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Expanding Public Dialogue

•April 08: Senior Fellow Omar Freilla was featured in the NY Times Metro Section as his Organization the Greenworkers Cooperative opened its ReBuilders Source facility. Read more about this

•April 08: Senior Fellow Jacob Park was a part of an interdisciplinary block course on food issues in the northeast that will be recognized by the VT Governor's office next week. Read more about this

•April 08: Senior Fellow Jacob Park co-dited a Book on Environmental Governance Read more about this

•April 08: ELP 2006 National Fellow, L'Tryce Slade and 2007 Southeast Fellow, Esther Obonyo held a strategic planning workshop, April 19th to implement the Olmsted vision for the Ensley Park area of Birmingham, AL. Click here to view L'Tryce's interview on CBS 42 Birmingham.

•April 08: ELP 2008 Southeast Fellow, Darryl Haddock was recently on NPR discussing Atlanta's water woes.

•April 08: ELP 2008 Southeast Fellow, K.C. Boyce was part of an Earth Hour special that toured his house that is undergoing green remodeling. Segment begins at 45:30.
•March 08: Regional Fellow Eric Becker was interviewed on Christian Science Monitor Read the article or Watch the interview about his company's work on green investment.

•February 08: ELP 2004 National Fellow Bruce Morton was featured in a video about the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance. Check out the video titled Going Green Champion: West Atlanta Watershed Alliance.

•January 08: ELP 2003 National Fellow Marcelo Bonta was featured in the Oregonian in an article about the racial inequality pertaining to green jobs. Check out the article here.

•December 07: ELP 2006 National Fellow Joe Sehee was featured on CNN's website in an article titled "Green Funerals" Check out the article here regarding biodegradable funerals.

•January 08: ELP 2002 National Fellow Christian Freitag was interviewed on National Public Radio regarding toxic waste dump in southern Indiana.

•January 08: Patricia Zaradic (DVRN Fellow 2007) was featured in an NBC News report on "A Nation of Indoorsmen" which takes a look at how fewer Americans are choosing to spend their time outdoors. Click here to watch the video on MSNBC.com and be sure to read the related article entitled "Videophilia".

•November 07: Chip Giller's (National Fellow 2001) Grist.org is raising the bar on environmental leadership. Their November 17 presidential debate on global warming is all over the news. Read a CNN article here. Or see what Grist has to say about their event here.

•November 07: ELP 2004 National Fellow Sabrina McCormick was interviewed on Channel 9 News in Washington DC regarding her "No Family History" Documentary.

•November 07: ELP 2006 National Fellow Mary Anne Hitt and her organization Appalachian Voices were featured in an article in the Wall Street Journal about the launch of a new coal tracking tool on ilovemountains.org.

•October 07: ELP 2004 National Fellow Anne Rolfes was honored with a 2007 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation award for Community Health Leaders.

•July: New 2007 Delaware Valley Regional Fellow Johanna Rosen was featured in an article entitled Eat a Perpetual Peach for her work on her urban Mill Creek Farm.

•July: ELP 2004 Delaware Valley Regional Fellow Teresa Mendez-Quigley was featured for Healthy Spaces' home evaluation services in an article in Summer House and Garden Magazine.

•April: ELP 2000 and 2002 National Fellows Ben Packard (with Starbucks Coffee) and Ruben Aronin (with Global Green USA) collaborated on a project Global Green Game to illuminate solutions for climate change.

•April: ELP 2000 National Fellow Jonna Higgins-Freese wrote a review of the novel "Near Future Shock" for Grist.

•March: ELP 2001 National Fellow and Board Chair Jennifer Hill-Kelley was featured in articles in the Native American Times and Kalihwisaks. Read the press release here(PDF).

•March: New 2007 Greater Boston Regional Fellow Mark Orlowski was interviewed on PBS. Watch it on YouTube Here.

•March: ELP's New Delaware Valley Class of 2007 was featured by South Jersey Magazine!

•March: ELP 2004 Delaware Valley Regional Fellow Fran Lawn was quoted in a front page Philadelphia Inquirer article entitled "Flower Pots Growing Greener."

•March: ELP 2004 Delaware Valley Regional Fellow Laurie Ann Colborn was selected as a Luminary by the Luminary Project for her work with nursing and the environment.

•February: ELP 2006 Delaware Valley Regional Fellow Scott Anderson published a poem in The Elegant Thorn Review in conjunction with National Poetry Month.

•February: ELP 2006 National Fellow Shalini Gupta was quoted in the article Minnesota Renewable Law Goes Into Effect in United Press International, USA Edition.

•January: ELP 2001 National Fellow David Cash is moving up within the Deval Patrick administration in Massachusetts as Assistant Secretary for Policy on the energy and environment team.

•January: ELP 2002 National Fellow Kim Todd published her book, Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis.

•January: ELP Delaware Valley Fellow Emily Bockian Landsburg and Fry-o-diesel were featured on the CBS 21 WHP local news. Watch the Butter Sculpture news clip here.

•December: ELP 2001 National Fellow Margo Tamez has published a new book of poetry entitled Raven Eye.

•December: ELP 2002 National Fellow Julie Sze has published a new book entitled Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (Urban and Industrial Environments). Read about it here.

•December: ELP 2003 National Fellow Jim Igoe had an article entitled "Reflections on Distance and Katrina" published in Anthropology News.

•December: ELP 2004 Fellow Kai Chan has been featured in a series of articles in Globe and Mail, Science Daily, Scientific American, and Discovery News on cost-benefit evaluations of nature.

•November: ELP 2003 National Fellow Sara Spoonheim was featured in The Lutheran for her work on faith and organic bread.

•November: ELP 2001 National Fellow Alan Hipolito was featured in the Oregonian for his work with the Verde Project providing economic opportunities in environmental protection.

•November: ELP 2006 Fellow Audrey Finlayson was commended for her work as director of her senior volunteer program by the County.

•October: 2006 Greater Boston Fellow Lee Matsueda was featured in the Boston Globe and Metro Boston for his work with the Boston T.

•October: 2005 Delaware Valley Fellow Emily Bockian Landsburg was highlighted on WHYY 91FM News Radio Philadelphia and NPR on her project Fry-O-Diesel.

•October: 2004 Delaware Valley Fellow Daniel Garofalo was named one of Philadelphia's 101 Connected Leaders by the Philadelphia Inquirer.

•September: ELP 2005 Fellow Brian Mayer spoke at the 2006 American Zoo & Aquarium Conference in Tampa, FL. He represented ELP on a panel titled "Becoming a Better You: Opportunities for Training and Professional Development".

•September: 2006 Delaware Valley Regional Network Associate Suzanne Leta Liou contributed to an Environment New Jersey Report titled, A Blueprint for Action: Policy Options to Reduce New Jersey’s Contribution to Global Warming

•September: ELP 2006 Fellow Mary Anne Hitt, Executive Director of Appalachian Voices hosted the first ever Mountaintop Removal Week in Washington DC

•August: ELP 2006 Fellow Conan Smith was re-elected to the Washtenaw County Commission of Michigan

•July: Read Joe Sehee's Press Release on Green Burial here. See Green is the New Dead published in Grist Magazine. Also see treehugger.com special written by Neil Chambers about Joe and his work. Joe also has pieces being put out by the AP, NPR and the Arizona Republic.

•July: Stephanie Gripne was quoted in the July 11 Science section of the New York Times in an article on grass banking; Where the Cattle Herds Roam, Ideally in Harmony with Their Neighbors

•May: ELP Senior Fellow Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero was featured in three American and UK websites, GM Watch, Organic Consumers, and Natural Matters, in addition to starting a regular column in Puerto Rico's leading daily.

•April: Michel Gelobter, ELP Advisory Committee member, joined three other environmental experts to discuss the future of environmentalism on NPR's Talk of the Nation.

•April: ELP Senior Fellow Chip Giller, President of Grist Magazine, was quoted on the front page of the New York Times, was interviewed by Weekend America, Extreme Makeover: Mother Nature Edition, appeared in the Op-Ed section of the San Francisco Chronicle, and was featured in Vanity Fair's environmental issue.

•February 27: ELP Senior Fellow Alan Hipólito was featured on Grist.org Magazine's Interactivist answering questions about creating green jobs for low-income people.

•February 27: ELP Fellow Omar Freilla led Grist.org Magazine on a virtual walking tour of the South Bronx and discussed his vision of creating hundreds of jobs out of the abundance of "things that nobody else wants."

February 16: ELP Fellow Amanda Moore was featured with an excerpt from her piece in Missing Mountains.

February: ELP Senior Fellow Kristi Chester Vance recently co-launched MOMS, Making Our Milk Safe, a non-profit organization dedicated to identify and eliminate sources of toxic chemicals in woman's bodies and breast milk.

February 1: ELP Senior Fellow Dan Gruner's Activity Fund project continues with Maui students fighting the invasive fire ant species. Read the article here.

January 2006: ELP Trustee and Senior Fellow Matthew Klingle was interviewed on Soundprint, a radio documentry which examines the connection between urban planning, nature and poverty.

December 21-27, 2005: ELP Delaware Valley Senior Associate Jaclyn Rhoads was featured on Philadelphia area Comcast CNN Headline News broadcasts discussing the Delaware County Environmental Summit.

December: ELP Delaware Valley Senior Associate Paco Verin was accepted to prestigious 2-year Longwood Gardens Professional Gardener Training Program.

December: ELP Senior Fellow Josh Donlan's paper entitled Re-Wilding North America was featured in the New York Times Magazine 2005 Big Ideas.

December: ELP Fellow Ami Zota published an academic paper in Indoor Air entitled Ventilation in Public Housing.

November 12: ELP Senior Fellow Sabrina McCormick’s film “Damning Brazil” was shown at the Rhode Island Human Rights Film Festival 2005.

November 10: ELP Senior Fellow Stephen Moret spoke before Congress requesting flexibility in federal ozone standards. Read article in Business Report

October 24: ELP Senior Fellows Na’Taki Osborne, Pegeen Hanrahan, Cassandra Carmichael, Anne Rolfes, Brad Guy, and Felicia Davis and ELP Advisory Committee member Don Chen were featured in Grist.org magazine discussing what should happen to New Orleans after Katrina

October 18: ELP Senior Fellow Carmelo Ruiz Marrero published “First People’s Workshop in Defence of Water: Water Privatization in Latin America” by the Americas Program of the International Relations Center

October 8: ELP Senior Fellow Cassandra Carmichael is quoted in “Ragsdale: Politicians vote little mercy to God’s creatures” in the Des Moines Register

October: ELP Fellow Amanda Moore published her essay "The Law Leaves a Hollow Place" in the anthology of Kentucky writers entitled Missing Mountains: We Went to the Mountaintop But It Wasn't There

September 26: ELP Senior Fellow James Spencer was interviewed in “Bush's Gulf Enterprise-Zone Plan Has Failed to Deliver Before” by Bloomberg News.

September 11: ELP Senior Fellow Stephen Moret was quoted in “Baton Rouge rises to boomtown challenge” in USA Today.

Spring 2005: ELP Fellow Shelley Zimmer was featured in “Turning Ordinary Consumers Into Green Consumers” in the Duke Environment Magazine.

September 6, 2005: ELP Fellow Antoinette Dendtler's ECO (Environment Community Opportunity) Charter School officially opened its doors.

August 17: ELP Senior Fellow Josh Donlan published an article on large-scale conservation planning in Nature Magazine entitled " Re-wilding North America."

August: ELP Senior Fellows Alejandra Tres and Ruben Aronin co-wrote the August cover story of the Journal of Environmental Health with Professor Michele Morrone of Ohio University entitled "Creating Effective Messages About Environmental Health."

August: ELP Senior Fellow Susannah Lindberg published two op-eds about harmful sewer spills, one in Florida Today, and one in the Gainesville Sun entitled "Sewage Spills Need Priority."

July 30: ELP Senior Fellow Liza Grandia published an article at CommonDreams.org entitled "In Their Own Words: The House Debate on CAFTA."

June 28: ELP Fellow Scott Herron was featured in the Sault Tribe News article entitled " Ethnobotantists merge past, present and future."

June 21: ELP Fellow Marstella Jack was interviewed by The Micronesian Alliance newspaper.

June 20: ELP Senior Fellow Pegeen Hanrahan was featured in The Nation as a progressive city leader.

June 16: ELP Senior Fellow Chip Giller founder of Grist.org magazine received a Webby, the Internet's equivalent of an Oscar. Click here to read an article about it.

June: ELP Fellow Luis Fernandez is serving as a Faculty Advisor, and is leading the International Scholar Laureate Program on the Environment in Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and Manaus, Brazil.

June: ELP Senior Fellow John Roanhorse published an article in the Winds of Change Magazine entitled Environmental Leadership: Hope for the Future.

June: Two ELP founding Board members, Rachel Morello-Frosch and Michael Dorsey, as well as two ELP Advisory Committee members, Michel Gelobter and Peggy Shepard, have co-authored with several others an essay entitled The Soul of Environmentalism

June: ELP Fellow Sonya Newenhouse was featured as an eco-entrepreneur in an article in the Wisconsin State Journal. The article focuses on Sonya's organization, the Madison Environmental Group.

June 4: ELP Senior Fellow Thompson Smith helped to publish a book by Salish-Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee and Elders Advisory Council entitled "The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition" through the University of Nebraska Press.

June 3: ELP Senior Fellow Liza Grandia has published online a collection of readings entitled "Crude Geopolitics: A collection of readings for citizens concerned about what's fueling U.S. foreign policy."

June 3: ELP Senior Fellow Carmelo Ruiz Marrero published an article entitled "Organic Farming Takes Root in Urbanised Puerto Rico" for the Interpress Service.

May 23: ELP Senior Fellow David Cash had a cameo as the Grist.org, Interactivist, discussing his work as Director of Air Policy for the State of Massachusetts.

May: ELP Senior Fellow Pablo Padilla has graduated with a J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law.

April 21: ELP Senior Fellow Chip Giller published an op-ed in the Boston Globe entitled "The Environment's New Bling."

April 14: ELP Senior Fellow Mark Wishnie was featured in a New York Times article entitled "Panama Calling to Preserve Its Edens."

April 11: ELP Senior Fellow Carmelo Ruiz Marrero published an article entitled "Puerto Rico: Solar Enthusiasts Celebrate Life Off the Grid" for the Interpress Service.

April 5, 2005: ELP Senior Fellow Liza Grandia published an op-ed in CommonDreams.org entitled "An Honest Mistake?" about genetically-modified (GM) corn.

April: ELP Senior Fellow and Trustee Torri Estrada is the new Coordinator of Environmental Grantmakers Association Water Funders Alliance

March 31, 2005: ELP Fellow Luis Fernandez presented a seminar at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. The seminar discussed projects which involve local farmer knowledge with remote sensing and computer simulation models to better understand Nicaraguan deforestation.

March 31, 2005: ELP Senior Fellow Carmelo Ruiz Marrero was nominated and selected for a leadership retreat at the Center for Whole Communities.

March 30, 2005: ELP Senior Fellow Sara Spoonheim was a radio guest on The Beyond Organic Show entitled God, Food and the Environment where the guests discussed the connection between religion and sustainability.

March 11, 2005: ELP Senior Fellows Julie Sze and Max Weintraub were speakers at the Spring 2005 Environmental Justice Symposium titled Transforming our Communities: An Inclusive Approach to Environmental Justice at the University of California Berkeley Law School.

March 2-3, 2005: ELP Senior Fellow Ben Packard and ELP Fellow Shelley Zimmer were speakers at the Sustainability in the Inland Northwest Conference in Boise, Idaho.

March 2005: ELP Fellow Anne Rolfes was featured in the new book Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor by Steve Lerner, which presents the decades-long struggle of local African-American communities against Shell.

February 22-25, 2005: ELP Senior Fellows Torri Estrada, Swati Prakash, Stephen Moret , and Thompson Smith were featured commenting on the "Death of Environmentalism" article through Grist Magazine's email dialogue.

February 21, 2005: ELP Philadelphia Associate Libby Kleine and ELP Senior Fellow Kristi Chester Vance of Half-Full Studios collaborated with ForestEthics to publish a full page ad in the New York Times exposing Victoria's Secret for destroying endangered forests.

February 17, 2005: ELP Philadelphia Associate Sherry Riesner published an op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer about taxing plastic and paper bags.

February 8, 2005: ELP Fellow Andrew Hanson was quoted in a Boston Globe article about the Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, Deval Patrick, and his relationship with the Coca-Cola Company.

January 2005: ELP Fellow Bhavna Shamasunder and Senior Fellow and Trustee Swati Prakash were featured as guest editors of the Winter 2004/2005 issue of the journal, Race, Poverty and the Environment. An article by ELP Fellow Shawna Larson entitled Science: More Harmful Than Helpful? was also featured in this issue.

January 14, 2005: ELP Fellow Antoinette Dendtler received official approval from the state of NJ to open Environment Community Opportunity (ECO) Charter School.

January 9, 2005: ELP Fellow Helen Wagenvoord's essay entitled Buried Treasure was published in Cleveland Plain Dealer's Sunday Magazine.

December 16, 2004: ELP Senior Fellow Chip Giller was awarded the 2004 Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy by the Tides Foundation in recognition of the vital role Grist is playing in increasing environmental awareness. December 2004: ELP Executive Director Paul Sabin published Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940. Paul also discussed the idea of the ěfree marketî in an essay in Legal Affairs Magazine in November.

November 22, 2004: ELP Senior Fellow Ben Packard was quoted in a New York Times article about Starbucks Coffee Co.'s new recycled paper coffee cups.

November 2004: ELP Advisor Don Chen and ELP Senior Fellow Ben Packard are each listed in the November 2004 issue of Organic Style as one of ten of "Tomorrow's Power Players" having an impact on our planet.

October/November 2004: ELP Senior Fellows Pegeen Hanrahan, John Parks, and Julie Sze were guest columnists for Grist Magazine's Interactivist feature.

October 2004, ELP Fellow Carmelo Ruiz Marrero lectured at Harvard on the eco-politics of genetically engineered crops in Latin America.

September 2004, ELP Fellow Stephen Moret was recently hired as President and CEO of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce.

September 2004, ELP Fellow Cameron Brooks Brooks published an article entitled, Leading from the States in the Environmental Finance journal. The article examines how state governments are accelerating the transition to a low carbon economy

July 18,2004, ELP Fellow Renee Hoyos co-wrote an op-ed in The Tennesean on the need for action to protect water quality in the Tennessee River.

June 11,2004, ELP Senior Fellow Jonna Higgins-Freese reviewed Carolyn Merchant's book Reinventing Eden for Grist Magazine.

May 24-26: ELP Senior Fellow Swati Prakash organized The Science of Environmental Justice Conference in Boston, MA, that brought together diverse stakeholders to discuss linking science to action on environmental and public health threats.

May 2, 2004, ELP Fellow Helen Wagenvoord wrote "The High Price of Cheap Food", an interview with Michael Pollan, for the San Francisco Chronicle.

May 2004, ELP Fellow Julie Sze and Senior Fellow Swati Prakash co-authored "Human Genetics, Environment, and Communities of Color: Ethical and Social Implications" in Environmental Health Perspectives.

April 4, 2004, ELP Executive Director Paul Sabin published an op-ed in the Sacramento Bee about rising gasoline prices.

April 2004, ELP Fellow Cassandra Carmichael launched a new Faith & Eco-Justice Fellowship with the National Council of Churches, modeled after the ELP Fellowship.

March 30, 2004, ELP Senior Fellow Pegeen Hanrahan was elected mayor of Gainesville, FL. Read more at electpegeen.com

March 14, 2004, ELP Senior Fellow Margo Tamez read from her books, Naked Wanting and Blood Spells on Tucson's "Broad Perspective."

February 9, 2004, ELP Fellow Michelle Lapinski's Green Freight working group at the Business for Social Responsibility contributed knowledge to the new EPA SmartWay Transport Partnership.

February 2004, ELP Senior Fellow Marsha Weisiger was awarded a Research Fellowship to work on Sheep Dreams: Environment, Identity, and Gender in Navajo Country. In March, Marsha presented at the National Council on Public History and the American Society for Environmental History. She wrote an article for The Public Historian: "The Debate over El Lobo: Can Historians Make a Difference?", which is related to her Activity Fund Project.

February 2004, ELP Senior Fellow Chip Giller's Grist Magazine received an Utne Independent Press Award for best Online Political Coverage in 2003.

January 2004, ELP Fellow John Parks will co-lead a new research project titled "Fish Wars: Coastal Resource Conflicts and their Contribution to Civil Unrest and Global Security Issues."

February 2, 2004, ELP Senior Fellow Pablo Padilla was featured in High Country News for his role in saving Zuni Salt Lake.

January 14, 2004, ELP Senior Fellow Marjorie Wonham was featured in the Toronto Star and CBC National Radio for her research to help limit pesticide use in controlling the spread of the West Nile virus.

November 12, 2003: ELP Fellow Michelle Lapinski launched Business for Social Responsibility's Clean Cargo Working Group Environmental Performance Survey. The tool will measure the environmental impacts of ocean transportation.

November, 2003, ELP Fellows Felicia Davis, Na'Taki Osborne, and Alejandra Tres were selected as Center for Disease Control Environmental Health Emerging Leaders. Alejandra also was appointed to serve on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's environmental education advisory board.

October 25, 2003, ELP Fellow Simeon Herskovits presented at the annual convention of the National Lawyers Guild during a workshop entitled "Democracy vs. International Trade Agreements: Water Rights & Services."

September 23, 2003, ELP Fellow Josh Donlan published an op-ed in the Ithaca Journal, entitled "Seeking greener building designs." Josh also published an article in the September 2003 E Magazine, "Getting rid of rats."

September 12, 2003, ELP Fellow John Parks co-authored a new practitioner's guide, "How is your MPA doing?", on how to evaluate the effectiveness of a marine protected area (MPA).

September 2003, ELP Fellow Kim Todd interviewed a Spanish economist about his fight against dams, for Sierra Magazine.

August 2003, ELP Fellow Jim Igoe published a book entitled, Conservation and Globalization: A Study of National Parks and Indigenous Communities from East Africa to South Dakota.

ELP Fellow Pablo Padilla was featured on August 7 in Grist Magazine and on August 21 in the Land Letter, for his role in defeating plans for a controversial strip mine in Western New Mexico.

August 8, 2003, ELP Fellow Ritu Primlani and her project, Greening Ethnic Restaurants, were featured in a Berkeley Daily Planet article, "Local Environmentalist Targets Ethnic Restaurants."

July 8, 2003, ELP Fellow David Cash published an article entitled "Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development" in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

July 2003, ELP Fellow Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero wrote about precision agriculture in the article "Farming's Brave New Face" in E Magazine.

July 2003, ELP Fellow Ritu Primlani was featured in an E Magazine article entitled "Redesigning Restaurants."

April 2003, ELP Fellow John Parks co-authored an article in Aquatic Conservation: Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems entitled "Dangerous targets? Unresolved issues and ideological clashes around marine protected areas."

April 16, 2003, ELP Fellow David Kirkpatrick helped secure plans for a new wind energy power plant in Iowa.

April 4, 2003, ELP Fellow Dan Gruner published an op-ed in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, entitled "Gathering Places: Help preserve Hawaii's beauty by backing the bottle bill."

March 2003, ELP Fellow Margo Tamez published a new book of poems entitled Naked Wanting (University of Arizona Press).

March 9, 2003, ELP Fellow Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero wrote an article on genetically modified foods for Alternet.org, entitled "Uncle Sam's Other War: Biotech vs. the European Union."

February 24, 2003, ELP Senior Fellow Tracey Woodruff co-authored a new U.S. EPA report, entitled "America's Children and the Environment." Tracey was featured in a February 25th San Francisco Chronicle article about the report's findings.

February 17, 2003, ELP Fellow Swati Prakash co-wrote an op-ed published in New York Newsday warning of the environmental justice implications of the Bush administration's proposed Clear Skies Act.

February 10-14, 2003, ELP Fellow Antoinette Gomez was featured in Grist Magazine's Dear Me column, writing about her work as an environmental consultant for Sustainable South Bronx.

February 5, 2003, In a Baltimore Sun article, ELP Fellow Joshua Feldmark offered his perspective on the fellowship and discusses how varying his strategy toward a local environmental issue may produce results.

February 1, 2003, ELP Fellow David Cash published an op-ed in the Boston Herald, commenting on the potential for environmental progress under the new Romney administration in Massachusetts.

February 2003, ELP Fellow Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero wrote an article for the World Rainforest Movement newsletter, entitled "Mexico: The door is open to 'neo-liberal' tree plantations."



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Awards, Public Recognition, and Appointments

November 7: ELP Trustee Margaret Lydecker was recognized as an Environmental Champion for 2005 by Interiors & Sources magazine for her extraordinary contribution to the New York environmental community. Margaret’s company, NICHE, was also featured in TIME OUT NEW YORK magazine for their design of an “eco-luxury” model apartment. November 16: ELP Senior Fellow Thompson Smith was selected to join the Flathead Basin Commission to monitor and protect water quality in Montana.

October: ELP Senior Fellow Sabrina McCormick was selected as a Fellow of the United Nations Global Environmental Outlook Project (GEO).

August: ELP Delaware Valley Regional Senior Associate Bridget Croke is the new director of strategic relationships at RecycleBank, a socially responsible business.

August: ELP Senior Fellow Ritu Primlani's organization, Thimmakka, recognized 100 restaurants in the San Francisco Bay area that it has helped transform into Certified Green Businesses.

July: ELP Delaware Valley Regional Associate Brett Stevens is the new director of environmental sustainability and business development at H2L2 Architects and Planners

June 6: ELP Senior Fellow Michelle Knapik has recently been hired as the new environmental program officer at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

June: ELP Advisory Committee member Jerry Franklin recently received the Heinz Award for the Environment. The award of $250,000 is made in recognition of individual achievement.

May 13, 2005: ELP Senior Fellow Cassandra Carmichael received the Community Award for significant contributions to community development, coalition building, and organizational unity from R.E.S.P.E.C.T., nonprofit advocacy coalition working to enhance the accomplishments of the black community.

May: ELP Fellow Shawna Larson received a grant of $5,000 from the Fund for Indigenous Rights and the Environment (F.I.R.E) in support of the development of the Alaska Environmental Justice Task Force, a project initiated by Shawna through the ELP Activity Fund Project.

May: ELP Fellow Marstella Jack was confirmed by Congress to be the Federated States of Micronesia Secretary of the Department of Justice (Attorney General). The first female for this post.

May: ELP Philadelphia Associate Mark Scorsolini was awarded the Teamwork Partnership Achievement Award from the State of New Jersey in recognition of his service to the New Jersey Smart Growth Interagency Team and Smart Growth Project Review Committee.

April: ELP Senior Fellow Alan Hipolito is the new Sustainable Development Director at Hacienda CDC. Hacienda's Native Plant Nusery just received a major grant from Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, a business and job creation opportunity.

April: ELP Fellow Kai Chan was nominated for the Canada Research Chair at the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia where he will be teaching next year.

March 2005: ELP Senior Fellow Mark Wishnie became the Acting Director of Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Center for Tropical Forest Science(CTFS), an organization that coordinates large-scale and long-term tropical forest research in 15 countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

January 2005: ELP Philadelphia Associate Stephen Miller became project manager at Strategic Energy Innovations, an energy efficiency management organization.

March 2005: ELP Senior Fellow Mark Wishnie became the Acting Director of Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Center for Tropical Forest Science(CTFS), an organization that coordinates large-scale and long-term tropical forest research in 15 countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

January 2005: ELP Philadelphia Associate Stephen Miller became project manager at Strategic Energy Innovations, an energy efficiency management organization.

November 2004: ELP Senior Fellow and Trustee Jonna Higgins-Freese became executive director of 1000 Friends of Iowa, a smart growth/anti-sprawl organization.

October 2004: ELP Trustee Margaret Lydecker became director of the Green Building Salon Series for the Center for Economic and Environmental Parnership, Inc.

October 8, 2004: ELP Senior Fellow Antoinette Gomez was selected by Penn State University as a Delegate to The Ag EXPO in Guanjuanto, Mexico.

July 2004, ELP Fellow Carmelo Ruiz Marrero was selected for a creative writing residency at Mesa Refuge by the Common Counsel Foundation.

February, 2004: ELP Fellow Cassandra Carmichael became Director of Eco-Justice Programs for the National Council of Churches. She also joined a delegation from the U.S. Coalition on the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development to meet with the Ambassador to UNESCO.

January 22, 2003: ELP Senior Fellow Na'Taki Osborne received a Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award, given to individuals, organizations, and businesses that innovate change and give voice to the marginalized.


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