The Illahee Forum engages noted researchers, thinkers, writers, innovators, and practitioners to interact with our community of citizens, policy makers, businesses, and environmental professionals. Below is a partial list of guests we have hosted as part of the forum:
David Suzuki – Towards a New Millenium: Setting the Bottom Line
Wade Davis – Vanishing Cultures, Enduring Lives
Michael Soulé – The Wildlands Project: A 1,000 Year Plan for North America
Dan Janzen – Rainforest: Use It or Lose It
Dennis Martinez – Indian Insights on Fire in the West
Greg Colfax – Makah Whaling: Culture, Conservation, Controversy
Nancy Turner – From Spirit to Sustenance: First Nations Use of Native Plants
Steward Brand – Sustainability and the Long Now
Lucy Blake – A Regional, Business Approach to Sustainability
Janine Benyus – Innovations for a Sustainable Future
Gretchen Daily – Sustainability & Ecosystem Services: A Systems Perspective
Lynn Margulis – Environment Earth: Gaia’s Past as Prologue
Richard B. Alley – Earth System Dynamic: A Bumpy Ride
David Quammen – Large Predators: Canaries in the Coalmine
Wes Jackson – Going Native: Natural Systems Agriculture
Robert Howarth – From Mountain to Sea: Nutrient Cycles Out of Balance
Allen Hammond – Which World? Scenarios for the 21st Century
Jared Diamond – The Rise and Fall of Civilization
C.S. Holling – Panarchy: Understanding Human and Natural Systems
Michael Fay – The MegaTransect: Protecting Africa’s Rainforest
Derrick Jensen – Rethinking Civilization
Paul Ehrlich – Human Nature: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect
Zhao Shidong – Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jerry Franklin – Conserving China’s Forests
Brian Walker – Restoring Australia’s Rangelands
Wade Davis – Threads in the Fabric of the Ethnosphere
Nilda Callanaupa – Andean Weavers and Our Environment
Daniel Pauly – World Fisheries Futures
David Quammen – Monsters of God
Ravi Chellam – Living with Lions: Conservation & Culture
William Cronon – Landscape Legacies: Learning from Our History
Stewart Brand – The Future of Cities As If the Past Mattered
Lucy Lippard – Three Ways to Enter a City
Jane Holtz Kay – Last Chance Landscapes: De-Paving & Re-Planning Cities
Bill McKibben – Beyond Resources: Vision and Community
Gary Snyder – Poet and Naturalist
Jerry Franklin – Reflections from Mt. Saint Helens…Twenty-five Years Later
Jaime Lerner – Curitiba: Another City that Works
James Kunstler – The Long Emergency: The American Dream Meets Reality
Kenneth Deffeyes – Hubbert’s Peak: The End of Oil
Maude Barlow – Water in the 21st Century: Conflict or Cooperation?
Michael Klare – Oil, Water and Global Security
Michael Pollan – Oil, Water and Agriculture
Andrew Revkin – Oil, Climate & Money
Catherine Austin Fitts – Money, Values & Action
Frank Ackerman – Everything You Know About Economics is Wrong
Marylin Waring – Money & Sex
David Sirota – Money & Politics
Andrew Newberg – Born to Believe
Juliet Schor – Why We Buy
Christopher Hedges – Why We Fight
James Tabor – Who Was Jesus
Julia Sweeny – Letting Go of God
Ken Taylor & John Perry – Philosophy Talk: Why We Want What We Want
Helen Fisher – Looking For Love
Susan Cheever – Extreme Desire
Steve Fraser – Wall Street: A History of Desire
Roger H. Bezdek – Peaking of World Oil
Peter H Gleick – Water and the New West: Economics, Politics, and Nature
Patricia Limerick – The Future of Energy and Water in the West
Richard White – Mistakes We Should Stop Making
Jane Lubchenco – The Environment and Human Well-being
Buck Parker – Moving an Environmental Agenda When the Government Won’t