Ted Nordhaus

Managing Director

American Environics

Ted Nordhaus "is an author, researcher, and political strategist. In the fall of 2007, Houghton Mifflin will publish The Death of Environmentalism and the Birth of a New American Politics, to be co-authored with Michael Shellenberger. In October 2004, Shellenberger and Nordhaus published an essay by the same name, creating an international debate over the future of progressive politics.

"Ted is also a managing partner of American Environics, a new research and consulting firm created to bring cutting edge research and methodologies used to understand the evolution of American social values to progressive political projects.

"Over the last twenty years, Ted has run major campaigns and initiatives for a large assortment of environmental and progressive political causes including the Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense, and Clean Water Action. Nordhaus also served as the Campaign Director for Share the Water, a coalition of environmentalists, fishermen, farmers, and urban water agencies advocating reform of federal water policies in California, Executive Director of the Headwaters Sanctuary Project, and as a partner and political strategist with Next Generation, a political consulting firm serving environmental organizations and campaigns. For the last four years, Ted has been a pollster and Vice President at Evans McDonough Company, an opinion research firm based in Oakland.

"Ted holds a BA in history from the University of California, Berkeley.“