Green Festival Speaker Highlights
8 years | 26 events | 6 cities
580 keynotes*- presentations - book signing events
cumulative audience: 110,000+
As National Program Curator, I networked and recruited all of the speakers listed here.
celebrities
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Alice Walker*
We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For -
Chuck D
Public Enemy -
Dr. Cornel West*
Hope on a Tightrope -
Darryl Hannah
Actor, Environmental Activist -
Dr. David Suzuki*
Ecologist -
Dr. Deepak Chopra* Spiritual Teacher
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Congressman Dennis Kucinich, (D) Ohio
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Dolores Huerta
Social Justice Leader -
Ed Begley Jr.*
Actor, Environmental Activist -
Gilberto Gil
Artist -
Brasil Minister of Culture
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John Trudell*
Poet, American Indian Movement -
Julia Butterfly Hill*
Activist -
Mike Farrell Actor
Anti-Death Penalty Activist -
Paul Miller*
aka DJ Spooky -
Ralph Nader* Only The Super Rich Can Save Us
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Woody Harrelson
Actor, Hemp Activist
*author, feature book title
thought leadership
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Alan Weisman*
World Without Us -
Barbara Ehrenreich*
Nickle and Dimed -
Bill Ayers + Bernardine Dohrn*
Race Course -
Bill McKibben*
Deep Economy -
Daniel Pinchbeck*
2012: Return of Quetzalcoatl -
Dr. David Korten*
The Great Turning -
Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris* EarthDance
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Frances Moore Lappe*
Diet for a Small Planet -
Dr. Fritjof Capra*
Hidden Connections -
Gary Zukav*
The Seat of the Soul -
Dr. George Lakoff*
Don’t Think of an Elephant -
Dr. Helen Caldicott*
Nuclear Power is Not the Answer -
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor*
My Stroke of Insight -
Dr. Joanna Macy*
Think Like a MountainJohn Robbins*
Diet for a New America -
Dr. John Todd*
From Ecocities to Living Machines -
Paul Hawken*
Blessed Unrest -
Paul Stamets*
Mycellium Running -
Sim Van der Ryn*
Ecological Design -
Dr. Stuart Pimm*
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Winona LaDuke*
Recovering the Sacred
media
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Amy Goodman*
Democracy Now! -
Arianna Huffington*
Huffington Post -
Caroline Casey*
Coyote Network News -
Eleanor Smeal*
Ms. Magazine -
Greg Palast*
The Guardian, BBC -
Jim Hightower*
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Hightower Times
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Katrina vanden Heuvel*
The Nation -
Laura Flanders
GriTV -
Thom Hartmann*
Tiokasin Ghosthorse
First Voices Indigenous Radio
business leaders
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Dame Anita Roddick*
The Body Shop -
Amory Lovins*
Rocky Mountain Institute -
Amy Domini
Domini Investment -
Ben Cohen*
Ben and Jerry’s -
Bill Shireman*
Future 500 -
Gary Erickson*
Clif Bar -
Gunter Pauli*
Zeri Institute -
Dr. Hazel Henderson* Beyond Globalization
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Hunter Lovins*
Natural Capital -
Lynn Twist*
Soul of Money -
Janine Benyus
Biomimicry -
John Perkins*
Confessions of an Economic Hitman -
Lawrence Lessig*
Free Culture -
Dr. Lester Brown* Worldwatch Institute
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Dr. Marion Nestle*
Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety -
Majora Carter
Consultant -
Dr. Michael Dorsey Dartmouth University
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Naomi Klein*
No Logo -
Dr. Riane Eisler*
The Real Wealth of Nations -
Dr. C. Otto Scharmer*
Theory URay Anderson* Interface Carpet -
Van Jones*
The Green Collar Economy -
William Greider*
The Soul of Capitalism -
William McDonough*
Cradle-to-Cradle