About EcoWorldly
What environmental issues are making news around the world? EcoWorldly has writers on all over the world (see map of writers) covering environmental developments, news, and ecological issues. Join us at the front lines of the environmental movement from all sides of the planet.
Our goal is to offer perspectives on the green movement from around the world help to inform the decisions made locally. EcoWordly brings its readers international stories that don’t make the headlines in the main U.S. media outlets, because coverage of environmental successes and failures in other countries provide lessons for green progress in America.
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EcoWorldly Writers:
Masimba Biriwasha - Thailand. Born ‘75 in the backyard of Zimbabwe in Africa, Chief K.Masimba Biriwasha is a children’s writer, poet, playwright, social activitist and upcoming online publisher.
His first self-published book, The Dream Of Stones, was awarded the Zimbabwe National Award for Outstanding Children’s Book for 2004, but was a complete publishing business nightmare as sales refused to take off.
His greatest dream is to win the Nobel Prize for Literature - someday.
But for now, he is chilling in Chiang Mai, Thailand, finding the middle path to build a publishing house that will bring knowledge to poor and marginalized children in Africa.
Take time to find his spirit in his words, and maybe together, we can make the dream to bring knowledge to the motherland come true.
Jeffrey Frame. Traveler and social entrepreneur focused on spreading news, knowledge, and solutions of global social and environmental issues. IMBA with experience in microfinance in Latin America and former Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakhstan. Speak some Russian, Spanish, Chinese and currently learning Czech. Interests span a wide variety of subjects from history to economics to extreme sports. Currently involved in strategic fundraising consulting for several environmental non-profits and soon to be working on a global solar lighting campaign for the billion that live without electricity.
Dave Harcourt - South Arica. Dave is a chemical engineer and has worked most of his life in various food processing and brewing activities at CSIR, one of Africa’s largest research organisations.
After a life in formal employment, the last 15 of which were focused on a range of agroprocessing activities in Africa, he is retiring and intends to spend some of his time contracting / working / writing / thinking in and on Agribusiness.
Gavin Hudson - South Korea. Gavin has a B.A. in French, Italian, and Comparative Literature from the University of California, Davis. He currently teaches English language in Gangneung, South Korea.
Gavin’s favorite environmentally-minded work has included: co-founding the grassroots Nature Conservation Club at about age 8; interning for the Jane Goodall Insitute’s Roots & Shoots (R&S) program; representing R&S at the World Social Forum VI in Caracas, Venezuela; volunteering at the Marine Mammal Center of Sausalito; being a research assistant for a CAL lab studying climate change in Colorado; bicycling lots.
Bryan Nelson - USA. Bryan has been making up for lost time since finishing his graduate degree in Philosophy by traveling and working to change the world. He has worked with groups like The Sierra Club, Environment America & U.S. PIRG, Environment Oregon & OSPIRG, and Progressive Future on local and national political campaigns. He has lived in Australia and recently returned from backpacking throughout South America and Europe. Between adventure and activism, he currently can be found doing freelance writing from his home in Portland, Oregon.
Levi Novey - Peru. Levi Novey is a conservation professional who has received a bachelor’s degree in History from Tufts University and a master’s degree in Conservation Social Sciences from the University of Idaho. He worked for the U.S. National Park Service for 10 years, as a park ranger in 6 national parks, as a social science researcher in 5 parks, and as the science communicator for a Natural Resource Inventory and Monitoring Network that serves 9 parks. He has authored several scholarly papers as well as several guidebooks to U.S. national parks.
Levi also has taught an undergraduate Environmental Communication Skills course at the University of Idaho, won several photography contests, and regularly enjoys visits to parks, protected areas, historical sites, museums– and just about anywhere where he can learn something new about the world. He currently lives in Peru, with his wife Alicia, and their daughter Coral.
Eva Pratesi - Italy. Eva was born in the heart of Tuscany, Italy. After her degree in Foreing Languages, she worked as a TV journalist for an Italian channel talking about tourism, art and environment. An increasing interest for these issues drove her to continue her studies with a Master in Environmental Communication. In 2007 she joined an Italian NGO as a volunteer and this year she’ll coordinate a project of ecotourism in Central America. At the moment, she’s working in Rome with a young company for an online project based on nature, ecology and sustainable development. As she believes in the importance to act locally, she likes to discover daily practices to improve our relation with the world!
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Govind Singh - India. Having finished his Masters in Environmental Studies from the School of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi and after having carried out Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Studies of Hydroelectric Projects in the Himalayas, Govind Singh is now pursuing his PhD on the Urban Ecology of Delhi at the University of Delhi, India.
He is also an environmental activist, a freelance researcher and consultant and involved directly or indirectly with a lot of non-profit organisations in and around Delhi city. In addition, he runs an environmental NGO christened Delhi Greens and after having been inspired and trained in person by Mr. Al Gore and Dr. R.K. Pachauri - he has been involved in the launching of the Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) as one of the major programs of his NGO; to mobilize and empower the youth on the pressing issue of climate change and to sensitize people and generate awareness and sensivity towards all other environmental issues.
EcoWorldly Contributors:
Alex Felsinger - USA. Alex is primarily concerned with animal welfare, wildlife conservation, and environmental justice. As a freelance writer in San Francisco, he leads a deliberately simplistic and thrifty lifestyle, yet still can’t help gawking at the newest green gadgets and zero-emission concept cars.
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Raz Godelnik - USA. I’m a a great believer in the power of green business to bring about positive change. I spent a few years in financial management and business development positions and also served as an advisor to the Israeli Minister of the Interior. Afterwards, I co-founded Hemper Jeans, an eco-fashion jeans company focusing on producing fashionable jeans made of hemp. I also write on green business for the second-largest newspaper in Israel. I hold an MBA from Tel Aviv University.
I live in Delaware with his wife, Peleg and our baby Shira. Besides developing, writing on and breathing green business, I like playing soccer and watching Woody Allen films and old episodes of Seinfeld.
Nayelli Gonzalez - USA. Nayelli is a native Californian and believer in the spirit of the West.
She was raised in Southern California and briefly left the state to major in journalism and history at Boston University, only to return to complete a master’s in American History at UC Berkeley and a master’s in Education at Stanford University. For two years thereafter, she taught world history at a charter high school in San Francisco and now works at an environmental law firm in the city, where she learns about California water issues everyday and has made changes to gain the firm a “green business” certification. Nayelli plans to transition into Sustainability Consulting and apply her passion for enacting social and environmental change within the business world.
As a GreenOptions writer, her writing focuses on the social, political and environmental implications of the diminishing amount of freshwater in California and around the globe. She wonders what governments, businesses and organizations around the world are doing about the global water crisis.
Toxins have been found in China’s rivers; Spain and Egypt (to name a few nations) are running out of water as their populations grow; and in Darfur people are fighting over clean water. Where is this all leading us? Nayelli is passionate about these issues, and hopefully you will be too.
Ross Kendall - Australia. Ross is based in Australia. He is an avid follower of human nature and is particularly excited by the sustainability-based ways that populations can deal with their current environmental and social problems. Ross has been a journalist for the past 10 years and prior to that worked in finance and economics.
Reenita Malhotra - USA. Reenita Malhotra Hora is an Ayurveda clinician, entrepreneur, writer and mom. Her experience has ranged from running Ayoma, an Ayurveda business to running a natural health practice at San Francisco’s California Pacific Medical Center.
Reenita is a published author of two books books about health and wellness: ‘Ayurveda - the Natural Medicine of India’ and ‘Inner Beauty’. She is also the Editor for Green Options Media’s business blogs and a freelance writer for a variety of print and web publications.
In quieter moments, she likes to spend her time hiking, swimming the warm seas, cooking with the family or writing fantasy fiction adventure stories for kids from from 2 to 92.
Check out her wisdom at www.reenita.com
Mark Seall - Switzerland. Mark became interested in environmental issues, and particularly the potential for climate change to impact the world following a particularly snow-less skiing holiday in the French Alps in 2001. However, it was during his MBA studies that Mark became truly interested in the issue of environmental strategy and the lack of its thorough application.
In 2007, Mark founded TalkClimateChange as a place to hold the debate on the causes, implications and best way of tackling of climate change. As Briton having lived for several years in Switzerland, Mark started writing for Eco Worldly in January 2008, focusing on environmental affairs in Switzerland, the EU and UK.
When not talking about climate change and the environment, Mark enjoys travelling and takes photographs.
Rhonda Winter - USA.
