S W LawrenceBorn in Minnesota, I grew up in Missouri, then at eighteen realized my California dream with undergraduate years at Stanford, including two years on the tennis team. After med school back in my home state, I completed a residency at UC San Francisco,where I gave my first public lecture, a talk on nuclear power. Two weeks later, I started teaching full-time in a UC Davis-affiliated family medicine residency, with much of my practice focused on obstetrics but also HIV care starting in early 1983. I taught full-time for sixteen years, with my main academic appointment at UC Davis, but coming full circle, a community faculty appointment at Stanford Med Center as well, since I taught a number of their PA stu-dents.I lost my heart in San Francisco. My wife became a certified nurse-midwife, and between the two of us, we delivered thousands of babies and had three of our own, all graduated and married-two of them with a couple of grandsons apiece. We moved up to Bellingham more than a quarter century ago, but are now both retired. In the last ten years, I have continued to lecture widely, including several seminar series at Western Washington University and many other venues, such as a couple of out-of-state conferences. But I no longer teach medicine; rather, I teach about energy systems, the climate system, epidemiology, and the electric grid, and this set of fourteen or so lectures forms the basis for many of the chapters in my book.Our biggest climate-related trip was in Europe in 2015, which includ-ed biking in Berlin, Copenhagen, and Oslo, then a two-week cruise from Svalbard to Greenland and Iceland. We accomplished hiking, kayaking, and a true polar plunge well north of the Arctic Circle while in Green-land. Additionally, we explored some of the eastern Canadian maritime islands in 2023. Over the next twenty months, we plan to visit and inves-tigate the electric grids of Kauai and Puerto Rico. Read More Read Less