David J. Hess is Professor of Sociology, Associate Director of the Institute for Energy andEnvironment, and Director of the Program on Environmental and Sustainability Studies at VanderbiltUniversity. He is the author of Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry: Activism,Innovation, and the Environment in an Era of Globalization (MIT Press, 2007) andLocalist Movements in a Global Economy: Sustainability, Justice, and Urban Development inthe United States (MIT Press, 2009), and many other books.