Andrew Willner has been a leader, organizer, and advocate for the New York/New Jersey Bioregion for 25 years. He was an early proponent of the Waterkeeper model of water and habitat protection as the founder of NY/NJ Baykeeper. Andrew is principal of the consulting firm, Sustainability Solutions, and from 2008 to 2014 was the Principal Professional Consultant for energy, transportation, and the environment to the Hugo Neu Corporation Andrew has been a city planner, furniture designer, sculptor, boat builder, environmentalist, Permaculturist, Transition advocate, story teller, blogger, and he exhibits his photographs taken while patrolling the New York/ New Jersey Harbor for 20 years on the Baykeeper skiff. He is writing a book, Fish and Ships, a photo narrative of the people, places, and environment of one of the most beautiful and vulnerable estuaries in the world. Andrew is a sought after speaker on a wide variety of subjects including environmental advocacy, habitat restoration, sustainability, Permaculture and Transition, and is often asked to read from his fiction and non-fiction writing.
Rondout Riverport 2040: Part 2
By Andrew Willner, Resilience.org
Rondout Riverport 2040 will serve as an empowering example to our bioregion and our country – demonstrating the viability of ethical livelihoods and teaching beneficial sustainable technologies that do minimal socio-environmental harm; methodologies that foster self-reliance and promote Slow Tech hands-on work practices.
Rondout Riverport 2040: Part 1
By Andrew Willner, Resilience.org
Rondout Riverport 2040 offers the communities of Kingston and Esopus, New York, a visionary template and extraordinary opportunity for remaking and transforming the Rondout Creek and Hudson River Working Waterfront over the next 20 years.
Wellbeing Farm, a “Slow Tech Living Laboratory” for the Hudson Valley Bioregion
By Andrew Willner, The Center for Post Carbon Logistics
Wellbeing Farm will explore an array of innovative heritage and leading-edge technologies by which individuals, communities, and the Hudson Valley Bioregion can thrive in decades ahead – designing and realizing pragmatic, environmentally and economically sound tools for peacefully, equitably, and intelligently transitioning away from fossil fuels.
Building Lifeboats – Building Community: Navigating Uncharted Territory
By Andrew Willner, The Center for Post Carbon Logistics
We need to change the narrative now, embrace a new story truer to circumstance — a storyline in which we heroically face adversity together, creating abundance out of crisis together, moving with agility through chaos toward new community values that will sustain us in the unsettled years ahead.
Reinvigorating Mid-Atlantic Waterways: Traditional and Artisanal Fishing
By Andrew Willner, Mid-Atlantic Transition Hub
For centuries before and after the European colonization of the Mid-Atlantic region of North America, fishing and shell fishing using traditional methods fed the people of our Bio-region.
Preserving the Past to Serve the Future: Using Pre-fossil Fuel Technology on Regional Waterways
By Andrew Willner, Transition US
Transitioning includes reinvigoration of heirloom technologies and traditional skills needed to thrive in a carbon-constrained future.