Reid Lifset, 12/21/11

Associate Director, Industrial Environmental Management Program

As 2012 begins, I would encourage the innovators in this field to pause -- to make a resolution for more sustainable paths forward in the development and deployment of electronic textiles.

Avital Binshtock, 12/21/11

Lifestyle editor, Sierra magazine

Eva Longoria, who plays the self-involved Gabrielle Solis on ABC's Desperate Housewives, takes on extracurricular projects that set her far apart from her shallow onscreen persona.

Sam Wolson, 12/21/11

Freelance photographer and cinematographer

John W. Rowe, 12/21/11

Chairman and CEO, Exelon Corporation

Realizing a clean, reliable and affordable energy future requires that we look at three factors simultaneously: cost, reliability and environmental impact.

Edward Flattau, 12/21/11

Environmental newspaper columnist

Recently, conservative radio talk show host Sean Hannity unwittingly promoted the idea of transforming our conspicuous consumption-oriented society into an environmentally sustainable one.

Frances Beinecke, 12/21/11

President, Natural Resources Defense Council

Today, President Obama announced new standards to reduce mercury, lead, and other dangerous pollution from power plants. Now dirty coal-fired plants that fought standards for decades will finally have to clean up their act.

Charles Dean Connor, 12/21/11

President and CEO, The American Lung Association

The American Lung Association thanks President Obama and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson for seeing through the smokescreen and putting the health of our children first.

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, 12/21/11

CEO, Green for All

The EPA is expected to release a new baseline today limiting the amount of mercury and other toxics that coal-powered plants can spew into our communities. The new rules will not only keep us healthier they will also create jobs.

Ingrid Newkirk, 12/21/11

President and co-founder, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

This year we persuaded many businesses to get rid of glue traps, stop selling foie gras, quit using great apes in advertising, and drop their sponsorship of the Iditarod. And that's just the beginning of the list.

Michael Brune, 12/21/11

Executive Director, The Sierra Club

What we're watching unfold in Washington, D.C., is more than just a high-stakes political power play -- it's a scam undertaken by Big Oil's congressional puppets on the orders of oil companies that have billions of dollars at stake.

William Bradley, 12/21/11

Political Analyst, NewWestNotes.com

In the chaos that passes for governance in Washington, the Keystone XL pipeline project looms as a seemingly supreme issue. But it is not. To view it as such is to miss the overall, something our media excels at.

Catherine Britton, 12/21/11

Senior Editor, British Library

As the saying goes, dogs are man's best friend. Since the Stone Age, our canine companions have been illustrated, described, dramatized, and eulogized in one form or another.

Annie Spiegelman, 12/20/11

Author, "Talking Dirt: The Dirt Diva's Down to Earth Guide to Organic Gardening"

Ready to get genetically engineered foods labeled in your supermarket? You've come to the right place!

Rep. Gerry Connolly, 12/20/11

U.S. Representative for Virginia's 11th District

It is not surprising that Republicans have sided with the oil companies, even holding a tax cut hostage to accelerate construction of an oil pipeline which the industry itself acknowledges will increase gas prices for American consumers.

Karin Kloosterman, 12/20/11

greenprophet.com founder & editor

An in-depth study by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory shows that hybrid cars do, in fact, require more energy to produce than conventional cars. The are emitting more greenhouse gases and burning more fossil fuels during the manufacturing process.

Shawn Lawrence Otto, 12/20/11

Author, 'Fool Me Twice'; Science Advocate; Filmmaker; Co-founder, Sciencedebate.org

"As a society, we have to understand that science is a way of understanding the truth about the way things actually are in the physical world independent of how we wish they would be," Sen. Al Franken said.

Jigar Shah, 12/21/11

CEO, Carbon War Room

Entrepreneurs are equipped to grow the business models to deploy solutions to our global energy needs. Nations like the U.S. and Canada are inept investors and entrepreneurs. But they do set the tone and attitude of their nation.