Thom is a New York Times best-selling author of more than 30 books in print in 17 languages on 5 continents, and the #1 progressive talk show host in America for more than a decade. Thom has co-written and been featured in 6 documentaries with Leonardo DiCaprio about climate change. A former psychotherapist, entrepreneur and international relief worker helping the German-based Salem organization start programs for the dispossessed all over the world, Thom and his wife Louise live on the Columbia River with a small menagerie of cats, dogs, ducks and geese.