Our Team!

 
We’ve got a pretty rockin’ team of contributors here on CleanTechnica, so I thought I’d create a page all about them! Here’s our team:
 

I, Zach Shahan, spend most of my time here on CleanTechnica. I’m the director/editor of Cleantechnica and the director/editor of Planetsave (where I probably am if I’m not on CleanTechnica). I’m also Publishing Services Manager at Important Media, which means that I do everything I can to support other Important Media writers, editors, and directors (as well as the network as a whole) in the good work they are engaged in.

I have a B.A. in environmental studies and sociology, and a master’s in city and regional planning. I have worked in public, private, and non-profit positions promoting clean transportation, clean power, sustainable development, and eco-friendly food options. You can connect with me on any social networking site you like, but I prefer Google+ (you can find links to my other social network profiles there).

Susan Kraemer writes at CleanTechnica, Earthtechling, and GreenProphet and has been published at Scientific American, Celsius, OnEarth, MatterNetwork, and Ecoseed. As a former serial entrepreneur in product design, she brings an innovator’s perspective to writing about inventing a carbon-constrained civilization: If necessity is the mother of invention: solving climate change is the mother of all necessities! As a lover of history and sci fi, she enjoys chronicling the strange future we are creating in these interesting times. Follow Susan  @dotcommodity on twitter

Tina Casey is a freelance writer specializing in military and corporate sustainability, advanced technology, emerging materials, biofuels, and water and wastewater issues. She is a regular contributor to Cleantechnica, TriplePundit, and IdeaLab.Talkingpointsmemo.com, and she is currently Deputy Director of Public Information for the County of Union, New Jersey.

Tina’s articles are reposted frequently on Reuters, Scientific American, and many other sites. You can also follow her on twitter @TinaMCasey, and on Tumblr.

Andrew Burger has been reporting on clean tech, renewable energy, natural resources, the environment, computing/telecommunications, and business and finance as a freelance reporter for some 4+ years, along with teaching the English language.

Charis Michelsen spent 7 years living in Germany and Japan, studying both languages extensively, doing translation and education with companies like Bosch, Nissin, Fuji Heavy, and others. Charis has a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and currently lives in Chicago, Illinois. She also believes that Janeway was the best Star Trek Captain.

A writer, producer and director, Glenn Meyers is the former founder & CEO of The 21st Communications Company, a Denver-based online training and new media communications entity. He is now active in launching Green Streets MediaTrain, a communications connection and eLearning hub. Now an independent producer, he has 18 years of direct experience in the development, production and distribution of 500 hours of television and distance learning programs for both the education industry and corporate sector. He has created two educational television series and has overseen the broadcast of numerous live programs. Recently, he has completed an international Internet broadcast program for Newmont Ghana Gold on social responsibility, “Agents of Change.”

In the field of television, he was the developer and producer of an education and technology series — Best Seat in the Class — that was broadcast on The Learning Channel. He also developed a 24-part series on urban education — Challenges and Champions. He was senior producer of almost 300 hours of professional development television programs for K-12 educators in the United States.

Joshua S Hill is a Christian, a nerd, a geek, a liberal left-winger, and believes that we’re pretty quickly directing planet-Earth into hell in a handbasket!

Josh is also a 27-year-old author and writer from Melbourne, Australia. His first book is in the “looking for an agent” phase right now while he writes his second. He also reviews fantasy books over at Fantasy Book Review (.co.uk). Josh loves words with a passion, both creating them and reading them.

Mridul Chadha is a master’s student at The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi. He is specializing in Renewable Energy Engineering and Management. He is a graduate in Environmental Engineering. His interests are Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Climate Politics.

Nicholas Brown has a keen interest in physics-intensive topics such as electricity generation, refrigeration and air conditioning technology, energy storage, geography, and much more. His website is: kompulsa.com.

Silvio Marcacci is Principal at Marcacci Communications, an independent clean energy and sustainability public relations consulting company.

He also contributes to EarthTechling, The Energy Collective, Ecopolitology, and Earth & Industry. You can follow him on twitter @silvio_marcacci.

John Farrell directs the Energy Self-Reliant States and Communities program at ILSR, and focuses on energy policy developments that best expand the benefits of local ownership and dispersed generation of renewable energy. His latest paper, Democratizing the Electricity System, describes how to blast the roadblocks to distributed renewable energy generation, and how such small-scale renewable energy projects are the key to the biggest strides in renewable energy development.

Farrell also authored the landmark report Energy Self-Reliant States, which serves as the definitive energy atlas for the United States, detailing state-by-state renewable electricity generation potential. Farrell regularly provides discussion and analysis of distributed renewable energy policy on his blog, Energy Self-Reliant States, and articles are regularly syndicated on Grist and Renewable Energy World. John Farrell can also be found on Twitter @johnffarrell, or at jfarrell@ilsr.org.

Rav Casley Gera is a London-based freelance journalist passionate about climate change, development and technology. He has written for the Daily Express, Excite.co.uk and the Fly. He blogs at ravcasleygera.wordpress.com.

Adam Johnston is currently working as a financial and commodities journalist in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. A recent graduate of the University of Winnipeg with a three-year Bachelor of Arts degree, with a combined major in Economics and Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications, Adam is a ‘bright green’ environmentalist who believes in the power of economic and business opportunity in clean tech to bring more people towards environmental issues. Adam hopes to leap into the world of clean tech journalism, as it will become more and more relevant in the future.

Adam plans to start writing a book on the importance of sustainable development and clean tech in the new year while also working on an internet radio show devoted to clean tech. When not writing about commodities or clean tech, you can find Adam writing about soccer on various other sites and other technology topics, including video games. You can follow Adam on Twitter at @adamjohnstonwpg