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Jeff Goodell is a writer who got his start in journalism covering crime and politics in New York City for 7 Days, a weekly magazine. He became a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine. He has written four books, including Sunnyvale, a memoir about growing up in Silicon Valley, and Our Story, a best-selling account of nine miners trapped in a Pennsylvania coal mine. His book Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future was chosen as one of the best nonfiction books of 2006 and his newest work, How to Cool the Planet, examines the perils and potential of geoengineering.