John Berger

John J. Berger (born May 8, 1945 in New York City) is an environmental science and policy specialist, prize-winning American author, journalist, and environmental consultant. He has worked for the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, Fortune 500 corporations such as Chevron, nonprofit groups, such as Friends of the Earth, and governmental organizations, including the Office of Technology Assessment of the United States Congress. Berger's writing on energy and natural resource issues has helped to launch the environmental restoration movement, beginning with his book Restoring the Earth in 1985 and later by convening the Restoring the Earth Conference, January 13-1, 1988 at the University of California, Berkleley (see below).

Education and work In 1966, John J. Berger earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Stanford University. and Professor of Environmental Science at the University of San Francisco.

His awards include the 2015 International Book Award for Science; a Switzer Foundation Environmental Fellowship for graduate study: a year-long fellowship for study at the University of Tunis in Tunisia: a summer writing fellowship at the Blue Mountain Center in the Adirondacks; and selection to participate in a summer-study program at the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory for Genetic Research. Berger is also an independent energy and environmental consultant. He was an Affiliated Research Fellow at UC Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory.

He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Pacific Institute of Oakland, California.