About the Author

Jonathan Koomey is a researcher, author, lecturer, and entrepreneur whose work spans climate solutions, critical thinking skills, and the energy and environmental effects of information technology.

He has been a visiting professor at Yale, UC Berkeley, and Stanford (twice), a lecturer at Stanford (twice), a Consulting professor at Stanford, and a Research Fellow at Stanford. He worked as a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for almost two decades. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley, and an A.B. in History and Science from Harvard.

His research, summarized in nine books and more than 200 articles and reports, spans engineering, economics, public policy, and environmental science.

He holds a fourth-degree black belt in the martial art of Aikido and enjoys hiking, cooking, and playing classical contrabass in his spare time.

For more details, go to http://www.koomey.com