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
Leadership Grant Grant

Climate Impacts Scientist, Year 2

This grant provides a second year of funding for Amy Luers's position as Climate Impacts Scientist in UCS’s California office after a very successful first year in the position. This new position, under their "Global Program", has allowed...
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

Greg Norris

1991 Fellow
Greg Norris is Co-Director of SHINE (the Sustainability and Health Initiative for Net-positive Enterprise), an initiative of the Harvard School of Public Health's Center for Health and the Global Environment. He also conducts research...
Fellow

Andrew Dasinger

1989 Fellow
Andrew is currently a Policy Analyst in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions, which is responsible for expanding the commercial impact and public benefit of DOE's RDD&D portfolio to advance the economic, energy...
Fellow

Beverly Craig

1994 Fellow
Beverly Craig, LEED AP BD+C, is a Senior Program Manager at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. She works on programs including the Passive House Design Challenge for affordable housing, assists MassCEC's workforce team, and is now...
Fellow

Lisa Micheli

1993 Fellow
I specialize in supporting organizations focused on designing and scaling nature-based solutions that protect and enhance terrestrial and marine environments—working hand-in-hand with communities at the front lines of global change.