Adaptation and Mitigation—Waking Up to the Reality of Climate Change

Mark Hertsgaard has written about global warming for more than two decades. As an Open Society Fellow, he researched Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which chronicles the need to adapt to the consequences of global warming while working to mitigate its catastrophic effects.

Hertsgaard’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, the Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, Die Zeit, and many other publications. He is the author of five previous books, which have been translated into fifteen languages, including most recently The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002).  His other books are Earth Odyssey: Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future (Broadway, 1999), A Day In The Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles (Delacorte, 1995), On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988), and Nuclear Inc.: The Men and Money Behind Nuclear Energy (Pantheon, 1983).

Stephen Hubbell is senior public affairs officer for the Open Society Fellowship Program. He consults closely with fellows to develop media strategies to broaden public awareness of their work and to integrate fellows into the global Open Society community. 

Hubbell joined the Open Society Foundations after 20 years as a journalist and editor. He has worked as a senior editor at Metropolitan Books and at Harper's, where he edited the work of many notable writers, including Anne Fadiman, Harold Brodkey, Elliott Currie, Marilynne Robinson, Alan Weisman, Arlie Hochschild, and Edward Fox. He has also served as Middle East correspondent for The Nation, for whom he covered the first Gulf War and the rise of political Islam.

He received his bachelor's degree in government from Wesleyan University.