WiserIT

I'm the Executive Director of Post Carbon Institute, which I originally joined as the manager of the Relocalization Network. I've worked in the nonprofit sector since 1996 in various capacities. Prior to joining Post Carbon Institute, I founded Climate Changers, an organization that inspires people to reduce their impact on the climate by focusing on simple and achievable actions anyone can take.

Some of my previous roles include:

• Partnership Director at Plugged In, an organization working in East Palo Alto, CA that connects individuals and cultivates minds by creating the opportunity to produce, express, and contribute using technology.
• Youth Manager at the Volunteer Center of Sonoma County, which engaged more than 800 teens a year in community service and education about social and environmental issues.
• International Production Coordinator at Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation, which created the largest video archive in the world, containing more than 52,000 interviews conducted in 56 countries around the world.

I also ghostwrote the autobiography of a Polish Holocaust survivor who fought as a partisan in the forests of Belarus, and served as a consultant to a number of other nonprofit organizations, including Just Think and Okizu Foundation.

I currently serve on the boards of Transition United States and Listening for a Change, and on the Advisory Board of ErthNxt. I recently served as a member of Senator John Edwards' Cleantech / Green Business Advisory Committee.

I was born in the Netherlands, and have lived in Israel, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Connecticut, Colorado, and California. I received my B.A. in Creative Writing from The Colorado College. I currently live in Santa Rosa, CA with my wife and three year old son.