be found at www.highdesertcenter.org.

Diane Carman

Diane Carman is director of communications at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver. She is a former columnist for The Denver Post.

Michael Jamison

Michael Jamison is a print journalist based in northwest Montana. He operates a bureau for the Missoulian newspaper, working from the fringes of Glacier National Park and reporting on environmental science issues.

Kirk Johnson

Kirk Johnson is the chief curator and vice president for Research and Collections at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. He is a fossil-leaf specialist best known for his research on the global extinctions that happened 66 million years ago when a 6-mile asteroid struck what is now the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. He is the author, with artist Ray Troll, of Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway: An Epoch Tale of an Artist and a Scientist on the Ultimate 5,000-Mile Paleo Road Trip, which won the Colorado Book Award for best nonfiction in 2007.

Peter Heller

Peter Heller is a contributing editor at National Geographic Adventure, Outside, and Men’s Journal. He is the author of The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet’s Largest Mammals and Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River. His forthcoming book Kook, A Memoir will be published in the spring of 2010. He lives in Denver.

Marc Waage

Marc Waage currently manages Denver Water’s long-term water planning. For nearly twenty years, he managed the operation of Denver Water’s extensive water-collection system. Waage also worked briefly for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Indian Affairs on agricultural irrigation projects. He has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in civil engineering from Colorado State University and is a professional engineer. One of Waage’s favorite activities is recreating in Denver’s high-altitude watersheds.

Eric Kuhn

Eric Kuhn is the general manager of the Colorado River Water Conservation District (River District). The River District is the largest and oldest of Colorado’s four conservation districts. It was chartered by the Colorado general assembly in 1937 to “preserve and conserve for Colorado, its Colorado River compact entitlement.” The district covers the Colorado River basin except for the San Juan and lower Dolores river basins. Kuhn began his employment with the district in 1981 and became manager in 1996.

Brad Udall

Brad Udall is a research scientist and the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration–funded Western Water Assessment at the University of Colorado. He studies the impacts of climate change on the Colorado River and the West.

John Daley

John Daley is a broadcast journalist in Salt Lake City specializing in political, environmental, and investigative coverage. He also teaches journalism at the University of Utah and was a John S. Knight Fellow in journalism at Stanford, where he studied leadership in the age of global warming.

Susan Moran

Susan Moran is a freelance journalist who writes for The New York Times, The Economist, and other publications. She is currently on a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jim Robbins

Jim Robbins is freelance journalist in Helena, Montana, where he has written for The New York Times for more than twenty-five years. He is also a frequent contributor to Condé Nast Traveler, for which he has written environmentally themed travel stories on Peru, Chile, Mongolia, Sweden, Mexico, and numerous other places. He has written three books, most recently on the critical role of the process of attention in human physiology and psychology.

Hillary Rosner

Hillary Rosner has written for The New York Times, Mother Jones, Men’s Journal, Popular Science, Seed, Audubon, High Country News, Slate, Grist, and many other publications, and she is the coauthor of the book Go Green, Live Rich. She also contributed to Al Gore’s book An Inconvenient Truth. She holds a master of science in environmental studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she studied on a National Science Foundation fellowship.

Michelle Nijhuis

Michelle Nijhuis is a contributing editor of High Country News. Her work has also appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic, The New York Times, and the anthologies Best American Science Writing and Best American Science and Nature Writing. She and her family live off the grid in Paonia, Colorado.

Tim Sullivan

Tim Sullivan is director of conservation initiatives and acting state director for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, based in Boulder. His academic background is in wildlife conservation biology, and he has worked on international, national, and state-level conservation policy initiatives for the past twenty-five years.

Jocelyn Hittle

Jocelyn Hittle is the director of planning solutions for PlaceMatters, a nonprofit organization that promotes environmental, economic, and social sustainability in decision-making processes. She focuses on holistic planning processes, including linking land-use planning to ecosystem science. Until recently, she also was the editor of Planning & Technology Today, the publication of the American Planning Association Technology Division. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Ken Snyder

Ken Snyder is president and chief executive officer of PlaceMatters. He is a nationally recognized expert on a broad range of technical and nontechnical tools for community design and decision making. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

James R. (Randy) Udall

James R. (Randy) Udall developed Colorado’s first solar-energy incentive program, the world’s first renewable-energy mitigation program, and some of the most progressive green-power purchasing programs in the country. Udall is cofounder of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas–USA and writes from Carbondale, Colorado.

Todd Neff

Todd Neff is a Denver-based writer. He got the fear while he was science and environment reporter at the Boulder Daily Camera. His website is www.toddneff.com.

Catherine Greener

Catherine Greener is chief executive officer and founder of Greener Solutions, Inc. Her previous positions included vice president of Sustainability Consulting at Saatchi & Saatchi S, team leader of the Commercial and Industrial team of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and director of quality and customer focus for a division of ABB. Greener lives in Boulder, Colorado, in a house featured on the Boulder solar-home tour.

Martha Records

Martha Records is a Cleantech investor and the founder of Green Spark Ventures. She lives in Denver, Colorado, and enjoys exploring the Rocky Mountain region with her husband and three children.

Josh Radoff

Josh Radoff is cofounder and principal of YRG sustainability, based in Boulder, Colorado. He is a regular speaker on sustainability issues and has consulted on hundreds of sustainability projects at the intersection of the energy, climate, and green-building fields, both nationally and internationally.

Matthew H. Brown

Matthew H. Brown has worked for twenty years in Europe, North America, and Asia on energy issues. Brown has written more than fifty articles and books on renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy regulation, transmission, energy technology, and critical infrastructure protection. He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Brown University and a master of business administration from New York University.

Susan Innis

Susan Innis is the Colorado Carbon Fund program manager for the Colorado Governor’s Energy Office (GEO). Prior to joining GEO in 2007, Innis spent eight years as an energy policy advisor and green-power marketing director at Western Resource Advocates, a regional conservation law and policy center. She holds a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Colorado at Denver, studied energy planning and sustainable development at the University of Oslo, and earned a bachelor’s of science degree in biology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Michael L. Beatty

Michael L. Beatty is chairman of Beatty & Wozniak, PC, a thirty-five-attorney law firm headquartered in Denver, Colorado, and dedicated exclusively to the energy industry. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School, Beatty currently has an active legal practice and serves as a director of two publically traded energy companies. Beatty has also been a law school professor, general counsel of a large multinational energy company, served as chief of staff to Colorado governor Roy Romer, and was chairman of the Colorado Democratic Party.

Steve Andrews

Steve Andrews has thirty years of experience in the energy sector in consulting with builders, municipalities, and utilities, as well as working with public television shows and freelance writing. In 2005, he cofounded the nonprofit Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas–USA.

Jill Hanauer

Jill Hanauer is president of Project New West, a western research and strategy company based in Colorado. Hanauer has over twenty-five years of political experience. She has worked for US senators Gary Hart, Tom Harkin, and Barbara Boxer, and the Democratic National Committee under Chairmen Paul Kirk and Ron Brown. Hanauer was the Pro-Choice America director of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League and vice president of the Center for National Policy. She cofounded The Interfaith Alliance and served as its executive director for five years.

David Winkler

A lifelong Coloradan, David Winkler joined Project New West at its inception in 2006 and currently serves as research director. He has extensive experience with political campaigns, issue advocacy, civic engagement, and community organizing throughout the West.

Lisa Grove

Lisa Grove, president of Grove Insight, has conducted polls and moderated hundreds of focus groups and dial test sessions for presidential, senatorial, and gubernatorial candidates, labor unions, conservation groups, and other nonprofits, governments, and corporations specializing in the West, where she lives and plays. Grove is also the owner of two other environmentally responsible businesses, IF Green and Green Insight.

Melissa Chernaik

Melissa Chernaik is a senior analyst at Grove Insight, based in Portland, Oregon. Over the years, Chernaik has fulfilled myriad roles in the political world, including pollster, campaign manager, communications and field director, and general, direct mail, and message consultant. She also serves on several local boards of directors and conducts trainings for first-time candidates and staffers.

Andrew Myers

Andrew Myers is president and chief executive officer of Myers Research, based in Virginia. His clients include over 200 elected officials and a host of progressive organizations and think tanks. Myers has worked on elections at all levels, from local to presidential, and has served as the principal pollster to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee and the Democratic Governors Association. He has extensive experience in the West, particularly in Colorado, Montana, and Idaho.

Chip Ward

Chip Ward is a former grassroots organizer who has led several successful campaigns to make polluters accountable. The author of Canaries on the Rim and Hope’s Horizon, he writes from Torrey, Utah.

Florence Williams

Florence Williams is a contributing editor at Outside magazine. She also frequently writes on science and the environment for The New York Times, OnEarth, High Country News, and other publications. A former Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, she lives in Colorado with her family.

Heidi VanGenderen

Heidi VanGenderen is a third-generation Colorado native who served as the state’s first gubernatorial climate advisor. She has worked on energy and climate issues in the nongovernmental organization, public, academic, and private sectors and recently completed the Chevening Fellowship in Edinburgh and London.

Jason Salzman

Jason Salzman is an award-winning writer and media consultant. His articles or commentaries have been published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Nonprofit World, Sierra, Utne Reader, and elsewhere. He’s a former media critic for the Rocky Mountain News, and he’s the coauthor of Making the News: A Guide for Activists and Nonprofits and 50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America. Salzman is cofounder of Effect Communications.