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Daniel Sherman is the Luce-Funded Professor of Environmental Policy and Decision Making at the University of Puget Sound. He received B.A. degrees from Canisius College (’95, Political Science) and Victoria University of Wellington (’96, Maori Studies), M.A. degrees from Colorado State University (’99, Political Science) and Cornell University (’02, Government), and a Ph.D. from Cornell University (’04, Government). He sits on the same hall as our author Patrick O’Neil. Sherman has written Not Here, Not There, Not Anywhere: Politics, Social Movements and the Disposal of Low-level Radioactive Waste published by the environmental publisher RFF. He has won the Tom Davis Teaching Excellence Award: University of Puget Sound, and won the Best Conference Paper Award, Annual Conference of the Society for Values in Higher Education for “Sustainability as a Way of Thinking: Tools for Understanding Sustainability?as Critical Inquiry and Achieving Integration Across the Higher Education Curriculum.” Sherman also worked for two years in the Ecology group at the Los Alamos Natural Laboratory. David R. Montgomery is a professor at the University of Washington and a MacArthur Fellow. He is the author and coauthor of several previous books about soil and agriculture, including Dirt, Growing a Revolution, and What Your Food Ate. He lives with his wife in Seattle.