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Lisa Margonelli

Lisa Margonelli directs the New America Foundation's Energy Productivity Initiative, which works to promote energy efficiency as a way of ensuring energy security, greenhouse gas emissions reductions, and economic security for American families. She spent roughly four years and traveled 100,000 miles to report her book about the oil supply chain, Oil On the Brain: Petroleum's Long Strange Trip to Your Tank, which was published by Nan Talese/Doubleday in 2007. The American Library Association named the book one of the 25 Notable Books of 2007. During the energy crisis of the 1970's, she was growing up in central Maine, where her family heated their house with wood, which they hauled with a horse. Later, fortunately, they got a tractor. The experience instilled a strong appreciation for the convenience of fossil fuels. read more