Archive for Term: Mid-West, USA

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Tim Brown

Tim is a founder and the CEO of Tradewater, a company that collects and destroys greenhouse gases.  To date, Tradewater has destroyed over 4,100,000 metric tons of CO2 from old refrigerants that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere.  At...

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John Fisk

John Fisk, PhD, is the Strategy and Partnerships Director of the Wallace Center at Winrock International. The Wallace Center works across the nation to foster a more regenerative and equitable food and farming system. The Center’s work focuses on...

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Matt Roman

Matt currently works for Varroc Lighting Corporation, an automotive supplier, as the Global Plant Engineering and Construction Manager.   He is responsible for all new plant construction and plant engineering equipment.  The company is focused on creating manufacturing facilities...

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John Mlade

Since 2001, John has supported clients in shaping sustainability and health strategies that benefit the environment, people, and the bottom line. Pushing design innovation through a systems thinking approach, he is a process champion with the ability to bring...

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Sarah K Khan

Maker, scholar, Dana Meadows Fellow. Sarah writes and creates content—prints, photography, films—about food, culture, women, and migrants. She is a former Asian American Writers Workshop fellow and Visiting Scholar at The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. A two-time Fulbright scholar,...

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Jennifer Fletcher

Jenna leads the open space/greenways collaborative, “Embrace Open Space,” that brings together local officials, staff, soil and watershed district leaders, non-profits, agency staff and environmental consultants. The collaborative promotes sustainable land use in the Twin Cities and outlying fast...

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Jerry Nagel

Jerry is President of the Meadowlark Institute, based in Minnesota. Meadowlark is committed to developing individual and collective capacity to be responsive during times of rapid change, to be comfortable with uncertainty, to hold multiple points of view simultaneously,...

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Abigail Corso

Abigail is currently the Chief Strategy Officer at Elevate Energy, located in Chicago, Illinois. In this role, she oversees Elevate’s strategy in developing new programs nationwide from energy efficiency, solar, and planning including building up our existing dynamic pricing...

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Michelle Miller

Michelle, part of the first Donella Meadows Fellows cohort, is at the UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, the campus sustainable agriculture research center where she directs programs. She is a practicing economic anthropologist engaged in participatory action research...

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Steven Smith

For twelve years the Iowa Network for Community Agriculture (INCA) has been fostering connections between farmers and community members who are growing sustainable local food systems in the state. Steve works to assure that each system is shaped and...

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