Mia MacDonald

Mia MacDonald is the executive director of Brighter Green, a New York-based public policy action tank working to raise awareness and encourage dialogue on and attention to issues that span the environment, animals, and sustainable development both globally and locally.

Another morning in Antigua

It's hard to believe it's the third and final day of the conference. In a way, it seems like we just arrived. In another, it feels like we've been here for weeks, if not longer. We've come to expect conversations across meals and coffee breaks that span region, sector, discipline, and point of vie

By Mia MacDonald

/ 14 May 2009

Now let us go then

Travel. A global conference. Anticipation. Expectation. The prospect of exhilaration. Enervation, too: all those preparations - organizing clothes for packing, making sure all the email is answered, readying a plan for how household tasks get completed while I’m away. It’s all of that, but expecta

By Mia MacDonald

/ 9 May 2009