#108 Gary Cocke, Director of Sustainability at the University of Texas at Dallas

Gary has led the Office of Sustainability at UT Dallas since 2018 with previous sustainability experience in higher education and municipal government. He is responsible for facilitating the integration of sustainability into campus stewardship, student life, administration, and student learning. UTD, as well as universities across the nation and the...

Human Resources or Human Responsibilities?

What if we changed human resources to human responsibilities?  What comes to mind when you think of resources? Maybe things that have utility, or that can be extracted, or even used up. Is that how you want to think about people you hire or work with? In most cases,...

#107 Diego Saez Gil, Founder & CEO of Pachama

Diego is the founder and CEO of Pachama, a Y Combinator-backed startup working to accelerate the flow of capital to carbon capturing projects starting with forests biomass projects. Pachama harnesses satellite images and machine learning to verify the carbon storage on forests and then connects directly project developers with carbon...

#106 Tinia Pina, Founder & CEO of Re-Nuble

Tinia Pina accepted her Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2006. She began her career in sustainability as a former student pursuing a Masters of Science degree at Columbia University prior to becoming the Chief Executive Officer and Founder...

#105 Ron MacDonald, President, CEO & Director of Zinc8 Energy Solutions

Mr. MacDonald has over 35 years of both public and private sector experience, ranging from international roles within the Parliament of Canada to serving on the boards of numerous publicly listed resource companies. From 1988 to 1997, he was the Member of Parliament for Halifax, Nova Scotia, during which...

#104 Aaron William Perry, Founder of the Y on Earth Community

Aaron William Perry is a consultant, executive advisor, and author with deep expertise in the renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and finance industries. He is the founder of the Y on Earth Community – a global non-profit that provides media resources and curated community and corporate events to mobilize community...

#103 Rick Parnell, CEO at the Foundation for Climate Restoration

Executive, advocate, team builder, and optimist, Rick Parnell has leveraged his unique skillset to help the Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR) pursue concrete and scalable climate restoration solutions. Rick came to F4CR after 16 years with the United Nations Foundation, where he designed the Foundation’s partnership model and put together a...

Introducing Bigger Than Us Issue 2: Trash Island

Come along for the adventures of Mira and Nexi as they travel (with parental supervision) the world to discover the creative solutions that human beings are deploying to solve our most significant Earthly challenges. Want share this comic with children, teachers, friends, or colleagues? You can download Bigger Than...

Download Bigger Than Us Issue 2: Trash Island

Did you miss Bigger Than Us Issue 1: Pyrolysis? Read and download it here! We plan to issue a new fun adventure the first week of every month. Be sure to follow us on social media or sign up for our newsletter to keep up with all of our...

#102 Rob Niven, Founder & CEO of CarbonCure Technologies

Rob Niven is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CarbonCure Technologies, the global leader in carbon dioxide (CO₂) utilization technologies for the concrete industry. Rob has the simple goal of making concrete sustainability both profitable and easy for industry. Under his direction, CarbonCure and its partners are achieving their mission to reduce...

#101 Glenn Branch, Deputy Director at National Center for Science Education

Glenn Branch is the deputy director of the National Center for Science Education and a coeditor of Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools. He is the author of numerous articles on climate education and evolution education in such publications as Scientific American, The American Biology Teacher, and Annual Review...

#100 Trammell S. Crow, Founder of EarthX

Trammell S. Crow is the President of the Crow Family Foundation which operates and manages the Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art as well as the Trammell Crow European Sculpture Garden. Mr. Crow is the son of Trammell Crow, founder of the Trammell Crow Company, and his...