Jeff Goodell

Jedd Goodell is a best- selling author and journolist. his latest book is called Big Coal by the New York Times. Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future (Houghton Hifflin, 2007), "a compelling indictment of one of the country's biggest, most powerful and most antiquated industries... well- written, timely, and powerful."

The author of previous books including Sunnyvale, a memoir about growing up in Silicon Valley that was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. Our Story, an account of the nine miners trapped in a Pennsylvania coal mine, was a national best-seller. He is also a Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone, and his work has appeared in many publications, including The New Republic, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, And Wired.

Goodell appeared on Oprah to talk with the miners about their experience. His new book, How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate has been published by Houghton Mifflin in the spring of 2010, which has become a successful selling at the time.