First comprehensive guide to seasonal ice climbing routes throughout Colorado.
Cameron M. Burns is Communications Director at CLEER. Before that he served as Senior Editor at Rocky Mountain Institute. During his tenure at RMI, he also served as Corporate Communications Manager for the World Green Building Council during 2004-05 (www.worldgbc.org).
Mr. Burns has been writing about environmental, green architecture, energy, and sustainability issues for more than twenty years as a reporter/correspondent with various newspapers and as a contributing editor with numerous magazines. His essays, articles, op-eds, features, blogs, and other material on "green" issues have been featured in, among others, the Times of London, Newsweek, the Denver Post, the Rocky Mountain News, the Albuquerque Journal, the High Country News, the Aspen Daily News, the Aspen Times, the Sangre de Cristo Chronicle, the Boulder Daily Camera, the Santa Fe New Mexican, the Ouray Plaindealer, Solar Today, Nikkei Ecology (Japan), The World & I, Ecos (the quarterly magazine of CSIRO (Australia)), Indian Architect & Builder, Yes! magazine, and many others. His work has been featured on numerous websites (including energypulse.net, treehugger.com, Yahoo! Green, www.energybulletin.net, www.sustainablebusiness.com, www.changereport.com, greenbiz.com, www.greenerdesign.com, www.climatebiz.com, www.greenclips.com, and greenerbuildings.com).
Mr. Burns holds a bachelor's degree in environmental design from the University of Colorado (1987) and has done graduate studies in environmental management at Harvard (2004-06) as well as graduate work in film and television production at the University of California (1987-88).
He is a coauthor of Building Without Borders (New Society Publishers, 2004), Writing, Etc. (Colorado Authors League, 2006), and Contact: Mountain Climbing And Environmental Thinking (University of Nevada Press, 2008). He contributed several entries to Grolier's Encyclopedias in the mid-1990s, and his work on sustainability issues has been published by a wide variety of governments, corporations, and non-profit entities--ranging from PG&E to the State of Oregon to the National Park Service to the Green Building Alliance to various universities. He has been interviewed and/or quoted by outlets ranging from the Wall Street Journal to MSNBC.
In his spare time he writes books about the outdoors, travel, and adventure--to date more than two-dozen have been published. His awards include thirty national (U.S.) and regional awards for writing (including the North American Association of Travel Journalists' 2002 Book of the Year award, the Grand Prize at the 1998 Banff Mountain Book Festival, "finalist" in the 2004 Banff Mountain Book Festival) and the 2004 Colorado Book Awards; four (Apex and Communicator) awards for corporate communications; three regional photography awards; one graphic design award.
He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers (www.nasw.org), the Outdoor Writer's Guild (UK), the Colorado Authors' League, and the American Alpine Club, for whom he is Associate Editor of the American Alpine Journal.
