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When she was born - in Cordova, on Alaska\'s pristine Prince William Sound - Jeane\'s father was a lawman. Later he moved the family to a farm in northern Idaho, where she continued contemplating nature - and human nature. She earned her way through the University of Idaho and an honors B.A. in Sociology.

Marriage, a job in social work, and three children - Teresa, Jay and Stan - followed. After moving to the Okanagan Valley of western Canada, she parented while writing for newspapers and a regional magazine. She\'s also been an editor, counsellor, Big Brothers\' executive director, and publicist for a theatre company that travelled in gypsy wagons pulled by Clydesdale horses.

In 1981 Jeane had encountered an electrician who invented a potentially revolutionary magnetic motor/generator. Through him and his wife she met others in the ?free-energy underground? from Germany to South Africa, and discovered books about Nikola Tesla and other unsung pioneer inventors. The implications of their inventions included two of her concerns - ecology and social justice. During the 1980\'s, she began researching for a book about this fascinating movement and its people.While editing a small-town newspaper, Jeane used her vacations to fly to conferences to interview frontier scientists and engineers. German Association for Field Energy, the Swiss Association for Free Energy, Planetary Association for Clean Energy, International Tesla Society, and even a magnet factory hosted them.In 1989, her birthplace in Alaska was fouled by the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The horrific news strengthened her resolve to research non-polluting energy sources.In 1994, The Explorations program of Canada Council for the Arts awarded her book project, then titled Living Energy , enough funding for gasoline and food expenses. That autumn, Jeane steered her little Nissan pickup onto cross-country highways to visit inventors and other researchers.After two months of travel, one morning she awoke - in her sleeping bag in the Nissan\'s camper - to a white world outside the window. The chill she felt, however, had more to do with what she\'d learned on the trip than with a Wyoming blizzard. Her upbringing had not prepared her for the corruption in trusted public servants, and other obstacles, faced by the people she had interviewed.Much of what she learned during that odyssey, on the other hand, was good news. She heard that a multilingual architect in Australia was bringing out a book titled Living Energies. He had masterfully interpreted the works of her favorite energy pioneer, the late Viktor Schauberger of Austria, so she gladly changed her manuscript title.

Articles:

• Commentary On Conference On Future Energy (CoFE, Apr. 29-30, 1999), NEN Vol. 6, No. 10, July 1999.
• The Revolution Is Coming: New Book Review, July 1996 NEN.
• Environmentalists Misinformed about Emerging Energy Technologies, June 1996 NEN.
• \'Cold Fusion\' Breakthrough Article. 1996

Jonathan Eisen completed his undergraduate education at Oberlin College, and earned his M.A. from the University of Illinois. He worked as an editor for Pantheon Books, the New American Library, and Commonwealth Magazine and was the founding publisher of Auckland Institute of Technology Press in New Zealand, where he currently resides.

Mr. Eisen is an investigative journalist who has authored more than fourteen books. He is currently the publisher of Bioethics Press in Australia, and coeditor of What Your Doctor Will Never Tell You, a bimonthly newsletter featuring suppressed medical and health research.

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Bird)

Christopher Bird became a science journalist after serving in the U.S. Army. His special field of interest was the world of unconventional scientific phenomena. He served as vice president of the Planetary Association for Clean Energy (PACE).

Bird traveled widely and spoke many languages, among them Russian, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Serbo-Croat. He had degrees in botany and Eastern Studies.