Chris Turner
Award- winning author and sustainability strategist
October 3, 2017
Chris Turner is an author, speaker and strategist, providing Canada’s authoritative voice on sustainability and the global cleantech boom. He’s the author of The War on Science, and the bestsellers, The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need and The Great Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy where he sheds light on the global sustainability movement. His reporting on energy, climate and sustainability issues appears regularly in The Walrus, The Globe & Mail, Canadian Geographic and many other publications.
DR. VANDANA SHIVA
Founder of Navdanya
November 16, 2014
Dr. Shiva is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and holds a PhD in Quantum Theory from the University of Western Ontario. In 1991, she founded “Navdanya,” a movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially seeds, and to oppose the aims of the World Trade Organization agreement, which would have all seeds susceptible to genetic modification patents, becoming intellectual property.
Winona Laduke
Executive Director of Honor the Earth
November 8, 2013
Winona LaDuke(Anishinaabe) is an internationally acclaimed author, orator and activist. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities with advanced degrees in rural economic development, Ms. LaDuke has devoted her life to protecting the lands and life ways of Native communities. She is currently executive director of Honor the Earth, an organization she helped found, that works to build a just, green economy in Native America.
Dr. Wade Davis
Anthropologist
November 23, 2012
Wade Davis has served as a National Geographic Society's Explorer-in-Residence, and is an anthropologist, international speaker and bestselling author, whose work includes The Serpent and The Rainbow and most recently, The Sacred Headwaters. The Kawartha World Issues Centre (KWIC), is is a grassroots and charitable organization, with strong roots to Trent students, which promotes dialogue and understanding of world issues to enable people especially youth, to engage in positive social and environmental change.
Dr. Devra David
Founding director, Center for Environmental Oncology
November 23, 2010
Dr. Davis completed her Ph.D. in Science Studies at the University of Chicago in 1972 and her M.P.H. in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University in 1982. She served as a member of the Board of Scientific Counsellors of the U.S. National Toxicology Program and was the founding director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. A lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Prof. Davis was among those awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. She has received awards from the American Cancer Society, the Euro-American Women’s Council and the United Nations for her work in cancer research and awareness.
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