David Suzuki is an internationally renowned geneticist and environmentalist. He is the author of more than fifty books and is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science, and in 2007 was named one of Time Magazine's Heroes of the Environment.

Ian Hanington is senior editor at the David Suzuki Foundation, and is co-author with David Suzuki of Everything Under the Sun. He has worked as a researcher, news reporter, opinion-column writer, critic, and editor for a variety of newspapers and magazines and was editor of Canada's largest alternative newsweekly, the Georgia Straight.