Specializing in environmental journalism for more than 17 years, I have taken my career to new heights since 2010:

I created GoGreenNation.org, an environmental news and resource site designed to help promote the growth of green businesses and green communities, where my colleagues and I could continue to pursue our personal and professional objective of providing reliable environmental information to the public.

It is my hope that my investment proves valuable as a resource of professionally vetted information about environmental issues facing our world...

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Includes topics/issues (but not limited to): racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism, classism, ableism and all forms of discrimination that create marginalisation in society.

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Life is full of numbers. We use them when carefully carving the weekend schedule to fit around the birthday parties, sports activities and kids' play dates. When trying to convince ourselves to buy expensive winter boots because their cost-per-wear appears reasonably small.

When predicting the most likely place to bump into the target of our obsession. Math can be our friend, our tool and our weapon.

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Growing up, I knew I wanted to work in the "non-profit" world, because I wanted to help people, but I wasn't quite sure who I would end up helping or how I'd help them.  While studying at Georgetown University I became aware of the poverty and suffering that exists on a global level.

Through coursework, internships and other activities I began to realize that there are various degrees of suffering in the world, and unfortunately, some have to endure circumstances I could never even imagine.

Towards the end of college I realized I wanted to spend time volunteering overseas in a developing country, living in solidarity with and serving the needs of those less fortunate than myself.

It's hard to imagine, sitting with Khet Mar in her fragrant home on Sampsonia Way, that this is the same world in which prison guards would kick a tiny woman for hours and a short story about loneliness would intimidate the generals.

In City of Asylum Pittsburgh, an enclave in the Central North Side, Khet Mar is safe from persecution but sometimes, she said, her heart aches to be back in Burma.

"Sometimes," she said, her hands stacked like saucers in her lap.

"I want to be helping political prisoners."

The country in Southeast Asia that was officially renamed the Union of Myanmar in 1989 has been gripped by military repression for five decades.