Mark Hertsgaard is a journalist with National Public Radio and
Worldlink TV. He is the author, most recently, of The Eagle’s Shadow:
Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World(Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, 2002) and Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our
Environmental Future (Broadway Books, 2000).
Orna Izaksonis a freelance environmental journalist specializing in
natural resources, endangered species, ecology, and science. Her
award-winning coverage of climate-change issues has appeared in
newspapers on both U.S. coasts as well as in national magazines
including E/The Environmental Magazine. She is currently at work on a
book on the crisis in the Klamath Basin of southern Oregon and north-
ern California. She makes her home along the Columbia River in
Portland, Oregon.
Jim Motavalliis editor of E/The Environmental Magazine, and author of
two previous books, Forward Drive: The Race to Build “Clean” Cars for the
Futureand Breaking Gridlock: Moving Toward Transportation That Works
(both Sierra Club Books, 2000 and 2001). He is a regular contributor
to the New York Times, Cleveland’sPlain Dealer, The Nation, and many
other periodicals, and writes a weekly syndicated auto column, as well
as regular columns for Environmental Defense and AMC Outdoors. He
is also the host of a radio program on noncommercial WPKN-FM in
Connecticut.
Kieran Mulvaneylives in Anchorage, Alaska, and is the author of At the
Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions(Island Press, 2001) and
The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the Struggle to Stop
Commercial Whaling(Island Press, 2003).
Dick Russellis the author of three books, including Eye of the Whale
(Simon and Schuster), named a Best Book of 2001 by three major
newspapers. He divides his time between Boston and Los Angeles.
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