Environmental & Public Health

Fellow

Steve Blackmer

2010 Fellow
Steve Blackmer is founder and executive director of Kairos Earth, a non-profit organization based in Canterbury, NH, that seeks to renew a widespread understanding of the natural world as a bearer of the sacred and to restore this awareness...
Fellow Story

Reducing E-Waste: Manufacturing Electronics as if the Future Mattered

Innovations in technology have to date primarily been driven by consumer demand for smaller, lighter, and faster gadgets, especially those that are loaded with the latest features. As a society, we have benefited from technological advances that increase efficiency, add new communications capabilities, create life-saving devices, and more. However, there is a dark side to the electronics industry that remains hidden as we as consumers happily shop for our shiny new toys: waste.
May 13, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Clean and Just Solar Energy Initiative, Year 1

To hire Dustin Mulvaney as a consultant to research the occupational and end-of-life hazards from production and disposal of solar photovoltaic (solar pv) cells, with the goal of shaping public policy on the manufacture and disposal of...
March 31, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Clean and Just Solar Energy Initiative, Year 2

To build on the success of Dustin's first year researching the safety and sustainability of the solar photovoltaic industry, expanding the investigation of solar energy manufacturing and recycling and to make the information accessible to...
March 31, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Chemicals Policy and Green Chemistry Program Development, Year 1

To support Mike Wilson in his role as Co-Director of the Program in Green Chemistry and Chemicals Policy and to expand the role of labor and communities in supporting chemicals policy reform. Mike will continue to advance work on green...
March 31, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Environmental Exposures and Children's Health

Guadalupe Chapa will work as a post-doc researcher serving on the field and research team of The Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas (CHAMACOS), a community-university partnership that investigates...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Risks of Importing Live Animals as Pets, Year 1

To hire Kate Smith as Senior Research Scientist with the Consortium for Conservation Medicine (CCM), Wildlife Trust, to oversee three projects, all aimed at preventing negative outcomes associated with the importation of live animals into...
March 29, 2010
Fellow

Marianne Fisher Vandiver

1991 Fellow
Marianne Fisher Vandiver is currently working as a physician assistant in a rural family practice office in Stonington, Maine. She previously was one of two staff scientists for the Natural Resources Council of Maine, focusing primarily on...
Fellow

Karl Linden

1993 Fellow
Karl G. Linden, Ph.D., is the Helen and Huber Croft Professor of Environmental Engineering at The University of Colorado Boulder. He has a BS from Cornell University and an MS and PhD from University of California at Davis. He teaches...
Fellow

John J Berger

1988 Fellow
John J. Berger is an energy and environmental policy specialist and a senior research fellow at the Pacific Institute. His 11 books include Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth and Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader’s Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis, which won the 2015 International Book Award for Science. His journalistic work has appeared in Scientific American, The Nation, The Progressive, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications.