"Earth Angels" in the Globe

Submitted by Michael on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 08:55

I recently got to meet a couple of inspired, committed people who are putting their environmental concerns and principles into deep, broad effect across their pursuits.

Sajed Kamal teaches about sustainability at Brandeis, but has traveled the globe — including in his native India and in his childhood home of Bangladesh — to aid renewable energy projects. He's got a small solar cell installed on his window sill and has almost a half-dozen solar cookers around his apartment. He led two solar installations in the Fenway, where he lives.

Wenzday Jane leads a 15-person staff at New Amsterdam Project, which I first thought was some reference to early New York, but instead venerates the Dutch bicycle culture of today. The project is a trucking service in which no hydrocarbons are burned; the delivery vehicles are power-assist cycles with large storage bins at the rear.

I wrote about them both for today's Globe magazine, an issue focused on green topics. (The link is to a file about five "earth angels." Wenzday is pictured; her story is second, and Sajed's is fourth.)

Speaking at Commonwealth Club

I will be speaking on the topic of food addiction at the Commonwealth Club of California, the oldest public affairs forum in the country, on Feb. 28. I'll be joining a fabulous panel of researchers and clinicians: Nicole Avena of Princeton and the University of Florida, Eric Stice of the Oregon Research Institute, Vera Tarman of Renascent Center of Toronto, abd Elissa Epel and Andrea Garber, both of the University of California at San Francisco. I am very excited to be part of the roster, not to mention to be appearing at such a great institution. Ticket information here; if you come, please stay afterward to say hello.

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