Join our bi-monthly phone call. The first half an hour is the National Climate Seminar, followed by organizing conversation for the Teach-Ins. Calls are the first and third Wednesdays (3 PM Eastern).

Call in number: 1-712-432-3100
Conferernce Code: 253385

Attendee Phone Controls:
4* = self-mute line
5* = raise hand for Q & A


Past Organizing calls have featured:


Ross Gelbspan has a career spanning 30 years in journalism, writing for the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. As a senior editor at the Boston Globe until his retirement in 1992, he directed and edited a series of articles on job discrimination in Boston which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984. Gelbspan is the author of two recent books on the climate crisis: The Heat is On, and Boiling Point. [more]


Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. Beginning in the summer of 2006, he led the organization of the largest demonstrations against global warming in American history. McKibben is active in the Methodist Church, and his writing sometimes has a spiritual bent. [more]


Dr. James "Gus" Speth is Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. From 1993 to 1999, Dean Speth served as administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World Resources Institute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chairman of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality; and senior attorney and cofounder, Natural Resources Defense Council. [more]

Betsy Taylor is the founder and President of the Center for a New American Dream, a non-profit group that helps Americans resist excessive commercialism and consume wisely to protect the environment, improve quality of life, and enhance social justice. She has a masters degree in public administration from Harvard University and graduated summa cum laude with a BA from Duke University. [more]


Dr. David Orr is currently Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering work on environmental literacy in higher education and his recent work in ecological design. Dr. Orr raised funds for and spearheaded the effort to design and build a $7.2 million Environmental Studies Center at Oberlin College, a building described by the New York Times as "the most remarkable" of a new generation of college buildings. [More]

Dr. Stephen Schneider is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Institute for International Studies, and Professor by Courtesy in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University since September, 1992. Schneider’s current global change research interests include: climatic change; global warming; climactic change environmental and economic impacts; food/climate and other environmental /science public policy issues... [more]

Hunter Lovins is President and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions. NCS educates senior decision-makers in business, government and civil society to restore and enhance natural and human capital while increasing prosperity and quality of life. NCS also partners with leading thinkers and implementers to create tools and strategies that enable companies, communities and countries to become more sustainable. [more]


Anthony D. Cortese, ScD is President of Second Nature, a nonprofit organization with a mission to catalyze a worldwide effort to make healthy, just, and sustainable action a foundation of all learning and practice in higher education. He is also a co-director of the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment and co-founder of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and a consultant to industry, government and non-profit organizations. [more]

Jessy Tolkan is an 8-year veteran of the youth organizing and voting movement. Jessy has worked as the Wisconsin State Director for the New Voters Project, registering over 130,000 18-24 year old voters across the state and helping to produce a historic 11% increase in youth voter turnout in the US, the largest increase since 18 year-olds got the right to vote. In 2006, Jessy was recently named one of the "Real Hot 100," an award given to women making real change in their communities.


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