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    Jennifer Veilleux’s earliest memories include scaling boulders and eating autumn leaves. She spent her childhood hanging out of trees, riding her bike, and exploring patches of woods with her dog in Connecticut. Camping trips in New England changed to backpacking trips through Australia, Central America, Europe, and clear across the North American continent. She has explored ancient ruins, waded through swamps, scaled rock walls, hiked through waste-deep snow, perched on mountaintops, shimmied into caves, swam in oceans, lakes, and seas, and climbed more trees. Eventually the natural sciences won out at university and Jen has since been involved in environmental resource issues specific to water and land-use. She designed and implemented two independent research projects: Land-Use Changes in San Salvador, Bahamas in 2003 and International Watershed Management and Policy in the Lake Ohrid Watershed area of the Balkans in 2003 and 2004; both of which introduced her to amazing places and incredible people. Jen has lived in Australia, Hungary, and Macedonia. This international experience has shaped her approach to, and influenced her understanding of, present global environmental questions and problems. Jennifer acted as an assistant editor for the political science journal International Politics, has contributed to E/The Environmental Magazine as an editorial intern, and has written stories for Naugatuck Valley Community College’s Paper The Tamarak. Jennifer holds an A.A. in Liberal Arts, B.S. in Environmental Science, M.S. in Environmental Science, was a National Security Education Program Boren Fellow in 2003 and 2004, and a Visiting Scholar at Central European University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest, Hungary in 2003 and 2004. She currently lives and works in Washington, DC as an Associate Editor of a University Press.

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    Party Pooper

    Biking to work on the morning of July 5th I noticed scattered remnants of brightly colored paper. In some places boxes were piled and charred remains of something were close by. Fireworks. There was litter from exploded fireworks everywhere. The night before, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, it sounded like a warzone…not unfitting for this [...]

    Bioremediation, well, kind of…

    I am sure some of you have heard of kudzu…at least those of you interested in invasive species. This vine is all over the American South and grows at an unbelievably rapid 1 foot/day. That means you could probably sit back, have a cold one, and watch this stuff grow, for real. The problem is [...]

    Just a thought

    Recently I found myself engaged in several discussions about taking care of our environment as a matter of personal integrity, choice, and responsibility. One such conversation happened with a stranger in a training course I was attending.
    The man works for the EPA. He looked to be in his early 30s. He jumped into a conversation [...]