ALBERT K. BATES
Full CV at: www.thefarm.org/lifestyle/abcv.html
560 Farm Road • PO Box 90
Summertown, TN 38483-0090 USA
Tel: (931) 964-4324 Fax: (931) 964-2200
Some works by Albert Bates available on-line:
- Technological Innovations in a Rural Intentional Community
- Post-Communal Economic Experiments at The Farm
- J.Edgar Hoover and The Farm
- Intentional Community to Ecovillage
- America's Alternate Religions: The Farm
- A Training Center for Ecovillages
- Ecovillages
- The Karma of Kerma: Nuclear Power and Natural Rights
- The Gospel of Chief Seattle: Written for Television
- Showtime in Waco
- Dispatches from Colombia (in Grist Magazine)
- Dispatches from Colombia (full version)
- Howlers and Hurricanes: Ecotourism in Belize
- The View from Kyoto: human survival may simply not be economic
- Avoiding Masiphumeleleization
- South Korea: "ecovillages" of highrise apartments
- An argument before the United States Supreme Court, 1982
- Scrapbook from the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002
- The Man in the Orange Coveralls: The Strange Case of Nicholas Berg
Albert Bates is author of ten books on law, energy, history and environment, including Climate in Crisis (1990), Voices from The Farm(1998) with Rupert Fike, and The Y2K Survival Guide and Cookbook (1999). He holds a number of design patents and was inventor of the concentrating photovoltaic arrays and solar-powered automobile displayed at the 1982 World's Fair. For 18 years he served on the steering committee of Plenty International, a relief and development organization with a focus on indigenous peoples, human rights and the environment. During his 26-year career as an attorney he argued environmental and civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and drafted a number of legislative Acts. He also served during this period as a part-time volunteer ambulance driver and Emergency Medical Technician. He has been Director of the Institute for Appropriate Technology since 1984 and the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm since 1994, where he has now taught sustainable design, natural building, agriculture and technology to students from more than 50 nations. He has produced the two videotapes currently being used to tell the network's story, Global Ecovillage Network and The Habitat Revolution.