Alan Pears has been an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University since 2000, and lectures in the Environment and Planning stream in the School of Global Studies, Social Science & Planning. Alan has worked in the sustainable energy and environment fields since the late 1970s for community groups, government and the private sector. While working for the Victorian government in the 1980s, he helped develop and implement programs such as the Home Energy Advisory Service, public information and education, appliance energy labeling and mandatory building insulation regulations.

Since 1991, Alan has been co-director of Sustainable Solutions, an environmental consultancy, and has been involved in building energy and environmental rating and regulation, green building projects, educational software, green appliance development, industrial and business energy and environmental management, and policy analysis.

Dr Peter Christoff is the Vice President of the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Coordinator of Environmental Studies at the University of Melbourne. Peter has taught environmental politics and policy since 1997. Previously he worked as the Assistant to the Commissioner to the Environment in Victoria and, as a consultant, assisted in the establishment of the National State of Environment reporting program. Peter was also, formerly, a director of Greenpeace Australia-Pacific.