ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to thank the following individuals: the authors, who patiently endured many months and rounds of edits; the staff of Post Carbon Institute, who provided essential administrative, creative, and moral support; our dear friends P. and L., without whom our work would not be possible; Randall Wallace and the Wallace Global Fund, for supporting the gathering of many of our authors in January 2010; Watershed Media publisher Dan Imhoff; Hannah Love of the University of California Press, our distributor; project manager Sharon Donovan; Suzanne Doyle, for editorial assistance; manuscript editor Debra Makay; Bea Hartman, for the book layout; Chris Hall, for assistance with the illustrations; proofreader Carrie Pickett; indexer Leonard Rosenbaum; transcribers Simone Osborne, Kristin Sponsler, Laura Bennet, and David Spencer; and Rembrandt Koppelaar and Nate Hagens, who advised on energy and economics data.