Thomas Prugh is an energy and environment analyst and writer, a consultant to the federal Energy Information Administration, a volunteer speaker for the Green House Network, and the lead author of The Local Politics of Global Sustainability (Island Press, 1999) and Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival (2nd edition, Lewis Publishers, 1999).

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