In 1974, with support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Lester Brown founded the Worldwatch Institute, the first research institute devoted to the analysis of global environmental issues. Brown has authored […]

Fred de Sam Lazaro is director of the Under-Told Stories Project at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, a program that combines international journalism and teaching. He has served […]

Julie A. Dunfey began her association with Ken Burns and Florentine Films in 1986 as a co-producer of The Civil War and Thomas Hart Benton. Thomas Hart Benton, which was […]

Steve Dunsky has been a writer/producer/director with the U.S. Forest Service for the past 15 years. He collaborates with his wife, Ann, who works for the agency as an editor. […]

Tyrhee Moore is a mountaineer and outdoor education advocate born and raised in S.E. Washington, D.C. Moore is a highly regarded outdoorsman whose climbs include Grand Teton, Mount Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua, […]

Larry Engel is an Emmy® award-winning producer, writer, director, and cinematographer now in his fifth decade of filmmaking that spans all seven continents. He’s worked on over 250 projects for […]

Kevin Finneran has been editor-in-chief of Issues in Science and Technology since 1991.  Issues is the quarterly policy journal published by the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, […]

Luke Gasser was born in 1966 in Lungern, Obwalden, Switzerland. From 1983-1987 he trained as a sculptor at the University in Lucerne of Applied Sciences and Arts. Since 1991 Luke […]

Pertula George is excited to serve as the new Executive Director of Common Good. She comes to Common Good via The Food Project in Massachusetts where she spent six years […]

Environmental filmmaker John Grabowska has produced films from the subarctic to the subtropics. His films have won awards at festivals around the world and have been nationally broadcast as primetime […]