December 3, 2008 – "Profitable Solutions to Climate, Oil, and Proliferation" Amory B. Lovins, Cofounder, Chairman and Chief Scientist, the Rocky Mountain Institute
November 3, 2008 –"Strategic Intelligence in an Age of Nonlinear Risks and Opportunities: The Challenge of Energy and Environmental Security" Carol Dumaine, Deputy Director for Energy and Environmental Security, Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy
October 23, 2008 – "The Impacts of Agriculture on Biodiversity: Lessons and Lies from Kenya and Borneo" with David Wilcove, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
May 5, 2008– "Sustainable Mobility: An Automaker Perspective on Transportation Energy & Climate Policy" Susan Cischke, Senior Vice President, Ford Motor Company
March 11, 2008 – "Biodiversity Loss and the Rise of Emerging Infectious Diseases" with Richard Ostfeld, Senior Scientist, Institute of Ecosystem Studies
February 13, 2008 – "Seas the Day: Science Informing Today's Choices for Tomorrow's Ocean" with Jane Lubchenco, Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology; Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University
December 5, 2007 – "Biodiversity and Global Change: Are We Yet a Predictive Science?" with Peter Reich, F.B. Hubacheck Senior Chair in Forest Ecology and Tree Physiology, University of Minnesota