About EcoWorldly
What are environmentalists doing around the world? How are we part of a global environmental movement? EcoWorldly.com has writers on six continents reporting back to you about green developments, environmental news, and hot ecological issues. Join us at the front lines of the environmental movement.
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.
EcoWorldly is part of the Green Options Media Network. You can contact us with recommendations, story ideas, questions or comments at: ecoworldly [at] greenoptions [dot] com.
Staff Writers:
Martín Cagliani - Buenos Aires, Argentina. Martín is a writer, and in second place a scientific journalist. He lives in Argentina, and likes to travel and see the world and how the world bears us. He contributes to a number of blogs, including Erenovable, ElBlogVerde, and Neanderthalis.
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Pem Charnley - Devon, England. Pem was once a musician. If pressed, he’ll go all dewy-eyed and recount tales of playing guitar to one man and a dog down the local bars. Pem howled the blues, the dog howled, the man turned his back and ordered another beer.
He hasn’t really grown up. But he now puts pen to paper as well as finger to fret.
When he wasn’t growing up, first that occurred just outside London, before moving to Devon at the age of seven. He’s aware that last bit rhymes.
He has Welsh roots and is a descendant of the artist Augustus John - which is quite easy to achieve when you learn the man sired over a hundred kids. Pem has only the one child. Abigail. He’s very proud of her. More so than he could ever express in words or through music. He just is.
In alphabetical order - of importance to Pem: Curb Your Enthusiasm, environmental issues, family, Family Guy, friends, (not Friends - he finds that offensive), Lightnin’ Hopkins, Motorhead, Son House, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The White Stripes, Tottenham Hotspur.
Dumisani Dladla - Soweto, South Africa. Dumisani Dladla, whose first name means “praise,” was born and bred in the dusty streets of Soweto, in the family of Ubuntu, spirituality. He is a final year student at Cida City Campus doing Bachelor of Business Administration majoring in finance and investments. He has a dream to restore the African culture that has been lost for many years, through colonization. Many of his brothers and sisters all over the world are still colonized ideologically; his dream is to carry the mission of his ancestors forward, to see the African continent resurrected again.
Whitney Hannaford - Gangneung, South Korea. Whitney is a writer joining the EcoWorldly team from South Korea.
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Joshua Hill - Melbourne, Australia. Josh is a 23 year old author and writer from Australia. He’s a Christian, a nerd, a geek, a liberal left winger with feminine tendencies and a penchant for books, cycling and World of Warcraft.
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Gavin Hudson - Gangneung, 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.
Stefanos Kofopoulos - Athens, Greece. After spending years working into IT, Stefanos decided it was time to pursue his dream and go full time with blogging. Time was right for the first Greek blogger who tries to make his living out of… oh well blogging on www.pestaola.gr.
Stefanos lives and works in Athens, Greece. He loves his city and aims to prove that with his new blog project, Make Athens Green, he will convince the city to put a new plant to everyone’s balcony.
When he’s not blogging he co-hosts a radio show and remember those crazy university years that gave him a Bachelor in MIS and MCP certification.
Sam Aola Ooko - Nairobi, Kenya. Sam is a trend setter green blogger, journalist and media practitioner in Africa having set up the first media house dedicated to promoting solar tech and green living. He divides his time between Nairobi, Kenya and the US where he visits regularly to learn new trends on green living and solar tech which he believes will be crucial to Africa’s great leap forward.
He runs SolarGren Media Corporation, Africa’s only specialist solar, green and renewable energy focused media and public relations company. When he is not blogging or thinking green, he spends time promoting freedom of information and human rights reporting on his beloved continent.
Sam lives in Nairobi with his wife and two kids: son, Jan, and daughter, Jewel.
Mark Seall - Zürich, 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.
Govind Singh - New Delhi, 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.
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Map courtesy of NASA.
