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About Jeff:

Jeff St. John is a reporter and analyst covering the green technology space, with a particular focus on smart grid, smart buildings, energy efficiency, demand response, energy storage, green IT, renewable energy and technology to integrate distributed, intermittent green energy into the grid. Jeff majored in English and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. He attended U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he earned his masters of journalism degree in 2001 while working as an intern for the technology Web site UpsideToday.com and freelancing for publications including the San Francisco Chronicle. From 2001 to 2008, he worked as a newspaper reporter at the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska, the Tri-City Herald in Washington state and The Fresno Bee in California’s Central Valley, where he covered business while also serving as a general assignment and features writer, and earned awards including the C.B. Blethen Memorial Awards, the Society of Professional Journalists Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism award and a 2005 National Headliner Award for his coverage of worker injuries and health risks at the Tyson Foods meatpacking plant in Pasco, Wash.. In 2008 he joined Greentech Media as a reporter, where he wrote daily breaking news stories and features on business, finance and policy issues in the fields of renewable energy, energy efficiency, smart grid and other green technologies. Since 2010, he has worked as a freelance journalist for Earth2Tech, and joined the ranks of GigaOm Pro as Green IT curator in August 2010. He believes that green technology is humanity’s greatest hope to save the planet and itself.