Rev. Seamus P. Finn, OMI, 05/16/12

Member, Justice/Peace and Integrity of Creation Ministry

Local communities are often confronted with proposals that suggest we sacrifice these priorities for the sake of jobs, development or progress. We can have both.

Lee Crockett, 05/16/12

Director, Federal Fisheries Policy, Pew Environment Group

Any doctor would point out that this year's report wasn't a clean bill of health: Thirty six of America's most commercially and recreationally important ocean fish populations are still subject to overfishing, and 45 have been depleted to unhealthy levels.

Neil Wagner, 05/16/12

Creator, 'What on Earth?' Comic Strip

Marian Chertow, 05/16/12

Associate Professor of Industrial Environmental Management, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Waste is no longer an unavoidable liability, but a potential asset: power plants might sell their coal ash to the cement industry; pharmaceutical manufacturers might offer their slurry outflow as fertilizer to farms.

David Vognar, 05/16/12

Literacy Aide, Jane Addams Hull House Association

The Wall Street Journal's tepid stance on renewable wind energy is receiving some push back from people who actually experience the benefits of this abundant and promising resource.

Andrea Riccardi and Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze, 05/16/12

Recognizing small farmers and their organizations as primary stakeholders in development means more than paying lip service to them in global meetings.

Steph Sherer, 05/16/12

Executive Director, Americans for Safe Access

Politicians come and go. But public compassion for suffering patients is here to stay.

Scott Edwards, 05/16/12

Co-Director, Food & Water Justice Project

Gov. O'Malley's closeness to Perdue was evidenced in 70 pages of emails acquired under a freedom of information request -- but subsequent disclosures indicate that the relationship may be even more tangled than was originally thought.

Robert Walker, 05/16/12

President, Population Institute

John Beddington, the U.K.'s chief science adviser, three years ago gave a speech in which he warned that population growth, climate change, and the world's rising demand for food, energy, and water constituted a "perfect storm" that could destabilize the world by 2030, or sooner.

Frances Beinecke, 05/16/12

President, Natural Resources Defense Council

Today, NRDC announces the winners of the 2012 Growing Green Awards. These awards celebrate the farmers, business owners, and bold thinkers who are transforming America's food system.

Alexandra Cousteau, 05/16/12

Explorer, Filmmaker and Water Advocate. Co-Founder of Blue Legacy International

In spite of what scientists and water conservationists are telling us about the delicate state of the Potomac, Congress is actively pursuing legislation that will reduce federal environmental oversight of our lakes, rivers, and streams.

Heather Pilatic, 05/16/12

Co-director, Pesticide Action Network North America

In the last few weeks beekeepers have reported staggering losses in Minnesota, Nebraska and Ohio after their hives foraged on pesticide-treated corn fields. Indiana too, two years ago. What's going on in the Corn Belt?

Carl Safina, 05/16/12

Author, 'The View From Lazy Point; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World'

Has the time really come when people are the dominant force on the planetary surface?

Malcolm Wittenberg, 05/16/12

Founder, Micro Analytical Systems

Food labeling and transparency should be a fundamental, mandated practice employed across every food category, even those with the most complex supply chains.

Nancy Chuda, 05/16/12

Founder of LuxEco Living and Healthy Child Healthy World

If we continue to permit hazardous substances that pose invisible dangers to ourselves and our families that negligence and failure to respond goes beyond, in my opinion, an unwitting form of child abuse.

Rana Florida, 05/15/12

CEO, The Creative Class Group

Ron L. Kagan made international headlines when he voluntarily decided to relocate the Detroit Zoo's elephants to a better home, a sanctuary in California. How exotic animals experience life in captivity is determined by the home that zoos give them. Here are some of the things that make this experience much better for animals.

Edward Zwick, 05/15/12

Film and television writer-director; serves on the advisory board of Global Witness

The battle the Kuy and Chut Wutty are fighting against the march of logging, plantations and mining companies into the forest of Cambodia holds an uncanny resemblance to the plot of Avatar. Except this is real-life. And the bullets are real.