BF Nagy

BF Nagy is a journalist, speaker, filmmaker and futurist who has published more than 160 feature magazine stories, mostly on clean energy solutions and success stories. He has interviewed more than 700 experts in the clean energy field. His book, The Clean Energy Age - A guide to beating climate change contains a dozen Top 10 lists of priority actions for homeowners, business managers, government people, and others. He is considered one of the world’s leading experts on clean energy technologies, contributing regularly to several leading technical journals and international sustainability organizations. He is also known for his ability to translate complex technical topics into plain language that anyone can understand quickly.

Nagy was one of six children born into a working class part of Toronto, in Canada. As a youth he was outspoken, passionate and creative, and struggled to be accepted by his family and community. He buried himself in books, school plays, and bought a typewriter with money earned delivering newspapers. He struggled with poetry and short stories, wrote for school and community papers, and studied international economics, commercial and magazine writing at Ryerson University. He worked in advertising firms after graduation and dabbled in acting.

In the 1990s he wrote seven one-act plays and a pair of two-act plays, which were staged in small theatres such as the Tarragon, Alumnae and Poor Alex. Some were entered into fringe festivals in Toronto, Oakville, Sudbury and Edmonton. Scripts typically contained richly scarred characters, quixotic humour and controversial subject matter, and won several awards.

Productions pushed the boundaries of the staging conventions of the time. A proscenium structure brought a violent rape up close and personal, dramatized content on television screens was part of an abortion story, advanced visuals and lighting in one production were followed by almost no production values in the next. Common denominators were emotionally charged subject matter, social commentary, and a high-level of acting performance, as Nagy selected directors and actors carefully.

In the early 2000s he produced and directed a short film,“The Mirrors Are Everywhere,” an exploration of the family strife within several different religious families. It was based on his award-winning play of the same name. He followed this with experimental online story formats related to the future and to climate change. He is currently working on a documentary about the contemporary views of ordinary people.

Known for stamina and vision, he has always juggled numerous projects, has travelled the world extensively, and has worked as a business executive, political strategist and government policy analyst. He continues to consult governments and NGOs on clean energy, while writing stories and books, and developing projects involving Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, film, photography and climate communications. He has been married twice, and has one son, Adrian Nagy, an accomplished scholar at McGill University.

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