About David

David writes fiction for young adults, books on sustainable energy and the environment.

He is a novelist, script and comics writer, environmental writer, journalist and consultant, and editor. He blogs as the Low Carbon Kid, is Community Manager of Sustainable Cities Collective, was for 13 years news editor of Energy & Environmental Management magazine, & is director of Cyberium, a media company.

He's the author of YA novel Hybrids (a virus causes kids to merge with technology in a terror-filled near-future world), and these non-fiction titles: Energy Management in Buildings, Energy Management in Industry, Sustainable Transport Fuels, Solar Technology, Solar Photovoltaics Business Briefing, and much more.

He set up and ran the publications dept. at the Centre for Alternative Technology in the '90s, and the London Screenwriters' Workshop in the '80s, plus a lot of other things he can't remember (I think that's a joke).

Hybrids is "a stunningly clever novel" - The Times and was winner of the HarperCollins-Saga Magazine 2006 Childrens Novelist competition. He's also written a novella: Doc Chaos: the Chernobyl Effect, and many comics and cartoon strips such as Captain Britain, Doc Chaos, Public Servants and Managing Hell.

He is also co-wrote The Fastest Forward for Comic Relief, a feature film starring Jerry Hall.

He's a member of the Society of Authors and Literature Wales.

Selected Credits:

Fiction

• Doc Chaos tv series, 1984-8 (Limehouse Pictures), (co-writer) and comics series (Escape 1984-8, Vortex 1989)
• Captain Britain (Marvel Comics, 1995, 2009, 2010) (co-writer)
• Doc Chaos: the Chernobyl Effect novella (Hooligan Press, 1988)
• Hybrids (HarperCollins, 2007)
• Satirica (Cowboy Logic Press, 2008) - two short stories
• Syndicated satirical and comic scripts and columns (Public Servant magazine, FM World, and others, 2005-date)
• Plus about 90 graphic novels (Marvel Comics, Fleetway, Titan Books, HarperCollins, Macdonald-Futura, 1987-2000) (editor)

Non-fiction

• How The World Works (Two-Can, 1992)
• The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union Trading Cards (Eclipse Books, 1990, 1995)
• It's a Breeze!: a guide to choosing windpower (CAT Publications, 1995) (co-writer, editor)
• Fertile Waste (CAT Publications, 1994) (co-writer, editor)
• Safe to Drink? (CAT Publications, 1996) (co-writer, editor)
• The Whole House Book (CAT Publications, 1998,2008) (designer, editor)
• Plus about 80 other publications on sustainable technologies (CAT Publications, 1992-2007) (editor)
• A history of greenspace - web-based educational resource commissioned by the Sensory Trust (2003)
• Energy and Environmental Management magazine, (Defra 2000-date) and Real Power the magazine of the (British Wind Energy Association (Features writer and News Editor)
• Guardian Commment Is Free, (Guardian Newspaper 2007-date) (Columnist)
• Wales for Africa - Stories of Success, (Welsh Assembly Government/Sustain Wales)
• Sustainable Home Refurbishment: The Earthscan Expert Guide to Retrofitting Homes for Efficiency, published by Earthscan in 2010
• Solar Technology, The Earthscan Expert Guide to Using Solar Energy for Heating, Cooling and Electricity, out in May 2011.

Make me happy

I love tigers. I love William Blake's poem Tyger Tyger Burning Bright...

But tigers are in very real danger of becoming extinct in our lifetime. If we lost the tigers - those beautiful, majestic beasts - how much poorer the world would be!

So please support groups like WWF that are fighting to preserve their habitats and keep them safe from poachers. Use the following links and give generously!

• Adopt a Tiger with the WWF from just £2.50 per month.

• Save India's tigers

There were about 40,000 tigers in India a century ago, but decades of poaching and depletion of their natural habitat mean that there may now be only around 1,200.

The world trade in animal parts is like that in heroin and cocaine; a single tiger skin can fetch up to $20,000. Al Qaida is known to trade in animal parts to raise funds, as it does in opium and heroin.

It's a nasty business but together we can save the tiger! Oh, and by the way, this picture is not a tiger - it's my cat. He finds his way into everything.