Climate Change

Leadership Grant Grant

Director of Service Learning for Green Empowerment, Year 2

To provide a second year of funding for Jason Selwitz as Director of the Service Learning Department. Green Empowerment (GE) works with NGO partners in developing countries in southeast Asia and Latin America to develop renewable energy and...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Promoting Clean Energy and Good Jobs in the Western States, Year 1

This grant was made to The Apollo Alliance to hire Jeremy Hays as one of its two Western States organizers. Jeremy's responsibilities will include establishing, supporting, and guiding state level coalitions of environmental, labor, civil...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Climate Adaptation Strategies in the Puget Sound

To hire Lara Hansen as a consultant to work jointly with American Rivers and the Sierra Club on implementing climate change adaptation measures in the Puget Sound region. Lara will be the resource person on climate adaptation strategies...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Renewable Energy in Southeast Asia

Chris Greacen will work with rural villages in southeast Asia to design and build renewable energy systems, and to work with government policy makers and local & international NGOs to challenge environmentally destructive energy development...
March 29, 2010
Foundation News

Climate Change Adaptation (Switzer Webinar Series)

Switzer Fellow Dr. Lara Hansen and her colleague, Dr. Jennifer Hoffman, both of EcoAdapt, presented their work on climate change adaptation and the challenges faced by practitioners and resource managers. Drs. Hansen and Hoffman also...
March 23, 2010
Fellow

Sandra Haupt

1989 Fellow
Sandra works for Central Vermont Public Service Company (CVPS) in Rutland, VT where she is involved with Demand Side Management. CVPS participates in the 'sister utility program' where utilities are matched with similar size utilities in...
Fellow

Sascha Von Meier

1994 Fellow
Alexandra “Sascha” von Meier, Co-Director in CIEE’s Electric Grid program area, focuses on power distribution systems, Smart Grid issues, and the integration of distributed and intermittent generation. She joined CIEE in 2010. Before...
Fellow

Kevin Kennedy

1989 Fellow
Kevin retired from World Resources Institute at the end of July 2025. His career at WRI, the California Air Resources Board and California Energy Commission focused on climate and clean energy policies for California and the United States.
Fellow

Neil Fennessey

1991 Fellow
Neil is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Fellow

John J Berger

1988 Fellow
John J. Berger is an energy and environmental policy specialist and a senior research fellow at the Pacific Institute. His 11 books include Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth and Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader’s Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis, which won the 2015 International Book Award for Science. His journalistic work has appeared in Scientific American, The Nation, The Progressive, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications.