Q: Who is Peter Fairley?

A: An independent journalist, author and editor
with a passion for energy technology and its environmental implications

 


 

 

Born on the outskirts of New York City, I’ve been moving ever since, making stops in Boston, Berkeley, Kyoto, Montreal, NYC, Paris, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington D.C. These days I call Paris and Vancouver
Island home and explore energy systems globally
.
For the latest results see my webjournal:
Carbon-Nation.


PRESENT

 

 

·  Energy Editor, IEEE Spectrum

·  Contributing Editor, Technology Review

·  Freelance writer for mass media outlets including Discover, Canada’s CBC, and Architectural Record

·  Contributor to online news forums and podcasts such as Earthzine, Energywise and Carbon-Nation

·  Commentator on energy for international broadcast outlets such as France 24's DEBATE, NPR's Here and Now and Talk of the Nation, the BBC-PRI coproduction The World, and CBC Newsworld

·  Presenter to journalism, research, business and community audiences

·  Author of “The Perfect Energy” in Fueling the Future (Anansi Press) and Electricity & Magnetism (Twenty-First Century Books)

·  Board Member for the Society of Environmental Journalists

 


 

PASTS

 

·  Taught environmental journalism at the University of Victoria

·  Covered pollution politics as Chemical Week’s DC bureau chief

·  Ran script and researched for NBC Nightly News at Rockefeller Plaza

·  M.A. in Science, Health and Environment Reporting from NYU

·  Taught high school chemistry in a bankrupt California school district

·  Facilitated clinical R&D for Japanese pharmaceutical firms

·  Probed the genetics of sea urchin embryogenesis at SFU in Vancouver

·  B.Sc. in molecular biology from McGill University in Montreal

 


 

 

SELECTED WRITING :// energy - environment - technology

SOCIAL MEDIA :// Carbon-Nation - twitter - LinkedIn - publish2

GLOBAL :// reportage & readership – español/deutsch/italiano/portugues/chinese

CONTACT :// +33 6 23 88 23 52 email

 

 

 

 

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