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Ian Wilker, NRDC alumnus, Asheville, NC
I was website managing editor at NRDC for six years, through the end of 2006. My new adventure is unfolding in Asheville, North Carolina, where I've set up shop as a web consultant to nonprofits and plan to traipse about the Blue Ridge outdoors with my wife and kids.
Recent Posts
Posted November 15, 2007 by Ian Wilker in Living Sustainably
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- garbage, mindfulness, newyorkcity, recycling, sustainability, trash, wastestream
Any devotees of rotisserie-style fantasy sports leagues out there? You know, the online games where nerdy statsaholics hold a "draft" of baseball or football players and then "manage" their teams through the straits of a competition based on the real-world...continued→
Posted October 5, 2007 by Ian Wilker in Living Sustainably
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- balance, environmentalism, greenliving, health, personalimpact
Whoah. My colleague Phil's post this morning rocked me mightily. Like so many people I'm sure, I spend a lot of 2am time staring at the ceiling, wondering when, how, if I can ever resolve all the puzzle pieces of...continued→
Posted August 29, 2007 by Ian Wilker in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- appalachia, coal, kentucky, mountains, mountaintopremoval, westvirginia
Last week, we got a tip from a friend in the know: "Head on down to Shining Rock Wilderness this weekend, the blueberries are in." And so on Saturday, my family and I got out onto the roof of southern Appalachia and...continued→
Posted April 15, 2007 by Ian Wilker in Solving Global Warming
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- asheville, climatechange, globalwarming, northcarolina, stepitup07
On April 14 -- proclaimed a "National Day of Climate Action" by the amazingly energetic Step It Up 2007 campaign to, well, DO something about global warming -- my family and I made the short trip over to downtown Asheville...continued→