Nearly 100 people participated in interviews for As the Oceans Rise.
Global Warming Activists
Bill Stanley, Global Climate Change Initiative Director, The Nature Conservancy
Glen Brand, Director, Cool Cities and Cool Counties (Sierra Club)
Van Jones, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Janisse Ray, environmentalist and author (Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land)
Michele Wyman, Executive Director, ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability)
Margit Hentschel, Director, Climate Resilient Communities Program, ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability)
Jeremy Hays, Organizing Director, Apollo Alliance
David Kroodsma, Co-Founder, Ride for Climate U.S.A.
Julian Darley, President, Post Carbon Institute
Celine Rich, Executive Director, Post Carbon Institute
Daniel Lerch, author of Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty
Matt Vander Sluis, Global Warming Program Manager, The California Climate Outreach Campaign, Planning and Conservation League
Virginia Johnson, Executive Director, Ecology Action
Mahlon Aldridge, Vice President, Energy Group, Ecology Action
Dr. Laura A. Strohm, Executive Director, The Sustainability Academy
Clean-Tech Entrepreneurs
Steve Westly, The Westly Group (CleanTech venture capitalist, former California state controller and gubernatorial candidate)
Pat Spears, President, Intertribal Council On Utility Policy (wind power)
Jessica Fullmer, Executive Director, Sustainable Business Institute (accrediter)
Bill McCoy, General Manager of Digital Publishing, Adobe (e-books)
Arthur Klebanoff, CEO, RosettaBooks (e-books)
Albert Nunez, Capital Sun Group & SkyBuilt Power (renewable energy)
Neal Saiki, CEO, Zero Motorcycles (electric motorcycles)
James W. Kao, President/CEO, Green Citizen (electronics recycling)
John Suppes, CEO, Clarum Homes (green building)
Anders Müler, Baltic Sea Solutions (renewable energy)
Peter Winarsky, Innovation Center Denmark (renewable energy)
Daniel Robin, bio-renewables entrepreneur and co-organizer of Race Against Global Warming
Michael Ford, President, Choose Renewables (green products)
Paul McGrath, Founder, RideSpring (alternate commuting)
Michael Arenson, Director of Sales and Marketing, Full Circle Solar (renewable energy)
David Silver, Dealership Owner, ZENN Cars of Santa Cruz (electric cars)
Paul Izenstark, Director of Technical Services, WarmBoard (radiant heating)
Lois Wright, Government Affairs Representative, Sacramento Municipal Utilities District
Jim Sanfilippo, NiLA (LED lighting)
Environmental Researchers and Natural Resources Managers
Dr. Dominique Bachelet, Director of Climate Change Science, The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Lara Hansen, Senior Scientist, Climate Change, WWF
Dr. Lee Hannah, Senior Climate Change Fellow, Conservation International
David J Stout, Chief, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Habitat and Resource Conservation
Dr. Rod Fujita, Senior Scientist, Environmental Defense
Dr. Gary Griggs, Director, Institute of Marine Sciences, Coastal Processes and Geologic Hazards, UCSC
Dr. Michael Loik, Director, Plant and Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change, UCSC
Dr. Kenneth Coale, Director, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Dr. Stacy Kim, Marine Ecology Researcher, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Dr. Bruce Jaffe, Research Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey
Dr. Rod Salm, The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Phil Kramer, The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Chris Bergh, The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Barry Baker, The Nature Conservancy
Jack Hurd, The Nature Conservancy
Jeff DeBlieu, The Nature Conservancy
Elizabeth Macleod, The Nature Conservancy
Louis Blumberg, The Nature Conservancy
Laura Smith, The Nature Conservancy
Local Government
Fred Keeley, Treasurer, Santa Cruz County and architect of California’s solution to its energy crisis in 2001
Ryan Coonerty, Mayor, City of Santa Cruz
Emily Reilly, Former Mayor, City of Santa Cruz
Oliver Thomas, New Orleans City Council President
Mary Arman, Santa Cruz Public Works Operations Manager
Mikeala Engert, Keene, New Hampshire, City Planner
Larry Robinson, Sebastopol City Council Member and former Mayor
Bob Nelson, Santa Cruz Superintendent of Solid Waste Collection
Dan Seidel, Superintendent of the Santa Cruz Wastewater Treatment Facility
Chris Berry, Santa Cruz Water Resources Manager
Ceil Cirillo, Executive Director, Santa Cruz City Redevelopment Agency
Suzanne Healy, Santa Cruz Environmental Projects Analyst
Greg Larson, Santa Cruz Planning Director
Bill Kocher, Santa Cruz Water Department Director
Business Operations
Kelly Hardy, Attorney, DLA Piper
David Yudkin, CEO, Hot Lips Pizza
Brian T. Mullis, President, Sustainable Travel International
Dr. George Blumenthal, Chancellor, University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
Larry Pageler, Director, UCSC Transportation and Parking Services
Michael Brownlee, Catalyst, Boulder County Going Local!
Peter Beckman, Think Local First-County of Santa Cruz
Jonathan Martel, Attorney, Arnold & Porter
Andy Ruben, Vice President, Corporate Sustainability, Wal-Mart
Sustainable Practices
John Robbins (vegetarian, founder of EarthSave, and author of Diet For A New America, The Food Revolution, and Healthy At 100)
Nell Newman (flexitarian and founder of Newman's Own Organics)
Eleanor Wasson (99-year-old vegetarian and friend of the environment)
Linda Breen Pierce (author of Choosing Simplicity and Simplicity Lessons)
Ken Foster (permaculture practitioner)
Luis Alejo (resident of Vista Montaņa zero-energy homes community)
Austin Stowell (living off the grid since 1985)
Bob Stayton (converted electric car)
Patricia Clark (early adopter of e-book reading)
Martin Stone Davis (bike to train commuter)
Chuck Hornick (indoor power meter user)
Hannah Fries (Orion Magazine Making Other Arrangements editor)
Larry Gilman (proponent of low-tech home entertainment)
Brian Eisenhauer (creator of web-based system for farmers markets)
Betsy Hands (director of homeWORD)
Terry O'Day (artist)
