David Hindin is using his legal, behavioral science, leadership, and storytelling expertise to address human overshoot, especially exposing the myth that technology innovation (e.g. green energy) by itself...

Dr Chris Tucker is a co-founder of Stable Planet Alliance, author of A Planet of Three Billion, and Chair of the American Geographical Society. Chris advocates for increased investment in women and girls not only as...

Elise Buckle is President and CEO of Climate & Sustainability, based near Geneva, Switzerland. Co-founder of SHE Changes Climate, facilitator of the Planetary Emergency Partnership and other initiatives, Elise is...

Susan Allen, MD, MPH, is a Professor in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, and founder of the Rwanda-Zambia Health Research Group. Since 1986 Dr Allen and colleagues...

Amy is WILD Foundation's Acting Co-President, and has spent the last 15 years researching building blocks of collective action. She has brought this knowledge into her award-winning nonprofit leader and as a scholar of....

Bill is founder and President of the highly acclaimed Population Media Center, which strives to improve the health and wellbeing of people around the world through the use of entertainment-education strategies...

Suzanne York is the director of Transition Earth. She has reported on international human rights, globalization, and environmental issues for nearly three decades. She focuses on the interconnectedness...

Sustainable production and consumption specialist Maurie J. Cohen is Professor of Sustainability Studies and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology....

Dr Bill Rees - human ecologist, ecological economist, professor emeritus and former director of University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning in Vancouver, Canada - is famous as...

Bill Moomaw is Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School, Tufts University and works tirelessly at the intersection of global change and Earth systems science and policy..

Nandita is Executive Director of Population Balance, a non-profit that educates about—and offers solutions to address—impacts of human overpopulation and over-consumption on the planet, people, and animals...

Jose "Oying" G. Rimon II is Director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and concurrent Principal Investigator...

Alisha Graves is Executive Director of OASIS at University of California, Berkeley. Alisha lectures internationally on population and food security in the Sahel. She was a research fellow for Project Drawdown...

Dr Lizzy Andrew-Essien is a professor of systems ecology at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. She works on ecosystem resilience and how social/ industrial processes facilitate economic, urban and infrastructure growth...

Rachel Donald is a climate corruption journalist, exposing the greenwashing policies facilitating climate change in industry and politics. She hosts Planet: Critical, the podcast for a world in crisis, interviewing experts on...

Vicki Robin is a well known and prolific social innovator, cultural scout, writer and speaker. She hosts the YouTube podcast interview series, What Could Possibly Go Right?, inviting cultural scouts to shine a light...

Filmmaker and multimedia director John Bowey works on big-picture issues challenging society today, from conflict resolution, identity and history, to sustainability, biodiversity, climate change, justice, health...

Global change, population and community scientist and filmmaker, Prof Phoebe Barnard has a vision of a wiser, kinder civilization and a still-diverse planet supporting it. With 34 years in African development...

Lora Pennington is a respected cultural teacher, elder of the Upper Skagit tribe in the Salish Sea region bridging northwest USA and southwest Canada, and teacher of Lushootseed, Chief Seattle's language...

Peter is a co-founder of Stable Planet Alliance, an MIT-educated physicist and Silicon Valley entrepreneur and philanthropist. He has 30 years’ experience as a citizen lobbyist for poverty and climate issues, and...

Cécile Ndjebet was awarded the Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award, the UN Champion of the Earth and Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity. She is president of REFACOF, the African Women's Network for Community Forest...

Amanda Janoo is the Wellbeing Economy Alliance’s (WEAll’s) knowledge and policy lead. She is an economic policy expert with rich experience with governments and global development institutions...

Dr Abi Raji is a young community ecologist and educator passionate about biodiversity conservation, people and their relationship with the environment. She works on ecosystem services, land-use impacts...

Chidera Benoit is the Founder and Executive Director of Population Explosion Awareness Initiative (PEA Initiative), an indigenous Nigerian non-profit dedicated to raising awareness about the exponential rate...

Laura is a goal-driven lawyer and barrister in Nigeria with the zeal to build a better world with her practice of law and policy research. She is passionate about practical legal solutions in law, litigation, public policy...

Wana Udobang is a writer, poet, performer and storyteller in Lagos and London who has performed around the world. Wana has freelanced with The Guardian, Aljazeera, CNN, Observer and produced and hosted...

Terry Spahr directs Earth Overshoot, a nonprofit dedicated to making nature and its resources central to personal and public decisionmaking through targeted education and advocacy. Spahr, a filmmaker,...

The late Will Steffen (1947-2023) was an intellectual patron of Stable Planet Alliance and among the most influential thinkers on overshoot of the past century. Will was a godfather of the ‘stable planet’ paradigm...

Dr Carl Safina’s writings explore how we are changing the natural world and what this means for human and non-human beings. Carl sees that the durability of human dignity and survival of the natural world will...

Dr. Karen Hardee is president and CEO of Hardee Associates. She has a PhD in social demography from Cornell University, and >30 years of international technical and leadership experience working with...

Eileen is Associate Professor Emerita of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. She holds a BA and PhD in Sociology. Her work focuses on the ecological crisis and its root causes and pathways toward...

Carter's ethics, legal and policy career started with the US Dept of Justice, and his thesis and 2021 book "Justice as a Fair Start in Life" reframed the right to have children in inter-generational and child-centric...

Joseph brings a background of various industries, including marketing, to the Merz Institute and its Overshoot Behavior Lab, which is addressing ecological overshoot at a behavioral level...

Psychologist Linda Chang works on behavior change as it affects sustainability, consumption, climate change and inequality. She has a Harvard psychology PhD, Yale BA, and Behavior Change for Good Initiative at the Wharton School of...

Julie is an award-winning photographer who hopes that her images soothe viewers' souls, to feel and love the essence of nature’s glory.  She empowers women to make savvy, values-based investment decisions...

Dr. Phil Cafaro is a philosophy professor focused on environmental ethics and preserving wild nature. Past president of the International Society for Environmental Ethics, Phil hosted The Population Factor...

Dutch journalist, author, editor and founding CEO of Right Now!, Paul van Engen is mobilizing 1.5 bn followers of global faith leaders, calling on humanity to take urgent, radical, responsible action on the...

Richard is Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute, andregarded as one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels. He is the author of fourteen books, including some of...