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Toilets, Rice, and Poverty: Redefining Global Aid with Lin Liu For years, USAID and other NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have been trying to improve sanitation as well as create a safe water supply for countries throughout the developing world. With varying degrees of success in the cities, only pockets of rural communities have adopted the use of toilets as a means of disposing human waste. As the population in these areas rise, lack of safe sanitation creates an extreme health risk to children and villagers resulting in endemic diarrheal disease. There is one organization, WaterSHED, that has been working on a different approach. Host Amy Pearl had a chance to catch up with WaterSHED's Director of Strategic Partnerships, Lin Lu, to discuss their amazing work in Cambodia, and more specifically how their market-based approach is helping to speed the adoption of safe sanitation practices in rural communities. Provocateur Amy Pearl, Executive Director, Hatch Innovation Guests

Lin Liu, Director of Strategic Partnerships, WaterSHED

In this episode you'll learn

• Why sanitation projects of the past have proven ineffective, and what the barriers are in regards to sanitation in rural Cambodia
• What collaborative approaches work best for entrepreneurs and business owners in rural communities
• How monetary transactions work in a market for sanitation
• About WaterSHED's open source design for a toilet
• How WaterSHED has fostered the behavior change necessary to encourage local adoption
• WaterSHED's plan for a business model change, and what methods they have used to help the market for toilets reach 40% saturation

Links to Resources Mentioned

• WaterSHED
• Development Innovation Grants
• WaterAid
• Diageo Foundation
• The Gates Foundation
• WaterSHED Asia Twitter
• Hatch Innovation

Terms

Micro Finance Institutions (MFI): A microfinance institution is an organization that offers financial services to low income populations. Almost all give loans to their members, and many offer insurance, deposit and other services.

EP 22: Feminism and Justice for All

Let's listen to Hatch Innovation's Director of Events & Culinary Happenings, Jess DeNoto chat with upcoming panelist Emilly Prado. Emilly is a writer who focuses on the intersection of feminist identity, race, class, gender and popular culture. Throughout this episode, Emilly covers authors and artists who've inspired her over the years, to current events and the recent articles she's researched and written, and how our own identities and perceptions play a role in the content we view.

Please join us and contribute your identity and perception to this ever-growing conversation.

Host Jess DeNoto, Hatch Innovation

A native New York turned longtime Portland resident, Jess has been enjoying french presses at Hatch since its grand opening in January 2014, and currently serves as the director of ComCap Conferences, gatherings of community capital leaders from across the country. Outside of the Hatch realm, Jess is the Executive Director of Vegan Iron Chef, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organized based in Portland, OR, and is a co-founder of Vida Vegan Con (2009-2015), an award-winning international vegan lifestyle, blogging & social media conference. She received a degree in Marketing Communication from Emerson College in Boston, MA, and spends her free time talking to her cats (Huxley & Zelda), obsessing over curry pastes, placing library holds, living car-free and cultivating a community garden plot with her wife.

This episode marks Jess' first appearance on the Hatch the Future podcast. You can find her online as @jdfunks on Instagram and @getsconed on Twitter.

Guests

Emilly Prado, Writer, Bitch Media

Writer, photographer, and future librarian. A Chicana native of the San Francisco Bay Area, she has called Portland home since 2009. Her writing typically focuses on pop culture with an intersectional feminist lens in relation to race, class, and gender. She earned a B.A. in Child and Family Studies from Portland State University with cum laude honors, received a 2016 ALA Spectrum Scholarship, and is a current MLIS candidate at San Jose State University. Her work has appeared in Bitch Media, the Portland Mercury, Feministing, Ms. Magazine, and Travel Portland. When not writing, working, or schooling, she makes zines, sells homemade pinback buttons, and travels as much as possible. You can see her work at www.emillyprado.com In this episode you'll hear about

• An exploration of Intersectional Feminism
• Recognizing the social responsibility of diversifying both professional and personal environments
• How the editing process can change the original intent
• Examination of identity and gender in contemporary politics and popular culture

Referenced Resources:

• Emilly's website
• Bitch Media
• Bell Hooks Institute

Referenced Articles:

• "How Media Coverage of Sexual Assault Victims in Portland Perpetuates Rape Culture" Medium.com September 21, 2016
• "The Hunger Games' Anti-Consumerism Message is No Match for Cover Girl" Bitch November 19, 2013

Referenced Inspiration + Voices:

• Amandla Stenberg
• Janet Mock
• St. Sucia
• Xicanisma
• Chimamanda Adichie
• Selena - The Film
• Remezcla
• Kat Blaque
• Black Girl Dangerous
• Nalgona Positivity Pride
• UW's Women Who Rock
• Alice Bag's Women in LA Punk

Put Your Money Where Your Food Is with Narendra Varma of Our Table Cooperative In today's episode, host Amy Pearl sits down with Narendra Varma of Our Table Cooperative. Narendra started Our Table Cooperative in 2011 with his wife Michelle, after they spent years in the investment and tech spaces. Narendra talks about how these experiences helped him realize a vision for a better food system and find a piece of land to achieve that vision. Our Table is a unique cooperative, because it brings together all three stakeholders: workers, consumers, and producers. What follows is an inspirational vision that we hope will spring up all over the globe. Host Amy Pearl, Hatch Innovation Guests

Narendra Varma, Director, Our Table Cooperative

Born and raised in India, Narendra came to the United States in 1986 to attend Brown University. After graduating with a degree in Educational Technology, he went to work at Microsoft Corporation where his greatest achievement was a kids' movie creation product that was a commercial dud but spawned an avid fan group. While at Microsoft, Narendra was lucky enough to meet his wife, Machelle, and receive a stockoption-fueled financial windfall allowing him to quit his day job. After an obligatory globe-trotting walkabout, Machelle and Narendra spent the next ten years raising children, renovating houses, and coming to the realization that our system of agriculture is broken, our economic and financial systems are a pyramid scheme, and that, between peak resources and climate change, our children likely face a difficult future. Unfortunately, these subjects made poor dinner conversation so Machelle and Narendra decided to devote their time, money, and energy towards an effort to reimagine our food system around the principals of Permaculture Design and Biodynamic agriculture. They purchased a 58-acre farm just outside Portland, Oregon and founded a vertically integrated food and agriculture cooperative that is experimenting with new ways to grow, process and sell food.

In this episode you'll hear about

• The co-operative model
• How small the percentage of the money you pay for a crop goes to the farmer
• How the land-use laws in Oregon helped Narendra start Our Table Cooperative
• The role permaculture played in his design and ideation process
• The vertical integration of food
• The reasons for his unique blend of polyculture and monoculture farming
• Multi-stakeholder member-owned cooperatives

Links to Resources Mentioned

Hatch Innovation

Hatch Oregon

Our Table Cooperative

Slow Money

Permaculture

Powells Books

Our Table's Co-Op Model

The Big Short

Innovative Reclamation Education: Rural Students Revitalizing Brownfields with Megan Alameda

"If you are a teacher who's interested in brownfields, or any environmental education subject, I'd say go for it. This is the time that is ripe for innovation. But don't do this alone, and here's my callout to everybody else - administrators, city and council members, museums, businesses - please come together to try and make these relevant pieces of education happen. Because that's how it works - through collaboration."

What happens when the industries of yesteryear close their doors for good? Often they leave behind sites that harbour contaminants, and pose a serious risk to humans and the environment. There's a name for places like these - they are called Brownfields. These sites are literally right under our noses, and commonly overlooked by cities due to the prohibitive costs associated with restoring polluted real estate. One program is training high school students to tackle this issue head on, and in the process giving them learning opportunities that few students get. Out in rural Baker County, Oregon, students managed the remediation process of a brownfield from start to finish - this really is true hands-on education. The site is now clean and cleared for use, and more sites are being lined up for the next generation of students. In recognition of the success of this work, the teacher who led the program, Megan Alameda, was recently awarded the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators at the White House. Amy Pearl spoke with Megan about the program to hear the full story and to get her thoughts on how this new type of hands-on education could be replicated elsewhere.

Provocateur Amy Pearl, Hatch Innovation

Guests

Megan Alameda, Teacher, Baker Technical Institute

In this episode you'll learn

• What is CTE - Career Technical Education (like Baker Technical Institute)
• What is a Brownfield, and what impacts a brownfield site can have on the community.
• How did Megan got involved in brownfield remediation with students, and how a group of students have taken on the role of managing the remediation process for a brownfield in Baker City, OR.
• How this is a new wave of education, that involves students in the world around them.
• How brownfield projects spur community development, economic development, community education
• Upcoming projects in Baker City and the surrounding area (there are 80 potential projects just in that region).
• How high school teachers can lead similar projects in their own location
• How these new types of education cannot rest solely on the shoulders of teachers. It takes a lot of collaboration.

Links to Resources Mentioned

White House Announcement: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/08/15/honoring-students-and-teachers-2016-presidential-environmental-education-ceremony

DEQ Brownfields http://www.deq.state.or.us/lq/cu/brownfields/

Baker County: http://www.bakercounty.org/

EPA Brownfields: https://www.epa.gov/brownfields

Oregon Health Authority Brownfields: https://public.health.oregon.gov/HealthyEnvironments/HealthyNeighborhoods/Brownfields/Pages/index.aspx

Oregonian Newspaper article about Megan and her Presidential award" http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2016/08/eastern_oregon_teacher_wins_pr.html

Changing Taillights to Avert Tragedies "For many people this is not a huge problem, but for a percentage of people, it can be a deadly problem." - Don Merrill Think about it. For some people, a burned-out taillight is a minor maintenance issue. For others, it's the first step towards a potentially deadly confrontation. After a string of police shootings of unarmed people of color, Don Merrill wants to stop talking and do something. So he's setting up a nonprofit with a very simple goal: to replace burned-out headlights and taillights on vehicles driven by people of color. In this episode Amy and Don discuss how this easy step could result in fewer hostile interactions with police, a strengthening of community, and more open discussions between police and residents. You'll hear how everyone from community colleges to auto parts stores to churches will be involved, and get an insight into the statistics that show why this project is so needed.

Provocateur

Amy Pearl, Hatch Innovation Guests

Don Merrill - Owner, Don Merrill & Associates

Currently, working on a book about the public radio pledge drive.

Seven years with Armed Forces Radio and Television. Eleven years as a public relations specialist for the Federal Government. Four years with commercial radio and newspapers. Four years as a freelance writer specializing in feature and investigative reporting.

Goals include telling the little stories of big companies and the big stories of little companies for domestic and international reading audiences. My intention is to build a clientel of commercial, government and non-profit clients who turn to me to promote their work in consumer and trade, print and online publications by emphasizing the human side of that work. I am especially interested in the work of non-profits and am prone to donate work to good causes.

Specialties: Interviewing experience with celebrities, government officials, politicians and man-on-the-street (vox populi). Government and military procedures and protocols experience.

In this episode you'll learn

• About Don's inspiration for starting a nonprofit that does nothing but change headlight/taillight bulbs- "I wanted to stop talking, and stop being consumed by other people talking, and do something."

• Why this project is bottom up instead of top down - going into communities and talking to people where they are.

• The partners will be involved in the project - churches, colleges or places that have automotive repair programs, auto parts stores, community groups.

• The data that makes this project so compelling.

• How many people have no concern they'll be pulled over by police for a broken taillight, let alone be shot by police - while for others it's a real fear.

• How so many bad things happen on a daily basis that compete for our attention, resulting in easily-fixable things getting lost in the noise.

• Why vilifying police or protesters doesn't fix anything.

• About 'broken windows' policing, and how it has been criticized for leading to assumptions that every car with a broken taillight contains a person of color about to do wrong.

• How just because officers look like the communities they serve, doesn't mean that the people in those communities will feel any safer or better treated by the police.

• What happened when Amy did not behave in the correct way when pulled over, and how that could not happen had she been a person of color.

• After everything that has happened recently, Don wanted to stop talking, and stop being consumed by other people talking, and do something.

• How the solutions will be imperfect, but perfect is the enemy of the good.

Links to Resources Mentioned

How to reach Don - CNBSeen: @CNBSeenNow

Don't shoot PDX https://www.facebook.com/DontShootPDX/

Black Lives Matter http://blacklivesmatter.com/

Driving While Black app: http://dwbtheapp.com/

NAACP Statement on Eric Garner death & 'broken windows' policing: http://www.naacp.org/press/entry/naacp-statement-on-death-of-nyc-man-after-police-chokehold

Finding a Career with Purpose An honest discussion about finding jobs with meaning - both making a difference in the world, and finding personal satisfaction.Simon Love and Amy Pearl speak with Mac Prichard, founder of Prichard Communications and Mac's List about purpose and potential in work and life. Today, people want to improve the world through their work, as well as achieve personal satisfaction. But how do people get into those careers? In this podcast, both hosts and guest are able to share stories and advice of finding work with meaning. Mac offers insights from his conversations with jobseekers, Simon offers personal stories of finding work in a foreign land, and Amy shares stories of change makers starting their own enterprises. You'll learn tips and advice on how to send your career on a path towards purpose. This conversation carries on the conversation from the popular 'Career Pathways to Doing Good in Oregon' events, held quarterly at HatchLab in Portland, Oregon.

Provocateurs Amy Pearl, Hatch Innovation

Simon Love, Hatch Innovation

Guest

Mac Prichard, President, Pritchard Communications

Mac Prichard owns and operates Prichard Communications, a public relations agency based in Portland, Oregon that works with top-tier foundations, non-profits and purpose driven brands across the country. He is also the publisher of Mac's List, an online community where professionals find rewarding, interesting jobs and employers find the best possible candidates. Previously, Mac was communications director for Reclaiming Futures, a national initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that improves drug and alcohol treatment for teens in juvenile court. Before joining Reclaiming Futures in 2001, Mac served as a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Human Services, a speechwriter and deputy legislative director for former Oregon governor John Kitzhaber, and a Portland City Hall spokesman for Earl Blumenauer, now a Member of Congress. Prior to moving to Oregon in 1991, Mac lived in Massachusetts where he was legislative and media relations director for the state Office for Refugees and Immigrants, the first public information officer for Boston's "Big Dig," and a researcher in former U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy's first Congressional campaign. Previously in Boston as a staff person with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Mac helped organize and lead four Congressional fact-finding trips to Central America. Mac was also a senior researcher at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a non-partisan human rights group in Washington, DC, that monitors US-Latin American policy.

In this episode you'll learn

• Trends in the workplace - are people moving towards careers with purpose? If so, why?
• What a 'Dream Job' means - people want to make a difference in the world but they also want to find satisfaction and happiness.
• How Mac's List grew through word of mouth, and where it extends now.
• How people are not taught at school how to look for jobs, or to set job-related goals.
• Why do people work?
• How generational differences and the blurring of work-life boundaries affect how work is seen.
• Why jobseekers say they want one type of job but take something else .
• How you can make opportunities happen by being generous to others and thinking about how you can help others in your industry.
• How sometimes you won't end up doing what you thought you'd be doing, but you can take charge of the role you're in and make a difference there.
• How individuals can make enormous difference through starting their own social enterprise.
• The challenges of being an entrepreneur - 'pushing the noodle up the hill' and the challenges associated with it.
• How careers are not a 45 degree trajectory - there will be peaks and valleys.
• How good things happen when you make your goals known to others.

Links to Resources Mentioned

Hatch Innovation

Mac's List

'Find Your Dream Job' Podcast

'Find Your Dream Job in Portland' Book

Prichard Communications

Career Pathways to Doing Good in Oregon event

Reflecting on a Nuclear Legacy When your family is from Hiroshima, you have strong feelings about the nuclear age, war, and its legacy.Who better to talk about the fallout of our nuclear past than artists? And better, artists who come from cities that were affected and involved. Visual artist Yukiyo Kawano takes her grandmother's kimono and sews replicas of the bombs that were dropped on her city. She has made Little Boy and Fat Man sewn with her own hair. In a new creation, she has partnered with performance artist Meshi Chavez and poet Allison Cobb to create "A Moment in Time." How is art an act of activism? Host Amy Pearl, Hatch Innovation Guests

Yukiyo Kawano, Visual Artist

Yukiyo Kawano, a third generation hibakusha (nuclear bomb survivor) grew up decades after the bombing of Hiroshima. Her work is personal, reflecting lasting attitudes towards the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Kawano's main focus is her/our forgetfulness, her/our dialectics of memory, issues around cultural politics, and historical politics.

For the latest project, she used pieces of translucent kimono fabric and sewed together with strands of her hair (the artist's DNA as a third generation hibaku-sha), for the possibility of looking inward, suggesting another/personal view to our official receptacle of memory.

During the school show in Vermont, Kawano performed in front of the object in desperation about the urgency of expressing fears about the devastation of our human bodies. The historical conjuncture, with the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the legacy of the nuclear era opened up a space for the performativity of her/our questioning of history, memory, witnessing, and disaster in the present moment.

Kawano is currently living in Portland, Oregon.

email address: [email protected]

Allison Cobb, Poet

Allison Cobb is the author of Born2 (Chax Press); Green-Wood (Factory School); Plastic: an autobiography (Essay Press); and After we all died forthcoming in September 2016 from Ahsahta Press, which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.

Cobb's work combines historical and scientific research, essay, and poetry to address issues of landscape, politics, and ecology. She was a 2015 finalist for the National Poetry Series; a 2015 Djerassi Resident Artist; a 2014 Playa Resident Artist; received a 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship award from the Oregon Arts Commission; and was a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. She works for the Environmental Defense Fund. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she co-curates The Switch reading, art, and performance series.

Meshi Chavez, Performance Artist

Meshi Chavez lives and creates work in Portland Oregon. Meshi's most recent productions include Being Moved,"...or be dragged." and We Two Boys. His work has premiered in both New Mexico and Oregon.

In this episode you'll hear

• How artists and art represent the impacts of science, war, and powerlessness
• What is Bhuto dance, and how it is a perfect medium for expression and collaboration
• How a speech by President Obama inspired a poem of sound and words to be shared
• How art activates a space for contemplation, catharsis, and healing, which is more important (sometimes) than acting
• Why art is key to helping make invisible things felt and experienced, and why this is so important

Links to Resources Mentioned

Hatch Innovation

Hatch Oregon

WTF is a Blockchain?

You've heard about Bitcoin. You might have heard the word 'blockchain'. But what about Ethereum? In this episode, you'll get the full explanation of what a blockchain is, how cryptocurrencies have value, and how 'smart contracts' are shaping the future of transactions.

You will then hear about one company using this technology – CPay – which is using the Ethereum blockchain to make everyday payments simpler, faster, more secure, and also provide community benefit. Simon Love speaks with founder Jon Underwood and lead developer Ryan Casey about this fascinating technology. Listen in to hear why Jon says "Ethereum will either thrive or fade away based on how well it can solve real-world problems with smart contracts"

Guests:

Jon Underwood, Founder and CEO

Jon Underwood is the Founder & CEO of Cloud Currencies, dba cPay.

Jon sees money like water, and has studied the way money flows for a long time. cPay started with the question "What if we could dig 'local trenches' to make money flow where we wanted it to, transforming scarcity into abundance, and creating a new source of economic strength that could 'flood' our local economies, building community health and wealth for everyone?"

Jon has a strong interest in Rudolf Steiner's economic indications, often referred to as Associative Economics, and has started numerous ventures and companies. Jon has ongoing interests in local currencies, local foodsheds, local energy, localizing regional economies, community-wide rewards programs, and exploring new corporate governance and management structures that are better able to support the varied interests of the community of stakeholders. Jon received his BA in Economics from U.C. Berkeley, and his 'Green' MBA in Sustainable Business form Marylhurst University. Jon and his wife Carrie live near Reed College, along with their two Weimaraners Henry and Evelyn.

Ryan Casey, Lead Developer

Ryan Casey is a global expert on the Ethereum blockchain, making him an invaluable asset to cPay. A native of Portland, he began programming in the first grade. Ryan has been building web apps since 2011, and has focused almost exclusively on several open source projects using the Ethereum blockchain. A highly skilled programmer, Ryan is part of a global group working on the infrastructure necessary to build out the Ethereum Blockchain ecosystem, and specializes in smart contracts. Ryan states "cPay helps keep capital in the bioregional economy, which enriches all local market participants, and furthermore redirects money that would have otherwise been lost to transnational corporations into projects that directly impact the local quality of life. If you want to improve the region you live in, invest in it."

Ryan is a programmer with Nexus Development and contributor to Maker DAO, and built our payment App from the ground up. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from George Fox University.

In this episode you will learn:

• What is a blockchain?
• How blockchains function without a central command
• What is cryptocurrency and how is value created?
• The difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains
• What 'mining' is in the context of blockchains, and how value is created
• How value can come from proof of work or proof of stake
• The risks of blockchains, such as the 51% attack?
• How cryptocurrency differs from cash and credit cards
• How Ethereum can be used with Smart Contracts
• Why a fixed supply of cryptocurrency (e.g. Bitcoin) is not essential for value storage
• Why half of the people on the planet will have SOME money stored in the cloud in 5-10 years
• How CPay is able to minimize transaction fees and donate to charities of the user's choice

Links:

Ethereum Website: https://www.ethereum.org/

CPay website: http://www.cpay.us

CPay Investment Page (OR Residents ONLY): https://secure.hatchoregon.com/offerings/cpay/

Ethereum Wikipedia Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum

Vitalik Buterin's writing: https://github.com/vbuterin/scalability_paper/blob/master/scalability.pdf

Ethereum community on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/

Bitcoin community on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/

The Remedy Club: Power and Access

Have you ever felt that your access to tools, knowledge and/or resources has been limited by the social systems or institutions you are embedded in? Have you seen others struggle, lacking access to the things they need to thrive? Do you ever ponder how sweeping power dynamics connect to our individual experiences?

Welcome to The Remedy Club, a quarterly series on the dynamics of power and powerlessness, hosted by Hatch Innovation. We invite you to listen in to this dynamic panel discussion recorded on July 15, 2016. Walk away with new insight, new connections and ideas for action.

In this episode you will learn:

• Stories of powerlessness that helped define our panelists
• Hot button issues to be aware of
• Insights from different points of view

Links Hatch Innovation American Indian Identity The Reporter's Notebook Panelists Se-ah-dom Edmo, Coordinator, Indigenous Ways of Knowing Program at Lewis & Clark College, author of American Indian Identity Janet Soto, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Business Oregon Julia DeNoto, Park Ranger, Cyclist Rosalie Lee, Founder, Spare Change PDX Moderator Don Merrill, Interviewer and Host, KBOO-FM

Energy: A New Take on Wood and Water In this double-header, Simon Love interviews two companies implementing innovative sustainable energy technologies. The episode touches on sustainable projects in urban versus rural environments,how to work with local government and communities, and where these technologies are headed. First up is Bill Kelly from Lucid Energy, a startup that is creating usable energy from gravity-fed water systems. Bill opens up about the realities of innovating in a tightly-regulated environment. Bill shares his tips for innovators in the clean tech space. Then we hear from Andrew Haden and Meagan Nuss from Wisewood, a company bringing biomass heating systems to the Western USA. Andrew and Meagan discuss one project in particular, in rural Harney County, where a biomass boiler will use local juniper wood to heat community buildings. Not only is it a system using local renewable resources, but the energy system will eventually be owned by the community in the form of a co-op. In this episode you'll learn

• How Lucid Energy's turbine system captures energy in water pipes that is normally wasted.
• How the new turbine replaces a wasteful system of valves
• Why it can be tough for a 'no-brainer' technology to make it to market
• How innovative projects proceed when there are many stakeholders involved
• Bill Kelly's advice for innovators in clean tech
• How Lucid Energy is prepared for a future that involves both distributed energy in rural areas
• and grids in concentrated urban areas.
• The story behind Wisewood, and how it can be economical to ship wood pellets from BritishColumbia to Stockholm but not to use them locally.
• How biomass energy and forest restoration are so closely tied together.
• How cheap hydroelectric power and natural gas prevent biomass projects from happening,despite the need for material to be removed from forests for forest health.
• How a small town in Oregon is replacing a diesel boiler with a district energy scheme using local juniper wood
• How something as simple as a wood-fueled boiler can actually be very empowering for rural communities.

Links Lucid Energy Wisewood Guests Bill Kelly, Chief Operating Officer, Lucid Energy Bill Kelly is a veteran leader with a broad range of experience working with utilities, technology companies and investors in the water sector. He is the former President of Isle Utilities and was the firstU.S.-based employee. He was responsible for establishing the growing Isle Inc. Company presence inNorth America and facilitated and grew their Technology Approval Group (TAG), an innovation forum that brings new step change technologies to the municipal water and wastewater sector. Bill has also served as as a senior advisor at SkyH20 and Clean Power Capital. Bill earned a Bachelor of Arts inInformation and Communications Studies from California State University-Chico. Andrew Haden, Founder and President, Wisewood Andrew is the Founder of Wisewood, Inc. and has over 12 years of experience working in the biomass sector. Andrew has led the development and implementation of multiple biomass energy projects through complete cycles of feasibility assessment, engineering, construction, commissioning and ongoing operations support. He leads the design component of all Wisewood energy projects. Prior to founding Wisewood, Andrew worked at Bear Mountain Forest Products and Ecotrust. Andrew is an expert on the regional biomass industry and has an MS in Rural Development from the SwedishUniversity of Agricultural Sciences and a BA in Sustainable Agriculture from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Meagan Nuss, Project Development Coordinator, Wisewood Meagan is Wise wood's Project Development Coordinator. She works closely with community partners to move projects forward and respond to client needs, and also investigates biomass supply opportunities across Wisewood's project areas. Meagan specializes in biomass energy and has a background in forest management, fire ecology, and forest collaborative groups. She is experienced as a volunteer mediator and facilitator, and brings these skills to her interactions with prospective biomass energy clients. Prior to coming to Wisewood, Meagan worked for Northwest Natural Resource Group, the Forest Guild, andGreenWood Resources. Meagan has an MS in Forest Ecosystems and Society from Oregon StateUniversity, and a BA in Environmental Studies from Lewis & Clark College.