Michael Shellenberger is the nationally bestselling author of Apocalypse Never , a Time magazine "Hero of the Environment," the winner of the 2008 Green Book Award from the Stevens Institute of Technology's Center for Science Writings, and an invited expert reviewer of the next Assessment Report for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has written on energy and the environment for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Nature Energy, and other publications for two decades. He is the founder and president of Environmental Progress, an independent, nonpartisan research organization based in Berkeley, California.