Matthew 'Mat' Stein

Author, engineer, designer, and green builder, Matthew Stein was born and raised in Burlington Vermont. Stein appeared on numerous radio and television programs and was a repeat guest on Fox News, MSNBC, Lionel, Coast-to-Coast AM, and the Thom Hartmann Show. He wrote several articles on the subject of sustainable living and was a guest columnist for the Huffington Post, and blogged for Mother Earth News.

In 2000 Matthew published his first book, When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance and Planetary Survival. He authored a second survival handbook, When Disaster Strikes: A Comprehensive Guide for Emergency Planning and Crisis Survival, eleven years later. Beyond providing valuable information on keeping one’s self and loved ones safe in the event of crisis, Matthew’s books displayed a profound awareness of the turbulence that would come in the twenty-first century: the threat of declining oil production and the ravages of climate change and ecological decline. Rather than resign himself to these disturbing trends, Matthew sought to provide friends, neighbors, and the community at large with the tools they need to survive and thrive, and to bring about a more sustainable way of living. As he wrote in an interview two years ago, “It is my hope that many millions of people will wake up to the realization that making the shift to sustainability is a matter of economic and ecological survival.”