Amanda Little is a professor of investigative journalism at Vanderbilt University. A former Outside magazine columnist, she has written for the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Wired, and Bloomberg Businessweek. Her reporting on energy and climate change has taken her to ultra deep oil rigs, down manholes, into sewage plants, and inside monsoon clouds.  Little is the award-winning author of Power Trip: The Story of America’s Love Affair With Energy (HarperCollins), and is currently writing The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World (Random House).