In Peru, 2003, Mexico 2004, Iceland (with President Grimsson) 2005, NYC 2006, Copenhagen 2009, Iowa (with Danny Day and Peter Hurst) 2010

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)
• Enlightened Business Radio Show, May, 2010
• the ETC podcast with KMO from the Ecovillage Training Center, 2010.
  

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, Global Warming: Solutions, and Metamentary.

Brazil, 2007

Albert Bates' latest book, The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change, will be released by New Society Publishers in Fall, 2010.

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
• The Biochar Promise: Sacred Shrines and Skinny Chickens
• Airport Droids Attack Human Gene Pool
• Honest Coverage and Commentary in Copenhagen Climate Summit
• Barry and the Dinosaurs

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

Brazil 2009

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
biochar at thefarm dot org

Albert Bates will be appearing in 2010 at the following events:

After Copenhagen: Where Do We Go From Here? (Nashville January 12, 2010);
Permaculture Design Course (Punta Gorda, Belize, March 12-24, 2010);
Introduction to Permaculture (Tallin, Estonia, May 21-23, 2010);
North American Biochar Conference (Ames IA, Jun 27-30, 2010);
Appropriate Technology Design Courses (Solferino, Q. Roo, Mexico, July 6-20, 2010);
Permaculture Design Course (Cloughjordan, Ireland, Aug 20-29, 2010);
Biochar at the Electric Picnic (Strathbury, Ireland, Sep 3-5, 2010);
International Biochar Conference (Rio de Janiero, Sep 12-16, 2010);
Communal Studies Association (New Harmony, Indiana, Sep 30- Oct 4, 2010);
Financial Permaculture Course (Hohenwald, TN, Sep, 2010);
Mother Earth News Fair (Silver Springs, PA September 25-26, 2010);
Climate Change: Science to Action (Gatlinburg TN, Nov 16-18, 2010)
COP 16: UN Climate Summit (Cancun, Nov, 2010)

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