Mike Tidwell BiographyAuthor and filmmaker Mike Tidwell has been active in D.C.-area environmental causes for more than a decade, ranging from fighting the trash incinerator in Montgomery County to promoting alternatives to sprawl development. Mike’s most recent documentary film – “We Are All Smith Islanders” – details the dangers and solutions associated with global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. In 2002, Mike founded and now directs the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to fighting global warming in the region through the promotion of clean, renewable energy. Toward this end, Mike's pioneering home in Takoma Park is fueled almost entirely by wind, solar and corn power, and is regularly opened to the public as a community laboratory. Last year, in recognition for his clean energy work, Mike received Audubon Naturalist Society’s prestigious “Conservation Award.” Mike is also a writer whose five published books include Amazon Stranger (detailing efforts to save the Ecuadorian rainforest) and Bayou Farewell (about the rapidly disappearing wetlands of coastal Louisiana). Mike lives in Takoma Park with his wife Catherine and their seven-year-old son Sasha. |