James Murren has more than 15 years of domestic and international environmental, agricultural, and agricultural extension education experience, working in sustainable community development related to: farmer’s association capacitybuilding, agro-forestry, watershed protection and management, environmental education, household energy, sustainable bio-energy procurement, sustainable technology transfer, marketing, business planning, and grain storage. He has written proposals and managed awarded projects in collaboration with, among others: USAID, USEPA, UNHCR, UNDP, Ashden Award, and Winrock International. Murren has lived and/or worked in Honduras, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, Brazil, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and the Republic of Georgia. He grew up in a farming family in Pennsylvania.