The Project Earth Task Force

Kevin O'Leary — The Entrepreneur

Kevin O'Leary is one of Canada's best-known businessmen-turned-TV-investment-superstars. He is featured on ROB TV's popular investment shows, Squeeze Play and Dragons' Den. He has a hunger for big deals and attacks them like a speeding freight train.

O'Leary's success story began with a big idea and no cash. From the basement of his house, he launched The Learning Company, which developed software to help kids learn to read and do math. In 1999, he sold his company to the Mattel Toy Company for a staggering $3.7 billion, one of the largest tech deals in Canadian history.

To keep his money working, O'Leary took control of his wealth from lackluster money managers. He shares his tips and tribulations with a national television audience and turns "the Street" upside down in the process.

He is also a co-founder and investor in Storage Now, a fast-growing storage company, and is a director and shareholder of Environmental Management Solutions. O'Leary is also on the investment committee of Boston's prestigious, 200-year-old Hamilton Trust.

Dr. Jennifer L. Languell — The Engineer

Dr. Jennifer Languell is trail blazer. Not only is she a female engineer in a field that is still largely a man’s world, but she is also leading the way in revolutionizing the real estate, design and construction industries through her award-winning company, Trifecta Construction Solutions. Through Trifecta, Dr. Languell focuses on the construction industry, helping companies realize the benefits of green building and sustainable development.

Dr. Languell is an award-winning author and has developed a guide for green residential construction in Florida, co-authored the life-cycle cost guidelines for materials and building systems for Florida's public education facilities, and published numerous articles on green building and life-cycle costing. She is also the co-founder and vice president of ConstructGreen and the director of planning for Florida Gulf Coast University’s WCI Green Building Demonstration and Learning Center.

There is no engineering problem that Dr. Languell won’t turn her hand to and, in a modern world where resources are running low and the climate is changing, she will demonstrate engineering challenges and solutions.

Dr. Basil Singer — The Scientist

A quantum physicist, science geek, television presenter, skateboarder and kite surfer, Dr. Basil Singer is a man of many talents. Not afraid of a bit of adventure, he is an “extreme scientist” and is equally adept at freezing atoms to the point of absolute zero or catching monumental air with his kite board.

When he’s not filming science shows or explaining the physics behind break dancing, Dr. Singer can be found in the lab at the family business, Singer Instruments Co. Ltd, in Somerset, England. As both manager and senior physicist, it is his job to build and develop robots and scientific instrumentation for institutions worldwide that do research on cancer treatments.

A self-confessed nerd, Dr. Singer has a profound passion for science, particularly physics. While working toward his Ph.D., Dr. Singer froze atoms to three micro Kelvin — that’s three millionth of a degree above absolute zero, the coldest temperature in the universe. This data helped him and other scientists observe the behavior of electrons as they whizzed around the nucleus inside the atoms. The results of these experiments could one day see us develop teleportation devices and supercomputer brains the size of a grain of sand.