Energy, Environment and Sustainability
To download a PDF profiling some of these authors click here. | Mia Birk
Author │Urban Planner │Bicycling and Pedestrian Transportation Advocate
Mia Birk is Chief Executive Officer and Principal at the international firm Alta Planning and Design. She has 20 years experience in sustainable transportation focused on pedestrian, bicycle, trail, and greenway planning, design and implementation. Mia is also an Adjunct Professor at Portland State University, where she co-founded the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation in the College of Urban Studies.
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 | Dr. Brian Fagan
Author │ Archaeologist │ Climate Change Historian
Dr. Brian Fagan is a leading authority on the complex relationship between the environment, climate change and human society. Fagan is the author or editor of 46 books, including eight college textbooks familiar to two generations of archaeology students. For audiences ranging from business executives to high school students, Fagan places today’s highly publicized climate crisis in a crucial historical context and describes how humans have adapted to environmental changes over the eons.
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 | Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon
Author │ Energy & Security Expert │ Political Scientist
Thomas Homer-Dixon helps his audiences understand how our world is changing. In clear, simple language, he shows how challenges such as global warming, energy scarcity, economic instability, and infoglut affect people, companies, and societies. And he explains what we can all do to adapt and prosper in a world of ever-greater complexity, speed, and surprise.
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 front.jpg) | James Howard Kunstler
Novelist │Urban Planning Advocate │Journalist │Social Critic
James Howard Kunstler had written eight novels and countless articles and essays when the scene outside his window, on his street—on most of the cities and streets in America—caught his attention: "the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work."
Selected Books: Geography of Nowhere, The Long Emergency
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 | Jeff Goodell
Author │ Investigative Journalist │ Energy & Environment Expert
“The greatest danger we face is not technological hubris, but human apathy.”
—Jeff Goodell
Through years of research, acclaimed author and investigative journalist Jeff Goodell has established himself as an expert on the coal industry and now geoengineering--which offers the most ambitious solutions to our planet’s environmental crises. As the price of oil soars and energy independence and global warming become ever more urgent political and ecological priorities, Goodell offers a vital perspective on what the stakes are and how to stem the tide of environmental disaster.
Selected Books: Big Coal, How to Cool the Planet
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