Justin Gerdes's Page

What is your name?

Justin Gerdes

What organisation do you work for?

Freelance Writer. (Contributing Writer, Earth2Tech; Contributing Writer, Santa Clara Magazine)

What country are you based in?

USA

Please summarise your areas of climate-change expertise (in terms of subjects and geographical areas)

I am a freelance writer and editor specializing in energy and climate change. See detailed narrative below.

What is your telephone number?

+1 (925) 324-9308

Do you have a Skype account?

justintwin1

Which languages can you give interviews in?

English

What is your website address?

http://www.linkedin.com/in/justingerdes

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I am an American writer and editor from San Francisco, California, who specializes in climate change and energy policy. From October 2008 through December 2009, I served as the Journalistic Web Editor for the Copenhagen Climate Council (http://www.copenhagenclimatecouncil.com), based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In this role, I also contributed feature stories to Monday Morning, the influential Danish news weekly magazine (http://bit.ly/1H9U95). In 2009, I covered the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, in Copenhagen, in March; the UNFCCC climate change talks in Bonn, Germany, in April; World Climate Conference 3, in Geneva, in September; and COP15, in Copenhagen, in December.

Previously, I served three years as Editor-in-Chief for Flex Your Power, California’s statewide climate change and energy efficiency education campaign, based in San Francisco, California. There, I edited and was chief writer for all editorial content, including a blog, e-mail newsletter, policy papers, and best practices guides. Before this, I served on the editorial staff for the magazine of The Commonwealth Club of California, a public affairs forum also based in San Francisco. My journalism career started with an editorial fellowship with Mother Jones, the San Francisco-based award-winning investigative journalism bi-monthly magazine.