Inventing Green is the project site for my forthcoming book, which is due out Fall 2010 from Da Capo Books, a subsidiary of the Perseus Book Group.

The site has two purposes. First, it serves as an open research platform, so you can follow my journey through the last 150 years of wind turbines, solar machines, and electric cars. I maintain a timeline, green tech history map, and resource list for myself, but I figured I might as well share it with the world, or at least that tiny slice of the world that’s interested in this stuff. The site will also serve up extra information from/about the book, lectures, and previews. Second, this site will provide some more standard posts when I can provide context from the history of green technology about the energy news of the day.

If you want to know more about me, here’s one of those strange third-person bios that I clearly wrote myself.

Alexis Madrigal is a leading green tech writer. Since joining Wired.com as a staff writer in 2007, he has helped build Wired Science into the largest science blog in the world, with millions of visitors per month. Wired Science was nominated for best magazine blog by the MPA and best science website in the 2009 Webby Awards. He was a major part of Wired.com’s 2008 Webby award win for “Best Writing” and hosts the popular Wired Science video podcast.

Madrigal is a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley’s Office for the History of Science and Technology. He’s been invited to speak at South by Southwest, Berkeley Journalism School, Stanford Law School, E3, and Webvisions, and is a regular guest on NPR.

He grew up in the exurbs north of Portland, Oregon and now lives in San Francisco.

Contact
Twitter: @alexismadrigal
Work phone: (415) 276-8481
alexis.madrigal[at]gmail.com

Photo by Jon Snyder.