Geo Takach

Geo Takach is a full professor and head of the blended BA in Professional Communication program at Royal Roads University.

Geo Takach's research focuses on environmental communication. His latest books are Scripting the Environment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Tar Wars (University of Alberta Press, 2017). His scholarly work also includes 16 articles and book chapters; three short documentary films screened at university gallery exhibitions; public readings of his satirical radio revue (at Congress 2016) and his musical eco-comedy play; and more than 30 refereed conference presentations—many aimed at depolarizing tensions between resource extraction and ecological responsibility and in three cases, dramatized in radio or television scripts.

Geo is a veteran professional communicator and an award-winning writer, filmmaker and speaker, with hundreds of publication credits spanning speeches, theatre, print, documentary and dramatic film, radio, TV and digital media. He has suffered for his art, and now he would like it to be YOUR turn.