Martin Charter is the Director and Visiting Professor of Sustainable Product Design at The Centre for Sustainable Design at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College. Martin has an MBA from Aston Business School in the UK, and has interests in sustainable product design, green(er) marketing and creativity & innovation. Since 1988, he has worked at director level in 'business and environment' issues in consultancy, leisure, publishing, training, events and research. Prior to this he held in a range of management positions in strategy, research and marketing in gardening, construction, trade exhibitions, financial services and consultancy including being a launch Director of Greenleaf Publishing and Marketing Director at the Earth Centre. Martin is the former coordinator of one the UK's first green business clubs for SMEs and presently also directs a regional network focused on 'producer responsibility' issues related to the electronics sector. Martin is presently editor of the Journal of Sustainable Product Design and was the previous editor of The Green Management Letter and Greener Management International, where he retains Editorial Board involvement.

Clean Agency, headquartered in Pasadena, Cali., was founded by Seri McClendon and Ken Eskenazi. McClendon is the strategic planner and client service lead. She has just completed a Masters Degree in geography with an emphasis in Industrial Ecology from CSULB. Eskenazi is the agency creative lead, alumni and professor from Art Center College of Design and a recent presenter at The United Nations. Clean Agency was named to bestselling author Seth Godin€™s 2004 Bull Market Directory, a resource connecting organizations with some of the world€™s most creative thinkers.

Collin Dunn is Editor-in-Chief of SASS Magazine. Growing up in the mountains of Colorado gave Collin a strong sense of the inherent value in the natural world and the motivation to help preserve it. He believes that every person can do something every day to help improve their lives and the world around them.

Noel Gaudette is Art Director for SASS Magazine.

Martin Perna is the lead vocalist for the afrobeat group Antibalas. You can read the entire weblog of his trip at ocotesoulsounds.com His next veggie oil road trip will be in a Dodge pickup truck.

Rick Woodbury is the originator of the ballasted narrow vehicle concept and co-inventor of the Tango. He is president and founder of a successful book composition company, now in its 17th year of business. Over $500,000 has been invested in development of the Tango, and an initial test vehicle has been completed. This performance car has been turning heads ever since its unveiling in 2001. Commuter Cars will launch the Tango 200 and Tango 100 higher-volume production versions in 2006 and 2007, respectively. While production engineering takes place over the next 24 months, the company will seed the market by offering the ultra high-performance Tango 600 €˜kit car.€™

Patrick Napper, known to many in the DJ world as PNapper, is a musician and producer, as well as a member of the Board of Directors for the Sustainable Style Foundation. Check out his website to learn more about his life and music. He lives and works in Seattle, Wash.

Kathryn Gillick and her little red truck live in California, not too far from the Anza-Borrego Desert, where Kathryn is a freelance journalist and her truck gets all the attention and new clutch cylinders it needs to keep both of them happy.

Poul Erik Bak is the founder of ZEES - Zero Emission Energy Systems - and the editor of H2CARSBIZ Magazine. Dr. Bak did his graduate work at the Technical University of Denmark before joining the JET Joint Undertaking team working on nuclear fusion. During his term at JET, Bak obtained a Ph.D. from Imperial College in London. He also holds a part time MBA from the London Business School. ZEES has most recently delivered fully functional sustainable wind-solar-hydrogen society edutainment system that is now in operation in Copenhagen, Denmark. His next project is to establish a Zero Emisson Production System.

Linda Loudermilk is an international designer based in Los Angeles. For more info on her vision of the future of fashion, go to luxuryeco.com.

Jennifer Tolo is a Senior Designer at Chen Design Associates. In the past she has worked with clients such as New York's Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Mondavi Wineries and Sundance. She has also worked on projects for Williams-Sonoma and Pottery Barn. Tolo holds a BFA with distinction in graphic design from the California College of Arts and Crafts.

Leslie Hoffman is the Executive Director of Earth Pledge. Check out Verdopolis: The Future Green City, February 8 - 11 in New York.