Dana Coelho

I am a graduate of the University of Maryland in Conservation Biology/Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy, and a current employee of the USDA Forest Service. A recent transplant to the American West, I work with the Western Forestry Leadership Coalition on a variety of forestry and natural resources policy issues. My professional passions are conservation planning and green urban design.

dana.coelho [at] gmail.com

My phone number @ SFI - 505-995-4224

Polymnia... an inspired place to live for the moment. A daughter of Zeus, and one of the nine Muses. She presided over lyric poetry, and was believed to have invented the lyre. (Hes. Theog. 78; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iii. 1.) By Oeagrus she became the mother of Orpheus. (Schol. l. c. i. 23.) In works of art she was usually represented in a pensive attitude. Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

There are green spaces clearly worth saving
But from they're edges we're shaving
New homes, shopping malls
As consumer demand calls
More more more! They're just ripe for the paving

The challenges of working together
Are facing us now more than ever.
But creative ideas
Are drowning out sneers.
We can act just like birds of a feather.

If economic growth is our goal
We throw all the trees in a hole.
Carbon sequestration
To support procreation
A sustainable world... for a mole.