As is evident from the name of my website, my name is Andy Posner. I was born on November 14th, 1984, which makes me 23 years old. At present I am a masters student in Environmental Studies at Brown University. I received my B.A. in Spanish Language and Culture from California State University, Northridge, located in my hometown of Los Angeles. I have done several exciting, adventurous things in my young life. I spent my Junior year in college studying in Granada, Spain. Two months after I returned home, I embarked on a cross-country bike trip. I rode from Newport News, Virginia, to San Francisco, California, with 60 pounds of gear and two people that I met online and who during the course of the trip became two of my closest friends. In all, I covered 3,600 miles of terrain. And finally, last March my girlfriend Michele and I flew to Cairo, Egypt, where we visited my good friend and mentor T.H. Culhane, who is doing research for his PhD there.
We spent a month with T.H. and his wife Sybille, following them around as they worked on several inspiring and cutting-edge projects aimed at reducing poverty, improving health and solving environmental problems. Click here for more information and to see the documentary that Michele and I made about the trip.
My interests include, but are not limited to, cycling, filmmaking, sustainable design, alternative energy, reading, writing, tennis, gardening, cooking, philosophy, poetry, biology (evolution in particular), physics, biography and history. I have been with my beautiful girlfriend Michele since April of 2006. The great thinkers that have most inspired me in life are Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau, Ayn Rand, Percy Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William McDonough, and Paul Hawken. What I value most in life is independence of thought, the pursuit of knowledge and truth, and adherence to the principles that one knows to be true in one’s heart of hearts.
My goal is no more or less than to work towards an economy/society that, at once, alleviates poverty, provides meaningful, sustainable and just jobs, and restores the environment. Paul Hawken has called this a restorative economy, and I am fine with that name.
Andy Posner
http://www.andyposner.org
“One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one feel happy.—Albert Einstein
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I wrote this article for the Huffington Post. The article can be seen in its original context here
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