ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Francis M. Vanek, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University, where he has over 20 years of experience teaching about sustainability and climate protection, including renewable energy, sustainable transportation, and green building. He is the lead author of the textbooks Energy Systems Engineering: Evaluation and Implementation and Sustainable Transportation Systems Engineering. Before coming to Cornell he taught at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the University of Pennsylvania. He lives with his family in the Ecovillage at Ithaca co-housing community in Ithaca, New York. (Photo credit: Charissa King-O’Brien)