Asher became the Executive Director of Post Carbon Institute in October 2008, after having served as the manager of our former Relocalization Network program. He's worked in the nonprofit sector since 1996 in various capacities. Prior to joining Post Carbon Institute, Asher founded Climate Changers, an organization that inspires people to reduce their impact on the climate by focusing on simple and achievable actions anyone can take. Some of his previous roles include:
- Partnership Director at Plugged In, an organization working in East Palo Alto, California that connects individuals and cultivates minds by creating the opportunity to produce, express, and contribute using technology;
- International Production Coordinator at Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation, which created the largest video archive in the world, containing more than 52,000 interviews conducted in 56 countries around the world; and
- Youth Manager at the Volunteer Center of Sonoma County, which engaged more than 800 teens a year in community service and education about social and environmental issues.
- Ghostwriter of the autobiography of a Polish Holocaust survivor who fought as a partisan in the forests of Belarus.
Asher has served as a consultant to a number of other nonprofit organizations, including Just Think and Okizu Foundation. He currently serves on the boards of Transition United States and Listening for a Change, and on the Advisory Board of ErthNxt. He recently served as a member of Senator John Edwards' Cleantech / Green Business Advisory Committee. Asher was born in the Netherlands, and has lived in Israel, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Connecticut, Colorado, and California. He currently lives in Santa Rosa, California with his wife and three year old son. Asher received his B.A. in Creative Writing from The Colorado College.
Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben and Executive Director Asher Miller discuss Bill's sobering assessment of life on earth as presented in his brand new book Eaarth. Bill also provides an update on the efforts of his 350.org campaign.
From Spill to Resilience
Asher Miller Executive Director of Post Carbon Institute and board member of Transition United States and Listening for a Change, joins ZOOM’D to explore the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and what it teaches us about resilience—as individuals, communities, businesses, and governments. Beginning with spill scenarios and worst-case possibilities, Asher examines implications for clean-energy policy with a view toward the future and the interconnected issues that surround energy, the environment, and the economy. Asher brings to the forefront the important role that Post Carbon Institute is playing to provide crucial resources and understanding to the world about the crises that will define the twenty-first century. Post Carbon Institute has gathered 28 of the world’s leading experts to point the way toward systems-oriented, interdisciplinary, and collaborative approaches of transitioning to new ways of living.