Dave Cooper is a resident of Lexington, Kentucky. After 20 years working as a mechanical engineer in various industries, most recently at the 3M plant in Kentucky that makes Post-it notes, he decided to devote his full attention to environmental issues after seeing a mountaintop removal mine on Kayford Mountain, West Virginia.

He is a member of the Sierra Club and Mountain Justice, and worked for a year as a coalfield organizer for the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC). He is currently on a national speaking tour to educate communities across America about Mountaintop Removal.

Larry Gibson, of Kayford Mountain, West Virginia has fought for over 15 years to save Kayford Mountain and his family cemetery on top of the mountain from mountaintop removal. His efforts to save the mountain have been chronicled by ABC's Nightline, 20/20, the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Company, as well as in US News & World Report, the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and many more.

He has spoken at countless college campuses about mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia. He is President of the Stanley Heirs Foundation and works as a volunteer for the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition in Huntington, West Virginia.

Eric Blevins, of Grand View, Tennessee, is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, where he worked with Students for Environmental Action on a successful campus clean energy campaign. He is a founding member of Tennessee Alumni and Students for Sustainable Campuses and has worked with Mountain Justice and United Mountain Defense in the fight against mountaintop removal.  In 2010, Eric climbed a tall tree next to a Massey Energy mountaintop removal site in West Virginia, where he remained for 9 days, enduring constant harassment from coal company guards and the blasting of air horns.  Eric is also available to give a Deep ecology workshop called "Deepening our Connections."