Amy Seidl is associate director of LivingFuture Foundation in Huntington, Vermont where she oversees research and programs in the science of sustainability. Her background is in ecology and social change, and her research interests include climate change biology, permaculture, and renewable energy technologies. She has taught in the environmental studies programs at the University of Vermont and Middlebury College, where she is currently a research scholar, and her forthcoming book, Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World, is an examination of global warming and its effect on our sense of landscape, time, and season.