Jeff Goodell is an American author and contributing editor to ''

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'' magazine. Goodell's writings are known for a focus on energy and environmental issues. He is Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and a 2020

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Youth and education

Jeff Goodell was born in

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. He grew up in Sunnyvale and worked briefly at Apple Computer in the early 1980s. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, in 1984, then helped edit

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, a literary magazine in San Francisco. He moved to New York City and attended graduate school at Columbia University, where he received an M.F.A. in 1990.

Career

Goodell started his journalism career at ''7 Days'', a Manhattan weekly founded and edited by

Adam Moss Adam Moss is an American magazine and newspaper editor. From 2004 to 2019, he was the editor-in-chief of ''New York'' magazine. Under his editorship, ''New York'' was repeatedly recognized for excellence, notably winning Magazine of the Year in ...

. He covered cops, crime, AIDS, and politics. In 1990, 7 Days won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence. After freelancing for a few years, Goodell became a Contributing Editor at

in 1995. Since then, he has written hundreds of pieces for the magazine, including cover stories about climate politics, Steve Jobs, and President Barack Obama. Goodell has published six books, including ''Sunnyvale'' (2000) a personal memoir about growing up in

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and the breakdown of his family; ''Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our Friendship and Our Faith'' (2002), about the Pennsylvania Quecreek Mine Rescue of nine trapped coal miners in 2002, which was a ''New York Times'' Best Seller; and '' Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future'' (2006), which the ''New York Times'' called "a compelling indictment of one of the country's biggest, most powerful and most antiquated industries...well-written, timely, and powerful." In 2010 he published ''How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate''"Can We 'Cool the Planet' through Geoengineering?"
NPR interview on ''

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'', April 15, 2010 about geoengineering,

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, and climate change mitigation. The book discusses ideas by

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, James Lovelock, David Keith,

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, Stephen Salter, and Lowell Wood among others. In 2011, ''How to Cool the Planet'' won the

Grantham Prize The Grantham Prize was an annual journalism award awarded between September 2005 and October 2012. It was established by Jeremy Grantham and Hannelore Grantham and the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting to annually recognize th ...

(Award of Special Merit). His most recent book, ''The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World'', which describes visits to places likely to be inundated by rising sea levels, was published by Little, Brown in October 2017. It was a ''New York Times'' Critics Top Book of 2017 and selected by the ''Washington Post'' as one of the 50 best non-fiction books of 2017. As a commentator on energy and climate issues, Goodell has appeared on NPR, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, ABC, Fox News and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Awards and honors

* 2011

(Award of Special Merit). * 2012 Sierra Club David R. Brower Award for excellence in environmental journalism. * 2020

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Louis J. Battan Author's Award. * 2021

Covering Climate Now ''Climate crisis'' is a term describing global warming and climate change, and their impacts. The term and the alternative term ''climate emergency'' have been used to describe the threat of global warming to humanity (and their planet), and to ...

Journalism Award * 2022

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Award

Fellowships

* 2016-201
New America National Fellow
* 202
Atlantic Council Senior Fellow
* 202
Guggenheim Fellow

Works

Books * ''The Cyberthief and the Samurai: The True Story of Kevin Mitnick-And the Man Who Hunted Him Down'' (1996) * ''Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family'' (2000) * ''Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our Friendship and Our Faith'' (2002) * '' Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future'' (2006) * ''How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate'' (2010) * ''The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World'' (2017) Anthologies * ''Best Business Writing 2012'' (Columbia Journalism Review Books, 2012) * ''Best American Science Writing 2012'' (Ecco, 2012) * ''Best American Science And Nature Writing 2022'' (Mariner, 2022) Audiobooks * ''The Big Melt: A Journey to Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier''

References

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