Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Energy: Understanding the Psychology of Depleting Oil Resources

About the Author(s)

Jessica G. Lambert serves as Co-Chair and Chief Information Officer for Next Generation Energy Initiative, Inc. (NGEI), a not-for-profit organization located in Marcellus, NY USA. She oversees the NGEI's use of information technology to improve online educational programs, information systems and information resource management. She leads NGEI's Biophysical Economics and Energy Institutes in collaboration with all the organizational components of NGEI. Jessica Lambert has been active in the field of energy for the past seven years and has held positions at the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change, the White House Council on Environmental Quality and later the Paleontological Research Institute, where she led research initiatives to assess the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Conservation Biology and a certificate in environmental science.

Gail P. Lambert earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is Co-Chair and CEO of Next Generation Energy Initiative, Inc. (NGEI) a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing broad scale knowledge of the benefits of ""green"" renewable energy technology, creating renewable energy technology curricula and promoting Biophysical Economic Theory. Dr. Lambert has served as an educator at various secondary and post secondary educational institutions for over twenty-five years. She currently resides in Central New York.