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Tell us a little about yourself.
In Denver CO, one of a big family
I\\u2019m 59 years old
we were nature kids
IDK if they understand that they are nature kids
being one of 8 kids ~ my poor mom trying to cook for 10 people 3 times a day
At age 10 got my first job working for my dad if I needed a dollar
He was a petroleum engineer, so I plotted all the data. You plotted a curve on logarithmic paper and draw it out to 0. No wonder I\\u2019m such a nerd! and I\\u2019m on my 5th grade. I ask him
I was age 10 that was 1970 he said, I\\u2019m talking to people at the oil company.
I thought the adults have it under control
first earth day was in 1970
10% of the population
it was really started as a teach in
series of teach in
people just get together and talk to each other
what do you feel like is important
what do I feel is important
and what do we need to make the environment personal to them
working on projects together
demanded the government change them?
That was the start in 1970 under Republican Nixon
I thought great we got this thing together!
1978 President Carter came to colorado
opened the solar energy institute
I went to the University of Colorado and said I want to work in Solar and they said we don\\u2019t have it so that should have been my first clue, that maybe the adults don\\u2019t have it under control
got into engineering
my way to make a big impact
results weren\\u2019t just the water saving projects didn\\u2019t have the results I expected
no culture around it we just did projects and left
we didn\\u2019t ever deal with the people
I wasted a lot of years trying to do things in my community on my own
spending up a lot of effort and not having much impact.
I ended up in Longmont
became a non-profit
in less then 2 years
I don\\u2019t think I heard the word community when I went through engineering. That\'s sort of what brought me what I am doing now, I learned what works in Longmont, I went to my hometown, and want back to Denver where we had similar amazing results!
We\\u2019re told for climate action to do these things, but the first climate action should be:
climate action
that\'s why I started the Green TEAM Academy
2nd year of doing this Earth Week Summit
the Green Organic Garden Podcast is one of our sponsors! That\'s so...'