Colorado Renewable Energy Society – Metro Denver

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SPEAKERS

Josh Eisenfeld
Josh joined Earthworks in September 2020 as the Corporate Accountability Communications Campaigner, working with staff across our energy program to ground truth oil and gas industry claims and hold them publicly accountable for their methane pollution.

As a fourth-generation Southwestern Pennsylvania native, Earthworks mission to protect those most impacted by extractive industries is extremely important to Josh. He has grown up watching the devastating economic and health effects of extraction and reliance on industrial booms. That is why he has a passion for making industrial giants pay for the externalized costs they put on the communities they operate in and eventually leave behind.

Josh is a communications specialist, social justice advocate, and filmmaker with nearly a decade of experience in digital media production. He is a graduate of Syracuse University Newhouse School of Public Communication, where he double majored in Television & Film and Biology with a focus in Environmental Science.

Josh began his career as a documentary filmmaker, traveling around the world making films about social justice while also working as a producer at a nationally recognized advertising agency where he played a key role in communicating and developing brand identities through digital media for international brands.

Outside of work, Josh volunteers his time in a number of roles to better his community. Josh is one of two PA Steering Committee members of the People Over Petro Coalition and serves on the Board of Directors for the Three Rivers Waterkeeper. He is also a dedicated member of the Fineview Citizens Council and the Green Party of Allegheny County.

Andrew Klooster
Andrew joined Earthworks in July 2020 as a Colorado Organizer and has since then become the Colorado Field Advocate and a certified optical gas imaging thermographic.

Andrew works with frontline Coloradans to document oil and gas pollution and expose the shortcomings in Colorado’s regulatory framework. He briefs community members, regulators, and elected officials on the health and environmental impacts of Colorado’s oil and gas development.

His passion for environmental justice brought him to this position with Earthworks but the relationships he has forged with the community members across the state who are fighting for the health of their families and the health of all present and future Coloradans are what keeps him motivated despite long hours on the road and exposed to the elements while conducting investigations of oil and gas facilities.

Andrew has worked for a number of non-profit organizations including Doan Brook Watershed Partnership in Cleveland, OH where he worked to expand programming, education, and volunteer opportunities for diverse communities in an urban watershed and the Ecology Center in Ann Arbor, MI where he tested consumer products for toxic chemicals. Andrew has also conducted research on cooperative forest management and climate change adaptations among private forest owners in the Upper Midwest and Oregon and on social perceptions of forest conservation measures in rural Nicaragua.