Keynote Speakers

Crystal Lameman:

 (Keynote, Panel) is a Beaver Lake Cree First Nation activist, a Sierra Club Prairie activist and the Peace River tar sands campaigner for the Indigenous Environmental Network in Alberta, Canada – and a mother of two. With infectious dedication and passion, Crystal is committed to restoring Native treaty rights and stopping the expansion of the tar sands. Crystal is involved in the work of her nation to take the Canadian government to court over 17,000 treaty violations. In May 2008, the Beaver Lake Cree Nation filed a Statement of Claim in Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench taking the Government of Canada to court. In March 2012, they were granted a trial. This trial stands as a precedent for other oil sands rights violations. (Taken from Studentsdivest.org)

Hunter Lovins:

is an author and a promoter of sustainable development for over 30 years, is president of Natural Capitalism Solutions, a 501(c)3 non-profit in Longmont, Colorado and the Chief Insurgent of the Madrone Project. She teaches sustainable business management at Bainbridge Graduate Institute in Seattle, Washington and at Daniels College of Business, University of Denver. She was a founding professor at Presidio Graduate School’s MBA in Sustainable Management program (2002-2010). She also has taught at various universities, consulted for many citizens’ groups, governments and corporations. She co-founded with her then-husband Amory Lovins the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), which she led for 20 years. In demand as a speaker and consultant, she has addressed the World Economic Forum, the U.S. Congress, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, and hundreds of major conferences. Named a “green business icon” by Newsweek, a millennium “Hero of the Planet” by Time Magazine, she has also received the Right Livelihood Award, the Leadership in Business Award and dozens of other honors.

Garth Lenz:

 Garth Lenz is an internationally published environmental photojournalist. He is best known for his photographic work detailing environmental and social justice issues throughout Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Borneo, and China. This work has led to many assignments and publication in numerous books, newspapers, and magazines. These include The Nature Conservancy Magazine, Canadian Geographic, The Manchester Guardian, The New York Times Sunday Edition, International Wildlife, B.B.C. Wildlife Magazine, Suomen Kuvalehti, The Tokyo Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Globe And Mail, and Time Magazine.

He is the co-founder of the markets campaign to encourage corporate responsibility as a tool for forest protection and conservation. In this role he has given presentations to The New York Times in NYC, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph in Tokyo, Major Newspapers in London, and GTE in Los Angeles. In 1993 and 1994 he made presentations to the European Parliament in Brussels and in 1998 was asked to give a presentation on Boreal Forest Issues and First Nations Issues to the Senate Subcommittee hearings on the Boreal Forest in Ottawa.

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He has completed assignments and supplied images for many Non- Governmental Organizations. These include Greenpeace Germany, U.K., U.S.A., Canada, and Greenpeace International, as well as The Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Public Media Centre. This work has been used in many forms: in numerous full-page ads in the New York Times, ads in Conde Naste, The New Yorker, Travel And Leisure, on billboards in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Germany, and in numerous posters.