Mark Hertsgaard

Mark Hertsgaard is a journalist and author whose books have been translated into fifteen languages. He has been covering climate change since 1988, including the cover story for the May 2006 "green" issue of Vanity Fair. His articles have also appeared in Time, The New Yorker, The Nation, Mother Jones, Salon, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle and many overseas publications, including The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique and Die Zeit. He was the first independent reporter to reveal the alarming impact that China's economic development will have on climate change, first in The Atlantic and then in his 1998 book Earth Odyssey: Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future. The author of five books, including On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency (1988), Hertsgaard is the environment correspondent for The Nation, the political correspondent for Link TV, and a commentator for the public radio show "Marketplace." He is presently at work expanding his Vanity Fair investigation into a documentary for PBS's "Frontline" and a new book, Living Through the Storm, about the next 50 years of climate change and how we confront it. He lives in San Francisco. Abstract: Making Progress in the US on Climate Change Nation environmental correspondent Mark Hertsgaard will discuss how and why environmentalists are finally making progress on the issue of climate change. Although America continues to lag behind the rest of the world, lawmakers and activists in California, Arizona, Illinois, Florida, North Carolina and several Northeastern states have moved toward mandatory reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and expanding green energy production. Videography and Production provided by Lotus Crown Films. www.lotuscrownfilms.com