Ted Nace

Ted Nace grew up in California and North Dakota. He earned a bachelor's degree at Stanford University and a master's degree at UC Berkeley. He worked as a consultant to the Environmental Defense Fund and as staff director of the Dakota Resource Council. Returning to the Bay Area, he worked as an editor at PC World magazine and as a columnist for Publish! and Computer Currents magazines. Together with Michael Gardner, he founded the computer book publishing company Peachpit Press in 1985 and served as publisher until 1996, when he and the other owners sold Peachpit to Pearson Plc. In 2007 he founded CoalSwarm, a collaborative information clearinghouse on U.S. and international coal mines, plants, companies, politics, impacts, and alternatives. In addition to several computer how-to books, Nace is the author of Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy (Berrett-Koehler, 2003, 2005) and Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal (CoalSwarm, 2010). He can be reached at ted@tednace.com.