Daniel Rossi-Keen
Daniel Rossi-Keen, Ph.D., is the co-owner of eQuip Books, a community bookstore in Aliquippa and the executive director of RiverWise, a nonprofit employing sustainable development practices to create a regional identity around Beaver County's rivers.
East Palestine: Still Here
Hilary Flint’s cancer diagnosis took her on a journey to become an environmental and public health advocate. She lives right over the East Palestine border in Enon Valley, Pennsylvania. Although her health was a concern before the February 3, 2023 train derailment, the aftermath heightened her already weakened immunity. Hilary was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, a type of kidney cancer, in her late 20s. “When you get stage three cancer when you’re in your 20s, it’s very shocking,” Hila
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Community Matters: Energy innovation as tool for growing agency over Beaver County
Those of you who follow along with the work of RiverWise, the nonprofit organization I have the privilege of leading, may have heard that we recently received a second round of funding from the US Department of Energy. The award, provided by the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, is part of a program known as the Energizing Rural Communities Prize. Last July, in Phase One of the program, DOE announced 67 awardees, of which RiverWise was one. Utilizing funds from our initial Phase One award
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Community Matters: Re-creating local community in a season of national upheaval
For longer than I care to admit, my basement was overwhelmingly disorganized. The disorganization in my basement began when we first moved into our home a little more than a decade ago. The area wasn’t large enough for everything I was trying to store in it. I didn’t have the right shelving, containers, or patience to create a good system to manage all the stuff I was trying to shove into such a small space. And, since I didn’t regularly need most of the things I was storing, it made it easy to
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Community Matters: We were made for this, Beaver County
This month’s installment of Community Matters was originally written nearly six years ago on March 19, 2020. On that day, all of Pennsylvania’s non-essential businesses were forced to close because of the growing threat of COVID-19. Over the coming days and weeks, additional measures were enacted at all levels of society to reduce the spread and impact of the virus. Ten weeks later, on May 25, 2020 George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, sparking a public outcry ab
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Community Matters: Identity, imagination and energy innovation
I grew up in the 1950s in the 1980s. That’s an odd sentence. So, let me say it again. I grew up in the 1950s in the 1980s. My hometown of Clearfield was, and very much still is, a small, rural community in western Pennsylvania.
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Community Matters: Humanity desperately needs a different story
Have you ever stopped to think for a second about how a fish experiences water? Just so we’re clear, I understand that this is an odd question.Maybe it’s because I am an avid fisherman. Maybe it’s because I am a recovering academic. Or, maybe I just have too much time on my hands. Regardless of the reason, when I’m on the river, I often think about such things.I wonder what it must be like to be a fish. I wonder what they experience, and what they are thinking when they are ripped out of the wat
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Community Matters: Shell amplifies misleading claims about Beaver County population growth
The Shell ethane cracker plant recently amplified a report that contains misleading claims about Beaver County's population growth.
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