Education
Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley.
Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley.
He has worked for the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, Fortune 500 corporations such as Lockheed Corporation and Chevron, nonprofit groups, such as Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club, and governmental organizations, including the Office of Technology Assessment of the United States Congress. He co-founded and directed the Nuclear Information and Resource Service as well as Restoring the Earth. Berger has authored and edited eleven books on energy and environmental issues, including Restoring the Earth: How Americans Are Working to Renew Our Damaged Environment, Charging Ahead: The Business of Renewable Energy and What lieutenant Means for America, Beating the Heat: How and Why We Must Combat Global Warming.
Berger is a long-time supporter of alternative energy solutions to global environmental problems.
He has repeatedly called attention to the nation"s excessive dependence on foreign oil and the huge economic and environmental costs, and risks. He has outlined strategies for a clean, renewable energy economy in his books and articles which have appeared in publications such as The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Los Angeles Times.
Education and Work
In 1966, John J Berger earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Stanford University. Prior to his work on energy and the environment, Berger was an innovator in journalism.
In 1970, he co-founded Alternative Features Service, Incorporated. to support the development of alternative and college newspapers and radio stations in the United States. with syndicated press materials that especially highlighted the creation of alternative institutions, such as free clinics, people"s banks, free universities, and alternative housing.
In 1976, Berger joined Friends of the Earth, San Francisco as an energy specialist where he published his first book: Nuclear Power: The Unviable Option. Just a few years later, in 1979, he became a technical editor at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. The next year, Berger was awarded an Master of Arts in Energy and Natural Resources from the University of California, Berkeley where he became an instructor in energy technology and policy.
In 1984, Berger began two years of postgraduate research on land-use policy in Sacramento at the University of California, Davis.
In 1985, he published Restoring the Earth: How Americans Are Working to Restore Our Damaged Environment and became the executive director of Restoring the Earth, an environmental organization based in Berkeley, California. Berger then went on to receive a Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology from the University of California, Davis in 1990 and served as visiting Professor of Environmental Policy at the Graduate School of Public Affairs of the University of Maryland and Professor of Environmental Science at the University of San Francisco.
He was chosen to participate in a summer study program at the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory for Genetic Research. He was the recipient of a Switzer Foundation Environmental Fellowship for graduate study, and he received a year-long fellowship for graduate study at the University of Tunis in Tunisia.
Berger was awarded a summer writing fellowship at the Blue Mountain Center in the Adirondack Mountains.
Berger also serves as an independent energy and environmental consultant with a diversified consulting practice.