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Emily Anderson is the author and creator of Eco-Chic Weddings. She believes good style and design are essential to creating a sustainable lifestyle. After a career of working for style and fashion icons Martha Stewart and Donna Karan, Emily now uses her creativity and chic point of view to make a positive impact on people’s lives. She leads by example that it is possible to have a well-designed life and make the world a better place. Emily also publishes ideas daily on her web site www.ecochicweddings.com.

Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering.

Bill grew up in suburban Lexington, Massachusetts and his first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 by Random House after being serialized in the New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages.

His most recent book, Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, was published in March 2007. It addresses what the author sees as shortcomings of the growth economy and envisions a transition to more local-scale enterprise.

In late summer 2006, Bill helped lead a five-day walk across Vermont to demand action on global warming that some newspaper accounts called the largest demonstration to date in America about climate change. Beginning in January 2007 he founded StepItUp07.org to demand that Congress enact curbs on carbon emissions that would cut global warming pollution 80 percent by 2050.

Bill is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He is also a board member and contributor to Grist Magazine.

Bill has been awarded Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Fellowships, and won the Lannan Prize for nonfiction writing in 2000. He has honorary degrees from Green Mountain College, Unity College, Lebanon Valley College and Sterling College.

Bill currently resides with his wife, writer Sue Halpern, and his daughter, Sophie, who was born in 1993, in Ripton, Vermont. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College.

Frances Moore Lappé is the author or coauthor of sixteen books. Her 1971 three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet continues to awaken readers to the human-made causes of hunger and the power of our everyday choices to create the world we want.

Together, Lappé and her daughter Anna Lappé lead the Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute, a collaborative network for research and popular education to bring democracy to life. With her daughter, she is also co-founder of the Small Planet Fund, channeling resources to democratic social movements worldwide. In September of 2007, the Institute’s publishing arm released Lappé’s newest book, Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, & Courage in a World Gone Mad.

In 1975, with Joseph Collins, Lappé launched the California-based Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First). Its publications continue to shape the international debate on the root causes of hunger and poverty. The Institute was described by The New York Times as one of the nation’s “most respected food think tanks.”

In 1990, Lappé co-founded the Center for Living Democracy, a ten-year initiative to help accelerate the spread of democratic innovations. Lappé served as founding editor of the Center’s American News Service, which placed solutions-oriented news stories in almost 300 newspapers nationwide.

In 2006, Lappé released Democracy’s Edge: Choosing to Save our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life (Wiley/Jossey-Bass). The book, which seeks to ignite debate about the very meaning of democracy, is now being used in many college and university courses.

In 2000-2001 Lappé was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and during October, 2007 she was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Suffolk University in Boston, MA.

Lappé's articles and opinion pieces have appeared in publications as diverse as the New York Times, O Magazine and Christian Century. Her television and radio appearances have included a PBS special with Bill Moyers, the Today Show, CBS Radio, and National Public Radio.

Historian Howard Zinn writes: “A small number of people in every generation are forerunners, in thought, action, spirit, who swerve past the barriers of green and power to hold a torch high for the rest of us. Lappé is one of those.” The Washington Post says: “Some of the twentieth century’s most vibrant activist thinkers have been American women – Margaret Mead, Jeanette Rankin, Barbara Ward, Dorothy Day – who took it upon themselves to pump life into basic truths. Frances Moore Lappé is among them.”

She is a contributing editor to Yes! Magazine, a founding councilor of the World Future Council, a member of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, and serves on the National Advisory Council of the Union of Concerned Scientists.