Dr. John J. Berger (born May 8, 1945 in New York City) is an American author and

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. He has worked for the

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of the

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, Fortune 500 corporations such as

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and

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, nonprofit groups, such as

Friends of the Earth Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of environmental organizations in 73 countries. The organization was founded in 1969 in San Francisco by David Brower, Donald Aitken and Gary Soucie after Brower's split with ...

and the

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, and governmental organizations, including the

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of the

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. He co-founded and directed the Nuclear Information and Resource Service as well as Restoring the Earth. Berger has authored and edited ten books on

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and environmental issues, including ''Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader's Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis, Climate Myths: The Campaign Against Climate Science, Restoring the Earth: How Americans Are Working to Renew Our Damaged Environment'', and ''Charging Ahead: The Business of Renewable Energy and What It Means for America.''

Biography

Berger is a long-time supporter of alternative energy solutions to global environmental problems. He has repeatedly called attention to the nation's excessive dependence on foreign oil and the huge economic and environmental costs, and risks. He has outlined strategies for a clean, renewable energy economy in his books and articles which have appeared in publications such as ''Huffington Post, Scientific American, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor'', ''The Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post,'' and ''Renewable Energy World''. Berger's writing on energy and natural resource issues has helped to launch the

environmental restoration Environmental restoration is closely allied with (or perhaps sometimes used interchangeably with) ecological restoration or environmental remediation. In the U.S., remediation is the term used more in the realms of industry, public policy, and c ...

movement, beginning with his book ''Restoring the Earth'' in 1985.

Education and Work

In 1966, John J. Berger earned a Bachelor of Arts in

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from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

. Prior to his work on energy and the environment, Berger was an innovator in journalism. In 1970, he co-founded Alternative Features Service, Inc. to support the development of alternative and college newspapers and radio stations in the U.S. with syndicated press materials that especially highlighted the creation of alternative institutions, such as free clinics, people's banks, free universities, and alternative housing. In 1976, after publishing his first book, ''Nuclear Power: The Unviable Option,'' with an introduction by Nobel Laureate Dr. Linus Pauling and a foreword by Senator Mike Gravel, he was invited by David Brower to become

's Energy Projects Director in San Francisco.: Just a few years later, in 1979, he became a technical editor at the

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. The next year, Berger was awarded an MA in Energy and Natural Resources from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. In 1980 and 1981, Berger taught courses in energy technology and policy at Vista College and the University of San Francisco. In 1984, Berger began two years of postgraduate research on land-use policy in Sacramento at the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

. In 1985, he published ''Restoring the Earth: How Americans Are Working to Restore Our Damaged Environment'' and became the executive director o
Restoring the Earth
an environmental organization based in

. Berger then went on to receive a PhD in Ecology from the

in 1990 and served as visiting Associate

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at the Graduate School of Public Affairs of the

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and

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at the

University of San Francisco The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco, California. The university's main campus is located on a setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park. The main campus is nicknamed "The Hil ...

. His awards include: a Switzer Foundation Environmental Fellowship for graduate study, a year-long fellowship for study at the University of Tunis in Tunisia, a summer writing fellowship at the Blue Mountain Center in the Adirondacks; and selection to participate in a summer-study program at the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory for Genetic Research. Berger is also an independent energy and environmental consultant. He is currently (2016) an Affiliated Research Fellow at UC Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory.

Bibliography

Books

Published Print Articles (Non-Digital)

Notes/Further reading

References

External links

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Nuclear Information and Resource ServiceSolar-Energy Update: Good News about Solar Energy & Energy-Efficiency
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