Editor-in-Chief
Robert Costanza, Ph.D.
Dr. Costanza is the Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. Costanza is co-founder and former-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and was the founding editor of the society’s journal, Ecological Economics. He is the author or co-author of over 300 scientific papers, and reports on his work have appeared in Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, The Economist, The New York Times, Science, Nature, National Geographic, and National Public Radio.
Associate Editors
Paul Hawken
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author. Starting at age 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy.
David W. Orr, Ph.D.
Dr. Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College. He is also a James Marsh, Professor at large at the University of Vermont. He pioneered work on environmental literacy in higher education and his recent work in ecological design. He raised funds for and spearheaded the effort to design and build a $7.2 million Environmental Studies Center at Oberlin College, a building described by The New York Times as “the most remarkable” of a new generation of college buildings and by the U.S. Department of Energy as one of thirty “milestone buildings” of the 20th century.
John Todd, Ph.D.
Dr. Todd is an internationally-recognized biologist and a visionary leader in the field of ecological design who was named a “Hero of the Earth” by Time Magazine in 1999 and one of the 20th Century’s top thirty-five inventors by the Lemelson-MIT Program for Invention and Innovation. He holds four patents and is the inventor of Living Machines, or ecological engines, for the treatment of wastes, production of foods, generation of fuels and the restoration of damaged aquatic environments.
Managing Editor
Ida Kubiszewski, Ph.D.
Ida Kubiszewski is co-founder and former-managing editor of the Encyclopedia of Earth. She has worked on dozens of internet projects primarily related to science communications including establishing a suite of online courses and creating energy related information systems.
Senior Editors
Jack Fairweather
Jack Fairweather is a former Middle East correspondent who spent four years as the Daily Telegraph’s Baghdad and Gulf correspondent. He was an embedded reporter during the Iraq invasion, and won the British equivalent of the Pulitzer prize for his reporting on Iraq’s civil war. Most recently Jack has been the Washington Post Global’s Islamic world correspondent, where he has created Islam’s Advance, a multi-media Post webpage that’s viewed by 80,000 viewers a month. Jack is also a contributor to Harper’s Magazine, Mother Jones and the Atlantic Monthly.
Christina Asquith
Christina Asquith has 12 years experience as a local beat reporter, national correspondent and foreign correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times and The Economist. She spent three years in the Middle East covering the Iraq war, and won “Educator of the Year” award by Education News for her coverage of the effects of war on the lives of school system. She also is author of two non-fiction books: The Emergency Teacher: A Year Inside Philadelphia’s Toughest School (Skyhorse Press, 2007) and Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family and Survival in the New Iraq (Random House, 2009). Prior to joining The Solutions Journal, she was senior editor at Diverse Magazine in Washington DC.
Joe Roman
Dr. Roman is a fellow at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics and a research associate at the New England Aquarium. He is a conservation biologist with research interests in biodiversity and ecosystem services, biological invasions, and marine population genetics and ecology. He has written dozens of articles and several books, including his most recent one, the cultural history Whale. He is currently working on a book about the benefits of endangered species conservation.
Junior Editor
Tess Croner
Tess Croner graduated with honors from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.A. in environmental studies and a minor in anthropology in 2009. She also spent half a year studying at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She has done environmental research in Hawaii and the Mojave Desert with Washington University's Pathfinder program and has worked as a research assistant studying invasive plant species at UC Santa Barbara. In 2007, her team placed fifth in the global AMD Open Architecture challenge to design a sustainable chocolate factory for Ecuador. She currently lives in Burlington, VT.
History Section Editor
Frank Zelko
Dr. Frank Zelko is a professor at the environmental history professor at the University of Vermont. He teaches courses on global environmental history and North American environmental history. Zelko’s research focuses on the history of environmental movements. He has published work on environmental activism in the US, Canada, Germany and Australia, and his book on the history of the international environmental organization, Greenpeace, will be published shortly. He is also editing a volume on the environmental history of the world’s oceans.
Literary Editor
Robert Herendeen
Dr Robert Herendeen is a fellow at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. Before becoming a Gund Fellow, Dr. Herendeen was a faculty member at University of Illinois for the past few decades. His primary research surrounded Input-Output (economic) analysis to determine the resource requirements and other impacts of consumption of goods and service, following the parallels between economic and ecological systems, and analysis of perturbed ecosystems. His most recent work covers the energy implications of sprawl vs. compact living.
Managing Director of Marketing and Business Development
Julie Thorpe
Julie Thorpe brings over 20 years of business management and marketing experience to The Solutions Journal. In addition, she has successfully managed the start up and operations of two privately owned businesses. She has a passion for environmental issues, knowledge of organic farming and interest in sustainable communities. Julie lives with her husband and two children in Northern Vermont.
Director of Marketing and Business Development
Carol Lynn MacCurdy
As a former career diplomat with the US Department of State and the United States Information Agency (USIA), Ms. MacCurdy led award-winning international communications campaigns; developed and oversaw innovative policies, programs and budgets; built coalitions and enhanced America’s “brand” image. She served in a variety of public affairs and policy positions at US Embassies (London, Moscow, Peru, and the Caribbean), at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and most recently at the State Department’s Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs. Throughout her career, whether the priority issue at play involved sustainable development, democratic transitions, counter-narcotics, natural disaster recovery or free trade, Ms. MacCurdy has been at the forefront of developing public diplomacy answers to major challenges confronting our nation. She has now chosen to dedicate the next 15-20 years to promoting solutions that bolster sustainable economic prosperity and improve our natural environment.
Photography and Graphics Editor
Marc Fader
Marc Fader is a photojournalist and commercial photographer based in New York City. He began his career as a daily newspaper photographer. Marc is also a corporate investigator and has worked on issues such as financial fraud, gun trafficking, injuries from industrial toxins, and political corruption. Marc holds degrees in journalism and law from Boston University.
Copy Editors
Julie Van Pelt
Julie Van Pelt has been an editor since 1995, specializing in environmental policy and sciences, natural history, and economic history. She is a member of the Council of Science Editors and is a regular guest speaker for the University of Washington's Editing Certificate Program. In other incarnations, Julie has been a backcountry ranger, bookseller, community organizer, small-business mentor, car-free vagabond, and long-distance cyclist. She lives on the Olympic Peninsula and loves being outside best of all.
Louise Watson
Louise Watson is a freelance copyeditor and proofreader who lives in Monkton, Vermont. She has worked on books and articles for W. W. Norton, John Wiley & Sons, Microcosm Books, and Ashgate Publishing, to name a few, and currently copyedits for Solutions. She has been an assistant to the editor at Eating Well Magazine and an associate editor at Coral Magazine. She holds a BA in Art from Middlebury College.
