Climate Change

Leadership Grant Grant

Communicating about Ecological Thresholds

To hire Ariane de Bremond as staff to assist with the Heinz Center's Global Change Program, focusing on protected area management and ecological thresholds as they pertain to adaptations to climate change. Ariane will focus, in particular...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Service Learning Coordinator for Green Empowerment, Year 1

Green Empowerment (GE) hired Jason Selwitz as their first Service Learning Coordinator to oversee projects and fundraising in the newly created Service Learning Department of the organization. GE has recently expanded its activities to...
March 29, 2010
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
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

Trish Mace

1991 Fellow
Trish has a BA in Biology, a MA in International Studies focusing on natural resources policy, and additional studies at UC Berkeley on marine resources conservation and management. She is currently the Director of the University of Oregon...
Fellow

Deborah Jensen

1990 Fellow
Deborah is currently a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence in the College of the Environment at the University of Washington. For 13 years she served as the President and CEO of the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. She is a past President...
Fellow

Doreen Stabinsky

1991 Fellow
Doreen Stabinsky is professor of Global Environmental Politics at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA. Her research focuses on the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food security, adaptation and adaptation...
Fellow

Eric Washburn

1990 Fellow
Eric Washburn is a partner in the Policy Resolution Group (PRG) at Bracewell & Guiliani, LLP, with 20 years’ experience working in both the public and private sectors. He provides federal legislative and regulatory advice to PRG’s industry...
Fellow

Joan Heredia

1993 Fellow
Joan Heredia currently works throughout the U.S. to develop and promote renewable energy faciliites. She is the Director of Environmental Compliance and Regulatory Services at Enel Green Power North America with oversight responsibilities...