Richard Manning

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1. Vandana Shiva

   Author of Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge

2. Derrick Jensen

   Author of Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization, Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control, Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests

3. Brian Halweil

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4. Richard Manning

   Author of Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization, Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie

5. Gary Paul Nabhan

   Author of Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods, The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country, Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture, and Story

6. William Catton

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7. Wallace Stegner

   Author of Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West, Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West

8. Andrew Kimbrell

   Author of The Fatal Harvest Reader, Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy Of Industrial Agriculture, The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life

9. Donald Worster

   Author of Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West, Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West

10. Robert Michael Pyle

    Author of Wintergreen: Listening to the Land's Heart, Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage

11. Julie Guthman

    Author of Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 11)

12. James Howard Kunstler

    Author of Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

13. Richard Heinberg

    Author of Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (New Society Publishers)

14. Daniel Imhoff

    Author of Farming with the Wild

15. Frederick W. Turner

    Author of Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness

16. John McPhee

    Author of Encounters with the Archdruid, Table of Contents, La Place de la Concorde Suisse

17. Jeff Goodell

    Author of Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future

18. Robert Neuwirth

    Author of Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A Urban New World

19. John Madson

    Author of Where the sky began: Land of the tallgrass prairie

20. Alice Outwater

    Author of Water: A Natural History