The DeSmogBlog Team is available to present to you and your group, school, community, business, non profit organization or private event about communications and climate change. To request a speaker, please fill out the form at the bottom of this page. The following speakers have been trained by Al Gore as part of The Climate Project, an initiative designed to educate the public about climate change.
| Jim Hoggan Jim is President of James Hoggan and Associates Inc. (Hoggan), one of Canada’s leading public relations agencies for environmental and industry organizations involved in sustainability issues. Established in 1983, Hoggan specializes in public issues management, strategic communications counseling and crisis communications. |
| Richard Littlemore Richard spent 20 years in daily newspapers (the Ottawa Citizen, the Winnipeg Tribune, the Vancouver Sun), before turning his hand in 1995 to freelance journalism and public affairs. He wrote the David Suzuki Foundation’s first public information package on climate change in 1996, was vice-chair of the Greater Vancouver Regional District's Air Quality Committee in 1996 and 1997 and sat as a delegate to the Canadian government's (failed) Kyoto Implementation Process from 1997 to 1999. |
| Kevin Grandia Kevin brings to the project more than six years of communications experience in the public sector, having served as an advisor in the areas of health care, Canadian heritage and Asia-Pacific trade. Kevin’s areas of expertise include opposition research, government relations, crisis communications and media relations. |
| Emily Murgatroyd |











