Books by Authors in Adbusters --Current Year (2010)

Bill McKibben

Contributor in #90

Biography from Amazon: Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, Deep Economy, and numerous other books. He is the founder of the environmental organizations Step It Up and 350.org, and was among the first to warn of the dangers of global warming. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter.

Chris Hedges

Contributor in #90, 89, 88 and 72

Biography from Amazon: Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges is the author of the bestseller American Fascists and National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lannan Literary Fellow and has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University.

John Vidal

Contributor in #90

Biography from Guardian: John Vidal is the Guardian's environment editor. He joined the paper in 1995 after working for Agence France Presse, North Wales Newspapers and the Cumberland News. He is the author of McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial (1998) and has contributed chapters to books on topics such as the Gulf war, new Europe and development.

Dmitry Orlov

Contributor in #90

Biography from Wikipedia: Dmitry Orlov (born 1962) is an engineer and a writer on subjects related to "potential economic, ecological and political decline and collapse in the United States," something he has called "permanent crisis". Orlov believes collapse will be the result of huge military budgets, government deficits, an unresponsive political system and declining oil production. Orlov was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and moved to the United States at the age of 12. He has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MA in Applied Linguistics. He was an eyewitness to the collapse of the Soviet Union over several extended visits to his Russian homeland between the late 1980s and mid-1990s.

Mike Weilbacher

Contributor in #90

Biography from mikeweilbacher.com: Naturalist Mike Weilbacher has been teaching, writing and talking about the environment ever since the first Earth Day in 1970, educating the public about environmental concerns in nature centers and museums, on TV and radio. Currently the executive director of the Lower Merion Conservancy, a Philadelphia-area community preservation group, his work as preservationist and educator earned him the title of "Citizen Hero" from The Philadelphia Inquirer, and he has been Pennsylvania's Environmental Educator of the Year and Outstanding Conservation Educator.

Priscilla Long

Contributor in #90

Biography from Amazon: Priscilla Long is a Seattle-based writer of poetry, essays, creative nonfictions, fictions, science, and history. She is a longtime teacher of writing to developing professional writers.

Chris Hedges

Contributor in #89, 88 and 72

Biography from Amazon: Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges is the author of the bestseller American Fascists and National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lannan Literary Fellow and has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University.

Astra Taylor

Contributor in #89 and 87

Biography from Wikipedia: Astra Taylor (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba; 1979 - ) is a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker and writer, best known for her 2005 film, Zizek!, about the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj %u017Di%u017Eek, and for her 2008 film, Examined Life.

Taylor grew up in Athens, Georgia, and was unschooled until age 13. She attended Brown University for a year and holds an MA in Liberal Studies from the New School. She has taught sociology at the University of Georgia and the State University of New York. Her writings have appeared in numerous magazines, and in 2006 Filmmaker Magazine listed her as one of "25 new faces to watch." She is the sister of painter and disability activist Sunny Taylor, and is married to Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel. She is a vegan.

Zdravka Evtimova

Contributor in #88

Biography from www.slovo.bg: Zdravka Evtimova was born in 1959 in Pernik, Bulgaria. She is the author of 4 short story collections and 4 novels published in Bulgaria. Her short story collection "Bitter Sky" was published in the UK in 2003 by Skrev Press Publishing. 21 of her short stories have been published in the USA, 17 in the UK, two of them were broadcast by Radio BBC during the week dedicated to the East European fiction in 2003. 5 of her short stories have been published in Canada, 3 in Australia, 2 in Germany, in India, Russia, France, Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia and Macedonia.

Chris Hedges

Contributor in #88 and 72

Biography from Amazon: Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges is the author of the bestseller American Fascists and National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lannan Literary Fellow and has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University.

Li Onesto

Contributor in #88

Biography from lionesto.net: Li Onesto, a reporter for Revolution newspaper, was the first foreign journalist to travel deep into the guerrilla zones of Nepal in 1999. Li Onesto's interview with Prachanda, the head of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), has been circulated internationally - translated into Nepali, Spanish, Italian, French, Hindi, German, Pashtun (in Afghanistan), and Chinese. Onesto's photography show, "The People's War in Nepal: Faces from a Hidden War" has been on display in several cities in the U.S.

Tim Jackson

Contributor in #88 and 84

Biography from Sustainable Development Commission: Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development in the Centre for Environmental Strategy (CES) at the University of Surrey. His current research interests include consumer behaviour, sustainable energy systems, ecological economics and environmental philosophy. In the last twelve years he has pioneered the development of an 'adjusted' measure of economic growth - a 'green GDP' - for the UK. Since January 2003, Tim has been employed at CES under a research fellowship on the 'social psychology' of consumer behaviour.

Roland Kelts

Contributor in #87, 86, 84, 83, 81, 80 and 79

Biography from Amazon: Roland Nozomu Kelts is a half-Japanese American writer who divides his time between New York and Tokyo and publishes in both English and Japanese. He is also a lecturer at the University of Tokyo, a contributing editor and writer for "Adbusters" magazine and "A Public Space" literary journal, and a columnist for "The Daily Yomiuri" in Japan. His writing appears in "A Wild Haruki Chase," "Gamers," "Kuhaku," "Playboy's College Fiction," "Zoetrope" and others.

Gwynne Dyer

Contributor and Climate Wars reviewed in #87

Biography from gwynnedyer.com: Gwynne Dyer has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs for more than 20 years, but he was originally trained as an historian. Born in Newfoundland, he received degrees from Canadian, American and British universities, finishing with a Ph.D. in Military and Middle Eastern History from the University of London. He served in three navies and held academic appointments at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Oxford University before launching his twice-weekly column on international affairs, which is published by over 175 papers in some 45 countries.

The Invisible Committee

The Coming Insurrection reviewed in #87

The Invisible Committee is an anonymous group of contributors (attributed to the Tarnac Nine by the French police).

Astra Taylor

Contributor in #87

Biography from Wikipedia: Astra Taylor (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba; 1979 - ) is a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker and writer, best known for her 2005 film, Zizek!, about the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj %u017Di%u017Eek, and for her 2008 film, Examined Life.

Taylor grew up in Athens, Georgia, and was unschooled until age 13. She attended Brown University for a year and holds an MA in Liberal Studies from the New School. She has taught sociology at the University of Georgia and the State University of New York. Her writings have appeared in numerous magazines, and in 2006 Filmmaker Magazine listed her as one of "25 new faces to watch." She is the sister of painter and disability activist Sunny Taylor, and is married to Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel. She is a vegan.

Richard Bulliet

Contributor in #87

Biography from Wikipedia: Richard W. Bulliet is a professor of history at Columbia University who specializes in the history of Islamic society and institutions, the history of technology, and the history of the role of animals in human society.

Richard Neville

Contributor in #87 and 81

Biography from Wikipedia: Richard Neville (born 1941) is an Australian author and self-described "futurist", who came to fame as a co-editor of the counterculture magazine Oz in Australia and the UK in the 1960s and early 1970s. He was involved with the Sydney Push libertarians at the University of New South Wales in the early 1960s during the production of the Sydney-based Oz Magazine.

Kalle Lasn

Founder and CEO of Adbusters Media Foundation

Biography from HarperCollins: Featured in the PBS documentary Affluenza, Kalle Lasn, whose documentaries have been broadcast on PBS, CBC, and around the world, has won 15 international awards, and has been profiled in Time. As publisher of Adbusters magazine and founder of Media Foundation and Powershift Advertising Agency, Lasn has launched social marketing campaigns like Buy Nothing Day and TV Turnoff Week. He and his wife, Masako Tominaga, make their home in Vancouver, Canada.