In Peru, 2003, Mexico 2004, Iceland (with President Grimsson) 2005, NYC 2006

View Albert Bates entry in Wikipedia.

Albert Bates' full c.v. is now back on line.

Recent radio clips, YouTube interviews, and podcasts:

• Cultivate! at the Fringe Festival, Dublin, Summer 2007
• Interview with NPR's Guy Rathbun on KCBR in 2007
• The c-realm podcast with KMO and Dmitry Orlov, May 2008
• A walking tour of the Ecovillage Training Center, Summer 2006
• Liberadio with Mary Mancini, October, 2006
• Cut to the Chase with Marshall Masters, January 2007
• Earthworms with Jean Ponzi, February 2007
• Third Planet Report with Alan Graf, winter 2006-2007 (several)

Albert's Blog can be found as a link from the Great Change website. A profile by Jim Windolf appeared in the April 2007 Green Issue of Vanity Fair. Downloads of many of Albert's presentations can be found on the Great Change website. Albert will be appearing in a number of new films, including How to Boil A Frog, and Global Warming: Solutions.

Brazil, 2007

Some other works by Albert Bates available on-line:

New

• The Mexican Reforms
• WALL-E, A Push-Button Fable
• The Curse of the Were-Rabbit as a Post-Apocalyptic Utopia
• Dreaming A Sustainable Environment
• Lovelock's Folly
• Ocean and Ice
• Climate's Challenge to a Sense of Place
• The Culture Change Interview
• Albert's Briefest of Blogs
• Solar Peace Village at Tamera
• Making Treeplanting Pay: Four Strategies
• Permafuels: Permaculture Activist review of Blume's Alcohol Can Be A Gas
• Sustainability in the Post-Petroleum Era: Lessons from Communal Studies

Ecovillage and Sustainable Community

• Technological Innovations in a Rural Intentional Community
• Post-Communal Economic Experiments at The Farm
• Intentional Community to Ecovillage
• America's Alternate Religions: The Farm
• A Training Center for Ecovillages
• Ecovillages
• Howlers and Hurricanes: Ecotourism in Belize
• How the Global Ecovillage Network Began
• Ecovillage Inclusivity
• South Korea: "ecovillages" of highrise apartments
• Sustainable Villages and the United Nations
• Scrapbook from the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002
• A Pattern Language, Reviewed
• The Climate Crisis: Thinking Globally
• A Visit to the Amanas
• When Architectural Design Fosters Community Goals: The Oneida Mansion House
• Utopianism - For the Encyclopedia of Community
• Defendant's Brief: Pride v. Book Publishing Company

Politics and Power

• J.Edgar Hoover and The Farm
• The Karma of Kerma: Nuclear Power and Natural Rights
• The Man in the Orange Coveralls: The Strange Case of Nicholas Berg
• The View from Kyoto: human survival may simply not be economic
• An argument before the United States Supreme Court, 1982
• Tales from the Far Slide: Powerdown—Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, Reviewed

Human Rights and Dignity

• The Gospel of Chief Seattle: Written for Television
• Showtime in Waco
• Avoiding Masiphumeleleization
• The W. Edwards Deming System of Profound Knowledge
• Contemplating Megadeaths: Cultural Memory and Cataclysmic Events
• Gaskin v. State: A Memoir
• Dispatches from Colombia (in Grist Magazine)
• Dispatches from Colombia (full version)

Contact for speaking engagements:

Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator
Global Village Institute
Phone: 931-964-4474
Fax: 931-964-2200
petrol at thefarm dot org

Albert Bates will be appearing in 2008 at the following events:

Introduction to Permaculture (Cancun, Mexico, Feb 23, 2008)
Permaculture Design Course (Punta Gorda, Belize, Mar 6-24, 2008)
Sweet Briar College (Sweet Briar, VA, Mar 26-28, 2008);
Heartwood Forest Council (Shawnee State Forest near Portsmouth, OH, May, 23-26, 2008);
Heartwood Forest Council (Portsmouth OH May 29-30, 2008);
Art of Community webinar (Albuquerque NM June 1);
International Conference on Peak Oil and Climate Change (Grand Rapids, MI, June 1);
Sonnenschein Green Power Festival (Hohenwald, TN, Jun 7, 2008);
Permaculture Design Course (Summertown TN, Jun 13-22, 2008);
Ecovillage Design Course (Summertown TN, Jul 18-27, 2008);
International Biochar Conference (Newcastle, England, Sep 8-10, 2008);
Schumacher College (Darlington Hall, Devon, England, Sep 12, 2008)
Southern Festival of Books (Nashville TN, Oct 10-12, 2008)
The Local Solutions Conference on Michigan's Future (Traverse City MI, Nov 14-16, 2008)

Albert Bates will also be instructing courses for Gaia University and the Ecovillage Training Center throughout the year.