Cameron M. Burns is an award-winning writer, editor, and photographer based in Colorado. He has been writing about environmental, green architecture, energy, and sustainability issues since the late 1980s as a reporter/correspondent with various newspapers and as a contributing editor with numerous magazines. His essays, articles, op-eds, features, blogs, and other material on sustainability issues have been featured in publications and on websites around the globe. He is the editor of The Essential Amory Lovins and coauthor of Building Without Borders; Writing, Etc.; and Contact: Mountain Climbing and Environmental Thinking. He is also a prolific writer, photographer, and editor in the outdoors/adventure world. He wrote the first ice climbing guide to Colorado and coauthored the first guidebook to California fourteeners—and has authored, coauthored, and contributed to more than thirty books on climbing, the outdoors, and adventure. See cameronburns.com for more.
Kerry L. Burns grew up in Tasmania. As a geologist in the 1950s and 1960s, he explored the Tasmanian wilderness, the Australian outback, and the Cordillera Darwin in Tierra del Fuego in South America. His experiences in the coal industry of Australia and the United States led him to look for alternate sources of energy, and at Los Alamos National Laboratory he participated in the Hot Dry Rock geothermal projects at Fenton Hill, New Mexico, and Clear Lake, California. He is currently a geothermal energy consultant for projects in Australia, Europe, and North America.