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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.
Posts by Jen V.:
What is the Price of OUR Stuff?
Ever wonder about the complete picture of consumption in our uber-consumer society and how it ties in with our global environment? Well I was recently turned onto the website for The Story of Stuff, which features a fantastic and informative story (with animation!) about our stuff-driven economy.The presentation is long, but if you’ve patience with [...]
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 [...]
Affordable housing development recently completed with solar power offset.
I hope we see more stories such as this one in the news! A housing company in California (of course!), Satellite Housing, has just completed a 17 unit development for affordable housing that includes solar panels. The solar installation will offset Carbon emissions the equivalent of planting 20 acres of trees or removing 9 average [...]
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 [...]
Ocean Acidification: Another Symptom of Global Warming
I attended the 8th Annual Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture at the Smithsonian on March 5th entitled “What Corals Are Dying To Tell Us About CO2 and Ocean Acidification.” Ken Caldeira, the presenter, spoke to about 500 people in a packed auditorium about the current trends worldwide in coral reef health. He expressed concern that although [...]
Cooperation between Big Business and Environmental Groups
What do DuPont, National Resource Defense Council, and Lehmen Brothers have in common? Normally not too much…but now they make up 3 of the 14 member strong US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), launched in January of this year. The Partnership was formed to address global warming and emissions where the Feds are not.
The US produces an [...]
Supreme Court Begins Global Warming Case
Last week I saw a motley crew of people in a long line in front of the Supreme Court. I wondered what could draw such a variety of citizens to one place of protest? I looked in the NY Times for a clue. “Ah”, I realized, “its the environment”.
A few months ago I wrote about the [...]
Buildings that eat SMOG
Building material that can reduce surrounding emissions within an 8 foot area?! How cool! There is a chemical called titanium dioxide that has been used in coatings for metal, concrete, and other building materials as a deodorizer, to keep things white, and as a general preserving agent. But, it has been found that titanium dioxide [...]
ever wonder how much carbon you produce?
I am so excited about this website: http://www.terrapass.com/
You can plug in information on your personal driving, flying, and household habits, numbers are calculated, and equivalent costs and information about how much carbon you have produced is given to you.
Then you have the option to buy a TerraPass that offsets your carbon production by investing in [...]
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