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Afaa Michael Weaver (b. Michael S. Weaver) has been a Pew fellow, a Fulbright scholar and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. Most recently he received the May Sarton Award. His 10th collection of poetry is *The Plum Flower Dance*. Afaa works with poets in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong and holds an endowed chair at Simmons College.

Fabienne Casseus born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on May,5,1991. Her early education was funded by her grandmother, but money fell short. In the year 2000, she moved to the United States with her mother. This past year she was named a semi-finalist in a national high school poetry competition of the National Endowment for the Arts. Photo credit to Michelle DeBakey.

Theda Perdue is Atlanta Distinguished Term Professor of Southern Culture in the history department at UNC - Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the Native peoples of the southeastern United States, on gender in Native societies, and on racial construction in the South.

Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, appointed in Law, Philosophy, and Divinity. Her many books include *Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law*; *Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education; Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership*; and *Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality*.

Stephanie Mills burst on to the national scene in 1969 with her Mills College commencement address, “The Future is a Cruel Hoax.” Inspired by the work of Paul Ehrlich, Mills believed that overpopulation and resource exploitation were leading humanity towards disaster. She became an advocate for Planned Parenthood, then began a distinguished career as an environmental editor, author, and speaker. The forthcoming *On Gandhi’s Path* will be her seventh book. Mills is a longtime proponent of bioregionalism, which promotes locally sustainable economies and cultures, and a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute.

Robert Stone is a multi-award-winning, Oscar and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. Born in England in 1958, his grew up in both Europe and America. After graduating with a degree in history from the University of Wisconsin/Madison, he moved to New York City in 1983 determined to pursue a career in filmmaking. He gained considerable recognition for his first film, *RADIO BIKINI* (1987) which premiered at Sundance and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. Multi-tasking as a producer, director, writer, editor and sometimes cameraman, he has over the last 20 years developed a steady international reputation with a range of unique and critically acclaimed feature-documentaries about American history, pop-culture and the mass media. His more recent and perhaps best-known work includes *GUERRILLA: The Taking of Patty Hearst* (2004), which premiered at Sundance (under the title *Neverland*) and went on to become one of the most highly acclaimed theatrical documentaries of the year. His latest film is the documentary feature *OSWALD'S GHOST* (2007) for which Entertainment Weekly cited Stone as "one of our most important documentarians." He continues to create personally crafted high-end documentary films from his home in the Hudson Valley of New York, where he lives with his wife Melissa, an artist, and their two sons.

Michael B. McElroy was appointed as the Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Harvard University in 1970. At Harvard, he served as Director of Center for Earth and Planetary Physics (1975-1978), as founding Chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (1986-2000), as Chair of the University-wide Committee on the Environment (1991-2001), as first Director of the Center for the Environment (2001-2004), and more recently as the Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Sciences in 1997. He is the author of more than 250 technical papers and several books covering topics ranging from studies of planetary atmospheres, to stratospheric ozone, to the chemistry of the troposphere, to changes in biogeochemical cycles and factors underlying both natural and human-induced changes in global climate. A recently completed book addresses the challenge posed by our need to switch to a low carbon energy future in order to meet the challenge of global climate change.

As *The World*'s environment editor, Peter Thomson works with staff and freelance reporters and the show's hosts to bring clear and compelling coverage and analysis of global environmental issues to the program's 2.5 million listeners.