About Christopher Stimpson:

Christopher Stimpson was born in London in 1949. His earliest career ambitions included being a librarian (sit around all day and read books) or a steely-eyed jet fighter pilot. Be careful what you wish for: he became a navigator of propeller-driven cargo planes. In 1968 he attended the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, and in 1971 was commissioned as an RAF navigator. He operated C-130 Hercules for some six years; in this capacity he became involved in evacuations from Cyprus during that country's 1974 civil war and five years later helped thwart an attempted armed hijacking of his aircraft in Nicaragua. His flying career took him to every continent before retiring from the RAF and emigrating to the USA in 1981. Later in life he worked in advertising and communications positions, then - so his life would not be utterly wasted - as an environmental policy advocate. Starting in 1982, Chris worked in various advertising and communications positions, writing copy for print, speeches, web and radio. He also lent his writing skills to the Cape Cod-based grass roots organization Clean Power Now, an environmental group advocating for the building of the Cape Wind wind farm project. In 2007 Chris became executive campaigner of Solar Nation, a national grass roots organization advocating for solar power, and helped bring citizen pressure to bear on government in support of solar power. He lives in Westminster, Colorado, an odd choice since, as far as he knows, there is no minster either in, west of, or east of the city. But at least it sounds better than Gretchyville.