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Areas of Focus
Global Beef Industry
(322 people) | Livestock in Developing Nations
(347 people) | Sustainable Agriculture
(3976 people) | Sustainable Livestock Husbandry
(703 people) | Air Quality and Pollution
(1939 people) | Ozone Layer
(669 people) | Animal Welfare and Rights
(1367 people) | Endangered Animal Species Protection
(1594 people) | Endemic Animal Species Protection
(542 people) | Primates
(283 people) | Wildlife Ecology
(1639 people) | Biodiversity Conservation
(3143 people) | Coastal Ecology
(978 people) | Cultural Diversity
(2538 people) | Evolutionary Ecology
(1097 people) | Green Schools
(2352 people) | Sustainable Energy Development
(3865 people) | Alternative Fuels
(2858 people) | Global Food Supply and Sustainability
(2431 people) | Sustainable Forestry
(1847 people) | Climate Change
(4691 people) | Globalization Impacts
(2059 people) | Ecological Footprint
(2218 people) | Sustainable Production
(2458 people) | Environmental Justice
(1970 people) | Indigenous Peoples and Cultures
(2768 people) | Endangered Plant Species Protection
(948 people) | Global Pollution
(1149 people) | Petroleum in the Environment
(520 people) | Human Population Growth and Impacts
(1433 people) | Environmental Ethics
(1643 people) | Religion and Ecology
(1191 people) | EcoVillages
(2782 people) | Water and Sustainable Development
(1901 people) | Forest Ecology and Conservation
(1040 people)
About
I've been interested in sustainability since the early 90s when I joined Greenpeace as a member. A little later, I started thinking a lot about animal exploitation and quickly adopted a vegan diet. Then in 1993 I moved from Illinois to San Diego, CA and started woking for Greenpeace as a canvasser. This wasn't the glamorous job I'd dreamed of--preventing whales from being harpooned on the high seas--but it did teach me a lot. I worked in the natural foods industry for several years, where I continued to learn about the negative impacts of industrial agriculture and the benefits associated with eating a locally grown, organic, plant-based diet.
I studied fairly broadly in school, studying cultural anthropology for my bachelors degree (UCSC 1997) and social science for my masters (San Jose State 1999). In these academic endeavors, I continued to focus on society's negative impact on the environment and I wrote my masters thesis The Social Construction of Nature as the Other and its Human Consequences to outline the historical paradigm shifts I saw in humanity's relationship with nature.
Since 2005 I've been an on-call instructor for UCSC Extension, teaching foreign students in the English Language and International Programs department. I designed a class called Society and the Environment, where we critically examine the impact of unsustainable U.S. transportation and food choices on the environment. I chose these two topics because their cultural roots (car culture/fast food culture) are so deeply ingrained in U.S. society and because of their enormous impact on the environment. I believe that these two subjects are critically important for us to examine, because they are very likely to be the areas that we as individuals can make the greatest improvement in our collective environmental impact.
I studied fairly broadly in school, studying cultural anthropology for my bachelors degree (UCSC 1997) and social science for my masters (San Jose State 1999). In these academic endeavors, I continued to focus on society's negative impact on the environment and I wrote my masters thesis The Social Construction of Nature as the Other and its Human Consequences to outline the historical paradigm shifts I saw in humanity's relationship with nature.
Since 2005 I've been an on-call instructor for UCSC Extension, teaching foreign students in the English Language and International Programs department. I designed a class called Society and the Environment, where we critically examine the impact of unsustainable U.S. transportation and food choices on the environment. I chose these two topics because their cultural roots (car culture/fast food culture) are so deeply ingrained in U.S. society and because of their enormous impact on the environment. I believe that these two subjects are critically important for us to examine, because they are very likely to be the areas that we as individuals can make the greatest improvement in our collective environmental impact.
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