About Thomas M. Kostigen

Thomas M. Kostigen is the author of The Green Blue Book: The Simple Water Savings Guide to Everything in Your Life (Rodale) out on World Water Day. In The Green Blue Book he explains the breakthrough concept of Virtual Water and how redirecting our daily actions can shore up the world’s water supply. He is the author of You Are Here: Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet (HarperOne), and coauthor of The New York Times bestseller The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time (Crown/Three Rivers Press).

Kostigen’s standing within the environmental community allows him access to trends, insight, information, and validation that in turn help readers better understand and live with a changing planet. He weaves a thread of practicality through all of his books providing breakthrough first-hand research and shocking but true facts he has uncovered along with hundreds of easy solutions for readers to adopt into their daily lives.

He pens the popular Ethics Monitor column for Dow Jones MarketWatch and hosts the weekly “Saints & Sinners” broadcast for The Wall Street Journal Digital network and the Westwood One radio network, featured in 225 markets. He regularly contributes to Discover magazine and National Geographic Adventure, among numerous other publications.

A longtime journalist, Kostigen has reported from the world’s natural wonders to war zones around the globe. Known as an “intrepid activist,” Kostigen’s mission is to provide people with “on-the-ground” accounts of the way the world is today and then arm them with solutions to make it better.

He speaks at forums and conferences internationally and combines environmental science with a lively sense of practicality and mainstream pop culture.

Kostigen is on the board of Jacques Cousteau’s Blue Legacy organization, and is a member of numerous others, including Water for People, the Rainforest Action Network, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Liberty Hill. He is regularly quoted in the press and has appeared on numerous national television and radio shows.