Hi there! I am a Permaculturist inventor, Emergency Planetary Technician, and author of over 20 books. CO2@birth: 310.4. My weekly blog, The Great Change, is available on Substack, Medium, Blogger, and Patreon. I do not frequent Facebook, Messenger, Alignable, Skype, Reddit, Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, or Tumblr. I do not do phone. You can reach me via email, SMS, WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, and Twitter. Video interviews and recent presentations can be found as links from www.albertbates.cool or on my YouTube channel. I shared the first Right Livelihood Award in 1980 for the work of Plenty Intl in preserving indigenous culture and the first Gaia Award in 2001 for my work in ecovillage design and networks. A profile by Jim Windolf appeared in the April 2007 Green Issue of Vanity Fair. I was honored as the 4th recipient of the EcoHero of the Year Award in 2024. I am no longer traveling the world but still design drawdown COOL village projects and am writing more books and appearing on YouTube, Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse. Within the limits of the Covid pandemic, I still operate a permaculturally-designed van-life campground offering convivial hospitality within The Farm intentional community, with rentable cob and strawbale cabins set inside a historic communal experiment spanning 5000 acres, and now available as a feature film location (www.hippy.place). My main gig is still reversing climate change using a host of natural carbon solutions and Ecosystem Regeneration Communities.Specialties: climate science, energy & law; UN consultative status at DPI-NGO/ECOSOC; permaculture design certification & teacher training; extensive field experience on six continents in all aspects of appropriate technology, ecological restoration, and holistic village design.My latest book, Retropopulationism, is out in paperback and on Kindle. I also posted a Graphic Novel, Bamboo: The #1 Climate Solution, to Kindle in 2024. Plagued: Surviving Modern Pandemics is my contribution to lockdown living. Dark Side of the Ocean was a Yale Climate Earth Day pick for 2021. The children's version is Making Waves. BURN: Using Fire to Cool the Earth, with Kathleen Draper, is a whole enchilada climate solution in all formats, from Chelsea Green, also available in German and Italian. Transforming Plastic: From Pollution to Evolution came out in April 2019. Taming Plastic is the children's version, and Die Plastik Wende in German. There are 15 more books somewhere out there if you are still hungry, and more in the pipeline on cooling the climate, pets and finality.