Jeremy Jackson is an American ecologist, paleobiologist, and conservationist. He is an emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, senior scientist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, and visiting scientist at the American Museum of Natural History Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. He studies threats and solutions to human impacts on the environment and the ecology and evolution of tropical seas. This interview was conducted for The 11th Hour in 2006.

Peter Warshall (1940–2013) was an ecologist, activist and essayist whose work centers on conservation and conservation-based development. He he earned his Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology at Harvard. Warshall's research interests include natural history, natural resource management (especially watersheds and wastewater practices), conservation biology, biodiversity assessments, environmental impact analysis, and conflict resolution and consensus building between divergent economic and cultural special interest groups. He worked as a consultant for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Ethiopia; for USAID and other organizations in ten other African nations; he worked with the Tohono O'odham and Apache people of Arizona. Warshall was the Sustainability and Anthropology Editor of one of the later editions of the Whole Earth Catalog series, and served as an editor of its spin-off magazine, Whole Earth Review. He was interviewed for The 11th Hour.

U'wa leader Berito Kurwaru'wa with a message from his ancestral homeland Kajka-Ika in the Columbian Cloud Forest. This discussion was conducted in 2005 for The 11th Hour.

Joseph Tainter is an American anthropologist and historian. His best-known work, The Collapse of Complex Societies. This discussion was conducted in 2005 for The 11th Hour by Leila Conners. The discussion covers Tainter's understanding of how societies work and don't work. We also discuss energy issues and how, if we can, avoid collapse today.

"In the race to midnight, it is well after 11." This discussion was conducted in 2005 for The 11th Hour by Leila Conners. The discussion covers Trudell's worldview that encompasses his call for humans to return to their intelligence and their humanity to forge a pathway forward. His responses to the questions now seem prophetic. John Trudell was a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969,broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After his pregnant wife, three children and mother-in-law were killed in 1979 in a suspicious fire at the home of his parents-in-law on the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Nevada, Trudell turned to writing, music and film as a second career. He acted in films in the 1990s. The documentary Trudell (2005) was made about him and his life as an activist and artist.

Stephen Henry Schneider was interviewed on climate change by Leila Conners for Tree Media's research for The 11th Hour. Stephen Henry Schneider (February 11, 1945 – July 19, 2010) was Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University, a Co-Director at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Schneider served as a consultant to federal agencies and White House staff in the Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush,Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. For more information and interviews in this series: http://www.treemedia.com/#!11th-hour-research-tapes/c18kw

Janine Benyus is the foremost proponent of Biomimicry, the work that takes a deep look at nature and mimics nature's solutions to challenges like energy use, building materials, cooperation, structure, basically everything we need to live in this world sustainably. This interview is from 2006 and is a very full overview of Biomimicry. For more interviews in this series, go to: http://www.treemedia.com/#!11th-hour-research-tapes/c18kw

A powerful, all-encompassing interview with Paul Stamets, world renowned mycologist. Paul goes into detail on several mycelium/mushrooms and details how they disassemble our most toxic wastes as well as help us see nature as a whole unity. For more on our work: http://www.treemedia.com

When you listen to Sylvia Earle, you fall in love with the ocean. And you gain a new perspective on the ocean that only she, who has spent more time there, can convey. Sylvia is a National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residenceand is called "Her Deepness" by the New Yorker and the New York Times, "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress, and first "Hero for the Planet" by Time magazine, is an oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer. She has experience as a field research scientist, government official, and director for corporate and nonprofit organizations. Earle has led more than a hundred expeditions and logged more than 7,000 hours underwater, including leading the first team of women aquanauts during the Tektite Project in 1970; participating in ten saturation dives, most recently in July 2012; and setting a record for solo diving in 1,000-meter depth. Her research concerns marine ecosystems with special reference to exploration, conservation, and the development and use of new technologies for access and effective operations in the deep sea and other remote environments. For more information on these interviews as well as more interviews: http://www.treemedia.com/#!11th-hour-research-tapes/c18kw

Oren is a faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, Onondaga Council of Chiefs, Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy). He has been active in international Indigenous rights and sovereignty issues for over four decades at the United Nations and other international forums. He is a State University of New York (SUNY) distinguished services professor emeritus of the University at Buffalo. He serves on the board of Bioneers an environmental champion of the earth. Oren is chairman of the board of directors of Plantagon International AB, the leader in urban agriculture, Plantagon is designed to meet challenges of compounding human population, finite resources and global warming. For more information on these interviews as well as more interviews: http://www.treemedia.com/#!11th-hour-research-tapes/c18kw

Jeremy Narby, an anthropologist, discusses the intelligence of life, nature, ayahuasca and DNA communication. The interview also discusses how modern man has overlooked the inherent intelligence in nature. Narby discusses his experiences with the diplomat plant, Ayahuasca, and his work with the Ashaninca in the Peruvian Amazon. While there, Narby also cataloged indigenous uses of rainforest resources to help combat ecological destruction. Narby is the author of he Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, Intelligence in Nature and Psychotropic Mind: The World According to Ayahuasca, Iboga, and Shamanism. For more information on these interviews as well as more interviews: http://www.treemedia.com

Stephen William Hawking discusses the state of the world in an interview for 2007. Hawking is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. His scientific works include a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set forth a cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He is a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. For more information and interviews on this series of tapes, go to: http://www.treemedia.com/#!11th-hour-research-tapes/c18kw

Wangari Maathai was the founder of the Green Belt Movement and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. She was born in Nyeri, a rural area of Kenya. Professor Maathai was internationally acknowledged for her struggle for democracy, human rights, and environmental conservation, and served on the board of many organisations. She addressed the UN on a number of occasions and spoke on behalf of women at special sessions of the General Assembly during the five-year review of the Earth Summit. In recognition of her deep commitment to the environment, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General named her a UN Messenger of Peace in December 2009, with a focus on the environment and climate change. For more information on these interviews as well as more interviews: http://www.treemedia.com/#!11th-hour-research-tapes/c18kw

Herman Daly is an American ecological economist and professor who discusses in this fascinating interview the economy and the environment; the concept of as steady state economy and how the economic system is a subsystem of the Earth's ecosystem. The interview helps shift thinking on how the world can work. For more information on these interviews as well as more interviews: http://www.treemedia.com/#!11th-hour-research-tapes/c18kw

Wade Davis discusses the nature of being Human and what it means to live on Earth at this time. He is a Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer whose work has focused on worldwide indigenous cultures, especially in North and South America and particularly involving the traditional uses and beliefs associated with psychoactive plants. Davis came to prominence with his 1985 best-selling book The Serpent and the Rainbow about the zombies of Haiti. Davis is Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Davis is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. Named by the NGS as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.” In recent years his work has taken him to East Africa, Borneo, Nepal, Peru, Polynesia, Tibet, Mali, Benin, Togo, New Guinea, Australia, Colombia, Vanuatu, Mongolia and the high Arctic of Nunuvut and Greenland. For more information on these interviews as well as more interviews: http://www.treemedia.com/#!11th-hour-research-tapes/c18kw

Homero Aridjis, much loved Mexican poet, discusses his passion for nature and his work to preserve the habitats in Mexico of the monarchs, the sea turtles and the whales. Faced with death threats and various other hardships, Homero continued and worked with other Mexican writers, like Octavio Paz, to move Mexican society to protect these important creatures for generations to come. In this interview, Homero recites poetry and tells of the founding to the Group of 100, the group that did this work to preserve nature in Mexico. For more information on these interviews as well as more interviews: http://www.treemedia.com/#!11th-hour-research-tapes/c18kw

Sheila Watt-Cloutier is an Inuit leader who, in this interview, shares her thoughts on living in the Arctic. She discusses how the Arctic is changing due to climate change and how it impacts her culture. In this very unique interview she also is able to describe how what happens to the Inuit is important for all of us. For more information on these interviews as well as more interviews: http://www.treemedia.com/#!11th-hour-research-tapes/c18kw

James Hillman was an American psychologist. He studied at, and then guided studies for, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He founded a movement toward archetypal psychology and retired into private practice, writing and traveling to lecture, until his death at his home in Connecticut. For more information on these interviews as well as more interviews: http://www.treemedia.com/#!11th-hour-research-tapes/c18kw

Bruce Mau on Design Needing to Consider All of Life as a Practical Objective. Bruce Mau is an eminent contemporary Canadian graphic designer. He remained the creative director of Bruce Mau Design (BMD), from 1985 to 2010. He founded The Massive Change Network in Chicago and served as the founder of Institute without Boundaries. His creative talent is not bound to graphic designing but extend to the world of architecture, art and films, conceptual philosophy and eco-environmental design. For more our work http://www.treemedia.com

Brock Dolman describes a culture founded on death-based design and how to change it. Brock has a fluid and unique voice that will change how we think about the world. Brock Dolman co-directs the WATER Institute, Permaculture Design Program and Wildlands Program. He has taught Permaculture and consulted on regenerative project design and implementation internationally in Costa Rica, Ecuador, U.S. Virgin Islands, Spain, Brazil, China, Canada, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cuba and widely in the U.S. For more on our work: http://www.treemedia.com

Wes Jackson is a pioneer of the sustainable agriculture movement. He places the focus there because, as he puts it, “If we don’t get sustainability in agriculture first, sustainability will not happen.” After earning a BA in biology from Kansas Wesleyan University, an MA in botany from the University of Kansas, and a PhD in genetics from North Carolina State University, Jackson established and served as chair of one of the United States’ first environmental studies programs at California State University, Sacramento. Jackson then chose to leave academia, returning to his native Kansas, where he founded a non-profit organization, The Land Institute, in 1976. He still heads the Institute, which describes its main goal as the development of “Natural Systems Agriculture,” including perennial grains, perennial polycultures, and intercropping. The Land Institute also publishes The Land Report, a newsletter about American sustainable agriculture and agrarianism. For more information on these interviews as well as more interviews: http://www.treemedia.com/#!11th-hour-research-tapes/c18kw

Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, written and directed by Leila Conners and Nadia Conners. The 11th Hour describes the last moment when change is possible. The film explores how humanity has arrived at this moment; how we live, how we impact the earth's ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course. The film features dialogues with experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolsey and sustainable design experts William McDonough and Bruce Mau in addition to over 50 leading scientists, thinkers and leaders who present the facts and discuss the most important issues that face our planet.