I find myself in the company of what are described as “some of the world’s most influential environmental movers and shakers” in a new book, Conversations with Green Gurus: The Collective Wisdom of Environmental Movers and Shakers, by Laura Mazur and Louella Miles, published by John Wiley & Sons. Those featured include “thinkers” – those who have set the agenda, and “doers” – business people “who made the green cause their mission long before it became so prominent.”
The full list of people covered is as follows:
Ray Anderson, founder and chairman of Interface Inc, one of TIME Magazine’s ‘Heroes of the Environment’
James Cameron, founder of Executive Director and Vice-Chairman of Climate Change Capita (CCC)
Paul Dickinson, CEO of the Carbon Disclosure Project
John Elkington, founding partner and director of Volans, co-founder of SustainAbility, world authority of sustainable development, author of The Green Consumer Guide
John Grant, author of The Green Marketing Manifesto, frequent conference speaker and prolific blogger
Denis Hayes, President and CEO of The Bullitt Foundation, Chair of the International Earth Day Network
Gary Hirshberg, President and Chief Executive Officer of Stonyfield Farm, the world’s largest producer of organic yogurt
Tony Juniper, former Executive Director of Friends of the Earth (FoE), environmental campaigner, author and commentator
Professor Sir David King, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford
Amory B. Lovins, environmentalist, Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute
Professor Wangari Maathai, environmental and political activist, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Ricardo Navarro, founder and director of the Salvadoran Centre for Appropriate Technology (CESTA), winner of the prestigious Goldman prize
Dr Vandana Shiva, physicist, environmental activist and author
Jeffrey Swartz , CEO of Timberland Worldwide
Sir Crispin Tickell, diplomat, academic, environmentalist, author
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