Ted is always looking for ways to minimize his ecological footprint. Professionally, Ted is working to gain the skills necessary to turn his passion for sustainable development into action, as an entrepreneur or financing sustainable businesses.
Ted studied economics and international business at Saint Louis University’s campus in Madrid, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and was honored as the Distinguished Student in International Business for his class. As the founder and president of the SLU Madrid Business Club, Ted focused the club’s activities on sustainability.
While working for commercial real estate multi-national Jones Lang LaSalle’s Madrid office, Ted strove to implement sustainable practices both within the firm and for its clients. He proposed and designed an Environmental Sustainability Action Plan for JLL Spain. Green Building and Environmentally Sustainable Development remain a passion for Ted: he believes that the intersection of sustainable infrastructure and sustainable attitude is where we’ll find a sustainable society.
Ted currently works for a private equity firm in Madrid, learning skills that he hopes to apply to finance Environmentally Sustainable Development in the United States and around the world.
Tracy is the CEO and Founding Partner of Technical Green - a green industry career site focused on clean tech and green research and development.
Tracy's professional experience are in the recruitment advertising and non-profit sectors and she has for many years maintained a sustainable lifestyle.
Cherl Petso is the Associate Editor at Disaboom.com, an online magazine for people with disabilities. Her writing expertise includes articles about the environment and sustainable living, and vegan/vegetarian issues. A vegetarian for 16 years and a recent vegan, Cherl is passionate about animal rights and issues. She enjoys writing about simple ways to lessen the impact on the Earth.
Cherl recently moved to Denver, Colorado from Bellingham, Washington. She enjoys hiking and hanging out with her puppy.
Loretta White is a writer, educator and scholar who gained huge diversity of experience within varied industries; energy, government, high tech and more. The last fifteen years she brokered deals with the top multinational companies globally, her Rainmaker skills are unsurpassed and she remains an authority on BD, BI, sustainability and the Global Marketplace.
Frugality was the voice of her elders who endured wars, rationing and Depression, raised to respect, love and to co-exist with nature through sustainability, self reliance, need and RRR practices. Loretta’s juxtaposition of ideas, deep love for the planet and her Yankee sensibilities are the foundation of a lifestyle that is in partnership with nature. Loretta indulges her passions for renewable energy, organics and being green on her 17.5 acre farm in central Massachusetts.
Recently Ms. White has lead an Assoc. of Caregivers providing support to those caring for parents, disabled, and others.
Loretta is invested in the community of our species and our planet and her diverse background in technology and green living gives her a unique perspective on how to live with nature and with our own gifts of technology.
Ms. White’s work has been published by Corporations, magazines, readers digest and many others.
Marie Oser is a best-selling author, columnist, and host/producer of VEG TV. A vegan lifestyle expert, and environmental advocate with a focus on nutrition and its role in disease prevention, Oser specializes in creating original gourmet recipes with a solid nutritional bottom line.
Many prominent medical and nutrition professionals endorse her work, including Dr. Colin Campbell, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University and principal researcher of the groundbreaking CHINA STUDY, and Neal Barnard, M.D. founder and president of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, DC.
Marie is president of VEGTV, Inc., a video production company producing content for TV and new media. VEGTV streams hundreds of lifestyle videos to more than 1,000 sites globally. In her role as Director of Product Development at Smart Planet Kitchen, she has created, Marie Oser’s Lean & Green, a new line of vegan and Fair Trade Certified products. Marie has appeared on CNN, ABC, National Public Radio, QVC, WUSA, WNBC, KCAL, KOVR, Home & Garden Television (HGTV), FINE LIVING, TECH TV, and Discovery Channel.
Vegetarian since 1971; vegan since 1990, Marie left a career in TV advertising to pursue her interest in food, health, and nutrition. Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, she studied psychology at St. Joseph’s University. Marie is a gourmet cook and organic gardener living in California, writing her 5th book and hiking every day with Travis, her Yellow Lab companion.
Dayanti Karunaratne is a freelance journalist based in Canada's capital city, Ottawa.
Since graduating from Carleton University's journalism program in 2006, Karunaratne has worked on the news desk at the Port Hope Evening Guide, the Ottawa Citizen, and the Molokai Times. Karunaratne's writing appears in the Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa Magazine, the Globe and Mail, and other lifestyle publications.
Boston born novelist, short-story writer and who has published thousands of technical papers now works in the horror-fiction world. Occasionally, his characters and stories transcend genres and travel from fantasy to realism.
White contributes to L. A, Weekly occasionally and other magazines and online forums, he also blogs regularly for several news and industry sites.
Current projects include; “Underwater City Salvage,” “Real Vampires”, “The Black Coach”, “The In-Between Time.” His novels are richly textured with excellent grasp on popular culture, and explores feelings of angst, deep-rooted in ancient themes.
Carl Boyd graduated from UIC’s Industrial Design program and has worked professionally in exhibit and product design. He interned at Prairie Fish, one of the nation’s first retail design firms committed to green design. As an initial member of the Foresight Design Initiative, he launched Chicago Green Drinks, organized Chicago’s first Eco-Transportation Show, and designed exhibits for the Chicago Department of Environment.
He’s served as a judge of green design for the 2008 International Housewares Show, and Chicago’s Greenworks Awards.
Carl Boyd co-pilots an ongoing project called Normal - started in 2003 - designing modern, practical products that are locally-made using sustainably-preferable materials and processes. Normal products are sold across North America, have been featured in Wallpaper, TIME, New City, Chicago Tribune, Time Out and in several TV spots. They have been selected for Museum exhibits nationwide and abroad.
Carl currently teaches product design, focusing on sustainability issues, at Columbia College, as well as at the Art Institute this coming Spring.
Robert Cowin is a political consultant for environmental NGOs. His nomadic childhood reveals a world-class carpetbagger, but he masks as a Texan-New Yorker hybrid. Formerly with the National Environmental Trust (now the Pew Environment Group) in DC, he’s spent time on Capital Hill advocating for Kyoto ratification, clean air, renewable energy technology, and green energy policy.
Robert has also worked on marine conservation issues, directing the Conserve Our Ocean Legacy coalition in the Mid-Atlantic States which successfully worked to help strengthen and reauthorize the Magnuson Steven’s Act. He now happily lives in Southern California, flying back east often as he finishes his Masters in International Relations at Tufts University’s Fletcher School.
Eytan Krasilovsky lives in sunny Santa Fe New Mexico with his wife Lauren and two beautiful children Isabella and Gabe. When not thinking about renewable energy he splits his time working for the Forest Guild (www.forestguild.org) and taking bike rides with his kids to the farmers market and the Santa Fe River. He also tries to find some time to explore the southern Rocky Mountains on two wheels.
Eytan has a B.A from Rutgers College in Anthropology and worked as a field archaeologist for several years before moving to New Mexico. In New Mexico, Eytan worked for the National Park Service in fire ecology. This prompted him to return to school at the graduate level to study natural resource management. Eytan completed his Master of Environmental Studies degree from the University of Pennsylvania in the spring of 2005. During his schooling, he worked for a land trust, gaining experience working with conservation easement landowners, and for the Cottonwood Gulch Foundation, developing and implementing environmental education programs in Thoreau, New Mexico. Eytan joined the Forest Guild staff in 2005 and works on several community forestry projects on public lands and on landscape scale forest planning in New Mexico and Colorado. His duties are focused on multiparty monitoring for ecological and socio-economic indicators, providing technical assistance to forest restoration projects, and managing the Model Forest Program.
Christie Nash is currently a Projects Coordinator at the Trent Centre for Community-Based Education whose mandate is to bring local organizations and academic resources together to create community- inspired research projects. She has recently completed her M.Ed in Education and Community Development and Comparative International Development Education at OISE/UT. Her professional experience has taken her around the world, including Thailand, India, Nunavut, and other parts of Canada.
She currently resides in Omemee, Ontario (where Neil Young spent his formative years!) in an 1861 log cabin with her boyfriend, Mark, and cat, Fergus.
Heather O'Neill is the founder of Eco to the People, a green living blog.
Before founding Eco to the People, Heather O’Neill wore so many hats in the field of journalism that even the Queen Mother would envy her collection. She has worked as the managing editor of a beauty trade magazine; as a copy editor for an online tech magazine; as the associate editor of a city magazine and as a newspaper reporter and columnist, and as the senior editor at the popular online newsletter ecofabulous.
Her work has appeared in many publications, including Parenting, Alternative Medicine, Natural Solutions, Marin Magazine, Greenwich Magazine and HOME.
Heather earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from California College of the Arts. She lives and works in San Francisco.
A freelance writer specializing in environmental and health topics, Linda recently was part of a core team of writers who developed content for GreenYour, a website devoted to greener living.
She wrote an environmental column for five years for Good Housekeeping magazine called Green Watch. You can find her articles in Plenty Magazine’s online newsletter, Fit Pregnancy, Good Housekeeping, Arthritis Today, Profiles (Continental Airline’s in-flight magazine), and Microsoft’s Encarta.
She served on her town’s environmental commission for 15 years and remains an active volunteer. Her personal essay column for the local newspaper offers her take on the natural world and on environmental topics in her neck of the woods.
It is Earth Day, 2009 folks. If my math is correct, this is the 39th year that we have been observing this day.
The first Earth Day was on April 22, 1970. “The Partridge Family” was asking the world if they were happy. “Jesus Christ Superstar” was trying to figure out “what’s the buzz”. “Love Story” was driving tissue sales through the roof (this is not necessarily a fact but I am thinking it must have been true). And less than one year earlier in Cleveland, Ohio the Cuyahoga River had spontaneously combusted.
Lake Erie was on the verge of being sterilized by the impossibly large amount of pollution floating in its waters. The bald eagle was on the edge of extinction, not necessarily because of excessive hunting or even habitat destruction but largely because of a pesticide, DDT. Sickness and deaths in major cities like New York and Los Angeles were linked directly to air pollution. The planet was in bad shape. So how far have we come since that first Earth Day? I found myself wanting to know if we are making a difference so I did some looking. …read more of An Earth Day Celebration here
A funny thing about people is we don’t like change. And we sometimes feel guilty about not liking change. A lot of younger people say they love change. Can’t get enough of it. But try making veggie burgers instead of turkey for Christmas dinner and the kids may not love change as much as they think. Often, change means moving away from something we are good at and being good at something makes us feel comfortable.
Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources can elicit the same feelings of moving away from something we are good at to something we might need to learn how to do. For instance, most of us know how to keep the lights on. Pay the electric bill. We aren’t born knowing how to pay bills but we learned. Putting solar panels on your roof and generating your own electricity means learning a new set of skills.
If you live in the north east it might mean figuring out how to get snow off the panels after a foot of the white stuff falls during one of our winter storms. It might mean figuring out how to put them on the roof without creating leaks. And there are other details that we know we would have to learn to run our own solar power plant. …read more of Getting Started here
As a candidate, President Obama spent a great deal of his time talking about getting the economy back on its feet. He cited renewable energy as the field where he wants to see lots of “pay the bills” kinds of jobs getting generated.
Well, President Obama said we should get to work, so I did. I went in search of a job in the renewable energy field. But where can a guy like me find one of these sweet new jobs of the new era? What kind of training do I need?
My search began, as so many do, on Google. I found a site called, “Renewable Energy World” and I was off. I searched on jobs in my state, Massachusetts, and got a hit. The job title was “Power Electronics Engineer”. And in no time at all I understood that I was clearly not qualified for this position. But that was okay, I was only looking.
The point: when I searched, there was a job.
Even better, when I punched in “information technology” there were six jobs listed around the country, all relevant to renewable energy. So yes, there are already jobs in renewable energy and the presidential train hasn’t even left the station yet, so to speak.
Currently there are many “green collar” opportunities, including jobs in Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Hydrogen, Ocean Energy, and more. You can search by category to find something along the lines of what you are doing right now. The good news is that if you are out of a job right now, there are jobs available in the growing field of renewable energy.
I am feeling really positive about this. For the first time in my cynical adult life I believed what my president said in a speech and it was true.
I believe that we can turn our economy around on the back of green technologies like renewable energy. Check this site out and even if you can’t find a job there, there are many other sites offering positions. A job is waiting for you out there. A job where you aren’t dumping poison into the air and water that your children are breathing and drinking.
Something good is happening, folks, and like our president said, it is up to us to keep the ball rolling.
Let’s start with the term “green”; what does it mean? I don’t know exactly. When I searched for a definition on Yahoo they returned 2,290,000 results and Google returned more than eight million. This post will explore the term just a little bit. “Green” is a term that is used a lot and my concern is that it will be turned into a tool to con consumers out of their hard earned money. And because people are not stupid, they will figure out that have been taken advantage of by the “green” industry and will experience a backlash against the spirit of the environmental movement. So let’s look at this term a little bit shall we?
Plasma Fusion Reactors are being touted as green technology. Well how about if we take a look at that. A plasma fusion reactor, if I am understanding correctly, is you have to smash Deuterium and Tritium together because when you get these two positively charged particles to come into contact with each other, they produce Helium and a neutron and a great deal of energy. As the reaction produces 3.5 MeV. To quote Professor Ron Parker of MIT, “To generate 1000 MW in one day requires 9000 tons of coal and generates 30,000 tons of CO2 (plus other noxious gases, e.g., SO2 and NO2). …read more of Are Fusion Reactors “Green?” here
How much are you paying for gas right now? My wife and I live in Massachusetts and we are paying $1.55 or so. Over the summer how much were you paying? We were up around $4.85 or so. Pretty sweet if you ask me.
So I was driving my fifty minute commute home Friday night and started thinking, how did this come about? What precipitated this fortuitous drop in price? Well funny thing is the guys on NPR were thinking about the same thing and since they are on the radio they are sort of compelled to talk about it too. And they were saying that we are seeing the big drop for the same reason we saw the huge increase. The law of supply and demand is hard at work. Our demand is way, way, way down and the price followed. I kind of started cheering then. It gets lonely in my car on the long ride home with no one to carpool with. I was cheering because I realized that every gas guzzling person on the planet has banded together and we are all boycotting OPEC and the oil companies. Yeah, stick it to the man. …read more of The Accidental Boycott here
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