Julian Darley

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Julian Darley is the author of High Noon for Natural Gas and a writer and speaker on policy responses to global environmental degradation.

Julian Darley is the founder of Global Public Media and the founder and director of Post Carbon Institute. He has an eclectic education, with an MSc in Environment and Sociology from the University of Surrey, UK, which led to a published thesis examining the coverage of complex environmental issues in the foremost radio current affairs programmes at the BBC. He also has an MA in Journalism and Communications from the University of Texas at Austin, culminating in a thesis about the elimination of television. He also has BA in Music & Russian, which led to being a classical music critic, followed strangely enough, by working on and eventually directing, rock videos and becoming a script doctor in Hollywood.

Julian’s other previous careers include laboratory scientist, musicologist, film-maker, language teacher, translator, software architect, and environmental policy advisor. In pursuit of better understanding the kind of hydrocarbon trap we are in, Julian wrote a book called High Noon for Natural Gas: the New Energy Crisis about the natural gas crisis which is building in North America and a growing number of other industrialized nations. He is also working on the forthcoming Relocalize Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil (to be published early in 2006) in collaboration with Celine Rich, Dave Room and Richard Heinberg on how and why we need “global relocalization” of economy, society and culture.