Albert K. Bates is a retired public interest attorney and author of several books on energy, environment, and history. He is a co-founder of the Ecovillage Network of the Americas and the Global Ecovillage Network. During his 26-year career as an attorney, he argued environmental and civil rights cases before the US Supreme Court and drafted a number of legislative acts while publishing Natural Rights, a quarterly newsletter on deep ecology. His books Shutdown: Nuclear Power on Trial (1979) and Climate in Crisis: The Greenhouse Effect and What You Can Do (1990, with foreword by Al Gore) provided early insight into two of the greatest dangers now confronting the world. In 1980 he shared the first Right Livelihood Award for his work with Plenty International in preserving indigenous cultures. An inveterate inventor, he holds a number of design patents and was designer of concentrating photovoltaic arrays and solar-hybrid automobiles displayed at the 1982 World's Fair. He has been director of the Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology since 1984 and of the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm community in Summertown, Tennessee, since 1994, where he has taught natural building, sustainable agriculture, permaculture and appropriate technology to students from more than 50 nations. His books, The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook (with foreword by Richard Heinberg) and The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change (with foreword by Vandana Shiva) are available in print and all e-book formats from New Society Publishers. A series of books, the ecovillage imprint, collecting his investigatory research and reporting over 30 years is available on Amazon for Kindle. Most recent additions are Pour Evian on Your Radishes and The Paris Agreement. He blogs at The Great Change and tweets @peaksurfer. A YouTube channel is available at the Collapse Café.