About the Book.
Life As We Know It (Can Be) is a celebration of the wonders of our planet, a meditation on the human wants and needs that drive it out of balance, and an inspiration for communities to galvanize around nature and each other as the very best way to brace for what’s next. ENGAGING EXPERT AUTHOR: Dubbed “the Anthony Bourdain of climate reporting” for his distinctive storytelling style and a focus on our connected planet, Bill Weir created the primetime CNN Original Series The Wonder List with Bill Weir in 2015. Previously, he had launched the weekend edition of Good Morning America, was co-anchor of Nightline, had his reporting featured on World News with Diane Sawyer, 20/20, and his own Yahoo! News digital series This Could Be Big. He anchored ABC’s Summer Olympics coverage from London in 2012 and reported from inside Apple’s Chinese factories for Nightline. He has also written and hosted projects for the FX and USA networks and was an anchor/reporter in Los Angeles, Chicago, Green Bay, and Austin, MN. This is his first book.
About the Author.
Bill Weir is a veteran anchor, writer, producer, and host who came to CNN in 2013 after a decade of award-winning journalism
at ABC News. In 2019, he was named the network’s first Chief Climate Correspondent, drawing on his experience creating and hosting the primetime CNN Original Series “The Wonder List with Bill Weir,” now streaming on Discovery+. With his distinctive storytelling style, lush photography and a focus on our connected planet, Weir and his team produced four
seasons of the show across 28 countries, highlighting wondrous people, places, cultures, and creatures on the brink of seismic
change. In 2022, Weir earned a News & Documentary Emmy® Award for his CNN Special Report: Eating Planet Earth:
The Future of Your Food, and Columbia Journalism Review called his 2020 CNN Special Report: The Road to
Change “one of the very best pieces of climate journalism ever run by a mainstream US neoh ws organization.”
His first book, Life As We Know It (Can Be) will be published by Chronicle Prism in April 2024.
In his network career, Weir reported from all 50 states and more than 100 countries, covering breaking news and
uncovering global trends. He was among the first reporters into the floodwaters of New Orleans after Hurricane
Katrina and Japan’s tsunami zone during the nuclear crisis of 2011. He dodged Taliban bullets in Afghanistan,
led network coverage from Iraq and was the first American to broadcast live from Tibet. As a writer and anchor,
Weir produced several special hours for CNN and ABC prime time on topics ranging from religion, brain science
and Woodstock to the business of mail-order brides and the rise and fall of General Motors.
His live shots have come from atop the Golden Gate Bridge and below the waters of the Great Barrier Reef while
his adventure reporting includes jumps from hot air balloons, hikes deep into the Amazon and one fun night spent
lashed to the side of Yosemite’s El Capitan. Before joining ABC News, Weir wrote and hosted projects for the FX and USA Networks and was an anchor/reporter in Los Angeles, Chicago, Green Bay and Austin, MN.
About the Moderator.
Dan Harris is the author of the #1 New York Times best-selling memoir, 10% Happier, about a fidgety, skeptical news anchor who finds meditation. He’s also the host of the Ten Percent Happier podcast and the cofounder of the Ten Percent Happier meditation app. For 21 years, he worked at ABC News, where he anchored such shows as Nightline and the weekend editions of Good Morning America.