Jim Motavalli writes on environmental topics for The New York Times, Bnet.com (CBS), Mother Nature Network and TheDailyGreen.com (Hearst). He is author or editor of six books, including Forward Drive: The Race to Build Clean Cars for the Future, Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change, and Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier Fakery. He is also a senior writer for E/The Environmental Magazine and a contributor to the Environmental Defense Fund publications.

Motavalli is a two-time winner of the Global Media Award from the Population Institute, and hosts a radio program on WPKN-FM in Connecticut, with frequent live music. He lectures widely on climate, transportation and population issues.