Miguel Mendonca

Miguel Mendonça
File:Mbm-prlock-crop-s.jpg Miguel Mendonça, 2015
Born	August 1973 Salisbury, Rhodesia
Occupation	Writer, researcher
Citizenship	GB
Subject	Truth, Relationships, Spirituality
Notable works	Meet the Hybrids, Quick! Act Normal, Powering the Green Economy, Feed-in Tariffs, A Renewable World
Website
www.meetthehybrids.wordpress.com

Miguel Mendonça (born August 1973, Salisbury, Rhodesia) is an Anglo-Azorean writer based in Bristol, England.

Education

Miguel studied Forestry at Sparsholt College, Landscape Management at Hadlow College, Journalism and Radio Production at FAS, Geography and History at University College Cork, and Social Science and Environmental Ethics at the Open University.

Sustainability Work

Miguel is most associated with work on feed-in tariffs, a renewable energy policy. He did advocacy and education work on this topic on four continents, contributing to legislative change in several countries. Much of this work was carried out while he served as Research Manager for the World Future Council, an international NGO. He subsequently worked with The Converging World, a renewable energy-focused charity based in Bristol, England.

Miguel then worked for a short period as a freelance sustainability researcher and writer. He produced two key studies, the first reviewing the first year performance and outcomes of the UK feed-in tariff in 2011, and the second assessing The Green Economy in Bristol and the West of England, which was published in January 2012. The latter assessed the size and make-up of the environmental technologies sector in the region at that time. It also surveyed the UK green policy environment, and summarised some of the other key aspects of a green economy, including sustainable design of goods and services, retail, food, and well-being. The report concluded with a call for 'Resilience Planning', an ongoing process of strategic collaboration between actors and stakeholders in the region, towards meeting local needs sustainably through investment in local assets. The integration and optimisation of food, energy and transport systems is central. The development of resilience should merge the agendas of sustainability, economic development, social capital development, participatory democracy and emergency planning.

Miguel wrote and co-wrote several books, and numerous articles, book chapters and papers on sustainability and renewable energy policy. He is the author of Feed-in Tariffs: accelerating the deployment of renewable energy, published by Earthscan in 2007. He is also co-author of Powering the Green Economy: The Feed-In Tariff Handbook (Earthscan, 2009) and A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality (Green Books, 2009).

During this period Miguel held research fellowships at the University of Bristol and at Birkbeck College, University of London. He served on the advisory boards of the Alliance for Renewable Energy, Global Urban Development, Our Future Planet and Raw Foundation.

Fiction Writing

His first work of fiction, a collection of 11 short stories and 1 novella, was published as Quick! Act Normal in February 2013 under the pen name of Michael Ford. These stories explore human experience, and in particular our relationships with ourselves, each other and the world in which we live. The work is an extension of his previous research in the field of sustainability.

Ufology Writing

In late 2015 Miguel published Meet the Hybrids - The Lives and Missions of ET Ambassadors on Earth. This non-fiction book explores the subject of ET-human hybrids from the inside, by interviewing eight individuals who understand that they are part-extraterrestrial and part-human. The book is co-authored with Barbara Lamb, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and regression therapist, who has for the last 25 years worked with over 1,700 clients with regard to extraterrestrial encounters.

Linda Moulton Howe, Reporter and Editor for Earthfiles.com, and Investigative Reporter for Coast to Coast AM said of the book: “As an investigative journalist studying complex evidence of an ET presence on Earth, it has emerged that hybrids with human and ET DNA are emerging in increasing numbers. But why? Insights to that question from people who identify as hybrids are the core of this important book. Miguel Mendonça and Barbara Lamb have courageously focused on one of this planet’s forbidden subjects.”

Mary Rodwell, Principal of ACERN, and author of Awakening, said: “Meet the Hybrids is a cutting edge dialogue which offers an in-depth perspective from individuals who connect to a hybrid state of being. As a therapist and researcher this information is an extremely valuable resource. For those who identify as hybrids it will be both validating and healing—confirming that they are not alone. A landmark book.”

Books

• Meet the Hybrids: The Lives and Missions of ET Ambassadors on Earth (with Barbara Lamb), CreateSpace, 2015
• Quick! Act Normal: 12 Short Stories (as Michael Ford), CreateSpace, 2011
• A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality (with Herbert Girardet), Green Books, 2009
• Powering the Green Economy: The Feed-In Tariff Handbook (with David Jacobs and Benjamin Sovacool), Earthscan, 2009
• Feed-in Tariffs: Accelerating the Deployment of Renewable Energy, Earthscan, 2007

Selected Writings

• Orange Deals: Solar Energy Policy Initiatives Worldwide. 2012, SEEM [chapter author]
• The Green Economy in Bristol and the West of England. 2012, Bristol Green Capital
• The UK Feed-in Tariff: A User Survey. 2011, Birkbeck College, University of London 2010
• 100%: 100% Renewable Energy in Practice. 2009, Earthscan [chapter co-author]
• Wind Energy International 2009/2010. 2009, World Wind Energy Association [chapter co-author]
• Stability, Participation and Transparency in Renewable Energy Policy: Lessons from Denmark and the United States. 2009, Policy and Society, Elsevier [lead author]
• Green Breakthroughs. 2008, UNEP [contributing writer]
• Renewable Energy Global Status Report 2008-2011. REN21 [topical researcher]
• Feed-In Tariffs – Boosting Energy for our Future. 2006, World Future Council
• Policies to Change the World. 2006, World Future Council