The Authors

Read a short bio, watch an interview clip, or check out the books from this great list of authors, cultural critics, and researchers who are highlighted in What A Way To Go:

Richard Heinberg: an American journalist and educator who has written extensively on ecological issues, including oil depletion. He is the author of nine books, including The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies (2003) (read/view more…)

Richard Manning: an award-winning environmental author and journalist, with particular interest in the history and future of the American prairie, agriculture and poverty.(read/view more…)

Jerry Mander
: an American activist and author, best known for his 1977 book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. (read/view more…)

Daniel Quinn :is best known as the author of Ishmael, the novel that in 1991 won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship…Ishmael has been in print continuously since its publication in 1992 and has been made available in more than 25 languages. (read/view more…)

Derrick Jensen: an American author and environmental activist living in Crescent City, California. Jensen has published several books questioning and critiquing contemporary society and its values, including A Language Older Than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, and Endgame. (read/view more…)

Chellis Glendinning: is a European-American author of creative nonfiction, licensed psychotherapist, and political activist. She is noted as a pioneer in the field of ecopsychology, a proponent of land-based culture, and a critic of technological society, having worked with such contemporaries as Jerry Mander, Vandana Shiva, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and Kirkpatrick Sale.(read/view more…)

Ran Prieur