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Erik Baard

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“Greenest New Yorker” – Official “I LOVE NY” Tourism Campaign

COMMUNICATIONS AND JOURNALISM

Freelance Journalist 2000 – Present

Writer and photographer for a variety of publications, including the New Yorker, New York Times, New York Magazine, Economist, Times of London, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, Village Voice, Time Out New York, Popular Science, Wired, Gotham Gazette, Space, Science World, and Space Illustrated Magazine. Wrote a chapter for the Time Inc. book, Space 2100: To Mars and Beyond.

Notable achievements: Winner of the best reporting prize in 2002 from the New York chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for revealing the U.S. connection to China’s death row organ transplant trade and a Certificate of Merit from the organization in 2004; nominee for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for both features and explanatory journalism; articles selected for several textbooks; cited in a report by the President’s Council on Bioethics; first to reveal what became known as the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness consumer monitoring program; first to report the return of a seal community to New York Harbor (NYT); first to report the plan to construct artificial reefs using subway cars (NYT); sold a movie option to Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures.

Green Apple Cleaners, VP Communications and Outreach 2008 – 2010

Developed and executed legislative, community outreach, media and marketing programs for a growing clean technology startup in the infamously polluting dry cleaning industry.

Citizens Committee for New York City, Manager of Urban Environment 2005 – 2006

Responsible for administering grants to sustain grassroots efforts to improve soil, water, and air quality and to promote environmental justice. Met with community leaders to initiate and maintain gardens, canoe and kayak launches, bicycle training centers and other neighborhood amenities.

Dow Jones Newswires, Reporter 1996 – 2000

Hired as a data entry temp, successively promoted through positions over several months to reporter covering the energy industry. Notable achievements: Winner of several company “Ace” awards, contributed stories to the Wall Street Journal; earned a reputation for emphasizing alternative energy; highlighted vulnerability of electricity grid to malicious computer hacking.

Freelance Journalist and Nonprofit Representative, UN 1988 – 1996

Worked at the United Nations as a credentialed correspondent and nonprofit representative. Clients included NHK (Japanese Public Television), Tokyo Broadcasting System, Japan Economic Journal, Japan Shortwave Broadcasting, and Movement for a Better World, the World Peace Prayer Society, and the media section of the Consulate General of Japan in New York. Created a calendar, “A Thanksgiving for the Earth,” with the UN Environmental Programme.

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COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AND ENVIRONMENTALISM

Notable achievements:

● Honored as the “Greenest New Yorker” by the I LOVE NY campaign.

● Founder and operator of the Newtown Pippin Restoration and Celebration, which plants hundreds of heirloom and ancestral Kazakh apple trees throughout the five boroughs.

● Leading effort with Cornell Cooperative Extension, Greenhouse Project and NY State Department of Agriculture and Marketing to restore beach plums to New York Harbor.

● Founder and operator for five years of the LIC Community Boathouse.

● Recruited and coordinated over 150 volunteers for Earth Day New York’s EarthFair.

● Keynote speaker and lecturer for CUNY, NY Botanical Gardens and NY Public Library.

● Featured interview in “City of Water” documentary.

● Initiated and co-founded numerous NY Harbor traditions, including the Obon Ceremony on the Hudson River, City of Water Day, Captains and Paddlers Day, and helped seed the NYC Water Trail. Continue to help sustain many of these efforts.

● Served as secretary of the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club; initiated, coordinated, and aided access events on the Flushing Creek, Jamaica Bay, Hudson River, and Bronx River.

● Steering committee member of Green Shores NYC, member of Newtown Creek Alliance and NYC Water Trail Association.

● Co-author of book, The East River, to benefit the Greater Astoria Historical Society.

● Contributor to the Hudson River Watertrail Guide and Going Coastal.

● Boat Hill concept shown at the Municipal Art Society’s Urban Gallery.

● Planted numerous indigenous trees in the Rockaways, Randalls Island, Floyd Bennett Field, and interior locations.

EDUCATION

Studied for the Peace and World Security Studies program at Hampshire College before transferring to the Columbia University School of General Studies for further undergraduate studies. Interrupted to begin UN career.

REFERENCES

James G. Van Bramer, New York City Council Member

Committee Chair, Cultural Affairs, Libraries, and International Intergroup Relations

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Laura Conaway, Producer

Rachel Maddow Show (my former Village Voice editor)

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David Kistner, Founder

Green Apple Cleaners

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Sister Teresa “Tesa” FitzGerald, Founder and Executive Director

Hour Children

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