Name:
drscn

Name:
Stephen C. Nodvin

City or Town:
Nashua

State, province or region:
NH

Biography:
I currently am Director of the School of Arts and Sciences at Mount Ida College in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. I live in Nashua, New Hampshire.

I have been working on environmental and political issues for almost 35 years. In high school, I helped plan events for the first Earth Day. I went on to become and environmental scientist and researcher conducting my dissertation research in the White Mountains of New Hampshire of environmental impacts of acidic deposition and forest management on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. During my years as a university professor and a National Park Service scientist, I conducted research on environmental impacts of acidic deposition, acid mine drainage, exotic species invasions, and global change at research locations including the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire, the Sierra Nevada, the coastal mountains of Maine and the Great Smoky Mountains.

No time in America's history has there ever been a government as environmental unfriendly and unconscious as the George W. Bush administration. This government has worked hard to convince Americans that environmental awareness is bad for the economy and essentially anti-American. Nothing could be further from the truth and George W. Bush has singlehandedly done more to weaken our world leadership in environmental policy and innovation. His impact may be felt by Americans for many generations.

That is why I worked hard for the last two years in New Hampshire on the Kerry campaigns for the primary and general elections. We turned NH into a "blue" state and elected a new, honest, Democratic Governor. Our work has just begun. Now we must target 2006 for further change in our representatives in Washington.