Professor Leibo’s Global Warming Suggested Reading List

1. An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore, Rodale Press 2006 (even better than the film)
2. The Weather Makers, Tim Flannery Grove Press 2005 (Tony Blair particularly likes this one)
3. The Two Mile Time Machine Ice Cores, abrupt Climate Change and our Future, Richard Alley Ph.D. Princeton University Press 2000 (Mr Gore’s colleague during the training session)
4. Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Elizabeth Kolbert (probably the most readable general introduction) Bloomsbury—being used as a special reading at SUNY-Albany
5. Hell and High Water: Global Warming, the solution and the Politics Joseph Romm Ph.D. Harper Collins 2006 (also particularly readable)
6. The Atlas of Climate Change, Kirstein Dow Ph.D. and Thomas Downing Ph.D. U.C. Berkeley 2006 (wonderful color charts)
7. Discovery of Global Warming, Spencer R. Weart Ph.D. Harvard University Press, 2003 (shows how hard it was to even figure out what is going on!)
8. The Rough Guide to Climate Change: Symptoms, Science, Solution, Robert Hensen 2006
9. (a lot of these were of course suggested by the people I met in Nashville)
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   Steven A. Leibo Ph.D.
   Professor of International History & Politics
   Russell Sage College
   International Affairs Commentator
   WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Here is probably way too much about me:

Vivian Fulk, 342 Goff Road, King, NC 27021 www.medleymeadows.com 336-816-2613

Born and raised in Pensacola, Florida, married to a North Carolina renaissance farmer and singer songwriter. We live in a passive solar home on his family’s fourth generation tobacco farm converted into a French vinifera vineyard.

EDUCATION

1992 to 1993, Duke University, Durham, NC –Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, 1 year completed on scholarship, Markets and Democracy in Eastern Europe, Economics, during the fall of the Berlin Wall and Clinton’s campaign - I attended a Clinton/Gore town hall meeting in Winston-Salem at the YWCA in 1992.

1987 to 1989, High Point College, High Point and Winston-Salem, NC. BS Computer Information Systems, 3.7 GPA

1984 to 1986, North Carolina Agriculture and Technology University, Greensboro, NC – BS Industrial Engineering, completed junior year, during the space shuttle challenger accident, they named the Engineering school, The McNair Building in honor of their former PhD physicist astronaut alumni. I was stipend assistant to the Dean doing energy audits in manufacturing facilities.

1979 to 1981- Forsyth Technical Institute, Winston-Salem, NC - AAS Manufacturing Engineering Technology, 3.8 GPA

EXPERIENCE

I currently work at GMAC Insurance in Winston-Salem, NC as a CA Certified Clarity technical consultant working with an Oracle database. I’ve worked as both trainer, software developer and as a Sarbanes-Oxley consultant in the Banking and Insurance Industry for 15 years. Prior professional experience includes a decade long career in Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering.

My first day on my first job, a wonderful elderly wise man was chewing tobacco and asked, “What’s a nice girl like you doin’ in a place like this.” My career has taken me all across the US into many businesses since then, but I usually get a variation on that question at each- 2006: Philadelphia Housing Authority, Philadelphia, PA, Orkin, Atlanta, GA; 2005: Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, GA, United States Air Force, Hanscom AFB, Boston, MA, The College Board, Reston, Va; 2001-2004: Aon Consulting Worldwide Corporate Financial Systems, Chicago. Il; 1998-2001: Wachovia Bank, Winston-Salem, NC; 1994-1998: RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC; 1990-1994: Food Lion Corporate Headquarters, Salisbury, NC; 1986-1989: RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC; 1985-1986: Lorillard Tobacco Company, Greensboro, NC; 1982-1985: Qualified Metal Fabricators, Kernersville, NC; 1980-1982: The Hastings Company, King, NC.

So, what IS a nice girl like me doing in a place (and time) like this wanting to give environmental speeches?

That first professional engineering job in 1981 was as an Assistant Plant Engineer. They recycled, I loved it. The company was applying for a loan that required that they meet OSHA regulations. I spent that first impressionable year butting up against business and our environment. The chemically innovative solution I researched and implemented involved heavy metal sludge encasement in an automotive remanufacturing plant. An article was subsequently published in Industrial Waste Magazine. The frustrations of that experience forced me to turn career paths toward computer application programming, but it also left me wanting to do more to help our planet. Life’s pathway take one in directions for a purpose.

This is my purpose.

I think.