Solving Climate Change: Ingenuity Got Us Into this Mess, Ingenuity Will Get Us Out of It

Amanda Little is a journalist, author, and educator whose reporting on energy and climate change has taken her to ultra deep oil rigs, down manholes, into sewage plants, and inside monsoon clouds.

The author of Power Trip: The Story of America’s Love Affair With Energy (HarperCollins), Amanda teaches investigative journalism at Vanderbilt University, where she is a Writer-In-Residence. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg Businessweek, Wired, the Washington Post, and New York magazine, among other publications. She is a former columnist for Outside magazine and Grist.org, and contributes to newyorker.com. The recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for excellence in environmental journalism, she has interviewed key figures on all sides of the climate change debate, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and James Inhofe.

Amanda is currently working on her second book, The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World, to be published by Random House in spring 2018, exploring what it will take to feed nine billion people in the era of climate change. She has traveled through eleven countries, including China, India, Israel and Ethiopia to report the book.