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Andrew Willner has been a city planner, furniture designer, sculptor, boat builder, environmentalist, Permaculturist, Transition advocate, story teller, blogger, and photographer. He was Executive Director and Baykeeper at NY/NJ Baykeeper www.nynjbaykeeper.org for nineteen years and retired in April 2008. In April of 2009 Mr. Willner rejoined the Board of Trustees of NY/NJ Baykeeper.

In 2008-9 he was a visiting public scholar at Monmouth University's Urban Coast Institute www.monmouth.edu/urban_coast_institute. He is a founding board member of the international Waterkeeper Alliance Board of Directors www.waterkeeper.org and serveed from 1999 to 2011. Mr. Willner was on the Waterkeeper Council from 2011-12. He has travelled nationally and internationally to speak on behalf of the Waterkeeper model of water and habitat protection. Since April of 2008 he has been a Principal Professional Consultant in energy, transportation, and the environment to the Hugo Neu corporation www.hugoneu.com. He operates a consulting firm, Sustainability Solutions, is exhibiting his photographs taken while patrolling the New York/ New Jersey Harbor for 20 years on the Baykeeper skiff. www.andrewwillner.com

Mr. Willner is a sought after speaker on a wide variety of subjects including environmental advocacy, habitat restoration, sustainability, Permaculture, and Transition. He is also called on to read from fiction and non-fiction works in progress.

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Victim of Climate Change, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 10, 2014
The Climate-Change Speech President Obama Must Make The President's legacy will clearly be judged on his ability to emancipate us from the tyranny of fossil fuels, and on his willingness to stand up to an industry that has knowingly committed vast offenses against humanity and nature.
Tracking a Superstorm, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 9, 2013
Six Ways to Pay for Climate Change A year after Hurricane Sandy, the East Coast is still reelingfinancially, and eight years after Katrina, New Orleans has yet to recover. "Americans are learning a harsh lesson
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Preserving the Past to Serve the Future, *Transition, Permaculture, and Slow Technology* Using Transition and Permaculture to preserves the skills of the past to serve the needs of a post-carbon future.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 29, 2013
The Long Emergency, Permaculture, and Towns That Food Saved The use of Permaculture principles to harness purposefulness for collaborative planning for resilience and regeneration by examining two communities that are surviving and in some cases thriving by building on the "sense of purpose " that occurs after a disaster.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 22, 2013
Hubbert 's Peak, The Economy, and War for Oil In Marion King Hubbert's 1956 speech about Peak Oil, he asserted that global oil production would follow a bell-shaped curve with a peak followed by an irrevocable decline.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Saving the Bayonne Bridge and the NY/NJ Port *There are Less dangerous, Less Expensive Alternatives toTrying to Get Monster Ships to Inappropriate Ports*
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Responsible Coastal Rebuilding After Sandy Governor Christie of New Jersey responded appropriately to Hurricane Sandy but is still reluctant to make the connection to climate change
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 31, 2012
Sandy, Katrina, and Climate Justice There are two reasons to live along the coast. If you arewealthy you want to hear the sound of the surf, if you are not, it is wherethe affordable or public housing is located
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 28, 2012
Sandy a Wake up Call For decades scientists warned us - climate change was worsening, seas rising ans super storms coming, but no one did anything about it
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 27, 2012
Transition NYC Bioregion - Preparing Our Island City and its Bioregion for a Bright Green Future We are living in an age of unprecedented violent change with economic, social, and environmental crises. We need a positive implementable plan for the future.

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