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CLF Ventures Welcomes New Board Members!
By Paul Calzada
CLF Ventures is proud to welcome Eugene Bernat, John Cleveland, and Crystal Johnson to our Board of Directors.
Eugene Bernat
Gene Bernat is vice president and co-founder of Cover Technologies, Inc. (CTI) and its affiliates, a composting, recycling, and remediation company headquartered in Holyoke, Mass. He is also past president of Recycled Earth Technologies, and of Saber Enterprises, Inc., a forest management company.
CTI owns and is currently remediating, permitting, and redeveloping Fisherville Mill in Grafton, Mass., a MA DEP Tier 1A site, into a 240-residential-unit mixed-use development in a national historic district and within a public drinking water supply. CTI is also developing alternative energy projects and developing and commercializing a bioconversion technology to produce enzymes and other valuable bio-molecules from select biomass waste products.
Gene is an entrepreneur and expert on organic resource reuse and recycling, as well as on numerous other innovative and environmentally sound technologies. He serves on the Board of Directors of several sustainable agriculture education organizations, including The Farm School, the New England Small Farm Institute, and Battle Road Farms.
John Cleveland
John Cleveland is the vice president and co-founder of Innovation Network for Communities (INC), a new national non-profit whose mission is to develop and spread scalable innovations that transform the performance of community systems. He also serves as the part-time Executive Director for the Boston Green Ribbon Commission, a high-level CEO group in Boston that supports the implementation of the Boston Climate Action Plan. (Thomas Menino and Amos Hostetter are the Commission’s co-chairmen; via the Commission, John is also Climate Advocacy Advisor to the Barr Foundation.)
John has been working for over 30 years in human, social, and natural capital formation strategies, sustainable development, green building design, organizational learning, socially responsible businesses, school reform, and economic development. He has been a full-time resident of Tamworth, New Hampshire since 2005 and a part-time resident since childhood. He has a B.A. from Yale in City Planning. He is 58-years-old.
Crystal Johnson
Crystal Johnson is the managing director of NISE!, the National Institute for a Sustainable Economy LLC. In 2009, she founded ISES, the Integrative Sustainability & Environmental Solutions, which presents the annual Sustainable Economy Conference. She specializes in energy, water/wastewater, and natural resources. CLF and ISES are now working together on an urban agriculture theme for the third Sustainable Economy Conference, which successfully integrates diverse environmental and economic communities.
She has a B.S. in both Natural Resource Management and Conservation Resources Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. After her graduation in 1991, she worked as an energy analyst, energy planner, and environmental planner. In 1995, she returned to Boston and worked for three years as an environmental planner for AECOM/Frederic R. Harris, Inc. From 1999 to 2006, Crystal worked at the NYC Department of Environmental Protection’s Office of Environmental Planning and Assessment as a senior environmental program manager. She joined the CLF Ventures Board of Directors in 2011.