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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.