I've been involved in environmentalism, in one way or another, since the first Earth Day back in 1970. I've been on the organizing committee for Climate Action Day in KC and participated in KC's Climate Protection Planning Process.
I went to college in Boston and graduate school in Hartford, Connecticut, before a brief sojourn to Europe and Africa. I was lucky enough to have been a Peace Corps Director in the Caribbean, working with some of the smartest, most dedicated people I’ve known in my life. Before that I had spent two years in Venezuela and a year in Ecuador, and managed to see some of the most breathtaking sights in the world.
Along the way I spent some time in Miami, taught, wrote, acted in repertory theater and, maybe best of all, was paid to pretend to be a nature writer in Botswana at the Kansas City Zoo, where I passed my days with 8 African elephants, which is as good as it gets. The past several years I’ve been self-employed and still searching.
We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes--something known only to her and to the mountains. Aldo Leopold, "Thinking Like a Mountain"
