Jeff Goodell

Jeff Goodell is an American author and contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine. Goodell's writings are known for a focus on energy and environmental issues. He is a 2016 Fellow at the New America Foundation.

Life and career

Earlier works include Sunnyvale (2000), a personal memoir about growing up in Silicon Valley and the breakdown of his family; The Cyberthief and the Samurai (1996), the story of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick; and 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. In 2006 he published his most popular book to date, Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future.

In spring 2010 he published How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate about geoengineering, global warming, and climate change mitigation. The book discusses ideas by Ken Caldeira, James Lovelock, David Keith, Raymond Pierrehumbert, Stephen Salter, and Lowell Wood among others. In 2011, How to Cool the Planet won the Grantham Prize (Award of Special Merit).

Awards and honors

• 2011 Grantham Prize (Award of Special Merit).
• 2012 Sierra Club David R. Brower Award for excellence in environmental journalism.

Works

Books

• The Cyberthief and the Samurai: The True Story of Kevin Mitnick-And the Man Who Hunted Him Down (1996) ISBN 978-0-440-22205-7
• Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family (2000) ISBN 978-0-679-77638-3
• Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our Friendship and Our Faith (2002) ISBN 978-1-4013-0055-5
• Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future (2006) ISBN 978-0-618-87224-4
• How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate (2010) ISBN 978-0-618-99061-0

Select articles

• "Obama's Climate Crusade: The Rolling Stone Interview", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, September 23, 2015.
• "The Pentagon & Climate Change", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, February 12, 2015.
• "The Rolling Stone Interview with Bill Gates", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, March 27, 2014.
• "Greenland Melting", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, July 19, 2013.
• "Goodbye, Miami", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, June 20, 2013.
• "Obama's Climate Challenge", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, January 17, 2013.
• "Mitt Romney's Disastrous Energy Plan". Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, September 27. 2012.
• "The Big Fracking Bubble", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, March 15, 2012.
• "Climate Change and the End of Australia", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, October 3, 2011.
• "America's Nuclear Nightmare", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, April 27, 2011.
• "The Dark Lord of Coal Country", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, November 29, 2010.
• "The Miracle Seeker", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, November 11, 2010.
• "Let's Talk About Geoengineering", Jeff Goodell, Slate, September 23, 2010.
• "The Poisoning", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, August 2010.
• "As the World Burns", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, January 2010.
• "Secretary of Saving the Planet" Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, June 2009.
• "The Ethanol Scam", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, August 2007.
• "Can Dr. Evil Save the World?", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, November 2006.
• "Capital Pollution Solution?", Jeff Goodell, The New York Times Magazine, July 30, 2006.
• "Who's a Hero Now?", Jeff Goodell, The New York Times Magazine, July 27, 2003.
• "Steve Jobs: the Rolling Stone Interview", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, December 2003.
• "The Venture Capitalist In My Bedroom", Jeff Goodell, The New York Times Magazine, May 28, 2000.

Anthologies

• Best Business Writing 2012 (Columbia Journalism Review Books, 2012) ISBN 0231160739
• Best American Science Writing 2012 (Ecco, 2012) ISBN 0062117912

External links

• "Can Technology Cool the Planet?" Salon interview with Jeff Goodell, April 15, 2010.
• "As the World Burns: The Politics of Climate Change" Interview with Jeff Goodell on NPR's Fresh Air, January 28, 2010.
• "Black Cloud", Review of Big Coal in The New York Times Book Review, June 25, 2006.