James Workman

James Workman is a dynamic storyteller whose work with hunter-gatherers sparked new thinking about how we replenish freshwater, marine fisheries, and wildlands. Jamie is author of the award-winning Heart of Dryness: How the last Bushmen can help us endure the coming age of permanent drought, and co-author with EDF Amanda Leland of the forthcoming Sea Change: The fishermen’s quiet revolution to restore life offshore – and on (Torrey House Press). A 2005 PERC Enviropreneur™, Jamie founded AquaShares Inc., which has pioneered online water credit trading in California & Morocco; advised political leaders from Nelson Mandela to U.S. Cabinet officials; studied at Yale and Oxford and taught at Wesleyan & Whitman colleges. But his real education came from blowing up dams, releasing wolves, restoring wildland fires, guiding safaris, smuggling water to dissidents, breaking down in Africa’s Kalahari Desert, and becoming a husband and dad (not ranked in that order).