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265 acknowledgments Thanks to Davis Perkins and Bill Parkhurst, two old publishing pros who were good enough to read my proposal for this book and to give their approval. To Greg Julian and Vera Jelinek, I am extremely grateful for being given the privilege of teaching. I also need to thank all my students for making me think more and study harder. The Foreign Policy Association is to be thanked for giving me a platform for writing on climate change, energy, and sustainability. ThanksalsotoRonPudduforhiscontinuingsupportandencouragement. I am grateful to the dedicated staff of the University Press of New England , including my editor, Stephen P. Hull, and to freelance copy editor Glenn Novak for his help in banging out the rough spots during copyediting. Thanks to Lorraine Simonello for helping me with three figures. Thanks also to the staff of the various institutions and agencies that provided graphics and the requisite permissions. I am particularly indebted to Dr. Gordon Hamilton of the Climate Change Institute of the University of Maine for his thorough and perceptive editorial input at two key points in the manuscript’s preparation. I am also obliged to Marian Helms Hewitt, my in-house editor. To those who graciously consented to be interviewed for the book and who provided such rich material, I am deeply grateful. From the scientific community, Dr. Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University gave generously of his time and expertise, as did Dr. Gavin Schmidt of nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Dr. Richard Houghton of Woods Hole Research Center was also helpful. I got great insight from the journalists who cover energy, climate, and sustainability. These include Elizabeth Kolbert of the New Yorker, Elisabeth Rosenthal of the New York Times, and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran of the Econo- acknowledgments 266 mist. Bill McKibben is another leading writer, who has also become a worldclass activist, to whom I owe thanks. Jesse Berst, of the Center for Smart Energy , a leading writer and business consultant, was helpful. From the nonprofit community, Tensie Whelan and Jeff Hayward of the Rainforest Alliance were extremely helpful, as was Mindy Lubber of Ceres. Mary Anne Hitt of the Sierra Club gave me some excellent material. Anna Lappé of the Small Planet Institute also provided valuable input. From the business community, Todd Arnold of Duke Energy was also very helpful. Yvo de Boer of kpmg (and formerly of the un Framework Convention on Climate Change) gave me some great interview material, as did Bob Fox of Cook + Fox Architects. From academia, Dan Reicher of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford University (and formerly of Google), Dr. Nevin Cohen of the New School, and Professor Michael B. Gerrard of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University all deserve my thanks. I want to especially thank William K. Reilly for not only affording me the benefit of his unique insights across a range of salient subject matter but for being so kind as to provide this book with its eloquent foreword. These people represent the broad community of writers, scientists, activists , public officials, entrepreneurs and business leaders, engineers, attorneys, designers, artists, and teachers who are so instrumental in piloting us toward this newer world to which we are bound. ...

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