Thomas Kostigen is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning National Geographic writer. His most recent book, Hacking Planet Earth: How Geoengineering Can Help Us Reimagine the Future (Penguin/RandomHouse), is being made into a premium television series starring Robert Downey Jr. and directed by Academy Award winner Morgan Neville. It's being produced by Team Downey, Neville's Tremolo Productions, and Lighthouse Media and Management.
Kostigen launched and penned the Climate Survivalist column for
USA Today, the Better Planet column for
Discover magazine, and is a regular contributor to major publications worldwide. His numerous books about the environment and social issues include
The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time (Crown);
You Are Here: Exposing the Vital Links Between What We Do and What That Does to the Planet (HarperOne);
The Green Blue Book: The Simple Water Savings Guide to Everything in Your Life (Rodale);
The Big Handout (Rodale); and
Hacking Planet Earth. As a journalist, Kostigen has reported from war zones to the world's wonders across five continents, and appears regularly as a guest in the media, including the
Today Show,
Mornings with Al,
The Weather Channel, CNN's
Erin Burnett, MSNBC's
Morning Joe,
Entertainment Tonight, Fox News,
The Dennis Miller Show, National Public Radio, CNBC,
USA Today, and
USA Weekend, among many other outlets.He speaks widely at major conferences and events around the globe, including the Climate Project in Seville, Spain, where he shared the stage with Nobel Prize winners Al Gore and Rajendra Pachauri; the Aspen Institute; the Commonwealth Club; Disney's Environmentality conference; Harvard Business School; and other prominent institutions.
