Contributors

Eli Gottlieb's The Boy Who Went Away won the prestigious Rome Prize and the 1998 McKitterick Prize from the British Society of Authors. It also received extraordinary notices and was a New York Times Notable book. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Born in Barcelona in 1931, Juan Goytisolo is Spain's greatest living writer. A bitter opponent of the Franco regime, his early novels were banned in Spain. In 1956 he moved to Paris. Since then he has written extensively on the city as melting-pot, the expulsion of the Moors from Europe and the art of reading. In 2004 Goytisolo was awarded the Juan Rulfo International Latin American and Caribbean Prize for Literature. He lived in Morocco until his death in 2017.

Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers A STING IN THE TALE, THE GARDEN JUNGLE and A BUZZ IN THE MEADOW. He also founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006.

For his work in championing the cause of wild bees he was made the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's Social Innovator of the Year, awarded the Zoological Society of London's Marsh Award for Conservation Biology, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and given the British Ecological Society Public Engagement Award.

As far back as 2015, he made BBC Wildlife Magazine's list of the top 50 most influential people in conservation. He's also been an effective lobbyist behind the European Union's ban of neonicotinoid pesticides.

Martin Goodman is the author of twelve books of award-winning nonfiction and fiction, including his account of eco-lawyers saving the planet, Client Earth. Other books on India include a spiritual biography, In Search of the Divine Mother, and On Sacred Mountains. He is emeritus professor of Creative Writing at the University of Hull.

Chris Goodall is a world-leading expert on new and renewable energy technologies. He is the author of multiple books on the climate and future technologies, including What We Need To Do Now, The Switch, and Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate. As well as publishing Carbon Commentary, a website and newsletter on energy efficiency and renewables, he is an investor in new low-carbon technologies and a member of the Advisory Board for the Pictet Clean Energy fund in Geneva.