For his efforts to combat wasted food, Tristram Stuart has won the Sophie Prize, an international environmental honor. Tristram has developed into a well-known advocate after the critical acclaim of his first book, The Bloodless Revolution and has worked in a number of nations to help reduce the environmental and social impact of food production. He showed that Western nations waste up... read full bio
Vaclav Smil is an expert on the history of technological innovation. He points out that the energy industry—which includes production, processing, transportation and distribution, coal and uranium mines, oil and gas fields, pipelines, refineries, fossil-fuel fired, nuclear and hydroelectric power plants, tanker terminals, uranium enrichment facilities and transmission and distribution lines—constitutes the world’s most massive, most indispensable, most expensive and... read full bio
